Butzbo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[depressing stories]

Coolibert shapes!; maybe the triangle one was the most "complete" one, but they all merged together on an unexpectedly entertaining shape sandwich. Also, the sound work is probably the best I've heard in your animations so far, it really helps setting the mood.

On a sidenote I honestly though this was going to be 5 seconds long, maybe I should do my homework...
Also, hands are a pain 50% of the time...
Where's my quote?

dylan responds:

"you're the only one that I want, think I'm addicted to your light"

- beyoncé, 2008

[Sheep Collab!]

Superb results, all shapes and sizes of nicely composed sheep!, glad I could make a sheep on the last few days.
Maybe one small thing I missed was to be able to see who was the author of each sheep; some of them were really cool and I'm still not sure about who made each one of them; maybe a little sheep screenshot next to each name on the credits could've helped.
Of course that's a small thing that can be easily improved, other than that, awesome work!

[The Chunderfins]

Some refreshing visuals, kept me waiting for some sort of episode, but still fun to watch as a short intro-music-video, also, the animation on the Chunderfins logo looks GREAT!
(cool music by the way, I'll be checking the album)

[It's Just Ink]

That was a fun trip;
I actually read your description first, and luckily most things were a lot more different than what I expected.
The more dynamic camera scenes were fun to watch; although some of the frame-by-frame sequences could have been smoother, but that just takes practice!

[Washing Spoons]

Leí "DibujitosWeones" y pensé, "OH, un chileno!"
Hahah, buen trabajo señor, creo que la experiencia es bastante familiar!

DibujitosWeones responds:

jajaja, es bastante familiar

[Animate in your Opponent]

Damn, this is magical and fantastic or WHAT?

I loved how you made so many lively bizarre characters, because that's a pretty uncommon thing for your works, and 8bit sounds, I missed them a lot in my animation, so it's fantastic to see you exploited them that much!!
On a fun sidenote, your adaptation reminded me a bit of Ivan Maximov's animations, who is actually one of my biggest/favourites influences for animation!

[A Way Back Home]

The camera work was great this time; I really liked the take where the character pulls out his sword; even if he doesn't use it at the end, hahah.
Since I've been through the though time trials of NATA aswell, there's really no point on mentioning the frame-rate, which worked pretty well after all.
Another superb animation!

StejkRobot responds:

Thanks butz! yeah i had some things in mind for the sword but it became a "snakes on a plane, pick the gun up, say something and then put the gun back" scene haha just to make it dramatic..
Get pumped for the results tonight dude!

[Interwebs]

Great work Hikarian (and Cromagg and Stejk, both superb Nata contestants)!.

I can tell this theme as a whole has a HUGE potential to be covered by animation.
The amount of symbolism is enourmous (and could be potentially bigger).
Probably the plan was to keep it short for this web-friendly format, but I can't help but think about a ton of additional 'symbolism' that could be added; maybe the pirate guys could've tried to persuade the man with a ton of free stuff, or another sort of monster could've appeared. Of course that's only a reflection.

Nice to see NG tank at the end :)

Hikarian responds:

Thanks and oh yeah, there are so many more possibilities!
I had had the idea for a while, and decided to use it when our YouTube network arranged a Webby Awards collab, but we only had around 14 days to put it together, so I had to make the storyboard/animatic in two days in order to get the others properly in on it. But there are a loooot of things that I would've liked to add as well-- I mean it's the Internet, you could make a whole series around that theme!

[Desperate Measures]

I think this one really stands out, specially with the original human designs!
Also, I agree, NATA times are pretty though, specially within so many other things, but I guess that's part of the challenge, and I'm glad to see that you could still make something really elaborated.

The only feedback I could add (which is probably one of the most usual things in nata shorts) is that the ambience could be built a bit more for a stronger impact on the narrative; but the short time for animation is always a restriction for that ( I can really identify with that), hah.