Ynek's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 142]

A little pointer...

Every single one of your 'adolf hitler pokemon movies' has made me laugh, but really, the joke's kinda gone on for long enough, and I'm frankly starting to get a little tired of just seeing Addie photoshopped to look like a pokemon....

I think the time has come to actually put a little more effort into it, and instead of making hundreds of movies which amount to Adolf Hitler standing still next to a Pokemon, you could actually make them move....

Do Hitler in a Pokemon battle, where his pokeballs open up and SS come out or something, and mass-exterminate pikachus....
Or he uses a massive number of pokemon to invade poland...
Or he gets a pokemon to use a poison attack on himself in an underground bunker to commit suicide....

It's not difficult to come up with some ideas for an animated short, but I think that you would find it most worthwhile.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

That sounds mean.

[Future of the Middle East]

An interesting point of view.

Indeed - an interesting point of view.
you convery your ideas very well through some very detailled animation (your helicopters were very nice) and your choice in music was apt.
Your message is very relevant to the times we live in, and your dark vision of the future is all too feasible.
It is nice to see that some animators DO think about more important issues than just stick men and animé.

Eight stars.

[Simmons Family Extended 2]

"MM whatcha say" is getting old.

to be honest, I've seen rather a lot of that "everyone shooting eachother to that "mm whatcha say" tune" jokes....
I'm getting tired of them.

Plus, the intro was a bit too long. I also noticed that the quality of the animation was a little sub-par... You would be better off doing about a minute of high-quality animation rather than doing a long animation like this one.

On the plus side, the sound quality was pretty high, and at least you seemed to use different people for each voice, something that so few animators actually bother to do, usually with dire results.
And Paddington Bear was a nice touch.

four stars.

[Happy Birthday Jesse!!]

WTF??!?!?!

Two questions.... What are you on?
And can I have some?

This animation really isn't my kind of thing, but on the plus side, your music/visual synchronisation is spot on... The way you moved your characters (If a squiggly line qualifies as a character) in time with the music was quite skillful.

However, some aspects of the animation really do let this down... For example, your 'dirtbike' guy (I think it's supposed to be the Crazy Frog, but it's not a terribly great likeness.) Barely moves other than skidding across the screen like an early South Park character.
A little more colour would also help liven things up.

That said, I guess this was a more personal animation, and it probably makes more sense to 'Jesse', whoever he or she may be.

Five stars.

Lochie responds:

I AM ON CHAIR LITTLE MAN!
It's what I sit on when I animate.

I love syncing music. I have always been good a syncing stuff.
I <3 my squiggly line character :D

No, crazy frog sucks. And south park have better animation than anybody. Even Matt Greonings.
I shit you not.

Jesse = a boy.
A sexy one at that.

Ten stars for your review.

Thanks alot Ynek.

[Sleeping Warrior Eps. 4]

Mind-blowing.

It is genuinely refreshing to see an animator who uses stick-men because he's trying to express fluent motion rather than an animator-wannabe newb who only uses stick figures because he can't draw anything more detailed.

This animation is nothing short of beautiful, with it's smooth, crisp motion and excellent, emotive soundtrack. I was genuinely riveted by it. And I don't use those words lightly.

Truely a unique work, Truely deserving of the rating I am about to give... Ten stars (yours is the first animation I've given this to) and five "ginger-kid" rating.

[Ahhh]

hmm.

Although it didn't work very well, I can see what you were aiming for. You were trying to make a nice, tranquil animation that suddenly becomes loud and scary, giving the viewer a fright...
A couple of pointers to help you do this - You should make the colours more 'pastille' right up until the thing bursts out of the guy's chest, at which point, make the colours really bright and garish. This makes things seem more calm, serene and 'sleepy' until you're ready for them to be intense.
You should spend a little more time setting the scene. At the moment, the viewer is still settling into the animation, and isn't really sedated enough for the screaming fright to take effect.

And that's it, really.... It needs a little work, but other than that, it's not bad.
Five stars.

[Find the orb]

stickmen? Again?

To be honest, I'm getting kinda tired of stickman animations, now. They're becoming a bit overused.

[Ah - It's Halloween]

sound sync?

The sound synchronisation was a bit off.... Which kinda runied most of the jokes, because I heard them before I saw them and the visual humour was almost completely nullified by it.

I'm going to say five stars, because it still gave me a smile in spite of it's little flaw. I would probably have said six or seven if the sound had been better...

kinggila responds:

Oh. :( Sounds seems fine to me.

[Halloween Heroes 2007]

cute.

This animation is a really nice little piece... Really well thought out by an obviously experienced animator.
I really liked the smooth character motion and the simple designs.

One TINY criticism, though, and it really is a tiny one. When he's walking alone through the big, bad, scary streets of the town, I noticed that he was actually taller than most of the building's doors, which gives the connotation that he is comfortable, confident and unafraid, which I don't really think was your intention.
As a director, I would have been more inclined to use big, tall, scary doors which dwarf the character and make him seem alone and afraid.

Like I said, it's a tiny criticism, but something that I noticed.
Anyway, for your excellent piece of work, I give nine stars.

FuzzySneaker responds:

aaahaha yeah, good call on the doors. thanks!

[The Jersey Devil]

... wow.

Brilliant.
Nicely done, nicely written, skillfully directed and it's the perfect time of year for this kind of story.
My hat is off to you, sir, and it will remain off to you until my head is cold.
Ten stars.