Katanaman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cotton Roots]

Good but not my style

It would probably be my style but I don't get it at all. Your animation skills have improved since your last movie but the whole thing, apart from the obvious improvement in animation and graphics, seems like one of your old movies like "Down town" or "Executed". It lacks a plot and I just don't get the joke. But I guess there are people out there who would definitely enjoy it. Me, for example. Watching it was fun for the simple fact that the graphics and animation are good. Make the graphics this good and a plot like Keeblur and you're going to make an instant NG classic that's even better than Keeblur, Street life or E! Bin Laden. Keep it up... PLEASE.

[X Forces]

Great

It's all about killing with no plot but it was just so well done I can't avoid finding it great. The music fits the cartoon, the graphics are great and the animation is detailed(which unfortunately made it run slower). You kind of remind me of Mindless Self Indulgence. Jimmy Urine keeps talking about how much the band sucks yet it's my favourite music band ever. You also talked about how this sucked but it was really well done. Peace!

[07/16/2003 Pogo Rampage]

So so

The song's actually called "Pogo" and it's really about sex. The animation's not bad but seems sloppy at parts(lots and lots of parts, actually) and I think violence doesn't really fit the song. But the cartoon was ok. But I found it kind of painful.

[Chimpmunk Rap]

ugh...

I usually point out good things about movies. Even bad ones. But this just sucked. The filesize is huge yet the song's quality is low as hell. Dude, this must have been done in a day. It was basically images being shown as the kick ass song(which, by the way, is from Bentframe, not Atomfilms) played in the background at a low quality. I wouldn't care about the sound quality if the animation was decent and the filesize problem was improved. No, it's 3mb of stupid images and a compressed song in a video that isn't even complete. I made a music video as well and I compressed the song a lot, too. But it included decent animation, the full song, and the filesize is under 700kb. If you made it with vector art and animation, instead of showing meaningless JPEGs or GIFFs, the filesize would most likely be A LOT(and I do mean A LOT)smaller. Well, you might get better with practice. But to practise, start with small projects and give them your best shot. You'll improve and then you can move on to bigger projects and make quality entries. For now, you should lay off big projects, because you're obviously not ready yet.

[JACKASS!-Tribute]

Short but good

I love how you took it so far. Everything was unexpected. The animation wasn't great but the material was. I loved the Monty Python reference in the end.

[BEEBO Part 7]

Disapointing

I love Beebo and this episode's great but it was quite disapointing. There seems to have been a lot more effort put into this one than in the previous episodes but, unfortunately, it isn't as humorous as the other episodes. It's still funny as hell. It's just not up to the standards you set in the other episodes. You remain one of my favourite authors and the funniest in NG and I hope you keep the Beebo series going. It's my favourite series in NG. While this episode's the worst in the series, it gets a 5 from me! Damn, did I sound repetitive???

[LazyMe -Ep2- Car/ Job]

Hillarious

Man, the graphics and animation suck, which is probably the point, since it's called "lazy me". But the cartoon's hillarious and long. For a cartoon to be good, it doesn't have to be well animated as long as it's good at some other point. There's no story to this. It's almost as if I was listening to a stand up comedian if there weren't parts in which the humor was based in the cartoon, not in the audio. That's why I love this so much. It's strictly all about jokes. And even the stupid ones were funny because you took them further. If it was well animated and drawn, you'd get really far. Believe me.

[supermarc2 - yeeha]

o...k...

The graphics are really good and the animation is decent. But what's the point of the movie??? The dude's smoking, he says "I wish someone told me the diference between yeeha and jihad" and that's it. Hm... to quote some guy in a review of some movie in newgrounds, "Is this one of those artsy movies I'm not supposed to understand?". Your animation skills seem good so if you made a movie with a story of any kind, you could actually get it to be featured in the frontpage.

[BS Theater : WWBBD?]

I like it

Well it kind of disapointed me. Since you said "phew" in the begining of your comment I expected a great flash animation. It wasn't that good. Don't get me wrong though. It's good. The animation's smooth and it's quite full of stuff and easter eggs were a nice addition even though I couldn't find any. The problem I have with this is actually not the animation. It's the lag in the song every time it changes scenes. I thought it was going to be a minor detail but no. It was really hard not to notice. I personally take sound very seriously when I make flash animation so I criticise quite a bit the sound. Ignore me ;)
I like it and it was well done. It shows that there was effort put into it.

Apeman505 responds:

Yah, the reason it skips is because I divided the movie into scenes and had a movie clip with the music streamed inside of it in each one. I had to tell the music to start at exactly the right spot every time the scene changed. Not too difficult to do, since I just measured the lengths of each scene. This method should have worked, but it didn't and I had to keep adjusting it. It's still not perfect, and I tried copying all the frames into the same scene, but that didn't work. TONS of information got screwed up when I tried it, so if anyone has any ideas on how to fix it I'm all ears.

Well, not literally....

[Immortal Warrior]

The filesize is too big

The problem is not the frame to frame animation. The problem is the high quality full mp3 you used. You should reduce the sound quality because it would reduce the filesize drastically. The art is simple but it looks good. Yeah, basically the problem of the filesize is the music. If you want to reduce the filesize even more, you can try making the lines smoother, even though they already look smooth. Also, try recycling images whenever you can, as long as you make them symbols. If you do this often enough, you can get to save a few kb. Still, the sound quality is the biggest problem. Reduce it and the filesize may go down 2000kb or so, depending on how high the sound quality is.