Psychopath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fishing Boy - Animation Test]

Don't submit test files to the Flash portal, if you want to show people your incomplete work, upload it to the dumping grounds and post a link in the forum.

Aside from that, the CGI is good. The lack of depth and detail in the dog's ears leaves something to be desired since this is a 3D animation 'n all.

[Abo and Karo Mini Movie Kickstarter!]

I believe in Karo's dream.

Any plans for after you're done making the movie? Perhaps a Kickstarter to complete the Neenja series?

Sykohyko responds:

I would love to finish Neenja. After we make the movie our goal would be to turn this family into a ongoing tv series.

[Bear & Bunny Boo 2]

Wow, you've come a long way since 2012.

[Life is Tough]

Looks like Chris-chan finally got a date.

[Dad is (Not) Lame]

This is the reason why I'll never enter NATA; look at the animation, it's a storyboard formatted into a slideshow. I'm sure you worked very hard on this storyboard but it's still a storyboard.

['Learning to walk' (my first flash movie)]

You appear to be off to a good start. Here's how you deal with sound in Flash movies: first your audio file needs to be in the WAV format because Flash is finicky when it comes to MP3s, you'll want to import the sound to the library since it won't import into the timeline like photos. Then you'll drag and drop it to the timeline.

In the properties you'll notice a menu for settings like Stream, Start, Event & Stop. Be sure to pick Stream for linear movies, Start mode forces the audio to play to its full length before it'll play again, regardless of where you are in the timeline. Event will also force audio to play to its full length but it won't prevent new plays of the same audio, meaning that the audio can play in an overlap, multiple times if the frame length is short enough. Stop mode will literally stop the audio file no matter what setting you gave to it prior; the way that works is that you have a set of frames with the audio on either Stream, Start or Event mode and follow it up with a frame with the same audio that you want to stop under Stop mode.

We're also now going into audio optimization. When you look at you publish settings [under the File tab] you'll see two settings called Audio Stream and Audio Event. You can change either of these to enhance or compress the audio in your SWF when publishing. The settings I keep are MP3, 160KBPS, Stereo. If you'd like to save these settings for future publications, you're gonna have to create a new profile [the [+] symbol] and import the profile the next time you use it.

Next is the last thing I have to say about audio. Don't import files with more than 44,000 Hz, Flash can't properly handle anything above that threshold and will compensate by decelerating the audio.

Next is something of a universal convention, for the record, this is something to be expected on Newgrounds; get a preloader. You can get them for free right here: http://www.newgrounds.com/downloads/preloaders/

Add one of those to the first frame of your Flash movie and you're good to go. If you want the animation to continue looping and skip the preloader, add some ActionScript to the last frame of your movie: gotoAndPlay(2);

You've got better potential than most of the chucklefucks around here. Keep it up.

D0S81 responds:

chucklefuck..lol. thankyou so much for this, Hyun (aka flying panda) sent me an email explaining this aswell, but i accidently deleted it and didnt wanna bug the guy by keep asking questions, he is a busy bee after all. so i appreciate your help. very in depth. the first time i tried doing audio was when i was practising lip syncing to a song, but whenever i pushed play to check that it went with the words, it would play the whole song, and wouldnt stop, and i couldnt just listen/watch a part in the middle. so this helps so much.

['The Cosmic Fork']

He died of radiation poisoning two days later.

[Swimming with coffee]

Makes me wonder what else I was missing out on this whole time.

[Akuma the Hedehog~SonicP1]

It's still just as terribad as it was two years ago, only now that you've converted your Flash to a video format, you can no longer blame your shortcomings on everyone else's machines because the format you uploaded in isn't a dynamic format like Flash. It's also in 240p and low rez content doesn't generally cause chugging, poor animation and shitty lip syncing.

Didn't you used to brag about having the most powerful rig in the universe, by which I mean, a shitty Acer laptop with 6 Gigs of ram & 2.4 Ghz processor? Albeit those specs are entirely unimpressive, if that's true then why were you only able to export this in 240p? When I hear people boasting about the power of their rigs, I expect shit like 2160p or 60FPS and honestly, both. This is still the 550 X 400 piece of shit running at 24 FPS from two years ago, only blurrier. This was your chance to outright prove the superiority of your content and you fucking blew it because you're fucking incompetent.

Also, you've worked on this for half a decade? That's not what I recall happening in 2013, besides, literally nothing has changed since you pulled the original SWF file two years ago. I guess two of those five years were spent sitting on your hands. I see you're just as much of a liar as you were in 2013 when you claimed that you didn't steal artwork.

Also, your score is currently at 2.46, that's barely above the approval threshold; that means most people thought that this was shit. Can't blame the "faggot minority" now, can you?

But hey, if you're really in need of voice actors, I could chip in for you. I can do Shadow, Knuckles, Robotnik and maybe Chris' father. I can even show you how to export in HD video.

[Revenge of the Manatees]

Why hasn't this man received the status of King of The Portal yet?

Sexual-Lobster responds:

i know right, one day....