Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 3]

Nice one

Hehehe, nice one. I liked the joke in this, it made me laugh. You don´t really see that kind of humor often on NG (at least I don´t), so lots of pluspoints for that. Quality-wise it was also pretty well made if you ask me. The background looked great, the characters looked pretty good too (seems like you got your own style and I like that), the sounds were good (loved the balloon popping sound) and there was also nothing wrong with the animation.

The only complaints I have are about the title screen. I suggest you move the text up a little bit so that the dots won´t fall out of the oval shape. it kinda looks ugly this way to me. Also, I don´t like the white background you used there. Perhaps you should mix a few colors there or just draw something. One last suggestion: I think some music in the menuscreen would be nice. An intro tune for your series or something like that.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. It was a very nice flash in my opinion. Not much room for improvement, beside the menuscreen. But that isn´t really the most important part of a flash, so it´s okay if you want to keep it the way it is now. Anyways, keep up the good work and I´d like to see more of these.

~Auz, Review Request Club

Jimtopia responds:

Well I made the menu like that mainly so I didn't have to re-draw a new menu every time. Anyway, glad you liked the joke. Thx for the review.

[Stick and Stick Episode 1]

Hmm

Hmmz, it was kinda short if you ask me and not much was happening then the usual stuff you see in stick movies. That was the biggest bad part about this movie. Be a bit more creative with plots. Also, the text was a bit hard to read at times, since you just "draw" the text yourself instead of typing it in text boxes. Last thing, the fight scene was too fast for me (and probably for anyone) to follow. I couldn´t tell what happened, try to make the action slower and make the scene longer. As for what could still be added; Well I´d say add some sound effects for the fight, it´ll make it much nicer.

The good parts of the movie; I liked the backgroundmusic you choose. It doesn´t really suit the fight scene, but I liked it a lot still. It´s way better than some loud music you usually see in movies like this. Also, the movie was fast paced and I liked that. I didn´t thought the movie was boring at some point because of this. Just make the fight scene slower, but keep the conversations fast paced. Last, I liked the color combination of white and grey you used.

Overall 4 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Well I think it was just a basic stick movie, "nothing too new or interesting". It had some good parts it had some bad parts. One last thing, when the movie ended the music kept playing. I don´t think that was done on purpose. Just add a keyframe at the end (maybe add "StopAllSounds" as an action for it) and the music should stop when the movie starts over again.

~Auz, Review Request Club

Lost-Wisdom responds:

Thanks for the review, check out my other episodes, it's kinda better.

[B-Fuddled]

Loved it

He, I think you´re little experiment was a success. It´s one of the best movies I´ve seen so far today. Everything was well drawn and it was very very funny in my opinion. I hope to see some more of this stuff, keep up the good work.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5.

PS: Happy Clock Day ^.^

[Vivi]

A decent movie

It was a decent movie, but there´s still a lot of room for improvement. First of, I think the song you added didn´t actually suited the movie that well. It seemed like you didn´t choose it cause you think it suits in this flash. But more like you added it just because you thought it was a cool song. I suggest you pick something different, a more relaxing theme perhaps. Second, the drawings and animation both need some more work. The drawings weren´t that bad, but they could be better. The animation however was pretty bad. Vivi walked in a very strange way, it looked pretty ugly in my opinion. Third, the movie needs more speed. The pace of the movie seemed a bit slow, which made it kind of boring. Maybe you should make us press the spacebar or make us click on something to go to the next text balloon.

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. It was still an okay movie in my opinion, even with all the negative points I wrote above. Try to improve your flash on the areas I mentioned and I think we could have some pretty good stuff here.

~Auz, Review Request Club

[The Rebel Mages]

Didn´t like it

I didn´t like it to be honest. You need to improve your drawing skills A LOT. Try not to draw anything with squares and circles, cause it just looks ugly. Also, some parts of the menuscreen looked alright, but it was too much black at the background and the buttons were just randomly put somewhere it seemed. Bring more order in it and try to make it look nice. As for the sounds, well I suppose those clock voices are a solution if you can´t get a good voice-actor or if you don´t have a good voice yourself. And they suit in these kind of movies, so it was okay. The plot on the other hand wasn´t very entertaining to me, I think it was unoriginal and I didn´t find it that funny.

Overall 3 out of 10, 1 out of 5. I wasn´t amused by it. Very little good points, a lot of bad points. You didn´t really gave me the feeling you tried your best here, and that is in my eyes the worst thing of this whole movie. I´d say try some drawing tutorials, try to get a good voice-actor and try to think of a better plot next time. I also agree that you should get a pre-loader, cause otherwise you might get reactions like: "the movie doesn´t work".

~Auz, Review Request Club

[FbF Attack]

Wow

Hi there, GFG. Long time no see, how are you? :)

I´m here to do a review of course, not for chitchatting so let´s start off:
To be honest, I really didn´t know you could draw and animate so well. The graphics were really great in my opinion. Good effects (loved the 3d at some points), nice and smooth action and everything was well drawn. I liked that. I would give a 9 for graphics if I still could, and an 8 for style, but unfortunaly I can´t since the redesign.

The sounds were also good. Was the stickguy you who was talking in the end or were they both done by the same person? Otherwise you got a good voice for doing some voiceacting. And not everyone can say that. The backgroundmusic was good too and suited the movie well. My only comlaint about sounds is that I missed them in the beginning of the fight. Talking about punching and fighting sounds. But that was okay. I would give the sounds an 8 (if I still could...).

Well those are usually the only things I really care about in a flash. There´s only one other thing which you couldn´t rate in the old system and that´s the plot. Well as with almost any FBF movie it was kinda random. In the end it seemed to have a plot, but I don´t think there was one. I´m personally not a very big fan of completely random movies (even though I made quite a random one myself). So that was a negative point for me, but meh... whatever.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Again, I was suprised by how well you can draw and animate. Wouldn´t mind seeing some more of you´re stuff. Keep up the good work and I really hope to see you again in the Zelda Club someday, although I think you left for good :(

~Auz, Review Request Club

Soupcat responds:

Wow.

This, this is an honor. :o
I'm quit dazzled I must say, getting a review (and a positive one) from you. The lord of the RRC.
So, let's get into it, eh? ;)

Well, first of all, thank you for the postitive remarks, really appreciated, and motivating :D
And the negative remarks..well, I know them, I know them all. The sound ffects, well, I was planning that, but got lazy, and forgot about it...and well just too anticipating to get the damn thing into the portal...I spent too long on it..well...Been on hiatus for too long ^^

The randomness - plot issue. Meh, I'm not that type of animator who can shit the most amazing and epic stories, I'm working on that but in the meantime I'm going to satisfy myself with these type of things.
But I've been told I've got some writing skills. We'll see what time brings.

Oh, and don't worry, I'll hop in the Zelda club. It's just....the whole redesign, found a new anime, social life etc....oh, and the fact that I finished TP about ten times and I'm focusing on other intrests ^^ But that doesn't mean Zelda lost that special place in my hart.

Actually....my sister is also getting very hardcore in the series..something to discuss.
TO THE ZELDA MOBIEL!

Bye <3.

[FF: Battle for Newgrounds]

Liked it

The graphics, music and sounds were pretty good in my opinion. The plot was okay, but the battles were over too quickly. In most of them it was a one hit K.O. which was too bad. Especially the final battle dissapointed me a bit. Also, a couple of things just came out of nowhere. The chocobo part didn´t made much sense and then there was a big black hole all of a sudden... :s

Anyway, as for improvement stuff. The battles could be longer (like I already said). It needs a replay button and maybe a scene-selection would be nice. I think the thundaga and blind could´ve looked a little better too. And like milinko said, try to speed it up a little. That was about it.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. I liked this movie. It was well made, but there´s still room for improvement.

~Auz, Review Request Club

Paradox responds:

Yeah, I have to agree the battles were over too quickly, but they were very hard to animate, and I never expected to get such positive feedback, otherwise I would have put WAAAAAAAY more effort into everything, especially the battles.

Thanks for the review. :)

[30 hour finale]

Good collab

A bit random, like you see in most collabs, but the frame by frame animation was really cool. Some parts were really great and some parts were less good in my opinion, but every author added something of decent quality. The song was nice too.

A bad thing about this movie was that the song had a quiet intro, but you added frozenfire´s part there. The intro was not really suitable for the frame by frame and stick animation he made, so the beginning kinda sucked. You could´ve added a screen with a list of names who worked on this collab or something like that during the intro. Also, when the song ended the movie was still playing for a little while.

Something that annoyed me was that the next and prev buttons at the bios took me to a website sometimes. And sometimes they took me to the next page. That´s probably not right, you should take another look at that.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. It all looked good, but you should´ve payed more attention to when the song actually started and when the song ended.

~Auz, Review Request Club

yodd responds:

Agreed in every aspect, we were in a heavy rush, as the time limit might give away ;).

[The Newgrounds Redesign]

Good, but the drawings need some work

Lol, you really gotta work a bit on your drawing skills :) They were a little better then in most of your flashes, but they still seemed to be drawn by a 5 year old. Especially how Tom and Wade walked, that looked really bad. Only the mouse of Afro´s PC was nicely drawn, but you didn´t do that by yourself did you?

But overall the flash was quite nice in my opinion. The voices were okay, the preloader was excellent. And like most of your flashes, there´s a little story in it which is good. I really liked how it ended with Afro_Stud making newgrounds pink XD

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Well I don´t think you care much about it, but if you want to get a higher score I strongly suggest you work on the graphics :)

~Auz, Review Request Club

kinggila responds:

"but they still seemed to be drawn by a 5 year old."

O__o lol

"Only the mouse of Afro´s PC was nicely drawn, but you didn´t do that by yourself did you?"

The only help I got was getting a picture of a mouse and drawing over it.

"I really liked how it ended with Afro_Stud making newgrounds pink XD"

Tom Fulp has thought about having a pink Newgrounds layout after watching this flash.

...j/k

"Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Well I don´t think you care much about it, but if you want to get a higher score I strongly suggest you work on the graphics :)"

Better graphics, well, I improve from time to time, so eventually, I should be making flashes with far better flashes.

Thanks for reviewing this flash Auz. :D

[Axe vs Line]

Okay

I really liked the drawings. The background looked very good and I also loved the preloader. The song was also alright, but I personally don´t really like it when authors add a song that doesn´t really have anything to do with the movie.

Anyways, I think the "fight" could´ve been a little better. The axe just made a couple of spins and the line just moved over the screen a couple of times. Then the line turns into a sword, attacks the axe and then some random spaceship kills the axe and the sword... kinda weird if you ask me. It would cooler if the axe actually smashed some things while trying to hit the line. And there should be a much longer battle between the axe and sword. You should leave the spaceship cause that really didn´t made sense.

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. The graphics were good, but that really is the only good part about it in my opinion. The movie just doesn´t make much sense.

~Auz, Review Request Club

ShortMonkey responds:

Thanks for the review - I agree with what you said.