BrandyBuizel's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[New First Animate Banner1]

The animation was neat, don't get me wrong.
I'm starting to see this a lot more and more though where people submit these 2-4 second clips to the "Movie Portal" This would be a far more appropriate submission for the Art Portal if you export it as a gif, especially since you're not using any sound.
This is a animated "channel banner" not a movie.
please blam and re-upload.

[Salmon Dance]

Not great 3D work, but the video itself was surprising and the Salmon Dance was kind of cute.
However nothing at all happens in the first 30 seconds and the shots don't really establish anything. Could be shorter.

[Mbr vs DeeJay]

Decent sprite work, though it is extremely annoyingly loud, both the music and sfx.
I'm sure future viewers would a appreciate you leveling the audio and submitting a re-upload.

[BONESSSSSSSS]

I understand that this is a short clip showing off bone tool work or character rigging, but please do not submit your test work to the Movie Portal. If you feel it's something you are proud off and DO want on the site, because it is short I can recommend you submit this as a .gif in the Art portal and write a proper description of what it is.
please blam.

[Glory Sunday's]

Okay, so I have no idea what's going on. I feel like you're watching a video or listening to a podcast no one else can hear and talking back to it. I assume there's two people talking? Maybe? It's very difficult to tell if there's two, let alone which one is talking. There's not really a lot of motion or anything going on either, just a lot of not English on screen.

But one thing that gets me "I saw this video and I just had to show you". Only because the drawing style changed made me question whether or not you made the clip that comes after it or you actually took it from somewhere.
That last bit is just a concern and was not reflected in your review score.

Glory-v responds:

Thanks for the tips, I'm still working out on how to do things I mean this is only my second video so I'm still learning. But ya thanks I totally agree with you I thought it would be better than this but oh well you learn from your mistakes. Oh and I did make the clip, I made all of it.Thanks for the feed back. :)

[Stick Figure Fighting Warrior - The 3D Animation]

I do understand that the animation was rendered in 12fps(I wanna make that clear), but the characters do move incredibly slow. Try taking inspiration from the outside world and people-watch. See how normal people move briskly transitioning from one movement to the next, every part starting and stopping at different times and intervals.
Not only is the motion incredibly slow but also it never stops. There's no point in which the stick figures are still, every part is in constant transition to the next stage. This results in an arm slowly adjusting for 5 seconds from one stance to another in a linear path, when in reality the arm would move after the leg has already begun its shift, and still finish moving more quickly because it carries less weight on it. The arm may also rubber-band back a bit once it hits its mark to give a little bounce(which is also realistic to a sudden stop).
The camera in contrast is very quick and gets a little sickening.

Besides animation, the sfx sound as though they were recorded in an air duct, which I know you can do better because your original music is in a much higher quality. Try playing with mixed tones and drumkits in your programs instead of going online for a cheap free download. Sound design is crucial to feel.

Lastly there's a really fuzzy aesthetic over the entire video; which unintentionally(I'm sure) looks like you rendered a 240p video and scaled upward.

Overall you just need more practice working on shorter animations to develop skills in creating more realistic motion before you start getting into more complex 3D work.

Metapixelatron responds:

I will try to mix some better quality sounds. I am making more realistic actions for my new skeleton. As for the fuzzy aspect, I notice it too. I don't know what it could be, but I believe it might be caused by the upload. I say this, because it was rendered in 480p and the original mp4 video looks a lot better. Next time I will do it in 480p and see if it looks better.
EDIT: I meant to say "next time I will do it in 720p" lol sorry. XD

[Harry Potter - My Scar]

Not original, but to be fair I do see you tagged this video as a parody, don't worry. You may want to add that to the description or title or something as to not get blammed. A lot of people try to pass obvious copy-cat uploads as their own and I hate seeing that happen to legitimate parodies of other NG work.

This clearly shows off Oney's style for the original too, but I wish it was a bit... more. The visual humor is nice, but I want more from the dialogue. Otherwise I'd just go watch Oney's toon again for the 100th time and over-dub scar where appropriate.

BadCookieDough responds:

Hey! Thanks for your review, it really means a lot to get feedback this detailed, and I do have to agree it definitely shows a lot of outside influence (I think we've seen oney's cartoons like a billion times because they're just so damn great, so that would probably explain it... haha :D)

The joke itself and the way he act was actually inspired by scrubs episode where Turk painted his face as Harry tho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53o44qF0u5Q), but I can definitely see how the way they are acting resembles a lot of Oney's style, especially that this is also Harry Potter.

Joke was directed at the scene where Vold touched Harry's scar in the movie, which was, at least to us done in kinda weird manner (probably not only us considering tons of uploads of this scene on YT with Barry White's music, if you know what I mean :>)

The video was definitely not done to copy-cat someone, nor someone's joke (even in scrubs that wasn't the actual joke, just made us think about it few years later), but looks like we got Oney to rub on us (ooh) too, and the vid was definitely inspired by it at least to some degree (probably even pretty major one now that you made me look at it again tho, especially first part before we got to the actual joke haha :D)

Credit's wise... I'm not quite sure what we could put, I mean no single idea is ever taken out of nowhere, the fact we speak or type in the first place is something we got from others too. So if you got any idea on how to formulate credits hit me up in a PM, we'd be more than happy to give recognition to anyone who influenced us, especially if it's Oney (let alone the talent and sense of humor, he just seems like a really nice guy, so we definitely wouldn't want to wrong him in any way :)), but just not sure "we watched some vids and it kinda resembles them even tho we got the idea from somewhere else" fits well into credits... hehe :D

Thanks again for taking the time to write it, it really means a lot!

[Cell's Revenge (Gohan vs Cell) Trailer]

It's a lot of moving sprites, not much to it. Some are animated using a sprite sheet but it's mostly just tweens, camera effects and lines from the show.
Nothing too new, original, or special here; so I give it a 2.

I would encourage you to make better use of sprite sheets and use title cards in a font or style reflecting the 16-bit graphic look. And also, please don't use mis-representing images for your animation's thumbnail. It's nearly blam worthy, please change.

[Jotaro vs Dio]

This isn't too bad for 3 days of work(everyone at different levels works at a different pace) but there isn't much animation to it and after twenty seconds of the punching loop I just wanted it to end. Half of that video was unnecessary and by extending that quick sound bite/punching loop that far didn't add any comedic value either.

[what's inside .? ../?]

"also my first animation that i spent more than 3 minutes on"

There never should be animation you spend less on. It does however look like 5 minutes of effort, so that's a good step. Also I see no reason for this to be rated A. It's a 12 second animation with the last two frames a dick.

chrisfield12 responds:

ya well fooled u! it was actually like 30 minutes! and idk how the rating system with newgrounds works yet, so i dont wanna rate anything too low. should it be M?