Viridis's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Chalk Adventure]

So CooL!

I absolutely love these kinds of animations, they have so much style and it takes real patience to pull em off well, ive never seen one done in chalk though. May i ask how long it took you to do this and how hard was it?

Graphically this was very cool, nice little drawings throughout with chalk and they looked wicked. The animation was smooth too, these have to be smooth throughout to get a good effect and you pulled it off. I especially liked when you picked up the chalk box. Looked cool!! :)
The music and sound was cool, fitted very nicely with the whole feel of the animation.

Personally i think it could of been a bit longer but whatever. I really think you should make more of these as they are really cool. Hoping to see more, keep up the good work!!

Graphics - 8
Animtion - 8
Sound - 8

[Review Request Club]

Graeme responds:

Well, I'd say this one took me about 3 days. Working at odd time when I had a chance.
So a lot shorter than you probably thought ;)
Difficulty? It depends. Writing out text is the easiest thing ever. A hard part would have to be... the "picking up" the chalk block. That one took a long time. I had to draw it all without moving my one hand, so the propotions wouldn't change much.

It's hard to judge how long it is until it's done.
But I think if I do another, I'll spend atleast twice as long on it. Hopefully that creates something twice as long.

[Street Fighter Series pt2]

Shadow-1409

I am a huge fan of the street fighter series and i liked this flash. I can see you like street fighter alot and the story was pretty cool, i was slightly disappointed when we didnt get to see the final attack though.

Graphically this was good, i cant really say much about sprite flashes graphically because as long as the sprites aqre good the flash looks good. And these were good sprites. ^_^
The backrounds needs some work though, at points the lava at the bottom was going over the floor at the back, i didnt know if this was supposed to happen but im just saying. The aniamtion was very very good. Its nice to see good sprite manipulation and you have very good control over them. the characters and backround moved very smoothly. I liked that alot.

The sound was good. Nice sound effects here and there, mostly grunts and coughs though. But still good. The backround music was tense and atmospheric, good choice. Maybe add some voice acting in there, as it seemed a little quiet at times.

Overall it was a good sprite flash, i liked the style and im hoping to see part 3 and maybe review it if your lucky. Keep up the good work. ^_^

Graphics - 8
Animation - 9
Sound - 7

[Review Request Club]

mortis5000 responds:

Thanks...I'm loving the club now...Great Review

[5 Hour Challenge #1]

Hmmm

This is a very cool flash done in a very short time and for that i commend you! Theres not many flashes that could be made in 5 hours that could manage a half decent score. ^_^
I like this and the theme of tradegy is significant in it and fits very well, nice interpretation.

The graphics were alright, not fantastic but not too bad for 5 hours of work, The backrounds are pretty good too, nice amount of detail and the colouring is effective also. The animation was pretty smooth throughout the whole thing and as everyone has mentioned the first running scene was a bit glitchy but nevermind that.

The sound was cool, the music used for the scenes was dramatic and used very effectively and the ending credits music was just plain wierd. Maybe the flash could of used voice acting or speakonia voices but you probably didnt have enough time.

Overall its a cool falsh for 5 hours and i hope you win the nationals, and whatever you make for the nationals submit it to newgrounds as id love to see it. Keep up the good work!!

Graphics - 7
Animtion - 7
Sound - 6

[Review Request Club]

Cranksta responds:

Thanks for the review, and as I said to Haggard, send me you MSN and you can tell me, even if you are unexperienced in flash, just as a viewer what you want to see.

Thanks,
-James

[- NGChat [Dot] Com -]

Err...

Erm i dont know what to say really about this, kinda pointless in my opinion and i wasnt really expecting a spoof kind of thing. Not really much point to it and the drawing and animation on bluehippo was good so its sad to see wasted talent. Not much else i can say about this im afraid.

Graphics - 4
Animation - 4
Sound - 4

[Review Request Club]

gumOnShoe responds:

It isn't as pointless as you think it is, though as I only took 2 hours to make, its understandable. It was submitted on April 1st, so it makes sense. It had to do with NG comminity happenings, so it makes even more sense. And its about having a good time and laughing, so its totally an NG related flash.

I don't regard my talent as wasted because, well I actually submitted this flash and some people have enjoyed it. (Wait, I have talent? o_O)

I' sorry you didn't enjoy this, perhaps next time I'll have something more up you ally, but this really was something I enjoyed doing, and its been a while since I could say that about a flash I worked on.

[Planet go Boom!]

Very good!

I liked this, good characters, good story and it was pretty funny. It brought a smile on my face, which i thank you for, the setting is cool too.

Graphically this is good, i like your style, the characters looked great, your drawing is good and the objects and frog looked good. The backrounds were nice and simple but looked well, and the colouring was good throughout.
The animation was simmple and smooth which is very good.
The sound was good too, nice sound effects on the people and good clear voice acting on the frog. Very good

Overall i liked this, especially the uncoloured part with the frog talking, i thought that was particularly good. Well Done!!

Graphics - 8
Animation - 8
Sound - 8

HalfV responds:

its cool that you u liked the uncoloured part. thats my personal favorite, but from what i have heard not a lot of people got that it was all in his head... thanks shadow glad u thought it was good.

[Office Christmas Party]

Wicked

For some reason i really liked this, it made me laugh quite a bit, i loved the way how she had no input in the conversation at all while he just went on and on, about him jumpin out the window lol.
Very cool dude.

Graphically it wasnt spectacular, but that didnt bother me as the character had real personality, the figures were ok, maybe add some more detail, the backrounds were ok too, more detail again. Simple figures and backrounds but still effective so it doesnt matter. The animation was pretty scarce but it didnt need much, i liked how you put the table in the front to avoid using a walking animation, im seeing this more and more nowadays.

The sound was good, very cool voice acting, very clear and easy to understand, did you do the acting yourself? Maybe you might of wanted to add some quiet christmas music in the backround to give it more atmosphere. ^_^

Overall though it was a really cool flash, id love to see more and review more like this so keep coming back and asking!!

Graphics - 7
Animtion - 7
Sound - 8

[Review Request Club]

JacobMichaelCampbell responds:

Thanks a lot for the input!

Yes, I did do the voice acting. I didn't have a lot of time to get this into the christmas contest, so yes, I did put the table in front to avoid walking animation :P

[ShortShakespeare- Othello]

Pretty Good!

Ridiculously short but sums up Othello very well, i had to study this at school so i got a bit of a laugh out of this. Pretty good flash, i like how you sort of adapted the style for modern times, but maybe they should of used modern suicide methods :D

Graphically this was pretty cool, the people were drawn simply but effectively and the backrounds were alright, maybe add a bit more detail in some parts and you could make this better. The rough finish on the charaters was acceptable as well. The animation was pretty smooth throughout, i noticed u avoided showing peoples legs, to prevent the walking animation im guessing. ^_^
Pretty good graphics amd animation though.

The sound was alright, could be alot better though, the backround music was simple and classical and fit the flash pretty well overall. And i know you've heard this from about everyone but the voice acting needs work, dont put your mouth so close to the mic and you wont get that awful crackling noise when theres loud parts ^_^

Overall it was a pretty good short flash, sums up the story of Othello nicely and good style, music and animation. Maybe try this with some more of Shakespeares plays. Like Romeo and Juliet. ^_^

Graphics - 7
Animation - 7
Sound - 7

[Review Request Club]

Timsplosion responds:

Yeh, thanks for the comments. This is actually the fourth one of these I've done.

I've done Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, and Julius Caeser, I've already started putting Hamlet and King Lear together.