stevetherapper's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[sad boi gripp]

Nice animation...

...but when you said “Wow 50 hours of work and not even top 10 fucking epic.” I just want to point out that 50 hours isn’t good enough to make a 38 second animation at top 10. Because basically you’ve been working on the animation for only 2 days.

I know from experience because I have animations on my profile that I’ve worked on for longer than 2 days, and none of those animations were on Top 10, (One Fine Day is no exception) only Overrun made it to top 10 (which doesn’t count because it was only worked on for about an hour, and the only reasoning for it going on Daily 9th Place was luck, mainly because I was only 10).

My best advice to you is if you want to make it to the top 10, work on it for longer than 2 days, hell, work on it for a week and you’ll easily make top 10.

Edit: True, it can be quite a pain in the ass to not be a runner up on something you actually put effort in and it wasn’t even a high scoring day, but in the Samurai Brak cartoon, you took 18 hours to make 11 seconds. Now multiply that by 3 and you get 33, which is less than the duration of this animation, and it took 18 hours, multiply that by 3, you get 54, which is more than the time you took to animate sad boi gripp. So basically I can ever so slightly understand why this isn’t a runner up, also because it only has a 2.99. Samurai Brak has a 3.96, which is almost a full star above sad boi gripp.

But on second thought, you do have a solid point in most cases. This sure should’ve gotten a runner up because you worked on it for 50 hours straight. So really, I was kinda the dumb one.

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artistunknown responds:

lmao there's only 24 hours in a day and no one's gonna fucking work 50 hours straight unless they're doing a jam, and even then, realistically they're working closer to 36 hours.

I would not have complained about not getting in the top 10 for 50 hours of work for a 30 second cartoon, if my literal last cartoon which was ELEVEN SECONDS LONG and took only 18 hours to make had not gotten daily 3rd and WEEKLY 4th. That's quite a lot less time and shorter length.

I feel like I'm coming off as defensive here, which is weird because you've given this 4 stars so it's not like you're even being negative, I just think it's really fucking funny and bizarre. I've been submitting content to this site for over 10 years now so I think I have a good idea of how something will typically perform, and it's just caught me so off guard because the last several things I've submitted (aside from the obvious shitpost steven universe one) have done super well, despite me expecting the worst, so now when I don't have ANY expectations, but i still put a fuckton of time and love into something, it suddenly goes back to me passing judgement with less than a fucking 3/5 and then getting burried because people will think it's shit and not give it a watch. Also iirc this is the first time since I started getting awards that something I actually put effort into didn't make it into the top 10. At the very least I'm usually in the runner ups, unless it's an insanely high-scoring day, and today was absolutely not a high scoring day, so on all accounts it just doesn't make sense.

I'll get over it eventually, but it's definitely gonna still be bumming me out for the time-being. Thanks for checking it out at least!

[Lilium]

I wonder why the music reminds me of Evanescence?

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[Final Fantasy A+]

Very impressive that it took 2-3 weeks to make 11 minutes worth of animation, because this is good.

It takes me 2 months to make 5 minutes worth of animation and those animations aren’t even as good as this. So I’m impressed.

-str-

[Bob Vs. Ross]

I love those names, especially since they are reminisce of the painter, Bob Ross!

One thing I suggest though is give it some music, I would highly suggest this: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/27007. Not necessarily something you need to put in, but I highly suggest it. ;)

The flaws were the zooms in the first and last frames. The first frame was zoomed out, and so was the last frame. You should cut those frames out.

Another thing is that the sounds were a bit off sync, not completely though.

But the animation was smooth, and it was pretty cool! Also the part when Ross says “Just because I’m red doesn’t mean I’m bad,” it’s actually true considering my favorite color is red, which if you’ve known me for long enough, chances are you would know that. That’s how favorite that color is to me.

Overall, great stick figure animation. I love stick fight animations. 8.5/10.

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AndreAnimates responds:

WOW, THIS IS THE BEST FEEDBACK I'VE GOTTEN!!
THANKS, PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER ONES!!

[gamestore]

Wavetro, you never fail to make me laugh. Cause I loved this movie.

Though I didn’t really get why you had to make it shorter. If you had many more jokes in store, just put them in. Don’t worry about taking it out. Then you won’t have to worry about uploading like 9 hours late, and maybe you’ll have a long animation.

Otherwise, this animation is good as always.

@glitchtimefail As for you, you’ve probably just started watching wavetro. Watch more of his content to get used to what he does and what his style is.

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wavetro responds:

Thank you Steve! The reason why I try to keep all my videos under 2 minutes is because it takes a while to render the full video from Blender 3D, since I like to use 60 fps. (Every second counts.) It also makes sure I don't stay on one idea for too long, because other reviews on here imply that I dragged out the pacing on this one too much. Probably set the bar too high for myself after the coronavirus video lmao

[Holy Mother F--- It's An]

Nice!

Looks like an animation you’d see in 2004!

-str-

[Miss Komi Can't Communicate - OP]

Wow.

I have high expectations for this series.

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Zer0cracy responds:

I hope I can meet them!

[Toad Richie]

Pretty good TwistedGrim. This did take you a year (which if it take a year for you to make a 2 minute long animation, you’re probably a slow animator), so props to you, and props to Mizu-Wolf for the hard work on the backgrounds.

One bad quality was Toad’s voice, which is pretty annoying and ear-grating, but if it was for entertainment purposes, well ok then, but personally I found it annoying, but if you don’t, that’s ok.

Overall, pretty much a 7.5 cause, well, it’s pretty gay.

-str-

[How to *error* fGffF]

Well at least you finally got audio to put in your animation, for the first half of the video.

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[coronavirus video]

0:33 Awww.

No but seriously this video was mad funny. I hope I don’t get the cornavirus...

*shiver*

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