MinatoArisato's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Too Much Candy]

Short and sweet and good sound.

[The Gold Men]

The animation was pretty good, though the plot was all over the place. Same voice actor for everything. It's hard to like even though I know you put a lot of effort into animating it.

[The Dark Harvest - Episode 1]

I have some criticisms, but please don't take it personally or let it affect your future project.
-Art style was stellar and was giving me some Bush Hartman vibes. Though the red nosed old man clashed a little bit for me style wise.

-Animation was pretty good, though could be better. Some parts were a little stiff, but if you've been working on this for 2 years, it's only going to get better from here. Just work on conveying motion as well as you can.

-The Plot was probably my biggest gripe. It was a bit slow and uninvolved, a lot more pause than necessary and the older guy's reluctance to say anything was repeated a lot and very empty. He felt pretty empty as a character despite having a pretty good look. I think you could have conveyed the scene better in less dialog by only saying it once with the 'Our family has a lot of secrets that we can't tell you'. He said she was the only one he could rely on, but that was never really made clear or anything, so it just ended up dragging the scenes on. She wasn't revealed to have any special powers, or being the only one able to use the scythe etc.

I think in future episodes you should really try to plan out a really good flowing scene. Might even save you some animation time in the long run. Make sure the viewer is never bored.

Hopefully this helps and doesn't just come off as being a jerk for no reason. I just want you to make your best work going forward. Good luck!

[the curse of the mummy]

Improved exponentially. Would not have expected it to get as good as it did.

[Down the Dungeon]

Great visuals and animations. Sound could have been a bit better, but this is a thesis project so it was probably classmates doing the voices no? I noticed the ending was a bit abrupt, so I'm guessing you either ran out of time or decided to end it quickly so as not to have to work on it forever. Overall though, quite liked it.

[Plancy's World 4]

Hey not bad, Art could use some work, but you made the little girl's hair really expressive so points for that. Plus you had a cohesive plot.

[The Average Melee Player]

Lots of memes, animation was alright, though the plot and punchline felt a bit empty.

[Solid Snake: ULTIMATE Moveset?! - Got A Minute?]

While this is alright as an informative piece, I don't think it really fits on Newgrounds.

SchmidtTimes responds:

I appreciate your feedback, friend! I've always been on the fence whenever I upload here because I'm not a true animator, but I've been building up a little niche of viewers and there's a few folks who like my posts, so I've been keeping it up! I try to focus on the videos with the most intensive editing vs. straight gameplay, so not everything I produce finds its way to Newgrounds! Haha, it's a delicate balance and I'm trying my best not to disrespect the community here!

[Gosh! What a Sight!]

I liked it, I really enjoy the 1930s look resurgence lately, though it's not without some problems. These cartoons always work off of their living visual gags, and the balloon segment was probably the best of it. I liked how the tree was trying desperately to get them to fuck off, though the tree still had a sinister expression, you'd think maybe he'd look scared or worried if he didn't just want to kill them.

I noticed a bit of inconsistency between some of the hand drawn segments, like when she's flying through the walls and shattered pieces fly off. When you combine great quality visuals with worse ones its a bit jarring. The final segment hardly involved the main character and mostly went into a gore fest on the same frame. I enjoyed the violence but I felt the scene went on too long and should have involved the main character more. The unmasking bit with human features didnt come off as creepy as it could have, maybe because there was too much face visible between the 3 pieces, it just looked like a sideways video at that point. Maybe needed some extra filters or different cuts, I'm not really an expert, but I've seen David firth and Cyriak work some magic.

Overall though, I'm sure you worked super hard on this, so don't take any of this criticism in a negative way, It was a good quality cartoon, just has potential for improvements in my opinion.

[Computers]

Reminds me of grade 4 when one of my classmates decided to load up 'sex.com' which at the time to a poor quality gif of a black dick going into someone. I was confused and thought "why does this lead to someone taking a dump?"