wizardman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Darkness :>]

You have a lot of potential.

This was a very weird flash. I'm not sure I knew what was going on. First off, the sound was terrible. I couldn't understand what was being said, nor did I know if the guy or some mysterious figure was saying it. On the plus side, despite the lack of background, the graphics were great. The animation if still somewhat choppy, but you have a great base to work with so far. Just practics a little bit with smoothing out movement and you'll be a pretty good flash artist.

[Dr.Seuss From da hooD!]

...I actually enjoyed an SBC flash? wow.

I didn't think I'd ever say that, but this was rather fun to watch. It was actually done (comparatively) well, and even though it lacked a background, the changing of text was done relatively well. The announcer was good, and it sounded relatively professional. I've actually read the book "Horton hears a ho" and it does seem very up-to-date with the times. as for the flash, like I said before, I actually enjoyed this, and that in itself is an achievement.

[sss]

Hurt my eyes, yet had an interesting feel.

This wasn't too bad for your first flash. I'm not quite sure whether that was subliminal advertising or just random things quickly moving past the screen in a continuous loop. It was more enjoyable than B, but lacked the text that the other flash had. Screenshots can only help a flash so much.

[Blobbles- ep. 2]

Lol, I like this blob.

These shorts are fun to watch. Only he would throw away blueberries while making a blueberry pie, heh. I like how everything seemed to have a blue tone, as well as how everything was animated. I like the high, fast voice of the blob, which is somewhat ironic since I usually hate that kind of voice on characters. I'd like to see more of these shorts though.

JonBro responds:

I bet he also throws away the lemons making lemonade.

Thanks!

[Blobbles- ep. 1]

Interesting

It's not easy to find a good flash short under 100kb, but this would be one of the few. This was a funny little piece of work. A blob becoming candy corn, then a candy cane is kinda weird, yet fun to watch. The graphics and sound were great, and I imagine a blob would sound the way he did in this flash.

JonBro responds:

I don't think a blob would have a deep voice. That would be more of a talking tree, or a talking refrigerator, or something like that.

Thanks!

[Grand Theft Stick 2.1]

Nice

You keep improving on your flash work, and that's just as important as whether a flash is good or not. The voices were quite a bit better. even though I have no idea what the green one said. That and you spelled "gotta" wrong. All nitpicking aside, the animation, style, everything was great. Also, when the sticks were actually shown face to face, they looked a lot better than the average sticks I see go through the portal ll the time. I'd like to see more of this series.

rz-stick responds:

wow, thanks a lot, you will trust me and i will try to improve at least 1 aspect per animation, the next one is the dynamics and how the characters move, i think people will like it, thanks again,

[Grand Theft Stick 2]

Pretty good

Unlike some of the other reviewers, I actually liked the bird's eye view of the sticks. It brought a lot more to the flash, and you can see a lot more of what's going on from that view. The shooting looked relatively nice, and the animation was pretty good. I wonder why he didn't shoot the one blue stick, but rather went around it. It was probably a good reason that's not supposed to be known. Anyway, I didn't like the voices all that much, and the backgrounds seemed rather boring with all the gray-ness.

rz-stick responds:

This was an early attempt, i wasn't very good at flash at the time and i was looking for something easy and simple. I have no idea why i added a stealth approach scene, it was probably a random thought after playing splinter cell or something.

[Ricks Shorts 1]

Meh. not good, not bad either.

Well, I liked what you were doing with it, but the flash didn't seem to "work" in my opinion. The stick attacking the wall and yellign at it was clever, and I found it enjoyable. I'm not really a fan of "stick shorts", but the fact that there was only 1 stick in the flash actually makes it pretty unique and interesting.
Basically, I didn't care for it, but I'd like to see more.

rz-stick responds:

k, thanks

[Dialogue at the Zoo]

lol, nice

This flash was definitely a great one and funny to watch. Spanish hyenas haven't been funnier. The graphics were nice and had great detail. The animation and sound were also nice. The humor was what made the flash though. The hyena talking about his life to the elephant was great. The Dialogue is what knocked this flash from good to great. Nice job.

[Wars We Need to See]

Nice

The sound was pretty good. Since it was the main part of the flash, I tried watching this flash both minimized and not minimized. The graphics and animation were awesome, but not too much was going on. The flash as a whole started feeling a little repetitive, but as I said before, the graphics and everything were top-notch.

PlasmicSteve responds:

Thanks for checking it out!