ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Playground Fight ( Miltonius / Nulgath vs Dage )]

I like the character designs and concept a lot.
The character animation is good but looks stiff.

MiltoniusArts responds:

Thanks! :) This animation was during my "tween" everything stage. Starting to get back into key frame animation again though.

[DisCourt-Minion]

The voice acting was excellent.
This would make a good series.
Really nice imagery and animation.

This was a lot of fun.

[Kirby vs Duck Hunt]

A funny concept.
Animation is ok.

[DK Reanimated Scene 134]

The 2D animation is really nice.

[Spirit Trees]

Excellent story-telling skills in this.
The animation, scenes and camera angles was also excellent.

Though the designs and backgrounds need work.
But otherwise this was really great:)

[DED NOTE (Death Note Parody)]

This was funny.
A great spoof on one of the most well known animes.

[It's the Food Truck!]

Dialogue was funny.
Designs were simple but thats ok because it matched well with the animation, mood, and color scheme.
A nice, quick, and funny animation:)

[Bob's Life - Episode 1 (Full)]

The story is original but not very interesting.
The humor is cheesy and it doesnt hold your attention for more than a moment.

The dialogue and the lipsync animation is matched pretty well but it moves too fast and it doesnt seem that you have enough mouth shapes to cover certain vowels and constanants.

But the animation on everything else looks very stiff.
An example of that would be in the beginning when the characters are talking.
theres no movement at all while their mouth is moving its just fast lipsync pasted on to a still character model.

Usually with good character animation the head would move a bit to the left or right or shrink and expand in order to show expression, to show them breathing.
Or the eyes and mouth would move slightly up, down, left, right, or diagnol on the face in order to show the direction that the characters are looking
In other words, It makes them seem more realistic and relatable and to show their living and breathing characters.
Though,
you seemed to have corrected that a bit in the last two or three scenes when the characters are talking in the board room.

Other than that,
I can tell you put a lot of effort in to this and it definitely shows.
But I strongly recommend that you animate your characters more and work on your story.
This has good potential:)

engageanimation responds:

Thanks for writing, always like to hear feedback from our audiences! I think you're spot on with your observations, we've been working on improving these items in our latest projects so hopefully we will see improvement :) Cheers!

[Rabbit Travel - Happy New Year 2019]

A nice short.
Good Designs and Animation.

VolFMaple responds:

Thank you!

[Montage of all following animations]

You have some good animation skills.

My only gripe,
Is the line quality, which needs to be thinner.
It'll give it a more professional or refined look to your work and designs.

chrisdercheata responds:

thx for the reaction.
The problem is not all the animation are in the same style.
Thats waht i need to improve all animations in the same style , thats nessasary for a trailer,montage or a teaser.