Kwing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A History Of Video Games]

This is an interesting concept, kind of a combination of the Doors and Portal collabs, but the animation is hands-down atrocious. Slow it down, capture the movements more fluidly, turn on onion skinning and physically reenact every movement you're animating.

awarskow responds:

This is kinda old, and i did it in 12 fps. It was basically a last minute entry to a film festival.
I have fully acknowledged that it's bad, and i am working very hard to improve.

[Bouncing Ball : Biweekly Animation Challenge]

It's interesting how well-done the alien looks compared to the rest of the animation. The bouncing is really awful. Make sure the ball really slows down when it reaches its point of equilibrium in freefall. A background would be nice too.

For this being as short and simple as it is, even a perfect animation wouldn't have gotten more than 3.5/5.

newgamingspies responds:

Thanks for the review. I didn't really understand the last part of the comment. I guess I have to work harder. This is my first bouncing ball after a veerrry long time. I really appreciate your time taken to review it! Thanks!...though i really wish to win...

[Magic Portal]

Very cool. I like the PS1-style graphics. The twist is cute, too. It could stand to have a little more behind it, right now this looks more like an experiment than anything.

[Transparency (Teaser)]

This looks insane. No joke, the visual quality surpasses the majority of anime out there, even some of the larger budget series. The biggest issue with the teaser is that it starts off so leisurely, both in music and animation, that you build the expectation for it to be longer, so it feels shorter than it actually is.

[Wild Child]

I don't know what to say about this, it's really short, half of it is a credit reel, and the animation itself is really one loop and one tween. All of the starts I'm giving you are for that one little loop, which is nice, but very short. It's good, the proportions are flawless, and the movements are fluid and have perspective.

The only suggest I can make is to tackle larger projects when you're on break and can fully devote yourself to the task of making a several minute-long animation.

Ballzy247 responds:

Thanks Kwing (^_^)

I do have a project in mind and I've just started a 3 week holiday yesterday. I've already got the story concept and character designs figured out so I might finish up to the animatic stage if nothing else comes up on the holidays for me.

The Current working title I have for it is "The Animated Adventures of Glass Man"

Thanks again . . .

Ballzy247

[Lego Klones: The Dare]

"I bet you to uh... Uh... Uh..."
It sounds like you recorded this in one take without a script.

This is decent but it's far from looking good. Stop-action is HARD, I know that. But if you want to make it look good you need a higher framerate, and something to hold that camera steady so it doesn't interfere with the extra work you're doing. Substitute the longer still frames for video so the film grain gives the impression of time passing instead of looking awkward. The step at the end is a neat idea but it's too conspicuous - if the guy looked like he had just been walking through it would likely have been funnier than having it look as if the guy was deliberately stepped on.

AnnoyingHeroDeath responds:

@Kwing

Yea.. I can't remember, but I do remember writing the story for this one.And I do agree that there a lot of those awkward moments in the film. This is my least favorite of the series so far. I... I'm gonna feel like an idiot for saying this but I used partly lamp-light and daylight (it was raining but still :/) I didn't use my Rebel Canon T5I for this; my phone camera instead. I was having difficulties at first so I substituted that for my phone. Nowadays I only use my phone camera for videos. And I thought it would be funny if that happened but whatever.

[Stick Fight 1 vs 4]

It's a shame that, considering there are only four sticks here, you didn't put much work into having them fight back. This looks really good but the framerate feels a little too low.

[The Summoning]

Sufficiently creepy with the music, effects and black-and-white scheme, but I wish the quality of the animation itself were a bit higher. You need to learn something called easing, which is basically understanding the difference between slow and fast movements as well as acceleration. One small example? The spinning syringe near the beginning of the animation: Make it start to spin slowly, pick up momentum, and slow down before it stops. Also the on-screen text at the beginning felt like it went by way too fast, since it took longer to read when overlayed on top of the rest of the screen.

sanggameboy responds:

Thank you for the feedback :)