Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Death Eagle Pt. 2]

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Definetly better than the first one. The animations are a bit better and the screen didn't "flicker" (in the first one the screen sometimes moved a bit without any reason).

It still needs a lot of work, but I think you are on the right track ;) .

Just work harder on you drawings and a bit more on your animations.

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Phantox responds:

I'm working on the animation ATM. Thanks for the review. =)

[Death Eagle]

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The graphics are pretty crappy, but I can see that you at least put some effort into this, as your animations are decent.
It's also a good thing that you used some backgrounds. Ok, those backgrounds don't look that great, but at least you cared about it ;) .

The sound and music are another good thing, as most of those "first flashes" don't have any of these.

You definetly have to work a lot on drawing and animating blood and explosions, as those were basically just some red lines in front of the stick figures.
I think there are some "blood drawing"-tutorials out there, just look through the tutorials collection ;) .

Two points for the effort, 1 point for the flash itself. Makes up for 3 out of 10.
Just keep working on you drawing and animation skills and I am sure you will create much better flashes than this soon.

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Phantox responds:

Alright thanks for the review. I'll look into the blood tutorials in a bit.

[Chaos Sonic Chapter 1]

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You sure put a lot of work into this. The graphics/sprites are well used and your choice of music fits in very well with the flash.
The story is quite good and interesting and I'm looking forward to see the next chapters of this.

However, you had a few things in there that I didn't like.
First of all: The preloader. There was some black text on a dark blue background. I could hardly read the text, so I think it would be better if you used white text instead. Also the red text on the blue background doesn't look that good, either. It's again very hard to read, because the eye isn't able to focus both colours at the same time.

The introduction at the beginning was gone too fast. The text scrolled by in a few seconds, so that I gave up on reading it after the first few sentences. You should either make the text scroll a bit slower or add some voice that's reading the text.

That I had to press the spacebar to pass the text during the flash was good and bad at the same time. On the one hand it's quite annoying to press the spacebar all the time, on the other hand I can read the text at any speed I want.
But it would be a good idea here too, to simply add some voice acting.

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knuxrouge responds:

Thanks for you well thought out and thorough review.
I did put much work into the flash, but I couldn't have done this alone, my crew members contributed just as much as I did. I am going to try my hardest to make the next chapters even better.

I get your point with the preloader, but you must understand, not alot of colors can work well with that background and match. I can't speak for your eyesight, but the black was half decent and the Red was much more visible. The blend of Red and Blue was always obviously apparent form each other, simply because they're opposite colors.

I definitely understand your point with the intro prologue. But by the time I came to grips that it was too fast, I was too far in the production to make any changes that wouldn't compromise the animation in the future. I have no mic so voice acting is out of the question.

The spacebar exist for those who are not fast readers, it lets them read at their own pace and fully understand the story. There was alot of dialogue and little action, these don't match too well in this kind of audience (NGers). But I assure you, the following chapters will have more action. I will be keeping the spacebar function, because I have a 6 year old nephew who likes to watch this and for all those who also cannot read as fast as others.
Again, no mic = no VOs.

[Don't Trip]

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I liked this flash. I think the drawing style is all right, even though you could have spend more time adding some details to the background and to the characters, but it's good as it is now.

The music is of good quality and quite easy to understand, even though subtitles may have been nice for this.

At first the scene changes seemed a bit weird, but it all makes (more or less) sense at the end.

I liked how you added some humor to this quite serious theme (for example, the girl complaining about the small blood staint on her shirt while in the background the other girl is covered in blood from tip to toe).

As you asked in the Review Request Club if this lagged on any Computer: No, it didn't lag, even though my PC is quite crappy.

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Skaijo responds:

Very good review! I love how each critque is supported by an example that is clearly referenced. Also, thank you for letting me know if you experienced lag--with some reference to how powerful your computer is.

Very good review--stunning accurate and valid and all points.

10/10

[Bahamut: ATWI80D 01]

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Good excuse why you used speakonia here ^^.
Glad you always put subtitles in your flashes, or I wouldn't have been able to understand everything on the first time through -.- .

The plot of the flash was quite amusing and the random smileys on Afro's face were funny, too. And using the "Costa Del Sol"-music for the beach scene was just great.

Also, the text at the end gave me a good laugh, but I think I will have nightmares about Iron Maiden hiring 50 cent as a lead vocalist >:( .

kinggila responds:

Random MSN smileys. .;)

Also, did you hear that Avril Lavigne is going to become the new lead singer of Blind Guardian? j/k

[Cigaro]

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I just love that song.

The flash is pretty decent, but I think that the sprites are too "big". It would have been better if you hadn't zoomed in so much and instead filled the empty space with more AngryFaices ^^.

But the main presentation and visualization of the song is done very well, as you divided the two "roles" in that song very well between Edgar and Locke.
Also, the lip syncing seems to be pretty good in this flash.

kinggila responds:

The lip syncing for this flash took too long and is why I always have the lip syncs loop in the same speed. XD

[A Free Dr. Pepper Bottle!]

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Nice story :) . Finding his favourite drink for free is always a nice thing.
But seriously, 1 Pound for a Dr. Pepper bottle? That's quite expensive...

Ok, back to the flash: As I've already said, the story is quite nice. I liked the humor in this one (especially Bahamut's reaction when he finds that bottle ^^)
The voice acting is good again and I also like that you add subtitles to your flashes. This makes it easier to follow conversations (even though you are quite to understand anyway).

I didn't like how the human characters are walking as it looks very odd.

All in all, I did enjoy watching this flash!

kinggila responds:

£1 for a 500ml bottle is acceptable. Anything higher is too much.

[Speedtooning Cows 2]

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Once again a good advertisement for your site and your comics!
I think the next step after this is a drawing tutorial ^^.

The commentary is again very helpful and quite easy to understand (even though the quality of the sound lacks a bit due to filesize limitations). The drawing style is - again - great, too.
I am really into this style of drawing, as it just seems to be the right way to draw comics. It doesn't look too "clean" but not too sloppy either.

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[Speedtooning Cows 1]

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Normally I don't like simple videos submitted here. But yours is an exception!
I really like the way and the style you draw those things. It looks very funny itself, even without that hilarious punchline!

Too bad that the sound quality is so low, but I just watched the video on your site again, where the quality is a lot better.
Also, some video controls (like a play/pause button, and such) would have been very nice.

But anyway, this is a great advertisment for your site. So, you've done a good job here, I guess :)

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stik responds:

Hi Haggard. Thank you. I agree a pause button would be a great idea. I'll look into it. Time was a factor though, so I had to just slap it down and hope people would like it for it's content. On the whole the response has been very favourable. Which is very satifying for me, as that's what I try to do with my cartoons.

[A Bahamut's Xmas Tale]

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Nice flash, with a lot of references to your other flashes.
The humour was fine in this, and also the graphics and animations were decent.

The voice acting was done quite well overall, but the sound quality was below average. It cracked and rustled a bit too often for my taste.
Also, the quality even decreased when Crackman was speaking...

But the length and sheer awesomeness of this flash made up for those little flaws. Good work! :)

kinggila responds:

Luckily, sound quality on my flashes has improved since then. Crackman's voice quality was crap because he used his mobile to record the voices. :| Luckily, I took over his voice recordings after that.

Also, SEQUEL IS COMING OUT ON 23RD DECEMBER...hopefully...