CheckEngine's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[MArio - BAd Trip]

Not Front Page material..

This was interesting, and fairly well animated, but way too short for the Front Page..

golfinho responds:

this is a GEN by ttreasure Hunt man! >: D

[Rain Loop]

Nice!

The rain effect looks fantastic, but the Newgrounds audio portal is not a place for showcasing test .swf...

Great job with the rain though, man! Very smooth, very appealing to look at!

-Enjone

Chronoraven responds:

Where is this in the Audio portal? I don't see it Dx
Your comment is confusing.

[Shadows Whispers.pt. 1]

Ugh..

You children need to stop making these damn Sonic submissions.. In my opinion, the last time Sonic was a respectable franchise was in 1994 with the release of Sonic and Knuckles. After that, Sonic became overused and lame.

The fact that you decided to animate yet ANOTHER damn sonic flash submission took off 4 stars.. Not because I don't like Sonic, but because it's way too overdone on Newgrounds. It's getting annoying.

As far as the submission goes, you took a long time with the intro credits. It got a little boring after the first 2 MINUTES. You lose your audience that way..

There was no animation other than scrolling images, and the occasional, all too familiar, DBZ hair-blowing-in-the-wind effect.

On the bright side, I did like the voice acting in this. You did recruit decent quality actors. So kudos there :)

This wasn't that impressive, and it's way overdone, hence the bad vote and rating.

3/10
1/5

Please please please apply your talent to original material!

And good luck, man! :)
-Engine

ferni2007001 responds:

Why do you look????
Nevertheless thanks for the points! xD

[Without A Mushroom]

Haha!

That was pretty funny.

I thought it was a little lame you were using the Saw theme music, but when it ended off in 8-bit I laughed.

Great job, haha!

7/10
4/5

-Engine

Sh0T-D0wN responds:

I'm eating Frosted Flakes.

[Paid In Full]

*Buzz Killington sigh*

1. Don't ever use Half-Life music (track on the menu screen) in submissions again. Newgrounds has an audio portal for a reason..

2. Invest more time in making menus. There is too much white negative space...everywhere.

3. Take an art class.

4. Motion tweening circles with horribly drawn guns is not animating. Try watching some tutorials..

I can see an effort in this man, just trying to help direct you :)

Good luck!
-Engine

Frenzy responds:

I don't use Flash, the best that I can do is this basically. What's with the 0 though?

[Rabbit is watchin' TV]

lmao!

Haha, you ass!

Nice job. Well done.

-Engine

Doctor-Gordon responds:

:-)

[Jeremy Duncan Smith]

Hehehe

This was pretty funny. I laughed out loud when Jeremy goes "WIN" when he receives mail.

ftw

I also laughed when the mailbox blew up.

The animation was really smooth.

When the envelope falls from the air, did you render that in 3D, or animate it to appear 3D? Either way it was a very smooth animation, and appealing to look at!

Good job! I hope we see more of this character soon!
-Engine

Oggy-cheese responds:

Nope it was a simple motion tween, but the movie clip was flipped so it flipped while tweening, giving the illusion of 3D. Thanks for the review!

[Retter]

Meh..

This was pretty poorly animated..

When you use images from outside flash, make sure you cut them correctly. The girl in this video wasn't cut correctly, and it showed because off-color pixels showed on her edges.

Good luck!
-Engine

xtc-alec responds:

Oh lawd

[Wheelie Whale]

Haha!

I didn't think this was going to be a good submission, but it's pretty funny!

The bigfoot animations are really smooth (well most of them). How did you go about animating that?

The voice of Wheelie Whale was pretty funny. I love the random humor, man!

7/10 Stars
3/5 Rating

Nice job, Flogtales!
-Engine

Flogtales responds:

Thanks for the comments. Bigfoot was animated with the power of MOCAP. I have access to a mocap system so if anyone wants to do a 3d movie or something I can help.

I was hoping folks like the random stuff going on. I'm actually floating this series around to see what the response will be. If it is good then I have 6 more episodes on the floor to animate and with better quality. This is a pilot episode.

Next episode Wheelie and Tank Monkey's first encounter!

[F.O.R.U.M. #2]

Not bad!

This wasn't bad!

I liked how you masked the characters.

It's easy to loop movie clips, however. Try animating. And by "animating" I don't mean more motion tweens ;)

Good luck, man!
-Engine

Kreid responds:

meh, i do "animate" now but this is an old vid :P
thx for the good luck :}