RainbowRiderAlpha's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Like a Brother]

CRAZY COLOR EXPLOSION

I don't really like leaving reviews for flashes like this as I'll probably say what 50 other people said, but WHAT THE HAY AM I RIGHT.

The artistic style on this was CRAZY; you guys used SO MANY COLORS. Very cool and creative. You guys make a good team.

The newgrounds reference was hilarious, by the way. It seemed like there were a lot of references, actually.

Alright that was my review.

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

THE COLORS, DUKE. THE COLORS!

'i'm color-blind, kid'

Pop-Sicle HO HO!

[UPWN-Ballin']

Another one of these?

Maybe I'm being too harsh, and I probably am, but I really don't see the point in these collabs. Almost all of them consist of 6 second loops, while a few aren't even that long. Some are even horribly done and look very bland. Sure, they follow a theme, but I don't see the point in making these.

I'm not saying you didn't put a lot of work into this, I'm sure you did, but clicking a bunch of buttons to watch 6 second loops of something, probably with a bunch of tweens, that relates to the theme of the collab just seems stupid and boring.

I think a lot of you guys are really good animators, but watching loop after loop makes me second guess myself. I mean, some time trials look better than this.

Make something with some kind of story, or make your loops longer, more colorful, better, less tweens, I don't know, just stop making these pointless collabs. It just looks like a collection of practice animations to me.

Voodoo responds:

I guess it just not for jew.

[BeCarefulWhatYouWish4]

NICE ONE HIGH FIVE

I love smooth claymations. This is a smooth claymation.

It's also very different (at least character-design-wise) from your other animations, so it's good to know what you can do. The backgrounds fit perfectly with the style you pulled off, and it was really fun to watch. I was also very impressed with the fluidness, lip syncing, humor, and most of all, your voice acting. It might be whatever you're using to manipulate your voice, but you're a REALLY good voice actor.

I can't get enough of your claymations; keep it up, I'm looking forward to whatever you make next.

[Tendril]

Watch SonicX, only on 4kidstv.com

It honestly wasn't that bad, but it was pretty short and very choppy. You also didn't give any feel for the weight or movement of your shapes/characters. A quick example is the stick with the big ball in the bottom right corner at the very beginning. You would think the ball would make it more top heavy, and the stick would have to strain to move the ball and itself from side to side, but that didn't show at all. It just moved back and forth (and up and down for some reason) a little bit.

Quick summary:
-Increase the frame rate to make it more fluid
-Try to portray the weight, movement, and feel of the objects or creatures you create

Hopefully I'm not too vague with my suggestions.

ScelesticFish responds:

I know it was short. you could be right about the frame rate thing though. The thing with the weight could be argued either way. Adding weight and true movement would make it seem more realistic and professional, but since that flash altogether is very very surreal it could be argued that portraying weight would not be necessary.
thanks for the constructive and intelligent review :)
P.S. The ball thing was supposed go up and down.
P.P.S. No! I will not watch SonicX!!!! :D

[Super Fun Time Adventure]

I had a Super Fun Time Adv

That was actually pretty funny and creative. No color, but that's alright, don't worry, I have no problem with that, it's okay, you don't need any color, that didn't annoy me at all, I love black and white, color is boring.

I also noticed the characters don't have faces. I'm not sure if you noticed this problem, but I am confused as to how the protagonist could go anywhere without a face. I think he would be very confused and not to mention probably dead. A face would also give the character(s) personality.

Overall, I thought it was good. I thought it was a good game.

Kyaztro responds:

Hmmm a face, I may consider

[Brainfeeder]

Dumbledore dies at the end

This review is probably going to make it seem like I hated the animation, but I actually liked it.

The drawings were very interesting, cool, and colorful, and I loved the filters you used. I also thought some of the transitions and effects were creative (maybe because I have no idea how to do them).

Here's my problem:
That's pretty much the extent of the flash. Cool looking images, some with frame by frame (moving arms, wings, mouths), some just 'twitching' a bit, tweened across the screen. No story, no real backgrounds (although they are kind of interesting), no nothing. It gets boring. Unless I'm missing the point and each image is supposed to 'represent' something (which still doesn't do it for me), or this is what an LSD dream is supposed to be like (although my dreams are NOTHING like this).

Overall I think you're a very talented artist with a LOT of creative potential, but tweening your sometimes animated drawings around a filtered screen just doesn't wow me.

Hopefully this review didn't come across as being too harsh.

Rutger responds:

it's not harsh, I just need to animate more c:

[Daydreams.]

I liked it because

Everything was nice and random, the animation was good (it seemed like there were a lot of tweens, but it was still really good).

My only complaint with this was the music during the loading screen. It took about 4 minutes for it to load on my computer, and listening to the same loop for 4 minutes while looking around the internet got pretty annoying. You don't have to take the music off, but a mute button would be nice.

Other than that, it was really good.

And I like the ending.

Oh yeah, and you should probably

[Kinky Rayman]

Not bad

That was extremely random, but really funny. Whoever did the voice for that did a great job. Even though animation was just a tween (and some lip syncing), I really enjoyed it.

Good job for a funny short.