Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Beast Snacks 1]

Nice flash

This is a very good flash. It has quite a big filezise, but the wait is sure worth it.

The story is very funny and even though you jump straight into the action in episode 1 it's still quite easy to follow the storyline. You have found a very good way of advancing the story without annoying the viewer with a too long introduction.

The graphis are very nice most of the time. Sometimes it looks a bit too sketchy (for example in the fight scenes), but I guess that's just the style you want to present this flash in.

The voice acting was done in a nice way. All the voices are very fitting to the characters. But sometimes the voices are too quiet, so I had to turn up the volume.

Later on - when the statue awakens - there are sometimes some static noises when a character speaks, as if the recording was overpowered.
I don't know if this just happens for me, though. I had some issues with my sound system lately.

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tacobuttfish responds:

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I really enjoy your reviews as they are informative and help with the production of our next project, hope to see you back!

-Taco Buttfish.

[CoolJaw: P.S. I-V]

Good, but the menue needs some work

Others have adressed it, but I too think the menue pages are taking overhand, which is a real pity. You should try to think of a better solution (maybe just one menue page with links on it).

Anyway, the pacing of this chapter is pretty good. I like how you jump straight into the action after the phone call and my favorite picture is the one where the cop kicks in the door. I think this is actually the first picture in the whole series where there is one character seen during an action (other than walking and talking of course). This is really nice and I hope to see more "action packed" pictures in future chapters, as they add a lot of atmosphere and suspense to the story.

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Celx-Requin responds:

There will be a few surprises,
this is the last act after all...

Thanks,
- Celx

[Jossos Stickman]

Short, but nice

A very short and quite random flash.

The animations look quite good here, and the hat is drawn in a very nice way.

For a flash you did just for practicing reasons it turned out very well. Of course the story doesn't make too much sense, but we can see that you have talent animating the stick figures.

But as the genre "stick figures" already is overloaded with many submissions and it's hard to come up with something that really stands out, I suggest you try to develope you drawing and animation skills further to come up with submissions that aren't stick animations.

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jossospro responds:

worry not. Im no fan of stick figures either. this was just the practice of animating some characters. My other animations are too short to submit, and take too long to finish.

[Shark Black: Demo]

Good

A pretty good movie. Again, I like your style. It's very dark but it fits to the stories you create.

Just like Coop I think you should shorten the "running scene" a bit. It was too long winded and in the first half of the scene the background was very straining for the eyes.

Also, you really should put in subtitles. I only could make out half of the dialogue because it was whispered the whole time.
Another problem with the whispering is, that you can't really whisper the "hard sounding" consonants like "p" or "t", As a result those consonants where sometimes spoken too loud, which doesn't sound too good in my ears.

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Celx-Requin responds:

Hello,

See Coop review response.

Thanks,
- Celx

[@@englishclock Vs Trickyc]

Hmmm

This flash needs more work in nearly every aspect. The voice acting was horrible and very hard to understand at times.

The graphics are very sloppy, especially the backgrounds are just some scribbled lines.

The story is at least a bit funny and quite random, so you get some points for that. But other than that this submission is just bad.

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[Sky And Earth]

Needs more work

A short flash. The joke is indeed funny, but the voice acting needs more work. Especially the edit on the first line sounds very strange. Sounds as if you added the word "fly" to the file where you said "I'm going to".

The graphics could use some more work as well, they look very rough. I think you just need to practice a bit more and you should be able to create decent graphics soon.

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up-a-notch responds:

i did ad fly because i forgot and got lazy to record it again for some reason!

[If James Taylor Were On Fire]

Good, but too short

The song sounds quite funny and the animation is good as well. Especially the lip syncing is done very nicely.

Too bad the flash is so short, though.
I can see you put a lot of effort into this short animation, but for me, the viewer it is just too short. If you could expand this animation a bit more I'm sure you would get much higher scores.

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Rabid-Animals responds:

Thanks, Haggard! I'm really appreciating everybody commenting on the lip syncing. That crap is ridiculously hard.

[The RRC Awards]

Nice

A good flash, with some very nice scenes. I especially liked Coop as an "overdressed" english gentleman. ^^
Too bad the audio was so much out of sync in his part.

I liked the links to the nominations in the videos, this should give the artists some more exposure.

Sometimes the popups stating which category the following video is about was gone too fast. Maybe a title screen would have worked better here.

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Fro responds:

I think a scene selection will help as well in the future

[The Sketch Collab 2010]

Good collab

Well, there are some masterpieces in this collab, that's for sure. I especially liked the "spiderman" tribute in the warm up.

Also, the preloader is awesome. I like how the hand cycles around the paper (i.e. the arm points to the top when the mouse pointer is at the top of the screen and so on). This is a pretty good idea.

Some of the pieces where a bit fast paced so it was sometimes difficult to understand what was going on there. But overall it's a very good collab.

Also congrats on the Daily Featuer! :)

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[We will rock you]

Good

Well well, I'm glad I reviewed the submissions in the order I did, because now I can see a very nice learning curve. The first flash was pretty rough, the second was a bit better and this is again better than the second one.

Most of the scenes here have a pretty good drawing style. There's still room for improvement (for example you should try to make the outer lines of the characters a bit thinner), but compared to the first music video you improved quite a lot already.

You should also try to work a bit on the lip syncing, because it didn't look that good, especially on the scene where the cowboy holds up the stone while singing "we will rock you".

I'm not really sure what I should think of the different styles in this video. The madness scenes fit quite well into the flash, but on the other hand it looks a bit like this video was thrown together really quickly and you simply took scenes from other flashes you are working on.
But on the other hand again it shows that you are able to work with and draw in different styles, which is a good thing, as it broadens your horizon as an artist. :)

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MonoFlauta responds:

oks great, thanks for the awesome review!
It was drawed very quickly :P i think that it took us two days... but like 3 hours only