Score: 5

"Mehh.."

submission: Dearly Beloved-Earthbound

date: August 17, 2008

I don't know man. It was well constructed, I have no gripes about that. It was interesting seeing Earthbound sprites/tiles in a sidescrolling kind of perspective.

But this thing honestly made no sense. It's clearly something very personal and I think in a public format it doesn't translate well. Having something so serious alongside Earthbound pixel art made it seems like a joke almost; I felt like I was waiting for a punchline at the end because Earthbound is such a light-hearted and funny game.

Score: 1

"Lose."

submission: Sonic & the 16bit world 4

date: August 16, 2008

Another generic sprite movie. All of them are the same.

PS: Zooming extremely close onto something that's only like 20 pixels wide, looks retardedly bad.

Score: 8

"Interesting!"

submission: Mindy Learns a Moral

date: August 5, 2008

I liked it a lot. The animation and art style/quality were top-notch. The plotline reminded me in a lot of ways of Toy Story or The Brave Little Toaster (old possession rejected by its owner, but later recovered)

Score: 9

"Nicely done."

submission: Apractice Animation

date: August 3, 2008

I would say as a standard cartoon this wasn't that great. But for your first animation, it was amazing. Myself (and most people I know) started with crude stick animations, so I think this is already a great start. Give it a few months/years of practice and you'll be cranking out some awesome stuff.

Score: 5

"Meh."

submission: The Last Maple Story

date: August 2, 2008

It was well put together, but everything else about this is misery... maplestory, techno german music, text-to-speech "clock" style dialogue, sprites and backgrounds traced/ripped from a game... and yet it has an amazing rating. I'm baffled. I really am.

Score: 10

"I'm intrigued."

submission: I.E.S. ep.1

date: July 31, 2008

Great job. YOU'RE BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL!!!

A great (not so subtle) commentary on American ethnocentrism. The humor wasn't laugh-out-loud funny, but I did enjoy it a lot. I always have a great appreciation for well animated and well-drawn pieces such as this.

Score: 7

"Mixed feelings."

submission: The ghost train

date: July 30, 2008

The art was really interesting, I like the use of actual photos in conjunction with drawn art. It was pretty well done in that regard. I also liked the concept of traveling through a funhouse of sorts. The thing that confused/frustrated me a bit was the first exhibit about "Frankenstein the Monster"... I believe the monster had no name, Frankenstein is the doctor. So if anything it was "Frankenstein's Monster". It's really minor and I would've overlooked it, but the fact that you quiz it, and I picked the correct answer (no name) and got it WRONG is a bit frustrating. Don't quiz us on something you don't know.

Score: 8

"Looks good!"

submission: Clarius and Hancho

date: July 26, 2008

So sad on newgrounds how something well-drawn and well-animated like this pulls in low scores, while the zelda/mario parodies done by 10-year-olds are still scoring 4+. Oh well, I like it! Makes me eager to see the actual series. Best of luck.

Score: 7

"Interesting."

submission: Purgatory Pizza Teaser

date: July 24, 2008

Interesting idea, and the art itself isn't inherently bad. My big gripe would be the actual quality of the art...it looks like you hand-drew this stuff and then 'trace-bitmapped' it. you can see that it is vector, but with VERY jaggy edges. None of the art is entirely complicated, so there's no reason it couldn't just be drawn straight in flash. It'd look a lot cleaner. I do like the concept though, so just refine it a bit and you could have a great series on your hands!

Score: 10

"Spectacular."

submission: Then I Run

date: July 24, 2008

It's rare to see a truly artistic piece on newgrounds, so it's very refreshing when a video like yours comes along! Couldn't have chosen a better song; it matches your artistic style perfectly. Great job, the video was very inspiring.