GristlyBear's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Days on Dust]

Overall it was alright, perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if I was familiar with the material you're paying a tribute to. The art was nice and nothing looked out of place, but I feel like there was a lack of much 'actual' animation and stuff happening in general. I'd say most, if not all, the animation consisted of motion tweening or silhouettes shifting, which isn't bad, but comes off as a little underwhelming to me. Coming from your news post, I notice the extensive use of vcam, but perhaps there could be a little more in those scenic shots (e.g. more than the tip of a building or cloud).

I found the music to be pretty fitting to the mood of relaxing and not having a whole lot going on, and I do like your drawings, so with a little more action, I think I'd really enjoy your future work. Cheers!

Noisy responds:

thanks, your'e totally right ;)

[Scraps: Teaser]

I really enjoyed this!

The animation was fluid, the drawings were great, and the sound effects were plentiful and of a good quality. All that makes a good animation, but coupled with the decent script it was quite entertaining.
It seems like this is the first episode of a series featuring Alex and Andrew, and despite the shortness, I think you did a pretty good job of introducing the pair. The music and almost entirely black and white animation (the happy toast is the anomaly) made it a great simple-slapstick feel.
I really like the classic feel, so there's nothing really to suggest. I do want to emphasize that I really liked this!

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[Dream Slate]

Glad to see it!

So I take it that the animator took some drugs and came up with an idea?
The frame by frame was awesomely smooth, but the jerkiness of the pills seemed a little off (they defied gravity for a second, then lagged out of the bottle). Then, perhaps more understandably, the first running cycle of the sketched figure made it seem like his arms were really far from his body (it seemed off, but it was smooth and one could say it's off because the dream is materializing).
Other than that, I liked the animation, drawing styles, and somewhat simplistic yet really effective color scheme. The idea seems great too, I took it to mean that you can't force an idea onto paper.

Best of luck in the final round!
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[SkoolToons 2010]

That was actually pretty good

All the loops were smooth and well drawn, but the top row was considerably better than the bottom row. I get that the bottom ones were probably just for practice, but adding a simple sound clip and perhaps a splash of color would have made them much better.
Other than that, some things I really liked was the syncing of the first loop's footsteps with the song, and fluidity in your loops.

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[The Greatest Cake Ever]

Hahaha, that was great

Generally speaking the animation was really solid, but what I really enjoyed was the script and comedy (even if it was "thrown together"). I found myself laughing regularly. Kudos!

It was short, and in the end, everything came together like a piece of cake: wonderfully. Best of luck in TOFA!

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Emrox responds:

Thanks, man!

[Moon Diary]

Easy going animation for a relaxing half hour

I actually quite enjoyed the animation as it flowed in all aspects, from music to narration to animation. The artsy cartoon style and pastel colors appeal to me, as well as the qualities of the animals, clouds and people.
I don't exactly understand the story per se, as events don't seem to always have an (obvious) consequence, for example the moon stepping on the boy. The diary tone of the story is also questionable when the moon "never forgives himself" since it suggests the entry is written long after the fact. Small things-to nitpick-about aside, this animation was a fluid, passively engaging tale (is that even possible?). It was great.

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