NEDP's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TakeOut: An Orion Animated Short Film]

Y'all made me log into my NG account for the first time in like a decade to leave a review.

Everything's already been said about how great this looks, but the feel and pacing are unbelievably clean here: your shots are calculated and take up the time they deserve. That kind of patience is less and less common online these days.

The creative decisions you make are what make this one pop though: the little details down to things like the cracked phone screen makes this place feel more real. Incorporating the Chinese restaurant lazy susan into the fight? So clever. The whole combat sequence felt both hi-fi but somehow right at home on NG still.

Really good work here.

[Scooby's Bizarre Adventure]

savage

you really nailed making something unique here i think and with some thanks to the camera swinging motion you got goin on (you mentioned in a response below that this was a first for working with new softwares- good work i say) and honestly it's not going to stick with some people just because it's so over-the-top but the campy anime vibe plus the totally ridiculous premise of shaggy fisting scooby doo that makes this solid as a newgrounds submission. taking dumb ideas and rolling with them brings us good shit like this so p much never change and keep developing yrself stylistically

[Pikachu on Acid]

Let me start out by saying that I've seen your toons around, from posts on reddit to whenever you make it on the front page, and each time I see a new one I get a little pumped. I'm not huge on drug culture or psychedelia, but there is a lot to be appreciated about the animation style you bring to the table. This particular short feels a bit like you're pandering here with the subject matter and what not, but still it's pretty enjoyable. The observational humor here and there (jesse & james's relationship status, brock being a pedophile, ash being an asshole) aren't really unexplored themes here, but there's still some fun to be had in how the characters interact still. Maybe this is a bit too wordy for a cartoon about pokemon, but I want to see more from you guys!

[Adventures of Dr. Lawyer]

I say sir! The cloudcuckoolander humor fits the style of the narrative so well; you combine verbal jokes with physical gags that are as fast paced as they are hilarious. There are a lot of very implicit bits that take attention to notice and add to the ability to want to watch it a second time. smart, fast, and with a lot of improvement hoss. For the most part the plot does not suffer from the style you execute with how you tell the story, but there are some parts that could be clearer, though this can add also to the re-watch-ability (tm) of it. lip-sync does get off at times (but I can say safely that I screw that up just as much) and sometimes I feel character design is either a little inconsistent or lacking (which will happen when making a cartoon with such a wide cast of characters), which takes away from the charm of your aesthetic. I want more, god damn you, more.

[Meme City]

Biting Internet Commentary

RIGHT WHERE IT HURTS. you're smacking the memenet in the face and going "hey stop that" with a charming animation that gets to a point really quickly without being too terribly earnest. Funny, smart, smooth, and concise. Hell yeah. youdabest, yotam

[Zanta Claws III]

Keeping it fresh, keeping it strange

Best installment on the series yet (: The way you subverted the conflict to make the antagonist so much more ridiculous yet affable made it a whole lot more fun to even hear him talk; Zanta included, the characters had even more charisma to them than any of your previous animations. Narrative, as a whole, was whimsical as always, and I did like all of the in-betweens you threw in there. Keep up the good work dudeeee

[Schmooper-Schmeroes]

Shmooper!

So that was some pretty great animation going on there, simplistic yet great. My only complaint about it was that the slow, fluent animation felt sort of awkward at some parts (and my one real beef with it- the part where the super-fish jumps out of the window). The plot was simple yet cutsy, and I dug it (: Keep the wacky animations a-going.

TheBoogley responds:

you have beef with fish? I had something similar last night in a chinese dumpling :3
thanks for the feedback, I'm just watched your demo reel, nice work :D