Luke's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna]

I loved it

As always, your art is very good Luis.
Since this was more so a test to see how you could do with lip syncing with the language, I paid more attention to that while watching it.
It seemed that for the most part it was spot on, although there were a few parts that didn't seem so right, but that's likely to happen to anybody, no matter who you are.
This flash was good though, made me laugh quite a bit.

[Africa Dudes]

I love this and all of you.

This is one of the greatest things to hit the flash portal in so long... I WILL be watching this three times!

Excellent art, hilarious idea, everything is fantastic about this... I don't even know what else to say... I fucking love this shit!!!

[D&D Requiem Teaser I]

Interesting

You should really use flash to make it all together and not have it as an embedded video in the flash so to say, I'm sure you know what I mean.
I'm a HUGE Dungeons and Dragons fan... I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for this in July, and I really hope you guys can pull it off. You made my night.

dndrequiem responds:

Epic,

I appreciate your advice on making the film in Flash. That said, as a kid who grew up watching this series, the one thing I care about most - is staying true to the look, feel- and format- of the original animated TV Series. Honestly, Epic, Flash can make it look cleaner. So, in playing the Devil's Advocate (to put it loosely), let's imagine that the show was developed using a technology just like Flash today (supposing that could happen). Flash would work most faithfully to it- because it would have been the original format, then (if it had been developed then and used).

That said, the fact is, as Toei used Classical Animation (Traditional) principles (Flash is its own creation apart in Digital art), the current technology just won't do it justice- because the goal is to capture as closely to the look, feel and sound of the genuine article as possible-- the kids of the 80s in their late 20s, 30's and early 40s (I'm one of the middle kids!) will scrutinize this the most carefully.

Let me illustrate.

Recall that Dungeons and Dragons movie of 2000? They used CGI and the latest technology- and even featured a cast including Jeremy Irons. Sadly- they did not contain more than a shred of the original premise. What did the true D&D fans (of both the RPG and the Animated series) think of it? How did it go wrong?

Getting back to your point- there are at least two other Requiem projects in development besides me. One is penciling a comic on deviantArt, which looks really promising. There's someone else on You Tube doing a 3D version using LightWave. Here's my lowly opinion on that one: aside from the characters being mediocre in appearance and detail, and the voice actors didn't sound like anything like the originals (except for Dungeon Master), the mood and scenery looked and felt good- and made me look forward to seeing more of it.

If you're a kid of the 80s,too, then I'm sure-- or at least hope- you understand my feeling on fidelity to the series.

Thank you for your comment! It means a lot coming from a fellow D&D Animated fan.

By the way, as I have so much to do, I've pushed the completion date to September 2013.

[LARRY episode 2]

Finally!

This is definitely the best so far of anything LARRY on here, it felt like a lot longer than four months since the first one, it must have been.
Anyway, it's amazing man, you know it already, we know it, the whole world knows it. I don't even need to make any criticism, it's excellent.
Keep at it man, love this shit!

[Fighting Club Level 1]

It has potential.

Spend a lot more time on this, making it at least a few minutes long with different backgrounds and things going on, and you have a great stick fighting flash. Good for your second flash for sure, and you do have potential in stick fighting animation, keep it up.

[Nursing Home Madness 2]

Eh...

Really? This could have been so much better it's hardly over twenty seconds long if that, and he kills one person that you can see him kill... I don't understand why this was front paged, I can understand it passing judgement...

Rapheus responds:

Bud, the scores on your flashes really don't permit you to bash mine.

[Frodozers Vs. Clockday 4]

Bad ass!

Fro once again never fails to impress Newgrounds with another excellent flash full of excitement, terror, and everything else that makes shit sweet.

Fro responds:

Yes, this is all of that

[Drexids Lands P.1]

Not a bad start

This flash isn't a bad start to a series, but it does need a lot of work to be a good series. The art for one, is not very good. Try practicing a lot more, you'll get better as you go for sure. The voice acting seems like it's low quality, almost as if you recorded it in a Tupperware container. Regardless, there is much work to be done, but it isn't a bad start.

kevinseven11 responds:

This is my very first drawings ive ever drawn on flash, trust me its gonna get good :D and the audio is going to be a challenge but ill do what I can.

[Albert (big)]

Very good

I wasn't expecting to see this at all.

The art style was not necessarily original, but fitting for this flash anyway.
The music was good with it, and the sounds in the background went fairly well with the sort of 'distorted' style the flash has.
I wish it would have been a bit longer, but it is what it is.
Hope to see this get a good score, you earned it.

5/5