BoMToons's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Soul-Driven: B1, Chp. 00]

Good art

I liked the artwork, shows a lot of potential. The animation was a bit choppy for me, seemed a little jerky at times.

The storyline looks a lot like chronicles of narnia or peter pan, but hey, maybe you can pull it off well.

Sound needs improvement for sure.

[Toily's Show]

Tighter shots

I'd reccomend some tighter shots on the character mixed in with you mostly wide and panoramic shots. Just MO though.

[Red Meat]

Great graphics

Very well drawn and animated. I'd prefer thicker lines, but that's just me. Nice one.

[Morph Shorts 1]

I like it

If there were some sort of cohesive story or logical progression, that might improve it, but I enjoy the "stream of consciousness" feel you've got going too. My only other suggestion would be to fill more of the picture frame with the morphing sometimes...like maybe some landscapes or larger mechanical objects...seems like you're good at organic stuff like faces, so try branching out into some broader forms to add some variety.

Overall, an awesome concept. Hope yo develop it into something big.

ratchet-ut responds:

I understand what you mean with the storyline or such, but what I going for was a sort of "wtf?..whoa." reaction. If this one does decent, I will work on a much more in depth movie with the same concept. I really didn't want to spend months and months making a huge elaborate fbf movie only to have it be ill-recieved. From what i've seen, people seem to thing it is an interesting concept. I will most likely do more of this in the future. Thanks for the review.

[The History of Animation]

Edumacation

I liked the concept. Not much educational stuff on NG. I feel like I learned a bit from it.

My only suggestion is to use the "streaming" sound setting in flash. It synchs your audio to your timeline so the audio matches perfectly with what's on the screen. (It will actually skip animation frames to maintain synch).

I could just tell you split up your audio into different segments to try to keep it synched well (I know cuz I did the same thing in my first flash anims). Streaming will even work with your scene selection system.

If you're worried about quality of sound, you can adjust the quality under file>publish settings in flash and up the bitrate till it sounds good.

Overall I liked it...keep up the good work!

[Ryo the ninja KID ep 3]

Very Nice

This is one of the first flash movies on NG to make me sincerely laugh. It was the bird pooping thing...great run-on gag. Well done cinematics and I dig the storyline too.