MrShoeShine7's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Catching Latias]

I love how you drew latias looking so goofy everytime it was onscreen. You animated the bike so well, and I love the blue backgrounds with the cloud outlines, is very iconic. Really nice animation.

ZHF responds:

very glad you like it. thank you!

[Miles Morales]

This is a cool short loop, it felt like more of an animation test, but the sound effects were great too. A little music would of brought it all together. Nicely done!

BoyPorcelain responds:

to be honest this was just an animation test, i wanted a simple loop of him swinging then just added some more people into it right at the end to match with how the movies do it. Also yes there actually is music on my tiktok @boyporcelain, i just couldn't upload it here due to copyright n whatnot

[X Marks The Aardvark]

Amazing job on this cartoon, the art, animation, backgrounds, everything looked phenomenal. It's super polished and well done, I like the character animation specifically. The sound effects really were the cherry on top, from the evil scientist girl screeching like a dying animal to the seatbelt locking the villains up making that classic cartoony "zip-boink" (at 1:49) It's very iconic.

Out of all the great shots in this, my favorite one is at 0:45, I could imagine what the boards looked like for that scene. Great job team!

PatrikusDroilius responds:

You're in luck because you don't have to imagine what the boards looked like anymore, you can actually watch it on Youtube as I have uploaded the animatic version of the whole short in all it's scratch audio and unused scene glory.

[Antifreeze Animated Music Video]

I like the eye character, I think the animation is cool, its a lot of little loops and tweens so its alright. I wasn't a huge fan of the song though. Keep making cool stuff like this.

maxoakland responds:

Thanks! The eye character is named Wink. What do you think could be improved about the song?

[Gachiakuta Fan animation]

The colors in this animation look so good! I think the monster pattern is kinda jarring to watch move around, but that could be a style choice. The characters movements look great, and the freeze frames are cool to look at when seeing the characters under the masks. Nice!

D-slick responds:

Yo Thank you, bro. BTW this was the animation I was talking to you about at the BBQ joint!

[PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!]

This is a crazy good episode, I think there is potential for this as a series as well. (I know you already confirmed on working on the next episode, so with that in mind good luck!)

I'll start with the plot, I really like the simplicity of it because that fits this old 90-2000's vibe you are going for. The idea of humans vs demons in a tournament reminds me of a mortal kombat ladder, as well as the fitting gore style bludgeoning. I love the relationships of the characters and I think their dynamics are fun to see play off each other. Speaking of which, the character designs are great! Gogo and Mama are very iconic and stand out, Nono is expressive and the demon king emperor Koro is goofy but menacing at the same time. The side characters like the Akumugai Ogre team, the announcer and the other humans in the beginning cutscene were also nicely detailed, and I do appreciate that. A lot of times extras are basic or boring to watch.

However, the inclusion of live action is not my favorite, (I do understand newgrounds recently had a 'live action jam,' with that in mind: I am not referring to the emperor of Japan. Sephirothsword57 was funny to see.) the cuts of Japanese advertisements and shows on this vhs distract me, but they do help the episode of punch punch forever to feel like it was on air at some point, in that you were successful. I think it is mainly a style choice, you could of animated a second or two of a fake Japanese commercial to fit the show, which would be a bit more work and also might be just as confusing, or removed them altogether but its just an idea. While on the topic of the vhs style, while I do like it; the fast-forwarding does cement the vhs feeling but that idea could of been implemented in the next episode and each one after it. Just so we can see the full opening just once before it becomes too mundane for reoccurring viewers.

Thank you for not overusing the vhs quality, I strongly dislike when creators portray media with several filters over their work which degrades the quality (too much so). Back to the episode, the voice acting is top notch and the backgrounds are gorgeous. I commend your BG artists on this project! Your animation is stellar, your quality never ceases to amaze me. I enjoyed the action sequences and the character animation when they are speaking and moving around slightly. The sound effects add to the comedy of the piece as a whole, and the jokes fit right alongside the story as well which is really good.

I think my favorite parts are...
-The gore, keep it coming!!!
-The bumpers and the art for them, so cute and polished.
-The ost! Wow its so good, it makes the style.
-Last but not leastly, the opening was awesome. You and Sasaki Kissa did a fantastic job.

Since the genre is comedy, I don't want to take the intricacies of the story too seriously, its an exciting playful show with a simple premise and you make that work really well.
Nice job Speedo!

Speedo responds:

thanks for the extensive review!
understandable if you're not a fan of the live action ads cutting in. it sort of evolved from something i used to do which was occasionally posting random out of context scenes from obscure japanese movies to my twitter, and i started to amass a collection of random dumb clips on my computer (like the scene at the very end). i thought about incorporating them into PPF instead, and along with knowing that i was gonna be doing the eyecatcher thing, cutting in a few ads in the middle made sense too. will just have to wait until i inevitably pick the wrong movie clip and get a copyright strike and then the live action segments will mysteriously disappear from future instalments!

on fast forwarding the "lore" at the beginning, i think was a symptom of my insecurity on making something original again after so long, in that i was very worried about taking up too much of the viewers time. i was constantly trying to cut down the script too, trying to make it no longer than 5 minutes etc, so "fast forwarding" the exposition was one of the casualties of that. it used to be completely fast forwarded from the beginning, but later on i decided to let it at least play at normal speed for a few seconds. i like your idea too of leaving the fast forward joke for a future episode if it was a recurring segment, but oh well. now that the "lore dump" is out of the way in this one, i don't think i'll bother repeating that for future eps.

and glad the more subtle vhs filter is appreciated! the software i used to render it took ages, but it was worth it i think, being on the more tasteful side. see my old Naruto toon for much less tasteful vhs filter lol
i wasn't necessarily planning on using a vhs filter to begin with either in favor of trying to make it look more like a pristine bluray scan of an old anime, until i had the idea to incorporate the movie/ad clips.

and glad you liked the bumpers too! i'm looking forward to having more guest artists/animators do those

cheers!

[Kero Kero Groove - Fighting Snipers]

There are a lot of filters over the animation, I get the vibe you're going for though. I liked the cd reading sounds, and I enjoyed the game footage, the heavy melee inspiration is awesome. The pacing seemed a little slow to me, but it came out great in the end.

tofokyo responds:

thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it!

[Klub Dmitry]

This was so good, I loved the voice acting and writing of Dmitry. Zeroxxuit absolutely killed it in this I love it. Pitstops track was also funny and banging at the same time. The two girls on stage remind me of rem and ram from re zero. I think my favorite part about this was I never knew where it was going! Nice job seriously, I hope you make more stuff like it!

FlonchDulloon responds:

thanks! very nice response :)

[CHEW GUM | “THEME SONG” (BETTER IN MY HEAD)]

Trash drums have never sounded so good. The character designs are very different, I wonder what this series will be about.

chewgumseries responds:

There’s a couple episodes with actual dialog out already, the first one is here on Newgrounds, the second is currently hosted on the Kickstarter page but it’ll be posted here too eventually!

[[Teaser]]

Cool, i didn't get the ending because i dont know japanese. I hope you make more original stuff!

BlueStickBoi responds:

Tyy I sure will- oh and the ending was just my oc's name, which is 'Blue'! :]