JPI's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The History of Animation]

Nice one...

Never seen that in a flash before.
First off, congrats on the daily 2nd, it did well to get there.

Very informative, although I'd of gone on a bit more of stop frame animation, simply because it's great.

Having lived in Italy, I can tell you that it has the biggest animation histort section (or something of the sort), and is held in "The Mole" in Turin (where i used to live), and all those stephiscopes and spinny things (professional term there :P) can be found there.

Congrats, i love this flash.

- James

[Another Day Seven]

Impressive

But not perfect... You have a pause at the bottom, but when you pause it it doesn't pause nested MC's.
What you want to do is convert all the MC's to graphics with multiple frames, and then go to the properties panel.
The part where you can swap the symbols, below that is a drop down menu, select (play once). Now with that enabled, when you pause, it will all pause.
I hope this helps.

And now onto the movie, it was a loely style, and some great fbf work on the main character to a lovely song.

Nice work... and i hope you read this review.

- JPI

The-Super-Flash-Bros responds:

You'll notice about half of the things DO pause when you pause the movie, because I used the "graphic, play once" method. But you have to realise that this is Flash 8, and some of the animations had effects like blurs and glows on them. You can only apply these effects to MovieClips, not graphics.

-Dim

[PALADIN episode 4]

Paladin is a great series.

Just a few questions,
Was that voice actor the same voice actor who did Legend from Xin?
Did you use your face as a guide for this?
It seems to be the same style character as your Massacre animation.

Story was good, i learned some tips from this... like how to completly fake fire lol...

But i liked it, good use of re-using symbols and great face animations when speaking. Making the whole face move rather than just the mouth.

Overall it was great, i hope to see more action in the final part.

The second in this series is still my favourite.

[Organ Merchant]

Very nice

Graphics are lovely.
But there are a couple of errors,
- Play buttons, please use the hitTest, double click the button, and draw a rectangle on the hitTest layer that covers the play. Making them easier to click.
- I love your shading style, but some effects such as the loading screen's hill and other hill in the movie can easily be shaded though radial shading, but then click and drag the fill to the bottom right to make it fit.

But it was great, a fantastic story, and i loved the harcore anal midgets ;)

- JPI

Sexual-Lobster responds:

i didn't know that about the hitTest, but radial shading looks cheesy.

[Ulan]

A well presented music video

But unfortunatly, us Newgrounders are hard to please.

The animation was great, should have been smoother in certain places, but was fantastic anyways. I remeber the character from DrLove and i'm overwhelmed that you've got another character.

But what us Newgrounders want something more than a music video of your characters, we want storyline or a comedy. This was just a bunch of well animated characters with little background.

I'm sure if you do a good comedy with these characters, you'll be able to get frontpage.

The lipsync was ok... it seemed better towards the ending, but you needed to add slightly more detail to the mouths, because it is seen so much, you shouldn't underanimate.
To make the lipsync better, add more mouths to the character, have a look at JackSmack's animation tutorial 3.

So, in future, add more to the background, and add some comedy storyline (comedys generally only have 1 or 2 backgrounds because they are generally shorter).

And, for future reference, i think you should have a look at the "V-Cam", perform a google search, and you should find an article about it, and a .fla to download. It's an "in flash" camera that you can tween and fade so you can have interesting camera shots. Just don't over-use it as it should be used subtley.

It might be interesting to think about doing simple shading on the characters when they arn't in lights, but it might ruin the style. But it is worth thinking about.

Wow, this review is getting too long, i'd better stop.

Nice animation and a good day to you. I'm awaiting your next submission.

- JPI

alphachupapi responds:

Now this is what I call a review! Thank you very much for your comments, this is really helpful. I would really like to say something more about your comments but I can't choose my words, sorry. I'll try to spend more time about my production. Thanks again.

[Nobodies Shorts #5]

I found something trippy :S

OK, if you wanna go on a trip, after the intro and the guy says "Hey Chris", rightclick and it play, then when it loops, you'll get an echo, but it's played out normally making a trippy effect :S

Oh, and i have a sandwich maker too! :D

Nice short :)

Good use of underanimating :D

[Killed the radio star!]

You both looked gay...

But it was bloody hilarious.

Work more on lipsynching, add a preloader, add more people and finish it off :D

...Genious :D

[Justice League Tribute]

Lovely art

Nice tribute, the art was good, but the animation wasn't the best. I would of voted 5, but you could of done some story instead of a tribute.
Although this was some lovely fan art, i gave you a 4/5

[The Ma$sAcre 2: Revenge]

GREAT

But the sound let it down a bit, on some parts the dialogue just didn't fit the song, however the army war part, was incedible.
As always, i loved the work by Jazza, this particular use of blur in flash 8 in this collab was great.
And there were lots of other cool grusome parts that i forgot right about now.
The 3d weapon guy (forgotten his name in the credits) made this even better.
A wonderful collab, i'd love to join the next one.

Revenge is a great theme, and reminds me of the fantastic works of Quentin Tarantino.

- JPI

[S.M.B.3 Bloopers]

Hmm

Didn't float my boat, the humor wasn't so great. But i did chuckle when the bleeps came.
However, it was lovely sprite work and i presume you used a v-cam. And the scene select was genious.
And the use of sound was perfect.
Congrats.
The humor otherwise was too old for me.

Keep it up,
Your good =D
Congrats on the daily 1st i gave you a 4/5