RaccoonRat's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TBA -Heroes vs Villains]

Great character design

Awesome job! Loved all the character designs and scenes. Like how you focus on the eyes of the characters, don't see that very often. Would have been really cool to see voices to these characters though. But mics are hard to come by. I agree with Jonathan, you really have something here to expand on. Oh and the Easter egg ;) really cool. You have great drawing skills.

Comick responds:

Thanks man! :) I appreciate the kind words. I guess you're right I do focus on eyes. I remember reading in a character animation course that the eyes are key to reading what's "inside" the character and getting the viewer to feel for them. :3 This is why Wall-E has huge eyes and people could relate to a metal box on wheels.

[Cereal Wars!]

This was very good

Really loved the concept and the animation, good storytelling. Great Job!

[SRM Short: Haircut]

Funny

Very cool, very simple. Like how SRM is just a blue brick, and the way you make him talk by just moving the lower part of his mouth. Good job.

Battosai810 responds:

Glad you liked the style. It took a while to figure out how to make him talk, since he was originally a static comic strip character.
Thanks for watching :)

[Pencil Vs. Flash]

Cool concept

Love the whole concept of this although I would have liked to see more details in the background. Great job

[Desert Dessert]

You have talent

This is one of those rare times where I really can't think of any criticism. The story is great and original, the characters are awesome, great use of color, and the music was spot on. Defititely one of the best flashes I have seen in a while. Keep up the great work, hope to see more.

vectoplasm responds:

Thanks much -

I'm probably one of my own worse critics, so I appreciate your opinion. From my stand-point, I could have made the animation much more efficiently (Took longer than needed to make). Character animation is not what I do on a daily basis (unfortunately), so I'm always catching on to better techniques/short-cuts.

[Grandma Jokes]

Wow...what a jerk, but funny!

That's so mean and unexpected, yet I want to see more? This could totally be longer. I think there could be so many more funny gags. Good job on the lip syncing. You might want to look into adding a preloader to stop the looping though. lol, good job!

[Giggles Rant]

That's one PO'd hamster

I can see where croire is coming from, being like Foamy and all, but I know we can't help coincidences. I acually thought that this was much more visual and I love that, makes it funnier. The voice did get a bit hard on the ears after a while. For me though, I know using F-bombs is good for this kind of thing, but I just felt that they were used way too much, took away from the comedy. Great job though.

[Date at Eight]

Pretty Good

Wow, they have some bad karma. I thought the storytelling was good, simple plot, not too complex. Like the use of just the one image as the texture of their clothes as opposed to just coloring it in.

['Whirlpool Chicken']

That was...interesting

I really love it when someone makes their Flash original. Really love the randomness. Would have liked to see a bit more color though, but I kinda get what you were aiming for with the monotone color backgrounds. This is a really cool sketchy style you have created. Great.

Butzbo responds:

Yyyes, i tried to work a little with the contrast (at first it was going to be an almost full-black-and-white thing, but then i started 'playing' with colored backgrounds).
Maybe that doesn't 'shine' in every take i did.
Thanks!