Reviews for The Mad Scientist

[formerphilly]

in response to "blue boys band" and my own

as for "blue boys", this was supposed to be black and white. it wasn't intended to be a color flash. why would you say you liked it as a flash but maybe dd a little colour? it's a b/w flash. it works tht way. as for my review... it was good, in general. i could tell that you spent a lot of time and hard work and it's got a lot of potential but you need to develop the story line more and do a little work refining the graphics. but it works, as a first draft.

[Drewmeister]

Hehe, great

I had no idea what the last guy said, but I thought this was kickass. Nice job man, just need more work on the people (maybe it's your style or something), but otherwise the animation was great. Well timed with the music too.

[AloneInTheDark]

Good, but could have been better...

I know you worked a long time on this flash. I saw the 'mad scientist' sig of yours in the bbs months ago. Awesome that you got it done and congrats with the frontpage and award.

I liked many thing about this movie. The mad scientist concept was awesome. I am getting tired of all these simple flashes about flawless heroes. Nothing is cooler than to make a flash about a mad guy.

Another thing i liked was the noir style. Not just because it was noir, but because it certainly added a certain tone of darkness and insanity to the piece. I think you drew the entire flash with the mouse cause of the kinda scribbly lines. If so, then i know it costed you alot of pain in the ass work to complete the piece. (trust me i know)

What i didnt like so much was the overall presentation. It is almost like you wanted to use every possible special effect in this flash. Think more about the effect of certain scenes and about the composition of the different elements in them. Brilliant scenes like the scientist standing in front of his lab were followed by very poorly ones like a face closeup consisting of 6 different lines. This was also the case for other aspects like the shadow work. In some scenes it was simply brilliant, while in most others it was shining by absence. Try to make the thing more coherent by thinking about these things.

The music wasnt really what i would use. Even though the video was brilliantly in sync with the song, i found the song too distracting. Sometimes it can be much better by choosing soundtracks that you wont even notice, but that contribute greatly to the atmosphere. The song you used worked very well for the beginning and the end, but didnt fit in for the scenes in between.

But the points i mentioned arent just things i can say for this particular flash, but it goes for ninety percent of all the flashes on newgrounds. I said them to you, because in the other areas the flash was very good and solid and if u can improve for part 2 then without a doubt i will see that flash in the top 10 in the future.

AloneInTheDark

Afro-Ninja responds:

I agree wholeheartedly. But I have plenty of time for refinement in future movies. Thanks for the thought-out review : )

[schiele]

Good!

Very nice! Splendid work you did on the animation according to the music! Keep working!

[king-lemming]

first five rating ive given

superb, i think the sound at the beginning was brilliant, the part where you get the bangs as he cranks up each lever was fucking genius, i think the music was a little bit wrong towards the end but it didnt spoil the movie, great really fucking great.