Don-Jackimo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Old Earth 2: The Temple]

Who cares about the quality of animation (not to say it wasn't a good effort), your writing is really good and I liked the voice acting. You should look into teaming up with a few other artists and pitch this to a company, you never know what might happen. I think with a bit of extra work refining the art style, animation and audio this would make a great show. Plus it's already almost 11 minutes long which is exactly what you want! Amazing effort! Just knock up a bunch of scripts (you clearly already have heaps of ideas), get a team together and knock up a really good quality trailer or teaser and get in touch with Adult Swim or Cartoon Network.

Fantishow responds:

Oh wow, you're just reading my mind.

[Salty Swamp - Sac Village]

Man there is a lot of cool things about this series. It seems really different and original to anything else I've seen. The colours are great and a lot of the transitions and title effects are really cool. It would be great if you spent more time refining your art style and your jokes. The art style seems really interesting and unique and I like a lot of the colours but it still feels undeveloped. I think if you worked on your backgrounds and character designs a bit more they would look great. If a small tablet is part of the problem then I definitely think it's worth investing in a new one. I also think if you spent more time developing your script and working on the execution of your jokes it would improve this animation a great deal. A lot of the jokes fell a bit flat for me and I found myself loosing interest in the story. I hope you don't take this review the wrong way because I really like the animation, it's really cool and original, I just think it could be improved with a bit more spit and polish. Anyway good job, looking forward to your next submission.

Blordow responds:

The first half of the script was written in 2007 with some minor tweaks here and there so generally it was a bit flat, I had already done most of it before we started changing up the second half of the script last year. The next half should feel a lot more recent and fresh in terms of humour. I definitely agree with you on that. I am also looking to upgrade my tablet, although I can only afford a small upgrade, hopefully it should help. I really want this to be good, it has been pretty difficult getting it this far for many reasons but I hope I can develop it further. Thanks for the review!

["Allen's Dream"]

This was sick! I disagree with the comment below though. I think if you coloured this it would look fucking awesome. Even if you just coloured the first part and left the dream sequence black and white it would be cool. Also I think you could redo some of the backgrounds in the first part. They looked a bit pixely and average compared to the rest. Some awesome animation in this, some looked a bit rushed but I understand you had a tight deadline and most of it looked pretty good. All in all I think you could go over this and polish it up and it would be amazing, you could enter it in short film comps and put a lot of animation companies to shame. Good work.

Rickdiculous responds:

Thank you for your review. In all honestly, the MAIN two reasons why I decided to do this in black and white is 1. Coloring would be time consuming as hell for me, because 2. My sight suffers from Color Deficiency. I am TERRIBLE at coloring, because I am Red-Green Color Blind. I've always loved to draw, but I have never (and never will) been able to manipulate color. And yes, I am definitely going to revisit some of the rushed shots here in the next few weeks and re upload a REDUX. Again, thank you!

[Breadheads]

Thant was f-ing awesome! Heaps nice backgrounds. Loving the sureal style. The animation was great, kinda reminded me of Aeon Flux. Nice job!

codywalzel responds:

I do like that Aeon Flux, a favorable comparison, thanks for watching!

[Jurksons meet Floonstoons]

I don't know what all the fuss is about, Ren and Stimpy was disgusting and that was an awesome cartoon. I've checked out a few of your other cartoons and they're great! The style is a little inconsistent and some of the humor is just generally random but all in all I think this was pretty damn good!

YULFO83 responds:

Thanks Dude! Alot of people were angry at this one for some reason, not sure why. ha. I try to have something different all the time so that if you don't like one you'll like the other. thanks for the rating!

[Miniambra: mini-ep.01]

South Australia represent! Nice work! Did you do the cert. 3 at Hamilton? I saw Rob Farnan's name in there. I did the course back in 2008. Also studied at Uni SA. Your style is awesome! Really nice art and cute story!

Miniambra responds:

Thanks a lot Don-Jackimo!! Three of us studied there too!... in fact, Rob is like Miniambra's godfather (always there in case she needs advice and support hehe). David Colebatch and him are amazing teachers. We're also really grateful with the people at the MRC, they've been really supportive. The swinging bridge at the Torrens river was a big inspiration :) Have you been there?
Take care and feel free to drop us a line to catch up (http://http://www.miniambra.com/contact.html)

[Wolverine at Comic-Con]

Classic!

jabzinaut responds:

Thanks, glad you like it!

[an awkward situation.]

Heaps well written, script, acting, direction were all awesome. Art and animation let it down though. I think if the quality was brought up to scratch with the rest of it I would seriously consider paying to watch this show... Or at least download it :)

tylerghardin responds:

yeah, i'm really trying to get better at art as a whole. i'm new to animation too. but i'm super glad you enjoyed the rest! thanks for the compliments!

and if i had a show i'd upload it to pirate bay myself if i knew people watched it! hahah.

[Lobo azul - Caperucita]

Haha! I wish I knew what they were saying. Cool style though!

Wolfblut responds:

You can see at youtube with english subtitles available, the next episodes I'll put them directly to the video, I thought the web have an option to upload .SRT files but I don't found it.

[run away hampster]

Please normalize your sound!!! It was really painful on the ears. In a strange way, I kind of liked this. The story made absolutely no sense. Some of the voice acting was kinda funny. That thing doesn't really look like a hamster. The art in general could do with some refinement. I did watch it all the way through though, so you managed to capture my attention. 5 stars for originality -2.5 for poor production.

flashmakeit responds:

I am glad I captured your attention and I enjoyed reading your expert advice. I hope to improve my work.