BiffTheTimid's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[2nd Annual Tank Awards]

You forgot a winner

You forgot the award that goes to the Pop'n'Lockness Monster. He was so excited to finnnalllly win something.

The end was hilarious, and I refuse to believe that you're not working on Pico 2. Great work with the graphics by MindChamber. Very well done. Keep up the good stuff.

[Saturday Morning Watchmen]

You've completely bastardized Alan Moore's Vision

If he were to watch this, I legitimately think he would shit his pants and rage quit life. A gun would be his F10.

Great animation and I'm 100% positive those backgrounds took forever and were a huge pain in the ass. The song was spot on, and the style definitely hit the mark. I was actually expecting to see the actual show after the intro, since the intro was so well done. Anyways, great spoof and keep up the good work.

[Zelda: UO Epis:7]

A tad cliche for my taste

This is obviously inspired by anime, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The story draws a lot of elements from shows I've already seen. It seems a bit hokey, and while I won't pick a part the entire plot, that Knight test seems rather convenient.

The way it was directed was pretty well done though. I enjoyed the angles that you chose, and the story flowed well enough for me not to get bored. However, the "buddy-buddy" way in which people interacted with each-other was obnoxious, and the dialogue of the guy who bought the sword and shield (can't remember the name right now) was painful to listen to.

The art direction -again- is obviously anime based, and for the most part gets the job done. I feel like you sell yourself short, and rather than spending time on characters and backgrounds, you are more focused on movie length. Also, the faux-3D effects were a bit over done, and ended up being distracting.

Voice acting wise, for the dialogue given to them, they were pretty decent. I was very glad to hear a female voice that wasn't Rina-Chan (though she was in it as well, of course), and the "????????" female, who was voiced by I think "Emma", was excellent. The rest (other than the obnoxious Red Headed Guy) were pretty good.

Lastly, you should seriously consider re-vamping your subtitles. The Border around them is distracting and un-necessary. You also don't need to have the persons name who's speaking, as well as a different color text for each person. I can hear who's speaking, so I don't need any more visual clues. Also, consider adding the ability to turn subtitles off. If you need to know how to do it, I can help.

Any ways, over-all a good effort, but not exactly the most unique or interesting story. Good directing, decent (for the most part) voice acting, O.K. art, and distracting subtitles. Good luck with the rest of the series.

[Don't Worry, Son]

Highly Provocative

Taking the viewer and thrusting them into the middle of a three part story is your style, and I dig it. Though I have no idea what comic this was based on, I found it both hilarious and horrifying in its commentary on the human condition and the sacred bond between father and son. And elephant cock.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

its actually supposed to be a trunk, but the silhouette of a trunk from front on looks like a gigantic cock so i expect everyone to think cock before trunk, that's only natural.

[Exile Preliminary 3]

I enjoyed it

You put a lot of effort into this and it shows, and your directing skills are definitely improving. It was a good length, and you keep the story interesting, so keep up the good work.

There are a few things I'd like to suggest. One thing that is rather noticeable is your line quality of the characters. A lot of the times they look like the preliminary sketches that you'd use so that you can draw over them. Consider after drawing a character to turn the lines light blue or red, and trace over them again with solid strokes. It will drastically increase your professionalism.

Also, the voice acting was good. Your people do good work. However, I'd watch how they interact with each other, and try to move away from it coming off forced. Such as in the beginning, they all meet up together with a long pause that ends in laughter. Also, yelling to yourself about others while people are most definitely still around seems a bit unbelievable. However, for the most part it seemed pretty well done.

Lastly, and this is just an aside. Maybe work on your color selection. I see you use a lot of unsaturated colors, such as true green true blue, and so on. If you choose a specific color palette, it'll look more unified. Such as earth tones, blues, reds, greens. It makes it easier to animate with a more limited color palette, but also makes it look more believable.

This is a pretty long review, so I'll end it here. Good work, and keep it going. You're improving, and I'm looking forward to seeing where you take this. Take it easy.

RiverJordan responds:

Wow, that was a really good review, I definitely appreciate it. I'm not sure if i'm supposed to go and address each paragraph, because all of them are basically "That's really good advice, I'll put that to use in the future =D"

Thanks a lot, and i'm definetly looking forward to another part of Outlaw in the near future ^_^

[COGS OF WAR 2]

Funny as always

I haven't played it yet since I'm broke as all hell, so some shit got spoiled. Hopefully when I get around to playing it I'll have forgotten all the things I think were spoilers. Either way, I laughed.

Also, as an aside, I really dug Dom's glowy armor thing on his left shoulder. Just thought it was worth mentioning. Good work.

[With My Mind's Madness]

Very Creative

I dug the art direction you took with the pro/antagonist. The style was sort of reminiscent of Pendragon, only more refined. The painterly backgrounds were also a nice touch. The ending was pretty intense, and overall I really enjoed it. I rarely say that, so job well done.

[Awesome Racer]

Alas...

So easy to rip off other peoples styles, so hard to make it as funny or interesting.

Homages and complete unoriginality are two completely different things, and this movie falls in the latter category.

[Final Fight:the Nerd Saga]

Glad you submitted this separately

I knew with this animation being at the very end of the Metal Gear Funnies collab would mean half or more of the people would never see it. But doesn't you making a movie about metal gear make you a nerd tooo!?!?!?!?!? Thats so ironic, hah! Oh wait, it's satire - something half of newgrounds has a hard time comprehending. Anyways, good animation and art. Got your point across.

[Ng Voicemail #973]

A Masterpiece

I've laughed out loud at approximately 10 movies on newgrounds since 2001. Five of those movies are yours, and one of those five is this one. I'm not the reviewing type of guy, but this was too good not to. I started coming to NG to watch your stuff, so yeah. Make Keeblur 2. God damn.