Psychopath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Goth Lyfe: Goth Burger]

Pretty good

Nevermind the motion tweening, artwork or anything visual. My immediate biggest gripe is the sound. The dialog is really quite, but I also noticed how no matter how low you keep your voice, that pops continually occur in the audio.

That tells me two things:

1; you have your face up to the microphone and you cant help but breathe into it, thus causing the pops and explaining why you're talking in such a low volume of voice.

2; You don't have a pop filter that would otherwise prevent wind from blowing into your mic and causing the pops.

My absolute best recommendation for a microphone is that you get a Gigaware® USB Stereo Headset with Microphone from Radioshack. They currently cost 30.00 dollars.

Subtitles would be nice too.

Also another thing I noticed, you're using Audacity to record your lines. Stop using Audacity. Audacity has horrible encoding that echoes the dialog on a lower volume with bizarre sound filters. It's difficult to explain what it does.

It is by far the most irritating recording program ever made and should never be used. The encoding can actually corrupt all your audio files; you need to uninstall it from your computer before it does that.

Since you're using Audacity, that also tells me that you're using a Windows interface and that you don't know how to use Windows Movie Maker, which doesn't leave that awful encoding filter that replicates the dialog in soft alien speak.

How you access the recording program in Windows Movie Maker is that you find a small microphone icon at the lower left of the screen just above the storyboard/timeline panel. It should display a volume meter with recording options.

I'd also recommend switching the settings from Storyboard to Timeline, although that should happen automatically when you start recording.

I would also very much recommend editing your dialog in WMM, because Audacity can still wreak your shit if you import it. If you need to edit your audio files on a larger scale, there's a table of zoom options next to the microphone icon that will let you adjust the scale you're working on.

Now I'm onto the visuals. Anyone who's ever read my review on Titanomachina knows how I feel about motion tweening. Also this is a comedy so it's hardly relevent, seeing as how this isn't trying to be a work of art.

I do however recommend that since you've decided to use shading, which is typically a big no, no among motion tweeners, that you also use reflection shading [reflections of the light source, as in, brighter than the base color] in addition to your shadow shading.

I like the premise of the series but it could use some drastice improvements. I remember seeing a double feature of Gothe Lyfe 3 years ago and I mildly enjoy it. I think you should concentrate on more of what Goth's are about rather than them acting like regular people, because honestly I can see just about anybody doing what these do.

[Neenja 4]

Loved it

You're an amazing animator Hayk, and I hope one day to work beside you. The shading in the beginning was just fucking beautiful. The shading was short lived sadly, but for what it's worth, it was awesome.

The music was near perfect this time around, except for Haruts BBQ, the music should have ended pretty much immediately after Harut started talking. Other than that, basic perfection. For once I actually like the weird music accompanying a comedic scene because it really does make the scene feel crazy while Harut spazz's out from being drunk and by extension makes the scene funnier. I can't wait for episode five. Or more visual updates to the old episodes. Which ever comes first.

[Neenja 3]

The music was used waaay too inappropriatly...

The music was great and appropriately used up until Hayk beats the crap out of the biker. What made the original so funny was that it didn't have rave techno action music in the background, blurring out the punching sound effects and the screams.

There's not much to say except visually it's just like the original, which isn't bad, but for an update that warrants reuploads, it's disappointing to see no visual enhancements.

[Neenja 2]

I'm glad you didn't record your VA's with Audacity

The audio quality is much better in Part 2. I'm glad you didn't use Audacity for this one because the voice acting is nice and clear.

The music however bugs me. In the original, when Mrs. Butcher chats with the thug, there was no music of any kind and when she creates the creature from a page of the book, there was suspenseful music, but it was subtle and actually worked with the scene and built suspense as opposed to overblowing it like the new music does; the choir was just the cherry on the overblown icecream sundae.

Honestly I just thought the new music was just layed on way too thick and it actually conflicted in volume with the voice acting; I could barely hear the conversation. Also, in the original, when the monster is created from the page, it has suspenseful music, but what made it so great was it's subtlety, the new music was just way too intense and edgy for that scene. It was not that epic of a scene. It worked great near the end, but only because the suspense peaked and the music decided to calm down from it's sugar high.

And that "tada" jingle when Mrs. Butcher pulls the curtain off of her statue is irritating. That was one of my favorite parts because it had no music and the humor was subtle. When you just overblow something like that ruins the experience.

I think the new music was great, just that allot of it was used inappropriately in this one.

I was disappointed with the lack of a visual update. For instance, that glow effect you did with gradients as opposed to a filter glow effect for Mrs. Butchers overhead lamp sorta made me twitch. If you're going to resubmit the old episodes, could you at least make some actual visual updates?

[Neenja: Way Of The Harut]

I have some things to point out

I'm glad you made some auditorial updates but you didn't re-record the voice acting. It's obvious that you recorded all your lines with Audacity, I can tell because I can hear Audacity's horrible encoding evil hovering as background noise everytime Hayk or his midget buddy speak.

I can only hope that you don't use Audacity anymore, I can only hear Audacity evil in the background because of a new headset I bought, which from my personal experience is currently the best on the market; GigaWare USB Stereo Microphone Headset.

The music is great, it really does improve on the original.

When you said that you made visual updates to the original, I was expecting eh... You know, shading, backgrounds, crap like that. But I couldn't find any noticeable visual improvements from the original.

[Nicolas Cage Wants Cake]

Awesome..

At first the animation reminded me alot of Adam Sandlers 8 Crazy Nights, then it reminded my of the way Hayk "Sykohyko" Manukyan used to animate his movies what with the Neenja series and his mini-series "Liar".

Sonichu bit was equally awesome.

[Incident:001A]

That was awesome

I WANT A GIANT BLENDER!!!