Stanpai's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cloud's Question]

Lip sync gorgeous. Interesting take on the characters, can feel certain influences in your style. Very short of course and simple and no background either. It really was nicely made, great job Gray!

Gray responds:

Thank you homie!

[Pico's School x Soul Eater【Anime opening parody】]

Rough around the edges but I appreciate the intended scope. Not a ton of animation, the parts that were animated were colorless. I don't know if that's part of the original style but either way I appreciate the piece. I feel as though you ran out of time but still wanted to upload. Either way, keep up the hustle!

Pikafaa responds:

yeah this was just my second time trying to do animation on clip studio so I dont undersrand the tools very well still hahah😅 that's I did not color tha animation parts. My plan was gonna put up on pico day but at the end decide not to. thank you for your observations 👍✨

[Piconjo Interview REAL!!!!!11!1!]

I <3 Piconjo!
If this is already part of the Piconjo Jam upload, why upload it separately?

ashmageddon responds:

we were told that we could upload it separately so i did xD
seeing any feedback or stats separate from that of teh jam as a whole also helps me see if my part was successful or not! plus it's nice for personal archival reasons

[The Startlingly-Impressive Gun Man]

I'm really not sure where to go on this one.
The style is, of course, ProsciuttoMan, and it has a lot of that rather staggered / basic loop stuff going on with various things ranging from lipflap to violence. I think you sincerely need to get a better microphone because the quality of Gunman is drastically worse than every other voice in this production. You can make the argument that it's intentional, but everyone else sounds much more consistent, making Gunman uniquely echoey.

Of course, Crimer in particular being the character I myself voice, I found that his looping mouth frames really do not fit the Ben Shapiro style direction I was given for the line delivery. You needed to have start/stop on mouth assets, because otherwise it comes off as painfully lazy. This takes a lot of time, I had to do it for Ben Shapiroth. But it is worth it for a better product.

I think the thing that really made me laugh most was the second time Bullet Girl made a joke and Gunman lost his mind. The pushing for laughter part landed best there.

Overall, I think this fits into a mid-2000s animation culture more than 2022. There are too many shortcuts taken where there could be more polish. It feels like a half-step from an animatic/comic book to an actual cartoon.

The art pieces throughout were really nice and those bump up the score. The music choices were also a nice throwback to how things used to be.

Keep working on your timing and don't take shortcuts. Your style definitely doesn't feel like it's the best fit for longform material that's dialogue heavy. Refer to Peter the Ant or Goobee's Lament for more on what I mean, where these were very well communicated visually. The use of VO can be a double edged sword sometimes, and I think having clean audio almost brings the charm down.

Keep at it!

Gray responds:

Thank you a bunch! Great points and critiques man!

[Evangelion Collab]

I give this 5/5 solely for the Pizza episode, which had a perfect blend of artistic ability, great writing, and immaculate execution.

It was a bit disappointing to see how many of the episodes relied on the same HURR HURR SHINJI GET IN THE ROBOT GENDO IS DISAPPOINTED ground that has been tread to death for over 25 years, but I won't let that bring down the score earned by some of the most hilarious or well crafted bits.

I also liked the Nigel bit and the EVA dating sim references. I would say I personally enjoyed 70% of this collab, and am sure others enjoyed it at least that much or more.

My last note: I really think a lot of NG animators are skilled at animating but not at writing, and would like to see more teaming up with writers for these collabs. The final product will be better.

EDIT:
Forgot to mention this before but I absolutely adore the way you handled the title cards for each part. That was beautifully done. Great!

Wandaboy responds:

stanpai get in the robot

[the man with the plan :)]

This is hilarious yet I also have to blam it for quality assurance purposes.

LazyPix3l responds:

Fair enough lol

[Mission MOANified Collab]

The spiritual successor to Street Fighter Chode we didn't know we needed.
Welcome to Newgrounds.

Gray responds:

Sorry we are gay

[Cassette Girl FNF Animation Short Preview (WIP)]

Nice but don't upload incomplete stuff to the portal please.

Kerzid responds:

melvin.jpg

[ROOM]

I think this is undercooked. I want to see more from you and think there's potential but there's not enough substance. You have something here, and I would like to see it developed further.

GHE05 responds:

There will certainly be more! I've never created something like this so it'll definitely be slow. Thanks for your interest though

[mind pop]

I really can't wait to see what else you have to share.
Could be cleaned up a bit more, particularly text and transitions, but I dig it.

KEORIEOO responds:

thank you so much! I'll keep that in mind for next time, this was a school assignment that was due the next day so its a bit rushed haha