MinatoArisato's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[SEED]

That took a turn didn't it?
Very surreal and interesting to watch. Visually weird and satisfying to see an alien upside down world and mystery substance. The coiling through the house with the rooms made to support it was very cool. I found the ending a little odd, but I guess it makes sense. I saw the bird perch and hole to live in as if maybe the bird was a regular companion and part of his ritual. But instead it seems the bird house is just there to lure unsuspecting birds for food? I did like how the bird was essentially made of ink and splattered when he flapped his wings, and just a bunch of bones underneath. I think as a longer animation there could have been more after the reveal of what's inside the little planet. But obviously animation takes a long time and this was likely a huge amount of work.

Also now seeing this is a part 3, so I'll have to watch the others, great job and great animation.

InsektAnim responds:

Hey! Thanks for liking it :) sad to tell you that there are no other parts. Before I finished thisboroject, iposted what I have done in seperate episodes. But nowthat everything is finished i posted this as one little movie. Sorry for the confusion.
But if u liked this, i have lots of other short little stories that will scratch the same itch if you have one. Check my YT channel for more :)

[Space Leaf]

That's some solid animation, where was he keeping all that goo?

[Spooky Month - Tender treats]

I really wasn't expecting a spooky month this year after how amazing the last one was with all the collaboration, great animation and awesome backgrounds. AND YET HERE WE ARE AGAIN, AND ITS JUST AS GOOD!

I feel fucking spoiled. I love this series and I'm happy it hasn't gotten old being a year apart. Started off as a silly ass joke, continued from there, and now there's an actual underlying plot of some kind and established characters. So incredibly cool.

Gotta say I really liked the villain this time around and all the sound design with his footsteps and movement. Also his expressions, very imposing, very creepy but also funny. I think my favorite scenes were in the meat locker, and the haunted house with the vampire guy doing the cape mirror trick and the bathroom stall looking like the inside of a Walmart. Humor and drama was really on point.

Thanks a lot to everyone who worked on this, and Pelo for providing YET ANOTHER 11/10 Spooky Month.

[Darkstalkers REANIMATED]

There's a face I haven't seen in awhile. This looks amazing, it must have taken a long time to animate so smoothly. I really missed out on the Darkstalkers series. It has such amazing character design, but I never really grew up with it to get the same nostalgia others have. It's hard for me to pick up a fighting game and play through it unless there's a really good single player mode, which all modern fighters besides Blazblue seem to lack.

Anyway, you did amazing. Going right in my favorites

MichaFrario responds:

Thanks! I didn't grow up with this, first played DS in the mid 2010's Older fighting games like Soul calibur 2 had nice single player modes

['TILL THE COWS COME HOME]

I always love seeing these art school films. This one is particularly awesome. Great concept, great humor, style that's going to age really well. The cow glitching out and the horn being part of the music were the highlights for me. Everything was very cute, and the ending just kinda kept going and left lots to the imagination. I hope you have more creative ideas like this in the future.

[The perfect CEll project (preview)]

Man Hinca, your animation quality is always so good. Maybe it's just my untrained eye but it seems like you don't half ass movement very much at all. How long does it even take you to draw a minute of animation? are you just really fast at it? how do you find time to enjoy yourself when you aren't animating? it must be so time consuming even as good as you are.

Thank you for doing what you do.

hinca responds:

i basically work all day haha animation is really fun for me so i spend all day and most night doing it, a minute of animation will depends a lot on whats on it, but i usually take about a week
i think i can do it that fast because i work alone, that way i'm in full control of the time 😄

[A Den for Sick Moths]

Man that was fantastic. I love how you incorporate the sketchy artstyle into motion. You used minimal animation for some parts where it wasn't needed, then heavy animation showing you can do it cleanly and perfect everywhere else.

I also loved the little details, like the worm wrapping around like a mask, or helping pull out the boned hand when cutting the moth creature. I know there's more than that, but those were parts I really liked.

Also the sound design, I don't know where you get your sounds from, but the whole thing has such a unique strongly insect feel to go along with all the tension. Really setting yourself apart with this animation.

AntonM responds:

Thanks for the kind words :))) Over the years I've just built this huge selection of homemade sounds just from making a couple toons here and there

[Lego Wonder Woman Watches Dune (2021)]

Please remind me of the song at 1:38
Love your videos by the way, always so much background stuff to look at and so well animated. You've got a great niche and you're one of the best if not THE best at what you do.

[Spooky Scary Skeletons Cover AMV]

10 seconds in I was impressed by the animation
20 seconds in I was like "Did I just see the lich from loop hero? no way"
I loooooove all the references here and how tastefully it was all done. You basically just took as many skeletons as you could from different animation and gaming media, and they're all so well drawn an animated. Absolutely incredible. I can't say I'm crazy about the cover, it's good, but I just wish it was a little better given how great the visuals are that go with it. If you ever do an enhanced version of this down the road, the singer can also do another even better cover of the song. The potential here is wonderful.

[Papa & Boy in "Take a Bath!"]

I'll be honest with you, although there's a lot of thought put into the dialogue and it's a longer cartoon, the style and design was kinda irksome to watch. The effort is high, and I don't want to discourage people being creative. But compare it to another simple character design series like SrPelo's spooky boys and there's a lot more that could be improved in making people distinctive. It's hard to want to watch a series like this when the characters themselves aren't likeable or have little personality outside their dialogue.