ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cycles of Terror - Night Owl]

Good animation and effects.
Informative and educational.

I look forward to next episode:)

NightSpaceOwl responds:

Thanks m8! New vid coming out soon!

[‘Krampus: Home for the Holidays’ - Short Christmas Horror Animation]

This had a good story.
It grabbed your attention and held onto it.

Animation was great.
The character design could use some improvement though.
I enjoyed this.

TraineeArtist responds:

Thanks very much, I'm glad you liked it! And definitely, I first started this a while ago and have since then learnt a lot about character design, so it's definitely an area I will improve for the future. Thanks again and happy new year!

[Sounds]

Interesting idea but...
All I saw was 8 minutes of poorly made flash animations and visual fx.

Sigas responds:

Maybe poorly made for your eyes, but we are proud of our work and like what we are doing. And in my eyes, every single episodes we released are masterpieces. Don't do this to other peoples, you might be discouraging a future Walt Disney without knowing it. Critiquing and hating aren't the same thing. Thank you for your time.

[Sean Moses Robo Hunter Episode 2]

The story, voice acting, and animation was superb.
The character designs and backgrounds could use some improvement but I really liked this.

projectanything responds:

Thanks a lot! Appreciate the nice words :)

[RG Rosie 1000]

The visuals and designs are excellent.
The character animation is really nice and I really enjoyed her expressions.
It really brings her to life.

But if this is a loop, you should have changed the settings to "this loops".
Instead of two minutes of the same animation, when technically the animation itself lasts only about 15 seconds.

I'd really like to see more of this character, animation, and visuals.
This was beautiful to watch:)

BoyPorcelain responds:

Very true, i might have to edit this so that it does just that, or atleast keep it in mind for the next animation... Thanks!

[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.

[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.

[60 secpnds stuff Objekt]

The character designs were good, but I'd personally make the line quality thinner.
The animation was well executed but not very complex.

Out of curiosity,
What program do you use?
It looked like Adobe Flash.

chrisdercheata responds:

thx for the Reaction.
You are al really active watcher thats nice dude.
It sounds funny maybe but i only use paint and a programm to cut the animation.