LightningLion's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Supah Smesh - Link vs Kirby]

This has nice art and some interesting camera angles, though to me a few of the actions seemed a bit slow. Keep up the good work!

[sao]

This is not how Newgrounds works. You should only upload your own original animated content.

[Years per second]

That was simply beautiful, and it actually hit a soft spot inside me. It really shows how short each of our lives is in the grand scheme of things. The animation was fluent and the facial expressions did well in showing the characters' feelings and making them relatable.

[Alien Assault]

I'm an animator who also uses Maya.

Overall, this was pretty neat. The designs and textures were pretty good and the lighting was appropriate. If I had to offer a suggestion, it would be to add more subtle movements to the character animations. For example, when someone's head turns, what does the rest of their body do? You could add slight motion in each spine joint to make it feel more natural. Try not to leave a character completely still for any period of time; even the slightest idle motion will make it look better.

Chitch responds:

Thank you, this is exactly what I'm after!
I don't know how I missed that! I had been trying to add secondary motion into the M60 when the character lowers the weapon. The weight of the weapon pulling down and the soldier trying to correct his balance of it, so I don't know how I didn't realise I hadn't done that.
Thank you for pointing that out. I have another project I am currently working on and I'm ensuring that there is no static moments on the characters. Doubly so, now!

[Skitzo-The Buddy System]

You did a good job surprising me with that part with the rat at the beginning; that just came outta nowhere. I think you kept a pretty good balance of making it 'possessed' without going overboard and breaking the classic cartoon feel of it.

I apologize for this overused joke, but: "In Soviet Russia, dick eats YOU!"

Comick responds:

Ah thanks man! Yeah haha Skitzo has living pubes that kinda just do whatever they want! I'm not so sure Skitzo is aware of this though heh, but at least he got to eat something. Glad you liked it and thanks for watching! :)

[Mark-Fu]

As a Let's Play animation, this was quite refreshing to watch, and I like your use of shifting camera angles to accentuate the action.
That subtle film noise overlayed on top was a nice little touch as well.

[Sheep Collab!]

I'm so glad to see this is finally out! You did a great job editing our parts together, and the way a lot of the sheep were juxtaposed together kept a good pace and composition.
I'm thrilled that I contributed to this awesome piece.

[Hello Awkward]

Everybody saw that? There was only two people there!

Jokes aside, this was a nice little short, and well put together.
Though now that I think about it, you could have really played into the mindset/imagination of his embarrassment, like have a bunch of crazy eyeballs circling around and staring at him or something.

[Confusion Through Sand]

I don't think I can give this enough fives. I simply love the quality and color of the paper and the strokes, the active changes in camera perspective, the methods used to obscure certain scenes and make them more confused, and just the overall appearance of labor invested. The sound work is also great, and lends itself to the suspense/mystery/hectic climaxes in the action.

[60 Frame Collab 5]

Much better than the last one. Glad I could participate, even with school at the same time.

Zeebra responds:

With that in mind I would like to quote a few words from Adam Phillips "The more you animate, the better you'll get, because improvement is an almost guaranteed side-effect of experience." And even with all your multitasking you are much better than the last one :]