ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[JaviToons Halloween]

Good voice acting.
Animation, designs, and backgrounds are ok.

[The Legend of Zelda Snake Waker]

Good animation and voice acting.

[Interface | Episode 10]

I like the mood, red lighting, and creepy atmosphere.
The animations minimalistic style is interesting and matches well with everything else.

Line quality needs to be thinner.
The outlines on the characters and backgrounds looked way too thick and "grainy"

Next time,
I'd strongly recommend maybe brightening up the characters so you can make out the details on their face.

[Kitty-Kat Noodle-Attack!]

The animation was pretty good.

Not a lot of color, and the entire animation seemed kind of "bland" and "flat".

jza963 responds:

Thank you for the feed back

[Broken Hand: No Evil 032]

The story and plot are interesting, and it keeps your attention.

The animation is good.

Character designs and backgrounds look very rough and unfinished.

[Candy Catastrophe - Mimi Moment]

The voice acting and character designs are excellent.

Not sure if your trying to go for the same style as "Foamy and Germaine".
But I'd recommend adding in between frames and making the animation smooth.

[PAPERTHIN: Rebels Chapter 12]

Backgrounds and designs are nice.
Animation was good during the fight scenes, though could use some more frames to make it look smoother.

Audio needs to be cleaned up.
Plot wasn't very interesting.

AguRex responds:

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I'm currently working on the next chapter.

I'm still new at storytelling in films. Hope to improve more in the future.
😊

[What's in the Basement?]

This was ok.
I liked the animation style.

[Sakura Haruno vs Hinata Hyuga]

The pixel animation during the fight scenes was well planned and fun to watch.
The voice acting was good.

Though,
There was a lot of dialogue and yet no indication of lip sync animation.
Not to mention the 4 minute of shaky pixel conversation they had in the beginning.

I know its naruto and you had no choice but
There was a lot of copyrighted material including music, pictures that seemed to be downloaded right off of google images.
I may be wrong,
but it seemed to me that nothing was hand drawn, modeled, etc.
Except for maybe during fight scenes.

Otherwise,
I can appreciate the planning and effort that was put into this.
I could tell that this was a labor of love from a fan.

Jozarto responds:

I appreciate the input and compliments, I really appreciate it. Honestly.

Yeah, regarding the dialogue and lack of lip sync, I was actually very hesitant to use the mouth sprites that I have, due to them being a bit too big to fit on the characters' faces properly. The bouncing was lazy, and not very fun, I admit that. Also, I'm sure the dialogue was far too lengthy. It took over 3 minutes of the animation.

As for the music, the first song is an original track by a friend, the second track was a cover of the Naruto fighting theme, and third track was the original OST (I should have changed it), and the fourth song was a cover by Raon Lee, and the last track was Sakura's theme, which I should have changed.

As for the drawings, those were actually redrawn screenshots from the anime. My friend Tessa drew them over on Photoshop. In essence, she traced some closeup images from scenes in the anime. Not the most original approach, but I thought it would be the most pleasing to the eye, and possibly nostalgic.

This criticism is good, and I'm glad to hear someone else's thoughts on this project. Thanks.

[Poppy Topper - Remembrance Day]

I love British humor.
Very funny and Enjoyable.

The animation was well executed, but looked a bit stiff.

LOTAC responds:

Thanks for the kind words my man and I'm glad you enjoyed it

And yeah, we try and get out out every month so we gotta try and cut corners here and there. Also v. limited budget so that never helps. One day soon I hope we get enough time and money to make these alot better