Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

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The movements of the sprites (which were cut out pretty well) goes along very well with the beat of the song. Too bad you stopped working on it, because right now Mario is kinda left out there. All he can do is watching Sonic spinning around -.- .

kinggila responds:

I'm glad I submitted this flash unfinished. :D

[A Smucker's Moment]

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I like this one. It's rather short, but it's very funny. So no need to make this any longer than it is now.
The graphics are decent. The backgrounds could have been a bit more detailed in my opinion. Also, you have to work on the lip syncing. The boy's mouth looked quite weird, when he was talking.
But I liked the idea that one couldn't see the mouth of that old man, because it was hid behind his beard ^^.

The voice acting is pretty good, but the sound lacks some quality. It crackles a bit here and there, so maybe you can fix that. It's somewhat strange that the sound quality is perfect at the end of the flash, where that announcer says his line ("With a name like..." and so on).

The animations could have been a bit more fluent, but it somehow fits together with the graphics.

Even though this flash is so short you have created a very funny movie here. Looking forward to see some of your longer creations :)

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Skaijo responds:

Good review! I feel like you've done everything by the numbers--but you've hit all the major points on the head.

I certainly could improve the lip syncing quality done for the boy for such a short animation-there were certainly a lot of shortcuts made during the process of making this short, and this one was especially sloppy. You've certainly helped me fine pick problems in the animation that I hadn't noticed. In the future, you could better your reviews by offering specific examples on what the author can do to improve some of the errors that you've pointed out.

You were also very supportive and wrote very clearly which is great for me when I'm trying to read English at midnight. Ha! >_<

This is a very nice review. By the way, if you have the time, I'd love to know what you think of my older animation, Don't Trip. If you could add examples of how I could improve that animation, it would help me greatly as I'm currently animating the sequel.

9.8/10

[TwistClock's Great Escape]

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The drawings and animations you had were quite good. I also liked the plot. it was twisted and weird, but very interesting at the same time.
But I am not happy with the end, it just was too abrupt. Maybe some solution (how did they get there? Where were they?) would have helped here.

The music was well chosen and it underlined the mysterious theme of this flash. I also think that the simple backgrounds fit very well in this flash. It too underlined the weirdness of this flash - and also the hopeless situation that those clocks are in.

The lack of voices really hurt this flash. I think it would have been much better if you had added some voice acting or created voices with speakonia.
This way it would have been easier to follow the plot, as the text was gone too fast sometimes, so that I couldn't read everything.

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[LS Hotdog Spoof]

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I have to say that I didn't like this flash.
First of all, I just don't know what I just saw there. A random banana dancing in a random mall and a random kid chasing that banana? You definetly have to work on your storyline...
Don't get me wrong here, there's nothing wrong with a bit "randomness" in general. But there's only a thin line between genius and insanity. It's very hard to create good "random"-flashes, and in my opinion yours isn't one of those.

The audio (and more important: The quality of the audio!) was all right and you did a good job cutting out those sprites.
But you shouldn't put the text all over the place and above all you should stick to ONE text color. It's pretty annoying to see all this flashing text all around the place.
It distracts the viewers concentration.

The background was badly done. It was just a simple photo. You should try to draw your own backgrounds, and maybe animating them a bit (especially when the plot takes place in a mall! Animate the people in the background!).

Also, you should work on your buttons. It was just the text that was clickable. It can be quite annoying to point exactly at the text. You should make some parts of the background clickable, too, and then outline the borders of the button.
This way it will be much easier to click that thing ;) .

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[Nathonia]

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This was quite a good flash movie in my opinion. The graphics and the animations were quite well, even though you could have done a better job with the lip syncing.
The voice acting was great, except for a few cracks and rustles there and that guy with the low quality mic at the end (I don't get why you've done that...).

I liked the "tetris" part best, that was really funny. The worst part was the 40 seconds long song. I really think it would've been better if you had cut that song a bit.

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[The Spice Girls Concert]

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Well, I liked - again - the humor in this one. And I'll take the chance to say "goodby" to the old Afro_Stud drawing and say "hello" to the new one.

The voice acting is again very good, and so are most of the drawings. But unfortuneatly the animations are a bit weird (like, when Graham is walking, for example). And the lip syncing could be a lot better.
Anyway, I enjoyed watching another one of your flashes!

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kinggila responds:

Yep, bye bye old Afro_Stud.

[50]

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Very similair to the 33rd (and 1/3) flash indeed. I like how you connected both flashes while at the same time introducing a new character.
Now I'm really looking forward to your 100th flash (only 31 to go, as of right now). I hope you throw a big party, then :P

kinggila responds:

I have tons of ideas for my 100th flash. :D

[400000?!]

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I like the humor in this one and I really think this should have been the 400,000 flash submitted to the portal.

The voice acting was again great (and it's nice that Afro_Stud did the voice for himself ^^). But I think you should work a bit on the lip syncing... it just looks weird if the mouth is moving in exact the same speed and the same way regardless of what is being said.

kinggila responds:

Perhaps soon I will work on changing the speed of lip sync. :)

[33 1/3]

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I liked this one. Even though the shadow beneath the Bahamut-sprite sure does look a bit weird, I just can't imagine the sprite without the shadow.

The voice acting was great (and I just love your accent :P ) and the story was weird and twisted... just like dreams normally are.
Oh, and btw: Simpsons > Futurama :P

kinggila responds:

I think I see Coop behind you with a sledgehammer. :P

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Wow, how could I miss that on clock day?
I think it's quite funny. At least I had to laugh at the end. GO LOITUMA!

kinggila responds:

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