ALL OF MY 5
Well done!! This was an awesome series. Top marks ^_^
Reviews for "Bass' Revenge 5"
Words fail me. Then again maybe not...
I have not seen ANY sprite movies that are better in quality then the one i have seen on this page.
i've searched all possibly all the sprite movies that i could find on newgrounds, and this one bested them all.
this is absloute magnificent work and i hope you continue to make such high-quality sprite work and submit it to newgrounds for all sprite movie lovers to enjoy.
awsome
that was very good and well made hope you make more like it.
Very good
the one thing you should have done was make the whole series 16-bit, but thats all right. Kinda cliche, but really good
Shows definite talent.
To get the negative stuff out of the way; in the whole, this series has some weak points. The grammar errors (missing capital letters and punctuation marks, mostly) in the dialogue get a little annoying at times. Whether or not a character is going to open his mouth when he talks seems entirely up to whether or not you have sprites of that character talking. Which brings me to my second point; I didn't see any customized sprites whatsoever (aside from Public Domain stuff), and some situations could've really benefitted from some altered sprite work. Then, there's the mixing of bittages and sprite resizing. I'm not too picky when it comes to that, but when a Rockman & Forte Megaman flies a Megaman Power Battles Rush and transforms into a Megaman 7 Super Adaptor Megaman, it's getting out of hand. Usually the idea with sprite movies is to recreate the gaming experience, and when everything looks different that doesn't work out. This too could've been solved largely by customizing sprites. Lastly, jerky animation. Roll's head bobs up and down when she blinks, Wily's hair changes color when he talks, and Duo actually flashes colors when he's idle. I assume you used "trace bitmap", but I'm thinking that you perhaps didn't cut all the sprites from the same sheet. I think that when all the sprites aren't traced from one image file, their sizes and colors can start to vary. My suggestion is that next time, you save your sprites as animated GIFs with transparent backgrounds. Import them into Flash, and they're immediately lined up right.
Now, don't yell at me yet, I just wanted to get all that out of way. As you can see I did give you a decent score, because what is clear from your movies is that you have a good deal of cimenatic skill and talent. In fact, stuff like the attack of the Bass clones reminds me to a lesser extent of the style of Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, and though I loathe DBZ-style anything, the final Bass/Megaman showdown was really stylish. And your attention to detail in music and sound was top notch. Thumbs up. I think that you could score some even bigger hits if you found someone to collaborate on movies with; someone to keep the grammar in check, make new sprites when you need them, and fix other such small flaws. Good luck with it. Regardless of my criticism, again I say: you have a great sense of cinematic style.
CheveLoco responds:
Well the srpite thing first, i am not a big sprite customizer. I am no Randy Solem or Paul ter Voorde(the mario reloaded guy)i am very inexperienced when it comes to that,this is just my second sprite series, before that i had no idea at all of how sprite animation worked. And i did try getting someone to do some custom sprites for me and they didnt convince me(not all the frames, details i didnt like here and there) i waited and looked for them for around 3 weeks and nothing, So what would u preffer? a half assed looking 32 bit megaman or sacrifice some graphic quality and go with the 16 bit one that has all the frames i needed for my battle?...yep i thought so..i wasnt going to be waiting months to get a sprite sheet when i dont have a lot of free time cuz of college and my job. And believe it or not,all the frames you mentions were cut from the same sprite sheet, Wily's hair, well blame it on whoever did the custom spritting,like i said i wanted to take advantage of having some free time. And i try hard to animate the sprites, you know how hard it is to animate a running animation?..it's not like the frame line up easily into place. This are not mario frames that consist of 2 or 3 frames per animation. Some of these had around 16 frames, not an easy thing and can get to be annoying. I may be a rookie when it comes to sprite movies but i know that it is IMPERATIVE that you resize all the frames needed, all at the same time so they will all be the same size.The grammar thing, well i cant say anything about that except that i know it sux :P. I'm glad u liked the style of the movie, hopefully you'll review my future projects and maybe you'll see some improvement. Thanx