BeatEmorBurnEm's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dearly Beloved-Earthbound]

Mehh..

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.

Deadally responds:

I like your observations! While I certainly agree that the use of Earthbound sprites might suggest a joke, there is the very serious and touching underside to Earthbound which is not readily apparent, including the themes of love, friendship, and finding the Sword of Kings :).

I thank everyone who has written reviews so far. They've made me quite happy! Please keep them coming!

[Sonic & the 16bit world 4]

Lose.

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.

[Mindy Learns a Moral]

Interesting!

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)

TmsT responds:

Yep, I was hoping the Toy Story elements would come through! I haven't seen Brave Little Toaster yet, but somehow it made me think of that kind of movie.

[Apractice Animation]

Nicely done.

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.

[Clarius and Hancho]

Looks good!

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.

[Purgatory Pizza Teaser]

Interesting.

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!

Sound-O-Vision responds:

Thanks for the feedback! I'm fond of Illustrator's Live Trace function, but good call, we did use Trace Bitmap for a few of the shots. We wanted to keep the hand-drawn feeling, but perhaps it could use some polishing. Of course, you'd see that in the Pilot, we did this trailer in just two days.

Thanks again for the intelligent review!

[AKIRA 16-bit Part 1]

Pleasantly Surprised

I generally despise sprite-based movies. Especially since on newgrounds they seem to get MUCH higher ratings than they deserve. But I think that this was a really interesting way of doing one. The sprites were all ripped very well, and the shots were set up beautifully! It had a very cinematic quality about it. Great job.

[NINJA#4]

Hmmmm.

I have really mixed feelings about this cartoon!!
On the one hand, the art is beautiful. Your personal style is very evident, and everything is extremely cleanly drawn. So A+ on that.
But on the other hand I really despised the music, and the animation was bugging me for some reason. Did you make this with a really low framerate? It looks like it's almost 12FPS or something. I thought it was lag at first, but even at low resolution it still was like that. Try doing 24-30FPS, and it'll look a lot more fluid.

ANYWAYS - You obviously are very talented, and have a great skill set to make some amazing videos. Just a few tweaks here and there and it'll be perfect :P