Shock-Dingo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[WGJ4K: Robert Burgless]

Great presentation and attention to detail

This is the first time I've come across this series and I've got to say you're really good. You put a lot of work into this, especially the presentation and it shows.

I've always been a sucker for a project's presentation and you did a great job with it;
-I loved the newgrounds presents screen, title screens, and art style. I was reminded of older animation from the good ol days.

-The animation is very very fluid, is it frame by frame? (I'm clueless when it comes to flash)

-Great voice acting by all around. Filled with personality, and everything comes off very naturally. I loved how Mickey absolutely lost it towards the end.

I thought the last segment with the argument went a bit long without that many visuals, but it wasn't a major problem for me, maybe some minor movement or some sort of visual gag would have changed up the pace.

Overall, keep up the good work man. I'll be keeping up with your work from now on. All the best to you man!
-Shockdingo

[Quick Sonic Shorts!]

Short, to the point, brilliant

This is an amazing piece. I loved the presentation in this feature. Everything artistically felt very fresh and lively. I loved the reflective effects for Metal Sonic passing by the sparks. That's stellar attention to detail! The shorts themselves were quite funny and very original. I've seen many wonderful bits of Sonic humour, but often, things fall into a safe area of typical repeated jokes (usually saying Amy is a psycho, or that Shadow is emo, etc). While short, your pieces were fun and something I needed to see, a breath of fresh air in terms of subject matter. Your last one in particular was hilarious and my favorite. I've never seen that concept used for ol'Sonic. Also, amazingly drawn ring at the end, it was just beautiful and oh so shiny.

Keep up the great work! I hope to see more work from you in the future!

All the best to you
-Shockdingo

[Edwin Ep03]

Great Style, Pacing and characters

This is some quality work. First off, I love the visual style of this show. It really stands out and adds a distinct look and flavor to your piece. I found all of the voices were very fitting and brought significant life and personality to each of the characters. I'm liking that the episodes are taking their time and not rushing to shove too much plot and content into one episode, for that reason I feel the series benefits and is allowed to maximize its potential.

Keep up the great work man! :)
-Shockdingo

Kieran-s responds:

Hey thanks man!

[HappyStep]

Brilliant first effort

This may be your first flash, but in my eyes you show great promise. The whole thing was simple, but presented in a way that kept the viewer's eyes busy; that's a good thing to do, you never want the action to get dull or static. I loved the growing variety of the backgrounds and things he encountered. Very nice presentation overall; bright colors, nice variety of visuals, smooth animation, it all works nicely. My only nitpick was the little dude walking felt like he needed a frame or two added to his walk cycle, but no big issue there, also I was a little jostled by the sudden end, it would have been nice to see the whole thing start to wind down towards the end. Keep up the good work man.
-Shockdingo

YouriX responds:

Wow this means alot coming from you since you also make some pretty awsome flashes! Yeah, i dont know what went wrong with the waking dude like you said needs a frame or to. And about the end i didnt know what to do further so left it that way. Honestly im done with this animation i need to go and make some new awsome art!

I am starting to love flash more and more! thanks for the compliments and the thumbs up! ;)

[Awesome Guyver]

There is potential

I'm a fan of the series so I was able to catch some of the references which indeed did make me laugh. I get you were going for a quick and humorously messy style, but at points it was hard for me to make anything out. Since judging from the comments, people don't recognize this series, the unclear visuals would make it harder for them to know what is going on. Like I said before, some things actually did make me laugh, I think if you went for a clearer style of art (it doesn't have to be great, it can even be simple, as long as it gets the idea across) and tighten up the dialogue it can work. Keep at it man, maybe even try and tackle individual episodes and work your way through the series.

Best of luck man,
-Shockdingo

DarkMatter responds:

thanks for your honest I appreciate it =D
I considered making a second episode including the rest of the OVA, after all Mizuki was never in this animation!

[Street Fighter 2 Turbo V2]

Brilliant execution

I really loved this movie. The styling stole the show for me;
-The interaction with the mouse and menus added a fresh and interesting flair to this flash and if there's one thing that I love it is originality.

-The Fight between Vega and Ryu was great. It was as fast paced and over the top like some other flashes I've seen, but because of that I really appreciated that. These moves felt like they could be performed by the fighters, there was not the over exaggerated anime powered up combat. :)

-The Menu transformation was excellent, I loved the Ken remix as well.

-The ending credits was phenomenal! I always loved "I wanna be a Street Fighter" the entire SF2 cast upgrading and teaming up was a blast to watch.

All my best to you dude, keep up the excellent work, I'll be sure to check out all of your stuff now. :)

Take care
-Shockdingo

Pienkaito responds:

Thank you for the well-written and positive comment. ^^
Hope you will like my future works too.

[EDIT]: Wait a sec, your name is kinda familiar to me...
AH!!! You VA'ed in one of R1665's movies, right? XD
Which character did you voice again? I totally forgot. X(

Anyway, thanks for the review. ;D

[The Transformer]

Hilarious, stylish and original

Great job, I've always been a fan of your work. This continues your excellent track record. The visuals were great, I loved the text boxes and the film scratches. The transformation sequence was brilliantly animated and appropriately dynamic. The thing though that really caught my attention was the absolute lack of voices, and the original idea. These two things added greatly to the score. Many maaany people have spoofed Transformers, but your idea wasn't anything I'd expect or go "Pffft..seen it." To me fresh is good.

Well that was my $0.02 keep up the great work, I look forward to your next piece.

JohnnyUtah responds:

thank you sir

[Kk Versus Ff-the Fight]

Epic

Great and fluid animation man. Thanks for letting me do some voices. :) Keep up the good work man! :)

Hulalaoo responds:

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EDIT: WELL, THANKS FOR SEND THE BUDDY, I CAN ADD YOU NOW :D

[Facebook Twitter]

Nice work man

This was a real entertaining piece and I don't believe it was too talky; the constant actions and reactions of the characters prevented things from suffering talking head syndrome. This had many strengths:

-Character design: In all of your work I've noticed that you are able to really create interesting character designs and they are quite detailed. Also, am I insane, or was Gigantor inspired by Haggar from Final Fight? There's something familiar about him. :)

-Colors/ overall presentation: I liked the background you chose, it was simple, but the good choice of colors and the small glowing objects in the background made it all feel like it was a fantasy forest.

-Animation: Stellar, simply stellar. All of the characters have some form of movement, and the lip syncing is fantastic! The little movement of the tiny guy's ears, Gigantor's brow lifts or constant eye movement really add life to this.

I think this is a great piece, but the lack of music was a little issue for me; it wasn't vital but a bit of ambient music in the background (especially when Gigantor reveals his plan) would have added a bit to this. Overall, I can't think of anything really that I didn't enjoy with this. Keep up the good work man and all the best. I hope to see more from you soon.
-Shockdingo

JohnnyUtah responds:

thanks dude