MrGUS's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Carried by the Wind]

I tried

I wanted to like this more than I actually did, I really tried. The style is good at first, but it got a bit tiering. I liked how you used textures and masks, and the idea of complementing it with a black on white animation was good.... but using some sort 3d animation for that... not that good, and some parts just felt like a "self help/cheap spiritual" video, like the water reflection. It got too busy too, and you had to either read the text or pay attention to the animation, which also made it kind of frustrating. I appreciate the art and the intention, it was a good piece, but these details made it hard for me to enjoy it.

cheers

Cridia responds:

About the 3D part; I tried hand animating it at first, but for some reason I couldnt get the style I wanted out of it. The characters I aimed to have were also kind of detailed, so 3D animation was a better choice for me. Not that I will use 3D on every animation from now on mind you; after the recent experience I am not going to touch 3D animation for a while again; the bugs during animating it drained the enjoyment of it all. Right now I am glad the piece is finished.

Thanks for the comment!

[Sundays]

Great

I specially love the scenery, it's my best part, though the idea was nice, and it went very well with the song you chose

Stibby responds:

Thanks!
Yeah, I like drawing environments.
Glad you liked it.
:]

[Perpetual Workday]

blue much?

You kind of copied "more like blue".... Anyways, I LOVE mlb so much that I liked this too. I'm just happy that someone continued with that kind of humor, keep at it, I hope you are able to do stuff as funny and well done as mlb, you're not very far from that.

rockymike responds:

I miss MLB. That's sort of my reason for starting this project. There hasn't been a new MLB in almost two years. No one is doing stuff like that and someone needs to fill the void.

There's a second one in the works, it's much better than the first. This was just to introduce the characters.

[How Are You Now?]

I'm glad I took the time

I seldom write any reviews, but this movie had a certain feeling, combined with skill and an honest and true thought behind it. It communicates perfectly the idea and causes an impression. I liked it a lot ,it left me kind of a bitter sweet feeling, I love that by the way, I haven't had a lot of feelings lately.

[Boulevard of Broken Songs]

Newgrounds wtf

I don't know, newgrounds can be way too predictable sometimes... I swear, I saw this flash when it was under judgement and I thought "man.. this is exactly the kind of stuff that goes to the frontpage (besides the really good stuff duh) and I don't believe it's really worth it" -said and done-. I'm not bitching or calling you emos... I mean it kind of felt like it, but I don't like how anything that's a bit sad and sentimental lately is called emo. It had some really nice high quality stuff, but in general I failed to see the depth ,originality... and yes ,quality in this.

The music mix was really well done, and I liked alot how it was synchronized with the movie. The unity of the themes works well too, and the general tone is right.. But it was just kind of poor in quality and creativity .(guy cutting himself, guy with rose, guy walking crying, guy being taken by an angel) you know what I mean, its ok to see ONE of this things in an animation, but not ALL. I do want to tell the artists in this collab, if it's trully your first animation, you're doing good and as you mature as flash animators you can be great. And maybe newgrounds took this up to support new artists, but if that is the case, there are alot of other really good artists in more mature stages ,that I know would produce much more out of some exposure.

I know it was too long... but it's been bulked up and I finally put it out there.
Keep it up.. I don't like it now, but I can see that you can produce some good stuff in the future

[Oh Jesus]

Still got it

Wow, its incredible how you manage to make such funny songs&animatios one after the other, of course its a 10 for me it had me laughing my ass off like you always do, Ive know your animations for a long time and it is really funny to notice the comments of people who you just KNOW the absolutely havent. First of all, about the animation quality, its perfect like that ,makes it even funnier, and its always been like that, its part of the charm, so stop bitching about that... its just classic. About the offense, well some people are just too jumpy, I truly inocently didnt see the whole offensive thing... Im no hardcore christian obviously, but I dont know how hardcore christians keep comming here and watching this kind of things, you KNOW you cant take the humor