Atzu's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Final Fantasy:FoH ep1 pt2]

Nice

It gets intesting with time, so it works. The sound desing was overall good, Your characters got personality and and mostrly your graphics are pretty good, yet you need to improve your animation, it looks too mechanic, try to apply action lines to your character poses and some acceleration to make them more natural.

By the way - at the end of each part, now that you have the NG and DA links, you could make a button to go automatically to the next episode. You may even want to make a menú with all aviable episodes, it will not only make it easier to find the episodes with a custom menú made by you, itcould also encourage your viewers to watch more.

The-almighty-EK responds:

Action lines as in a line on a new layer as guides or like, an actual motion guide? either way, it's a great suggestion. I'm gonna try my best not to split following episodes up, but links to other episodes sound like a good idea, too. Thanks for the review!

[Intruder Returns]

¡Incredible!

The texture and the movement realism you achieved there are awesome, and neither you missed the sound or the music which were, acording to the genre, pretty good too; aah, and the "storytelling" was good too, even if a couple of times I didn't know who the intruder was because of the speed and their colors, and the "side by side" shots which normally aren't very amazing had their attractive, but it is obvios that the most impressing of it were the effects.
Congratulations.

Sorry about this poor review, I just can't think about something important to improve to make an actual constructive review ...

[The Marathon]

Jeje Fine

About your walk/run cycles, you sure noticed that the legs turn around like their hips could actually twist, that means you missed a frame or two; if you want the length to reamain the same, you may erase another not so important frames and add the ones you need, but withouth changing the legs aceleration of course. Next time you make a walk or run loop, remember that.
Keep it up

[Irod Bad!]

Congratulations!

They sure already told you about everything else, I just wanted to tell ya the voice acting was very good, I haven't heard one as good in a while. Congrats.

[George - Episode 1]

Keep it up

Well, it's got it's own style, hope your characters develop more on next episode.
Digital-guy may be talking about your first scene where George is got the same color of the floor, the same with the grass and the celery. You should change the grass & floors's tone or their brightness a bit, that should do it.

[Lyson's Life- Ep.01]

Practice and improvement, that's what it need.

Well, everything needs improvement, your walk cycles, your backgrounds, your characters, the audio... nothing practice and study other animations as well can't solve. Just decide what you're more interested now, for example, perspective, or maybe ways to tell story not always "with the camera on the front" like it was a theater, by the way, don't get too upset about it, I'm almost sure that most animators begin making everything very flat, by now I recommend you try to repeat the scene of any movie or animation you like, it may give you some ideas beyond practice, really. You could even adapt some sitcom episode to your series, who knows?

LysonsLies responds:

Thank you for your comments. I'm interested in how to improve and comments like these help out a lot. Thanks for watching.

[Brawl is here!]

Hilarious

I loved the animation from the begining, well syncronized with the music, it was neat and clean, and the style was acordding to the sense, still you may want to practice drawing to improve .
And about improving and techniques, In my opinion it doesn't really matter if you use tween, shape, stop or go motion, or frame by frame animation. Those are just tools you decide how to use them to your like.
By the way, I'm wondering about how did you do the aerial shot that became the planet, was it a ripped video or did you animate a set of different pictures?

[Your Mom is Dead pt.3]

Well...

I suggest you to investigate about the "action axis", I think that's how it is called, it will help you with those "jumps" your animation's got.
There was an old film that had a very explicit problem with that, if I remember the right name may I PM you and send you the name or the link of it for you to check it?

majikphat responds:

I know the 180 degrees rule, but animating is so hard that I forget. I'll keep it in mind for my nex animation. Thank you.