PiGPEN's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Gowe - Aurora 8/16bit MV]

Cool video, song sucks though.

Rikognition responds:

Maybe you can enjoy this version instead!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/521571

[Little Big Apocalypse 2]

Maybe take up FlashMX?

Too much lag, too little plot and too long to get through so little plot.
I read the manga too, which covered this "episode" and i read that in less than 30 seconds... and the rest of the manga amounted to another less-than-30 seconds. What you've posted of the manga doesn't feel like even one chapter. This animation even less so.

JMartin97 responds:

Screw MX i'm going back to 5.

[What the fuck, Japan?]

Nicely done, sir.

I was gonna give 9 stars but decided the tanuki jiggle physics were worth another point.

Catobleper responds:

Thank you. I don't think people pay enough attention anymore on tanuki jiggle physics these days.

[[2010] REBOOT 11]

Getting back to form.

A few of the previous episodes were dragging plot wise but this one seems to be picking up the pace again (although they're still in that field....Reboot's Namek!) i'm looking forward to some big story turn/s on the horizon (hopefully in the upcoming ep12).
The art/animation is more or less the same level as previous episodes. Most of the time it's fine but sometimes it's jarring such as the horse scene with the polybius twins, weapons and horse all looking kinda wonky and the shooting scene where Render turns his head. One thing im noticing is that the faces are becoming more and more human (they were just blocks not too long ago)...Violet's rapeface this episode being a prime example. The human faces are fine but weird... i miss the blocky faces.
Voice acting still leaves a lot to be desired and i often find myself relieved when a line is said through only text, you should probably just replace voices with sounds or music (like the teacher from Peanuts)...and it would still make sense given the world.

JMartin97 responds:

Reboot 12 will not disappoint, thank you for the critique.

[2nd Annual Tank Awards]

Opinions on the winner aside...

This was pretty painful to watch.
Tom seems super uncomfortable for most of it, the cgi set is extremely cheesy and the announcer person sounds spastic.

MindChamber responds:

we were trying to capture that pigpen style of art, I think we nailed it.

[Harry The Harlequin Fetus]

really cool

This is like a fucked up psychedelic Betty Boop cartoon.
I especially liked the doctor walking scene with the crazy background loop.
Would've liked to have seen more of the title character....dancing fetus please!

Catoblepas responds:

:D Maybe some day.

[Tank Epic]

ffff

Im usually not big on 3d but this demonstrates a perfect use. The original design ideas of heavy use of black and reusable parts to make cheap but good looking animation carried over really nicely to 3d.

And im not usually big on creaming like a queer and coming up with stupidly obvious and infeasible game ideas but... seeing this made me want a 3d Tankmen multiplayer game....something like Conker's BFD's war games.

Also...is their a higher quality version of this available somewhere?

thelonelyduck responds:

I have higher quality versions, but I'm still working on where to post them.

[[2007] REBOOT 9]

i'm betting 5 bucks on this getting deleted

After Load Animation,Pre-"Pre-Menu-Robot"-Quote, Pre-Menu robot,Menu,pointless music video style intro, credits, mid-animation (non-existant-)advertisement bumps, more credits,pr-re-menu animation.
It's really more like 11 minutes of animation with another 7 minutes of fluff.

The music choices didnt work out well this time around....and wtf is with Smite pulling a WHEN I WAS! Horrific.

The voice acting was too low in the mix to hear what they were saying often and alot of the voice acting from what i could make out lacked the appropriate emotion and/or timing of the scene.

The graphics were far too often funny...funny because they looked retarded....blob arms, one eye bigger than another or looking off in another direction, etc.

Story wise not much happened....a whole lot of buildup on the core storyline without any payoff while you waste alot of time doing mario fanservice. Yeah it was cool in Reboot 7 but thats because it was an interesting representation of Smite fucking up the computer, deleting stuff. It's been 2 episodes.....shouldnt he be on to other files by now? Was there a point to Luigi being tied up strapped with a bomb other than trying to make mario fanbois cream their pants?

All and all i'd like to see you strip back the nonsense so you can get back to the story......the yellow kid still hasnt done anything since he was introduced....besides say "wtf" alot.

Also i'd like my name off the credits.

JMartin97 responds:

What a surprise, Ryan Lambourne wants attention!?!?

[Hbd Victoria!]

cute

That was cute. A nice story with a beginning middle and end (something rare on newgrounds). The character animation was a bit lacking due to the tweening and i feel it couldve used some sound effects.... but youre clearly gonna get laid for making it so my score probably doesnt matter to you.

As for converting to video... camtasia is pretty simple to use. Other than that you could just switch your movieclips to graphic clips (would have to lose the filters) and export it from flash.

edmondoman responds:

Thanks for the suggestions, but i can't use Camtasia, cause i have a Mac. I am using Macromedia Flash 8 Professional. and anytime i export it from flash to quicktime, no matter what video encoder i use, the frame rate or something in the animations doesn't translate properly. I've also tried screen capture apps. but all the ones for Mac seem to be retarded.

[Kite Plight]

smallpox + blankets

Extremely well animated... but i also found it incredibly boring.
Also i didnt feel the music mixed well with the animation.
Not great entertainment but im sure it will look great in your resume.

On top of that.....it looks like it was made in flash.....if so, why did you convert it to video? Youve only raised the filesize and lowered the quality.

Onelani responds:

It was made in Flash but because all of the movie's content was too huge for one file, I put it all together in After Effects. I understand that it lower its quality with a high file-size; sorry for the inconvience.