Thetageist's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ariel Finds the Peak Male - OneyPlays Animated]

Congrats on the daily 3rd place!

Little bit of style inconsistency at times, but otherwise, it's really well done! I love the camera shots you used to illustrate what they were saying, they worked really well. Also, you're great at the magical girl style backgrounds. Adds that little bit of your own personal touch to the animation.

And yes, mermaid cop is a perfect addition - morally, comedically, and visually.

Edit: Understandable, and also wheeze! Okay, clarification, I meant in terms of art style. It works.

themaskedmonocle responds:

inconsistency was intentional, thats common in lets plays
and thank you!
*mermaid cop blushes* "all in the line of duty ma'am"

[Dissapearance - LapisTheWolf]

Nice animatic! Looking forward to seeing more of these, and maybe some animations if you have the motivation some time!

LapisTheWolf responds:

thank you!

[Claire's Theme (SjälTale) - LapisTheWolf]

I like what you're doing with the effects on the image and how they change over time with the music, but this isn't all that much of a music video.

Generally, the Newgrounds movie portal is meant for, essentially, animated short movies (examples from my favorites: Beep and Tweet, The Dark Harvest, Starship Goldfish) and videos (examples from my favorites: Meet Me at NG, Spoilers, Unlocking the Door).

I recommend that you check the Newgrounds Wiki's Movie Guidelines and, if you need further help, send a message to someone who's experienced with the Movie Portal to give you more clarification.

LapisTheWolf responds:

ty!

[IcedDreams-LapisTheWolf]

I agree, it did turn out lovely, but I also agree with @Twoeliz's assessment - you should submit experiments like this as animated gifs. Fortunately, you can delete this and reupload it as a gif in the Art section if you want to do that. You should see a trash can alongside the buttons on the header (flag, share, playlist, favorite). And to convert whatever file type you have to an animated gif, just google "[file type] to gif" and you'll be able to find a lot of online converters. Hopefully that helps :)

LapisTheWolf responds:

tysm!

[T]

I don't know why this is so funny. Makes me think of the British people I used to know. They'd probably be either very offended or very amused by this. Nice smooth animation.

RWappin responds:

OFFENDED?? (monocle pops off) I hope not.

[Moon Fall]

This is a pretty well-made animation. Only two things I can say to criticize it.

- I think this needs subtitles. I can't hear it properly with the distorted voice.
- While this is a good horror animation, it's nowhere near a realistic depiction of a cult, based on what I've read. No real life cult has ever appeared this blatantly sinister, as far as I know of. But you said you've studied cults. Can we compare notes some time in the future?

BoredKid responds:

Appreciate the response and feedback. As far as the cult itself goes I wouldn't say I was ever aiming for a realistic depiction, but rather that of a fantastical/story book reality. So in a sense the ideas was to create an absurdist stereotype of a cult, with references to common themes of child abuse, loss of innocence, and control.

["Gun Fun" Animatic - A student work]

Bahahahaha! This definitely meets the requirements of the assignment, I'd say. Did you get a good grade? I hope you got a good grade. :D

Maybe some time you can collaborate with an animator to make this a full animation. I bet that'd get on the front page of Newgrounds, or at least, it would deserve to.

DatCakeIzEhPai responds:

Yup I did. Sadly, I had more things going on with my life atm and animation collaboration is not really my interest. It would be nice for an animation collab to happen but I’m bad at managing people. I appreciate your respond.

[A Girl Can Dream]

Fed up with "girl falls into favorite fandom" fanfics, are we? So many people are and there exist so many parodies, so this is nothing original at all. But I nevertheless appreciate this animation for the sake of how well it's made. I really like the art style and character designs, they look like a combo of Disney and a more modern cartoon show (the She-Ra reboot, perhaps?). The lighting and visual effects are done very well and the animation is really smooth. This is overall a great animation and I'm glad you're venting your fanfic frustrations in this way. The people who decide to bash the actual human beings behind Mary Sue fics instead would do well to learn from you.

Curzec responds:

The idea behind the story actually came from my personal fantasizing about hanging out with my favorite characters and the self awareness of how dangerous most places those characters inhibit are. Combine that with a very short deadline and so I ended up with a rather sudden anti-climactic ending. I briefly thought about other endings like the girl realizing the danger herself and then being comically hesitant. This ending was the shortest though so I went with that.

I have 0 problems with people writing, drawing, or just fantasizing about "falling into fandom" things. It can get a bit silly, but if it makes them happy then why the heck not, right? It's a pretty harmless, self-indulgent thing.

Glad to hear you like the visuals! This short is a few years old now, so I hope I improved on the things you enjoyed.