Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

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I like this animation. It starts of pretty hectic, like some sort of intro for an animated series.

One has to watch it more than once to get all the little details you added in there, but it's definetly worth it.
The drawings style is a bit sloppy, but I think it suits this flash very well.

However, the quality of the sound was quite bad, which let the flash down a bit. Maybe you shouldn't compress the audio that much.
Also the voice actings had that bad sound quality, but it was good in every other aspect.

I did find the easter egg, even though I had to start over the flash serveral times, because that snowman is gone so fast.
The easter egg is very random and quite funny. Do you know which language that theme from "Duck Tales" was sung in?

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Ying-yong responds:

Yes, the audio is quite bad since my mic I recorded everything in is somewhat old. The theme song was in Finnish, as it said in the credits. Glad you enjoyed the graphical portions of the movie, and thanks for the review.

[Droids Vs Aliens]

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I haven't seen a LEGO stop motion on NG yet, I think. So you definetly get some points for being original ;) .

The plot was nearly non-existent and that made it quite hard to follow the movie, because there was a lot happening in quite a short time.
But the animations seem to be very fluent and the sound effects were put to good use here.

I think you should experiment with different camera angles a bit, just to spice the whole thing up a bit. And you could also use different angles to tell some kind of short story.

Too bad the quality of the pictures is so low or else you would get a much higher score.

I really liked the little picture at the end as it seemed to fit the last scene of the movie nearly perfectly.

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Graeme responds:

Thanks for the review.
You make good points. But since it's points that have been brought up before, i'll just say thanks.

[Sand]

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I think the idea of this quite original. The wave washing away the drawn scenes seems familiar, but I really can't say where I've seen something like this before (probably in the movies...), so I give you points for originality ;) .

Even though the drawings seemed to be pretty much basic I really think that you have a great talent and can easily improve on drawing things as on animating things. For a first flash the drawings and animations are fine, anyways.

A small downside of this flash was the length. It's just too short, so one can't really catch everything when watching it the first time.
I just saw the flash and I am not entirely sure anymore what happendend in those short scenes.

However, the real downside of this flash is the static that can clearly be heard on every beat here. Try to get rid of that and you'll get higher scores for this flash.

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[Darfur Satire Shorts]

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I liked that submission.

The South Park style in the first Short was done very good. You managed to copy that style nearly perfectly. You also had some South Park style humor in there, for example when the US says: "You're helping the Janjaweed by bombing villages!" and the Sudan replies: "Nu-uh." and that green ribbon appeared on the screen. Sure SP-like humor ;) .

The "Transformers"-part was done very well, too. I've never been much into Transformers, so I can't say how good you managed to copy the typical style of that series, but it sure looked great.

The moral of those two shorts is simple but nevertheless right: People should care about what's happening in the world, even though they aren't directly affected by it.

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Chakra-X responds:

Thanks a lot! I closely analyzed South Park episodes to mimic their animation, mannerisms, and even asked the voice actor ("Shard-Spider") if he could aim for a Trey Parker/Matt Stone sounding voice.

However, the ribbon was to alert that the situation was an actual fact, if you didn't know, meaning Sudan has shrugged off all of these allegations and claimed no responsibly,.