One-Dollar's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Borzoi and puppy]

Very well animated

That was well drawn and very well animated. Nice subject matter and you made it look realistic too. You've obviously got a lot of talent at frame by frame, hope to see more in the future

[Glijbaan]

Sound?

Not bad animation, but simple drawing and complete absence of sound make this a lot worse than it could be.

[SMRPG Bloopers]

Pretty funny

They were pretty funny, especially the earlier ones. You lost a bit of graphic quality on the marshmallow one, but otherwise it was well put together. I don't think SMRPG ever came out here in Britain though, I just know the game from people playing emulators

[Sonic Armageddon Teaser]

That looks awesome

You've certainly got talent in terms of animation, if you can match it with great stories, you're going to go far. Not quite sure about the use of bitmaps for the textures of the shop - it doesn't quite match the vectors - but that's a small thing. I'll try and look out for more of your stuff

[Counting Sheep]

Interesting concept

Okay, ways to improve...

Put some more detail into, say the sheep and the grass. Make them look like they're not just 2D graphics. For the grass you could put in some individual blades here and there, especally around the bottom of fence posts.

If you're going to have the option to change background, put more than just two in. I liked the stars effect though.

The sheep animation needs to be... better. It looks like what I suspect is a tweened movie clip. You need a better running animation and a better, completely separate, jumping animation.

Some sheep sound effects? Add some reactions with the ground (like blades of grass move when the sheep land in them)?

I think the sheep should come more frequently, and have more onscreen at the same time. If you're any good at actionscript you could have a go at making sheep appear on the left after random time intervals, if not you could at least put a more random pattern in.

Have more sheep. By this I mean have sheep that look different; black sheep, sheep with pink faces, even go as far as the occasional sheep wearing a hat or somthing. It depends what mood you're trying to go with but I don't think something like this is really going to appeal to the users of Newgrounds. People are looking for action, violence, cool effects, comedy... so unfortunately if you want to be popular you have to appeal to these things.

Hope that helps

[Those halo thing facts]

Could do with a bit more polish

Fact 36 and 37 were the same, and the music was messed up. Clicking either of the buttons started playing the song, but didn't stop any previous songs from playing. You needed to add a bit of action script to stop all sounds before starting a new sound. Overall this seems a bit rushed, though no doubt fairly interesting to fans of That Halo thing, (which I haven't heard of or seen before this fact set), though I'm not sure how many there are.

Idealy, something like this would have been done as an animation with some kind of interview of the creator or characters with a dash of humour added. That would, imo score higher

[Lion Smoking]

Wonderful animation but too quiet

The animation was awesome, but the quietness of the sound combined with the echo effect made it really difficult to hear, even with the volume cranked right up. Very good work though

[My Clay House Episode05]

Good story and, as always, great action

There was a good mix of story and action in this one, and I was especially impressed with the spears flying through the air. Nice work!