Atzu's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Coffee Break.]

Love the style

Could you tell us how did you draw it? Its so well done, sometimes it looks you really used a brush and coffee, Where some of the draws hand made? Or did you use photoshop? Anyway, like WCCC wrote, the style and the mood where smooth and very good.

Foxcato responds:

Thanks for the 9.
About 90% of the graphics were drawn on paper and painted with real coffee.

[Grim Town - Cry Dinosaur]

Mwuahahah...

Very funny, I liked a lot how you remade the Grim's characters. Just one suggestion: change that "augh" when they're running away from the dinosaur, it's not very convincing. I liked everything else.
I'm looking forward to see more animations of yours like this one...

[Leftovers]

Jejeje Good, very good.

I liked a lot your animation and drawing style, somehow it fits very well with your story. Everything looks very natural.

[KeybladeChroniclesTrailer]

Good

You've got some interesting images/planes/cuts in your animation.
There are four things I suggest you to improve by now:
1.- You already know how to make motion tween, don't abuse of it anymore, experiment and begin using different symbols/draws/grops, you'll find your own animation style then. Don't abuse of the movie clip loops either, try to make it all more organic.
2.- Improve your backgrounds, give them more detail. There was an awful one when a "black enemy" jumped, watch animes and look how do they do it. Watching and learning from others can always be good.
3.- You've got four sound sources: music, dialoges, off voice, and sound effects, don't forget them in your first episode.
4.- Keep drawing and practicing. Anime, they say is the simplified version of manga, still, it needs a lot of work, practice and study.
Keep going.

PBass responds:

Thanks for the tips!

[Across The Universe]

A few things...

I got a few things to say:
1.- Do people have always to drink to see this kind of things? Why do they always need some drug?
2.- The fade outs at the moon with the woman aren't quite necesary at all. I know they are all part of the rhythmn but you could try and see the results. Fade outs mean that a lot of time has passed.
3.- Rain it's not vertical you know? Maybe you could leave it vertical because it somehow it fits the "intention" of that scene, but if you put some rain groups falling in very lighty different direcctions, your rain may seem more realistic.
This are just a few suggestions, but at the end It all depends on what do you say.

[Primal War 13]

Mostly very good

I just write this review because of your sound effects; visually, your animation is very good. Your sound effects feel and hear too soft when they should feel stronger; just like your brute and primal characters, the sound they make should reflect their way to be the same way you did it in the animation.
I suggest you to carefully hear a movie like king kong, got my point?
Hope this helps you in anyway.

[Robotech Sentinels Part 2]

WOW

Wow it's what I say! This episode was not too much interesting but I can quite see where ye are going.
There's couple of thins you should work on:
1-Improve your chara talking, animate their mouths according to their dialoges, avoiding those loops.
2-Check out for your image's borders, there's still in some of them a little border that doesn't look very well, try to erase it by smoothing the edges. If you optimize the shape's and then work on them, they will look better... Most of your pictures are ok with that, but you still should check em all.
This is just a suggestion but it can be yet very useful.
3-Create a menu on the top to choose the scene, make it appear each time "_mousey < 25" (or something like that, if you don't know how to script it, ask in the forums, I´m sure there will be plenty of people who could be willing to help ya with that.
Well that's all, keep going with your anime work.
And then I repeat WOW

[Broken dreams 0001]

Liked it a lot.

I liked your movie a lot. I just got a couple of suggestions. First, for next time, watch for the resolution, watch your movie here at newgrounds to see what I mean. Second, there's a cheaper way to make the alpha effect you wanted to do, and it can be cleaner; well, in this movie, yor background was all grey, so you could have just "tinted" your clips, and I tell ya, that uses less memory and looks cleaner. For example, there's a shadow there in which you used the alpha, and when you did it, well... check it yourself to see what I mean. =)
Whatever, good movie and good synchronization with the music. C ya