Manderby's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Just Beyond the Golden Arches]

SickAnimation and MeatCanyon team up. Oh boy! That is as epic as when SexualLobster and TheWeebl did this:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/570552

[Sonic gets cucked]

Yeah. You do like them. You do. ;)

[Ollie & Scoops Episode 6: Old Crumplecranks]

The quality of this is outstanding! The references, the visual setup, the voices, lyrics, song, ... all of it. I am somewhat speechless. How dare you to please us all with this!

[Sleep Tight]

Exquisit voice acting!

[Camelittle]

I just came a lot.

[Are NG's Users Being Lied To?]

It's a natural thought to come up with when seeing strange numbers like the ones you describe. In my experience though, this is because the randomness observable in the Internet often times does not really "feel" random to humans, which is why people do not believe in coincidence if they see two, three outliers in sequence. Generally with time, rating systems converge to produce an almost unbreakable, stable outcome. It might very well just be noise. Therefore, primarily, I doubt that something manipulatively odd is going on. But with changing requirements, such processes also change (or must be changed) and maybe an error is introduced. So one has to check.

That being said, I'm sure, monitoring the numbers externally doesn't serve anything except spawning conspiracy. Why not just ask liljim to write an SQL statement for you? Probably he isn't allowed to share the raw data but at least they can answer the question without noise.

[Rubber Hose Feud (toon history drama)]

Wow, that must have been a lot of work! But I miss Skitzo the Bear!

[How to animate in flash with pinoytoons(EP 3)]

Scrolling to a random position, hearing "...sleeping with a girl and you finish your deed...". Hm I guess that is your style then.

Dakzky responds:

I have experience with a call girl long time ago. She didn't tell me her name until we finished the deed. but not really my style LOL

[TD-Manga-ka]

No, thank you.

You illustrate and tell so much I'v been feeling and telling for years now. Eras come and go. Change is good.

[LOOP- READY TO FIGHT!! - TWoM Key Image]

Your style is very professional and you seem very experienced. I honestly wish you to produce a movie, a series of some sort, although it probably will not be my gusto. But what you show is very, very good, so take this as nitpicking on a very, very high level.

- The movement, although fluent, at times seems somewhat robotic. As this is a loop, it is mostly understandable but also in the trailer, it shows the same occurences. In my opinion, the main problem is that your movements are more serial than parallel. Turn head, then open eyes, then move body, then raise arm, then start shouting, ... all done one after another. If some movements would overlap, that could make the whole experience much more enjoyable. I am no expert but I think, that is what "follow through and overlap" is supposed to mean.

- Anticipation: Not the right amount in my opinion, mostly too much. Together with the serial movements, the whole cycle of tensening the movement, executing it and letting it go is, again, too robotic.

- Exaggeration: Your figures look still very natural, which is perfectly fine as a style. Expression of fear or anger (in the trailer) though could bear even more. The scarf is a tough one, I believe. If you would exaggerate less, the smear could be more natural (which is a bit chunky at the moment), but then it is less expressive. On the other hand, if you would exaggerate the scarfs movement, it would be more believeable, but would not fit the whole image. Maybe... Is that cycle with the small crow and the scarf really fitting for this image? As an animation by its own, they make a wonderful couple, and then, you can exaggerate the movement to even more extends. But in this image, schouldn't at least the scarf face the big crow, maybe in a more crouching, pre-pouncing kind of pose, or a fearful one?

- Rhythm, sync. Loops like this always face this problem. The movements are too much in sync, hence, the whole picture seems to breathe. While sometimes, this might be desirable, I would find it more interesting when the movements were out of sync here. What I mean is: At the same time, all figures are moving downwards, in the big cycle, the crow breathes out, the scarf heads down, the small crow retracts. In the small circle, the two scarecrows move towards the ground, same as the girl, same as the skirt. In each other half, all figures are at the opposite. Just shifting some frames would lead to a much more vivid animation. Also, when parallelizing the movements, they would be more out of sync and hence less robotic.

- The theme with the cross going on in this picture (sun, crows eyes) and in the movie trailer was a little unfitting to me and just a tad too much, both because of the heaviness of meaning as well as the same old big brother/nazi scheme copied already a million times.

But, again, this is very high level nitpicking. You still deserve 5 stars.

ChristopherWade responds:

There's a lot of good points here, especially about the rhythm and even shaking up movement of characters. I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thanks for watchin and replying.