Ferstofus's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[brazilian folklore collab]

Poderia ter sido melhor

Sério, tem um monte de partes que não tão bem desenhadas ou não foram engraçadas. Sei la. É até bom fazer uma collab desas pra mostra pros americanos um poco da nossa cultura e blablabla mas poxa, trabalhem mais.
Tentem fazer umas piadas mais engraçadas, trabalhar mais nos desenhos e pegar uma voz melhor pra partes como a do saci. E vcs também nem falaram do curupira mas teve 2 partes do boto.
Mas dexando as críticas pra lá, a collab ta bem boa no final das contas. Teve até uma parte pra explica cada bicho pros americanos e os desenhos tavam bem brasileiros (digamos assim) . Parabens.

[Chuck vs Echo]

Funny

Finally a stickman video not focused on the fight. The music choice was excellent and I liked the attention on the details. The expresions of the characters was good too.
I noticed the mouth of chuck was strange when he first saw echo and it become decent only after being fully opened. That's not a big problem, but something to fix if you're perfectionist.
And I think the video would be better if had voice acting (especially on the last scene); though the humor is still good without it... And a bigger lenght is also welcome, but not necessary (since this is just a little thing to get some laughts).
A good work overall, congratulations.

[RAGEK]

Spend more time working on it

The animation was low quality and there was no background, but had a nice music going on. And all the actions were too fast to fully apreciate (I had to watch twice to see all the plot). Put more frames between the scenes to make then smoother.
I know this is just a flash to improve your drawing skills, but I think it would be better if you just improve then BEFORE submitting some real thing. You would have better movies to show and probably more popularity. Or you can just continue with your way since most of your flashes ends on the top 5 of the day. Still, I'd rather see better things coming from you.
Anyway, good job and good luck training with frame by frame.

Hulalaoo responds:

"the animation was low quality", you say, all tween aniamtion, only need a draw, have more quality of animation frame by frame??!! SIR SORRY, BUT YOU ARE A GREAT RETARD IGNORANT OF 15 YEAR OLD OF SHIT, YOU NOT HAVE IDEA OF NOTHING, FIRE YOUSELF MOTHER FUCKER !
For make a tween you make a draw and move for more of 5 seg, how more of 30 frames, and aniamtion frame by frame, i draw 30 draw diferents, YOU NOT HAVE IDEA OF WHAT IS ANIMATED, STUPID !!! STTUUPPIDDD !!!!

[Ninja Vs Samurai]

Niiiiiice

Very good fella, your first animation and you've got the weekly 10th!(07/15/09) Just take a look at the portal best of the week and you'll see this with your own eyes.
I don't know if you were too lazy to colour the drawings but in white and black the flash fitted very well with the music, the situation and your drawing style. And I have to say: you've done some great movement effects with the pencil! The shuriken part is a good example. So much lines and all of then were perfectly put. And every time the two swords hit there were sparks.
I also liked that the ninja used his feet to attack (not only the blade), while the samurai only used his sword. They had different ways to fight.
And you've put an introduction before the fight and a funny scene at the end. These things help a lot to increase your score.
If your drawings were better I'd give you a 10, but this is something you'll have to train in order to make then better, so I won't complain about it.
You sure have a future, buddy. Let's see if your next work get the weekly first.
Good luck.

[GunDan Ep. 1]

It wasn't a bad thing

But man, you have to work on your drawing skills. The idea was nice, the animation was kinda smooth, the voice acting wasn't bad, but those low quality drawings ruined everything. And there were some parts without any music at all; fix this next time to make the flash better, ok? You can do some pretty neat work budy, just train more with the pencil before making another movie like this. Good luck.

Aqlex responds:

Art has definitely been one of my weaker areas. Not that writing was good either, but I at least had some practice with that, unlike my art! I've still got some pretty weak art, though I think it's developed into a bit more "watchable" style at this point. (And I think I've improved in a lot of the other areas as well!)

[Bleach HitsugayavsIchigo2]

What can I say...

Since you will be working only on the goku movies for now, I'll review this movie based on things you can improve in the serie.
First of all, some things to make you happy: I've got some nice effects and sounds (for the use in a sprite fight), the music was good, you used well the few sprites of hitsugaya bankai and you changed to different battlefields a couple of times.
I'm also glad that when you zoomed the sprites, it was for only a little time. I addmit that I hate with no good reason the zoom of sprites, but I liked the effect you did with it.
Another point is that in a lot of times the momevent of the characters had only like 2 sprites of animation. You need to put a sprite between then to make a smoother visualisation.
The battle was too predictable (special attacks, sword fights, bankai...) ...yeah, I know it's a sprite fight and you ran out of ideas...but an interference of the scenario, a dramatic scene (maybe...), a comedy moment, anything would make it nicer.
And there was only two moments that the sounds were too low/loud, but I know you will regulate the sounds next time (I just don't want you to forget).
I know you just do it for fun and just for the people who love these movies, however, I still think that you can be in a level above. I think that you have pottential. Just try harder and if you make a movie that gets a lot of attention (and/or even get a daily 1º, of course), you will see that you can be a better and more famous animator than you ever imagined (even with sprites)...but that's just me.
Anyway, I'm sorry for the topic change...good luck with your future projects.

OLD293 responds:

Nice review ^-^

The characters movement was understandable, I got lazy putting the mask on the Bankai Ichigo's sprites and left some movements out lol. I'm tired so I don't really feel like responding to everything else, but everything you said makes sense.

Thx for the review

[Mega Zelby the RPG 3]

Excelent

This game is high quality: the animation was smooth, the history was good, the music and sounds were all right placed and the customs are very well done.
I liked the fact that there are little action scenes before the RPG fight and that you play with both characters in the first fight, and yet they have the same abilities (being on your control or being the CPU's).
I just think the game is kinda easy, after you understand how to play, you just have to keep using abilities, defending when the enemy charges an attack, using itens when low on HP/SP, and unleashing the limit breaker when fully charged. It's always like this to win. You should put more moves (with different impacts) to use or harder enemies, something to change strategy.
Putting more details to the game (like status from specific blows, stage influence, attack itens, more buffs, etc) is also welcome.
And the timed hits gave a nice touch, but they can be added when defending too. And the game was too short.
Well, here's some things that you can work on in order to turn this great flash in a majestic piece of work(I'll be waiting for it). Good luck.

Game-Max responds:

thanks for the review. I myself thought this was a bit easy however when beta testing I found some people thought it was hard and some people thought it was just the right difficulty. There's alot of people who don't play RPG's often and wouldn't pick up on the stratagies the way you did so I figured I'd leave the difficulty at a pretty moderate level. Besides, the battles are just meant as little interactive things to add to the flash rather then be super chalanging.

However, once I start getting into some 3vs 3 battles then it may get a bit more chalanging. the status is also something I'm considering adding. Having things like poison, silence, etc.... could deffinatly add an extra little chalange to the game. I'm also considering adding a "miss" code so that not every attack will land. this also gives me the option to add things like Acuracy boosts/Breaks and darkness status. Trust me as an RPG fan I've already thought all your suggestions and have taken them into acount for future episodes :)

[Captain Falcon!!]

good, good

It was well made, with funny faces and all. I don't give a 10 for not being an original idea and for being too short. I mean, you could add some animation of your own and the quality wasn't a perfect thing, so I think being short is a reason to give a lower score in this case. But it's always good to see a short flash just to give us a laught. Good job and keep it up.

Hulalaoo responds:

in really , is a original idea :D