ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Allies! - D-Day]

Excellent claymation.
The story was great and easy to follow.

I also liked all the blood and gore.

Twin-Tales responds:

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[*~Arthur N' Gwen~*]

lol.
Creepy drawings followed by even more creepiness.
Those lipsync animation on those charcters was also creepy.

CoolDrMoney responds:

good.

[Tough lord of Arthropoda (Animatic)]

This was really good.
I like seeing animatics, roughs, etc.
Good voice acting.

Tasteofchoklit responds:

Thanks a lot, Im glad you liked!
The dialogue's aren't mine tho, They are from Max G's webseries "Braindump" but I needed to do this since the dialogue fit so much with my characters!

[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!