TharosTheDragon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Newgrounds Dreamcast Collab]

This just makes me feel like I'm not in on whatever the joke is

RootPain responds:

Moushley is barely even a joke, so you're not that far from getting it, bud!

[Lego Joker Tries to Make Everyone Go Gay]

Alex Jones did warn us about those chemicals in the water

[The Adventures of Tumeke Space EP2 "Chip & Diplomacy"]

Wow, I can't believe this has so few views! It must have been frontpaged for less than a day or something

[Monkey Wrench 2 - Lythop Liberation]

There is no heterosexual explanation for this

[Artifacts]

Wait but what's your method for doing the enhanced shimmering effect?

Emrox responds:

draw a few dots or whatever random pattern, cut off the sides to make it rectangular, then convert to bitmap, then break apart, then eyedropper tool the broken apart bitmap to get a repeating bitmap fill that you can apply to stuff

THEN add an outline to your drawing with the ink bottle tool (convert lines to fills before this step, if the drawing involves lines already) and color the new outline to be the repeating bitmap fill. Then you should be able to see that making adjustments with the gradient transform tool starts to give the shimmering effect. To animate it in the timeline, you make two keyframes with the gradient transform set to different positions and then shape tween them

(as I said in the video, it's a fairly involved process! Getting shape tweens involved might even be impractical for a lot of uses, but it's definitely useful in some very specific cases)

also: the effect only really works with 1-2 pixel weight lines, extend it too far and then the trick becomes a little too obvious and the illusion breaks

[SLEEP MODE]

This is Miyazaki-esque. I'm guessing Ghibli is an inspiration of yours. I'm very impressed

[StarQuest Ep3]

If they were heading north, then the map at the one-minute mark shows them turning west while she's saying they should head east (unless this fantasy world has different cardinal directions or something)

[COOL TIMES: FUNNY GUY]

Why is this so good? It's beyond mesmerizing. So relaxing, so calming. It's like you've created a true utopia where people and non-people can just exist.

[THE BREAD WILL WALK THE EARTH]

Even though you showed us how you animated this, it still feels beyond my comprehension