ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Small Town Pokemon Go]

This was depressing and funny at the same time.

Good animation style

thisisaok responds:

Thanks! Why only 2.5 stars though?

[Universal Donor]

a sensitive, dark, and serious choice of subject matter for a story.
I'm glad it had happy ending.

The backgrounds and character designs were good, though they looked a little flat and not very detailed.

The animation was ok and looked a bit choppy.

Zombie-Pimp responds:

thanks for the feedback! I do need to work on making my cartoons look less choppy.

[Face Your Inner Demons- (Animated Music Video)]

I really like the 2d animation. Your very good at it.
The animation was well timed with the music.

The backgrounds and colors need be refined.
The audio quality could be better.
The video quality isn't hd format.

Besides the audio, colors, and video quality,
You did a good job with the most important things.

Which was the animation and timing:)

OneOfMillions responds:

Thanks for the input, man! Yeah, I feel like I rushed the colors for the sake of time, which is why it's just one color for each character. If I stay within the lines, it might look better for next time. I think I'll try to add some shadow layers as well when I animate next. As for the hd format, I think I'll have to look that up somewhere, because I was exporting jpeg files from opentoonz, maybe png might be better? Well, thanks for taking the time to review!

[Luigi Needs Advice]

The voice acting and story was hilarious.

The designs, backgrounds, and animation were simple and needs some work but it was appropriate and matched well with the overall mood of the story.

This was really funny, I enjoyed this.

personman139 responds:

Hey, thanks! Yeah I wish I did the animation less lazily. Especially for the monkey dolphin part. I definitely missed out on some visual jokes by relying on tweens too much. I was trying to experiment with a super lazy style but I think it needs a lot more tweaking before it looks intentional.
Glad ya thought it was funny though!

[Nezni Dalibor - Zauvek]

The backgrounds, visual effects, and lighting were really good.
A good mix of 2d and 3d animation.
I liked the bomb going off at the end, that was a cool scene.

The woman's character design looked a little wierd and there didn't seem to be any real story besides a woman trying to survive in a post- apocalyptic, martial law kind of city or society.

DavorSopic responds:

Thanks for comment; about her motive for blowing up city, song is only 3 minutes long, so we couldn't fit any real story behind her action, so we focused more on making non linear story of action and chasing through city.

[Suicide Hotline Akali 2]

This episode wasn't as funny as episode 1.

It felt like it was just dragging on the same joke from episode 1 trying squeeze something out.
The lipsync and animation didn't look very fluid.

Akutox3 responds:

thank you

[BROBOT (Episode 1)]

The animation and lip sync was good most of the time.
The story was well thought out, a good length, and made sense.

Though, the whole "time travel thing to prevent something from happening" idea has been overdone lately. Thats kind of the trademark of Rick and Morty on Cartoon Network and maybe in Family Guy with Brian and Stewie.

The line quality in most of the scenes (especially on the two main characters" was too thick and needs to be thinned down.

tylerghardin responds:

thanks for the review. i agree that time travel's been an overdone thing as of late -- if you check out the newspaper gag at 2:52 i make a reference to how big a debt i owe rick and morty. but i love it anyway! thanks for your comments :)

['Ketchup Golem']

I'm a sucker for old video game sound effects and the animation style was good.

It was very short though.

Butzbo responds:

Yeah it was mostly made considering the challenge's time. Still, I'd like to keep playing with this characters and concept.
Thanks for dropping by!

[Emo Kid]

I don't understand whats going on.
You need to really work on the animtion.

StaticSkull responds:

bring back oldskies

[Fay - The Task]

The story and dialogue was funny.
Good character and background designs.

It'd be better if there was more than one voice actor.
Animation was ok.

willcamick responds:

Thank you for your review. Id love to have other voice actors but most people take 2 to 3 days just to get a few lines done so i often find my self doing them.