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At 6/1/05 12:07 AM, kla_kla wrote: just practicing my muscles. sexy isn't it?

Yes, sexy... :o
Um, who's arm is that?

I had a (probably very unoriginal) idea yesterday and decided to make a very short animated sequence of it. The backgound came out amusingly Firthian.

Follow the link:
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At 5/31/05 04:06 PM, Loveislikeakiss wrote: Hi just wondering, I see so many crappie flashes a day and I know not even 50% of all the enteries makes it tru the blamming, but how many flashes does one make untill he get's there?

I too made it through the portal on the first try. But I had been playing with Flash for almost a year before I'd even found Newgrounds and submitted on of my movies shortly thereafter. I had made, maybe fourother "completed" movies just for fun before then.

And how did you feel when you entered?

Pretty good. It was nice to read a lot of supportive comments, and random flaming.

Ever got blammed?

Not yet... but if the quality of movies submitted here keeps escalating the way it has, who knows...

I'm just intereseted because I want to submit my own flash some day :)

Cool. Do it! :)

Very cool so far...

Seems like the kind of game that would feel more natural with mouse movement, not immediate follow-the-mouse, but the slower, slightly delayed kind. Know what I mean...?

Otherwise it's looking great.

At 5/30/05 01:36 PM, Agatha wrote:

a bunch of gibberish files without extentions

This is Firefox's main caching weakness... (although this discussion is now straying off-topic.)

Haha! Very true. :P

However, if you have everything sorted by Date you can find the files you want relatively easily, as long as you get on it right away... :)

Well I have a couple of ideas for your problem:

1) If you absolutely must have it done with lines; zoom in and make them with the proportions you want, but smaller, convert the pieces to graphics and then scale them accordingly.

2) Simply use the line tool to draw your lines, then Modify > Shape > Convert Lines to Fills.

I hope these are useful suggestions.

At 5/30/05 01:13 PM, 450punisher wrote: ya but how do i get to the temp files?

Well I'm not sure about with IE or anything other than Firefox. But if you are using FF do a search for cache. When you find the proper cache (should be in a Mozilla directory in the Application Data or whatever) there should be a bunch of gibberish files without extentions, look for the one with an appropriate filesize (it's usually a little bit off from what they are listed on the Newgrounds page) copy it to the directory you want and rename it with the extension .swf.

There is probably a much easier way of doing this, and I know I suck at explinations. Sorry about that, but I hope this helps anyway.

If you have Flash installed on your computer, you can find the file in your browsers temporary files and change the file extension to .swf and watch them that way. Otherwise you have to do the same thing, but create an .html document with the location of the .swf on you computer embedded into it and watch them that way...

Cool stuff.

Lipsync - Spot on, a perfect example of lipsync without using the popular tween technique (though there weren't any long vowels, which is where that technique usually comes in).

Point Blank Trailer - Really nice, looks like it's headed for a daily award with a score over 4.0 if you keep up the same quality.

You're off to an amazing start, good job. :D

At 5/30/05 01:31 AM, Captainfork wrote: For those master animators out there(you know who you are) what is "the ideal" fps? Is a faster fps always better?

Well, to a certain extent, more is better. However I don't think there are any serious animation submissions in excess of 30 fps, as the human eye cannot process images that fast & it gets to be a drag on many processors. I'd say most of the nice, smooth animations on the site use between 20 and 30 fps, and the general thinking is to use 24, which is the same as film or 30; the same as video.

At 5/29/05 11:59 PM, Kendobabe wrote:
I think is see where your getting at.

A friend of mine created a version of his webpage that uses mostly Flash:
Taesali Web Design; Flash

The major document is a .swf (flash) file but it's embedded into .html (web document).

So you're in the right direction, you can create almost ALL of your web page with Flash, but it's usually just part of the larger presentation.

Hmmm... well you can make all sorts of things with Flash, such as a navigable menu and other web content, however you will need to embed it in a web page.

At 5/29/05 10:46 PM, Tiny_Brad wrote: Indeed. But some are unanswered for a Reason.

Haha! :)
Pointless questions do lead to pointless answers... :|

At 5/29/05 10:36 PM, Tiny_Brad wrote: Noo!... You revived this

Sorry... *shrugs*
I just figured that there needed to be some kind of finality, most pointless questions go unanswered.

At 5/29/05 10:24 PM, AGH wrote:
Awesome. Are you thinking of animating it maybe?

Possibly... I have quite a bit to do already and not nearly enough motivation to get it done any time soon, but I like the simple story that goes along with the pic. It's kind of sad and sweet, sort of like life.

At 5/29/05 08:46 PM, paranoia1 wrote: Does anyone know Gary's E-mail addresse?

Well, apart from this being the wrong forum (but I don't know on what forum you would swap the e-mail addresses of Newgrounds contributors). You might be able to contact him on his web site...

At 5/29/05 07:01 PM, Thomas2005 wrote: How do you cut the white part or whatever parts out of sprites?I need to cut some white background out of some sprites to animate.Any help?

After you've imported the sprite to Flash, select it and choose Modify > Trace Bitmap
Make sure you set the "Curve Fit" to "Pixels"

I liked the pic that lord_naxla did a short while ago, so I decided to make my own version of the same thing but with my own style added into it (the colors and the shape of the room are pretty much the same):

At 5/29/05 02:32 PM, lord_naxla wrote: ok u guys i made a picture and made up a story for it now i need a **good** flash animator to make a flash out of it

Hey, lord_naxla! Cool, I still like the pic, too bad the quality isn't that great at the reduced size...

Silly little pic I just made for my MySpace profile:

Alrighty, the files in the portal of Newgrounds are .swf files (small web files), commonly referred to as Flash.

They can be made using several programs, most prominantly Macromedia Flash (which is what most contributors to Newgrounds use).

You can download a free 30 day trial of Macromedia Flash 2004: Here.

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At 5/28/05 11:36 PM, jleno14 wrote: I have. I just can't figure out how to get a sprite off a sprite sheet.

I think what you ned to do is use the trace bitmap command (Modify > Trace Bitmap...) and make sure you set the "Curve Fit:" to "Pixels."

At 5/28/05 06:33 PM, -GP wrote: Is there still time to join this? =O

Well, I assume that if you can whip something out by the (currently unknown) deadline and it's good enough to be included then sure, you would likely be included.

But it's not my collab, I'm just one of the folks trying to get in, so I can't tell you with any kind of certainty.

At 5/29/05 12:05 AM, BlackOut2005 wrote: SRY. lol, well TY!

It's entirely okay and it happens all the time...
But do try to be careful, the mods are pretty vigilant around here.
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>_>

At 5/28/05 11:55 PM, BlackOut2005 wrote: Hey i have a quetion. When you save and blam right. I always wonder when I will upgrade to a new bage or somthing. I got like 100 saves and 300 blams and when do i get a new badge and when do you get others?

First, these kinds of questions belong in the Where Is/How To Forum.

And to answer your question:
-click me-

You should post some examples of the kind of work that you do. In the illustration threads that I've seen people who show some quality work get swamped with requests in no time.

Good luck... ;)

Phew!
When is the new due deadline?

And do you mind if it goes a little bit over 15 seconds?

Still needs a lot of work:
Overly hurried, yet still unfinished output.

At 5/28/05 04:42 AM, neoMonk wrote: Dude, that one's awesome. lol, you win d(o.0)b

Haha, thanks, but it's pretty much the same as yours...

AND we posted at the same time! XD

If you use gradients that have a very light color near the middle and grow darker then reduce to an alpha near the edges it looks pretty cool and add the same symbol underneath but bigger and with an alpha, like was already mentioned...

(I suck at explaining things)

Anyway:

At 5/28/05 03:13 AM, KillMoochie wrote: Master cheif on his guitar WOOT!

Haha, that made me giggle, good job. :D
Nice drawing too, looks just like what it's intended too, Master Chief playing guitar.

Are you making a Halo flash or was that just for fun?