Froodjakle's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Called~]

Well...

Well you asked for some help on making a good horror animation, so here it is.

First of all, your atmosphere is TOTALLY off. You used some corny chase scene music while he was being chased by the killer. With a horror scenario, you should avoid using music as much as possible.
Try using a simple ambient track in the background, and rely on using sound effects to spice up the individual sections. This gives it a much more realistic feel, because in a real life situation, spontaneous music wouldn't start playing at any moment, but instead you would only be accompanied by the silence and stillness of your surroundings, and the noises you and your pursuer make, but to add to the ambiance factor you have a quiet track in the background giving off a creepy feeling.
Also, I would suggest you try and be more consistent with your graphics and animations. Sometimes your animations were very smooth and used plenty of frames, and then other times you used very few frames for a motion, and then sometimes you used very detailed graphics for your characters and backgrounds, and other times you used very simplistic graphics for your characters and backgrounds. It was all very inconsistent, and maybe it's just my preferences, but it bothered me. Another thing about the animations and graphics though, parts of them seemed very corny, such as when the guy dropped his cell phone. Maybe it was the fact that the music started at that exact point, but I think it would've been better pulled off with the character dropping his phone and slowly starting to back away with a look of horror on his face, then running off as the "chase" begins.
Another thing you should work on is your special effects. You already noted that you aren't good at blood, but that's even MORE reason to put alot of effort into the effects, including your smoke effect near the start, which wasn't very good either.

All in all, it wasn't perfect, and it didn't feel like a horror animation, but it was far from the worst thing on the site. It has alot of areas where it can be improved, more areas than I've listed, but you've got a good foundation here - Now do something good with it. Improve it, work on your atmosphere, spice up the story, get some voice actors, and you're golden.
As a final note I'd like to say I only really mentioned the negatives about the flash - It has plenty of positives as well, I'm just leaving you criticism on the parts I didn't feel were as good as they should've been.

-Frood

[Pencilmation #10]

Great as always!

As per your usual standard, you've managed to create yet another innovative and interesting animation in the Pencilmation series. I personally am glad you've returned to using the pencil only - The hand felt out of place within the lack of color and it just overall suits the animation better, plus the pencil doesn't take up such a huge amount of space. I hope you decide to stick with it this time. Also, the animation was superb. It has a nice comically sketchy art style and the actual animation is great, everything looks good and flows well. No complaints on that part. The simplistic colors compliment the animation style nicely, and I like the fact that the background objects aren't completely stationary, and have their own little animation loop. The water animation in particular looks splendid.

However, I would like to complain about the fact that you gave your character genitalia - Or at least something similar to it. This is a series that a lot of younger people probably know and enjoy, and I don't remember anything family unfriendly about any of your other entries, and for you to add something like that into your animation just disappoints me. If you're attempting to draw in the crowd that finds humor like that funny, I don't think that's the kind of crowd your animations need - You could have just as easily drawn him without it, and it wouldn't have made it any less obvious that he was lacking a pair of shorts at that time. Overall I just think that part was crude and unnecessary for this type of animation.
My one other complaint would be the voice you used for the main character. I, personally, didn't like the fact that he was often speaking in a very audible "blah blah," I preferred the way your characters spoke in the previous cartoons. It seemed more to fit the style of the animations and it was also a bit quieter. It's probably just a matter of personal preference, but I just liked the old voices better.

Regardless of any of my complaints, it's another solid entry in the series and I enjoyed it thoroughly. 5/5 and 9/10.

Looking forward to the next one!
-Froodjakle

[Doofie]

Undeniably charming.

I loved it, from the animation, to the cute art style. You can't help but feel bad for poor Doofie.

The ONLY thing keeping me from giving this a 10/10, was that it was just a bit too predictable most of the time. A few of them I didn't see coming (the last one and the shotgun come to mind,) but overall it was fairly predictable. I also didn't find myself laughing out loud, except for number 10, but I still chuckled here and there.
No matter what, this animation has undeniable charm to it, and I'm glad I sat down and decided to watch it.

Excellent job. 9/10, 5/5.

[Kk Versus Ff-the Fight]

Wow.

The first GOOD thing to come from the existence of the FF/KK. I applaud you sir.

Hulalaoo responds:

LOL, I THING

[..: Link vs. Zero :..]

No.. just no.

This movie is a prime example of what I like to call "overrated." 4.18/5? Seriously?
This had AVERAGE animation quality, completely one sided battles, a soundtrack with lyrics and no sound effects at all, and of course, you couldn't have used Megaman Zero sprites, instead of MMX, so that the art styles of Link/Zero would've matched eachother?
You must be a link fanboy, or not have played many Megaman games. The stuff Zero goes through in his games, Link would never even stand a chance of doing. I love the Legend of Zelda series, but face it, they are WAY easier than any Megaman game has ever been. Both are great series, but if this battle actually happened, Link wouldn't stand a chance, because of Zero's speed, skill, and agility.

One of the things I hated about this flash.. Was the absolute BULLSHIT with Link going absolutely invincible at the end. NO flash movie- No, no movie PERIOD, should ever pull that. It's stupid, and it ruins what little good this movie had. Your battles were one sided, and it felt like you were rushing it along. The characters were breathing heavily as if they had been involved in an extremely long battle, after 20 seconds of the movie. For two warriors who have been in hundreds of battles like them, 20 seconds of fighting eachother would barely break a sweat, let alone cause heavy breathing and weariness..

Yes, this is a sprite movie, and maybe I'm being too harsh on you, but altogether I feel that this flash can best be described as heavily overrated. It's COMPLETELY average, in every single aspect, from graphics, to animations, to choreography, and it doesn't deserve the 4.18 rating it has now, in all honesty.

Try to actually make it feel like there's a battle going on next time.. It was just
attack-be hurt-attack-be hurt-get owned-go super-destroy enemy-battle over, with this, where as a TRUE battle would be evened out on all sides, and leave you hanging and wondering what will happen next.
4/10, 2/5.