Ockeroid's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pen License]

No pen license?!

Haha, man, this kind of stuff usually doesn't get me so much, but I've ended up watching this a dozen times over the course of the day.

I think the thing that really does it for me is actually the body language. It adds so much extra effect to everything and it's an area I find a lot of flash movies lack and they either have very minimal or it just looks really stiff. Like the kid's arm when he's explaining he doesn't have a license and the teacher's head tilt on "No license?".

The build up music worked well, but you stopped it too many times. When you stop it, it cuts off the build up then it has to rise again. Doing it can be good for comedic effect or shock or something, but you did it too many times, too quickly and seemingly without much reason. Not a huge point, but something you can very easily improve on in the future.

Also, the little drum thing for the title seemed a bit too random. It sort of seems like it's going to go into a song, but you're not sure what it's really there for. It'd be better if it was a few notes on an instrument instead.

Congrats on front page. And btw, I loved you ignite people on fire series :)

[Ghost Out Part 3]

Great series :D

Great series :D I love the blend of dark detective story and humour.

It's got a cool art style, though it's a little messy and hard to work out what's going on sometimes. The pixelly style you use for colouring and stuff makes things quite confusing to look at times.
I liked the use of more frame by frame animation in this part.

The best thing about Ghost Out is by far the dialog. Even though you can hear that you're putting on the voice in a few parts, the dialog is so cool it's easy to excuse/forget and continue enjoying the movie.

As good as the dialog is, it's quite hard to understand what he's saying at a lot of points. Partially from the audio quality and partially because the words are slightly slurred. I know it's kind of a character thing, but it really did take away a lot of enjoyment by not being able to make out some lines or having to concentrate on understanding quite a lot.

Btw, the giant skeleton/god at the beginning looked really awesome and creepy.

Congrats on front page and hurry up and make part 4! I really wanna see how this story all turns out :D

[Socklops]

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Fascinating stuff.
Do you ever have a specific aim in mind when you were making the Sock episodes?

[Sprite Shorts: Sonic 2]

(I can never think what to put here)

Pretty funny. I didn't expect it.

Graphics. Well it looks just like it should. Sound was just right.

Nice work!

[Her and Mine 1001 Wishes]

(I can never think what to put here)

The graphics weren't anything special. Many noticeable mistakes, glitchs, lazy-nes.
The story was overly boring. Very predictable and uninteresting.
It was also extremely long. There was absolutely no need for it to be that long. Had it been made better, it could have been half the time and had twice the impact.

It is a good concept, but it seems that lazy-nes got in the way of making this anything special.

[Japan Chaos]

(I can never think what to put here)

Pretty much just Madness with dots. It was good. Not as good as Madness has become, but still good.

You really need the cam a little further back, you can't really see the BG so everywere feels like a box. Also since there's no interaction with the BG (cover, braking, etc).

Also towards the end the guy is pretty much a red blob and you kind of wonder how it's still alive.

But it's still a joy to watch. Good luck if you do another one. I'm sure it'll be great too!

[Yupokeo]

(I can never think what to put here)

Great movie. Done with enough effort to be enjoyable to watch but still make fun of how badly made "creature collecting anime X" is.

Voice acting was good. You get some spoofs that go to far into the bad voice thing and it just becomes annoying. You're is just right.

I love the shoe. Good luck with your next project!