JustRigo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[In Sickness]

Your character designs are great and the animation is pretty good for the most part. The story is coherent and clocking in at 8 minutes this is quite the effort! However, the audio is where it all falls apart. The music just feels like, well, music. There is no weight, there is no impact. It does not work to heighten the animation and it makes the whole animation feel empty. Sound effects would have added life to these characters, it would have had them feel like they take up space. Using the "music cues" makes it sound like a bad fairly oddparents episode.

All in all though, congrats on finishing the film!

melsnoodles responds:

Ohhh interesting observation there!! I totally see what you mean! We did consider at some point to add proper sound effects n even little voices for them but were super swayed by the idea of integrating those into the music organically. Turns out it took away from the acting, and the later half with the pure music got closer to capturing the tone we wanted! Maybe if we decided on a less intrusive music track the sound effects would have fit perfectly. I'm really intrigued on it after your comment!! thank you for pointing it out! :D

[The 2nd Wilhelm Tragedy]

Welp you've done it again, absolutely fantastic. The art style looks like astro boy but with your own twist. I have no idea how you were able to do this in such a short amount time but it is mighty impressive!

KarlSia responds:

Astro boy? That's a nice observation, I hadn't realized until you mentioned it. It was a struggle for sure getting this done in 2 weeks, had to cut off a lot of stuff and make quick changes on the go. And thanks!