ShortMonkey's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The PS3 Song!]

Awesome!

Awesome flash! I like Sony and the consoles more than the rest but this song didn't annoy me at all... The song is enjoyable to listen to and so was watching the flash. Great work!

[Jedi vs. Ninja]

Great

Great work, good action, good music, good idea, art was decent but the animation was great. Keep it up!

ActiveObjectX responds:

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[PALADIN episode 5 part 2]

Almost The Perfect Flash

Great animation, great art, great choice of audio and sounds, great storyline... Almost the perfect Flash. Great work!

[NG Audio Portal]

Nicely Done

This was nicely done... Also, the animation made for a collab that will never get finished - you know which one.

I loved the dancing A-Bot especially.

[-screwdriver-]

Not Bad

There was some good FBF here but it all was the same shape doing something, it got boring after a while. Also colouring in would be good as well, it just takes a lot of effort to do so.

Graphics weren't the best because it was mostly just an outline with the brush tool but they did a few cool things which was good. The parts with the square, black and white things were good too. The music suited perfectly.

5.7/10

2.3/5

-Review Request Club

possibly-yodd responds:

Thanks ^_^ and as I mentioned earlier, tis visual tests + missed collab part. So I wasn't really expecting anything good to come of it. Maybe SOME DAY I can finish one of my big projects... maybe.

Thanks for the review.

[Operation Gi-go: File 2]

Daily 3rd Place?

This should've gotten daily 1st place... this was so good! Graphics were great but you could have some animation practice. I have not seen a Flash that actually keeps me going and interested like a Flash you made right here!

Did you use Photoshop for a few graphics?

10/10

5/5

Can't wait for the sequel but take your time!

-Review Request Club

Gi-go responds:

Thanks!

Yeah, I used photoshop for every background.

[FrameStorm: The Rise]

Nice FBF

It was alright, had nice fast and smooth FBF which I liked but it was very short and random... People don't realise how much it gives to a Flash movie when it has a story line - It's much better than just random cool animation.

You're drawings weren't very detailed but the animation was very good.

7/10

3/5

-Review Request Club

Ramirezoid responds:

Yeah, you should see my real draw3ings though. I'm very good.

[Cow on Trampoline]

Ok

It was ok, there wasn't really much that I liked but the "3D" cow flying in space impressed me a lot. The trampoline effect bouncing was pretty bad - a trampoline doesn't extend the amount of the material, it stretches lower, your flash made it look like the trampoline produces more of that material when someone goes to bounce.

You also need to put more effort into the jumping animation, it didn't look like he was doing much.

And your drawings need shadows, those really make a difference to drawings and improve graphics by a lot.

5.8/10

2.8/5

-Review Request Club

Imacow responds:

Thanks, I was going for a cartoony effect.

[Elmorama]

LOL

It was pretty funny but graphics needed big improving. The human and elmo were ok but the background was crap! You need to work on backgrounds.

And I've said this so many times to people; you need to have shadows on your drawings, it makes the graphics so much better.

The lipsyncing was good with the kid but if you lipsynced Elmo when he was singing that would've made it better.

The voice quality was pretty bad, to fix that if its not the sound file just go to File>Publish Settings>Flash>Stream settings>Set it to 112kbps...

You can set it to whatever you want but don't set it too high because your flash .swf size will be huge and everyone likes to have flashes that load quicker but still are good quality.

Also, with the rating you should say that it has language in it because someone will be watching it with their little kid thinking it will have nothing bad and then they'll freak when they hear the kid swear... please give accurate ratings.

6/10 because humour was good and the shape of the characters was good.

2.4/5

-ShortMonkey

[NGC Talent Collab]

NGC Does Have Talent

I know that NGC does have talent but unfortunately they don't have many members... but better to have a few great Flash members than many members that aren't very good at Flash.

With Radioactive24's Tankmen parody, was that music "Start A War" by Static X, if it is did he get that off WWE Smackdown Vs RAW 2006 video game? That's where I have only heard it.

Daj has some awesome FBF skills, probably why he's doing the Brushed series which are FBF collabs.

SwiftstylerX has some good drawing skills and pretty good animation skills which need a little bit of improving.

Milburn's art is fantastic, 10/10 for you!

Space Walk has some good animating skills but needs to improve on art.

Irk is pretty good with both animating and drawing, they're both pretty balanced and one isn't overly better than the other.

Bendo is very good with walk cycles and layout graphics.

I'm not going to review the sprites because to me its just a bunch of images being thrown in for people who can't draw; I like to review cartoons that the authors actually drew.

And what I noticed is you guys don't have an actionscripter... maybe next year you might have a few actionscripters because the number of games collabs have gone down and I really like those type of collabs.

And Swiftstyler's Boulevard of Broken Songs collab parts were awesome, I saw them in the thread.

Good luck to Daj on Brushed*4.

Congratulations on all the awards, Bendo; I counted eleven.

You're using that tablet of yours pretty well, Irk. Keep it up.

Nice Photoshop skills, Radioactive24, much better than I could ever do, and the tankman looked almost identical, but I could notice a few differences because I traced a few tankmen and a user said they looked fully identical.

I loved Space Walk's talking animation; nice and fast paced.

Too all those sprite people that I didn't mention, I'm mentioning you now and saying good luck on future animations.

Great team effort and you deserve an award, though next time I think you should have a music collab or a collab that's not just a showcase of their work.

9.1/10, 4.2/5

-ShortMonkey