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sounds good!

just to counter the bloke who said you need more sound ... you don't! your film was tight as. more background and we wouldn't have got the 'sniff...' you built good drama in that little film. your graphics were fine if a little dull... but you excelled at the character expresion and the way you built the movie up in cuts, close ups etc. didn't much like your opening shot, town and country... found it a little confused... but you know... pretty good work.

MASTER of cliche... a better education entirely

this is a film you can learn from! having bErated your 'Timline history' i decided to check out your other stuff... you can really build films. you've really being watching how those fellas make them,, your slow pans into charater... snapping about... flashing visuals... wow. Its great to see how you use filmic devices, you make them evident. your storey boarding skills must be top notch i can imagine how you might play with sequence and lay out... hmmm... this skill enables you to construct such engaging and watchable film narative... with lots of movement... to make watchable films that long alone is a serious accomplishment and needs craft mastery. in critique, with potatoe boy, the same competant deployment of filmic device used to construct the narative has begun to constrict it... the storey is a little tired in the way its told because of the cliches adhered too, and the whole becomes unoriginal... but i'm sure you'll begin to construct + reconstruct your own devices and with it your newground soon enough. oh i thought dog vs god was your best i've seen !, 100%,, THANKS.

tell me what i don't know

YOUR writing the history,, if you don't wanna do the research and instead 'revise' the history of animation to big american studios pushing out their... stuff... fine... but don't call it 'THE' history call it 'Stuff you problies already know about animation... on account of its popularity due to marketing, merchandising and media investment and ownership... errr... etc etc etc. find out about that anime stuff! northern ireland has the internet eh? your popular experience doesn't make for 'THE' history...

but your film ran smoothly if a little too quick and unimaginatively. sure it'll impress the teacher... but i'd say 'more research needed if learning is the idea....'

colour with in the lines... narrrrr

you pick a song and illustrate the lirics.... colour by numbers.

but it went up to 100 and you stopped at 37... your 'illustration' of the lyrics was unimaginative (thats not at all to say your illustration wasn't accomplished),,, if you start with a song don't end there also... use it as a 'starting' point... oh yes its harder... but if you use a song like this and develop a storey board from your excursions,, trips if you like!,, you'll soon have an orignal movie and not just an illustration... the song will accompany the pictures and not vice verser... draw what the lyrics don't say... and
oh, with ref title,,, you want to edit the site... apply for the job... democratic stuff is more often populist but populist gives access to viewers... theres lots of private clubs, newgrounds may not be too select and maybe there should be a room where all music video and game character driven tedium should go first only the best getting to sit with wholey origanl content... along with movie action homage but start splitting up the house to much and the oportunity to reach big audiences for independent and original film makers is also fractured... or well...

sentimental

sent I mental?

what a lovely family you have. which is nice. erm... isn't it all wonderful... and isn't it all awful... lack of contrast. i don't know,,,
you made yourself a pillow and 25,000 others lay their heads upon it, including me - good job i washed my hair this morning... errr maybe i got to wash it again now... watching your film didn't make me reflect up on much or my self... but it was technically adequate... hmmmm mythself.

i woke in the dream

i kind of liked some of graphics,,, a little more time spent throughout oin frame composition and it would have looked nice.

watched it twice to try and get to grips with your storey,,, somthing came over although the pyramid had me grasping... dogs head-wolf... annubis..(is that the name?) ... it had a dream quality,, thats for sure. didn't think the voice acting was good enough... think you could have left it as subtitiles or made it 'less' comprehensible,,, so as we got expression without poor acting... niggling, i think you need to concentrate on arranging your layers, an effect like drifting bubbles disintergrates when the bubbles appear to cross each other and other objects 'un-instinctivley(?)'... defying illuded perspective ... simulating depth is useful magic when pulled off but it only takes a slip to distract and then destroy an otherwise well constructed illusion.
any ways. the future.

the struggle

nice little film,,, sound fine. i loved your quick cuts,,, especially as they involved no swords... lots of movement i was only just holding on.. and the slow intro followed by manic chase,,, watched it twice to get a better grip... hadn't realised the two roof top shadow characters were our main players till second time round... infact the whole roof top drama became more clear second time round... but it was nice enough to watch twice and i like over laying your simple narative with wider implications of the 'struggling' artist,, think that makes it a good storey for me. i direct critique toward that roof top scene and toward your backgrounds throughout,,, i don't think your characters were evident in those roof top 'phantoms', and your city scapes were a bit simple spindly... maybe i just don't like the thin stroke size in these drawings or it was the dead plalette... my taste... but i think they need nore attension at least in the later scenes...(i understand you may have wanted to contrast the characters with their surrounds but....)

any way, thanks good little film.

nice original storey...

i liked your storey... quiet, thoughtful... giving critique - the dailogue of the fellas in the bar after the hero left was a little clumsey... in fact all the dialogue was a little clumsey... and maybe they said a bit too much... but i liked the raining boxes final scene... unfortunately i thought your animation in and out of the box and the animals them selves let the film down a little... but you got your storey over well ... and i liked the message. thanks

Siard responds:

Thanks! I aprreciate your comment:)

facing up to it

liked the heresy stamping machine, but i like factory metaphors.

your film made good use of tv ad parody... your graphics were expedient, communicating imediately,, my favourite sort... the smiley mask itself hasn't got me ringing up but as a cog in the larger workings of your film,, its adequate. i'm a bit lost with the expressionist reference, i figured your mask to be a kind of smiley... not somthing linking back to early 20c expressionist... theater?... but you're right they used alot of circles too but i think the smiley reference is the one that stands forth and works on my mind - and the mind of others?... (and i've done my bauhaus homework- [maybe the smiley icon 'has' expressionist origins....?]) any ways its all POPular art now,,, especially on new grounds...!

oh, and your script was tight and delightfully dry...

look forward to seeing more of your work.

HeresyInc responds:

I use the term exressionism a little loosely. TO me it means any art that expresses the artist thoughts, feelings, or emotions.

chopped scenes

i wouldn't have finished it either... errr or started it.... but i liked seeing your outakes along side the actual... i figure the whole set of scenes gave some insight into the construction and so deconstruction... the main cartoon seemed set in the country and the cop car so urban it had me puzzled from the off... then on seeing your out takes i see another context... what i liked about it was the overlaying of all these film snippits you enabled my head to do by presenting them as separates... the experience was novel evan if the cartoons storrey wasn't... as to your intension (?)

oh and i delished in that horizon change thing from cop car on-coming to axe man looking-out-toward... lovley effect...

Killjoy-popsickle responds:

Thanks heaps Yeh It was going to be almost completely to music without sounds so the scene changes were intended to make it smoother.. ANyway thanks lots

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