RiderRockon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Bid For Freedom]

Neat-o!

This was a very colorful experience! The story is solid, the artwork cheeky and the voice acting was just excellent. Like being lost in another world... for about 10 minutes or so. Very good job!

The only thing I fear is that this will haunt your future endeavors as your newer works are most likely to be compared to this... and that's a pretty high bar to reach.

AdamCook responds:

I'm very glad to see you're creatively independent yourself; I think your Flash work and music show great potential and I hope you work hard to develop your skills as they'll serve you well in the future.

Thank you so much for losing yourself in our world... and I look forward to the challenge of unshackling myself from expectations. While it's hard to pick up steam when you're starting out, I'm aiming to produce in all fields, and take on as many exciting subjects as I can.
I hope my current and prospective viewers will please keep an open mind as to what I do next, as I foresee running down many wild ways in pursuit of my soaring ambitions.

Cheers mate! Best of luck to the both of us!

[Bellum Letale]

Good start

It was definitely interesting! The biggest issue with this flash isn't your art or the animation it's the composition of the whole thing. You really set the mood well at the beginning, but I feel like you 'drag out' each scene for too long.

The beginning with the falling leaf? Great start! It's just a bit too long to really hold that moment. The shadows firing? Again, adds a lot but it lasts longer then it's appeal is. Same with that final close-up.

I think this could grab the audience a bit more if some of those 'dramatic' bits where a bit shorter so that you give the viewer time to 'dwell' in the little you show but keep their interest by moving on to the next thing before that has run it's course.

Barring that and a spot of lag, everything else was pretty good :)

alkr00 responds:

thanks! that's actually a great critique there. i'll keep that in mind.

[Subordinate Droids 2]

Good animation, work on the voices though

I really like the animation (it's improved much since the last one), especially the 3D bits you threw in, very cool all-in-all!

There's one nag I have though, and you probably get it more then once, the voices.

I noticed there where a few jokes here and there, but unfortunately due to the 'generic' style of voice acting, they didn't really pop out as such. With humor it's very important to deliver a line properly, and that didn't quite work out most of the times.

I'm sure if you work on the voice acting, this could be a very awesome flash series!

sorbitol responds:

Thanks for your honest opinion. The idea of this cartoon wasn't to play-it-for-laugths so to speak. I thought it would br more effective if it was delivered semi-serious rather than using wacky voices, cock jokes and then playing out with the Benny Hill Theme. Kind of like the old 60's Batman TV series where Batman takes everything so seriously no matter how daft the story gets. I still think you make a valid point however and I've taken you comments on board. Thanks!