Psychopath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dora The Expl-whore-r]

I've always loved your work but I have only one critique toward this submission; the border is showing. Either surround the content on stage with a black box to block out the white background and content over-breaching the limits of the stage or re-appropriate the height and width settings in the upload page.

But beyond that, this is gold.

Speedo responds:

Tru dat, yo. When I draw backgrounds, I have a tendency to do them at exactly 800x450, but then end up putting them within the frame arse-ways so they're a tiny bit off and the border is visible. But thanks, I should do that black box thing anymore :D

[Remember]

Just thought that I'd let you know that recycling paper is actually bad for the environment.

[La Granada (a color)]

En este caso, use este para que pueda poner subtÃf-tulos en inglÃf©s a las pelÃf-culas de habla hispana de Flash.

AdemÃf¡s, si quieres, yo podrÃf-a enseÃf±arle cÃf³mo implementar los anuncios en las pelÃf-culas de Flash para que puedan obtener beneficios econÃf³micos.

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[Archo y Flechas]

En este caso, use este para que pueda poner subtÃf-tulos en inglÃf©s a las pelÃf-culas de habla hispana de Flash.
AdemÃf¡s, si quieres, yo podrÃf-a enseÃf±arle cÃf³mo implementar los anuncios en las pelÃf-culas de Flash para que puedan obtener beneficios econÃf³micos.
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[BEEBO part 11]

It's good to see some old fashion Newgrounds comedy sweep up the general shittiness that the Flash portal has become subject too. I hope that this yields a callback to some of the old contributors and isn't just a one time deal.

I'm not going to critique the animation or the artwork because this is a series that was created with the intent of keeping artistic consistency all throughout thus leaving little room for improvement at all, so I'll just tackle technical issues instead.

Considering how the artwork and animation has to keep consistency all throughout the series & for that reason the Beebo series will easily become phased out as obsolete by comparison to new quality standards exampled by submissions such as the "There She Is!!!" series & anything produced by Zeurel along with occasional increments in capacity such as the website's file size limitations going from 10 megs to 20 that it'd be a smart idea to tackle the aspects other authors aren't with their content; the programming.

For example, I really wish there were a subtitle option because there are times where the characters can be perceived as unintelligible such as when Harry threw the garbage bag out the window & and proclaimed something like "This is not mine" or something to that effect. You could also make the subtitle system bilingual to broaden your audience.

Play, pause, rewind and forward controls would be nice too considering how the length of each Beebo episode can vary from episode to episode and members of the audience can be interrupted at any given time and having to start over from the beginning just to backtrack to the scene you left off at always sucks.

I noticed that your Ad hadn't been activated yet. Word of advice, it typically takes three days before the NG staff activate your CPMStar ad, so I suggest only submitting your SWF file between two to three days after you register the submission for ad approval, depending on how confident you are that your submission will take off the ground and end up on the front page or in the daily top five.

I really hope to see an upswing in Beebo submissions in the near future.

fabulous999 responds:

Thanks for the advice.

[Viles Kickstart Vlog]

You probably should have chalked this up with some CPMStar ads to help your cause, or something to that effect, since the goal here is to make money to fund your project after all. This was sort of a missed opportunity here, because even if the people who watch this don't donate at all, you'd still make money from them seeing the ads in the SWF file. Just a word to the wise.

[Thumb Whores]

I've noticed a problem with your audio, it easily goes off track with the video. By means of right clicking for the drop down menu, rewinding to the beginning and playing the file again, I was able to isolate the fact that you have your audio set to event mode because the audio started again while already playing. It needs to be set to stream mode so that it moves at the same framerate as the video and not at it's own framerate. This will prevent it from going out of synchronization and overlapping itself entirely and without question. Having it in event mode prevents the music from stopping regardless of where I am in the timeline, including the preloading screen.

By process of elimination, I can determine that setting it to event mode was motivated by one of two things:

A; you weren't aware of the play settings and just let Flash select it for you by default.

B; you intentionally set it to event mode because you stumbled upon the fact that having it in stream mode sounded like shit and made the conscious decision to set to event mode so that it doesn't sound like garbled, digitized ass.

If B is correct, which I presume it is, then the reason why the stream option sounds like shit is because the audio doesn't naturally run with the content on the timeline, that is to say that the audio and the FLA file run at different frame rates and the audio is being forced into compensating that frame rate gap by compromising the audio quality to do so. Simply put, it won't start sounding good until you close that gap yourself by adjusting the FLA file's frame rate to match the audio's frame rate, because then the audio is no longer the one compensating for the gap, you are.

You could also use the reversed method of somehow creating a copy of the audio file with a matching frame rate to your FLA file, but how one would go about doing that is not within my current scope of knowledge I'm afraid.

I appreciate the fact that you animate frame by frame and created, you know, actual animation, but I've noticed from the redraw regions that you're using the paint brush tool and it's clearly apparent that it's prohibiting your abilities. You see, Flash doesn't treat the brush tool as an actual outline, it treats it as a color, so you cant just use the selection tool to delete one line and create a new one, you're burdening yourself with the task of having to erase it by other, tedious and far less clean means such as the eraser tool before you can recreate the outlining and even then I can still see the parts you erased in the latter frames of some of the animatics. I've also noticed that this SWF file lacks color, probably because the paint brush tool caused breaks between outlines that prevented you from filling them in with the paint bucket tool. Although this can happen with any type of outlining, where it's most common place is with the paint brush tool because the nature of it's dynamic doesn't allow for it to grab onto other outlines and because of it's murky nature the actual source of the break is the most difficult to isolate and fix.

If you're a mouse user, I'd recommend the line tool, you can create smooth outlining with it by means of using the curve option with the selection tool to bend the outlining to achieve the curved outlining. Furthermore, the line tool will give you greater control over the content you're creating. Additionally, if you really want that fat outlining that you get with the paint brush tool, you can do that too with the line tool by creating another set of outlines outside the initial outlines and fill the gap with the paint bucket tool. If you're a Wacom tablet user, I'd suggest the pencil tool with either the curve option or the ink option activated, not the straightening option, it'll make boxes out of your outlines.

Before you say anything about any given lacking quality in my Flash movies, most notably Evil Dead Ejaculation, the fact that the characters all have jagged outlining is not a fault of the line tool, that's the default setting that I chose intentionally as a stylistic choice.

[Sonic Boom Fan Animation]

If this passes, which is something I'm hoping against and have voted against-- twice, then I just have this to say.

Preloaders, learn how to use them.

[Leek Spin (Remix Edition)]

Preloaders, learn how to use them.

[zelda:link this angry]

I can't believe that the Flash portal has become so ghetto that I actually have to tell little fucktards like you the following:

Preloaders, learn how to use them, stop using FLV's for minuscule animations and learn how to use the properties tab in Flash to readjust your height x width proportions so that way the stage doesn't outsize the actual content.

I would critique the animation, story, voice acting and such, but if it comes to the point where I can't even properly watch the damn thing without a high speed connection, then those problems obviously aren't first on the "things to fix" list and shouldn't be acknowledge by critics at all, because doing so distracts from the core problem and thus reinforces it.

I wouldn't be surprised if these accounts uploading these shitty files were alts created by the admins as an attempt to promote their shitty, out of date video playing rig by pointing at shit like this an arguing that these "authors" and their lack of knowledge in Flash justifies the video playing rig's existence.