MistyE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[ZAHTAS: Letter]

The humor was pretty good, though the execution could have been done better, in my opinion.

One of the main issues I had with this is that while the letter is being read out loud, the reader could easily read ahead, and it could spoil/ruin some of the jokes; for example, when it says "I'm so sorry I slept with your dad," the viewer could read ahead, so I think it'd be better if that part is only visible after he said it.

The voice acting was very good, I liked it a lot.
I can see that you chose to use proper lip syncing in the beginning, though towards the end, there was this two-drawing mouth loop being used. I can definitely understand if you don't want to do proper lip syncing since it takes a lot of time, so if you choose not to do that, then my advice for you would be to make the mouth loops more complex.

[Draw with Jazza!]

i needed that dancing monkey.

[Cinco de Gayo]

funny, and well-animated.

The humor was definitely there, and the animation is really good. There's a lot of frame-by-frame animation here, and it's all really smooth, which is one of the major strengths of this cartoon. I also noticed that there's some shading here, so that definitely helps.

One of the issues I noticed was at the end of Wise Frog's "I got tacos, if you know what I mean," by the end of that shot, he progressively gets smaller, which creates a noticeable proportion issue since he's right beside Frogman.

It was all really good, though

artistunknown responds:

It's not that he's getting smaller, he was just slowely bending over. I can see how it does look like he's getting smaller though, especially since my proportions are fucked up to begin with. Nonetheless, thanks for the review!

[FrogMan and Pico SCENE 1]

Amazing.

The animation was a huge improvement from your other cartoons. There was a lot of frame-by-frame animation and all of it is really smooth and nice to look at, especially since it's all done on ones. Though the animation was great overall, there are a few minor things I'd like to go over.

I think the rain animation in the first shot could've been improved, maybe it'd be better if you drew the rain once and then panned it down for an endless loop. I also think that the way it just sort of fades out before the next shot is a bit weird, I think it'd look better if it just kept raining.

Really smart use of music choice. The music set the atmosphere for this scene and it really enhances the emotion the viewer could feel through this scene.

The voice acting was really good, everyone who voice acted really nailed the emotion of this scene. There's a minor issue I noticed with the lines, though it's not with the voice acting itself, it's about the sound levels. Frogman's lines are noticeably louder than Pico's, and sometimes the background music makes Pico's voice seem a bit soft, but it's okay for the most part. For Pico's "wallowing in my sorrows" line, the reading seemed a bit too fast, unless that's what you were aiming for.

I really like the writing, a lot of emotion in it and I agree with the message about NG's popularity declining.

Overall this was really good and I look forward to seeing more!

artistunknown responds:

Yeah, I agree about the rain, I think I'll change that in the final version.
I think the imbalance in audio levels is due to different mics being used. I used a cheap headset for Pico's lines, and though it's not crap, it is a bit quiet. FrogMan's voice actor recorded with a blue yeti, so his lines would be louder. I suppose I could go back and fix the audio levels though. I'm not sure what would be with the line sounding too fast, though I do tend to read lines rather fast sometimes, so I guess that's a messup on my part, thank you for the compliments on the voice acting though.
Thank you for the review. It will really help with working on the rest of the film.