PIED3's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Peeping Tom]

Hey cool this is the first time a song of mine has been used in anything! And you used a full 3 seconds of it! The animation was a little short and simple but the punchline was somewhat funny and it sort the colours where okay i guess. You should have had a replay button that stopped the credits music so watching it 3000 times in a row would be a little easier but i managed none less. The sound effects were decent. I'll give it a biased 6.

Little-Rena responds:

Not sure why you'd want to watch it 3000 times in a row, lol, but thanks.

[Birthday Dream]

Brilliant! I feel like i say this far too often but i really did like the art style! The monochrome (monotone?) color pallete and thick blobby characters that didn't have outlines was just really very charming. I didn't like the smiling faces of the inanimate objects, they felt a little jarring especially since the human characters didn't even have faces! However the highlight for me was the animation. Great timing and sense of motion, fbf at it's finest! A bit of resizing here and there but mostly great. Especially the nicely choregraphed scenes with the two characters interacting.
The cinematography was neat too, the over the shoulder shot of the window and some well used pans and zooms really gave it a cinematic feel. However i didn't like the really zoomed out flying shots. They felt a bit cheesy and "supermanesque" and i much preferred the close up in your face shots of the characters.
The music was nice, shame it was longer than the animation and ended kind of abruptly! The concept was nice, the story was well paced and full of fun moments and the ending tied it all together neatly. I watched it 4 times before writing this review as i liked it so much, so it's a 10 from me!

["The Worst"]

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said "'Winter' is Seasame street in comparison".
But not only did this massively exceed it in terms of gratuitous gore and grotesqueness but also in artistic merit and beauty. Right from the opening shot of the building it was obvious this was going to be something special. The lighting, colouring, animation and art style are all superb. The swollen sacks and crimson contusions of the gruesome creatures are so well drawn it's impossible not to reel back in horror. The scenes were made all the more vile by the laughter of the onlookers and the lack of sound effects. Somehow those grinning fleshy faces contorting in amusement were horribly magnified by the lack of audible laughter. I wasn't a big fan of the music but it certainly fitted with the theme of the animation.
All in all an astoundingly well made animation with a unique feel and mood that has me replaying it over and over. Excellent work!

Sherbalex responds:

i dunno about the beauty but i sure hope there's merit

[Mom's Day]

Short but sweet as they say! The presentation was all nice and the play button was fun. The art was okay and i liked the colours but it was a little simplistic and blocky. The voice acting seemed decent but i couldn't hear the second line over the clapping. The concept was cute and it made me smile, so if that's anything to go by... good job!

[Days Of Yore 2]

I watched this the day it was realesed but seeing your impassioned grieving at lack of views i thought i should give it a review... because it's all round great! I like your art style a lot, the characters are fun and full of life and the block colour backgrounds have a suprising professionalism to them thanks to their clean smoothness. The voice actingw as spot on, amusing satyrs of the vocal style of the period and this wonderful delivery combined with the excellent script and dialogue had me laughing throughout. The ending especially cracked me up, some how the accents make the insult even more amusing.
And i'm yet to speak of your charming animation! Really smooth and bouncy, a nice blend of tweens and fbf. I think some of the facial expressions and arm stretching were a bit too over the top, or atleast a bit over used. It's really just a matter of preference but i think the wacky expressions lose their comedic effect when used almost constantly. I liked the concept and the pacing was fast enough to remove any of those awkward pauses animated comedies sometimes have.
All in all i thought it was very funny and well executed!

molkman responds:

Thanks for the great review. :)

I was pretty shocked at first when I put it up on NG and it totally fell off the radar with NG freezing.

[Small Talk]

Should put a preloader in there because having it automatically start is a little annoying. There should also be an end screen with a replay button so it doesn't repeat in a mind mashing loop for eternity!
Technical details aside though it was a nice animation. I don't really like it when people just grab a funny audio clip and animate something over the top but for what it is you've done it well. I like your art style a lot. The soft colours and thing lines give it a laid back appearance that fits perfectly with the tone of the audio clip. The animation was a little static and whilst the lip synching was decent the facial expressions could have been a little more varied. Sure they widened there eyes and closed them whilst laughing but a bit more motion would have been nice.
I liked the various animals you had playing the roles and that added another comedic element that stopped the joke getting too stale. As a whole despite not really liking the concept i thought it was decent, definitely a nice art style.

MrKwai responds:

Thanks very much, yeah sorry about the preloader and stuff im a newgrounds noob, but thanks for all the feedback nice to hear some input :)

[Robot Love episode 2]

First things first, it's good that you have a preloader but the play button is a little osbscure. It apperas to be a small pebble? It's hit area is also a little wacky.
And after pressing that, why does the animation stop again on the title screen? This seems a little unnecessary, pressing play once should be enough to watch the whole movie. Again, the play button is literally the title and this is a little obscure too, there are no roll over effects and it's hit area is the same size as the actual text. It required skill to get the movie going again! Always make sure you have large hit boxes for all your buttons and atleast some roll over effect (no matter how subtle).
As for the actual content it was decent. You have a clean artstyle and the black white (whilst a bit bland) looked nice enough. The red hearts & kisses were a nice touch. I liked the background music, though you should have credited the author (even if it's you!).
The concept was a little strange, two robots floating on a cloud meet each other and fall in love? Well okay! But perhaps a little more explanation could make it more engaging. Why were they floating on clouds? What made them attracted to each other? Something at least that the viewer can relate to.

Oh and seeing as you like robots, you might like to know it's Roboy Day on July the 10th and if you submit a robot animation then you enter the side wide competition. Perhaps you'd like to spend the time and make a longer, more plot driven robot animation and release it then? Just a thought.

Keep it up!

DIRLON responds:

Well the thing was with the loader I really got messed with that thing so I thought what the hell who cares its all about the animation, and we are planning to do more of those things and next time it will be longer no worries.

Thank you!