ShortMonkey's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Twisted Minds Ep. 1]

Pretty Good

I thought this was pretty funny and enjoyable flash to watch. The intro music was great. What needs improving is the voice quality, the spelling mistakes and some graphics.

With the drawing you should add shadows... it really makes a difference. And the walk cycles were a bit robotic, both of the legs and arms are usually moving at the same time, not one at a time.

Lipsyncing was pretty good, but you definitely need shadows on your drawings. Good work! 7.7/10, 4/5.

-ShortMonkey

Triple-Elemental responds:

We'll try to fix some of those things in the next one.

Thanks for the review!

[Way Too Good]

Great!

You have great, smooth and fast animating skills. I liked how this was reasonably fast as well as smooth so it keeps you anticipated, the smooth ones that are slow are ok but this was nice and fast. And the music was good for it too... You have great animating skills. Keep up the great work!

-ShortMonkey

[Mario's Job]

Ok...

But very boring... not the greatest animation, could've had more effort, a few spelling mistakes at the beginning and wasn't very funny. I also thought it was a little slow. Do you have your FPS at 12 or higher, I'd recommend at least 18, but I usually use 24-30 FPS with my Flash movies.

And I think the Mario sprites didn't look very good. Find better sprites and keep trying!

-ShortMonkey

[Frank Dude Ep.1]

Boring

Couldn't understand a word they said (thanks for the subtitles) things just magically appeared, graphics were very bad... and not very detailed... voices were just horrible, sounded like they were edited in a program... and not edited very well.

And how people just appeared was annoying... and just very boring.

Try better next time.

-Review Request Club

[Sr. Pico]

Not really good at all

The music was the best part about this really... most of the animation was laggy, like half of Pico's was getting cut out as he was moving... the gun animation was just horrible, the shape tween with sun could've at least been tweened back to its first position instead of just suddenly going back the first frame of that symbol...

Please don't make your own text with the brush tool, download fonts off a site and type it in... I couldn't read what it said... and the part where it says "Imacow made this" was too quick, I could barely read it.

Try better next time, I can't really say this was a good animation with much effort in it. :(

-Review Request Club

Imacow responds:

Thanks for the review.

I realy spent no time on this submission at all.

[PONG: The Movie (Trailer)]

LOL

This looks like it will be a hilarious movie. I can't wait until it comes out (if it ever does). The graphics are pretty good but could be better and use shadows. It got me anticipated which Flash movies rarely do to me.

It definitely looks like it will be a funny movie... the voice acting needed a bit of work or either the sound setting was set too low... To fix that go into File>Publish Settings>Flash>Stream settings and set it to 112kbps. That should make the audio quality for audio that has been set to stream higher but unfortunately increases the file size.

Lipsyncing was very good, but you could add a bit more movement into the character that talks like he moves up his microphone so he looks a bit excited... but the main thing about the graphics that needs improving is shadows... you need to add shadows to your graphics.

Good job, can't wait for the movie to come out!

-Review Request Club

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 2]

Well...

It's very short no doubt about that. The preloader was nice and the background effect during the movie at the beginning... with the green and greyish circles fading into the middle.

The music suited perfectly, and it was funny... what needed lots of improving is the graphics:

The roller skates we're very well done. The body wasn't done very well, definitely needed shadows and better colouring. Eyes could've had more detail... the main part that really helps is the shadowing.

A lazy way to do that is to convert each part of the body into a symbol and apply the drop shadow filter, inner shadow, set the alpha down to 18% or something like that, set each blur axis down to 3 and choose the distance and angle.

Made me laugh but next time make one longer please or a whole animation with heaps of funny shorts... and graphics need improving.

-Review Request Club

Jimtopia responds:

Well, the reason these are so short is so that it doesn't take too much time away from one of my bigger projects, like, one of these episodes I can make in maybe 2 hours. I'll try that shadowing thing next time, thanks for reviewing!

[Pico goes Goth: Prologue]

Good but that sound really needs fixing.

Title says it all...

[Pico's Time Tank]

Absolutely Perfect

This was a perfect flash animation. The FBF animation was great. I really enjoyed it, graphics were great, kept me entertained. The end was pretty funny too. XD

You're gonna win a prize probably so...

Say hello to money!