Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[One Cold Christmas]

Nice flash, sound lacks quality

A very good story with good humour (used underwear for christmas... ^^). Also the drawing style is quite nice.

You should work on the voice acting, though. A few lines didn't sound very natural and I couldn't even understand what Santa said at the end.
Also the quality of the sound was quite low. There where statics all over the place, especially when the voice got a bit louder.

Anyway, overall it's a nice flash movie. :)

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MrAbnormal responds:

I'm getting voice actors next time

[JPB '09 Animation History]

Good idea

I think the idea of this is very nice, but it's posted "too early". There's only three parts and part three is "getting better". There should be following some more parts like "still getting better", "vastly improving", etc. in there before you show this to a public audience.
While you indeed improved your skills and we can see it in this flash there's still a feeling that this flash isn't finished yet.

Of course you are still learning and improving and I can understand that you are eager to show it to a greater audience. But I still think you posted this idea too early.

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[Conscience and Therapy]

Good

The music fits very good to this submission. Even though the music has some kind of a happy tone to it, it also creates a very dark atmosphere together with the pictures you show.

The graphics are pretty good, but I think the animations could be improved a bit. For example when the car was driving it looked very comical, with the car moving up and down (I don't mean the scene that takes place in the car, but the scene where it is driving up to the hospital). This didn't fit too well into the flash.

Also, why did the car take a turn instead of driving straight ahead to the hospital? If you had drawn a street that curved that way it would be clear why the car takes the turn, but there's no street visible.

I like how you mostly made use of still frames but yet created an illusion of movement with the "zooming cuts" you made.

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[Shadowman & The Garroter]

Nice halloween submission

The graphics are decent, but could have been a bit cleaner (ie, not so many pencil strokes). I don't think the grapics would lose anything from their creepiness if they wheren't scribbled so much.

I had to watch this twice, the first time I didn't realize that this blond hair was supposed to be a head. So I thought: "What? Who was screaming there when the guillotine came down?".

Maybe you could make this a bit more clearer with showing the victim being led to the guillotine.

But overall it was a very nice submission, very creepy. I especially liked the shadow of the tree in the beginning. Also, the music fits very nice to this submission.

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[Back Off]

Short again

I think the punchline here isn't as good as in the Red Bull parts. ,As I've said in my other review in my opinion short flashes only work with a hilarious and unexpected punchline. Now, this flash isn't bad, but a longer build up would be nice. You could put some jokes into the build up already and then come up with the main joke of the flash. Maybe showing how the character walks aorund in the streets and then entering the bar (you could throw in some funny scenes on the streets) or show the bar from the outside and then zoom in slowly, showing some other customers on your way to the bar and what they talk about.

The backgrounds where a lot better here, though, at least for the first part. For the other two parts you went back to single coloured backgrounds, unfortunatly.

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[Red Bull Contrib 1 and 2]

Very short, but nice punchline

Nothing wrong with a short flash if the punchline is good. Here, the punchline was pretty nice.

However, the voices where too loud, there where static sounds all over the place. Also the characters could use some more work. Stickman are all right, but I prefer better worked out characters. On the other hand, maybe the joke wouldn't be as funny if they wheren't stickmen.

Anyway, the backgrounds could definitely use more work. Here, they are just a lightblue wall. It's a bit better than just a white canvas, but with only a little more work you could create better backgrounds. Maybe just add a clock in the background and a door and we could see this is somewhere inside someones house. But this would still look better than just the light blue canvas.

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[The Things We Never Said]

Good work

A very nice piece. As other reviewers have stated, "real feelings and emotions" is something you don't see that often on newgrounds, but when you see it, the flashes showing it are definitely one of the best around.

I think everyone has gone through similar things in his or her life, sometimes it ends like in this flash: You fall in a deep hole and you know: Dammit, you missed your chance! And the saddest thing about this is, when you know you missed your chance, it will never be the same again when you meet the person in question. :(

Anyway, I like the scenes you put in here during the instrumental parts. And even though the lyrics where sometimes hard to understand it was easy to follow the storyline; pictures say more than a thousand words, right? ;)

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tacobuttfish responds:

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was definitely one of those flashes that we threw a lot of symbolism and attention to detail in as the content is very personal to me. As we continue to release new content you'll see more and more improvement on all fronts on our long road to perfection!

-Taco Buttfish.

[More Dragonforce]

Short, but nice.

Short, but very nice. The synching was done pretty good and I liked the scene where the black bunnies where singing the vocals.

The scene after that is a bit too dragged out, I think. All we can see is the bunny playing the guitar, headbaning, while the camera moves back and forth. I nearly got sick watching this (or maybe I'm still too tired ^^). I think you should try to add a little more to that scene... and the camera shouldn't move back and forth as well. ^^

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[Sweet Dreams, Timmy.]

Hmmm

Nice graphics and decent animations. Voice acting was good as well.

The story... well, I guess everybody has some other definition of the word "funny". The setup was pretty good, so when the father starts talking about that "little girl" it sure was unexpected.

You should add some hair to the characters, though. Right now they look more like eggs.

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[Master_Light [Box-Killa]]

Not too original

Not too original, but very well executed. The lines are in synch most of the time with the music, which creates a very nice effect.
The colour changes could have been synched a bit better, though. At least it seemed to me that the changes came a bit random. But maybe I just missed the pattern behind it.

Too bad the flash is so short. Even though this is FBF and those flashes are generally shorter than non-FBF flashes this is short even for a FBF flash (if that makes any sense... ^^).
It would be nice if you added a second, similar song to the flash to make it a bit longer.

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