Dayl's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The "Change" of Christmas]

Really touching.

Great story, good animation, overall fantastic composition.
You really have a great feel for storytelling and putting together all the peices of an animation. Like the timing; you totally managed to convey the cold and lonelyness at first, and then the warmth at the end. Your blue style really helped, as did your use of effects--subtle, but effective (lol no pun intended). For what you were trying to do, You pulled it off beautifully, there's nothing that I could even offer criticism to improve on xD

Good job!

NeroGeist responds:

Thanks man!

[a letter to Santa Claus]

LAAAAAAWL

And I was expecting a fleshlight. Good job.

[Awesome Episodes #01]

excellent.

i like how the chair smashes in time with the snare. good stuff.

Minion777 responds:

Good eye.

[The Love I'm Searching 4]

Wow, great! I love the style!

It was a bit hard to follow at first, until i read your comments and rewatched it to get the story line, but the first thing I thought was: I REALLY LOVE THE STYLE!!!

This animation also really struck home with it's theme for me; I feel the same way, and you conveyed it beautifully. Thank you. It's really inspiring :D

And may I congratulate you on the superb backgrounds - they're excellent. I usually feel that using bitmap backgrounds is a bit like 'cheating', but you managed to make them fit the style and added something magical to the flash. I especially loved the dancing girl's room, and the foggy bike ride to school. The only thing i feel needs changing is the character differentiation, because while the designs were nice, the fact that they all had the same hair colour made it confusing. It worked to express the common feelings of the characters, but it was hard to distinguish their individuality.

The overall effect was beyond my vocabulary to describe however. So I'll just say thank you again, for sharing this with us, and good luck on your next project, and achieving your dreams!!!^__^

[LARRY episode 1]

WOW, INCREDIBLE!

You are definitely going places, my friend. You are an inspiration.
I liked Paladin when you were doing that, and thought you had potential, but this just blew me away!

I also watched one of your songs on youtube, and loved that too. It sounds like you used to question yourself too, which is the boat I'm in at the moment, but the way you've overcome your inhibitions is truly inspiring, and it gives me hope that I can shed my shackles and produce something of worth, too. THANK YOU! :)
Waiting eagerly for the next one!:D

p.s. I like perpetualfrost's idea of the 'dragon' (aka. lizard with fly- for-wings:P). It would be cool to see if you could interweave that with the plot I'm sure you've already created.

Jazza responds:

thanks heaps man. and ya know what? it was like yesterday i fel a million years from making anything that people would notice let alone get a response like this so i'm honored. thanks man. good luck with your stuff too!

i definitely like drawing off other peoples suggestions, dont know if i'll do that one coa i already have dragon lined up haha. anyhow, big thanks man :)

[Speed Animate: Sakura]

not bad.

you're better than i am :P better organized too...
good job. how long'd that take you?

studio-nightbird responds:

I'm very rarely this organized. I go as far as naming the layers to save confusion so I get things done fasteasd....Ouch a bar from my window just fell and landed on my hands....faster. thanks for the review ;)

[3rd Grade Transformers]

Wow I just about died laughing.0__0

Bastard! you just almost killed me! Figuratively. Very figuratively. I love you man.
I'm really stoned but i can't wait to watch it sober. and again stoned. And then again with friends. Did i mention i love you dude?

[Magic School Bus: Grade 5]

good concept

but honestly, you could have gone SOOO much further with this.
a couple other people mentioned it too, like thejackrabbit's mention of the fieldtrip permission form. that's hilarious :P
and the kids' catchphrases would have added a nice touch like Araelyn said. and maybe you could have explained what happened over the summer holidays, like all the self-help and protien shakes arnold went through, and how the other kids got into pot and got pregnant and whatnot. it was a good idea but the execution really fell short in my opinion.

[Puzzle Shoes]

Just my kind of animation!

But i love ALL your stuff so that's to be expected :)
Your backgrounds were incredible, as were your characters, and fluid animation as usual. i particularly enjoyed how they kind of got their colours from the stuff around them. it was neat. and i liked the idea with the shoes, and how love freed him from the monotony of life. Amazing stuff, man.

p.s. that was you beatboxing, no? :D
p.p.s. Hurry up with the next Khale episode!!! xP