TESM's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dot Dot Dot - Animated]

Well done

Good text animation and a funny concept.

D-Mac, from listening to you years and years ago you have a much better control of your voice and have really improved your craft. I think your voice not only makes the video better, it quite nearly makes the whole video. I feel like the animation may have been made after the voice work.

Good job to both of you.

[Dailybee #019]

I wonder how...

...you snuck this by for a daily feature?

It had to be some mass voting before the 'submission' time.

Well, I had to laugh at this since movies just as shitty (for all different reasons) win awards here, mainly with lazy animation styles (stick figures) and/or 1-color characters.

You guys always cracked me up.

[Staircase]

Well...

You did more with 100KB than most do in 3-4 megabites, so that's alright. I'd of liked to see it be longer. Music was kinda funky and all in all, not a bad effort for a small thing.

[Santa's Tree]

Enjoyable

It's not great in any field, but overall it tells a simple story with a simple ending.

It's definitely not great, by any means, but it's a nice little take on an old theme.

Could the art be better? Yea... it seemed a bit sloppy and lazy to me.

The music was nice, and it would've been nice to see more of the tree-growth animated... I dunno, to make it more magical and whimsical.

But, decent presentation and something that wasn't painful at all to watch.

Good work.

Sonucais responds:

Make me the favor of telling Tom about giving me a Wacom, it will make me improve the art :(

[The Love I'm Searching 4]

It's ok.

For one I'm not a huge fan of the song. So take that as you will.

I'm not very impressed with the whole project, regardless. I'll give you my Pros and Cons:

Pros:
+A slick presentation
+A nice blend of 'real' graphics with your animation
+A semi-cohesive story... not many NG movies can say that

Cons:
-The art style just doesn't jive with me. It's consistent... so that's a plus, but it's annoying. The stupid over-exagerated mouths, eyes, and expressions scream of both anime (which I like) and cutting corners (which I don't like). Here, however, I can cut you some slack because I know the presentation is supposed to be whimsical and light-hearted. Granted. However, these expressions are just to cliche and bogged down by being associated with all the other crap that looks the same.
-The animation, I think, is lazy. Those reused legs for running (outside the school)... I noticed that! Also, all the cheap anime-esque "flailing legs" and "waving arms" were just bland and overused. However, I can tell you some parts were very good, though the art style itself is oversimplified in my opinion. There IS still some good here.
-Though presented well, I'll always prefer well drawn, hand-drawn images... a cohesive art style throughout. You did an admirable job mixing the two, but I just don't think it's that effective. The pictures helped your background be more elaborate, but when you said you were working on backgrounds, I think you dropped the quality on the other things.

All in all, I think it was an average movie, thus the 5. 10's are for flawless movies, which this is not. This movie just sort of left me feeling "Ok. That was nice."
It's really just a very typical story with nothing really new or exciting or clever... save some Directional uses of the background with the character.
Looking at this a second time, it's a neat use of backgrounds with the quick transitions... but that, at best, is what is successful... which I don't think is saying too much.

Would NG be a worse place with movies like this? No... I think this is better than most. But it takes more than just this to be good (as I've commented on above). Her dancing to music or events is what people do when into music.. so that's cool, I guess.

Branch out more and come up with something more whimsical. Again, this was just average with a lot of cliche conventions and an uninspiring story.

Keep working hard, you have the raw materials to do good things.

[The Facebook Problem]

Ok at best

Kinda of a common complaint. Simplistic animation, graphics, etc.

I guess the two kids tongue-kissing was for 'lulz'

All in all.. I gues it's nice to see something in a hyperbolic way show how affiliated people are to Facebook. But, in the end, this flash was just average.