NekoMika's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Tribute to Edd]

This was quite short yet rather moving at the same time.

Nice to see that you got your start by being inspired by Edd and soon began to make your own flash animation and improving over time until you got to a style you really enjoyed working with.

The graphics are rather simple since aside from the Earth and space the rest was black and white with some text describing how Edd inspired you.

While the song is very uplifting I feel that possibly a different choice in song could have been used. Maybe something a little more ambient sounding.

Overall, wonderful tribute piece.

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[Wacky Astronomy ADVENTURE]

This was quite hilarious to watch and seeing it being a three for one flash was pretty nice.

The first part was interesting seeing as how starts randomly blew up and then there was a shooting star that went to another planet and blew up. Then we see a couple of stars fight each other on Earth for a moment before we see a technical difficulty screen.

Then it moves to a second skit where the Moon misses the Sun. The Sun is then shown destroying things with laser vision for no reason whatsoever. Then it destroys the Moon for more unknown reasons.

Then lastly it skips to just saying it would have been longer had a random angry mob not stormed into your house and told you to not make more educational stuff.

The art aside from the photographic backgrounds I saw only a couple of times looked pretty nice. Although I think at some point getting better at drawing eyes would be a good idea.

The audio for each of the three pieces was good with the last one being a sped up robotic voice.

Overall, quirky, fast, and random to say the least. Good work on this piece.

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MistyE responds:

thanks for the review

[FunnySchoolThingsR Extras]

Very nice stuff and some of it kind make nice desktop backgrounds as well. The only concern here is aside from the Outtakes and Earlier sketch pieces is that there was no sound to be heard and the credits from Funny School Things R part 2 is used rather than just overall credits for this one.

Seeing earlier pieces that would have been done a bit differently was pretty nice and comparing the first Funny School Things to the second one it was nice seeing that your drawing improved over time which makes this look better.

Aside from it being some neat little outtakes, it's alright.

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Aqlex responds:

Nice desktop backgrounds? I never really considered that xD. I do agree that a lot of the extras were fairly silent. When I did the extras for Funny School Things 2, I included an endlessly looping F-777 song, but I actually got a bit of feedback about that being annoying, so I decided to take out the endlessly looping song this time around. I guess I've got to find some other way to keep things interesting? Anyway, thanks for the review, it gave me some stuff to think about =).

[Funny School Things Redux]

I found this to be pretty funny since I can imagine some of it happening at the school I went to at least although the teachers were rather bland. So these are all based on true things that happened or just entirely word for word what happened during each skit?

The animation was pretty nice and I didn't seem to notice too much being wrong aside from all of the girls looking flat-chested despite being in high school. The one girl's panties looked pretty good although I feel the lines could have been a bit longer on the panties showing the outline of her rear a little better. Then the black guy changing to a shade of blue while the coach did nothing but stand there was pretty sad.

The audio was good although for the outside segment you could have added in light car sounds or wind in the background for it while having the bag on his head move a bit too. Some of the things said were pretty funny to say the least. Very entertaining too.

Overall, quite humorous and funny.

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Aqlex responds:

It's tough for me to say whether these skits are based on true things or entirely word for word. In many cases, I sincerely tried to recreate what I remembered to the best of my ability. Unfortunately, many of these things happened years in the past (one of these happened in 4th grade), and memory has a way of slowly changing over time and not keeping a perfect record of the events that happened. Also, while trying to stay true to the events that happened, I often changed around small things for convenience, such as the placement of certain things or cutting down some of the situations to the best parts (keeping all the boring fluff would have just made it unbearably long and boring). I feel that no matter how closely I can try to replicate some of the situations, I'll have to say that they are ultimately based on truth as opposed to being THE truth.
On the animation side, I apologize for the flat-chestedness, that's just a failure in my art skills =P. The butt drawing was something I never even drew before, so I'm glad it came out decent. I do agree that there could have been some more background sound, and that is actually something that I originally meant to do but somehow entirely spaced out on (though it would have increased the filesize and possibly increased some lag during playback).
I'm glad you enjoyed the animation, and thanks for the review!

[PsychicPeeblz]

This actually was not that bad. The music in the background just seems to make it funnier than it is. Pretty decent yet incredibly short parody.

The animation for the most part seemed to be sluggish in looks and rather slow. Then whenever something did happen it was just a few frames and nothing else really happened that was too funny aside from him falling out of his chair and puking on Oney's script for their next short cartoon piece. Could use some shading however and made to be longer.

The story seemed decent at least with psychicpebble needing money to buy Domino's Pizza and thus he gets a script from Oney which he pukes on and then uploads to Youtube. Could have been made longer by showing Oney writing the script and sending it and then showing oney and psychicpebble drawing and voice acting before uploading.

The music that was used here seemed to help make this all the more comical and more funny. Although, adding a sound for falling out of the chair could have helped too.

Overall, good parody. It has potential.

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[Parallel Memories: Ep 1-1]

Well I found this to be rather long. If I remember correctly this sprite video is now tied with that one bizarre stick flash for longest videos on Newgrounds. Congratulations on doing that!

The story seemed rather weird since it starts with that guy in a tube who makes me think of Ness a bit being experimented on to fuse Pokemon and humans together as one. It succeeds but blasts him far off into a galaxy light years away where video games and animes are real. Makes think very interesting.

Once arriving "Marichu" meets Mary and she asks him to go to a scrapyard where the script suddenly feels like it was tossed to the side since Marichu suddenly has a lot of power and just blows the planet in half which renders the series null until the one director comes in and chews you out for doing so.

I do have to agree with him though, I was enjoying the plot of the video until the junkyard battle took place. Hopefully part 2 will still have battles but they won't consume so much time and take away from the plot.

The music heard was incredibly nice and diverse. The voice acting was also good, although for Mary, I kind of picture her with a bit lower pitched voice for some reason.

Overall, very interesting and looking forward to what part 2 brings to the series.

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Pienkaito responds:

I hope, I didn't overwelm you with the lengthiness of the episode. But it seems that you still liked it.
Great summary you wrote there, but the female character is called "May" and not "Mary".

Part 2 will mainly focus on the story, so there won't be any action scenes. I'll also try my best to keep it short and limit the runtime a bit.

Thanks for the well-written review, which was expected from the RRC crew.

[Iteration]

I feel that this could use a lot of work if you were to keep it going.

I noticed that the graphics seemed to be in bitmap format giving it that old style look as if playing an older game or something along those lines where the backgrounds would like like that while exploring. Also kind of makes me think of Resident Evil 2 and 3 backgrounds.

The choice in audio was great to fit with this. Then came the voice which sadly was completely monotone and which made the flash fall flat on delivery of what you were trying to convey.

The huge problem with this flash is even with lower quality to make it faster the audio and voice are quick to desync with the animation itself. I noticed past the first line delivered that the screen kept scrolling and the second screen was almost over before the next line came and going a little further in the audio and video go rather out of sync with the audio ending way before the video does.

I would suggest watching the flash yourself and seeing if changes need to be done. Either choose a longer song and speak without being monotone or speed up how quickly each area or scene is being shown to prevent it from going out of sync, that was pretty much the only thing ruining it for me.

Overall, while the backgrounds and such are nice, the audio desyncs after a few seconds.

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DimanaTech responds:

Thank you for your review. It helps me understand how the style works and doesn't.
With your help I can deliver better projects in the future that people can enjoy.

I understand this has desync problems due to the techniques used including bitmap of the 3D models which could use a bit of CPU and RAM power. This is something that I am now aware of may have to transform such type animation done in this style into movie files instead.
Thank you for your review.

[Truth Of Osama 2]

I found this to be mindly amusing actually. Yet also kind of weird how the Osama thing was the only Soup looking character to have a head still intact on it. Then when it somehow finds where the Soups are living it is invincible and then not invincible (how did it become invincible in the first place?)

The animation was pretty smooth for this flash animation. The Soups looked well drawn and I enjoy how the backgrounds went through shading going from one color in the center of some scenes to where the color is different near the borders of the flash. Could have maybe used the blend tool a bit to make the background for the inside of the Soup place cleaner looking unless having layered squares was the way it was meant to look.

The story also seemed to be a little quirky since Osama came back to life and targeted the Soups for some unknown reason. Maybe give a little back story as to why that happens too. Also why did the Soups have to get rid of him in the first one? Nice to see in the end though that he gets defeated and just vanishes from existence while Crouton and Canned Soup enjoy that fact afterward.

The music used seemed pretty fitting too since the Crouton and Canned seemed to be having a good time setting up traps to stop Osama from trying to kill them. The effort falls flat though since he charges right on through with the bucket not falling on him and he doesn't get stuck on the green stuff either. Credit music was also nice.

Overall, interesting and nice quality flash, great work here.

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Gimmick responds:

Crouton...and Canned? Lmao. It's not Canned, it's Taco.

[Neverending Enigma]

This one seemed to be very short yet an interesting start to a music video of a Nine Inch Nails song. The way he just falls off and seems to be seeing the whole spectrum is kind of weird and then that guy getting launched off the platform did not make much sense either.

The graphics were a little different and the two seemed to be just acting out and not making much sense to me. I guess this would make sense for an odd collab since this looked odd overall. The music was nice though.

Overall, interesting collab piece.

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[Adrellia Village: School]

This did not seem to be too bad although the last one you did seemed a little different since it suddenly changed to just having their mouths open with no movement at all. I guess that was meant to be practice for adding in a voice and timing. The second one is meant to be an advertisement correct? And the first one is a short quick thing about China in 221 AD.

The graphics were pretty good although they are always the same which is great to do with a series since changing art style sometime during the series would just throw things off. Then the voices are all good as well. Nice to see sonicmega made a cameo in this one during the second project in this flash.

Overall, interesting set of three.

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