Seawana's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[He Roll Tart To Join Fing]

Enough with the shape morphing already!

This movie is nothing more than 10 or 12 different keyframes shape morphed in sequence. It's not very good morphing either. I would suggest thinking about what you want to make a movie of, and take some time to research different ways flahs allows you to do it. Don't just use the only animation technique you know because, frankly, it sucks.

[Stick Slayer vs Xiao Xiao]

Top notch work! Disney beware!

I too am very glad you have gotten a graphics tablet. If this is any indication of the caliber of work you will be producing, I'm on the edge of my seat already anticipating your next movie.

The keyframe animation was excellent. Its style is well defined and quite fluid. Merging the Stick Slayer with Xiao Xiao was a brilliant idea and masterfully executed (pun intended). The accompanying music score and sound effects pulled the entire piece together perfectly.

I can't wait for more.

[Someday]

Ok art and music. Great story!

Well. It looks to me like you don't care too much for school and the only thing that keeps you going is this girl-in-the-red-shirt. Not to worry; that was 90% of everyone's elses school experiences too.

The music was a little hard for me (but good), and the art lacks. However, I really enjoyed the story and the sybolism you put into it. I especially liked when the girl walked down the hall and the beautiful forest was following all around her.

As for the art, nothing helps like practice time, which is something I never took advantage of (Check out my stuff to see what I mean).

Keep up the great work. You have much talent to develop!

[Stonc]

Scanned in porno. Whoopty-doo.

When you said this took you two days, I was expecting something really well done.

Boy was I wrong. It's not original, and doesn't shoe much effort.

Sure you put a little more work into this by typing in the text and creating a title screen, but who cares? Why not just leave all this crap on your website and make the movie a link to there? This way you can increase the image quality like you want and it'll leave the worthless porn off of NG. Half the NG ads are already pron, lets not ruin the rest too.

[Flog First Fight]

Good 3D, but lacking substance.

Teh 3D is pretty well done, and I liked where you were headed with this, but there is a distinct problem here. This is not much of a "Flash" movie per se.

Importing an MPEG into Flash is not what I would consider a good use of the technology. You could drastically decrease the file size by cutting up your graphics within Flash and only using the moving portions of the images (in fact, this is similar to how GIF's are compressed). By a quick estimate, I would say you could cut the file size in half or better.

Anyhow, the 3D looks nice with the exception of a some weird camera movements and the stationary ground in one part.

[Gohans Transformation]

DBZ again ... and again, and again ...

Well, the artwork was very well done so I gave you a 4. But other than that and the last scene from above which looked like I drew it, for god's sake (read as "bad art"), it's just another DBZ thing with people creating energy fields and looking all tough/screamy.

Frankly I don't get it (DBZ that is). Why not use your artistic talents and make up a new character or theme or entire universe? You can use all the same styles and whatnot, but put some background or history into it. It'd be nice to see your talent used for something new and not the same old stuff again and again.

[The Captive]

Very cute. A surprise ending worth seeing.

A great movie with good art, plot, and sound. I wonder if you had an infinite number of these movies on an infinite number of NewGrounds if you would eventually get in the daily top five ... hmmmm ...

[Church Lady]

The Jerky Boys would be proud

He he he. Pretty funny.

This is a well done movie, but I found that the graphics disappeared a little too quickly. Maybe if they faded out for a couple of frames rather than just popping off. I found it a little bit jarring and hard to get used to watching.

The dialog is quite funny without being over the top like many of these jokes end up. I like it!

[A View To A Kill]

Excellent art and motion and a storyline to boot!

This was a great movie!

I really liked the fact that it did not turn out to be what I expected. Of course I was expecting some ridiculous sniper shooting spree for no reason. Instead I get a great thought provoking story which is left open for plenty of continuation.

The art was very well done. The music fit the mood superbly, and the action and animation was excellent.

I would suggest using motion guides or ease in / out for some movements such as the scope view. It is a little unrealistically jerky with simple keyframing and tweens.

Overall, great work! I'm going to go watch all your other movies now!

[Zales]

Okay but not great.

I liked it. I wasn't sure where this movie was leading but I enjoyed a chuckle out of it. I have a few suggestions for improving is though.

It would be good to have the text moving a little less quickly since some of the longer lines are hard to read. I would suggest having them fade in while already halfway onto the scene, then move slowly, and then fade out at before going off screen. This might also fit the mood of the music better too.

Also I think the diamond pictures look wrong on the black background. I am guessing this is becuase they were originally on a white background and you cut them out. You did a good job clipping them out, but the edges are still white and it looks kinda weird. Either find fome pictures on a black background (hard to impossible) or change your movie to a lighter background (possibly more fitting to a diamond).

Finally, I would look into using the ease in and ease out feature on the diamonds. They would look much smoother sliding gracefully onto the screen rather than screeching to a jarring halt.

This movie is a great start, and I think the music is a perfect pick for it. Is that the Zales theme?

Keep up the good work.