fourchinnigan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FF Tribute - Chocobo Mix]

Great Job

Fun song + nice visuals + good motion = Great movie. I especially enjoyed the Mog dancing like Snoopy. I was very pleasantly surprised with this movie. Good Work!

[Ytown Public 5]

COOL!!!!!!

All kinds of neat extras + a movie=good job. I liked the "Prize" when you beat the trivia game. There was some funny stuff in this episode and I liked the new robot. Everyone dies?! Great!!! Whoever did the voice for the Viking sucks 'though and what the hell IS MX?! You've got to quit referencing these odd obscure flash series that no one likes. ;)

McRhyme responds:

Oh man, you're so funny.

"Everyone dies?! Great!!!"

What a crazy review. Glad you liked the robot, as I'm sure you understand - He took several weeks to make. You know first make the damn model, then render the animated part (takes like a week on my computer) and then add it to the cartoon. And having 3D robots spinning around in the most 2D catoon ever, well it takes a lot of trying-changing-and trying again before it looks alright. You totally wrong about the Viking, that voice rules. It was so cool I even gave the Viking the last laugh. Hehe. Promise I won't ever mention MX again :) Sorry...

[Flush the Wave]

Cool cool

This movie is fun. It was almost like an animated children's book, sort of. The graphics and animation looked nice, but sometimes they only looked okay. The story was very cool. The music was tops. I like your band, or at least this song since it is the only one I have heard. My suggestion, next time don't make the music an event sound---set it to stream. Then copy your scenes into movie clips and put them all in one scene. The first time I watched this the music ended when the robot flew into space. I watched it a second time on low quality and the music fit perfectly. With a stream setting, the music will fit regardless of quality setting.

McRhyme responds:

Yupp, this wasn't my very first Flash movie - but it was my first real project. Animating something this long (3 min) take alot of time - especially when you have to make all the grafics. No lazy Library to fall back on!

That's what's so good with making a series :) And the other thing is that people start recognizing the charcters and know their names. That's cool too.

I guess you're right about it being like a book for children in away. I'm still a child on the inside, I guess.

Thanks for watching this rare piece!

[Marsh-Mellow-Madness]

Double Plus Good

Well-done. You should have gotten number 1. The motion is nice, timing is dead on, concept is cool as hell. You couldn't have chosen better music. This whole short definitely had an old surrealist animation feel to it.

[Xiao Xiao No. 8]

Why read Submission Guidelines?

As I have said before:
I do not dislike this series, but it is very overrated. Not to mention the choreography is no anything you will see in a Jackie Chanquestions in regards or Jet Li movie. For people like Bartkei who think "how will the NG people know about Xaio-Xaio if it isn't posted here without the consent of the author?" The answer-through those annoying ass email forwards that we all get or by emailing Tom/Wade and asking them to post a link. NG is for anyone to be able to submit their own flash work. I don't come here to see the best flash work on Earth. I come here to see what amateurs and future professionals can create. Go to ifilm or atomfilms if you are looking for topnotch work. Don't submit other people's work here under the bullshit pretense that you are doing a public service.

[Ytown Public 4]

I like this much

This is a really cool series. Each episode gets better and better. Some of the artwork and effects are awesome. The only complaint I have is about the line quality (it is too jagged for my taste), but if that is the style you want-who am I to nitpick? The 3D, especially the ship was really well done. This series is funny and odd, just like I like it. The Bear and AL have to be my favorite characters. Keep making more, please.

McRhyme responds:

You like MY effects? Wow, that incredible, I didn't even realise I use effects. The 3D ship looks crappy! But doing it what way made me better so I can make it better for future episodes! About the lines, yes I use FAT lines, infact I never use LINES in the finished movie. I only use lines to draw fields to shade on the character and then I dubble click on them and delete! One small exeption is Fred's hair, it contains some conture lines so I could shape tween it! AL's voice was made by Jeff!

[Vampire Hunter INA]

Nice job

For the most part this was well done. It does have a few faults. The graphics are inconsistent. At times, they look fabulous, other times, they only looked okay. Were there multiple animators? This could definitely account for it. Transistions from shot to shot were not always effective. At times,the timing was off or the actions didn't seem to flow together well. Specifically, the moment before the gal vampire fell out the window. The audio sounded like it was recorded inside an air conditioner-lots of hiss, and terribly muffled. Despite what others are going to tell you, the music does not work. #1 rule for building a soundtrack-do not use music just because you like the bands. You have to choose music that accentuates the visuals. The more ambient, the better-the music should not take centerstage. Also cutting from one song to another song which are very different is a bad thing to do. It draws to much attention and gives the impression the sound designer is unskilled. Sound effects---use sound effects. They are often more important than music. In regards to storyline, there is nothing here I haven't seen before but I can look past that. It may sound like I disliked your movie. That is not the case. The fact that I have written this long review means that I see GREAT potential here and I'd like to see you use it to your best. With a few changes, this could be a damn good movie. I'll check out the next thing you put out for sure.

ImageNation responds:

Thanks and we welcom points. as for the audio the hiss was a tec glich we had as for muffed that a result of haveing to lower the quality inoder to get the file size down. We would have liked to use sounds effect we know how important they are but something had to give the file size was getting to be to big and a quiet movie with sounds (especially an action movie) can kill the intensity. also we didn't choose bands we liked we searched for songs we thought would fit the mood we wanted to keep the pace of the movie going. But again. we know some of the songs didn't transition as smoothly as we would have liked but as every one we're still learning and we enjoy the style of swiching song and madeby with some hard work it will work the way we wanted it too. thanks for the review we know we didn't cover all you said but all that matters is that you enjoyed the cartoon all we wanted to do was enterian.

[Arrogancy: Chapter Two]

Gonna take awhile, eh?

It's going to take a while to flesh out the story, I see. I understand. I'm in the same boat. I'll be patient. Overall, pretty good episode. There are a couple spots that could use tighter editing. Do you use a lot of event sounds? Looks nice, can't complain about that. Most of the animation was nice. I especially liked the part where Ripper outstretched his fists and smoke escaped. Looked very nice. I definitely think this is headed for something good. You may want to make the episodes just a tad longer, because this one was done and over with rather quickly and the plot was advanced very minimally. And hey, if people are asking for more or longer episodes, that is always a good thing. ;)

[Squigo 4]

Squigo=Good Stuff

These keep getting better. Everything about this episode was perfect. Animation was very nice. Artwork was beautiful. This one beats the first 3 hands down and that is saying a lot. Also, I don't give out many tens.

[AlphaZekko 6]

Still Going Strong

I've been keeping up with these since you released part 2. The animation, rendering, motion is all still nice. This series as a whole has been a shining example of quality. I always like when, like in this episode, you throw in a mini-game. The problems are so minute they aren't worth mentioning. Glad to see you guys are still churning these out.