depes7448's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[kitty goes shopping 4]

You have great ideas for shorts.

But you need to practice drawing a little more. There is not much of an improvement throughout your submissions.

~Depes Crystalline~

k3ltr0n responds:

sry what do u expect from a 2 year old

[Mariokirby in action]

Great first animation!

Develop a story for your mario kirby. Try to give all your characters different personalities so they all act differently and unexpectantly (even to you). Keep it up. You're going to be one of the top sprite animators in no time!

~Depes Crystalline~

07mariokirby responds:

I'll try my best =)

[CounterStrike FlashMovie2]

Not good.

Make this movie longer and put more effort into making it look nicer. Don't copy the same format as another counter strike movie. You need more originality.

~Depes Crystalline~

Mak3ttaja responds:

okok ill try.

[Genericyanideandhappiness]

Nice try

1) When you make a joke have other people tell you if it is actually funny.
2) Put more effort into animation.
3) Choose a song that fits well wih the flash movie.
4) Make your point clear. Why did you make your own version besides just showing us what is obvious?
5) Show a couple people what you have made before presenting it out to the world of hardest-to-please critics...

~Depes Crystalline~

darkmagewizard3 responds:

Beck fits incredibly well with this film.

Also, we can't all be Mindchamber...

:(

[Madness Underworld]

Its great...

There were quite a few scenes that seemed to be a bit a slow. Also, there were a couple objects that kinda looked like it was copied from something else.... But great job. Looking forward to the next one.

~Depes Crystalline~

leon888 responds:

thanks dude. a bit slow eh? mmm i need fix that...

thanks for the review :D

[The Hammer Collab]

This is great.

I like all the parts of this collab. You should definitely make more collaborations. The music was very fitting too... =) Next time try to get more people???

~Depes Crystalline~

Fizzled responds:

yeah, i'm making a new collab right now, the parkour collab. should be out next month

[Pencilmation #5]

Umm...

Forgive if I'm wrong, but... Your replay button doesn't seem to work...

~Depes Hales~

captainmcross responds:

Oh shit! I'll have to fix that...

[Brawl Funnies [dick 5]]

Haha?

I see no real appreciative improvement throughout the "Brawl Funnies". I use powerpoint to animate and I could do better than this, and that, sir, would be really embaressing. Nice complaint though, I think I might have laughed a little, but I am not sure... If you think my review is useless too, then fine. There's nothing I can do to change your mind.

~Depes Hales~

MrScriblam responds:

dude why the fuck do you animate in powerpoint just download flash

[Brawl Funnies [dick 3]]

Um...

So... How are the "Brawl Funnies" still on the front page? If the best submissions can only reach a score below 2.00 like this one then the people of newgrounds are really losing their touch... By the way, I suggest you work on this flash a bit more.

~Depes Hales~

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

[Madness Aggregation]

they were right...

all the smokers die... T.T
u know that we'll b waiting for more krinkels

Krinkels responds:

Yeah, when Deimos lit up that smoke he sealed his fate.