Lindenbree's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Eat Your Shit And Move on]

Would be a solid 4 but dat quality.
Dat quality aside, I like the art and humour, even if it started to get a bit repetitive. I'm also not even sure if this is actual advice or a parody of those kinds of videos... the fact it can work either way just makes it funnier to me x3

GetThePicture responds:

Point taken and I´m sorry about dat quality

[Flight of the Squirrel]

I really like the style of this, haven't seen much else like it! A squirrel saving an acorn though confuses me since squirrels... eat nuts...
But eh, "logic" aside, good use of colours, dots, and onomatopoeia!

sketchysquirrel responds:

Thanks Lindenbree for your encouragement! Yes... it was an odd coupling... and yes the squirrel is "saving" the acorn... for a snack. :)

[The Argument]

Ah, total missed opportunity not looping this!
Anyway, there isn't much animation here, it's mostly lip syncing. But it was still entertaining and good voice work!
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And they totally look like ice cream sandwiches, that guy is totes objectively wrong...

EDIT: And now it's looped, awesome B)

Cheetoh responds:

Thanks again for the idea!

[My Scissors Will Eat You!]

Nice! The atmosphere is good and the colours are really interesting. It's a bit surreal looking, but nothing too off the wall that I couldn't identify the environment/setting. I figured the costume was made of human skin the second I saw it, but I certainly didn't see it coming that the blue haired woman is a monster! Good job on that twist and the overall interesting aesthetics! Just a half star off though, because the music drowned out the voices and it was kind of hard to understand them at points.

ClockworkPixel responds:

Thanks :) I'll be sure to sort that out next time. Glad you liked the twist!

[Nightmare Crusade - Episode 1: The Nightmare Begins]

Seriously? Wow. Like, just kill yourself.
(Nah, kidding, don't do that x3)

So the art and animation isn't the greatest, but you've definitely set up a story that kept my interest. I have no idea why Norman is spitting glass, and the king wants this dragon... but you've made me interested to know! Idk what was up with that smiley creature in the cave or what woke Norman up, but I'm interested to find out those too!

About the voices, none of the voices for the crusaders (I think this is what the robed people are) really stood out as unique, which, normally would be fine. However, since there's little indication of which character is talking since their faces are covered (no mouth movements for example), sometimes it's hard to tell who's speaking when multiple crusaders are in the same shot. On the topic of voices, some of the mic quality was a bit low, I could hear a lot of sharp sounds from the red crusader and the blue knight's voice was way too loud. The actual voice acting were all decent though! There's a lot of room for improvement (sometimes it seemed a bit too monotone), but I feel like effort was definitely made. I also like... Googly, er... Moogily... whatever the ghost's name is, I like his voice particularly.

While the rule of expositing in a video is usually show not tell, and I feel like this did the opposite, I still managed to sit through the whole thing without getting bored. Blue Knight's "faggot" made me chuckle both times, and I liked the red crusade guy's speech and demonstration on how being brave is counter productive, because he's so right. His attitude is amusing as well, how annoyed he acts, and I feel like he'd stand out even better with more dramatic body movements.

The character designs do their job, I can distinguish who I need to, but most of them feel kind of generic.

So, anyway... There's a lot of flaws with this but I still enjoyed it. I can tell a ton of work was put into it and I hope you continue with this. The length if impressive and I'm interested in the story now. Surely you'll get even better at animating next time! Best of luck and congrats on finishing this ^^

MasterCyconide responds:

Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it and yes, I understand it has a lot of flaws. One of the major reasons it took almost a year to get this done was the fact that I had to redo the entire thing like three times because it just didn't turn out right or I had better ideas for it.

As for the show not tell thing, I had that on my mind the entire time I was making this. In the original version, there was actually a narration that just puked up the entire backstory right in the beginning. Yeah, it was awful. Thank god I took that out. I guess at times things got out of hand and I felt they needed to be explained by one of the characters to avoid confusion. Another flaw in the writing department was maybe having too much backstory, as I might have made everything a bit too vague. I'll have things fixed up better in the second episode now that I know my way around Flash better and have a solid plan for a script. :)

Also, the ghost's name was "Boogly".

[The White Oak]

Great work, the environments look good and the characters, while simple, convey what they need to perfectly! As for the ending, I'm going to assume it's a representation of the loss of childish naivety. The character comes out looking like an adult, and their more innocent past self is "dead".

By the way, have you seen "Scarfy" by KawaiiPiranha? http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/602810 (I'm not sure if links work in NG comments... time to find out!). This reminded me of that animation, but it's still it's own thing for sure. Again, great job ^^

Lyrog responds:

I have just watched "Scarfy" and I feel totally weird, the characters are a bit similar to mine, and also the part when the shadowy guy becomes white. But the strangest thing is, the big smiling monster at the end looks a lot like a character from my next animation I'm working on right now!

http://iamxannos.deviantart.com/art/Under-the-Stairs-597357187?ga_submit_new=10%253A1458313286 - picture of my character

I have never heard of KawaiiPiranha before but we seem to have similar ideas :')

[Minions Must Die]

I got an ad for minion legos before this video played xD

Anyway... while the animation and art looks good, it's just... minions dying, repeatedly. I didn't find it very interesting or entertaining, but maybe that's just me. I did enjoy the ways their insides resembled food, like a banana and a... twinkie, I think? That was kind of neat :3
I do question how a banana was stuck in that one's eye though... I thought they wore goggles?

Lambtaco responds:

Ad relevancy still can't seem to detect whether a page is pro or anti something. Christianity ads on atheist sites and vice versa. I guess the technology isn't there yet.

I suppose it's not for everyone. I tried to keep it interesting, with the varied contents of the minions, and changing the kills up a bit. But if you don't hate minions or enjoy violence for its own sake, I can see how you wouldn't get much from it. My main goal was to be cathartic to minion haters.

I figure the banana smashed the glass. I should have added a sound effect for that. But I kinds rushed this and had a few oversights.

Thanks for reviewing.