Rockmonix's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Link and Navi]

Good animation BUUUUT.....

I loved the art style and the animation but I have to say the voice acting was ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE and really took away from the overall quality. Alot of people who create their own animation insist on voice acting it themselves or by friends or the first person to come along saying OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME BE NAVI!!!

But nothing kills the audio quality more then;
1)Talking too fast
2)Talking incoherently
3)Getting that loud breath blast into the mic
And unfortunatly this animation had all of these downfalls.

For future animations for voice acting I suggest you go to http://voiceacting.proboards62.com/in dex.cgi or http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/ both of these places are overflowing with talented voice actors willing to lend their pipes.

I'm not trying to bash you at all I just really believe you have alot of potential and just offering you some constructive criticism.

LinkXRetro responds:

ok thanks

[I Am Metal Slug]

Not bad

I like the concept, I'd like to see more of these except perhaps expand a little. Maybe 3 'heroes' per episode

BMack24 responds:

3? episode? i was thinking of maybe one sequel, but i was just going to stick with metal slug. seems like a concept that would be difficult to keep fresh. thanks for your input though.

[computer people]

Flash Done Right

Very nice animation, imo everything was done right and wouldn't change a thing.

One question though if I may;
The computer voice used in the song (not the speaking one, that sounded like Microsoft Sam), what program was used for that? I've seen the same type of voice used in other songs where they can change the pitch of the voice to match the song.
Anyone know?

djredlight responds:

Hey Rockmonix.

You're right about Microsoft Sam, I used windows narrator and notepad to get that. The singing was done the exact same way, except however i ran the output through a vocoder. A vocoder is an effect that was popularised by the robot voices of the 70s and works by taking the output of one sound source (like a synth or guitar) and modulating it with another (usually a vocal). However apart from the typical robot voice, there are other creative ways of using it.

I played a synth melody and modulated it using microsoft sam. The result basically makes a monotonal or spoken word phrase sound as if it is singing.

[SAW 3: Body Chains]

A nice try... but needs work

Hey, claymation is hard and I give you huge props for the animation. But I gotta say the sound was absolutely dreadful and really took away from the video.
But if you could clean up the audio and not have it sound like the VA swollowed his mic, it'd be very good and more worthy of front page

Vdub responds:

I am very sorry about the sound, i had to keep converting from mac to pc and myvoice sounds crap, so i tryed to illstrated the movie using music from SAW trilogy. I also had alot of trouble converting the sound for flash.