CrabbWalker's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[NG Skype Conversations]

This reminds me of exactly what Dead Parrot did. He took Youtube comments years back and strung them together in a dialogue spoken by pretentious, old men in fancy garb. It garnered over a million views per video...and it was funny. Here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrWuE5qC5c

They discontinued the project though. Believe it or not, you have something here. I think something like this would work best in over-exaggerated animation (like speedo sausage) or live video, where there's more expression. This is good stuff here.

Kel-chan responds:

yeah now that I see it has some interest I may make a serious effort in the future to do something.

I was hesitant at first to release this as I thought it was pretty much crappy so I didnt put full effort into animating it since it was a last minute idea for pico day.

[Arc Infinitum 2]

A great story that keeps me intrigued! As far as the art goes, this is pretty good aside from some unnatural movement and weird saturations (perhaps from the compression/ codec choice of such a huge video). With that said, very rarely do you see 3D indie animation on NG, and I can easily see you paving the way for it to be a great medium for others to use.

Concerning the 3D itself, if you choose on staying with an anime style 2.5D look, I would greatly recommend watching behind-the-scene works of Paperman. The fluidity of the 3D comes from tracing over existing 3D frames. This would be an exciting area to play around in. Just an idea :D

The voice acting is superb, great performances from all! No qualms with that.
The music was very fitting, and the script was impressive. Keep at it!

P.S- I was thinking of supporting you through Patreon since you were running into some computer problems. External HDDs are very important, but being able to upgrade your RAM, CPU, GPU, etc for high-end renderings is critical. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why I'm building a PC computer before my Mac chokes from my next rendering process lol.

Kel-chan responds:

yeah i tried the paperman thing a while ago with extraction. the other way to get that effect is to lower the render frame rate then speed it back in the video editor so its not too slow or choppy. Basically the same thing that happens in alot of AMV music vids.

I tried tracing and recompositing but it takes too long and too much resources for my comp and also i believe the other way is better/ less time consuming and does the same sort of thing if done right.

I wish there was a decent program that did good traces or, I could export the character layer as a jpg or png sequence to go over that in photoshop before recomposite.

I'm going to try the fps tweak thing in the next animation just to test it since I haven't used it yet, if it works then I'll try it in the next ep of this series.

I'm saving the patreon support to get a decent computer- eventually I'd like to use something like Iclone/poser but those use alot more resources and also dont' render with the GPU unless you get an expensive plugin from Octane Render.

I tried this series intially in iclone but the max characters on screen I could have with physics was 3 in some of the shots I wanted and my comp ran like crap even in wire frame mode

[Have a Great New Year!]

Don't know why the review ratings are so low. I thought it was warming! Feels more like an electronic postcard of sorts. Obviously, the Storks need more natural motion (and frames), but I didn't mind that. Maybe some Stork sounds, and cards falling sounds. The concept was cool, keep it up!

Evy-Devy responds:

THANKS!!! Everyone else is just a jerk... Okay, maybe that's pushing it.

My next animation will be SO much better. You can go to my homepage or news to see more about it. :)

[Ninja Gaiden II Op Nes]

Brilliantly animated! I would only suggest working on your sound effects to make it really pop. A great animator told me that sound is half of the animation! I'd start collaborating with people right here on the net for that!

AaLBERT responds:

OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! =)

[The Politician.]

Nice, fluid animation! Though I felt it could've ended after he puts the money in and then takes a stroll through the neighborhood. It would've made the story more precise in my opinion. My fav was the cutscenes and transitions. Can't wait for more.

Ex-Poser responds:

Yeah I wanted to end the animation in an entirely different way, probably ending with a huge explosion that destroys everything, however the dead line for the assignment was coming faster than I could animate. One thing I didn't mention was I remastered the details in the politicians facial and bodily looks.
So, I wanted to go back over it and change the end entirely, but. Meh.

[Genryu's Blade (2000)]

You know your animation is amazing when it still holds up after a decade. Obviously there are some walk animation problems here and there, but the dub-like voice-acting totally makes up for it. Felt like an old chinese flick, which is awesome :)

P.S- This reminds me of Ninjai also...it needs to come back with a remastered version of all their episodes!

nelsonhurst responds:

the Ninjai crew was inspired after watching Genryu's Blade. I really enjoyed the Ninjai series.

[Jungle Hunt]

This was pretty awesome. The voice acting work was superb and the action was fresh

MysticSkillz responds:

Thank you. And I agree! They did an excellent job with the voices.

[Shieldmaiden Part One]

Very good pilot, you've executed the setting beautifully. The earthy tones are comfy and inviting. I could follow the story quite well, though I'm intrigued for what will happen next. Great job.

PiratePudding responds:

Thank you for the compliment! We're working on episode two now, I hope you will like the next part as well!

[E.T. Excursion Intro]

Awesome cinematography. Saw some of your previous work and it's very impressive. I look forward to your success, whether it be on TV, or through Newgrounds!

vezanmatics responds:

Thank you!