DoonGhard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kevin's Diner]

This is very impressive and it's imaginative. I can tell there was a lot of inspiration behind these character designs. It's fun and creative.

My main critique is the animation itself. There is a heavy reliance on the use of zips and smears for basic motion, and the stretchy-bounciness to influence a cartoony atmosphere becomes exhausting if you don't mediate it with some amount of weight to the character's actions and physiques. It kind of feels like the animator(s) weren't very confident with their artistic liberties to play around with their characters and just relied on Animaniacs/Tiny Toon Adventures zaniness to keep a level of interest, which I personally believe is the wrong way to go about it.

There were times where it looks like the animators had some idea of how they wanted to exaggerate their characters (like with the horse guy's freakout) but then decided to play it safe by relying on vintage cartoon gags (like morphing into a train whistle) at the last minute.

There is a lot of promise for the animators and storyboard artists, because I really do like the effort and the characters, I think that they should work on figuring out how to capitalize on their artistic abilities, because they're really good.

[TRANSformers]

RIP in Peaches, Black Bot. You were always my favorite token black.

[PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!]

This was the gertest thing. Absolutely gert, I loved it.

[Neighborhood Watch]

Excellent and creative on all fronts. The character designs are very distinct and their expressions are all so glorious. The animation is superb, no flubbing on any aspect. Absolutely flawless.

[The Yoshi Torture Tape]

This is so amazing. The art is really well done and the fact that your friend did this 20 something years ago on an ancient program like Mario Paint... with the SNES mouse? That's real talent. It's crazy and it's really cool. I really like the music renditions too and how fitting they are for each demo.

It must have taken him a long time to do all of this.

[Dragonzball PeePee (2012)]

When you embrace the retardation as far as you possibly can and you come out with something as magical and timeless as this.

[Go watch dad shop]

Y'know they got some discount on laxatives if you want me to pick you up some.

[NECKBEARD NOIR]

Brock Baker is mad talented. He damn near sounds like Phil Hartman.
Very well done!

[Super Slumber Party]

Well technically he didn't wet the bed.

[Doubles in Politics - Idiotopia]

This is good, but definitely needs improvement.

The voices are not great. I think it would be better to find voice performers, because unless you were going for the "all/most voiced by one guy" thing, it's not gonna work.

The animation and art consistency is REALLY good. I don't know anything about Photoshop animation but from what I'm seeing here, the frames are really smooth and it's great to see something fast-paced not heavily relying on motion-tweening or cutting the frame count in half.

I do think you need more time to figure out your style. As smooth as the animation is, I don't think you're hitting the character exaggerations properly. A lot of it feel like the randomness factor is taking place. It seems like you don't know exactly what you want to emphasize and have no way out other than using a Sr. Pelo-fashioned spazz-attack. If I may recommend, you should experiment with expressions through character layouts and see where you can go from there, because there is real potential behind this project.

Anyway, this is really good and the ambition behind this is worth following up!