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!

[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.

[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.

[G3N1U5 HappyNewYear V.1.1]

All those flash-cuts can be disturbing

Try using direct-cuts, and making a better sound design for the next one. The concept wasn't bad at all.

3V1L-G3N1U5 responds:

>Ok thanks

[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.

[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!

["Sunshine"]

You just got it right.

You just got the message well shown. It doesn't matter the doodads, you are able to send the message and that's the most important thing.
I love when a character is constantly suffering through the darkness of his/hers story just to be blind by the SUNSHINE.

Luke-Millett responds:

...You mean somebody understands "sunshine"?