GoodL's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[One Fateful Day: Full Moon]

Ha, nice! Pretty funny, and well animated. Didn't go a full 5 stars because, personally, I'm a sucker for a well made back ground, of which you have none. Even just some texturing or a bit of movement would improve the white background, if you wanted to keep it white as a stylistic choice. Your voice acting is good, and I love your character. :) Good work.

NorthStream responds:

Thanks! I appreciate the feed back. My main episodes do have backgrounds. These are my Super Shorts they are meant to be animations I can do in about 1.5 hours, and are filler between episodes. And yes it is a bit of a style choice.

[Stick Baits cartoon - men and playgrounds]

Ah nicely done! Around the 40 second mark I was thinking, "Ugh this is so predictable. I can already see what's coming." Then the 'punchline' so to speak (what's the equivalent of a punchline in slapstick comedy?) really got me, like I genuinely laughed. Good stuff. I've got some more specific comments, take these as constructive criticism:

First off, the biggest problem I see here is that the animation is really choppy. You've got to improve that fluidity to get professional looking animations. There are many ways to go about doing so, depending on what software you're using. Moving on, one thing that I think stands out here is your background looks REALLY nice, definitely sets it apart from most stick animations I see. So keep it up in that regard. Next, the sound effects are put to really good use in this clip, you did really well in that. Good work there.
And, I saved the best for last: the voice acting! You did REALLY well with that! The sound is very clear, it was either recorded with a good microphone or was filtered/compressed very well. I love it, excellent job on that.

A final point of criticism: DAILY uploads? Unless you've got a big backlog of animations ready to go, and we're talking BIG, then I find that goal really problematic. Do you really think you can maintain that rate? For how long? I feel like it's pretty unrealistic of a goal to think you can put out that much content that quickly. And even if you can, I fear that you'll be sacrificing quality for quantity, which is never a good idea, especially in art. I recommend you give yourself more time for each animation than just a single day. Giving yourself more time will allow you to create better content AND maintain consistency because it allows you to have "off days," you know what I mean? I've been uploading one animation every week for a month now, and that is A LOT of work, I don't think I can maintain even that consistency forever, so I won't be making any promises about consistent uploads any time soon. I get that you want to put a lot of content out because it will help you reach more viewers, but you have got to pace yourself for the sake of your quality and your sanity.

Overall, I vote 3.5 (which i rounded to 4 on Judgement) because I think you've got a good thing going here, you made me laugh, and aspects of your animation are well done. Improve the smoothness of your animations, and I won't be afraid to vote higher. I followed, and i'm excited to see more content from you in the future. I hope I've been helpful, if you have any questions or anything, feel free to message me :)

acentertoons4 responds:

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Thanks in abundance.

[Goop meets a friend (animated short)]

Very nice, I quite like the animation style, the style combined with the fact that your character is called "Goop" just made me think of my old series "Gorp". I really like it quite a lot, I think the areas that could use some start with it's length. I'd like to see something a little longer with a bit more content. What's happens after they meet, why is it significant, that kind of thing. I want to be more immersed in your world. One thing that could help there is the addition of some kind of back ground. If white background is a stylistic choice, you could keep it white and animate some subtle distortions for the simple purpose of creating movement to make the scene more interesting.
Another point, have you considered voice acting? While I like the way you created the subtitles to fit the theme, some voice acting might also pull this together as a project.
Anyway, I love the character design, and the animation style is intriguing. Good work :)

PrimeStone responds:

Well thanks for the comment! This was just something I decided to create because, after my final, I was just messing around with flash and drawing my character. This soon turned into a short little animation involving two of my characters from my story.

But thanks for the comment!

[Love (of Dogs) is Blind]

That was excellent, honestly. Love the jump cut style, the over-the-top illustrations of moments like at 1:06 really give this a lot of personality. Very well done. :)

halfcactus responds:

Thank you! Really awesome to hear that

[Late For School]

Nicely done, the punchline was pretty funny, I liked it. :) Also the sound effects were well placed.

VikFigures responds:

:D Thanks

[John and Loonof apocalypse part 1]

Gotta say, your lip-synching looks great! It's really well done. The montage was also nice. Good work! As far as recomendations go, I'd say the audio quality could use a little work, in some instances it is okay to use text to tell tell the story but it is always better to show it (I say this in relation to the house being "cushioned"), and finally I think your backgrounds could use some beautification.

TylerBasham responds:

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind! :)

[Potato Skins Ep.1]

I love it, this is the kind of animation I like to see.

HawkSandwich responds:

I love this type of animation too, I don't know why I didn't start this series earlier. Thanks for five stars!!