tydaze's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mario's Dumpster Adventure]

I'm very impressed by the animation skill. This is so high quality for being made by one person. Real nice job on the facial expressions and body language.

The part where Mario's ass rotating is used as a scene transition is brilliant... A literal ass wipe.

[RATBASTERDZ: JAY'S DAY]

Great cartoon! The characters' personalities are shown very well. The puppet scene was funny. Love the facial expressions on the idea lightbulb.

[dorket plight adversity]

i didn't know what was going on, but it was funny to me once I read the description. Also the animation is really cool, it's like a moving painting

bimshwel responds:

thank you! I have difficulty simplifying my drawing method for animation unless I leave it in a sketchy state so it tends to all end up looking like this eventually

[Fire Hosed - A Chelsai Chicken Cartoon]

You seem to have mistakenly uploaded this cartoon with the wrong title.

ChuckyChickn responds:

you are absolutely right; it's fixed now! thanks for the catch!

[The Best Move For Self Defence]

Is that Kim Possible's dad?

[Forest Campfire]

Aww what a cute scene, nicely done animation and background too.

[azumanga cool]

Even though it's kinda shitposty, it fits the humor style of the source material, so I liked it

[Marcus the Teenager's Never-Ending Quest for Popularity]

I like the retro art style. The setting seems to look like 80s/90s, but along with the typewriter, VHS tapes, and CRT TVs, there are also smartphones, I guess the anachronism is on purpose?

The character designs are good, with nice diverse silhouettes.

All of the voices suit the characters very well.

I like the humor, and it has good pacing, which is really hard to get right. I like that it is not trying too hard to get a laugh by being "so random and wacky!" But also doesn't take too long to get to the punch line.

The animation is spectacular for an independent production and I'm impressed that it's a full length episode.
Lots of great exaggerated facial expressions and body language.

There were two important things that seem to be overlooked. The primary motivation of the main character is to be popular... Why does Marcus care about being popular in the first place? And secondly, why should we as the audience care about whether he succeeds or fails at that goal?

Hillasir responds:

Yes! It's a real genuine compliment you feel we dodged the "so random and wacky!" train. Thank you!

And we feel exactly the same way with your last two points! To be honest, we were always on the hunt to make those ingredients work. You squint and you see it, but admittedly it isn't quite there. Maybe if we did a second episode we could really dig into those elements, you know?

[Victory Dance ✌🕺]

Very charmingly cartoony

[The Trust Exercise]

I'm impressed by how accurate you got the characters to look to their original 2D designs! Their facial expressions look great and so does their movement.

The only thing I think I don't like here is the white rim highlight, it kind of visually contradicts the black outline, in my opinion.