Zanzlanz's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[SCREAM 4, BUT BETTER]

This is a really classy way to meme! You really disarmed the feel of the original painting

[Message in a bottle]

My favorite part is the dragon's "definition of insanity" level of persistence shown by the sheer number of bottles having the same fate. It's inspiring in a way! Great visual storytelling.

Cruel irony has it, the papers in the bottles are vouchers for cork screw openers.

Lovely job - deserving of the cover! :)

ArtDeepMind responds:

Thank you very much, you describe it way better than me.

[Red Dragon]

Honestly this is a pretty awesome style! Love how it actually has life to it even though it's a rigid CAD model. Nice work!

It would be really cool to see your creatures fully rigged and animated in an isometric game or animation :) Or I'm sure there's a way to stylize this into a full artwork, whether it would be by flattening it into textured stained glass piece with a starry glass background, or by carefully converting it to pixel art with a limited desaturated palette or something. It had me thinking, so I like it.

RongYuigh responds:

I'm more of an artist than a game maker, by the way. But who knows? The next person to read your comment might catch up on the idea.

[McTwist]

So smooth! Few pixel animations make me audibly exclaim, but this one sure did.
I love Pico's reaction, and echo it to you. Awesome work!

[Tiger dragons]

They're cute until they grow bigger! I like the way in which you made the tiger features pointier - really makes it feel like the sort of description you'd find in folklore, or something. Awesome art! :)

[Mine Blocks]

Awesome fan art! I'm glad Frank is wearing a party hat, obviously for protection haha
I like that J's winking over there haha ;) thought it was super cool how you actually made it functional in your launcher too. Well done!

[Spooky Business - Larsen]

Nice, an eel cop! Now that's a unique combo. What time do I tune in on TV to watch his show?

I have to echo the others - I love the lighting too, works really well thematically!

[Bongo (Learn)dog!]

Oh my goodness Crystal this is so adorable :D I love your addition of the BEANS haha <3 🐾
How did you make an animation? I haven't seen that from you before :)

Crystal-1534 responds:

Glad you like it! It was fun to do, and it's the first time I've done something like this :) The background and table are not white but I like it better that way.

I made it in Paint Tool Sai. I don't know what is the right way to "animate". Anyway.

This year I want to do more stuff like this ;D

*bark* https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/undertale/images/1/16/Doggo_battle_pet.gif

[Rhinobeetle]

Heyy another really great piece!

I like the parchmenty feel you have going on here. It makes it feel like someone is out on the field documenting these rare critters on a sketchbook. The partially monochromatic palette adds to that a lot imo. Plus, that gold+black+blue combo is super royal - perfect for this royal rhinobeetledragon!

Also, nice ant-for-scale ;)
Good night!

ArtDeepMind responds:

Another great feedback from you, thank you very much, I can tell you really see my intentions with these.

[Hornet]

You went in a really cool, creative direction with it! I like how you approached the head.
I'm curious what the intended scale of this creature is?

ArtDeepMind responds:

Yeah, that was tricky part, the scale, I just put a bigger common leaves on the ground for the scale, so something like a lizard probably in terms of size.