Cheerious's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[MY NAME IS LEGION]

The audio, the visuals and the movement feel like Charlie Murder on an ungodly amount of recreational drugs (with a side of bath salts), and I mean that in the best way possible. I hope that THC were more than satisfied with the end result! Usually I try to add in some in-depth critique whenever I try reviewing, but my brain was blown out by this. Just know you did a great job!

[Butter Dog]

This video really buttered me up.

[.1.]

Feels like a Yume Nikki or .flow event. Pretty short (and too loud at the start), but I'm digging this!

[TD-Double-Shot]

I always wondered why coffee shops in particular were a popular spot for art students, and this sort of answered it for me. Coffee's a good beverage when you're cramming and tired (and art students LOVE to stay up late), chill setup for computer work, everyone's already looking out the window for your still life sketches.. Yeah, seems like a great place for an art student, now that I really think about it!
Discounting that, the way you talk is really well suited for narrating these types of casual stories. You get right to the point, but it's very easy to absorb it all. As if you could trail off for a minute, but it still feels like part of the story you're telling. I'm not a big fan of storytime type stuff at all, but this feels like just talking about things most people can relate to or go through, without going for the low hanging fruit and focusing on the bad to get a cheap laugh or a"#relatable" response, like a lot of webcomics and storytime things tend to do now more than ever. That takes some form of skill, and I appreciate that.

Raziberry responds:

Hey thanks a lot! When I started doing these, I'd never even heard of "storytime youtubers", and the genre may not have existed yet, but either way I'm happy to know you don't think I blend into the crowd.

[Madness Combat 9.5 pt1]

The black marks on Hank's body at the beginning correspond to the exact spots he was blown apart, shot at and stabbed, while the black marks on Tricky are accurate to where Jeb shot him.
I think you're actually insane, because the attention to detail in this is insane. Awesome!

[Everybody Loves Raymond!]

WHEN WILL THIS GAY FUCKING CAT GET OFF MY NOOK MILES ISLANDS

[A Crack In My Skin]

The surreal music and sound design made me feel like something was in the room with me the entire time I was watching. It's a great score for a horror short, did you make it yourself or use stock stuff?
Besides that, I really liked the imagery of Cera shoving entertainment and various forms of media into her fragments to try and pacify it, or cover it up. I have a feeling it's meant to signify when certain people are breaking down, and use things like music, literature or video games to distract themselves from the pain.
If I had to get any meaning from the unnerving ending, it'd be that the entertainment isn't helping. She can't hide from the thing that's making her crack and break down, and it spirals, taking over her entire body, leading to a LITERAL breakdown. Related to Cera, I enjoy her look a lot. The spiky black hair almost reminds me of Don't Starve, but the entire look of this short feels unique and not really comparable to anything as a whole. The coloring itself gives me weird dreadful feelings, I have no rational explanation as to why.
I really enjoyed this! You've already got an extensive amount of work put up on here and your work has changed as you've improved, so no need to tell you to keep posting. Keep making what you're making, I really appreciate it.
(That Yume Nikki poster is also appreciated, by the way.)

AntonM responds:

Super kind of you thanks!

Yeah I made all the sounds effects and music! I record a bunch of stuff in my house, it's a little bit more time consuming but you can get some really nice unique and weird sounds

And good eye for that poster, there are three others that reference things, I wonder if it's a little too dark to see them lol

[2010s childhood]

"2010s childhood" makes me feel old as fuck, but there's a lot of timeless things here that I think everybody that used the internet as a kid went through and current kids are probably going through. Wanting the password(s) to register for something (50/50 chance your parents are gonna give it to you anyway), watching things that blow your mind for the first time- and then you find porn. And then you have to learn how to delete your history. I'm surprised there's no mention of browser games here, did people growing up in the 2010s play flash games? I hope so.
Besides that, this style lends itself really well to surreal jokes and comedy, I like it!

[Why are you cartwheeling away? (MM #14)]

Usage of photorealism isn't unusual on NG, but the way you use it has to be one of the most unique ways I've seen it used! It's hard to animate fluidly with the limitations of using actual people with realistic-looking limbs/skin and some slight edits, but the writing and surreal vibe it gives off makes up for the more limited animation. The style you went with compliments it, in a weird way. Also a fan of this being tagged as "tri-state-cartwheel-champion", looks like Sal had her work cut out for her!
I'm new to this series (got here off of the daily awards), so I have a lot of catching up to do.

Furious-Monkey responds:

This style developed because I know zilch about traditional animation. I knew the basics of photoshop and After Effects looked like photoshop with a timeline, so I jumped in and started making stuff. I was going to make a fast, 'bad meme' style animation with rough cut-outs and dumb character movements---you can kind of see this attitude in some of the early episodes. (My apologies in advance). But I have a 'try-hard' personality, so I kept trying new things and spending more and more time on each episode. I'm happy with how the last 10 or so episodes look. But I still wonder if a "shit-post meme" style animation would have been better. I do know that this kind of animation won't be liked by everyone, so I really appreciate it when I get a comment like yours!
Thanks man!

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