Monkius's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Silent morning]

Ah, looks like something The Bob would have painted... Mountains and water and "happy little trees." This is totally going into my desktop-slideshow.

Sabretooth2611 responds:

Oh I love Bob Ross, my friends always make fun of me drawing mountains all the time, but I cant't stop, mountains are too amazing XD Thank you!

[Coffee Break]

It's hard work, building dams all day!

Lol, awesome picture/portrait.

[1979 Suzuki Alto]

Cool choice of car, I like kei cars as a concept. I also like that you showed the data (polygon count, what the "skin" or whatever you call it looks like...) The rear wheels look a bit weird as it rotates, I think it's because they protrude from the fenders.

[Ocean]

I've just started to make low-poly stuff in Blender, and I can't even fathom how one gets to the point of making something like what you've just posted. Lol, it's kind of fitting that the painting contains a horizon, so I can imagine myself floating around somewhere beyond it.

But yeah, it's also cool how you made it look grainy, like film or high-ISO settings on a digital camera.

Also also, "Twinklestar" turned out great.

SouredApple responds:

Thank you very much! Replicating 3D space is one the things I put most of my effort in to when I paint landscapes. I do a lot of photo studies from both google and local to match how they feel!

Also film grain/noise is an artists best friend for immediately making the piece look more cinematic!

[stay home]

I like that you treated the text as emissive and that you can see reflections of its light on the person. That's a really cool idea and it turned out beautifully.

[porsche]

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赤です lol
What did you use to render this, out of curiosity?

[Hookpinky69]

Sweet robo-appendage, it looks like something salvaged from one of those awesome-and-vaguely-frightening Boston Dynamics robots.

The colours and general gritty appearance remind me of this adult cartoon I watched a long time ago called "Downtown".

Have you considered expanding this from character-only to character-plus-environment?

carmine3 responds:

Thx! :> and maybe ! :- D

also if anyone's curious why I use solid backgrounds all the time lol; I'm struggling to, drawing environment needs putting a lot of thinking imo, and how much a vital role it is to contribute to the character itself-- and sometimes just by thinking that pressures me and always ended up skipping / or at least rushing it xD

[seaside]

The level of detail/realism reminds me of an anime or something. Cool blend of sci-fi and nature; I'm thinking that this is a seaside farm on a terraformed moon of Jupiter or some other gas giant. Also, I like the floating motorcycle. Lol, floatorcycle.

[Sheltered in Place - Stills and other perspectives]

Cool! Did you use textures, or did you individually colour the voxels in a "streaks" pattern along the walls? Also, that's sort of a depressing/apocalyptic view of the pandemic. Lol.

What did you use to animate?

Kamikaye responds:

Thx! That is a byproduct of the Pixelated setting of the Magica Voxel renderer I think and me who couldn't wait for a high enough render quality, but I liked and kept it.

[Nami in Tangerine overalls]

It looks like she's wearing a two-piece, underneath the overalls.

Ironic.