Gianni's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Outfoxed]

I think you would benefit from representing the hunters as more than "evil people." I understand that commonly made choice, but when you represent the villains as real characters with independent traits and actual depth, giving some insight into their motives, you can do a more effective job of showing people WHY their choices are wrong. If they're just mask-faced, evil, red-eyed dickheads, then you don't establish that connection, and your whole story just feels like it's ignorantly pushing a one-sided ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS TOO agenda. You've drawn hunters in the past as just people, so I'm sure a portion of your choices here had to do with your own stated desire to go with a simplified animation style, which is fine, but that Disney-style BAD PEOPLE ARE BAD method never tugged on my heartstrings I guess. Also, when the one hunter's eye faded out instead of closing shut, I was like "Heh, I guess they were all terminators. That explains it!"

Not to say an anti-hunting agenda is why you made this, I'm sure it's not looking at your past works, but it still gives off a closed-minded feel that I think you're probably better than. Not that I don't agree with the point, though. Shooting animals for yucks is a bit of a dick move. I just think a story, especially a decidedly dramatic one, benefits from both sides seeming potentially viable to the unbiased eye, with one side doing something that someone may or may not regard as going too far. Melodramas where villains are clearly villains and heroes are clearly heroes with no gray or understanding for the other shoe are a little passe.

Don't misunderstand me though, I think it's a great piece. It's cool to see your improvements and you did a proper job of building drama and tension. I would hope you to be having a great time with viewers since foxes are trending right now and you were all about it "before they were cool."

KFoxyFox responds:

Well, I am an opponent of fox hunting and hunting for sport, and not an opponent of hunting for food ^^. The baddies were made to look more like machines than men in some ways, to distance themselves from humanity. I thought it was a cool design ^^.

[My reaction to "Gamer War]

The classic sound effect in place of actual speech was not only really in-line with the general tone of rhythm of the entire animation, but independently a really effective and good idea. The whole thing felt pretty crisp and tight.

FunnyFilmsStudioNG responds:

I tried to find a better sound, but I just couldn't. Thanks for review!

[How To Meet A Hot Girl]

Yeah well, your voice is great and I like it more than Swoozie's, plus as far as I can tell he doesn't upload to Newgrounds.

So DEATH TO SWOOZIE.

itsalexclark responds:

HA - no hate on swoozie. He's fareaking awesome. He doesn't post to newgrounds though. so that's a win for me. New grounds is the clear winner when it comes to best fans ever!

[Shinobi Noir Trailer]

You've gotten to be so good at this, your improvements from when I first started working with you are more noticeable and professional every time I check out a new video from you. Also, I'm running out of reasons why ATheatricalSongBird hasn't drowned to death in awards yet.

Kel-chan responds:

I know! she's amazing!

and not just voice acting. I wish I had my guitar so I get get her to sing some songs

[Knife To Meat You]

If he/she had a picture of the cow with a top hat, I feel like it's safe to assume that after the cow's death, he dressed it up and took photographs of it. Using sense and logic, it's also safe to assume that if he was insane enough to go that far, he was also likely insane enough to do MORE than merely take pictures of the cow.

The real joke here is between the lines.

HugoVRB responds:

Finally!!!
I have been waiting for this comment since I uploaded it.
It may not be too clear but you got it!
Here have a cookie.
He is way more insane than everybody thinks hahaha

[A Thug in Time Intro]

Did Seymour voice everything, or just Kai? Because even if the blatant and tasteless audio editing wasn't there, the acting itself still seemed below his quality bar. Except for Kai, which was so much better in quality that I felt relieved when his voice did briefly come on. Anyway, THAT, is why you don't just go "Ah, fuck it, I can just Change Pitch the audio lower." Because the more you mess with it, the more it sounds like a twelve year old fucking around with a Darth Vader mask.

I'm not much better or anything though, and I won't pretend I don't understand why that choice ends up being made. Hey, sometimes you just can't seem to find the right voice in time and you gotta get it done with who you DID find, but you just have to be careful with it, because if you just slap that shit on there, it's going to hurt more than it's going to help. That voice was so poorly done (whether the fault of the actor or post-editing), that it honestly ruined this video for me. I would have enjoyed this more if it had no voices at all (though I would have had no clue what the fuck was going on), because the animation quality was stellar.

But I get it, it's just a little intro for the game, so it's not really top priority for the project, and that's actually completely fine in my book, depending on how much the game cares about the story it has to tell. If it's basically TimeSplitters and it's like "Honestly, the story's just an excuse for all this rad shit to happen", then not giving a damn is perfectly acceptable. Especially for a phone game.

If you honestly need more actors or something though, I'll happily pitch in, just message me, no problem.

boybogart responds:

Hey man, thanks for the detailed comment. Yeah, we did the best we can in the time given and we're still pretty happy with the outcome. :)

[Let's Invent a holiday]

I'll actually beg to differ, the text moving too fast assisted with the tension and the implication of how reality-warping the statement actually was.

This animation worked out really well. I laughed at "I'm the only answer." That was perfect.

CyanSandwich responds:

In a sense I agree with both you and the other guy. It was too fast for most people to read/process it, but that wasn't as necessary as the effect, imo.

Thanks for reviewing Sir! (Undead)

[DBZ - Proctology Academy]

If GT didn't end, it might be like this by now.

Also, I take it you're being consumed by bitterness. That's a reference. Not very obscure or old, but whatever.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

maybe. parody x 3 was parodying bad parodies. so whether you include this in that category is up to you as it is subjective.

[Dragon Ball Multiverse 2]

I think it's apparent that the English and typographical issues in the script did translate to the final product, and while DBZ is supposed to have a corny and janky pacing to it, this pacing was a bit too strange.

Also, I'm confused by "Kakaroto", it was like that in my script so I sent it like that, but I also sent in other versions pronounced as the normal "Kakarot" in case the script was a typo or whatever. I wasn't sure if "Kakaroto" was the officially true manga version or something so I just went with it, but the other times his name was said in the animation, it was all "Kakarot". And this is a perfect example of what went wrong with this product. Consistency.

But it wasn't a trainwreck at all. You did a great job, the characters look right and act with pretty solid accordance to their actual personalities, and the voice actors for this did a righteous job. Enjoyable to watch in my opinion for any DBZ fan. Total dream-mash with an actual story setting for it.

I didn't realize how many lines I was starting with "Hah" as Vegeta until I watched this animation. Way to fuck up everyone's favorite character, SirUndead.

For next time, I think perhaps you should consider running an official script through someone who can proofread and make consistent sense of it all and then just sending that to the voice actors, with clearer indication for what the emotions are and how/why/who we're projecting the line towards. I've worked with a lot of broken English scripts, I think we all have, and while it's never been a REAL problem in my projects, I feel it became a problem in this one potentially due to the sheer number of actors this script went through.

Or maybe I'm just an idiot trying to point fingers to cover up my own meh-tier performance.

To be perfectly clear though, I do love this and look forward to more. Just trying to be constructive I guess. Thanks for including me! I'll be waiting for the next script.

bocodamondo responds:

sorry about the "kakaroto" thing, i wanted to tell you to resend me lines as kakarot and not kakaroto...but TRUST me..when you have waited for over ONE YEAR to get all the voice lines from all the voice actors. a mistake like that will look smaller then an ant

but yeah the only difference are the names.. the creator of the manga is giving the characters their real japaneese names. like kakaroto, kuillin and freeza. i rather like the english names like kakarot, krillin and frieza