NextToNothing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kite Plight]

Great animation and very cute

Not laugh outload funny but still very adorable.

The animation is something to commend and it makes me curious as to if this was made in flash? The characters always seemed a little fuzzy, which could be do to lowered picture quality, was this edited in something like after effects and exported at a lower qulaity? or were they imported from another program?
I was just kind of curious and no matter what very cool and well worth a watch.

Onelani responds:

It was all done in Flash but I had to re-import back in as a video which why the video quality is lower than it should be.

[Castle III part B]

A little overated but still fantastic

I do like these movies after i saw part A i went to your site to watch them all and they kept me entertained for the time i watched them. Your story line is good up until the part where the fight for the orb, i won't ruin anything for anyone but i'm sure you know what i'm talking about, then i felt it went downhill.

I do like your incorporation of the 3d models. other than the overused apache that wasn't even made by you, that was a bit of a dissapointment but animators are by no means modelers or riggers. I also liked the look of the guns although they were a little boxy but i'm glad you didn't jsut go download perfectly detailed models then use them, it shows commitment.

I'm curious though did you retrace or somehow import just the gun into your scene, i tried to add one 3d object to a scene once but couldn't get it to just follow the outline, oh well another time to talk about that

Although your graphics are just sticks its clear that really any other type of drawing either wouldn't fit, or be to hard to animate, you really couldn't do anything inbetween sticks and full detailed characters, and tweening if done improperly ruins movies.

The sound is crystal clear and i really enjoyed the voice acting it helped make the movie, nice job on the scientist i noticed that was one of the only characters you did but you did it very well, nothing like a sterotypical sounding genious.

Your writing is good along with your style and its hard to find flaws in the movie other than things like the boxy gun and overused camera angels in such. but that is being so nitpicky theres not much sense in you listening to them.

in all honesty though i don't believe this deserves a 4.3 but i'm sure that will level out with time once people realize it isn't better then the xombies and deserves a spot somewhere in the 40-100s of all time.

Nice job though you display an incredible amount of skill and have mastered stickmen, i hope you apply this to your next feature and make something that isn't stick.

Get-lost responds:

I'm curious why you think the story goes downhill, feel free to PM me.

I export the 3D gun animation into an .swf, and then import it as a new symbol. It's pretty easy.

Glad you liked my voiceacting.

Thanks for the review :)

[Duck Luck Episode #4]

I just Didn't find it Funny

I'm gonna start with your graphics, i know your probably trying to keep the style consistant but on the next episode maybe experiment with different character designs as you make it. No one on NG would mind if you did change up your characters for the better.

Like i said before i don't really like your graphical style but it is really consistant nothing seems out of place, everything blends in to the little world you set up.

The voice acting wasn't great but at leaste the sound quality is good, didn't here any microphone fuzz or breathing so nice job on that

Nobody really cares about Violence/Interactivity in a movie

I don't know but i didn't think the movie was funny all the punchlines were predictable and nothing really made me laugh.

Overall its definetly above average and with some tweeking it could definetly could off the ground and become (more) popular

Snubby responds:

Don't speak for all of Newgrounds when it comes to graphics. I know plenty of people who liked them, and in DL5 when I diversify the animation they'll be even better.

Anyway, thanks for the review and the comment about the consistency.