ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Sergio Show Episode #84]

Like I said in previous episodes of "The Sergio Show",

Animation and designs need a lot of improvement.
Everything looks incredibly flat, there's no sense of depth.

[AwesomeShock]

"Disgusting corpse art", lol

Sander Cohen, One of my favorite Bioshock characters of all time.

When I played Bioshock and met Sander Cohen for the first time,
He creeped me out, but i found him intriguing.
I'm glad I decided not kill him on my playthrough.

Putting that aside,
The animations ok.
Character designs need work.
Relatable and funny otherwise.

[Pmation: "Sick Flick"]

Nothing too new or interesting.

Same designs, same plain notebook paper background, and the same expected animation style.

[Animal Crossing Coffee Shop Commercial]

Very relaxing mood overall.
That includes color scheme, background music, and designs.

Ok animation, not too complex.

It went by too fast, even though it was a very slow paced animation.

[Elvis & Dimmi]

You had good animation and a great story, but it was all ruined by that pixel garbage.

It sucks the detail from the designs and the smoothness out of the animation.

This whole pixel fad started with making animations based out of homage to indie games and video games with 8 bit or 16 bit graphics from way back in the day.
When you combine overwhelming pixelation on complex animation and character/ background designs, they cancel each other out.

The only time its appropriate is on "Pixel Day".

[Cop Man]

Nice background music, it really set the mood well.
I loved the clouds speeding by in the background. It was a really cool touch.

The minimalistic designs really complmented the "wobbly" "fast paced" animation style.

Between the music and animation style, everything just clicked.

ChazNamblier responds:

Hey, thank you ChrisMckiernan!

The choice to make everything in illustrator came about because I was teaching someone without drawing skills how to animate.

My friend Jeff did the BG sounds for this cartoon. "Trey leches" on sound cloud.

[The Sergio Show Episode #81]

Your getting slightly better with the animation.
Your rotating Sergio in different angles, its a start.

You still need a lot of improvement in designing characters and backgrounds.

Like you said in your short,
look at books and learn, so you can get better.

Personally I use youtube, professional demo reels, and animated pencil test gifs.

[The Sergio Show Episode #82]

Compared to other "The Sergio Show"s I've seen, this one is the best.

You have more complicated animations and better humor.

Other than that,
the designs still need more detail, a greater sense of depth, and more variations in color (gradients).

[Chasm.fla]

Everyone's just sticking their head in the hole.

Compared to other "madness" cartoons, this ones pretty lacking.
Not enough violence and it was very short.

Prov22 responds:

Maybe maybe....

[The Foreversphere]

Wasn't expecting that at the end.

I'm really liking that background music, it really sets the mood.
Great backgrounds and designs.
I thought that bubble animation in the beginning was really cool.

Good animation.

Wish there was more to it... an ending that was just as climactic as the beginning.

MickeyWilsonSFX responds:

Thank you for the feedback! It’s a cartoon short, there’s going to be a part 2. I think the ending has humor in the irony of the story. He’s sent on this grand majestic mission then dies at the end. But yeah it’s kinda set up for part 2, TBD. Thank you again, Chris!