Agatha's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[VisionTribe Hangman]

Nice use of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash!

I like using these three programs in conjunction, too.

One tip: Reduce the size of the final animation by vectorizing some of your raster images. It's not a good habit to get into when your animation comprises lots of raster images, which would lose no quality as vector drawings. It's better to reserve raster artwork for special effects, such as smoke, fire, or other related atmospheric effects, not as main characters.

[Of the Couch]

You should have converted to vector format...

Flash has an auto trace feature. Or, the original vector drawings should have remained in Flash, and Photoshop/After Effects visuals should have been imported as bitmaps (PNGs, to be precise).

[Killer Bush 3D]

It's nice to see you've entered the realm of 3d!

A hint for next time: Use Flash's autotrace function to vectorize each frame of the animation. You'd remain within size constraints, and besides, arificially "vectorized" 3 dimensional Flash animations are neat.

[3D Fight 2]

Horridly slow...

...and horridly short. One character stands motionless, the other character punches him, and the procedure repeats.

Why was this so large?

[Dictatorship]

Pointless, yet...

Excellent drawings, music, and humor (especially the inclusion of George Bush under the "approval" section). But a zero for content and purpose, and without those, an animation is nothing.

["The Fox and the Mirrior"]

Compression killed it...

Next time, use a macro to automatically "vectorize" each frame. JPEG compression ruined an otherwise excellent (albeit somewhat pointless) short.

[The Match]

I saw this as an Alpha...

...and was thoroughly impressed!

Nice combination of Frame-by-Frame animation and tweening!

cherrorist responds:

Thanx :) I learned a lot making this one.

[Santa Sells Out]

Sound...

Try setting sound to "stream," rather than begin on "event."

Otherwise, very good!

[num1000 512kb cache mix]

Excellent!

Excellent abstract Flash style! It looks very Japanese.