RiverJordan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Movement project]

Its been 3 years

and you're telling me it hasn't been marked yet?!

[I'm on Shrooms!]

O___O

Orly?

Sam responds:

Yarly!

[Wonchop Demo Reel 09]

well

I can't say it didn't do nothin for me ;)

[Fj: Alternative Part]

lolol!

Overall its pretty funny, you have good takes on lots of stuff and it works out well. However, i feel that the animation quality holds it back from being something truly great.

Work on your animation skills, don't be afraid to try things you think will fail miserably, as things like that usually end well :P

Good luck on your future projects

Fandito responds:

Thanks I'm glad you liked it.

[Professor Layton pt. 1]

WHEEE!

I <3 U Skaijo! This is fantastic :P

[Short - Cold Drink]

Well in that case. . .

Shouldn't people respect Terrorism? Nice flash, work on animation, make the jokes lolier

fluffkomix responds:

ewww you're into loli?

[Two minutes of terror EP2]

Pwned!

Not gonna lie, i totally saw that coming, but all in all it was a good idea! The blindness really added to his situation and got me thinking "K how would i get out of this situation. . . "

[Brawl Funnies [dick 3]]

Ten for your Author comments

I can tell from other reviews below this that the swf that i'm not going to watch is crap, but i hope people see this comment and think "hey, maybe i should read the Author comment"

I agree with what you say in every way, and I know its happened to me where I felt i deserved more than the score i got for a flash, because something like "awesome" overshadowed it. (not even Egoraptors awesome, like...awesome racer or something)

Thank you for writing this up, just next time upload a better swf :P

dreftclub responds:

A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".

I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?

I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.

Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.

I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.

Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.

But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.

I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.

I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.

People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.

For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.

Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important

[Misinterpretive Porn Star]

what i wanna know is..

How did you land an animation job at playboy.com?

[FAUX - Chapter 1]

Unique

I like how you've set this series up, it should definitely develop into something good. I have a few complaints though, however one of them is completely my fault.

I guess i'll start with that one :P Basically I read to fast, so i'm done and just waiting for the scene to continue, I know this is not your fault as you need to set it up for drama and compensate for slow readers :P

SO another thing i found was that with the use of all of the JPG's (or whatever image type that was) it becomes incredibly pixelly when zooming, panning, any movement whatsoever, and i noticed a few scenes were in straight flash anyways, and they turned out great without any lag.

Just out of curiosity, was the mysterious man at all inspired by the millenium earl from d-gray man? He just reminded me of him that way alot :P

Either way, looking forward to the next episodes, the story is somewhat compelling :D