LightningLion's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Skull Mountain]

Nice little story.

Drawing could use some of improvement, but that's about it. Also, add a play button so it doesn't loop over. Other than that good job!

[LL - Munchies]

Boners Noodles and Gays Chips

Lol I like stuff like that you have to stop and zoom in to see. I don't see it too often tho.
Overall, nice movie. I liked the gruesome faces too. Looking forward to pizza.

[Tony Rough]

Not Bad

I liked where he played Rebecca Black's "Friday" (piece-o-shit) to mess with the guards.
Here's a tip tho: when you use music, be sure to crop it with another software, because if you just crop it in Flash, it'll still use the whole file size in the movie (It took me a while to figure this out, so no biggie).

Rafiles responds:

Thanks for the tip! first time i used sounds and music in flash and it really killed me. after lots of tries it still went wrong:O tip are always welcome!

[Skits]

If you're serious about Flash...

1. Come up with original skits or an original story. I've seen this stuff already, and a lot of it was extremely predictable.
2. Actually spend some time on the character drawings. Just using black lines is cool, but at least make them look smoother and less crude.
3. When you use colors, try to make more natural colors, at least for things such as the animal's diarrhea. No creature on this green Earth defecates perfectly green. Experiment with the hexidecimal system.
4. Perhaps some backgrounds might shed some more light on the scenario and the setting. Although not technically necessary, it will boost your score and the overall presentation.
5. Practice some simple animation (and not just an object tweened across the screen). Your flash, for the most part, is basically a slide show with sounds attached. At least make an effort to lip sync the speech, and close one person's mouth when another person is talking.
6. Expound upon your stories. This means, add more to it, cuz one part was just 'the squirrels are back' and cocking a gun. I figured there would be more to that story, but I was sadly disappointed. Same goes for the free prizes inside part and the playing minecraft until 4 am thing.
7. Make an effort to alter your voice when making speech for different characters. They don't have to be all different, just make it so that two people talking to each other don't sound exactly the same. I only heard two different voices in the whole thing.
8. Instead of making the excuse of putting the (crudely drawn) text 'Transition Thing', you should actually make some kind of transition. You would only have to do it once, so it's not a lot of work.
9. Attempt to give the work a better and more unique title than 'Skits' and also add a title page with a play button for this, and at the end, a replay button so it doesn't loop over and over again. If you need help making a button, there should be tutorials on this site or flashkit.com or with the software.
10. Give us a better description than 'lalalalalala'. It really doesn't tell us anything about the flash, except that you really aren't taking it seriously and that it should be blammed.
11. I noticed the gun in the second skit had a chunk chewed off of the barrel. Be sure to check for stuff like this. Also, one of the sounds drug on past the 'transition thing' later on.
12. You should count yourself lucky that this wasn't blammed. I hope you take these low scored reviews into consideration when/if you make another attempt at a flash movie.

[Wheelin' Across the World]

Things wrong with this movie:

Drawings weren't very good
Motions were choppy
If you're gonna use music, crop the part you're actually gonna use with a sound editing software so it doesn't keep playing after the end and then the flash file will be smaller. I recommend 64 kbps on export settings for the flash.
If you're gonna use jpegs, dumb down the quality so the flash file will be smaller.
And don't give the viewers epileptic seizures before the movie even starts.

Themindofamaniac responds:

Ight

[Teh Annoying Orange]

I kinda like where you're going with this...

...but you should make the story longer (and maybe less offensive to americans, I'm not sure). That's a common problem with new submissions is that they're too short. You animated the faces pretty well though, I'll give you that.

W-P-S responds:

:D :D :D

[Scorpion's Rage Episode 1]

I thought this would be crap...

...but I was dying of laughter the whole time. It was nice and long, too, and didn't disappoint. I'll be waiting for the full flash version. DON'T! DRINK! COKE!

[How Art Students work]

All that for a crummy cat?

haha. but one thing you should've done was add a stopallsounds() code on the last frame so the music doesn't drag on.

[LARRY episode 2]

I'm surprised...

there wasn't a gay joke with the 'yes' guy. Also, the daffy duck thing was priceless.

[Pokemon: Fated Encounter]

Holy crap, that was epic!

Love the DBZ style pokemon fight. I wish the real show was like that. I guess if there's anything to improve on the next one, increase the frame rate to 30. I could tell it wasn't that high (no big deal tho)