grimview's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[When you start commissions]

You claim to want to animate but your character is not animated.
You claim you want to draw but you show clip art that is not drawn by you.
You claim you want to voice act but are not attempting to show any range of voices beyond sickly sounding.
This might actually be a funny parody if you were not seriously stating "JCaluger COMMISSIONS OPEN" on your profile. Instead it just seems pathetic at best & at worse does nothing to show of any skill you may have.
I have no idea why people aren't lining up to buy commissions from you but I'm interested in how this video affects that.
Hopefully these comments will help you seem even more pathetic since that seems to be the angle you are exploiting to increase sales.

JCaluger responds:

I mean did you not watch the first part of the video?
I did show off some of my art during the first part of the ad.
I didn't show off any voices, but I do have a short demo reel on my profile that you can click on to see.
I linked to all of my work so if anyone wants to see my portfolio they can.
I think you need to work on your trolling my friend. Thanks for the feedback though.

[Scribbled-In]

At the beginning the main characters Eye brows look like eyes & the eyes often look like shadows. Its kind of distracting. I think its cause you have some kind of a line in the middle which shows best at 1:47. Why?

ChillyCheese responds:

Hah, havent heard that before, not sure what to tell ya. The lines in the eyebrows at 1:47 are from the shader rendering the edges of things as contours. Since the eyebrow is made of pieces instead of being a solid block those edges get rendered with a contour.

[Fallout Nuclear Gas]

This was well animated. Some minor issues: I'm unclear as to who killed goggles. At first I thought goggles pulled a knife at 32:10 but is not holding a knife at 34:00. Then it sounds like googles gets shot at 34:95 so googles did not get stabbed by the other people in the room. No one in the room is holding smoking gun. At 20:30 all windows on gas station are covered. The green robot does not have a long range rifle or any projectile firing weapon.

Mizfiz responds:

Yeah I noticed those mistakes because the first couple of scenes was made back 2016 and the rest are made in 2020 so I was abit lost dont know where to continue so I let the first horrible scenes in and if you split the video half the early parts are not that great but later part of the video is much better

[Goobee's Lament]

Your "DISCLAIMER" is complaining about Doobus Goobus doing the exact same thing that you are doing.
I think you miss the point of Doobus Goobus's response, which seems to be that feedback is suppose to be useful to improve the animation.
Even the screen shot at the end lacks an evidence, specifically where in the screen shot is the "rallying for a witch-hunt" that you claim ? If you were trying to link to Doobus Goobus for "Inspiration" under your name, then you linked to the wrong user. When dealing with with a subject like single comment, you should try to reduce our research time. For example the movie "dot dot dot" began with clear explanations of the situation at the start of the video.

The opening audio is difficult to understand which further adds to the confusion, Mainly the green character on the screen is spitting random words that don't form complete sentences which is the the first character we meet, which after reading the description, I'm assuming was the also suppose to be the same green character that shows up in the house.

When the army shows up, they already have a "Negative Nancy" on the cross, but it would have made more sense to put yellow haired commenter on the cross after the beat down. I thing you missed opportunity to show a "rallying for a witch-hunt" like in the " Xodo Holocuast " movie, because you too focused on getting all the dialog out in beginning instead of spreading out the dialog.

goobee responds:

are you 3lame??????

[Madness & Insanity (Pilot)]

Good animation & funny. I like the computer crying when it got hit. Prisoner Alien seems to know way too much about the ship & since we do not who was shooting, we will see if they have released an friend or foe.
Hat Guy talks too fast in the beginning.

Nixionic responds:

Ah thanks for the critique. The biggest thing I want to fix is the pacing with later episodes :D

[Bunker City: The First One]

Did sheep girl respawn after flying thru the van window or what?
The main character seem much lower volume then the music. However, this funny & good action. I was expecting Dino Guy to be the doush bag causing trouble especially after the bar, but the dad was nice twist. Sheep girl's personality seemed go from one extreme to the other (care about the dangers of smoking - the city deserves to be nuked).

videojunk responds:

Yeah she's a clone sheep.

Also yeah I really gotta work on my audio mixing, cause I'm really shitty at it.
I definitely need to get better at keeping my characters consistent though, cause you're right she kinda did have a turn near the end there...maybe she was just a lil grumpy.

[Castle Nathria Raid in a nutshell]

It started off well. What the hell is with all the flipping back & forth between the knight & the sword for 20 seconds?

Electrocatcreations responds:

Well, we wanted to sync with the music and exageration in that scene, that doesn't work like we think =/

[Salem's Augmentation]

This seams incomplete. If its suppose to be a testimonial part of a commercial for augmentation, then its music is too eerie. Voice is good. Music is a bit loud compared to the voice. Maybe if I got augmentation I understand why i was watching this.

Kuniko99 responds:

Thanks, yeah this project ending up taking me longer than I thought and I really just needed to conclude so I could pursue my other ideas (hence the long black screens) Hopefully it comes across as more of an artistic choice lol. I'll be releasing a looped animation with the full monologue soon

[Disposable]

The good: Opening zoon thru the building hall ways. Unfortunately the quality level of animation decreases when it comes to people compared to the opening scene of the hall way. Well colored/ detailed backgrounds & still shots. 90's feel & music. Voice clear & Harly Quin like.
The bad: Text can't be read without pausing. You should be able to read it twice if you want us to read it once. Some of that text was funny, but know one will know due to zipping by & over lapping each other.

SentientApe responds:

Thanks for the feed back. Can you elaborate on the characters? Like their designs? Since no one was talking to each other I found it hard to edit two characters really interacting. (Its a trailer) so its more to try and get people interested for the final. Also this is more focused on Youtube where pausing for text is a normal thing. (More for the ending where I talk about things.) And the other part is just for the teaser so I dont have to use it thankfully.. gets rid of that problem. Edit: Not trying to make excusing just explaining my thought process. I dont have much if any feedback so any I can get is a god send. Thanks for your time.

[Furaide Naito Fankinn]

This well drawn & has an anime feel to it, but not much animation. What's with the lines just scratching out the image like the eyes at 0:58, as it looks sloppy?

Asphyxiaorange responds:

Was just having fun with it! To me a lot more of it looks sloppy than that, since it was rushed, but I'm glad you gave it a watch.