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[Hellboy and Venom]

I really liked this. The style is pretty unique, and I thought the concept was pretty funny, if not a bit random. And the outcome made total sense. Hellboy could pound Venom into the ground any time of the day. The body-build-off was great, very smoothly animated and their physiques really felt satisfying to look at. Maybe it's because of how square they are. Ending was really funny as well.
Overall a neat, well-made short that didn't last too long and knew what it was supposed to do.

[Mumble Rap]

Well, the animation was quite nice throughout. I really loved the dude's face. The rap was, of course, exquisite. The vocals were pronounced so beautifullym I love how the artist sounded like he was choking (with the appropriate mannerisms) at some points. Brings a tear to my eye. The various ways he cool-guy-flailed about the place were also great.
Overall a neat little funny short

[madness combat the rescue]

If you were using sounds from madness animations, why couldn't you just use the right ones? The animation was quite choppy and the whole thing was very slow, but there were some cool moves (the main character flying through the doorway, slicing a guy and then knocking the other one down). You can improve, but you need to practice. At the very least, speed things up (you don't have to make it smoother right away, but make sure it isn't slow) and make sure the sound effects match up.

[pestle and bob cowboy calamity enhanced]

Well, the artstyle and animation are extremely rough. The alck of sound is really annoying too. The plot is just entirely nonsensical and practically nonexistent and it's even harder to follow because the graphics make it hard to tell what's happening. I'm sorry, I know you're a beginner, but you need to practice. At least try making the art clearer. And try making a story that amounts to something or at least has some sound. Until you get better, I suggest you don't post any more movies.

[Salad Fingers Episode 11]

Very interesting. I'm not sure I ever really finished the other epsiodes, so I won't try to theorize too much (especially since I'm not sure a clear plot can even be found). There is that pretty old Film Theory I watched, and I couldn't help but find parallels.
The animation was certainly the best yet. The new realism of the backgrounds adds to the feeling of emptiness and solitude. There did seem to be a bit of a discrepancy when Salad started crying and his eyes were shown as normal in the next shot with that version of him. I really liked the way his mindspace was clearly different from reality, as evidenced by Hubert Cumberdale appearing to be a lifeless lump of flesh in some shots and the mirror world not being a thing in some shots.
The sounds were alo quite nice, I liked the mother's voice.
As for the story I found it to be the most interesting yet. The others were very slow and harder to watch because of the rough artstyle. This had something happening constantly, an ending and a clear plotline. The mother and Hubert becoming a real boy were very interesting details. Makes me think the Mirror Brother really was Salad's brother, seeing as he's treated differently. Salad als says he was raised under the beast's sun, and it wouldn't make sense if salad both hated his mother and was on her side. Even with alternate personalities, that wouldn't work, as, again, different treatment. Hubert I saw as a representation of Salad, a sort of therapeutic ppaceholder, so Salad could raise him and feel better about his own upbringing. Right the wrongs. However, at the end of the episode, he uses him to pick up glass and Hubert stops speaking. This could be said to be related to Salad finally facing his brother and mother pputting his past behind him. That glass was from the mirror. He used the placeholder to get rid of the mirror which represented his past. Also, just as a side note, all the fragments of glass speaking separately was a really cool touch. I also liked the bits of comedy interspersed throughout. They didn't overpower the story, nor did the story overpower the essence of Salad Fingers.
Overall a great return, and probably the first Salad Fingers I completely enjoyed. I'm really glad to see you come back at the same time NG is getting better and better.

[My First Blender]

The animation wasn't the best I've seen, but it was pretty nice. The monster stood out a bit because of its squishy physics and overall clayish look. I guess it was meant to be that way though. The sound effects were very quiet, and while the concept here could be nice for a relaxing, wholesome experience, nothing interesting really happens. I was also confused for a good bit as to why it ignored some pieces, before I realized it was going after the black ones. And then I realized it was all the same thing with different camera angles, but since they don't really add much, we're really watching a cute monster randomly turn around a lot to slow down the simple action of knocking over one chess piece. You didn't need this many angles and at one point, the end angle was the same as the beginning angle of the next rendition. This was really confusing. The fact that the monster turns around and spots something at the end every time didn't help my conviction that this was all a string of interactions. If it ended with the wave every time maybe it would have been better.
Graphically very good, I liked the scene and everything, but it's a bit too many variations of the same thing, and they're not that different and a bit confusingly edited.

[Snow-Bodies 2]

The animation was quite nice and I relaly liked the style. I was worried about this, but the political satire ended up being pretty goddamn funny.
The opening narration was voice-acted a bit weirdly. The rough voice isn't really a trope, at least not like this. But the narrator quitting was really funny. I loved how both extremes were fuckin insane, and all the snow puns made it even better. ICE lol. I loved how everything turned into a huge mess and unintelligible arguing. The kids starting to laugh was also really funny, so random but I loved the chaos. The Christmas joke was also great, I love how they started talking really quickly. The Snow Mexicans joke was pretty weak though, and it was a bit hard to understand the opening lines of the Snobama guys. The ending was really funny, but making fun of your cliches doesn't automatically make you less cliched. It was a pretty cliched message in the end, though I guess it did make fun of the side that does the cliches too, so it did end up pretty neutral. The message was really that politics are pretty stupid on every side and we should stop arguing about trivialities and solve things like normal people, I guess, which, in the end, is pretty original, I think.
A good movie, and it avoided the cliches well for what it was. In the end, the kids not giving a crap was the tie-breaker. Still, it had some flaws, so only four stars.

YULFO83 responds:

Feed back like this is why i love posting on Newgrounds. Thank ya kindly. grad you enjoyed it!

[Onion boy]

I feel like this could have been a gif in the at portal. It is well animated, and I like the style, but it simply doesn't have entertainment value.

[dude]

Very simple, though I do kinda like the joke. The audio quality could really be better, and it seriously didn't have to be so quiet. In fact, louder would have made it even memier and funnier.

[The Metamorphosis]

This was very interesting. I really liked the style. The bleak colors and real (or at least realistic) backgrounds help set up a boring, shockingly normal world (the latter also reminded me of Terry Gilliam's animations). I liked the way the characters were drawn, they looked like they were very closed-minded, in the way that the mom vonstantly seemed to be smiling and no one really cared about the son (one thing I would have changed, he looks like grandpa). Then the moment he changed so that he didn't (and couldn't) comply with their idea of normality, they locked him up and hurt him. They went out to raise money, yes, but they also said he was disabled, even though it seemed like his cognitive and physical abilities were normal. The garbage piling up throughout the movie also added a lot to the oppressive feel, I guess people don't wanna make a change, get rid of the trash.
Overall a very interesting animation, pretty unique in style, with a nice symbolic message and good use of visuals overall. I'd love to see more from you!

LouisAC1996 responds:

Thank you.