Bit-Master's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FBF Madness SE]

This would be worthless had it not been so smooth.

That was... crazy. Not much replay value to it, and it kind of droned on at the end, but I give you credit where its due. There is a lot of evidence of hard work in this, but now to move on to something bigger. An actual movie (flashwise) with full plot lines and characterization etc. You have all the skills and experience needed, now go put it to work! Btw, good job on this movie, and 4098 frames for non-stop frame-by-frame is a lot, so this was definitely time consuming.

Rubbertje responds:

Yup.. It WAS time consuming. But this is my last FBF Madness edition and now I'll focus on movies with plots.. so..

Thanks for the review!

[Stop Crying - Part 1]

Wow. There is a lot of emotion in this.

As a tribute towards your brother, this was amazing. As a flash, the only thing that you could improve is the number of repeats of certain actions. They're alright once in a while, but this was overdoing it a bit. The writing is pure gold. I've seen many professionals who aren't as good as that. Keep it up for part 2.

XSstudio responds:

Thanks for bringing out this point. Please read my updated author's comment. I'm surprised that you'd like the writing... thanks, but I surely have lots of problems using English --- not my first language!

[Tribute to Sonic]

You can draw, that's half the battle.

Now you need to learn to actually animate it. If you don't like to do much frame by frame, but you don't mind a lot of drawing, observe how Andrew animates. Yes he has done some frame by frame, but it's also a lot of tweening effects with constantly renewing drawings. You obviously don't mind the whole drawing a lot bit, but you probably do mind the animating it a little. I'm just opening an easy way for good artists to animate. Another way is like NALO's style. He draws really well for the symbols, but to animate it, he tweens separated limbs. After a while, there will be enough symbols to animate without having to draw new ones.
Also, when drawing, use the pencil tool and use different thicknesses, that way it will still look the way you originally wanted, just without the access lines which you can remove with ease. For me, I sketch out the drawing with my Graphire 3, then I make a new layer and draw with the line tool over it, keeping it in proportion, but really nice. It's taking me so long that I STILL don't have any flash done. Also, that could also be because of all of the unfinished movies I started. Anyway, I hope to see more of your work with these improvements.

Troll-Master-Grog responds:

I can accually animate (but can never spell "accually"). I wanted this to look more like the Sonic comic books and/or the old video games using sprites. I already do pretty much everything you said as you will soon see in my next movie: Squishy and George

[The Match]

Nice.

This is a serious example of making animating look easy. Really cool graphics, the music was okay, and this had a very good joke to it. Sticks being Dragonball Z-ish and yet they aren't stick figures. lol. Good job, keep it up.

cherrorist responds:

Thanx. It was all but easy, took me some month and a half. But it's a great learning process. Yeah, I'll keep at it, love doing it ;)

[The Zero Factor Intro]

Woah!

I have never seen graphic intensive sprite movies ever. That was pure gold, especially the fact that I can still see the writing style that I've loved in your movies despite the just action. Keep it up and good luck with your new series!

Kaosboy85 responds:

Hey Bit, glad you liked it:) Thought I'd submit somethign to remind everyone I'm still alive:-p

[Tails Trailer]

A little lacking.

I like the style, it's like a cartoonized version of the cartoon. It could be longer and/or more detailed in the framework. I can say that there are very few positive movies toward Tails. In most, he's either stupid, a wimp, or picked on. If you follow the suggestions, the real movie will look great AND have higher ratings. Good luck.

7KAD responds:

Thank you for the review! I will follow your advice! ^^

[Metal Gear Crisis 1.1]

This is definitely something worth seeing.

NALO, your style is perfect. Yet the humor, Legendary Frog, of your movies is going down. I think that the reason that this is happening is that you are trying to please everybody all at once by giving your movies the themes that appear to be popular. I think that you should stick with the old themes while still keeping it all fresh. This is a huge challenge, but I think that the results will be much better.

The other reason I think that you aren't doing as well with the humor is that you can't think of anything new, so you're moving on to other themes of comedy. Sorry if I sound like a babbling old goat, but please try to understand what I'm telling you. This may bring back some old fans.

NALO responds:

ah thanks, thats good advise if LF was to read it, it could help

[Megaman X OLB ep.6]

Sweet!

Protoman was kicking some serious ass! Great work, that's for sure! Your plotlines, for this series, it what actually makes it art. Not a mindless mess of sprites, even if they were custom made, all that works together... Why am I telling you this?!?! You already know that! Well, it never hurts to repeat advice... usually.

Suggestions for next one: (though there aren't really many)
1. Try to animate the limbs separately (not necessary). You don't have to go to the extreme of something like Super Mario Reloaded, but like Sonic the Swordsman, where it's done, but just enough to get the wanted results.
2. Keep it as good as the latest 2 episodes. If not, better.

That's about it. Keep up the great work!

Kaosboy85 responds:

First off... sorry for the late reply:-p Second, thank you VERY much for your support!!!:) I realyl apprciate reviews like yours! (oh don't be offended if I don't reply to the other reviews:-p) I'm glad you like the story, and trust me it's goign to get a whole lot better... if I ever finish it. The series will creat ALOT of confusion but will ALL com together in the end! I also like your sugestions:) Sorry about the music. To be honest I don't really kno where it came from. I got it off the Sound portal from an author who was deleted (well I assume cause I've been trying to find him) after I downloaded his song. If you would like the song I have no problem giving it out but I would have to email you. Email me if you would still like it!:) Thanks again!

[Rouge Episode 1]

Cool.

That was the best sprite movie I've seen in ages! The only disappointing thing was that it ended so soon. Keep up the good work, man!

swordflip responds:

Yup. I know it was short but I'm not a very good writr and not much of a fight choriographer but I'm doing what I can and hapi wit the story line I started.=)

[Metroid: Rogue Formula]

It was pretty descent.

Try to separate the limbs in parts with limites sprites, or all of it, to get better results. That bugged me the most. You were pretty good at the 3D effects, though. Finally, you should try to draw your movies more, those two clips looked great. More time=better results.

cap123 responds:

yeah, hopefully i will draw more from now on. Thanks for the kind words, however i feel cut up sprites look kinda dodgy.


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