Zanzlanz's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Zanzlanz Collector's Bundle + Mine Blocks]

GASP! A tribute to all of my games?!
Thanks for the amazing collage of my work, that's super nice of you!! I've been enjoying your reviews, and have been happy you're enjoying the games <3

The zombie vs Villain - guavas vs peas/bullets LOL 🏆

Placeholder456 responds:

OMG ZANZ!!! :D TYSM 4 REVIEWING!!!
I hope you'll make more games in the future! :)

[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.

[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.

[smaugust day 1-4]

Always a fan of Smaugust, particularly for the really creative concepts like these from talented artists like yourself. Love the unexpected creature combinations - I've certainly never seen a mole dragon before :)
Truly well done so far! And best of luck with the rest of the month!

RoseredTiger responds:

Thanks, I'm trying to get a bit more creative with m dragons, so this is a great opportunity for that

[Diving in a storm]

I really like it! The colors are great imo, and the style change in the water really adds a lot to it.

Great work! Happy Pixel Day!! :)

Urichov responds:

Thank you. This one was really fun to do.

[The Head]

Woah this is awesome!! I'm loving the details of this, and the concept is really surrealish :) Definitely something that doesn't quite fit this era... which I mean as a compliment of course! The lighting is nice too!

I'm wondering, what was your inspiration for this?

PixelPenn responds:

I'm glad you like it! I was going for surrealism, so glad that worked out. And for the inspiration, I'm not entirely sure, but I began by wondering what it would look like for a man to have the world he sees painted into his eyes.

[The Infinite]

Awesome work!! I really love the colors and composition! It's such a freezingly calm blue haha. The silhouettes are readable and moody, so you definitely pulled off this style very nicely.

Happy Pixel Day!

(Side-note: in the second tree layer I think there are a couple color mix-ups - definitely nothing important, it's just something I wanted to bring to your attention if you refine this)

SouredApple responds:

think I fixed it, thanks!