HenrikBorg's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Coat]

Stylish

I absolutely loved your preloader. It is a brilliant interpretation of Newgrounds logo and profile, and it set the mood perfectly.

Your animation is very good. Storywise you tie it together nicely in the end, and you transition nicely between the action sequences. It could have used more blood, but I might just be a bloodthirsty bastard.

Your choice of sound is, I suspect, also very thought through and helps the overall experience. I guess you could not find proper voice actors, and in that case your solution with text is ok. Nothing could bring a good animation down like bad voice work. I am a sucker for this type of dialogue - a blend of Sam Spade/Philip Marlowe/Max Payne disillusioned tough guy talk.

When it comes to graphics I have mixed impressions. Everything is very fluent, and your camera moves bring life and tension to it all. Your frame-by-frame animation is great, and the fighting is lovely coreographed. However, if there is anything I would complain about it is the roughness of your characters and backgrounds. Especially the details of faces, hands and such leaves soemthing to be desired.

You are a great animator. If you could focus a little more on the graphic details you would become greater still.

I am looking forward with anticipation to your next animation.

Fickludd responds:

Thanks, I put a lot of thought to the story! Regarding voice actors you are spot on. Yeah some of the graphics aren't that good and my style varies a bit because it was so long i production. Also the loads of gradients slow it down, I'll refrain from that in the future...

So: Tack så mycket för synpunkterna! Alltid kul med lite landsmän på nätet!

[SPRITE YOU!!!]

Very thorough

One way to tell between good and bad flash is whether it can spark your interest even though the topic does not interest you at all.

A lot of the tutorials on Newground leaves a lot to be desired, and I am not particularely fond of sprites. This tutorial however, had me exploring every part of it. I love behind the scenes documentaries, and that is the closest description I can sum this animation into. You go through all the step in the smallest detail, your navigation is simple and the overall result is extremely satisfying to watch. The one thing that might let it down is the choice of music, which was too hard for my taste. But since the tutorial was presented in text I could lower the volume without losing any content.

This tutorial is an amazing piece of work! I bow my head to you, Osuka!

Osuka responds:

thanx, when i saw the MK behind scenes the idea of the sprite enter into my mind. Thats why i added the pictures in the tutorial, gave much ideas

[Trevligäpplet]

Bizarre and funny

As a swede I probably find this funnier than the average NG user, but I think the strange ideas that are blended together in this slick and professional looking animation might very well find its way to a little cult status.

When it comes to your graphics they are nicely done, very clean and with great attention to detail. In later scenes your graphics deteriorates a little, or at least it seems that way because of line thickness and clip re-use. The web-cam clips during the end credits were borderline narcissistic but a little funny.

Your sound and music are well chosen and fits great with the overall animation (are the dialogue snippets for Ashberg and Persbrandt real clips?), and the monologue during the beginning is hilarious - great use!

It is clear that you have great potential and I would very much like to see you do something more serious with the style you use in the beginning. Keep at it!

FrostRhino responds:

Wow, great review. Thanks for all the feedback. Thanks for enjoying it.
Well, this was probably one of my last flash projects. I just wanted to finish it. Might give up the whole thing now that its done.

[South Pole Psycho]

Lacks build-up

This animation impressed me with its simplicity and basic execution, and proved that you do not meed fancy graphics in order to provide good entertainment. All music and sound effects were very crisp and well chosen.

The one thing I lacked was a little more background to the killing spree, apart from the obvious psychotic angle.

All in all an entertaining animation that could have been a bit longer. Nice work.

LinkanMedia responds:

Thanks very much! You'll be glad to hear that a longer penguin movie is in the making so stay tuned for that!

[Dead Stench 1]

Impressive effort

What I liked the most was the mood you created, along with great pacing in your storytelling. Your murky surroundings and the great attention to detail gave this animation a very professional look.

When I watched it a second time I was a bit bothered by the scewed perspective in some of the scenes, although I realize that it might be intentional in order to enhance the feeling from the warped mind of the bad guy. A couple of scenes also had re-used backgrounds where original backgrounds in my opinion would have lifted the total experience.

I know I am picky, but the few things I point out would have made a great submission even better. Looking forward to your next episode.

GoreAddict responds:

The re-used backgrounds were to low a bit the file size. Thanks for the awsome review

[Krieg]

Great effort

This flash showed off great talent in the detailed backgrounds in the beginning and the waepons were great. I am not a fan of sticks, but when it is as well as this animated I have no complaints. The 3D part was also very impressive, but I felt that the film deteriorated from there (perhaps rushed in order to get it finished!?). However, the finishing action sequence was great albeit a bit short.

I think that this film suffered a little from the blend of techniques used, and I know I would have liked it better if you used that obvious graphics talent to draw real characters instead of sticks. My personal preferences aside I found this to be a very enjoyable flash, and I will be looking forward to your next episode.

ramsy66 responds:

Thanks alot! I see all your points, although I only started to rush on the credits lol! Everything on this movie I took my time on but I can see your point, it did kinda look like it was detiriorating towards the end. I hope to make the sequal much better! Oh, and I never realised my graphics were that good :o thanks!