SquizofrenicCat's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rhythm Ep:1]

I'm personally a chimpanzee when it comes to understanding music, so a series on musical fundamentals sounds very interesting to me as it can teach and entertain at the same time.

Ironically, I feel the bites used to make the characters speak really overstay their welcome by looping, and quickly begin to sound annoying if the character talks for long. Maybe by varying the pitch throughout speech or simply not stretching the loops would help mend this.

Joe-Mega responds:

I totally agree about the voices, they'll be fixed for the next episode :)

[Damn, boy]

I don't know if this is an original, but a lot of the charm for this clip is in the delivery of the voice actress who isn't credited (why?). The expressions that accompany and sound design are really nice regardless.

[The Purple Yandere Imposter]

Very cute and simple animation.

You seem to have ignored a lot of the rules of the game so Purple could go ham, which is fair game for an animation. However, I believe Purple could have stalked Red much more and then preyed on people that got close to him in different ways, to emphasize the Yandere in the title. It was a free murder clip otherwise.

Still, fun little work. I enjoyed the small details like the guy holding the wires pulling them with him as he gets owned.

[Carol Le Katt]

Very creative twist to such a broad jam theme. The animation and the voice acting went extremely well together and gripped me to the end as I honestly wanted to see where the masterfully laid out premise went. Sadly the ending wasn't very satisfying; I feel it certainly could have gone somewhere with all the buildup, though for 2 weeks of work I think it came out very nice. Great job guys.

[Tritoria - Episode 2 Part 2/2 - Corruption]

I've finally gotten around watching both of the episodes of this series, with some well deserved attention, and MY MAN I've got to say this series you've done is absolutely top notch. I could go on and on drooling all over your work but I'll keep it straightforward for everyone's sake, at least for now.

For starters I'm actually kind of surprised this wasn't a webcomic first (maybe it is and I just can't find it?) as many professional artists would only dream to achieve this amount of exposition for their worlds and stories so early into the process of conceiving a series. I find that due to this it gets harder for you to nail everything, of course; like anatomy here and there, sometimes a buttload of (interesting) text comes on and it's impossible to read, reeling an audience in to something kinda long and new, etc.

However, when giving this series the attention it deserves one will immediately tell that you pay so much mind to details that matter (scene management, story elements coming up gradually, sound design, character design, dialogue, body language) it vastly overshadows those eventual hiccups. Even things like the small details you put in are fantastic as well, in this episode alone for instance I even noticed smoke from Kain's burning plant lamp gets displaced as he exhales and talks to himself as he analyzes the book; that's the sort of stuff that composes an experience and makes one feel immersed in an animation regardless of how mundane a scene would be, not many can pull that off.

All of this effort is commendable and so I need to stand up and applaud your talent, dedication, and your ambition, specially since this is a hobby for you and you are producing content in a language you don't even master yet (honestly I have not even noticed).

I sincerely hope you get more exposure and resources as you go, but most importantly I hope you keep on enjoying your own work come to life more than anything. Big Kudos to you, Skashi. Warai is cool.

Skashi95 responds:

Your words warmed my heart! Yeah, I don't write storybooks because I like to change ideas or the the flow of the story when I get sudden ideas out of nowhere I want to include. Also, I really hoped a comment about Warai would pop up, and it sure as hell did right at the end, haha.
Cheers!

[Defeat in Detail - How Smaller Armies Win Against Superior Forces - Military Tactics Animated]

Hey this was very interesting. Pretty simple style, straightforward narration.
It does the job, I've never heard of this strategy before.

ImperialScribe responds:

Thanks.

[Gun-Man picks a fight]

Hey this is pretty good. I feel it could have done without the first 35 seconds of explanation/silence, the characters lay out the lore with their dialogue very well.

The little jab was really good, that was my favorite part.

[Chiru, Animated 1.5]

I like the frame by frame man, but this doesn't classify as a movie.
Turn these into gifs and upload them as art instead.

ShadowCeless2002 responds:

Im gonna to Think It

[Unfit S. E.1 (Pilot)]

This was interesting, the premise is very new and captivating but I feel the writing was hit and miss at points. The characters are a bit hard to relate to in a lot of instances, I'm not sure what Tyler as a character brings to the table besides being the new guy. I feel vulgarity is thrown into the open there rather than being used to be the meat of some of the jokes, so it feels out of place a little.

The voice acting is alright, despite each actor having different microphone quality. I can look over that however because I could tell they were doing a good job playing the characters. The dialogue writing is okay as well.

I feel the art serves as a place holder at the moment; a lot of the jokes and even dialogue suffer because of it. There is very little facial expressions, besides eyebrow movement, and that really hurts the animation because it's hard to tell what the characters are really thinking or feeling. That guy that keeps grunting at people for instance is a character that has potential but hardly works without exaggerated visual gags to accompany him.

Overall it's a very interesting pilot (I rarely watch very long animations to the end here) and I find that with some adjustments here and there this could be really good.

[Kaa & Rio Rollins Tachibana]

Nice simple loop, I like the tongue and the eye animation.

Thought this would fare better in the Art Portal. Movie section isn't for super short and silent stuff like this.

RenaissanceOfChaos responds:

ah, thank you. I'll keep that in mind~