Darkl89's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[how to make pancakes]

This just sucks!

Dude, try putting more effort into your flashes. If you're going to play a real movie at least make the video quality good. You can barely see anything. The sound also sucks, you can hardly understand what the characters are saying. Lazyness is a disease you know.

[Halo Shorts #1]

Too short!

Needs better graphics, sound, humor, animation, lenght, well everything. Okay, this flash just sucked. I was too short and I didn't see the point of it. You are a good drawer(uless someone else drew this) but you really need to put more effort into this and your future flashes.

[Die Mario, Die!]

What the...

The flash made no sense whatsoever. You really need to start putting some effort on your flashes or you'll end up always doing bad stuff like this. Try harder next time!

[Mortal Kombat: AFS]

Funny

It was a fun flash, but the production values were too low. The sprite animation was mediocre and the sound could have been a lot better. The flash was good for a laugh though.

[A Super Mario short]

What a nice moral!

Too bad the short could have been a little more entertaining. You got skill man, you use need to use them a lot better.

JonBro responds:

I'm trying, I'm running out of ideas.

[Liu Kang's Crossover]

Not bad!

I loved how you inclused a lot of my favorite games in this flash (Excitebike owns all). The flash was good, the sprite work was great and the sound was sweet(well, it's classic music, what more can you ask for?). The only think I wish is for this flash to be a bit longer. Stiil, good job!

[Yoshi's Island 3 (VGDC)]

Yeah!

Been waiting for this one for a long time and all I have to say is:

Good job! Even better than the last two. Keep up the good work!

[Survivor: Hyrule]

This review is all part of the master plan.

Excellent sound and great graphics. The jokes were funny and the animation was smooth. The voices were perfect and you could hear them good and clear. The only bad part was that the movie was a bit short. Still, great job.

[MK Konquest Adventure 1]

Amazing as hell(ohhh!)

This flash has everything! The production values were really quite high in this movie. The graphics were good but man, the sound was excellent. You could hear everything clearly and the voices were perfect(they really make the characters likeable).

The movie was also funny as hell(ohhh!) and the jokes were really well done(I still don't get what a metaphor is, I feel stupid). The special features were all over the top in awesomeness(is that even a word?) The commentarie was amazing and I really want a Shao Kahn plushie. Excellent job Bezo, I can't wait to see the next part.

Bezo responds:

Thanks. I spent a lot of time developing my animation style (and I've even changed it since this was made), but I pride myself on my excellent sound ability. As a lot of you know, I'm mostly a composer of music and this animation thing is just something I do for fun and I have access to top of the line musical and audio tools. I think I can share one of my secrets though. This is the trick to having good Flash audio.

First, you need some kind of audio sequencer program. Something like Reason/Cool Edit Pro (now Adobe Audition) for PC or Logic Express (or Pro)/Soundtrack Pro for Mac (I recommend Soundtrack Pro because of its relative cheapness compared to Logic, but I use Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro together). Then you import all the audio you plan to use into it. All the dialogue, all the sound effects, all the music. Using the sequencer part of the program, arrange everything in tracks and start building a soundtrack for every scene. Then when you're finished, adjust all the levels for maximum sound clarity. In other words, have the music, but not so it overpowers the dialogue, and don't have the sound effects suddenly be a lot louder than the dialogue. I do this for every scene in the Flash. Then, record your soundtrack (bouncing) as a single audio file and import it directly into Flash (in .WAV format). Them animate to the soundtrack. When you publish, make sure your sound files are set to Stream, and your audio bitrate is set to MP3, 32 kbps, Best (stereo or mono is fine). Your file will take a while to publish, but it will make up for it in filesize and sound quality. Just make a sandwich or read a book while you're waiting. ;) MKKA ep 1 took about 3 minutes to publish and I have a very, very fast computer. I'm glad people liked my commentary and I really want a Shao Kahn plushie too.

Until I find someone who can make them, I guess I'll have to rely on my drawing of one.

Thanks for the review and if anyone who's having sound woes reads this, I hope it helps.

-Bezo.

[B]

Excellent Flash!

I just can't find anything wrong with this flash. It's perfect in every way possible.