Kwing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Beard Ninja]

Nice Man

I love this thing! Lots of action, somewhat clever, and lots of fun little references dictated by the musical score and the shots. I think I remember Stone using one of the songs you used in an RHG, and Hyun using one of the songs you used as well. There was also a nice element of humor, which went well with the presentation and all. The ending was kind of stupid though and didn't make sense.

[Diablo II]

Funny

Art style was kind of simplistic but good nonetheless; better than a lot of stuff on Newgrounds. The animation was alright but seemed mostly tweened. The sound was fine; no problems there. The concept was kind of funny and I got a good laugh out of it, but it was only one joke, really, and the animation was too long for one joke and too short for an animation in general. Add a little more next time!

And I've played Diablo and enjoy it xP

[The French VS FllFFl]

Damn Good

I really like the presentation on this. Very nice job. You showed each character's powers very well and the angles really supplement the animation. I'm not so sure what was up with that one shot with ALFA, though. When his arms were behind him and the sword was aimed forward I really didn't get what you were trying to do and understood even less why you would put that in slow mo to put emphasis on such a strange body position. I also didn't quite get the ending. From your RHG's profile, I don't remember seeing any power involving you being able to shoot energy beams. :P

[The French VS Bident]

Very Nice

I love the animation, but I preferred the film noir art style you used. Very nice, if minimalistic. Smooth movements, and everything looked fine, except... There didn't seem to be a whole lot of moves or combos going on. The distance between The French and Bident always seemed rather large. Charge, spread out, charge, spread out. If they'd stayed up close and personal for longer you could have animated all sorts of leg sweeps, kicks, grabs, punches; in short, you could have put in a lot of combos if the characters could just keep themselves close to each other.

But all in all, very cinematic and I liked the ending.

[B.Y.E.]

Inventive

Everything about this is epic. The music selection is great and fitting, the layout and presentation is professional... But of course the animation is the high point. Let's go into that a little more...

The combos are extremely inventive, which is easily the best part of the animation. Certain things such as gun-fu melee fighting and a guy sticking to a hammer really spiced the animation up and made it unpredictable. The blood effects are also extremely smooth and realistic, and the voices add an element of humor to it. Effects such as lightning, smoke, and fire were also top-notch. I also like the order in which you arranged them; the entire mood of the animation changed when you put tons of short ones back to back.

A few weird things I've noticed:
- In the grenade one, I can't see the attacker throw the second grenade. I see the movement but not the second grenade at first. This is weird, especially because the grenade is being LOBBED, not whipped at full speed.
- For the Hangman one, I feel like there should have been more elasticity in the rope so that you could have shown a bit more easing.
- For the Drowning one the water was almost invisible, which annoyed me because it -looked- like the water effects were done well.

Really I cannot stress this enough... As animators go, you're the best because you have great visualization. The moves in the animation are extremely unpredictable and original, and this is what gives your animations their spark. You got a lot of generic requests and turned them into something really interesting. Excellent work Phil!

[Bye Bye Terkoiz]

Haha

I see I'm not the only one who made Terkoiz a goodbye Flash. The running animation is ace, but the punch lacks force. Even as a slap or something it looks off... And the final product looks like a cross between a punch and slap. Even if the hit was small enough that your character didn't have to move his entire body to reel back and punch, he should have at least twisted a little or something to show the force. And Terkoiz's color was wrong.

[Lolcat History (Part 2/6)]

Awesome

I saw these when they first came out and actually helped them pass judgment, but coming back to it I realized these deserve reviews! The graphics are nice, but some parts of animation are great while some suck (like the walking animation). It's really weird how some parts are great and some aren't. The humor is great and the voice acting is spot-on... Well sort of. Sometimes it seemed like the voice actors were focusing more on their accent than making the word structure and diction sound realistic. Way funnier than the first one, though. Way to go!

jiggitysmith responds:

Lol yes. It's definitely flawed but has some sort of simple charm to it that's also pretty stupid. I must have had the worst sense of humor as a kid.

[Lolcat History (Part 1/6)]

Epic

The graphics and animation style are simplistic and even crude, but still decent, understandable, and visually pleasing. Just the beginning with the eye movements creeped me out a little, but overall very nice. The sound is a very high point. The voice acting is top notch and you even have an echo effect when Orion is visiting the council! I also love the references you made to Lolcats. The story has both a tad of humor as well as being genuinely captivating. Great animation you have here!

[4chan 4evar]

Decent

The graphics are done well and the animation, though minimalistic, worked. The synchronization with the music was done very well and stylistically I really like what you did with it. It looked like you were trying to make some statements about 4chan with the example posts in the Flash, but I didn't get to see a whole lot through the dancing characters, and what I could read didn't seem to have a point. If you're trying to say something about 4chan, state it louder, but as it is this Flash really has no point.