Graeme's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Food Collab]

Awesome!

Boogley, you put together some amazing collabs!
Your parts were my favorites. Your style is always so unique, and recognizable.
I especially love your opening scene of the assembling of the hamburger.

There were a few parts that were a little poor in quality, but others certainly made up for it. It all came together amazingly.

You menu was also awesome. It was like a waiters little notepad or something. And your collabs are the only ones I know that you can see the collab either all at once, or one persons clips at a time. That is great to see.

The only thing was the game. It's nice to have a preloader game. But the sound effects were bad, and half the time the things I shot at didn't get hit.
It was an okay little time killer during loading, but overall a oor game. Sorry.
But, in the end it's collab that really matters.

So great work!
I would love to see more solo projects by you Boogley. Your FBF skills are awesome. Like your chicken scene.
But I would also love to see you host some more unique and original collabs!

TheBoogley responds:

Thanks Goat-Man, I thought I was the only one who couldn't shoot anything in the game... I just went to your userpage and you've been busy as hell so far this year, DAMN!! WHITE NINJA IS AWESOME!!

[20 Hit Combo]

Awesome

That was truely awesome.
At first when I saw it loading, I was like, "This looks a little too basic"

But right off the bat it whips out these awesome action shots, synched up with DragonBall Z sound fx, and finishing with a falcon punch!?
I thought that was really cool and original.

I especially like the detail in the damage done to the ground. Those marks look really detailed and professional.

Keep at it. If you made this in a day, spend a week or two on something, and it could be amazing!

[Grand Theft Awesome]

Kinda slap together

You had a few good scenes, and smooth animation throughout, but this is still way to overrated.
Egoraptor has a timeless humor. This seemed way to forced, with was to basic of jokes.
It was an ok movie, and I won't rated based solely on humor. So just for animation you can get a bit of a higher review.

[A Part]

Too far

I understand it was an artsy movie, with a deeper meaning.
I can respect that. There are lots of great movies with the same goal.

But this one seemed like it was trying to hard, perhaps a little forced?
Not a lot happened.
But there were some cool scenes. Like the one where the alchohol bottle keeps pouring and emptying.
So because some of it was pretty cool, I can't rate it horribly.
But I think it took the whole artsy thing too far, which took away from it some.

[Surface Texture]

Well earned Daily 3rd

I always love your artsy style. It always comes out so clean, and awesome.

I also like that you don't just animate willy-nilly (such as myself)
Your movies like this have deeper meanings.
One suggestion on this though, (taking an example from yourself,) don't tell what things represent.
It's cool to ask fro people's own interpretations. Then you can see what effect your movie had on people.
THEN tell them your own thoughts when making. Just as a little extra, for some interactivity outsude the movie ;)

As I already said, you have a unique style that I love to watch. Where do you get such I wide assortment of textures? I'm pretty sure at one point the walls were graph paper, but I think this is the first time I haven't seen paper towel in one of your movies.

My own views on this movie on an analytical level, are slightly different. But that's the point, different interpretations are good.
I kinda saw it as the little dude walking around, and exploring. But the lesson is something along the lines of:
People test their limits all the time, trying new things. But when we take it too far, our aren't cautious enough, it won't always have positive results.
I saw this when he decided to go into his table, and all of a sudden he was trapped in an endless void.

Once again, great movie, very well done.
Good job testing your own limits, (much like the guy in the movie). Learning new things.

MorrowDays responds:

I LOVE YOU GOATMAN! What you took from it was something I hadn't thought of at all, and it's a beautiful interpretation. BEAUTIFUL.

You make a lot of good points, about not explaining it before hand. I'll try that. What I found with some earlier work (vinto box/carousel) is that when you dont explain it as much, people review saying things like 'i dont get it' and they don't really enjoy the animation as much. But seriously, I will do that with whatever I do next. Promise :)

I'm kind of superstitious about checking for awards on my stuff, so when I wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, and then go see how the submission did, I go into 'My Account' and click submissions, see what the score is, and then read all of the reviews. For whatever reason, I'm really cautious about actually going to the submission page, so when I read you review header, I was like, AWESOME! Because I hadn't even checked myself! :D I don't know why I dont just check it, but for whatever reason, I dont like to. Takes all kinds I guess.

Yeah, no paper towels! I wanted this piece to be on sort of a new level for me, which meant not using things I was really comfy with, etc. So thats why there wasn't any paper towel. I guess I could have used it as the sky in the window, but other than that there also really wouldnt have been much use for it.

You'll be the first to hear if I need help getting out of an endless void.

Thanks goat-man :)

Moro

[Life of A Smiley: Intro]

Rudy!!

Sweet!
That's a really awesome idea for a series. I think if done right, it could turn out epic. You could probably do the entire series without any talking too.
Unless you've got some funny oneliners and what not planned out ;)

I look forward to seeing where this goes.
My favorite part was the yelling smilie who couldn't eat his sandwhich.

Do you already have the series started, and this was a demo? Or was this the demo to get your started, then you'll start then series?

Rudy responds:

Well, this isn't a demo or anything. This is actually the introduction for the series. I am going to use voice work though, dialogue is needed for this. I think there will be a few silent episodes though which will be fun. I think I'll release episode 1 on Sunday, it's already in the works so we'll see.

Thanks for the review.

[The Heavy Object Collab]

Nice collab

That was actually a really cool collab. One of the better ones out there probably.
It was an awesome concept. Something I've never seen before.
I like that everyone had to use the little shute with the treadmill thing.

The best parts were the two by Grubber. I had never heard of him before this, but he did awesome FBF stuff with his parts.
My least favorite were the people who tried to be "hip"
Like the "i heard you like mudkipz" guy. No offense. His part had good animation. But I'm sure your witty enough to make your own joke, and not just use popular things.

Overall, nice work. Maybe next time on the credits, don't use the same sound for every name. It just sounded sloppy after the first few in a row.

RatherCheesy responds:

I'm glad you liked it, and just so you all know I've started to redo the sounds in the credits, I'm downloading loud crash sounds like crazy and I'm switching them up.

[The Press & Punch Collab]

Great start to Pico 08!

This is amazing!
Such a good idea for a collab!
The variety of styles really added so much to it.
Usually when they styles differ so much, the collab just won't run smooth enough, but this way made it 100x better.
Overall an amazing collab, and an excellent start to Pico Day 08 (Han's part was my favorite, loving the new style your using)

I like that it was submitted at exactly 12:00am. Very nice ;)

AlmightyHans responds:

i was wondering if someone would point that 12:00 am thing.

[The Anger of Animation 3]

It was ok

I thought it wa pretty good.
It was a little to fast though. Most of it was just a blurry line flying around the screen so fast there was no way to tell what was happening. Try to slow it down a bit.
I know it's a tribute to Animator Vs Animation, but it's just not done very originally. There wasn't much you did that he didn't.
Overall a pretty decent movie.