Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[When I'm Running]

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The animation of the running man looked a bit odd, but it's one of the hardest things to animate a running man/woman, I think.

The graphics looked very nice and I liked the things that where going on in the background. The entrance of the Dino was done pretty good, with the screen shaking.

I started running a few weeks ago, maybe I too should imagine some things like that. ^^

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OxSox responds:

Oh come on you don't have to let me off that easy, the running man was the center piece of the whole animation, if there was one thing that needed to be perfect it was him, and if I didn't accomplish that it's a serious failure on my fault. With this animation under my belt I feel much more confident that I can better draw running characters in future animations.

Dude, the key to running regularly is not to stop. Make a routine for yourself and stick with it! Right now your at the point where it's easiest to quit, don't let yourself and don't make excuses for yourself. But yeah, when your trying to incorporate speed into your work outs imagination goes a long way to motivation. Good luck running, hope to meet ya in a race some day ;)

[Newgrounds: A History]

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It's a very good attempt to put the newgrounds history into a flash. The narrator is easy to understand (even though he sounds a bit bored here and there, he) and the slideshow is done quite well.

However, I think you left out some very important parts like the redisign in 2007, or the ClockCrew (yes, they play an important role in NG history, IMO).
Also, it would have been better if you had used more "old" screenshots. For example, if you are talking about 2005 and you show a screenshot from todays newgrounds... it's a bit weird.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks for the review.
Well, the main reason a lot of stuff was left out of this was mainly because I was working from the History Page in Newgrounds, and that hasn't been changed since 2006 (it really needs to be)..And about the screenshots: the simplest answer is that I couldn't find any that worked for the topic that was being discussed in that year...any archive images I could find I used though....

[Star Fox: Loopy Battle]

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It's a nice movie with a quite funny story and good graphics.

Sometimes the movement of the ships seemed a bit weird, but then again, it's only a flash cartoon. Gravity works different in cartoons, right? ^^

I liked the voice acting. All characters had easy to distinguish voices and you also added subtitles for a better understanding.

Keep up the good work!

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MCYoshi responds:

Yeah I basically threw out being realistic with gravity and such things. All you need is a fish bowl on your head to breath in space in cartoons after all. Anyway thanks for the review.

[Hay Wars]

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Well, looks like this was great fun to shoot (haha).

I liked the special effects here. The lasers looked very good. My favorite scene was where you got shot in the back. Everything fitted very well here.
But I still think that those kind of movies are better put on sites like Youtube, regardless if the film was edited in flash or not.

Anyways, the movie is nice, but a bit too short. Also, a little plot would have been nice to have. A short opening scene before you start shooting at each other would have been a good addition to the movie.

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Fro responds:

Sorry, I don't go on youtube. Props for being the 3rd youtube comment so far though. Out of 47 reviews that's not too bad. We can't really add a plot because that adds length to a movie and length and live action doesn't work good for a file size. Just 15 minutes of video last night turned into over 100 MB. Then we have to compress it to bad quality just to fit it so they really do have to stay short. Thanks for the review.

[Knife Shorts 1]

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Well, adding animations to real movies is quite a hard thing to do, and I think it turned out quite well here.

What you now need to work on is the drawing itself. Most of it looked quite ugly. As Coop already said: Zooming in gives you a lot more control of what you are doing. Also, don't be afraid to use the eraser-tool. If a line doesn't look good, use the eraser and draw it again until you are pleased with the result. Even if it may take 100 tries and more. The overall quality of the movie will greatly improve!

Also, the blood didn't look very good. It was just a red line. Some shadings sure would look nice here. There are quite a few good "blood tutorials" on NG. You should watch them and I'm sure that you can learn a lot from them.

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SCUMBALL responds:

I know about the blood, but it was my first attempt at frame by frame, and I have learned a lot by then, I can actually draw real people getting stabbed now, isn't that great, more violence for the world, just what we need :).

Yeah, that is true, I guess you can say I don't use the eraser tool :) Thanks for the advice, I'll be sure to use it.

I know, I've seen some blood tutorials, it's all good. Thanks.

Thanks for helping me with the reviews and thanks for the review itself!

Murad136 - Hacking onto your account Scumball, soz.

[Happy 18th Bahamut!]

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Happy Birthday, Bahamut!

Casualty responds:

Yus, happy birthday again!

[Please help me!]

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A very nice song you chose to animate here.
I think you've done a very good job, even though I wished you had added a bit more scenes to it, but it is still a good flash.

The animations could be a bit smoother overall, and I think a bit more colour would have been nice. But it's ok in bacl and white, too. ;)

I noticed that the subtitles began to show the first verse again, after the song was over (ie the credits ran and the subtitles showed the line "when I was younger so much younger than today"). You may want to change that. ;)

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flixing responds:

Thank you! I will arrange the problem of subtitles!

[The Pirate Collab]

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What a great collab. I liked the pirate theme and what the authors have made out of it. Also, the music fits in perfectly here. I liked it a lot and it's a milion times better than that awful "You are a pirate"-song that other people may have chosen for such a collab.

I also liked the preloader game, it was a very nice addition.

Not much else to say, as this movie is simply perfect in every aspect...

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Bertn responds:

"Not much else to say, as this movie is simply perfect in every aspect..."

OMG, you made my f*cking 'Newgrounds' day, THANK YOU! :D

[SF Series Episode 1]

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This is a very nice movie. You made good use of the sprites and animated them quite well. Also the backgrounds look awesome and they fit very well together with the sprites.

The voice acting was done great, but sometimes the voices were a bit too quiet. You should try to edit the volume of the different sound files, so that they all have the same volume.

Subtitles would have been a nice addition. That way you would make sure that everyone gets what is being said the first time through (sometimes the spoken words are a bit difficult to understand, especially for people whose first language isn't english. ;) ). You could then indicate who is speaking with a little picture of the character right next to the text.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thanks for the review and I will probably do subtitle in my next movie

[The Music Video Collab]

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It's a very nice collab with great music. The graphics aren't always that good but they are at least effective. The animations are also quite effective. I could see what was going on and that is what counts, right? ;)

The change overs from one part to an other part could use some work. Maybe a fade out when one part end and then fade in to the other part. That way the endings won't sound so abrupt.

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Assios responds:

Thanks! I'll put transitions on the sequel