m1kclark's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hate Me, Love Me]

Yay grain!

The grain actually makes it seem less like light, and more like fluorescent water that is spraying off of these little streams. Concept and flaws alike, it is awesome!

[Fortress]

Two models...

It looks like you have two separate models that you mashed together. The landscape is very nice, and dreamy. The castle has wonderful details and is a nice style. However, they don't match at all.

We see tiny windows on the castle, and yet the landscape doesn't contain a single rendered feature except the road. No trees, no shrubs, no rocks, no indication at all that it's made of something more than jello. The mountains, similarly, look like an angry tsunami about to crash on the castle. The effect would be riveting if the castle also looked so impressionistic. There's glow on the landscape, but no glow on the castle. The castle is not antialiased and doesn't look blended into the picture at all. Shadows, color scheme, everything make the image look like there is a castle in one universe and a landscape in another, and the fact that they are together is an aberration.

Serioulsy, re-render the castle on a white background. Post that on NG: it'll get good reviews. Then, take that image, and smear and blur the heck out of it in Photoshop (or GIMP if you like open-source), and then paste it back onto this green landscape. You'll have two images: the crisp and the dreary. Each will look better for it.

1600 responds:

Thanks for reviewing!
I was trying to make the castle stand out against the less detailed landscape, which is more misty than glowing (at least that's the effect I was going for). The focus is supposed to be more on the castle than on the picture fitting together as a whole.

[Predator]

Holy texture, Batman!

Fantastic quality work! Lighting, textures, geometry, positioning, everything! The "hair" doesn't look quite like it's hanging naturally, and I remember Predator having more drool (hard to do in 3D), but these are minor details compared to the tremendous job you did otherwise!

[Captain Falcon]

Excellent

Awesome pixel image! His nose is a big small compared to Smash Brothers' renditions, but an excellent interpretation nonetheless!

kroksas13: you should look up "anti-aliasing". The pixels aren't too big, they're the same size they always are on your monitor. They just aren't smoothed with midtones, and so there is a sharp gradient between geometries.

Danigan responds:

Thanks for the review.

[Super Mario Land: Redux]

Characters

I gave 4/5: you're almost there, but this image has no "subject". Because Mario Land geometries are so simple, this picture teeters on the border between "minimalist" and "featureless", and it only needs a small adjustment to make this almost boring picture into something really striking.
Add one character, any Mario character at all up the sky for example, and then this work will deserve a full 5/5, 10/10! Keep it up!

perry-winkle responds:

mehh... defeats its ironic point of view and meaning. good point though

[{BT} Rose]

Nice shapes!

How did you make the petals? They look hand-tailored for each part of the flower! The rose looks really nice, and might even lend itself to a bouquet!

9/10 because of the blah background

BenTibbetts responds:

Thanks. :) I modelled a "template" petal in a small program called sPatch, exported it as a .3ds file, imported it into Bryce and basically made the flower from variations on that model.

[Saw Bitch Ragebot]

Woot, Don Davis reference

Does he have a pet named "Saw Bitch Workhorse"? Awesome job; nice blending of rough-hewn steelwork with the glowing blue energy effects.

Kamikaye responds:

Thx :) Yea its a reference to the song in the matrix trilogy OST. "Saw Bitch workhorse" :D

[Cubic Perfume]

Unbelievably Believable!

I see NOTHING to suggest this isn't a photograph. Excellent work! The reflection maps, the glass shapes, the mirror, the tabletop are all perfect and look 100% realistic. Even the shading within the liquid (dude, that's GOOD!). I am in awe, and I hope to see more!

[sol]

Big head

The details are realistic. Her head is gargantuan, though. If that's accidental, then ... well, work on that.
If it's deliberate, however, then you've painted a great picture here, where the realistic textures are offset by the surreal proportions.

kinase responds:

Thanks for the feedback--and yes, the head size is deliberate. :D

[Last one standing]

Commentary?

Polonium had it right (once he stopped talking about gas masks). Whatever you are trying to communicate is lost in the hodgepodge of "depression" references. The title "Last One Standing" confuses things further because it refers to nothing within the image, and your description is zero help. If this is commentary, it's too unclear. If it is just a visual, then your other work is more effective.

SmokeryDots responds:

Okay, thanks:)

Read my comment on his review below.
Take it or leave it :)