A very good lesson.
I'm glad you told to those who have their movie blammed that we are nice ;). Thanks a lot for telling some good advices for making a movie. You've done a really good thing, I'm glad someone made it ! Very cool from you. I'll keep this in my favourite Flash because it gives very useful examples of how making good Flash.
Hope all NG users who are noob in Flash (like me) will learn with this awesome lesson !
Keep up your good work !
haha yes NG users are nice people :) aren't they
I'm glad you found the guide to be of any use! really, I'm just glad.
Thanks for cheering me up! And thanks again for the lovely complements
Hello again.
Well I decided not to email you because I didnt really have anything more to say about your movie, so I thought well it would be rude to ignore xenosteel so I decided to take a look at another piece of your work. I found your rage movie because I saw someone else who did big reviews, read some of his reviews and decided to review one of the flashes he had reviewed; it was rage.
I have to say, I have never made a flash in my life, so this doesnt really apply to me (there is no chance in the world im paying $1000 or whatever it costs just to attempt to make a game; I suspect most people steal it somehow, but im not computer smart in that way). Though I found this interesting anyway, because its good advice, its almost as much as a reviewers guide as it is a flashmakers guide (it says whats good and bad to some degree).
Its good that you advocate flash makers be serious because at the end of the day, there is so much competition they will either be blammed or confined to the memory banks (where they are rarely watched) if they dont. It slightly dissapointed me that when you were talking about how important it is to have good ideas (that a flash must have a point) that in your later examples you did two fight scenes. This is exactly what newground users need to be shuffled away from, there is nothing wrong with the fighting on newgrounds, the only problem is that people are too unimaginative and violence/fighting makings up about 99% of newground flashes (perhpas an exaggeration) .
Long boring intro screens are horrible but not as horrible as what they actually say; your example said BJ Studios, well many flashes are signed so-and-so studios, yet almost all are made by a single man at his personal computer (how they hell is that a studio!?). I personally dock marks for flashes made by 'studios'.
Incidentally you 'BJ Studios' reminded me of the page 3 comments, is english you main language? Your habitat is Bahrain (not in england), yet you have in brackets your in a college in the UK? Anyway a BJ is the short form for a blow job, intentional? In england, on page 3, (for the more classy papers, of course - tabloids) we have a daily topless woman.
I found the preloader section interesting, it made me realise ive never paid much attention to them. One thing I will say is that when I see a home made preloader that looks very swarve I realise im probably in for a good movie, when people use the newgrounds preloader I dont know what to expect. In terms of score it is unimportant; but a homemade preloader is best I think.
Thats right no stickmen its laziness is what it is! You say dont use the z0r suffix; I say never use any kind of internet only slang and speak real english, none of this meh, l377 (or whatever it is). I like to dock marks when I see these aswell, when I remember.
Ive given 0 for all the different fields because they dont really fit in with this flash by the way; ive just given it a final rating.
You remarked my last review was long, as is this one; but lets bear in mind that the real problem is that most peoples reviews are short, they are not reviews (they dont say what is good or bad) they simply say whether the 'flash' is good or bad, as a whole.
Finally back onto rage you said something about doing another version of it, if thats so I hope you dont use the kind of graphics ive seen here (in the little flashes you did) because I dont think they will fit the atmosphere at all.
All in all 'this' was a good flash with some solid advice.
hmm I hope you meant M_A_R_C_U_S as the person who did big reviews, he's one of the best, and I can tell that you'll become like him, in time :)
It's true that I didn't give examples to "Concept" design, but please note that the two following examples were about neatness.. What that exactly means is, the following two example scenes are NOT complete movies, they lack idea and story, they were just examples to show people how to present thier work with style... To be honest I was going to make an example about concept since I know that many many people on NG need that, but if I did an example concept, many will follow in its footsteps thinking its the right way, or maybe try to evolve that single idea.. That's why I avoided making an example about concept, because I wanted NG artists to come up with thier own ideas and style.
The BJ studios thing was just a name I came up with, so quit the naughty thoughts :) lol.. Don't worry, I did get a laugh from what you said about it... and yeah English is not my main language, but I'm very good at it, maybe not used to the English culture you could say (although I lived in the UK for 3 years now)
1337 (read 'leet') is actually funny to be included in flashes, but I rather that its not used as main text. I mean, its okay to be used in small comment bubbles or something, but not as a language for writing a book or movie subtitles.. And yeah, using 1337 as the main language reduces the seriousness level of the overall movie, sometimes greatly.
don't get me wrong, long reviews = better, but ah, you do have a slight problem with your reviews: I noticed and read some of the reviews you said, and most of them are more like what your opinion suggests you do about movies, and you say what you think should be done... Well, when you review, try to be the author and try to adapt the idea and style that is presented in his flash. Again, don't misunderstand me, you are a very unique reviewer and your review are very helpful and I really appreciate you doing that to help people out :) but take a look at big reviewers' like M_A_R_C_U_S and compare his reviews to yours :D
I'm not really doing another "version" of R_A_G_E, its just a movie of the same genre: "Thoughts in my head".. but this one (and I'm actually working on it right now, done about 22%) will definately make R_A_G_E not worth a spit :) stay tuned in NG for it.. haha no I won't use the little graphics I did in my examples, no way!
Again, I really really have to thank you for the constructive reviews, just one little advice for you: I saw you give a long review to a movie that was about to be blammed.. Well, don't do that, because movies that get blammed don't give you a score towards your # of reviews, and only a few will even notice that review... Do it like M_A_R_C_U_S he only reviews stuff that passed judgement :P, but if you really want to review movies that will get blammed then just write a very brief and straightforward one
anyway, good luck out there, and thanks a lot, again!
Well Done
I really like this guide. Personally I don't do Flash, yet, but I find it so great whenever people make flashes to help each otrher out. Keep up the good work.
thanks! I appreciate your appreciation towards making flashes to help others :) I like to help whenever I can, I guess
thanks again for the kind words
Very nice message
I voted 5 because I was affraid it would get blammed... guess I was wrong... anyways, most of what you said is true.
I hope all the newbies out there will read your message and follow what it said.
One thing about your animation in there... the one you are proud of... you might want to add limbs next time. Quite some people are just animating that way because they are lazy...
4/5
Oh am I lazy! I'm the lord of the laziness in fact -_- lol
Well, I explained why I couldn't do that one very well, I didn't really have that much time. Anyway
thanks for the high vote, I appreciate it!
and thanks for your review and complements :)
good stuff
man what a helpfull lil guide to newbie flash makers.
i also enjoyed hearing metallica during ur first flash example
thanks for the complement!
yeah go Metallica :P