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.

[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-Renastair responds:

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

[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...

[MSE 1]

I love sticks :D

Don't loop your sound! Set it to stream! Other than that, it was good. Lots of funny little stunts. Would've been cool if there was some sort of police car chase.
Keep it up,
Penboy

WeIrDRoB responds:

hmmmmm i did that... but thanks for the tips might add that in the next one

[Final Countdown 2]

Did Tom really ask for this to be uploaded?

A bit too corny if you know what I mean.

JusticeofIrony responds:

YES, TOM FULP PICKED UP THE FONE SEH AND HE ASKED ME ZEEBO BAH MOODLY MEEDLY WATTY MELAN.

[Heart]

Was great!

Nest time have. . .
A pre-loader,
A story,
No looping sounds >:(
Other than that, fantastic!
Penboy
P.S I wish I had a Tablet :P

DinosaurMeat responds:

I know it needs a pre-loader, but we haven't been taught that in the class yet. We pretty much were only showed the basics of the interface. Thanks for the comment.

[Mario Bloopers 2]

That was average. . .

But don't listen to Mushman, he hasn't made any flashes! It was good, nut it's been done sooo many times before, and one scene went for ages (The one with the bowling ball). One scene actully gave me a fright though, the one where Mario jumps across 4 cliffs and hits a vine, the WHAM scared me lol!
Penboy

BepsiWay responds:

That scared me too because I forgot that was gonna happen