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.

[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.