Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Adrellia Village #8]

Hmm

Well, it's a bit hard to review this one without having watched the previous episodes, but I really don't have the time to view them all right now.

Anyway, not too much happening in this episode, so I think it could've been a bit longer, or maybe you could've added a short preview for the next episode (which on the other hand could become very tedious if you always have a "last time on Adrellia Village" and "see next time on Adrellia Village" in every flash...).

I think the animations are a bit lacking here. When the army moved they where just floating up and down. Would've been much nicer if we could see them marching, or at least using their arms end legs a bit.

{ Review Request Club }

MistyE responds:

Yep, not a lot happened in this flash - in fact, the recap is half of the animation. That's why I'm surprised this peaked a 4.00. I'll work on the army marching. Thanks.

[Chrismissed DE]

The mystery of the disappearing jacket

I actually enjoyed this flash, even though I found the musical selection to be quite horrible. But this is just a matter of personal taste.

The drawings are pretty good here. You had some nice backgrounds as well as a very detailed main character. I didn't quite get why his jacket disappeared, but I love how you try to cover up this mistake by letting him say: "At least I got my jacket back". Kind of breaking the 4th wall here, but in a very good way.

I didn't like the blood stains after the guy got killed, that's definitely something you have to work on.

The last joke was pretty good. "Sorry man, we are out of business today. Come back later." I know this would annoy the hell out of me (pun intended ;) ) .

{ Review Request Club }

ToonCastleTV responds:

Some people had complained about the music previously, but the way it flows espically when he starts spinning around the street is in my eyes perfect. Lol I wouldn't say the main character was super detailed, just enough as he had to be. A simple design really, just moving a lot. I like the positive response on the jacket part, kuz some people thought it was "dumb and non nonsensical." Dam, that's two people who didn't like the blood stains. Hours of work were actually put into that scene believe it or not, thanks for the good review tho!

[B-Lated ClockDay Post-It]

Hmm

Don't really know what to think about this. This is far from being the worst Clock Day entry I have ever seen, but it sure is also far from being the best.

What I really appreciate about this piece is that you obviously put a lot of work into this. Drawing on a piece of paper, taking a picture, drawing again, taking a picture... and then to compile it in a flash file sure did take a lot of time to finish.

It's a real pity that the screen size is so small, sometimes it's hard to guess what's going on on the screen.

The musical selection was quite nice, but you have to work on the transitions a bit more. I understand that it was meant to sound like skipping through a TV programme, but the static noise in between the songs was just annoying.

Overall: If a friend would ask me if this movie was any good, I'd tell him: If you like Clock Day movies, it's worth to check this one out. If you don't, then it's nothing for you.

{ Review Request Club }

ToonCastleTV responds:

The reason why it's so small is to keep the file size down as this movie is not in mov. format and was entirely done it flash. ( minus drawing the picture, photographing them, and editing in photoshop ) also I felt having it larger destroyed the quality of theses pictures - something i'll have to work on in the future. But I personally don't consider it to much of a grape - you may have to watch it a few times to get it all but everything's there! and yea i was pleased with the soundtrack to. Thanks for the review ;D

[Walking the Walk]

Strange...

This makes no sense whatsoever, yet I cannot stop watching this. It really reminds me of something I've seen before somewhere (the colours, the figures running around, the fact that those figures are transparent), but I can't put my finger on it... or maybe I'm just imagine that I've seen something similar before.

Anyway, like I said: It's surprisingly addictive and it's hard to stop watching this submission. The musical selection plays a part in this, I think. It fits very well to the animation and together the animation and the music create a very strange, yet not uncomfortable atmosphere.

{ Review Request Club }

TheBoogley responds:

if you remember the film this reminds you of please let me know, I'm interested to see whether I know of it :)

[Adrellia Village #34]

Hmm

There was a huge problem with the voices here. All of them had static noises, as if they where recorded too loud. This really hurts this flash movie, which was funny otherwise.

I liked the thought bubbles of Drake, Rachel and Sebastian during Brutus' speech, they added a lot of comedy value.

Also I think it's a bit lame to have Drake (and maybe the other characters as well?) mirrored when they look to the right side. It's clearly visible that Drake is mirrored, because the writing on his shit is mirrored as well.

{ Review Request Club }

MistyE responds:

Thanks. The idea of making Adrellia Village comedic and satirical rather than serious and suspenseful occured to me when this was made, and Brutus' tiresome speech was something I felt had to be funnier.

Drake mirrored here was truly a sign of laziness on my part, the other episodes don't have mirrored text.

[Adrellia Village #12]

Hmmm

Well, this episode wasn't as funny as the others I have watched. I think the untying of the King could've been done better. We only had some text bubbles to read, maybe acting this out would be more funny.

Like, have Drake say out loud what he is thinking, maybe the King could try to say something to Drake, but he isn't listening. The way it is now, this episode almost feels a bit unfinished.

{ Review Request Club }

MistyE responds:

Yeah, acting this out would've been funnier. It was pretty short, so I can understand it feeling unfinished.

Thank you for your review!

[Adrellia Village #3]

Funny stuff

I think this is turning into my new favorite series. I cannot even explain why I think this is funny, it just is! ^^

Anyway, Quincy Jones' Ironside never get's old, I thought it fitted in nicely here.

I still have a hard time distinguishing between the characters, but I hope this will get more easily once I watched more episodes.

{ Review Request Club }

MistyE responds:

Glad to know! The characters should be easier to distinguish after watching more episodes. That's something I'm improving in the Adrellia Village reboot :)

[2birds1stone]

Not too bad for a first submission

Since this is your first submission it's just natural that there are many flaws to this submission, but even the greatest artists on this site had to start at this level at one point in their carreer.

I like that you converted a little idea into a flash, using a basic sort of script and presenting this idea here on newgrounds. You didn't take the easy way out by just submitting another pointless stick fight movie.

The graphcis are decent, but your backgrounds leave a lot to be desired. Most of the time they where simply plain white, which isn't that appealing to look at.
However, the birds where drawn in a pretty nice way.

I could go on about every tiny detail in this submission, but I guess you know best that you still need more practice to create something really mindblowing.

But instead of rambling on I would like to point out that you also have to work on the pace of a story. Here the pace is too slow for my liking. The scenes dragged on for a pretty long time, considering that there isn't that much to see in each scene anyway. Maybe try to speed up the movie a little bit and then add some more ideas of how you could kill two birds with one stone (a short idea that pops into my head: have one bird press down the gas pedal of a car with a stone and the car drives over two other birds lying on the street).

Also, the sentence "No birds where hardem ..." was "cut off" at the end, meaning that it appeared and before I could even finish reading it the end screen appeared.

So, overall this isn't a bad submission. Considering that this is your first submission it is pretty good, even. Things to work on are your drawing and animation skills and the script writing or pacing of a story.

Hope to see more from you soon!

{ Review Request Club }

evanarmagast responds:

let me start off by saying, thank you for the review. i definitely noticed the lack of backgrounds. i was considering it for a long time, but i honestly felt it wasn't exactly worth the effort. i mean, it was a very simple concept and i felt like backgrounds would take longer than the rest of the animation. but i've already started working on my next animation complete with full backgrounds. haha. and yeah, pace seems to be my main problem. i mentioned in a previous review response that i tested out making it faster, but that just made it seem like it was too short. i feel the compromise would have been doing a better job of making the birds more animated and amusing. alternatively, maybe i should have just come up with more ideas than just three. haha. lastly, the "no birds were harmed" was supposed to be kinda fast. it seemed right in my head, but i still probably made it too fast. thank you again for the review. look for new stuff coming up soon.

[Adrellia Village #38.1]

Didn't quite get it

I didn't quite get this one, but I think I'll just have to watch the other episodes of Adrellia Village. Seems I missed out on a pretty good series there.

However, the flash looks strangely blurred and unclean, as if there went something wrong while exporting the flash.
Also, the voices have some static noises, which also might be the result of a problem with exporting the flash.

Anyway, even though I didn't quite get this episode and the image is a bit "unsharp", I still enjoyed watching this flash!

{ Review Request Club }

MistyE responds:

Thank you for your review! With regards to the unsharp images, due to animation problems, I had to take the .wmv file and import it into Flash, causing a mild quality difference.

[The Movie Movie]

Funny back then, still funny now

This movie about a movie was hilarious back then and it's still hilarious today. I like how Fro comes up with some silly ideas and the "movie Nick" has to react on it, like the invisible barrier, that isn't there anymore all of a sudden.

I also like the editing of this movie. The cuts and changes of the camera angle are well chosen and it also makes it easier to follow the movie.

Only thing that bothers me is the low sound quality, but that may be the result of converting this movie into flash.

{ Review Request Club }

Fro responds:

thank you!