Celshaded's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

119 Movie Reviews

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

2014-01-05 02:20:48

I can see the improvement since the previous episode. Personally, the obvious gundam influence is appealing to me, but I do get tired of the stock gundam sounds. You might want to try altering them a bit to make them more unique sounding. Also, the stronger voice actors really shined in this episode, but as a result it makes the weaker ones stick out more. I feel like this will only get better over time though. One thing that bothers me a little are the mech designs. They are a little bland color wise and they don't feel different enough from each other except for minor color details, like if more than 2 characters where battling on screen, I wouldn't be able to really tell them apart.

All and all, I can tell you put a lot of effort into this episode and it shows. This has the potential to be a great series. I look forward to seeing what happens next!

AdamTilford responds:

Actually, gundam wasn't an influence on this story, at all. I didn't get introduced to Gundam until well after my third book for this series was done. Which was when I wanted to try animating. Then Gundam became an influence/way to learn how to animate/draw mecha. Not spoiling anything, but these "Standard" mecha are just early on stuff. Going to be honest, I didn't have concepts for the "VR" ones. I have all concept art for the mechs used in the main plot of the story so that should become more apparent. The first 2 episodes were basically just an experiment for me to get used to my limited time schedule and animation. Ep 3 and up starts the main plot. Not an excuse for 1 and 2 to be more slice of life, unimportant, but there was a reason for that in the overall structure of the story. It's just hard to see now when there's like a 3-4 month wait time between each episode.

A lot of the bland colors, I admit are a corner cutting thing for me. I don't have a lot of time to work on this, it's a passion project that I do after a 40 hour work week and while trying to balance editing and revising my professional status as a published author. So I choose what things are easy for me to reproduce as I get things going early on. My goal is as it expands I can get other people I trust to help out and relieve the burden, thus increasing the quality. Since right now the quality is dependent on what I can do comfortably in a short time period while remaining on a somewhat consistent release schedule. I could animate much better and have more detail, but I chose to not want a single episode to take about a year just to look higher end. If I can get a staff, then I'll shoot for that. But for now, as a passion side project, I have to do what I can with the time I have it :)

And I agree on the sound effects. I'm already trying to work something out with some people I know that are better at sound design than I am.

I'm glad you can see the improvements, but there's still a lot more to improve on. Hopefully more progress will be made with each installment.

Shinobi Noir Trailer

2013-11-14 15:50:13

That's pretty excellent for having only 3 weeks to do it. Also, NINJAS!!! Yeah ninjas...

Team Desu

2013-10-17 15:50:12

that vegita face!

TOME Episode 08

2013-09-15 07:29:18

Great stuff, loved the announcer!

Unfortunate Girl:TWO pt.2

2013-09-09 02:18:33

This is very good! The animation is nice and smooth. The pacing doesn't really bother me so much, but I have to agree with some of the other viewers when it comes to that one windmill shot. It holds on that shot way too long; but that's a a very minor complaint.

Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you to make these?

TheFabs responds:

About four months since I also work a job. If I got paid for making these cartoons I'd just count that as my job and would be able to get one out like every month or two. :b

Blown Minded