Score: 9

"Really good"

submission: Ouija!!!

date: November 5, 2009

Good job! Very entertaining and a lot of fun to watch. Great job on the voice acting as well. Excellent use of ambient noise.

One of the kids, the one in the monster mask, had his voice file repeat on top of itself, however, which as a bit annoying.

Score: 10

"BOOM DE AAAAAH DAAAAA!"

submission: -=Boom De Ah Dah Collab=-

date: October 3, 2009

This was a lot of fun working on it and I'm so glad to see everything together. Seamless music transition, too.

Score: 8

"Good follow up with great humor"

submission: MK Mishaps Gold

date: September 21, 2009

While the basis isn't the most original thing in the world, this was very well done.

Once again Hadoukendude brings us a variety of MK outtakes with his own humor styling.

My favorite was definitely the Kung Pow reference in the skit called "'Kang'-Pow"

Score: 3

"Adds nothing new to tutorials for sprites"

submission: Moving Sprite Tutorial

date: September 14, 2009

There's nothing new in this tutorial to make it stand out from other sprite tutorials. Also, the sprite of link was obviously traced using an option other than "Pixles" in the "Trace Bitmap" option, which gives him a smashed, Play-Dough look.

This tutorial, just like so many other sprite tutorials fails to mention and instruct two of the most important points in making a sprite animation:

1. Sprites all have anchor points regardless of the frame of animation. Using these anchor points keeps the sprites from bouncing around.

-Obviously the author of this tutorial either doesn't know or didn't care enough to check, since his example of Link's running animation isn't smooth and nudges back and forth. It takes half a second to zoom in to 2000% and make sure that all the frames are lined up correctly. Nudging/bouncing sprites are an example of extreme noobness and is seen as lazy.

2. Tracing bitmaps adds a LOT to the file size.

-Using an external program such as JASC Paintshop Pro (which is free) or even Photoshop in order to make each from of animation an individual and transparent bitmap is the best way to do it. In just one animation I was able to take over 3MB off the finished file size just doing it that way.

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This tutorial doesn't really give much in the way of new help, nor does it really give good examples and screenshots like many others do. In addition, the author failed to use correct sound settings because the music often overlaps on to another clip.

More polish and more information is needed to make a truly good tutorial, and this one is just "Okay". It really is amateur.

Score: 6

"Not bad, not great, could use better execution"

submission: Random Mario Parodies 2!

date: September 11, 2009

The actual animation of the characters was fine, but a few of the edits and rips could use a little work (Mario's walking animation has a few graphical glitches for instance).

By far not the worst Mario or sprite animation on Newgrounds, it just needs a little polish. The heavy use of tint filters and a few positions of the characters not being in the correct spot on the ground (either too high or too low the point of contact) takes it down a bit.

Lastly, the execution/timing of some of the jokes are a bit off. With a little more tweaking there's no doubt that ForNoReason and MarioFlashMovies won't be popular for these types of animations.

Score: 8

"...huh...why isn't this higher?"

submission: Kenshiro freak out

date: September 10, 2009

I understood the humor and kind of poking fun at sprite movies using this sprite movie...so my question is, why is this rated so low? The sprites were decently animated and it had that "random humor" thing going for it.

Well, good job. To each their own for those who don't like it.

Score: 10

"Very addicting game"

submission: Toss the Turtle

date: August 31, 2009

This game has the right mixture of everything. The upgrade system is a lot of fun and trying to beat your high score each time can be frustrating, but there is a deep pull to do it.

My longest was over 8million, but I can only prove 7,386,726 with a screen shot. Highest in the air I achieved was 2,756.

Suggestions for a follow up would be even more medals and distance achievements, as well as more upgrades for the canons.

Score: 4

"What is...I don't even..."

submission: Knuckles Vs. Axel

date: August 12, 2009

I have to be honest...I don't really know what's going on in this animation.

The sprite presentation needs a lot of work, but it's not terrible. The author has a basic understanding of choreography for battles, but it's really novice.

Also, the music over loops into itself, which is really annoying.

Score: 10

"Very cool"

submission: Sleepless Ep1 Extras

date: July 21, 2009

I always love learning more about an animation and the characters. Too bad you couldn't include it in the main animation because of the file size. Didn't realize Toma was 16.

I'm really looking forward to episode 2.

Score: 10

"Breath taking"

submission: Skull in Connemara

date: July 21, 2009

The atmosphere was perfect for the play and the animation styling was just magnificent.

The audio was spot on as well, never too loud, never too quiet. The music gave the video a perfect pacing.

I thought I was impressed watching it here on NG until I saw how it was presented to the audience on your user page...My god...that's incredible.