Zir0's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Daily Hulk]

Hey,

That morphing animation is suhweeet!

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- Ziro out.

Shivayya responds:

Thank You

[Every Nintendo Joke]

Hey.

Stop breaking our pots, Link! O:<

Haha! I liked that one!

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[I'm not Mario]

Hey.

Other than the issues already mentioned in the author comments, the other main issues were the animations and some of the graphics. Some of the background images, particularly the clouds on first two screens, look a little jagged along the edges, as if there are zoomed in bitmaps, while everything else is vector. However, if you look at the clouds from the remaining screens, they look like smooth vectors.

Some occasional blinking of the eyes would have added a little extra polish, although ? did move his eyes when trying to come up with a name. Speaking of which, ?'s mumbling, as he's is mindlessly trying to copy Wario, but failed to come up with a name, was very funny! (:

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[Epic Battle Against SOPA]

Crap! ):<

Hey.

I was looking forward to seeing this. I'll bet it was various members of the Soup Squad teaming up against evil SOPA character that you made up. Let's see... flies like to ruin soup, so maybe you represented SOPA with as some giant, ugly fly, whose eyes are actually, the No-SOPA logo? Soup Squad would be equipped with spoon-shaped fly swatters or something.

The music must have been provided/allowed by SOPA; otherwise, it too would have been blocked.

Dag-nabbit, SOPA! ):<

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- Ziro out.

Little-Rena responds:

The music was approved.

[On Edge]

Animation ans Sounds

Hey.

Only problem is the animation and sounds are out of synch. The sounds play shortly before the events are shown that produce them.

Animation and graphics look pretty good.

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[Dreams I]

Cool Movie

Hey.

Your skills as an artist are pretty good. The voice acting was very good. Nothing too loud or overbearing. All the little details in the backgrounds were also a good touch. The music fit well with the story. I really like the animations and the dark frame too.

Keep it up.

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[Who You Gonna Call?]

Nice Quickie

Hey.

There should be a little subtle movement on the operator cans in the background.

When the view zooms in on Canned Soup, the TextField used for the phone number is also zooming, and it jerks around a bit. Probably better to remove the the TextField from the zoom operation, or try converting it to vector art and zoom that.

On the final screen, there should be a comma between the words "number" and "leave".

Otherwise, it's nice.

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Dosensuppen responds:

Yeah, but this was more or less trying to get it out there. It was more of the number being important.

[Soup of the Day: #8]

You and your Soups :P

Hey.

Just a few things to point out.

Title Screen: Art style doesn't match the rest of the movie. It looks nice, just a little inconsistent.

Tomato Soup: When the guy responded "f** yourself", the audio sounds like it was a bit clipped. I don't know if you custom made this or it was a sound acquired from somewhere else.

Canned Soup: This is nice, but would better if there were some shadows, at least on the cans and boxes.

Potato Soup: The aluminum can has a gradient on the top half, but not on the bottom half. When using vector art, normally I'd say avoid gradients, but in this case it fits well, because it's being applied to a cylindrical, metallic object.

I found Tomato Soup to be the funniest, followed by Potato Soup. Other than those, it's nice comical quickie.

* salutes *

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- Ziro out.

Little-Rena responds:

Thanks, I took the sound as a clip from a video so eh, lol.

[El Oso con Ametralladora]

Clean up the audio

Hey.

The graphics and animation are good, but the audio quality needs improvement. It sounds like you're too close to the mike, or the the audio is simply too loud, causing clipping.

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[Getting Noticed]

Nice Video

Hey.

This is really cool. The graphics, animation, and audio/video synch was great. The singing wasn't too bad, either.

Got a chuckle at the ending. He didn't realize that she was captured, and she was making all those weird faces. Although she could have at least "hinted" to help her out, heh. Then, he blames her for standing him up, lol.

Regarding the audio problem: I presume you're using Flash CS3, CS4, or CS5. Have you tried changing the Audio options on the Flash tab of the in the Publish settings dialog?