i have a lot of god stuff comin ur way

this morning I worked like an hour in gay cartoon of mine called vince the vodoo dolls and I only got half a second done.

Ive got done exactly 74 seconds out of 125
that means im still missing 51 seconds.

so basically all I need to do is fucking no sleep and ill be done in 102 hours (4. days and 6 hours).

tbh the cartoon doesnt look that impressive (to me) so I wonder, am I doing something wrong? what bad habits do I have that are slowing me down on the production of this/anything I do?
I hate to work on a single keyframe more than 4 minutes, and I do! I have not developed a smart strategy to work on my cartoons as fast as I want. I believe if someone else other than me was working on this theyd probably be done months by now.

its hard for me to believe how some of my early animations (sprite ones) took me like 3 h.ours to make.
good times.

sorry for gay post I just had to like vent that out there.
oh and I have submitted a lot of drawings so you can review/enjoy too if you want!
Ill get back to work.

not really

but I will bitchn whine very very soon dont you worry girl haha!

So ive been a fan of one of newgrounds most prominent english speaking frame by frame artists hulalaoo for some time now so I decided it would be cool to make a tribute collab for him :=)
ok its gonna be

24 fps
standart canvas
Flash 8 version ok

Your part may contain sounds but background music will be selected by me and lalo

You need to use the pencil tool in flash and you must add illumination effects in white colored filtered lines over random points. it doesnt really matter where you put them it looks ok XD
you are not allowed to use the onion skining, and the erase tool. So just take them off your mind.

This collab is perfect for you if you dont really know how to draw because well, its a tribute and it doesnt really need to be very well drawn as long as you keep everything ACTIONY LOL, in other words if you have never in your life used a pencil or you dont know what frame by frame animation is you are completely qualified.

the deadline is one week from now

upload all your parts on http://www.sendspace.com/ and send them to me via pm. Also before taking any parts im gonna have to se an swf of that part so upload it on www.spamtheweb.com

I have already started my part and Im glad to say it looks exactly like a hulalaoo flash
http://www.thebackalleys.com/ok/public /player.php?file=6314oQ_Crazy_bus_bull ab.swf

recently I discovered how fucking important it is to storyboard before you animate, and Im using this new and exclusive power to finish something thats been piling up dust in my comp for some time now.

I might actually release somehting half decent soon!

Ok So

School. The hours bite, but the expercience is not bad, I enter at 7 am and get out at like 5 pm just to do homework. but its all worth it. people are geekier than me and I get my ass kicked in brawl like a cambodian slut with no dignity on a dayly basis.

life is good.

lately in my moments of boredom confined in my bedroom with a 21 year old peruano, I start to watch a lot of old cartoons and movies. Recently someone reminded me of an old show called the "what a cartoon show" wich some of you probably remember.

So every day I watch one or two of those cool oldies and I tought id share some of my favorites with you.its fun how these old toons opened the doors for a lot of cartoons and animators.

this lovely thing here you all should have seen at least once is the original courage the cowardly dog pilot.

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I LOOOOOOOOOVE eddie fitzgerald´s "tales of worm paranoia" . Why cant we have things like this these days? if I ever become animator president ill force all my mexican fellows to quit doing anime and force them to animate things like this

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This one would later on evolve to become the family guy that exists today.Dont you think those voices seem familiar?

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this is :)

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This one is also good

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I would make more cartoons If I wasnt watching these and trolling people all day long
cyea!

oh also check out the portal for the disney collab sometime soon cuz I made a part teh

was too long and my page took too much time to refresh so I made it simpler

Hey there
been a while

get ready for some nasty text-wallisation

So I dont know If I mentioned this before but a month ago I moved to Monterrey (here in Mexico).
I came here because the only (probably) decent animation school in Mexico is here. Its called ATLI school of art.

I feel like it is more oriented to... well.. art (art as in painting in a cavas and learning to use a lot of real life instruments) than animation tough. Im not saying this is a problem because I know that expanding your skills in a canvas you can actually touch will make your digital art and drawings much better. Problem is, Im not interested in making a living out of painting and shit. I like to MAKE cartoons, and I know I want to make cool stuff. but I dont think I have any class that is actually related to making cartoons.

my fear is that the classes in following semesters will be as distanced as this first one from cartoon making, I mean seriously theres like 70 people in my carreer and from what Ive seen only 5 make flash cartoons or cartoons in any way,heck some of the people I have met dont know how to draw at all.

And (im going to sound really gay now) I probably draw better than 80% of the people Ive seen in my classes. Most of them draw anime similar to this.(this is a very negative thing)

Now there ARE quite a few people in my school that actually make some really nice drawings. Dessuu Anime and furries , but still nicelly drawn I guess. Im probably the only person who does not worship eat dream and breathe anime in this school. If you lived in any part of Mexico, youd know what Im talking about.

my first impression before coming here was that they took the graphic design carreer then threw a couple of animation shits in there and called the carreer "digital art and animation". However, seeing some of the drawings made by students that are about to complete the carreer, I have changed my mind. Some of these guys are really skilled and talented and I love to see how they came in here with skills similar to my own at this moment.

Either way I feel like im going to learn a lot and have a lot of fun, ive only been here one month and I already feel Ive learned a lot about drawing, wich in this moment is my main concern.

Im living in an appartment near campus. sure Its hard to get away from family and friends but it is also very nice to have a place to call your own where you can just chill and walk naked. lol not really I live with 4 dudes. :/

So enough bullshit about myself already.

FLASH PROJECTS

Vince the vodoo doll-delayed fuck you

This year could be described in one word. CANCELLED. I think I have cancelled or delayed like 4 "mayor" projects this year.

FOLLOW THE LIGHT: a cartoon I was planning to do meanwhile I finished "vince the vodoo doll" wich will never get done without me tweeing everything all gay

Both of my power of 3 games are not going to see the light of day

the first one, topsy turvy outlaw, simply got delayed and delayed because we simply werent able to take this project till the end. I feel like we did a lot of music, designed levels, gameplay, a lot of characters for nothing. Mostly I feel like its my fault. I have a lot of animation issues id like to overcome before making this game. we plan to restart the process and release it because some ideas are really good to never see life out of our computers

the second one was "split". Long story short, paperbat broke up with me for the 16th time because I told him clocks for clock day movies are not hard to draw. I dont know how hans feels about this.
I havent talked to both of them in a looooooong time now so yeh this is oficially dead. we split ways LOLZ

yeah im really disapointed with how things have come out this year.

BUT

I do have a few flashes that will come out.

On the very night I moved in here I finished my part for "close to home".A collab organized by mexifry. he has not released it yet because the group that payed us to do that music video apparently has run in a few problems in this moment and they want us to release it later. fair enough. I dont know when will he release it tough.

I also joined the disney collab. My parts coming along I guess!
It will be released realllly soon!

oh also here are my picks for the best of this month thing.

hello

5. metal gill awesome

8. HappyNoodle Vs SadNoodle

Seriously

Im glad the (monthly) cash prizes are no longer a feature in Ng because back when they were avaliable, shitty movies still got in the top 5 of the month and mediocre work got rewarded even more.

Im sorry but this "top 2000" users voting system simply does not work!!!

Why not let the 5 or 6 sane people in Ng help with the abnormaly hard decision of picking 5 movies (like if Ng had little material submitted).

So basically what this best of the month list says is that appart from the other 4 monthly winners (from wich I only watched one), there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING better than one of the worse things I have seen in like a year????

In a nutshell, every month some really shitty/cheap movie gets in the top 5 because 80% of the people that vote are full of shit.

The June winners were a good example of this as well-a hentai movie got in the top 5 even tough the voting guidelines say they prefer movies that are "not pornographic". lol yeah right.

"our goal is to reward the most talented and deserving artists, not those who seek mass appeal"

p.s. I can live with A FEW shitty movies on the top 5 but a recicled vidoegame comedy garbage where the joke is that solid snake is a fish is just totally ridiculous. it shouldnt have even got frontpage.

k go fuck your mother son!