Omgee's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Death of Dailytoons]

Serious business? I guess.

Damn. You made me cry.

I've been a fan of your works -- good and bad, intentionally shitty and accidentally amazing, screamers and epics, blank screens and flash masterpieces -- since I've known about Newgrounds. You were part of the balance of this place, one of the things that made it fun. Sure, some of your submissions pissed people off, and that was the idea. Some of your submissions were fucking incredible, too. Every time I clicked on a Star Syndicate movie, I knew I was in for a surprise -- even if it meant I might need to turn my volume down. But your movies were always *fun*, one way or another.

That's what the Star Syndicate's meant to me... and I'm truly sad to see this group's work come to an end.

This movie brought everything together, in a sad sort of goodbye compilation. Some of the graphics and animation here was incredibly well done, some of it was cheap stick figures, and some of it was pasted random bitmaps, but it was all representative of your two year's time on Newgrounds, and I think it was an entirely appropriate way to say goodbye. Good choice of music, and beautiful animation that -- mostly -- went well with it. I liked the intro and menu, too, even though it was sad. Nice -- if slightly limited -- extras, also. You all did a great job with this piece.

I'll miss you guys, even though I never personally knew any of you. I hope you'll stick around and share you own individual work with us, anyway.

Bye, Star Syndicate. </3

[Fishe]

ROFL!

That was great! The presentation was spectacular -- theater quality introduction that really set the movie up well. The music was perfect, the graphics were nicely drawn, and the animation was smooth and appropriate -- although there were a couple of areas where some more detail would have been nice, like on the school of fish. Seeing Nemo in his zip-up fish suit was *hilarious*, though, and the artwork there was perfect, so I really can't complain much about the detail work.

I can imagine you'll get complaints about the length of this. Sure, it could have been longer, especially after that kind of intro, but that only added to the gag for me, honestly. The end credits were done well -- although, again, a little more animation on the detail of the bubbles would've been nice.

One more suggestion, since some people still have slow connections: add a preloader when you submit here. Your file size is large enough that the movie will lag for those with dial-up connections -- thus ruining the movie entirely. You can get a free preloader right under the "Submit" button you used to submit this flash.

You obviously put a lot of effort into this, and I admire that. I hope you'll keep working with Flash, and I hope you'll submit your future work to Newgrounds.

5/5, 9/10 (mostly due to occasional animation/graphics detail and lack of a preloader).

franzgunkel responds:

Whenever I tried to publish it with the Newgrounds preloader it would crash my computer...and my brother's computer...and my spare computer...and the internet.

[My First Ani]

!!!!, and !

I wish every good animator would take a few minutes to add a quick lesson to one of their movies and show how they did even one effect in that movie. That was awesome of you, and I very much appreciate it. I'm new enough to flash that things like this are extremely useful to me... so thank you.

This was a great combination of a cool little animation, a quick but helpful tutorial, and a respectable art overview. The movie itself was random but fun, and quite well done. I like your art style a lot! It's got a neat, construction-paper feel to it that really works well. The animation was really smooth, too. What FPS did you use for this? I liked the randomized effects, too. Nice demonstration of the possibilities for those!

The tutorial was nicely done as well, although since I'm not familiar with the duplicateClip function, I'll have to do a little research to be able to use the information in the lessons. Still, it's nice to know that this is here as a reference, and more than anything, I appreciate the thought and extra effort that took.

5/5 and 10/10. Excellent work.

[Marios Holiday Mixup]

It's a start.

It's not bad, but I think you could do a lot better with this.

For starters, lose the "Wii" part of it. It's completely unrelated to the movie, and it's silly. It's a movie about Mario and the holidays, not about the Wii.

Also, the sprites didn't quite look right. Mario and Luigi both looked a little thin. The movements weren't quite right on, either. Compare what you did to a Mario game, and notice the difference.

The words popping up out of the box were a nice idea, but the font seemed a little plain. You could spruce it up a little and add some holiday-ish stuff to go with it, or at least make the words the appropriate colours for the holiday (red and green for Christmas, blue and white for Hanukkah, etc.)

It's a good first effort, though, and I hope you'll work some more on this.

Oh, yes, and re-release it around the holidays. :)

porkman385 responds:

Yeah i hate that, but I couldnt get any good spritesheets. Ill try to fix that when I "spruce it up" :P Thanks for the honest comments, I take constructive criticism well.

[East Side Story]

Hm.

I've seen this come through the portal exactly like this several times, and each time, it's been blammed. Perhaps it's worth redoing some of this to make it more interesting. Surely you've gotten some constructive criticism from the other reviewers who have left you comments in the past?

I like the play, er, I mean, movie, and I like that you're trying to redo it as a sprite flash. However, the quality of some of your graphics was less than stellar, and the frame rate was low enough that everything looked really choppy. Also, the volume of the songs was pretty low.

This is Newgrounds, so you're going to have a hard time getting people to accept a song scene with no action whatsoever. While they're singing, have them *doing* something; keep your audience entertained while they're listening to the music clips, and you'll have a lot better luck with this.

The first few times, you got my protection vote, but now that you've submitted it unchanged several times, I'm voting to blam it. But I hope you'll improve it and submit a new version, because I really do like this idea.

Mad-Mardigan responds:

You just lost a protection point buddy!
Anyway, thanks for the advice.

[Tankman Three!!!]

ROFL

I truly respect an artist who has the ability to parody his own work this well -- and actually have it turn out funny without being entirely self-serving. Props to you for being able to laugh at both your own work and the work of those who don't like TANKMEN.

Best parody of a parody I've seen yet. I wish you'd made it longer, though.

[DarkShadowSting]

Not a bad start at all!

This looks good! Whether it's a test or not, I hope you'll leave it on here and let it be the set-up for your new series. The graphics were well-done (although I read what you said about improving them for the next one and I agree; I think you should work a little more on them), and the animation and lip-sync looked good as well. Maybe increase the frame rate just a little to make it look less choppy next time... otherwise, not bad at all.

Looking forward to seeing where you go with this!

Benspyda responds:

Thanks

[Baka-san: Short 3]

Ha, that was great!

I love it. A great blend of excellent animation and classic, old-school cartoon humour. Great story line, too. Even though I was cringing the whole time because I just *knew* what was going to happen, it still caught me by surprise and made me laugh out loud.

Beautiful work. 5'd and 10'd.

El-Cid responds:

*tips hat* :)

[Effort]

Beautiful.

Wow.

This is amazing animation, and a truly heartfelt story to go with it. I really liked the combination of hand-drawn art with the photographic backgrounds. Your artistic style is amazing... I truly wish I had a quarter of the skill that you've shown here. And your words could not possibly ring more true, on so many levels. I can relate, far more than I can express in this review.

The music you used for this was perfect. Actually, the whole thing was perfect. And I truly hope you don't allow anyone's comments -- or a silly Newgrounds score -- to tarnish your dreams. You're far too skilled of an artist for that to bring you down.

Suggestions for improvement: none. This is exactly as it should be.

5/5, 10/10, faved artist.

[Blockhead: Quick Shot 1]

Genius!

Blockhead is a genius, and so are you. "Introducing... get out of the way!" The artwork and sound just add to the absurdity of the whole thing. This is incredible.

Way, way too short, but incredible.

I know you're busy, but... more please? Now?