Preternatural's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[History of Japan]

Hey, I've seen this style before?

You seem to have been inspired by the author of this movie (not bad, I have it in my favorites):
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /195837

Also, the graphics were not that ugly. Ok, not ugly. It lacked music though... :(

I hope you get a good score on that history class project!

[Leisurely Ragtime]

Why is it always so good?! aaaaaaaarrggh.

These movies don't make ANY SENSE. Are the dudes MAD or something?

BTW needs more blood. Like, at least 300 pints of it.

[Xombie Chapter 10]

Buuuhhhh. Again? already?

Ha, ha ha ha! Grand ending! and opening for the next episodes, too! Stunning visuals etc. etc.

Short, but that was expected.

[Ng Mod Meat 2007]

FABULOUS!

Games, cool people (except poxpower, what a douche amirite?), booze, danmalo's tits... a dream come true.

What I'd give to go there even once... :(

BTW, nice concept.

poxpower responds:

How about

ONE

MILLION

DOLLARS

MWAHAHAHAHAHA

[Mario's Awesome Adven. 2]

Not a sprite hater, but

Was that movie supposed to be funny? Was there a single joke in that movie? Why does Luigi like to swear so much? Because you're 13 and it shows in your movie.

I hated how after each click there was an audio clip playing; it got irritating real quick. It was nicely done but the content is shit. Do something about it or don't submit again.

Also, +8MB for this? This movie's file size should be about 1.5 to 2 megs tops. Use streaming audio and a decent compression, it should fix the problem.

Bomber109 responds:

Yes. (Luigi Walks It Out, parody of The Sims...) Oh, and my next will not have swearing in it.

Actually, it's before each click. And actually, would you rather have no sound? I've never had anybody complain about this before.

Do you like to have music while you read the dialogue? If the answer is no, then you have a problem on your hands, because, 99% of all people like it playing in the background. Creates a mood.

[Luis Day Song]

omg

Luis is a great guy.

I approve. Drinks and beer and shit. Luis is awesome.

Looking forward to Luis Day.

BTW I liked the Flash.

[SSBM: The Knee]

Critic

It's a cool move, but chances are this move won't work too good on more advanced opponents. If your opponent doesn't know how to recover from a hard fall to the ground, then yes it can be used for a combo.

Afro-Ninja responds:

Jokes aside the knee really is the primary KO move for Falcon, advanced play or not. A lot of examples shown here wont work because they can be tech'd out of, but when you combo well with falcon it's almost always a setup for the knee

[Blue Red Ninjas Ep1]

Less blur, more fluidity.

Flash no good. Flash too graphic intensive. You no good Flash artist yet if no know this.

[Madness Consternation]

Another one bites teh 5

Holy fucking shit on a stick, moar violence alright. You got some new skills since last time, and your work is as impressive as ever... you make me jealous and each time I see an episode coming out, I asplode with joy, but I want to die a little on the inside...

He got beat up pretty bad. Jesus got rid of his vandetta and the zombie clown is no more. But, LE GASP! New shadowy figures! New plot device! omgomgomg can't wait.

Is there a DVD out yet or are you going to wait until the next two episodes? :S

Violence : 7/10 cuz teh blood wasn't realistic enuf lol

[Drowtales 6th bday ending]

What was that? How?

That's weird; the drawings looked like they've been drawn in Flash (or better, Adobe Illustrator) but when I zoomed in I could tell this movie was in fact a video file. So the question I'd like to ask you is : why "convert" a vector animation file into a plain movie file?

Was it because it was too graphic intensive? Like hair and eyes always moving around?

Was it because of that "little touch" that Flash just can't recreate? Like those little pixels created from the compression that makes the movie look more... anime?

Or is there another reason I'm missing here? I'd like to know more about your technique.

touched responds:

I would never intentionally degrade the picture to make it appear like an older form of media. I know people do that, but I don't think it's a good thing. The graphic intensity is a part of it, or rather would have been if not for the larger problem. As I mentioned before, I'm using AS, and the SWF export is a bit buggy, resulting in a lot of shapes disappearing and it doesn't handle masking or gradients properly. That, and since I was also using a lot of raster effects in the other parts, I just exported the whole thing to raster.