MarkP0rter's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[thingshappen (dm)]

Great artistic stuff with nice creative ideas

alright alright i am really annoyed by this but then we all know newgrounds is kinda stupid. 4 replies only? COME ON PEOPLE THIS IS AWESOME!
I wish I would have found it earlier because then I would have submitted it to Nudegrounds Treasure Cunt but oh well I just found it when I saw one of your drawings on the front page. Epic work on that one - shame you can NOT favourite ART on Jewgrounds but then like I've said it's run by idiots so that explains why there isn't an "add to favourites" button for drawings.

anyways impressive work for your first flash cartoon. it shows a lot of wicked ideas. I love the line strokes in it, how fluent and smooth it is and how subtitle the colours are. The great and soft ammounts of white and light colours are great eye candy. I suck at writing reviews but at least I made it way longer with a pointless rant about stuff just so it will look like a big review which this movie deserves lol

oh BY THE WAY this really motivates me to touch up flash again and PLEASE feel motivated and make more animation. I would just love to see more of your stuff. Also great work on your own music.

datamouth responds:

"Nudegrounds Treasure Cunt " <===== awesome.

thanx MarkPorter! this is probably the best review i've read on any of the things i posted! dude i totally love animating, it's just kinda time consuming. or i must suck at the process. but i'm working on a new one, which will be like a full on music vid for one of my songs. hopefully i will finish it before i die.

anyways, thanks for the review and all the kind words man. one of the reasons i joined this site was to find inspiration but more importantly motivation. which you have totally given me in this review.

so fuck yeah man get back into flash! make whatever. just make stuff! thats what i tell myself everyday. you shold make a game where Sonic kills Dracula. do it bro.

anyways again, your stuff rocks. he 2006 year review is AWERGHSHUMMM.

thanks again man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[a letter to Santa Claus]

i thought it was good

thats kind of the stuff i want to see on newgrounds. thats why i come here. it was done in a nice style, was simple and was a nice little joke. not one of those big stupid animations that try to take themselves way too serious while they are just a load of crap. i enjoy it.

[Future]

boldly go where no man has gone before

You know a picture says a thousand words and I just don't know how to do your movie justice with some lousy words. I am honestly trying my best to give people a review that isn't just two sentences or even worse just two words. It doesn't seem fair to me. People take their time and put a lot of effort into their animations and what do they get back? Half assed comments. An acrobat in a circus lives for the applause he gets and I think for an animator the reviews he receives are very important. It lets him know what people think about his work and shows him if it was worth all the hard work or not but watching your movie...I could just write so much and invest a lot of time into this review but I feel like I just dont do justice to your movie because it's so incredible outstanding. I have seen a lot of Flash animations but DAMN this one WOWed me so much. I remember when Adam Philips showed up the first time and everybody was like WOW OMFG just because of his amazing skills. He showed people what was possible in Flash but SHIT your movie hit me even harder than Philips does now. He does very awesome hardcore frame by frame animations but the stuff I saw in your movie...I just didn't know that this was POSSIBLE in flash. I always thought "DAMN how is he doing that?" is he using the 3d feature from CS4 but you did your movie in flash 8. I have NO CLUE how you rotated some parts of your city that 3d like. It's impressive you can get this result with the normal transformation tool. I first also believed DAMN THIS LOOKS SO 3d- especially the top view of the whole city- he MUST HAVE used some 3d program but NO "Didn't used any 3d program to it, everything was done with Macromedia Flash 8." that REALLY hit me hard and amazed me so much. Just what you got OUT OF FLASH you know. Seriously using EVERYTHING the program offers- to its limits- animationwise. I would just LOVE to see what you can do with CS4. Your movie showed a great ammount of detail and there are so many hidden details/gems in it that just makes me wanna watch your movie a lot of times and observe all the stuff I didn't notice the first time. I laughed about the "YA RLY" sign and I'm wondering how many spotted it. It's cool how you have Tron bikes in it and the whole look of this Flash is so outstanding. Those neon colours with scan lines - everything fitting to the beat and always something in the background being animated to the beat. Just outstanding!

[How Darnell Saved Kwanzaa]

best shading ever

the most important thing at the beginning: im quite sure you will be a winner for the christmas competition- thats for certain.

"Alot of time went into this one." I think everybody can tell when watching this movie and I tell you what: It was worth all your time. This movie was pure eye candy. That shading is really outstanding and I'm wondering if you do pixel art. It looks like the shading I'm used to see on very good pixel sprites. It was colourful and nice to look at so graphics wise this movie is outstanding. The voices could have been better but that's mostly because the microphones you've used weren't that good and fuck it. You are an artist and animator so I can't anybody expect to have super expensive microphones. I could hear that the voices are hilarious and Darnel's voice just made me laugh so much. Thanks a lot for taking the time and adding the subtitles because even though the audio wasn't the best it wasn't a problem at all anymore because you've added those subtitles. I still don't know what Kwanza is all about but that doesn't matter because I got highly entertained by your animation. The title fooled me though. He doesn't save Kwanza at all lol. I hope there will be a sequel in 2009. Good work!

Gonzossm responds:

Thanks alot for this review. Yes i used to do pixel art. I spent everyday working on this animation literally full days. Yea I had trouble finding voice actors but im satisfied with how the end result was. There will definetly be a sequel thats why I kept the snowman alive ;)

[The Headache]

awesome short fitting to the beat

this is a WONDERFUL flash animation. i have to admit first i didnt want to write a review for this because i didnt know what to say besides "GREAT JOB" and just writing 2 words as a "review" is just so lame and makes me feel VERY BAD considering the amount of time it has taken you to create this song and the animation but when i saw the review under mine- the guy who gave this movie just a 2- i couldnt resist anymore. how can you be just so ignorant and give such a great piece of work just a 2? you deserve a kick in your balls if you give this movie a 2. to be honest i can see why people probably dont like it- why they dont like the song but this movie has got some wonderful frame by frame animation- its mostly frame by frame- i think the only tween i saw was the punching arm tween - and we all know that frame by frame animations are a HORRIBLE PAIN IN THE ASS so the amount of time and effort you have put into this just shows and it was all so worth it. ive enjoyed every single frame of it. you use colours really great and its nice to see how the colours change to the beat and set the right mood. your characters are unquie and outstanding and just lovely. they have got big noses and everybody who knows me knows im a sucker for wacky cartoon noses. the timing in this movie was just awesome and shows some great animation knowledge. i mean first its all very fluid and frame frame frame fame and then when he is getting the bills its like frame - stop stop stop - next frame - stop stop. if you know what i mean thus creating a wonderful rhythm and then it jumps to being fluid again so this jump/switching between fluid and a bit cut off is very cool. i also love how he is floating through the door. nice work and keep it up!

Nogfish responds:

thank man, that is one awesome review, I'm glad you liked it so much.

[Charlie and Santas Secret]

nice work

pretty lovely movie. keep up the good work, i was entertained by it and i thought the animations and story are sweet. imquite sure this will get daily top 1- i think even front page and you deserve it :) ive to admit the scene were santa is talking to the boy. the whole moving around the camera deal...i know it was supposed to look cool and i know its a pain in the ass to do but i suggest dont do it the next time. it looked a bit blah and not as awesome as it should have looked, also...if i keep on being a little bitch i think the audio could have been a bit better in some cases. i dont expect anybody to have great mics and stuff. in the end we are just animators but sometimes santa was too silent or just hard to understand which is not the fault of the mic. anyways keep up the good work. just pointing out some things for the next time :)

SimonG responds:

Alright, thanks!

[Santa's Preachings]

Wonderful short you should check out!

This was one of the funniest Christmas cartoons I have ever seen. I don't want to spoil anything with my review for people who haven't see it but DAMN Santa biting that one little girl was so random and I just didn't expect it and it just made me laugh so badly. I don't even think I spoil anything with giving away this information. I've seen this flash so many times by now already because it just cracks me up and the angry Santa biting that little girl makes me laugh every time I see it. Overall this flash has got a great comedy value. The hilarious animations aren't the only thing why this flash is so funny. This flash also features some outstanding and great voice actors who are so damn skilled and just know what they are doing. Their great voice work puts a lot of life in those animated characters and it just works- great voice acting combined with lovely animations. It's also outstanding Santa is playing a song on the guitar. Somebody played a guitar song for this flash so thumbs up to the guitar player as well. Wonderful short you should check out!

Lalo responds:

If i could have a "favourite reviews" list i'd totally put this one at the top 8D thanks man!

[Boogley Bus Stop]

outstanding animation not so outstanding story

Only 138 reviews? This is kind of a shame to me. I honestly feel like telling you it was good work and you have to keep up the good work but mostly I don't write reviews because I don't know what to say. Just saying "cool", "great work" feels lame to me. You know you work your ass off and create something like that and just a plain "cool" doesn't justify for the hard work you've put into it- I don't know if that even makes any sense. I wasn't quite certain when writing it but I'm sure you get what I mean. So anyways this must have been a terrible pain in the ass to animate. BOY those characters movements are so fluid and smooth. Is it rotoscoped in any way? I also love the facial expressions of the character. Just lovely. I'm not quite sure if I get the story. Grumpy guy sitting on a bench being all grumpy and people guy comes around to cheer him up with success and the blue guy will "brighten up" and changes it's colour just like one of those mood rings or what? That's at least the way I see it. If you want me to be a little bitch I can tell you that the sizes of the characters change all the time and suddenly they are way smaller than the bench for no particular reason at all but that didn't bother me at all. I have to admit I'm incredible impressed there are actual cartoon/animation clubs in REAL LIFE. I thought all this would only be going on on the Interwebs. Sounds like a fun club and something that motivates you a lot to participate since real life feedback is always great than lame internet comments. If I was living there I would so go every time. So how long did you actually work on that animation? Would have taken me 3 month ha. So yeh I hope this review justifies.

TheBoogley responds:

Thanks for such a huge detailed review, I'm proud to have made such an impression on you. I made it over a period of about three weeks, working on and off in between other stuffs. Yeah, I do get a bit carried away and lose the proportions of the characters a bit. I'll try to keep a closer eye on that in future.

[The Sicksons]

i dont blame you- i blame newgrounds

you just made a movie for the fun of it and thats totally cool. its always great to see people who enjoy creating something. i think the art was traced in pretty much every case but bart- i dont really know about the humour either. homer's voice was okay i would say.

anyways there is one thing that is KIND of bothering me but you are already aware of it yourself so you seem like a cool person to me and like ive said i dont blame you.

"FRONT PAGE FOR THIS HUNKA CRAP?! "

thats pretty much what i was thinking myself and once again it proves my point that tom fulp is a moron. now why did you get front page? two simple reasons: 1) tom fulp is a moron 2) you made fun of pop culture so as long as you keep on doing fun of Mario, Zelda or in this case The Simpsons there will be enough people who will like it. It's a crying shame.

Also the music was way louder than the voices which was fucking annoying. Background music is supposed to be in the background and not in the foreground.

[Dry Stone Walling]

Beautiful

There isn't much I can say about this but "Beautiful". I nearly cried at the end. I think the note and flowers did the job already very well- showing that somebody put a tombstone for him and cared. There was no need for showing what was actually written on the note. But this is only my opinion and doesn't add anything negative to the movie- it works great with and without the text. When watching this movie I also thought "BOY this is long". Thumbs up for keeping up with this and actually finishing it. I've started so many music videos and gave up after 2 minutes because it was just killing me but you don't give up so big respect for that. The end made me think of About Schmidt. I assume the music in the movie is by your own band. I'm currently checking out your myspace page and it's great stuff. It's great to see how people are skilled in so many creative fields. So keep up the great work with everything: art, animation and music.

kyle-christie responds:

thanks Mark..its about 6 n a half mins long - the longest flash weve done so it took ages. but was worth it in the end..like building a wall lol