Nylo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Foamy's Rant 2 : Foamy The Squirrel]

Agh, that draws the line.

Dammit, so you started cranking out some really good foamy flicks and went back to your old way again. Nothing changes in these sorts, for some reason he keeps poking his head halfway out of the screen like he's going somewhere...but he's not. And wtf was up with that "learn english" bullshit at the end? I don't normally let political jargin get in the way of voting, but you really hammered it in there. Don't you know it's not America that's conforming to foreigners??? It's the busiensses, they purposely put that shit on drinks and whatnot to get their money. If you wana bitch about anyone for coffee language, bitch about the corperations, not the immigrants, for fucks sake. I only docked you one point for that bullshit, otherwise, it's just average because nothing really changes with the series.

[:::The Human Mind:::]

Pretty cool.

While there's not much animation in this or real "plot", it kind of carries it's own. The music is a big helper in this, though I have to ask why you didn't cut the music down; it lasts well over 7 minutes. The snow globe was an awesome touch. Pretty cool movie, nice job.

[Link Vs. Cloud]

Excellent work.

How in the bloody hell did Leetful give this a 2??? He stomps on your hard work by proclaiming that you did little to animate your characters when you put in a hefy amount of different picturse to capture kicks and whatnot; besides, his only movie submitted is a sprite movie. Not saying that those are bad, but to put it simple, I make Class visuals with sprites when a huge project is due withing 12 hours, simple as that.
Anyways, to your movie itself, while the plot wasn't star-dashing, your fighting sequences mixed with that music sure were. Having the characters continously moving (the legs mostly) looked like they were truly trying to size eachother up and struggle to hold their own. I like what you did with this movie, and as another viewer said, like how you didn't give everything away in your trailer. Nice work with this; must push to blue ranking!!!!

[smoke kills]

Ha ha, nifty.

That was pretty cool, awesome visuals and sound track. The one thing I thought was awkwardly funny with the movie is that you had San Fransisco city all the way up on the US map in, like, Washington State, lol. Anyways, funny stuff. Nice work.

[School Sux TRALIER]

It was alright.

It was ok, but it didn't really show me what any future episodes will be like. Nice character drawings and concept, maybe I'll see the final product some time in the future.

[The Original Hunt: Pt. 1]

Thought that was gonna be utter crap..

..but that turned out bad-ass. What wasn't all flashy in visuals was made up for in style and humor; that baby scene was hilarious. Great job, I'll have to check out your other works sometimes soon, too. Great job, funny stuff.

[FAILED]

It's alright.

Nothing too fancy, but some of the visuals (i.e. the static screens and the robot) looked pretty cool. The story was kind of vaugue, but the overall factor is decent.

[...........]

Agh, could have been great.

The movie was really informative, BUT the text just goes by WAY too fast. I had to try and read really fast before it went away and sometimes the text blended in with the background or was just way too small. Even an automated voice like the CC uses would have been better than trying to speed read and crunch details. While I don't truly think America is the next Nazi Germany, you made some really good points in the movie; if only they were portrayed a little clearer =) Good movie and good Author comments to let people konw you're not just making this to start pointless anger. It was pretty interesting.

[Zelda: The Damage of Time]

In dire need of a few touch ups.

Hmm..well I'm going to try and be as constructive as possible in this review and try to recommend a few things that might come in handy for your next movie. I hate to vote bad on a movie that goes over the 2 minute thresh hold because I know Flash is a painstaknig procedure.

First of all, your visuals are very very static which makes for sluggish movie flow. Just having still-sprites moving across the screen makes it feel like those old videos they show in history class when the camera focuses on a page in a book and shakes the camera around, adding shooting effects, to make it feel like the viewer is there; not very effective. Not to say that this can't be fixed. Try finding some sprites that move, there are definitely moving sprites of Link you can incorperate into the movie. I know it's a pain to line all the different frames up, but the result is much better than static sliding images.

The audio choice WAS good, but I would highly recomend streaming it. Since there was no preloader the movie just started up and I couldn't stop the music. Streaing the audio barely lowers the quality and it makes it more user friendly for both dial up and cable users, just in case they want to rewind.

No interactivity, try downloading a preloader here on NG; they're pretty spiffy.

Here's where your story comes in. Your diolouge is alright, but it's those character portraits that are killers. Zelda (garnet?) and Link (Cloud) photos kind of take away from their effectiveness as characters in the story. The RPG format as a means of battle IMMENSELY detracts from flow. I hate to knock that for being a detriment to your movie since it's the movie's style, but it just makes things take much too long and feels like we're being cheated out of real action. I suppose it might work if you movie the spells and sword slashes a bit faster..basically speed is the key factor in the fight scenes.

Try watching some sprites movies, most notably 8-bit theater, to see how people have worked with RPG format style fighting. Also, try to center your backgrounds on the screen, they wbere lopsided in some screens and the stage of Flash was showing. Just keep on trying, practice will make you better in time and maybe move you out of sprites into character drawing animation sooner than you think. Hope that helps some, good luck.

[New Worlds ep1]

Uhhh...it was alright....

It was ok, but wow, the file-size on this sucker is huuuuuuge. You've got to find a way to lower that if you're going to be dishing out movies of the same quality in longer-length featurs. The music was so-so, I just didn't "feel" it with the given story line synced with that music. I guess most of the emptiness comes from no exposure of plot from the movie itself. The way you portrayed your distance between other ships was pretty cool, but since there was little fighting and small exposions it felt like it was building up to something really cool that never happened; most likely from having to cut off the movie so quickly. It looks alright, if you could lower the file size more, get some plot exposure, and more action I think you'd have something really cool on your hands. Good luck.