MmmYesQuite's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[An Adult with an Imagination is a Kid which Survived]

Very cool cinematic piece. Lots's of visually interesting stuff!

Now I'm about to be really critical. Your cinematography is, at times, absolutely atrocious. For example from 0:09-0:16 your establishing shot zooms in on the these random clouds in the corner when all the interesting stuff is in the opposite side of the screen; then you zoom back out and back in on a different part!?!? There's no reason to do that. All the moving around takes away from the emotion you're trying to convey... Simple is more effective - you should have had a single pan in on your character. Then in 1:44-1:54 you do a downward pan where you alternate between fast and slow moving speed. Why? It feels really ugly and there's nothing gained by doing it. I also don't understand why you chose to do a downward pan when the character is moving across the screen horizontally, lol.

That being said you do have some absolute gems that translated well. Shot at 0:19, beautiful and matches the mood of the music and ambiance. 1:13-1:22 simple yet powerful imagery. 2:06-2:17 pan upward works well with the vertical moment of the sea-monster - didn't need the pan downward before that.

You're animation work is great but your cinematography could use work. If you do some research and know the reasons why you use every shot then your feature will improve.

SkillSkillFiretruck responds:

Thanks a lot. Yeah, I agree my cinematography was all over the place at times. the 0:09-0:16; i liked how the clouds just before this shot goes into clouds. I also liked how the windmill was in the position where the boy is in the next shot (~directing the eye in a way, if they viewer was looking the windmill). Fair enough though!

1:44-1:54. You are correct XD. This was a very bad flowing part; I'm fully aware of it. I did 'that' (the fast running clip just before 1:44, and editing it in) at like the end of the whole production which I had to complete this project and move on from it for reasons. Maybe the intensity of the lighting in the clouds help it though or could of been more intense with more horizontal lighting strikes. But anyways, thanks a lot.

Thanks! more to come. Appreciate it!

[Reinaldo]

Artwork is pleasing and clean. Animation is smooth and character expressions are well projected. There's cartoons on tv that don't have as good animation as this - your work is very refreshing.

I second Nail's notion that the audio could be smoothed out more to improve the viewing experience. Good animation like this deserves good audio.

A nine minute video drawn frame by frame? That's a lot of dedication. How can I not give 5 stars? Good job!

fabianlpineda responds:

Thank you! :)

[Fay Aids scarf]

You did a good job making the market feel alive - I feel the animated crowd and ambience do a lot to achieve that. Your lead, the skeleton vendor, was funny!

willcamick responds:

AAAAH! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! I was not sure if it was funny or not because I didt get any comments so im happy some one let me know. Thank you for the epic review =)