Lilium's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[One More Brawl Taunts]

Better than the first two, but overdone by now.

This was the best of the three, but I couldn't really get into it by now. It was hilarious the first time around, but now it's gotten old. :/ It's all the same jokes, just.... in different order. With some different animation this time.

[Brawl Funnies [Dick 1]]

I have to admit, I enjoyed it

I like satire, what can I say? I have nothing constructive to put in here because this flash collab wasn't TRYING to take itself too seriously.

[Pico 09]

This was weirder than I expected.

But also a lot funnier. The style is a bit awkward, as was the story, but the voice acting was well done. I was laughing at the rediculousness of it all.

[Pico Epsilon]

Hard to tell what I'm supposed to be feeling

On the one hand, you had some emotional "shock" moments... then suddenly threw in "lol" moments, but since they were strung too close together, it was just confusing rather than moving in any particular way.

The exploitation of Nene with the panty shots, rediculously large chest and nipple indentation was kind of disappointing.

Some of the animation was stiff, but overall the drawings were well done and it was enjoyable, even with its flaws. 4 and 8.

[Not-The-Final Fantasy XII]

Can't believe I didn't see this sooner

It's so well done - the voices, the flow, the jokes, all of it. Love it. I hate Vaan too. Doesn't everyone?

[Happy Cutie Bunny Easter!]

You miss the point of easter and the bunnies.

Rabbits are a sign of fertility - they aren't "celebrated" during Easter. The "Easter Bunny" is little more than a commercialized mockery of what it once was, and no longer has ties to its original format as a Pagan symbol of fertility. Easter always falls around the beginning of Spring, which just happens to coincide with Ostara, a Pagan fertility holiday - which supposedly used hares/bunnies and eggs as symbols (again, fertility).

Western cultures aren't celebrating the bunny, in my opinion. We're just using its cute image to sell candy. In my opinion, the real hypocrisy is that people so readily use Pagan symbolism on a Christian holiday even though the Christian religion forcibly and violently stamped out the practitioners of the original rituals that they lifted the symbols from. I pretty much resent all commercialized holidays because of how they butcher and warp the original holiday, no matter the original meaning, be it Christmas or Halloween.

[Mordred's Lullaby]

Hauntingly beautiful

I must say, this is one of my favorite flash works ever. Your style works so beautifully with the music that they are really one in the same for me. Thanks to you I also bought this song from her site :D

[Girlchan in Paradise Ep1]

Enjoyable at the start...

..but it got old relatively quickly. The animation was great as always, and the voices were all well done. But it went on just long enough to begin to become irritating instead of comical.

Not something I would go back and watch a million times for fun, but still well done and fairly amusing.

[Walk in the Woods]

I must say..

It's so WRONG and yet so RIGHT. The textures in the background added just the right compliment to the otherwise simple lines and colors. The sound effects and minor voice work were well placed, clear, and very well edited. The animation was superb.

Overall, I loved it. :3

[Evangelion: CGD Footage]

Plus and minus

On the one side, yes, your animation here was fantastic. Very well done, and it looks amazing. It IS sad that no one will help you with this project.

On the flip side, being angry about none of the "high end" artists being interested does two things - it takes a shot at anyone you may not have even considered as worthy to help you with this project, and it also ignores the fact that these people have their individual projects and are more likely to reach for flash animation fame on their own with their own works. It's not fair of you to be angry at them for not wanting to help you with your project. It's disappointing, myabe even depressing, but such is the way of it.

I know how you feel - I've had similar problems in another medium (not flash animation.. I can draw and technically animate, but haven't had the time or patience to complete an animation yet), but you can't expect others to pick up on your ideas. It would be great if people were more team-oriented, but especially in the anonymity and microspotlight mentality of the internet, it's just not as likely to happen.

Hopefully someday someone will give you the help you need to finish this project, as it what little I saw here looks awesome.

Nanashi responds:

Maybe I didn't word it quite right then, as I can't help but to be angry (My hard work is as good as Cat Food now) but I do know where the fault lies. If I had the talent to pull it together, it wouldn't be a problem.
There isn't a single human soul I haven't considered. I've received zero offers that I have not responded to in the affirmative yet. I haven't looked at a cell of animation, much less turned anything down.

I guess in my 'rage' I felt like my anger was justified. I did have a character animator, the guy who I started this project with, and though he was 100% interested, and 100% talented, his 'moods' and procrastination turned up a hand full of drawings after 6 months.

I'm mad more than anything at the fact that everything seems to have to balanced out. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, for every particle there is a anti-particle, every light casts a shadow, on and on. Well, talented people have the same balance. Great skill comes with great procrastination, or other things that hold them back. I have the same problems, and so its not just me mad at others. Its just too damn bad.

That is partly why I chose to do EVA. No one is going to be interested in helping me turn my book into animation. I guess I figured there would be a EVA fan out there with the talent AND determination.

Anyway, nothing wrong with disagreeing with me. Thanks for your time and response.