For a first animation, this is really good, especially on Newgrounds. Not only that, your backgrounds done very well too. I would be more critical, but I honestly can't, it's that good. Hope you make more.

That was actually really amazing for your 1st animation. You got almost everything right in this. The animation, artwork, sound effects, etc. If there is anything I can say is that try to make longer animations instead of just under 15 seconds. With that said, I hope you make more. Keep it up! :)

For your first animation, this really isn't that bad, good job!

For constructive criticism I want to say "make it smoother!" but after having re-watched it a couple times, movement and such really isn't bad at all, it's just somethings flash really quickly and the viewer is left feeling like they've missed something. I've watched your animation a couple times and for the life of me I can't figure out what the text is before fin. (I'm a bit dyslexic, so trying to decipher that font is a nightmare.)

Good: background detail (though the sun looks like a yellow shadow it's to translucent) is good, could be a bit more refined, but meh. Stickman movement looks realistic, it's just his body colours that confuse me - sometimes he is black, some parts gray, and why does the head have a blue border?

I still don't really understand the point of the animation...he uses a staff to make a cactus grow? Is that it? I don't get it.

Clearly you need dragons.

very fluid animation with an equally awesome background, cheers