squeakytoad's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Walk in the Woods]

That has to be the funniest poop joke ever.

Good grief, Weebl, you can make the more immature and downright stupid concepts absolutely hilarious.

And your cartooning is flawless.

I envy you.

[Orange Rhymes]

Good heavens, Hans, leave some space for all us!

You're rapidly becoming amazing at this, and taking up all the room in the talent wagon.

Stop getting better before you leave all us behind.

This was excellent. A fantastic original cartoon short with a BEAUTIFUL style (submit this to Sundance and a ton of other film festivals- now).

Funny, amusing, and, most of all, pretty intelligent. I love the deeper themes here.

Also, I got a good chuckle out of the "NG Fanboy VG Version".

Keep up the good work and KEEP ANIMATING.

-st

AlmightyHans responds:

thanks man, means a lot to me. but i don' think this is sundance material XD

yeah i wasn't going for the humor direction that you get reviews from the annoying little kids that tend to respond something along the lines of:

"OMFG THAT WUZ THE LOLZERS! MAKE MOAR!!!!!1!!!1!!8!!!!"

for that reason i directed them to the NG VG Fanboy version.

FInally, yes, i will keep up the work as much i can.

-hvh

[Cecil The Penguin]

Well done.

Very classically animated. Loved the traditional style and story-telling. This brings back nostalgic memories of those cartoons I watched as a kid.
You did a great job.
Such a pity about the video resolution.
Hopefully you'll be able to make your future animations directly in flash.
I find it silly how Newgrounds favors some animations (giving them undeservingly high scores) simply because "Wow! You drew that by hand!?" but then ignores a lot of traditional stuff like this.
Haha, I think it's because you didn't make it obvious enough that each frame was done by hand.
You did a great job with the post-production. Nice coloring and it all fit well together. Very smooth.
Looking forward to more.
Keep animating, man!

The-AngelCrusher responds:

Thanks man. Yeh, noticed some abstract 2D animation got quite popular. Thing is abstract straight ahead animation does just build and build the amount of drawings you do, because the artist doesn't really time the animation properly, so you usually see things at a constant speed or spacing. Plus, its not really character animation, which is tricky, making a line grow or whatever is pretty basic.

Maybe its just because my hand isn't in shot, or that the film doesnt look like 2D animation, which is great from my point of view, means I made something like looks professional. Maybe I should have uploaded pencil tests to be popular ^_^

No hard feelings. Its a finished film that i am happy to send to companies and stick on my showreel. Cartoon Network wont hire you for animating a line after all now will they ;)

Picture quality sucks, but it was either this size and be blurry, or smaller and still be abit blurry. lol Hopefully my next film will render better...although it'll take longer cos of the length of it. I could just clean it up in flash though, who knows :)

[Bambee]

This should be on SNL's TV Funhouse.

That was brilliant. You did an excellent job with the backgrounds and the character animation. They were a perfect parody. The style was brilliant and spot-on.

Overall, a fantastic piece. I've loved your other work and I love this.

[Tickles' Magic Pickles]

This is fantastic, and I'm jealous.

Your animation is absolutely fantastic, as is your humor. The voice acting was top notch as well.

This was so great and so original. This is exactly the kind of cartoon the web needs.

I really enjoyed this and have enjoyed your past works. So much so that I've added you to my favorites list and am eagerly awaiting whatever you have in plan for your viewers in the future.

Most definitely keep animating.

-st

[-Falling-]

Absolutely brilliant.

Oh, it was fantastic.
Someone in a previous review compared you to Tim Burton. I thought you did a great job using his style but in your own original manner. The music, story, and feel was very Burtonesque, but you brought your own flair to it. To compare the quality of yours and Burton's is absurd. Why don't we just compare the average flash submission to Brad Bird's latest Pixar masterpiece? Burton has studios and millions of dollars at his disposal. You're just some guy with a camcorder and household trinkets. A little different scenario.

I'd like to see you experiment more in the stopmotion world.
Keep animating, man.

-st