Penboy's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Newgrounds Tutorial]

Great

This is a great tutorial for the newbies on Newgrounds. Maybe nest time, have individual sections. . .and BUTTONS! So the viewers can stop to read :P
Penboy
P.S What was the song used in it?

Sidorio responds:

Song: Popcorn Remix.
I'm learning buttons.

[Captain Capitalism: NRC]

That was one of the best

Your movie is the only movie I've given 10 for graphics; it was so good. This should earn a spot on TV. Your team is very talented, VERY talented.
Great job,
Penboy

[Dragon Blob Z]

Nice

Just clean up the effects, more animation, and walla!
Penboy

[Tutorial: Draging Objects]

*tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet*

PLEASE next time lock those birds in an isolated room, ok?

That was a very helpful flash. Thanks!
Penboy

ChrisTheFeral responds:

he he, okay :p thanks :)

[Lost Rhapsody 2]

I have my doubts. . .

This review will probably get deleted for no apparent reason, but here I go. . .

Just recently a movie has come out in cinemas and has this same style. You stated that you drew every frame again and again, just like the new movie that came out, but I'm not assured. In the cinema movie, it took a team of animators 500 hours for a 1 minute section of their movie. I ask you this: Did you actually re-draw every frame, or simply bitmap trace this?

But by all means, this was great :D

Penboy

CapnBob responds:

Tell you what. Open up your copy of flash, import a movie file, try to do a bitmap trace on it and see what happens. There's your answer.

I'll take it as a compliment that people are having a hard time believing the amount of work involved. If you understand what you're seeing at all, though, it shouldn't be difficult to figure out. A few of the images that don't move at all are automatic bitmap traces, which have indistinct edges to everything like it's kinda blurry, and the characters bleed into the backgrounds. All the lines are jagged and angular.

The rest has crisp edges with smooth and sometimes slightly wavy lines. Those are all hand-drawn on top of photos or video. Not all of it is frame-by-frame, as that is very time-intensive. The frame-by-frame segments took about a week to do each, and had to be redrawn entirely by hand. I had to actually draw entirely new frames that don't exist in the original show in some cases, and the detail has been simplified to compensate for this.

Most of the motion in the video is a combination of hand-traced pieces of characters and free-hand drawn bodies motion-tweened. I cut a lot of corners including a few relatively unimportant still images here and there, but having a computer program draw the whole thing for me isn't one of them. I don't think it's actually possible for a program to build the animation the way I've done it. If someone can find a program that'll do it this way and get results like this, please let me know. It would save me a LOT of time!

[LR: Phoenix Wrong]

Phoenix Wrong is growing in populatiry . . .

That was very funny to watch, helped me 'unwind' at the end of my day :)
Penboy

Little-Rena responds:

Hehe :)
Well, that's always good to know.

[Block]

Great, I loved it

This is front page material. It was so professionally done. This would make a great series. Nothing needs to be re-done; this was perfect.
Penboy

[NG: Fuck Christmas!]

I don't agree with you message. . .

But that was still a great movie. What was the name of that carol at the start?
Penboy

[Burn]

pwnd indeed. . .

I really like stick movies, and this is no exception. Try not to set your sound to event, but set it to stream. Add in a preloader, and finish your movie, and this could easily end up in the Stick Collection page :D
Penboy

stick-buddy1 responds:

sounds good with the sound thing...but this thing passed so im making the background bigger and adding in alot more killing....maybe it will mkae it on stick collection page, who knows...

[Madness at the station]

I expected something else. . .

Madness tributes usually suck BIG TIME, but not this, no sir. As soon as the preloader roared up I new I was in for a treat. And I was.

The backgrounds were utterly fantastic, they contained so much detail. The animation was average, but the blood was what let this baby down. Blood comes out in different colours, not just the same-sized red.

I hope this gets added to the Madness Collection, you've deserved it. I only ask this: Why does it have such a low score? This deserves at least a 3.500000.

I'd like to see you make more :D
Penboy