Kwing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[KONY2012]

... Wow.

Well damn, what do I say to this? The graphics and animation are great, but there's not enough of it to really be 'fantastic'. Voice quality is good but somewhat overdone (what do you expect from Egoraptor?). The concept was good too, and I feel like for how short this was, you made concise points that hit home hard and voiced a lot of the frustrations against the Kony hype accurately. Overall it was a good effort, but way too short. Given that this came out way after Kony 2012 was uploaded, I feel like you should have either released this sooner or made a longer animation in this time.

[GayWilliamJohnson]

Is this supposed to be funny? Sorry dude, the animation is high quality and so is the voice work, but this is way too short and more vulgar than funny. The biggest thing that pissed me off was that you didn't even show much of a defining trait of RayWilliamJohnson, which makes this whole animation generic. Incorporating the style of his videos would have given you more of a window of opportunity to make the skit ironic or deeply funny.

[Final Mansion]

Ouch... Not so good. Not so good at all.The background and gun sprites look great, the music is well-chosen, but this animation is seriously lacking. Though the animation isn't choppy, the movements are very unrealistic, too fast, and completely lack easing and pauses that are necessary for making movement appear realistic. On top of that, the dialogue is mediocre at best.

Anyway, I think the best way you could improve your animation is to try animating someone standing still, then gradually start walking, then running, then sliding to a stop and maybe jumping. Try and capture the essence of movement and physics in your animations.

IaMI2002 responds:

haha! Great Critique, I realized it too late but wanted to finish this film with pure motion tween. Don't recommend anyone doing that, been working on lots of fbf animation since then which is so much more flexible and fun! Thanks for the review and view!

[Dora VS Swiper]

Damnit man... This looked like it was going to be so funny, especially looking at the preloader and the first 15 or so seconds... But from there it was all downhill. The graphics are an interesting mix of really well done and badly rushed, as is the animation. The fusion of the two was odd, but didn't affect the fact that the content was sorely lacking. The voice work was a major low point, as was the lack of a good ending due to a poor script.

bocodamondo responds:

it so on porpuse. if i wanted to do it in anime style i could do it. easy taske. but that would change the point of it. comprende?

[Love, Wink]

Wow!! Again, very smooth animation and pretty graphics with excellent music. I was a little annoyed at the lack of a gradient for glowing effects, which would have been simple even for 2003. Also, when the building emitted all of that light, it seemed like you should have shown some of that light reflect off of Wink and his plane... As it was, it looked kind of... Wrong. In the end, though, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this animation. It was cute and done very well. The addition of a preloader game and hidden secrets give it that extra oomph as well.

gel responds:

I appreciate this review and tips, 8.5 years after I animated this. :D

[Wink: Insatiable Appetite]

Nice job! I must say this looks really well polished, and in fact it's INCREDIBLE for 2004 graphics. The environment and characters are rich and colorful, and the animation is extremely smooth. Audio quality is also exceptional. My only complaint is that the whole project lacks a definitive storyline. But as animation goes, this is some of the best.

[The Christmas Party]

Fair enough, the animation quality in this submission is really good and the positioning looks exquisite. Certain things like 3D effects or the movement of a character's hair seemed to have been done really well, even in situations that called for strangely angled frames. The tweens were in the right places and the voice acting was also good.

However, I felt that the graphics themselves were rather simple. Larger objects such as bodies worked well because you could animate the frames quickly, but the mouths really irked me, and I feel you could have done a lot more to make them look smoother as well as higher quality. And lastly, I didn't really find this funny at all. It's just a bit of nonsense that happens to be animated quite well.

[Sajatus/Curse]

Hmm

I don't know what to say about this. The graphics are a mix between very skillfully drawn fullbody characters, which have a rough style to them that works out very well, and... Well, hastily drawn scribbles. The animation is piss poor and it doesn't seem to portray anything or have any meaning whatsoever, other than a very slow-paced fight that isn't entertaining at all. The lack of color was also somewhat frustrating; not that I have anything against black and white, but a background might have given the animation more style.

Last but not least, I have to say I very much enjoyed the fact that you used Metsatöll's music for the soundtrack. It instantly portrayed the mood of the entire animation and felt really fitting.