Butzbo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Great: The Show episode 8]

Coolibert!, just discovered this brain-cheesing series; checked them all from 8 to 1; really fun comedic style; The first segment in this one is probably one of my favourites, such a cool premise.
I'll be coming back!

[The American Dream]

Having watched Ghost Stories more than once, It's great to find these works on Newgrounds!
I really like the contrast between the tone of the narration and the actual events portrayed; a pretty strong sum of parts.

[Quacksalver]

Superb, really fun characters, and a well put together story!
It had me wondering what was happening towards the end and it actually had some suspense when you still don't know how things started working all of the sudden.
It also had some fun details, like how the one-arm-guy keeps having these shinings things even after getting a new arm, hahah!

aap responds:

Thanks! It's nice to know people didn't see the ending coming. Also good to hear you notice little details like that because I love to put those in my animations!

[The Machine]

Superb!, While I still missed some kind of symbolic correlation between the objects, it was cool to watch, SPECIALLY the last machines which had all those constructions lines around. Made me wish to watch them moving like that as part of a world.
Also, it's always nice when animators go the extra mile to synch the actual music to the animation!

Extellus responds:

Carlonec is the fellow responsible for the music and I too think he did a fab job ^^

[Macromedia Flash 9 - LEAK!!!]

Hahah, it's cool to see little 'smears' on the mouse movements; also, always great to find some oldschool Flash-related jokes in these days.

[Old Lady Needs A Pickle]

Nice; while I've seen a lot of "random explosions" on Flash animations, I think the art style and character animation here has potential (I think that first render of the pickle looked great!).
Keep it up!

[Bloody Nuisance]

Superb!
I see a lot of work was put into the animation, the character's acting was great!
Many of the more 'script-oriented' web series tend to lack a bit on the animation side, so it's great to see how polished this was.
A bit of nit-picking, but It makes me wish there was something like a shadow under the character to integrate him a bit more with the backgrounds.

[MTG - DRAFTING / SOUL SISTERS]

Heheh, as a relatively long time Mtg player it's cool to see some Magic related animations every once in a while!
Would be fun to see other themes such as more casual/multiplayer magic duels.
Animation was quite limited, but it serves its purpose, since the writing is more relevant in this case.

Wondermeow responds:

Glad you enjoy it ^^

[RED]

Awesomesauce!
Frame-by-frame work was brilliant; specially on the character acting, weight AND camera movement, from what I've tried on that matter, I can tell it's a really long and demanding work.

[Elf]

That was a pretty entertaining fight sequence, I can tell a lot of work was put into the animation and plannifying a varied segment, and the acoustic track really added a fitting and rather appropiate mood to it (contrary to the common use of orchestrated music on all sorts of medieval themed fights).
Still, something that could use some additional work is that sometimes the main drawings (keyframes) are not as pronounced as they could be to produce a bigger impact on each action. as some movements, like the sword swings don't look as treathening as the context suggests.
Still, great work, hoping to see more of these eventually!