Fickludd's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Waterlollies]

Amazing

as allways. Anything appears achievable after Adam. Amen.

Also, aliterations are nice.

[The Story of Clock Day]

-Sammanfattning-

Sweet flash, really nice work and so on. I have to say that Karl Rådjursmördaren really took me by suprise ^^. Poor animals. That and "Klocka Besättning". It's allways nice to see people show off their skills in translation.

On a whole it seem the ClockCrew really have made an effort and show lots of talent in producing all these highquality clockmovies. So good luck to all of you and Happy Clock Day

[Soy Bean Part I]

Beautiful

But I agree with ShadowInsignia: I'm not convinced. It would have taken soo... ...much... ...time ^^. Other than that it's really good.

[SD 06: Death of P-Bot]

Niceness

Hah, by far, best SS flash of StarDay! I was contemplating and I want to join the Star Syndicate. What must I do to become it?

Back to the review, great animation in this one! Once again, best SS flash of the day. The way you drew Wade was great, made me laugh pretty loud. The humor was above expectation for an SS flash, no inappropriate jokes, just a very funny flash to watch.

Actually it is a really good flash which you must indeed spend a lot on time on. Little too random for me but still very high quality, something that I respect.

On the other hand the Star Syndicate doesn't respect when people invest time in reviewing their work, so i think I forgot to give you any points T.T

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

(-_-),,/,

[-Go Away-]

Proish but tame.

Ok, this is a short review.

Graphics were really good but the animation was lame. The song was kinda good and i think you performed it well, but it got repetitive real quick and had no real edge in the lyrics. Sort of like you throwing a rock at my metaforical battletank: I might have noticed it, but then again I migth not :P. (spelling on might btw?)

Peace.

[river cross]

Wehey.

Ok, first of, totally respect for continuing making flashes even if you've gotten some crappy stick movie blammed, that's cool.

Now this wasn't a bad movie as such: the animationquality is acceptable, the background is simple but it works & the sound is actually quite good. However, the flash lacks any content! It's 15 seconds of animation in one scene with one joke. It's kinda too much work to open the flash for the entertainment you get back.

When you make a film, try to have some plan, some plot, something interesting or imagination capturing in it. At least do more of it. Otherwise noone is going to want to keep it on the portal.
Peace.

spiderkid05 responds:

ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ..........OK ILL try harder nxt time

[Black Knights episode 4]

Swell fantasy

Hio!

First: personal reflection. I've really enjoyed this series of your's and perhaps the most fascinating thing about it is that it shows how you evolve in your flash making. This truly is the best yet so pat yourself on the head or back or whereever you feel comfortable with and say how good you are.

Pros:
Man I love those backgrounds :D. Simply can't believe how much effort you put into the manual shading (ie. not gradient). Must've been 7 och 8 layers in places. Also some fantastic graphical cycles (the horse from under the cart in particular). Generally very good art, chars & effects too.

Tips:
Dunno what to write here... Once in a while the voiceacting was a little hard to make out (when he awakens the master of the earth there's soo much reverb ^^), but I know it's a bitch to do those so I didn't mind.

Ooh, did you look at synj vs. horrid some for the guardian? Some inspiration from Bitey of Brackenwood for the waterspell? It's totally cool if so, just thought I kinda recognised them :D.
Uhm, did that horse gallop btw? Cool, continue the series, you're getting soo good.
Peace.

[Star Syndicate Christmas]

I'm suprised:

I must say this submission totally suprised me; the other X-mas submissions I've checked out have held a clearly above average quality, much unlike this one.

Pros:
I find it good that your buttons work most of the time and also the menu screen gets passing grade on account of quite adorable trees. Further both jetninjins and Zerostars parts had acceptable grafics.

Tips:
I will concentrate on the most urgent parts here.
-None of the collab had any point/story. While there where hints of coherence, it was gone as soon as noticed, and replaced by something disturbing. I suggest reading anything and quite a lot (even watching a movie would do good) just to pratice that storytelling intuition.
-Fourstars and Fivestars parts where -pardon the language- unethically ugly. These should be kept light arms range distance and avoided at all costs by people with suicidal tendensies. You guys: practice. A lot. All the time.

Peace out & Merry X-mas.

jn responds:

all of them had a story, i suggest you watch them again.

merry christmas

[Black Knights Episode 3]

Long review <=> Good flash.

Generally I think this submission is well worth watching and very educative in camera angles and timing.
Also good old epic entertainment if you're into that kind of thing :D

Pros:
Nice backgrounds, grafics and extremely well done light - reflections and the shadows from those clouds where really to my liking.
As mentioned the camera usage is so cool, respect @ cutting in those wind-blowing-in-grass cuts in the middle of the action. It is indeed often very effectfull to let peoples imagination do the work!

Tips:
Some of the fancy magic seemed a little off... Check some of SpecterGenerals or ungr8fulgoobahs work for ideas.
Now I haven't seen the entire series, but the plot was a little weak. Don't get me wrong I love epic as much as the next guy, but the plot is just so onesided. It doesn't build suspense. Having read some of the reviews I think that is what them "Realistic" people* are on about. There should be more of a contest, so even though you're sure the black knight will slaughter the army they would cause some painful cuts in him and there's this slim chance a soldier with his last efforts jabs a knife through the back of the knee armour and the knight would fall and... ....rambling countinues...

Oh, and while the light was excellent, think a bit about the shadow from the torch :P

Other:
Sound was no problem, I had a project once where I was halfway into voiceacting & trying to get actors, and it's really rat's piss work.
So I liked it! Fitting music too. Continue making flashes, I'll put you in favorites and follow your future work with interest!

[Bitey of Brackenwood]

Loved it!

This, now THIS! is a movie. This isn't a flash. It's a movie!!
Artistic and totaly inspired. Animals and 'things' never before imagined. Graphics: beautiful; perfect. Animation: fast, really cool and dead funny. Sounds: well if that originally didn't come from a snout then I'll be damned.
Humor: that little star-thingy... pant... on her hat made my ribs hurt *auch*. I should sue you. To funny. And too cute.

Wheee.... The big orange fluff was also... eh... fluffy =)

Do more!!! Keep em comin'!!!