Raccatoons's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Plastic Bag Man]

Good lord, this was amazing, but so fucked!! Great job!

BigCronch responds:

Thank you so much!

[You Lovely Lovers]

You are a god damn master. Always love seeing your insane animations!!

[A Girl Can Dream]

Oh my god, this was completely brilliant. I loved every minute! Your art style has so much charm and appeal to it, and the special effects were on point! The secondary sound effects were also appreciated, it added so much to the environment of the scenes! I can only wonder what kind of animations you're capable of making these days. Fantastic work!!

[Zukos Plead - Avatar Parody]

Great job man! I really love how disturbing you make your characters look. Aang especially looks incredible in this. The voice acting is also really good.

There are a couple things that stuck out to me though, one of which was the initial composition on Zuko. There's a bit too much negative space behind him. When a character is looking in a particular direction, it's always better to give them room in the direction they're looking.

A line that didn't really make sense to me was, "I just wanna take you in so I can play my PS2 and wear my favorite pair of shoes." It just didn't make sense or add to the story in any way. How are those relevant to his character, in that moment?

I'd also like to see a little more variation in poses, like I get you wanna get these out quickly but all the characters stay in the same pose for almost the entire cartoon, and it disengages the viewer when you do that. You wouldn't even necessarily have to move them a bunch, you could just try mixing up the camera angles (not counting zooms) to tell a better story visually. You do that at 1:09 with an OTS shot, that's about it for their initial conversation.

That said, still a great job. Love the burnt hotdog line. Keep on keeping on, it's fantastic to see good, original parodies on this site again.

meatcanyon responds:

I appreciate this constructive criticism. A lot of time went into it and I appreciate that. I agree that the animation is stuff, in partial that’s because that’s just how I like it. I think it’s visually funny and fits the action of the characters dialogue being given, but to be fair I could try and play around with some more poses and liven scenarios up.

Thank you

Meat

[Mr. Nipples]

What an intense story! I love the way the backgrounds look, and the character designs are really cool and unique! I appreciated the little stuff like the monitor highlight on the main character's skin, and the background SFX during the nipple altercation. It's attention to little details like that which place the viewer even more in the worlds you create.

The only part of this I'd say could've notably improved was the last bit, where your character walks backwards into the bed and places his face in his hands. It's pretty unnatural looking to see a character walking backwards like that, but I get it, animating a character turning around can be hard. I'd challenge you to try it next time. And when he's in despair over what just happened, he should be hunched over. Just keep in mind how you would react in the situation, you probably wouldn't still be sitting upright. The consistency of the bed was also a problem in my eyes, I'd make it stand out a bit more from the walls, it kinda blends in at the beginning, making it seemingly come from nowhere at the end.

Despite what I've said, this is still a nice and unsettling cartoon. Originality like this will never go unappreciated. Keep it up! :)

[Sublo & Tangy Mustard #13 - Convention]

Amazing work, you're continuing to challenge yourself and it shows! Your ability to capture atmospheres through characters and environments really sets you apart. Can't wait to see your next toon.

Aaron-Long responds:

Thanks a lot! I did want to get more atmosphere into this one, in a few ways. Glad you liked it!

[COOL TIMES: BEAUTY]

Really amazing stuff, visually and thematically! If I'm being nitpicky the only thing I would suggest is paying a bit more attention to audio next time, as the mic clips at 0:28 when your actress yells and a pop can be heard at 0:24 on "what" and later at 1:41 on "be", it's just those little things that hinder the cartoon from being as good as it can be. Really amazing stuff though, you achieved a beautiful little story using a dancing desk duck for crying out loud, that's saying something.

[Protein Pal]

That's the best montage music I've heard in a while. This is really funny, great job!!

[Cecile's Late Night Discovery]

This was really cute and fun! Great stuff man, hope to see more from ya