Stunji's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Misinterpretive Porn Star]

I've watched this many times...

And one thing I didn't even realize til now is how absolutely amazingly well done the backgrounds are. Obviously the characters are flawless, but the backgrounds are full blown incredible quality (the architecture of the establishing shot was really nice especially). You really spared no expense Harry. If you happen to read this, could you tell me how you did them? The perspective is accurate enough on some it seems like a sketchup underlay that was done over vector style, but other ones are obviously completely hand drawn. Either way, I'm completely impressed.

HappyHarry responds:

You practice drawing in perspective enough you can eventually learn to just wing it like I do, I didn't use any fancy 3d reference. Also, remember that the line tool is your friend.

[Asaroki 11- Departure]

You can do better!

I think you are succumbing to the limits of using the pen tool, and sacraficing the quality of your animation. I'd recommend instead of doing a drawing and penning over it (which I assume is what you're doing, as it's what most do), rough out an entire scene using the brush tool with a light color. Make the animation fluid and correct, then draw the character on a new layer over the gray sketched out animation. Having a template underneath that you can change will make a better final product, and you can easily keep the same style, it just takes a bit more patient. Look up 'pencil test' on youtube or other art sites, and you can really get a feel for this 'rough' process, and I think in no time you'll be able to make stuff 20x better than this.

ArtistGamerGal responds:

I totally agree with you! When I started making this a few years back I didn't learn until about halfway through that using the pen tool in flash was so suicidal! But yeah, as you could probabley tell, almost everything was tweened too! So the animation quality was super stiff. But my new animations are the oppisite technique since now I'm focusing more on animation then content and visuals. Thanks for the feedback though! Please tell me what you think of my new stuff once I finally get it done!