Oddlem's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[ENYO]

The animation seems pretty unfinished and rough, but still looks pretty great despite that. Also the lines look a little pixelated, but I'm sure that's flash's fault and not yours. :P
Overall, it's pretty nice (although I'm not a fan of the music) but like I said, it feels unfinished and that takes away slightly. The effort's appreciated though, since it's an entire two minutes of straight up animation with no tweening. That stuff's hard to do.

It's not completely perfect, but either way nice job. :D

JaviJavi responds:

hahaha, i know its faaaaaaaaaaar from perfect, but i finally did something ive always wanted to do which is make a short film, so im still pretty excited either way. Thanks for taking the time out to critique my work i definitely appreciate it :)

[Plop Fish Ad]

I just looked it up, and this actually exists. You're not supposed to submit a plain advertisement to an association- especially if there's nothing noteworthy about the animation itself and it's only purpose is to promote the website/product. ._.

[We Are DIVISION8STUDIOS]

(taken from the guidelines page)
"Your submission must not be a pointless "demo" or "preview" without any redeeming qualities."
"Your submission must not simply be an ad for your site."

The editing is nice, however I don't really think this should be here. It doesn't really have anything interesting, and appears to just a promo of the same picture being edited. If you're submitting a movie, it must have a certain quality or something special about it, otherwise it will appear out of place and will likely not be accepted by the community. :/

DIVISION8STUDIOS responds:

I solely created everything in this promo (art and music), and one of it's purposes is to showcases my graphic art, 3D modeling, animation, video editing, guitar, bass, drums, synth and audio production (as I co-founded Suncrest Recording Studios) abilities to the community.

This is our standard company intro for our games produced by our games division, it's redeeming quality is to create interest in our channel here (an animated logo). We have an established company image, and this is designed to help establish our vibe and to provide a teaser video for things to come.

If you really watch it, you see there are literally dozens of different images used. To make them all fit together as one, is kind of the point of professional video editing. Also if you notice that 80% of the imagery is either short clips or stills from 3D animated scenes. Lot's of work went into the creation of the files used.

Do you see a web address for any websites? No.

As if all the pornographic media found here have such redeeming qualities.

[Tiberius & Reagan]

The animation is fantastic, the effects look great, and the voice acting gives it that "punch" of pure humor (in most cases).
The main problem I can see though, is that the relationship between the two characters seems like it's attempting an Invader Zim type of thing. With all of the "randem XD," younger users seemingly constantly making GIR jokes and Reagan having a similar personality, I found myself focusing more on that than the fantastic things about the animation itself. Even Tiberius seems a little bit like Zim in one way or another. It's kind of my fault in this sense, but can you really blame me? >:

Besides my own biases though, I completely enjoyed everything else that this had to offer. :D

[Harvest Moon In a Nutshell]

I kept seeing this on the front page every day, and I originally wasn't going to watch it but after seeing it so much I decided to do so.
I've never played the harvest moon games in my life, but I actually ended up enjoying this. A lot. I found most of the jokes funny, and although I don't personally like the art or animation style, they worked nicely in the video. Like, for example, how the main character's face is the same picture throughout the entire video- Like he's just in a permanent state of confusement.
Nice job on this. :D

[My First Animation-A Cat, A Remote, And The Force]

So, about the program you could always just download the flash trial. :P Also there's a free animation program called Toon Boom. I've never really used it myself, but I guess it would be a good compromise.
Also I heard that flash became a subscription too, so if you like Flash in the trial you could always just do that. .w.

Anyway, you explained that the animation itself was your first one which is pretty okay considering that. However, one thing that I would work on would be pacing. It's someone that I myself haven't really been practicing, but it's always good to practice with that. Also, I would suggest making the music lower so it's in the background and adding sound effects to not only add emphasis on certain things, but to also make it more clear of what's happening. :>

Otherwise, congratulations on your first animation. owo

KozyCat responds:

I feel dumb for not knowing about the Flash trial. I'll look into that. Also, thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to work on pacing.