Lesbian-Waffles's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[There She Is!! step4]

Amazing

I've loved all the Steps and it seems the depth of it is just getting better. It's rare today that you see something angsty and emotional like this that isn't teenage fluff, but actually something riddled with life like metaphors about real issues. I was a lil skeptical at first, but this 4th installment really gives meaning to all the Steps as far as story telling goes. I personally thought they were just small tid bits to enjoy, but now it really feels like there's a direction.

Great work. Finally something emotional that's actually feels fresh and worth looking at!

[GhostFight-BOS-Part1]

Very inventive

Normally like many I shun the stick figure animation and classify it as novice and lazy, but I feel you've done something extremely different and significantly raised the bar to a respectable level.

I loved the zoom features and pause, but some suggestions:
On main screen, let us know what each do, i had to replay it 4 times to even see what keys did anything (it goes REAL quick). Add a slow mo, pause, and speed up button (1 for each!). Also maybe even a quick rewind...if you could pull that off you may even be able to make a "scratch" effect with the audio and as a user really make the animation pulse with the music (Samurai Champloo anyone?)

Animation was clean, effects were awesome, choreography was immaculate and I didn't feel like I was watchin a crappy DBZ fight sequence (seriously people...powering up repeatedly is not entertaining). I don't normally hand these out, but 10/10...on a stick figure movie (wow).

[TWEEN: A Flash Odyssey]

Loved it!

Normally not one to laugh at something such a this, but the satire was dead on. A lot of flash animators abuse tweens to death and justify it as hard animation...for the record tweens have a place...but doing nothing but tweens is bad and advanced animation will rarely use it if ever. Whish the drawings were a bit better, but the concept was great and isn't that what counts?

[A Canvas And A Struggle]

VERY good!

For a week this is immaculate. While occasionally I was saddened by no secondary motion animations, upon finding out you had but a week it's a mute point. I would suggest revisiting this and cleaning up some of the art and add in some secondary motion (breathing, fidgeting, hair, etc...).

I would also suggest adding the quote IN the animation. At first I was like..."interesting...but what was the point here?". I then read your front page and THEN got the depth.

I feel if these were retouched you'll have my rarely awarded 10/10.

[Turtle Park Massacre]

Good first attempt, but needs improvement

The graphics were very decent, I specifically like the grayed out blood splatter parts. However the two issues driving this one down were two things:

1. Story...I was very bored. Nothing much happened despite some very funny dialog and great voice acting. A story is the single most important aspect of any animation - "Pixar".

2. Animation. You can draw, but your animation is very weak. Really think about how a character would move, react, etc... Also look up what secondary motion is. Animating well is even more important than good art (example XIAO XIAO has no aspect of good art, yet holds it's own simply by amazing animation).

metallica41 responds:

Thanks for the tips

[Sonic: Nazo Unleashed Part 3]

Well done for what was intended

Kind of a mixed review here. I give it a 9/10 in one aspect as it's done very well for what I assumed you wanted to make. Graphics weren't the best...but considering how long this was thats understandable.

However...the bitter part comes from the content. Dragonball Z is a horrible template for : dialog, scene set up, plot, and yes, even ACTION. Problem with templating DBZ is that it makes a very cheesy and low quality story. Every aspect of the plot is way over done and completely predictable. Also watching to characters not move, short of their mouths, is not good action. Also...it's very very unbalanced. A character will be on the edge of dieing...and then make a 180 and this will go back and fourth for an unnecessary length of time till the hero inevitably wins.

I suggest stay within the sonic spectrum and don't venture into DBZ. You have talent...don't water it down with bottom grade anime cliché.

[Highschool Blood Donor]

Great Art...weak animation

Loved the art, intensely. However the lip syncing did not grasp the great audio you had and really killed what this could've been. Add some gestures to the characters and fix those flapping mouths and you'll have yourself an amazing portfolio piece to attract even more clients.

[Metropolis Circuit]

Well done, but already done

Well animated, decent graphics, and good executions for the most part. (some animations had me going "meh" and other were very impressive.)

Only problem is it's horrendously cliché and dips into animes worst at times. If you could design some real interesting characters and drop the one liners, you could easily up the quality on this. Now you don't have to drop the anime look and what not...but traditionally anime is full of cheesy scripting, dialogue, personalities, and scenes etc... try to avoid those. Though I do favor the fact you completely evaded the inner monologue cliché.

Despite the criticism, good work and certainly worth front page.