Score: 10

"A work of art."

submission: The Fat Anime Collab 4

date: August 27, 2009

Anime, fat chicks, and surprised looking old men staring at asses.

What more can you ask for?

Score: 7

"Flash analog of Killzone 2"

submission: Tarboy

date: August 27, 2009

This movie reminds me a lot about Killzone 2, not because of the plot, but because of the production value. I mean, it's just marvelously crafted, the animation is flawless and the effects are brilliant, but the soft spots in this movie lay not in the animation, but in the film itself.

Fore example, there's the art direction. I didn't like it too well. I mean, sure you captured everything perfectly, but how it was presented isn't for me. Like the robots, they're too 'generic' or their style isn't too interesting or cool or whatever. The design is good but it's not anything groundbreaking. The only real flaw in this are like, the eyes of the robots, you could've gone with something like LED readouts with words instead of eyes or something, which is impractical I know, but hey it looks cooler. And Tarboy himself wasn't anything too memorable. I mean it's a silhouette of a spikey haird kid, you could've done better. Everything else about the art was fantastic. Cityscapes looked like cityscapes, lasers and lights looked like lasers and lights, so on and so forth. The background sequences were also nicely done.

The music is also another weak spot in this fine movie. It started out like some children's musical to be ran during the holidays, which was just odd. The music together with the flash gave it a very 'storybook' feel, which I didn't like. In fact, I'd rather have had the music been intense techno or Daft Punk-like house, it'd have made the movie's atmosphere a lot more intriguing, because, frankly storybook-esque flashes are weak. The music is great, and it fit with the movie, but a different style would've fit too, and it would've made the movie be better on the audio aspect. The sound effects also, are decent enough. But it would've been cooler if there were lightsaber sound effects during the fighting in the dark scene. Also, lol at the guitars in the end credits.

The story is probably the weakest part of the whole affair. I never felt drawn to know what would've happened next, so if for some reason firefox closed while I was watching it, I wouldn't bother going back the next time I boot firefox. The characters were all bland, with the exception of the douches in the office water cooler, best characters of the movie, IMO. The grandpa guy also was a tad bit annoying at times, and the terms written into his dialogue like "fatcats" and whatnot really didn't go so well with me. And Tarboy was generic, he didn't even remind me of a personification of revenge, he was just there, and all he did was do a couple of fancy moves and then melt. I suggest you make the story something special for Tarboy II, hire a professional writer or something.

That's all I have to say. an okay movie. I don't see what all the fuss is about. But you're one of the best animators on this site, kudos to that.

Score: 8

"Meh at best"

submission: [ Newgrounds Chat ]

date: November 29, 2008

Try removing the music section, since well it's probably a sort of waste. And people all have their own music.

You can give it a cosmetic upgrade and maybe implement a user system, if oyu can.

It's impossible, but I'm just throwing things around.

Score: 6

"Very strange"

submission: yellow snow

date: January 2, 2010

It's not terrible, but it's not very good either. The vibe here is... unplaceable, and I really have no idea what I'm listening to. This could probably be a nice backdrop to a rap song though.

Also what program did you make this with?

Score: 10

"Fuck you"

submission: Very First Song Listen Now Plz

date: September 1, 2009

Fuck you, the synth intro the the FUCK YOUs was genius. I just love this, favorited.

Score: 3

"Generic"

submission: Ice Cream Man!

date: September 1, 2009

My first thought on this when the riff started playing: boring. This song really captures the "we're a bunch of friends messing around and having fun" sound though, absolutely no seriousness in this song, hell the EQing was a joke ( at least on my headphones it sounds so ). I mean, the rhythm guitar had too much going on in the low end, make the bass a treble laden mess akin to the sound of a string being plucked nonchalantly. You must not like your bassist. Also overall it was too lo-fi, and it's a punk song too. Lo-fi + punk = generic.

Now, the vocals started out cool, but when 'cause I'm dumber than a turd' ended the vocals became generic and too much like the guy from Blink 182. And the vocals also touched on annoying at times like when 'ice cream man now hiring' was sung, or rather chanted. The vocals lack harmony and melody and is too much like a generic punk song, as I have been saying. You guys should consider on diversifying with the melodies and whatnot.

I mean, the guitar was bland like the rest of the song, and the generic riff didn't help. And so were the rest of the instruments: generic and boring. You guys can play, sure, but damn, how many times do I have to say generic?

Also, the lyrics are terrible. I didn't like them at all, and when the final line was said, I nearly cringed in disgust. I mean, it's a terrible way to end the song, you could've thrown a solo in but instead you punctuated the song with the vocals, thus ending it on a bad note. Sorry guys, I just didn't like this song at all. No offense.

Listen to We Are Scientists, I can imagine you guys being able to sound like that, cramming as much as you can and doing as much with plain rock riffs as you can to keep things fresh. It's really a band I'd like you guys to try and emulate, especially in their album With Love and Squalor. But if you guys really intend on being focused on punk, fine with me.

Peace