NekoMika's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Reaper's Blossom]

Reaper sure is jamming out for his ultimate. :o

[Pipesqueak]

Incredible visuals and good audio too! Would not mind seeing a game based around this concept either. The visuals remind me of some of the Yume Nikki worlds too.

[Sakura Waterfall Mists Loop]

Seems pretty decent. The only thing I would have recommended changing is having the tree limbs move slower rather than quickly. Hope your skills continue to improve over time.

BlackUniGryphon responds:

Thanks for taking the time to write me a thoughtful, heart felt, and honest comment. I really appreciate that. <3

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There's a number of things I wanted different with this one. I did it back in 2017, and literally NO ONE at UMASS Boston knew how to do it, nor how to help me, and my finals were due in like 2-3 weeks at the time, and the instructor wasn't teaching anything so I was trying to help my classmates (because I'm older than them and the same age as the instructor) which was what he told me to do, but then when they came to me for help, and treated them like a team, he got mad, jealous, and yelled at me.

Still learning this stuff, and no adequate teachers or mentors with this stuff anywhere. Most tutorials are from outdated versions of After Effects, and each update since 2014 can often drastically be different with scripting and other things, plus anyone that DOES make demos and so-called tutorials just PRESUME you know what they're talking about like they do, which makes NO SENSE.

But, they're always disconnected from other areas of interest regarding the software.

I find, also, that MOST persons whom self profess to be proficient at After Effects are rather fraudulent, and misrepresent their abilities NUMEROUS NUMEROUS times over, because in actuality they have a bias or niche pet favorite zone of application. Like, EITHER they specialize in ONE of these areas, but not the others: Motion Graphics, VFX/Video Editing, Cartoons.


So, people using After Effects very heavily for just Motion Graphics like news & sports seem to have NO IDEA about things like track mats, or Trapcode, or particles. Then, people that are all about the VFX kind of speak their own language, so when you ask them about cartoons, they speak some gibberish then vanish because they don;t know how to answer your questions, plus they're snobby and "cartoons yuck".

Then, 3D animators are utterly clique-ish and can't be bothered to actually humor you at all when ANOTHER 3D artists arrives, PLUS they're SO Maya biased. They're all like: Yeah, After effects is GREAT, but when you ask them ANYTHING 3D related in After Effects they know NOTHING, and then they're like: Well, I don't really use it much, or I didn't renew my Adobe CC Subscription.


Good LUCK getting ANY help with Cinema 4D in After Effects, because even asking Adobe's own forums and you get crickets.

GOOD LUCK finding ANYONE on Twitch using any of those. They''re all like : Well, I like Maya.

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Anyways, I'm basically cold and alone out in the wilderness learning all this stuff.

But, hopefully, I'm improving. These things take time, but I working on it all the time.

[LoL-Zoe-HIT OR MISS]

Solid animation, kind of wish it had been longer but I understand it is to keep it short like the original audio clip and video that made the song super well known.

[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Reanimate- Scene 300]

No context but very damn well done. I look forward to seeing the overall reanimated collab. Will there be any plans for it to be uploaded here as well?

superspyro3000 responds:

I will ask the collab host if that's a possibility. I hope it will be though

[The "Clock" 1 of 4]

Starts off innocent and then the clock gets angry. If you pay attention when the top layer clock is slowly fading, it looks like it is giving the red-eyed clock underneath fangs for teeth; yikes. ;-;

[Trapeze Bunny]

I can tell you put a lot of time and effort into making this short piece. The amount of detail and how fluid the animation is is fantastic. I look forward to seeing more and maybe even longer pieces of work from you in the future. Great background music too!

[It's spooky month]

Quite a spooky month indeed. XD

[FLEX CALIBUR]

This was pretty damn good and enjoyable. The animation style reminds me of several cartoons of the late 2000s.

The music was great. That being said, is there plans to upload any of it the audio portal or was the music produced exclusively for this animation with no intent to release the songs elsewhere whatsoever? I do not mind if it is released as a bunch of short songs or just one long ballad honestly; the music was great. :D

One thing I will point out (not sure if it was intentional or not), that "2017 song" sounded more like a pop song that pop rock or metal, I probably missed the joke though.

The animation itself had no odd issues so that is always good. The live-action mix at the end was also good. I was baffled for a moment and thought the background animation style had changed until I saw RicePirate dressed up as a viking letting Flex know of a way back to Valhalla.

The voice acting was great as well. There were times I felt maybe adding an additional voice would have been good but upon rechecking, it sounds fine as it is. Fantastic vocal range as always from RicePirate.

Overall, this was awesome, and I like how it teases it as being the start of a series, only other question is do you plan to continue this series or is this a type of one-off pilot minisode of sorts?

[Wind Waker Animation Remake]

Nice to see how far along you have come with animating, the 2018 remake looks much smoother and more fluid overall. :D

BlueBandanaJake responds:

Many thanks, happy to see that my efforts have amounted to some good growth!