Monkius's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lonely castle]

Interesting mixed architecture; I wonder why water is being pumped *out* of a castle in the middle of the desert, though...

Cool skeleton in the foreground, too; it seems like it was at one point something feliform.

[Horizon City Acrylic]

Dude, you are like sci-fi Bob Ross with all the "spacescapes" lately. Boblon Rossk, lol.

(I think Bob Ross worked with oil paint and not acrylic, but still... The "happy little gas giant" in the background is rather excellent.)

Kamikaye responds:

Hahah thanks a lot ! :) I'm really flattered to read that !!

[there be goats]

I like the "misty" effect on the mountains in the background. Also, I'm not sure whether it was intentional or not, the effect on the foreground rocks is cool as well. (When I zoom in, it looks like they have tiny fractures.)

It's also great how this giant dragon is hunkered down and alert, whereas the goat is just standing proud, all like *BLEATS LOUDLY*.

This reminds me of a story:

I was riding my bicycle down a dirt road in a very rural area (downhill, fairly quickly). Rather suddenly, I come upon a herd of goats blocking the entire width of the road and come to a stop just a few metres from them. One of the smallest ones happens to be right in front of me and bobbles its head and kicks up dust with its front hoof like it's about to charge. I hold my position and think about using my front wheel as a shield in the worst case scenario... The other goats start slowly making their way around while "Tiny" holds the fort with the head-bobble. I turn to the other goats with an expression of impatience and they start hurrying. Finally, it's Tiny's turn and all the goats are behind me. As I continue, I find that I have to dodge a bunch of "goat pellets."

So it turns out that I scared the shit out of a bunch of goats. You can't make this stuff up.

[dusk]

Ooh, desolate...

Also, I didn't notice the animations at first, because for the first few seconds I was just staring at the sky... Lol. Awesome... Did you do all those gradients manually, or is there a program that automates the pixels alternating colours or something?

radshoe responds:

yes, all of them are done manually. thank you! ^^

[project: Infinity]

Ermahgerd, colour me intrigued!

Reminds me a bit of "The Warriors", because 1970s and what looks like a subway/metro station.

Also, the integration of the title and your signature into the tags is super-classy.

Yep, I think I'm going to have to add your twitter to my bookmarks so I can see where this goes.

SouredApple responds:

The warriors is a big inspiration and thank you!

[snow man]

Goddamn it, that hothead Keisuke punched a vending machine again!

Second time this month...

Also, does the massive front splitter and dive planes act as a plough in that heavy snow?

[Interface]

I like all of the realistic details; gradient of the sky at sunset, little bits of light on the trees, soft reflections on the moving water, fluid dynamics details of the water moving around the rocks.

Also, since I like bicycles more than most people... I noticed that the front wheel has 28 spokes, the rear wheel a coaster brake and the chain line would suggest a derailleur or chain tensioner behind the man's right leg.

But that probably doesn't matter.

Thanks for shouting-out "Interface"; surrealism is my favourite. I haven't watched much, but so far, it seems like this "Umami" is really worried about AI. Edit: just realised that episode 15 is on the front page, lol...

[Early Morning]

You have a real talent for capturing the ambience of a particular area... There are a lot of small, but interesting things that end up adding a lot to it, once I've stared at everything for a little while; the fish's tail wiggling or dog/wolf/caniform's ear twitching or the boats moving slightly out of phase with one another (though oddly, the rope and hook/crane do not... Perhaps intentional, because it has a bit of a hypnotic effect.)

Kldpxl responds:

Thank you very much!

[Bike Chase]

Lol, this is basically me whenever I go for a ride (speed-wise, I mean. There is definitely no pug or look of apprehension plastered on my face, among other things.)

I will save you the nitpicking of the bicycle, since it plainly was not meant to be the focal point of this piece, lol.

Also, I think that this idea could easily be turned into a pretty sweet video game... The pug could give you powerups!

[Mystery Game Intro scene #1]

Aww! Why abandoned outright and not delayed? It seems that a lot of work went into the lighting alone, not only here but in some/most of the interior and car scenes as well.

walnusstinte responds:

I think the main guy developing it just had some real life stuff get in the way, if they came back to me I'd pick it up again though for sure!