CybermonkeyStudios's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Explosive joking]

Great style, poor punch-line

You had some very nice fbf work there and you also did a very good job of exaggerating the actions of the characters making it seem a lot more like a classic looney toons animation, so I give you credit for that. I kind of get the feeling though that you mainly just wanted to do an animation with this style but didn't initially have a story. So instead of thinking out a story to match the style you sort of whipped up this basic slap-sticky idea and started animating, this is where the animation suffers. Although unlike some other reviewers I believe you deserve a good score based on the art style itself. So although it was well executed the story-line was still extremely lacking. Next time plan out the concept a bit more and let the idea inspire the style. Still great stuff and keep at it, I really loved the animation!
-Z

SimonG responds:

Yeah. I just felt like it was more fun to do, when you really have no plot lol.
But I really see that plot isn't my thing.
But I'll get better!
Thanks for the review :)

[RE: Your brains]

Great song, but sloppy execution

I loved the song you chose, it was definitely very catchy and funny. Unfortunately your actual animation left a lot to be desired. I saw a lot of corners were cut, you used tweens when really they shouldn't have been used and it took away from the animation. You didn't redraw limbs so when you tweened them the other end of the appendage would stick out from the body or just move awkwardly making nothing about their movement organic or natural in any way. Another HUGE corner that was cut is that you just reused that same part for the chorus three times in the animation. Now this is more understandable because the song is long but really it gets boring for the viewer. This choice is definitely more forgivable because this saved you hours upon hours of extra work coming up with new animation ideas for the other choruses. Leaving many details and crude tweens unaltered though is less forgivable which is why I give you a lower score, really shape tweens should be left alone most of the time, especially for gore effects. One last thing that maybe shouldn't bother me but REALLY does is that your character who is the survivor has a name tag that says Bob. Yet the narrator, or singer, is singing from the perspective of Bob. Bob is the Zombie and Tom is the survivor. I realize this shouldn't be much of an issue but if you take the time to animate an entire song, attention to a detail as big as that should be payed attention to. Overall nice work though, and just don't get lazy or sloppy by the end. I mean really it takes five minutes to throw on a replay button which greatly increases it's overall presentation, rather then having an anti-climatic finish greeted with no credits or information on the artist and just a blank screen.
Good Work, take what I said into consideration, and I still enjoyed the animation greatly!
-Zeph R

mrslovett responds:

i know i kept thinking the names were th opposit way round for some reason didnt realise till i finished and was like ohhh sugar! but i didnt think anyone would really notice, but clearly you have a keen eye ;D
yes i did forget a replay button and i agree did look sloppy
and the whole thing with tweening how else do people make everything move is there a secret im unaware of or do you just draw it differently in different frames?
because i really want to get away from that sloppyness too!!
im sure theres an easier way so if you do know a way feel free to pm me thanks!
but i take your review into great consideration and i highly appreciate it! :)

[Two-Hour Time Trial]

Nice

really liked the animation, next time send me a PM, I'd love to be in one of these.

-Zeff

Rudy responds:

Ah, I was going to PM/IM ya but I thought you'd be busy. Thanks for checking it out. I may hold another one in the near future, I'll definitely drop you a PM, and ask ya if you want to join. Can't wait to work with ya again.

Thanks again.

[Super Savior Jesus Go!]

k

couple over analytical things, like why for 50 seconds is jesus just beating up a jewish guy, (hence the star of david necklace), when jesus is A: jewish ----------and B: non violent.............sorry im not offended by many things and this was meant to be harmless i know, but it does seem to be an unintentional metaphor for christianity kicking jews asses. but w/e, a nice little flash, not much animation (i know a ad for ur comic) and one more duper picky thing.........................
..jesus was playing a bass during the guitar solo (only =4 strings but there appear to be six ont the head??????) im way tooo picky.

herdoyuy responds:

More or less I couldn't comfortably fit the right amount of strings on there bear the bottom so I went with the more visually appealing look. If you want to be even pickier, Jesus should be moving his hand DOWN for the higher notes :P but yet agian , didnt look as nice.

[Knee Deep in Death 2]

traced

i gave graphics low because its traced, and i know that because so r most ur other movies, now the thing is its well traced, but thats why i also gave u low style, because its not ur style its traced (but ur style was stille shown with music sound fx and filming whatever u traced) overall pretty good.

danomano65 responds:

now, i doubt i've ever been more offended. i did not trace. this is original. and i would appreciate it if you would ask instead of accuse. you don't know shit about flash and you should shut the fuck up.

[-Simply Animation-]

sorry not top 50

animations good, but the person below me is wrong, not top 50, and i know u agree. one thing thaat annoyed the hell out of me (and its an easy fix) is the timing of ur movieclip tweens, because it doesnt look natural with the pace there running (MC) and how fast there actually moving from the tween, other than that, a good animation.

Rudy responds:

Hm, yeah I know what you mean. Thank you though. Really.

This doesn't deserve top 50 (: