Stanpai's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Psycho Essence #6 Clothes make the man]

I hate to throw around the word "genius", but you are a creative genius. I simply cannot use another way to describe your unique approach to writing, story-telling, and most of all, animation. I do not understand how a person like you is not world-famous for your creations. It is a horrifying thought that such talent is under-appreciated for some reason.

Schuschinus responds:

Thanks! It´s often said, story is the central thing and the visuals should only serve the story. I do exactly the opposite. I have ideas for visuals and crazy concepts, then use story to lead from one effects shot to the next with very flexible dream-logic. When I start making a film, I have no idea, how it´s going to end. Since it takes so much time to make them, I have time to think about it and often adapt new ideas in the process.

[Cheeky]

Beautifully made, this looks really nice. Only 3 stars because it's a very short cartoon, and really is hardly different from an SFM porn loop in content. That said, very beautifully animated.

Potatoman responds:

You're right this is basically porn

[Pokemon snap, The secret technique.]

This made me laugh quite a bit. Your characters during the dialogue have some inconsistently moving parts on the face, I'd suggest keeping things consistent so that the mouth movements don't have jarring effects on the other parts of the body. Beyond that though, this video really made me laugh by the end. I thing you could also tighten up the first part in the lab so that we get to the joke a bit faster, but this video is so short as is that it gets the job done.

Pokemon art and overall outdoors section was the best looking part of the toon. Nice work!

skosh55 responds:

I learned a lot while making this cartoon and I'm planning on changing the way I do some stuff, mainly lip-sync like you suggested but also changing the line style as well to keep it more consistent and less choppy. ( I was thinking I could do all the drawing with 0 smoothing on the brush to maybe have a more unique style but I don't think I'm gonna stick with that decision.)
thanks for the kind words and feedback, I really appreciate it!

[Monster Hunter Rise, I Guess]

Some cute humor, really liked a number of the gags, but I feel the backgrounds were too minimalist and the animation, even if parodying someone else's style, was rather rough when coupled with already very simple drawings. I'd suggest prioritizing the art or the animation for future uploads and you'll have a winning formula.

AzureChuck responds:

Thanks for the critique, I'll keep that in mind if I end up making a part 2!

[Evil Academy For Evil Sorcerers]

Mouth movements are very out of sync which brings the quality down. I also would suggest picking up some voice actors for your future projects to add some spice to the production- plenty of whom can be found right here on the site.

That said I liked this and hope to see more from you in the future! When you don't have to rush, you can really take the time to fix things like your audio desyncing, because I could see you did animate the mouths proper. You can update this cartoon or upload a better version later!

FungalDespair responds:

Thanks dude, really appreciated!

Yeah I'd love to redo this animation, but with more time put into it. With finding people to voice act, timing the overall short better and whatnot! - again, thanks dude!

[Discord's New Ad Campaine]

Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door. Shitpost club is two blocks down.

FelmG responds:

what?? what do you mean what are you saying?

[Cloud's buddy Sephiroth]

A very low effort cartoon. It doesn't have enough unique frames to even qualify as a powerpoint presentation.

Low score isn't because I think you suck, I just do not think this is worth more than one star.

EDIT:
In response to the author and to those who don't understand: This is a cartoon with very, very few unique frames of animation. Sure, you can laugh and enjoy it, but there are submissions to the Art portal that have more animation than what is present in this submission. I am scoring this submission based on its merits as an animation. It's extremely low effort, and I doubt the anyone involved in making it would dispute that either. This work is simply not substantive, and I would much rather see something with more effort put into it in the future.

Yes, the motto is "everything by everyone". And just as you have the right to decide what you upload, the users have a right to review it based on their own subjective perspectives. The users also decide what gets to stay and what gets voted off of the portal. That's the entire point of the rating system. Whether or not you feel good about me expecting more from a submission is fine, but this feedback will probably serve you better than a thoughtless 5/5 with no feedback that can't even give you something that will point you toward improving your work. I hope you will take this to heart and work toward improving your animation work in the future.

Doobus-Goobus responds:

The motto of the website is literally "everything by everyone" but if you wanna go by what doesn't "qualify" be my guest lol.

edit: I'm fine with you disliking it, I don't expect everyone to be into my humor. And I also agree It's not nearly as many frames as alot of other toons on this site, and is made alot easier and quicker, It's not a fucking cal arts thesis, no shit. Some like happy harry deserves to be front-paged waaaay more than I do. And I have no problem with that.

But feedback like "this is how many frames I'm SUPPOSED to do" feels like arbitrary elitism if your not going to explain how it would improve the joke or the timing. Shit like this is rooted in comparison and not in the actual animation itself. If you explain to me how more frames would have made it funnier, then by all means. but just saying "it should have more frames cause it's more effort and others do it" isn't explaining to me how that would change the viewing experience. hell, for a guy saying theres no substance, you sure seem fixated only the amount of frames and not the designs, timing, and the joke. and it took me a good 3 hours to dub the mouth movements so fuck off with your "less effort than a power point" comment.

[Supermega Animated - Dad's nuts]

I had a good laugh. Work on further improving lip sync. This video got better as it went further along, you can tell that you got more proficient at animating as you kept working on it.

SyncedUp responds:

Ayy, thanks for the feedback. I'm hoping to create more animations this year and improve even more!

[Divinity for Infinity- Finite Twilights]

This piece is beautiful. It's also more on-model between shots than Steven Universe could ever hope to be. Great job!!

RainbowCraftz responds:

This comment made my entire day