marsonNG's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Big Kahuna- Short Film]

The animation varied and got a bit rough in parts but for a student film with a deadline I can see how lower framerate animation and other compromises would be necessary.
Overall art and designs are very nice. At 10 minutes long it's an impressive production and clearly high levels of planning and work went into this. Well done.

NIKOYOART responds:

Thank you so much for watching and your honest opinion! Definitely if I had a bigger crew to help, animation would've been fully fantastic! I had to do alot of stuff on my own, writing, design, storyboarding, animation (rough, tie down and cleanup stage) painting backgrounds, editing, etc... while organizing the whole thing, plus doing all of this ontop of other classwork and assignments. So yeah sometimes ya got to make a sacrifice in some point :D

[The Artist]

An interesting piece of work.. though If you want to get a message out there, I would avoid using manipulative music. If i'm on the fence about an issue and I watch an opinionated video on that issue which contains music that tries to force you to feel something, It will only drive me to side with the opposition.

The animation was simple but good and I agree with the message too. Art is a special service in that few people can do it (most people don't have any artistic talent) there for it is worth more and good artists should be paid a much higher rate than people who perform common services such as Cashiers or Waiters (jobs that anyone can perform). Too many people fail to realize this.

Although I realist the main character had to accept the offer in order for you to make the rest of your points, in my opinion the fact that he accepts what seems to be a shitty offer makes him harder to sympathies with.

While i don't find this to be moving or powerful like others do, I do find it to be a good little animated film. 3.5 stars

NCH responds:

abit of a fact that when I first show the animation to errorcell it did struck him hard to the similarities hes facing. and from the first take, the music he composed fitted so well with it.

he tried composing other music tones but in the end, we went back to the first one. think he really put all out on this piece as the animation did invoke his feelings of his experience in this industry.

[OTTTD - Kill 'em all]

Very nice work here! just a few things tho.. I'm a little confused as to why this game ad features angry birds and candy crush characters. They don't appear to be in the actual game. Is it just demographic pandering? or is there some other reason?.. perhaps them being hunted down serves as a metaphor for OTTTD being superior to other mobile device games? the strategy and message wasn't entirely clear to me. As for the art and animation, for the most part it was fantastic but at times some things looked significantly less polished than others, also characters hands sometimes magically changed from 4 fingered to 5 or vice versa. Inconsistencies like that just bother me... a lot more than they probably should. Over all tho this is a great animation with quality art and voice acting. That alone would make me consider buying the game... if I had a smart phone.... and if i didn't hate tower defense games...

RicePirate responds:

Using recognizable characters was certainly intentional. The point though of those games was to give the message "here's a new game on the mobile market, and it's taking on the competition." Whether it does or not is to be seen. But that's the main reason (at least story wise).

[TMNT: It's just a mask!]

Another "It's just a mask" animation? Oh how original!.

Honestly I can't wait until this lame ass trend dies. It's like that harlem shake bullshit all over again.. except now it's contaminating newgrounds. The original joke wasn't even that great. it was amusing but nothing special. Bowz has made far better stuff in the past. Grims animation was ok... sort of milking the joke but still a different take i suppose. Then there was ricepirate's which was kind of dull and didn't really add anything new. Then and there is where the joke died... but of course all the douche-bag animators on the internet had to grab on to this and start making their own lame, unfunny versions. They just couldn't let it go, I mean it's perfect right? It's quick, requires minimal animation and you can gain more exposure via Bowz's popularity. I mean "It's all in good fun" why wouldn't you want to make one?.. you know, aside from the fact that internet fads are total shit and this one is no exception. Just like other internet fads it's become a cancer.

I suggest not jumping on bandwagons in the future. People will think less of you because it's just a lazy, uncreative thing to do. you can call it good fun. but i'll call it garbage content.

GoodBoyEthan responds:

Thanks for your opinion Jamal! You have the right idea, except you're incredibly negative and biased about it. :) I appreciate you being the deciding factor for when jokes are relevant or not ( I have a very busy school schedule and don't get to animate as often as I'd like). But still, thanks for letting us know what you call "garbage", and I call collaborative fun.

[someone came]

Very nice... animation was good. the line work was clean, the character design and style was appealing and I enjoyed the story too.. however I'm going to start taking points off for this because I'm sick of it, There was no reason this had to be a video file. It should have been a flash. If you can avoid uploading a video file, you should. A crisp and clear flash is far superior to any video file. sorry bud.

TheLazerSofa responds:

alright, ill keep that in mind for next time..
also thanks! (:

[Franky the Cat- Dreams]

What the fuck!

Maybe next time try to stay on a theme or something and make sure the movie has a point. Cos right now it's just a weird collection of dreams or whatever and it doesn't make any sense.

Friedmouse420 responds:

Why does it have to have a point? And they're heroin-induced hallucinations, of course they don't make sense :\