Imagine that!

For the summer I'm working in a local pub. It's quite swanky and situated on the Thames in a picturesque area of London. Due to its swankyness, the pub attracts a lot of fairly successful people (including quite a few British TV celebrities - Susan Boyle's come in more than once!

Anyhoo, it turned out that one of the regulars was a producer for all of the Gorillaz' albums and that the whole Gorillaz empire is run from one building. He found out that I was an animation student and wants to see my demo reel. Unpaid internship with Zombie Flesh Eaters? Yes please!

Here's the demo reel I gave him. I'd put it on newgrounds but it's an .avi. It's also very similar to my demo reel from 2008. Watch it and let me know what you think!

Hai

So I just released a new animation and it'd be great if you guys'd give it a chance.

Shrek 2

Just watched it and I love it, but I don't think I'd ever enjoy making a film like that. Any of you guys got aspirations in the animation industry or is it just a hobby?

At 7/11/09 06:53 AM, Doomsday-One wrote:

At 7/11/09 06:34 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I'm damage controlling my account and everything I've touched on the net.
I've lost my batting average and my mod powers, and haven't been able to eat.

I know it looks bad, but you really have to eat.

OMFG that made me laugh.

Are we still doing anagrams?

BritishMoose.

shit tim robe

At 7/1/09 04:41 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 7/1/09 12:39 PM, WhoknowsmeaUdiO wrote: No, Kayn made sure there wouldn't.

"and three of them are utter bastards"
KaynSlamDyke is my new favorite user

But baby I can change...

At 7/1/09 01:06 PM, K-Guare wrote: Now I feel like a blogger or something.

You brough it on yourself.

At 7/1/09 10:09 AM, Luis wrote:

At 7/1/09 08:45 AM, liaaaam wrote: I just received my 1st year uni results, the only thing I failed was the maths module..

Never understood how people can fail at school.

Luis always succeeds.

At 6/30/09 07:46 PM, Calipe wrote: The reason new people ask the same questions that have been answered before, is because newgrounds lacks a good searching tool. It makes it way too hard for people to find what the are looking for...Nah, just kidding, it is simply because they are new and lack the necessary knowledge in flash and actionscript. After the persevering ones acquire decent skills, they start getting involved in projects and find less time to chat on the forums. At least that is what happened to me...

I went to uni and was too busy larking around. Plus I was nigh-on useless in the forums anyways. I never helped anyone...

no idea at all. i don't have an engine or anything sorted so i couldn't give an estimate i'm afraid

At 6/28/09 06:16 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: i could use a quick buck, what's the gameplay like?

You save the sea creatures by shooting them with the bubble gun.

Each sea creature takes a certain amount of hits to be saved, with points awarded on how difficult it is to save them:

EG: Small fish takes one hit so is worth +5. Whale takes five hits so is worth +25.

There are also oil drums which float around. Hit one of them and it's -5. On being hit, they release an oil slick. If the slick hits a creature you lose -5.

EG: You hit oil drum -5. you hit small fish -5 and a whale -25.

You have two minutes to get as high-a-score as possible.

I'm looking for this to get done in the next week as it's just building up cobwebs.

At 6/28/09 05:52 PM, Arby wrote: Hit me up with more info on the first one. I've been having a small itch to do a small, artist driven game. The problem is finding artists that will actually follow through (the fact I know you will is the only reason i'm posting here ;P)

Time-wise i'm still in uni over the summer but I've got a good chunk of my days free. There will be a couple weeks where I simply won't have free time due to exams and such but I always keep my partner up to date with my status (ie. if i'm busy, you know when i'll continue work and have it done). You can count on me to keep to my word as best as is humanly possible.

You can check out my last 4 submissions to confirm competency at coding.

50/50 split, I imagine?

The art's all done for the most part - it's a pretty small game, so just getting it done ASAP to make a quick buck is what I'm looking for. I've PMd you mate.

Any of you coders looking for an eager, young artist? I'm in dire need of someone to program some games! Sorry for the plug, mods, but I'm getting desperate...

Thanks I'll let you know.

Ahoy.

Basically, rooting around my computer I've found the necessary graphics for several games which have all been discontinued for some reason or another.

Game the first: Ocean Hazard.

You play a scientist who attempts to save a variety of sea creatures from an oil spill. The player has two minutes to save as many aquatic life-forms as possible.

Game the second: Unnamed City Sim

Self-explanatory. I've made all the buildings, I just need someone who can code it!

These are just the first two games of what I hope will be a very productive summer. Speed and diligence are of the essence!

Interested? Post links to some of your works in the thread and I'll check 'em out.

Cheers guys,

BritshMoose

xox

Contrary to popular belief, Jacko's not being cremated or buried. Nope. They're gonna recycle him into carrier bags so he can remain white, plastic and harmful to children.

I find that the amount of fun I'm having in the real world is inversely proportionate to the amount of time I spend at my computer working on flash, regardless of the time.

Someone needed to state the obvious.

At 6/24/09 05:52 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:
Because I am. Even when I'm wrong.

Kirk-Cocaine can slam revolving doors.

Kirk-Cocaine CAN believe it's not butter.

The only reason outer-space exists is because it's too scared to be on the same planet as Kirk-Cocaine.

Fact.

At 6/4/09 06:21 PM, Duchednier wrote:
I do the entire scene on 1 scene (If you watch exile, its seperated into 4 scenes, its the same in flash), Which means i have like 400 different sequencial shots one after the other, sometimes animation is on the main timeline, sometimes its in movie clips, and sometimes a combined effort of two.

Therefor, if i named one layer "Character movement" that would only apply for 1 out of 400 different clips.

Isn't that fairly common practice? I more-often-than not animate in a single scene, though I always name my layers - they usually end up something like this:

Alpha
Foreground
Prop
Character 2
Character
Draft (the animatic I animate over)
Background

Of course, lots of my animations go over seven layers, but never higher than 11. Reusing layers by giving them more ambiguous titles keeps my workspace clutter-free and easy-to-use.

BritishMoose's tip of the day!

At 5/28/09 08:50 AM, Harvir wrote: And I thought this was a joke thread when I looked at the name. Isn't this general forum stuff? Whatever, happy birthday.

I never lie. Ever.

Was my thread first?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYNSLAMDYKE

WE WUV WOO

ATTN: MAN BITES SNAKE

Anyone else find this hillarious?

..."We are still seriously looking for the snake," said Supt Katam. "We want to arrest the snake because any one of us could fall a victim."

Fantastic.

At 4/10/09 04:15 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Ah inglor day, back when we could throw days for "users" before it became trendy and muddled with annual "pico day", "madness day", etc. There was a Denvish day too if I remember correctly.

http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/ing lorday.html

Let's have a Tom Fulp day and all hit front page! </controversy>

As the nerds have their own coding topic...

Animation

How many of you animators have experimented with different methods of animation asides from flash?

At uni, I'm not allowed to use my Macromedia baby 'cause I'm too good with it: they tell me to try out new programs/techniques 'n' all that so that I develop.

So far I've done A LOT of analogue animation (with a pencil and lightbox) as well as trying out After Effects. My standard practice nowadays is drawing out each frame, taking a photo of each image and then compiling in Adobe Premier. Odd or what!

The Big Fat Tutorial has a really good section on creating atmosphere with your backgrounds.

Mandatory 'was just stopping by' post.

I come back to the lounge and find this.

Lovely.

xxx

At 1/23/09 03:17 PM, Duchednier wrote: DIGITAL PAINTING!

its not the Domination one, but i DID manage to finish something i started forever ago (i was forced too, i'm using it for my art class)

BUY A PRINT IF YOU HAVE MONEY TO SPARE!

Look at the proportions man...they're all over the place.

Here's what I did last night for Liam (I wiped the semen off first, Kirk). I'm quite proud considering I haven't touched flash in YEARS.

DRAWING
How do you lot all practise drawing? Since being at uni, I've started doing life-drawing every week. I'm a much better artist now :3

Y HELLO THAR

I've got a free weekend.

Anyone wanna make a game?

xxx

New Year Soon!

So it's nearly Christmas; have you guys started thinking about your aims and goals for 2009?

At 12/10/08 08:30 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 12/10/08 07:46 PM, Toast wrote: aaaaa why did those forums become so boooriiiiiiing

Odd toast is odd, but that's why I love you, in an internet sort of way...

I love Coaly in a real sort of way.

At 11/2/08 05:24 PM, Senti wrote: HEY GUYS, I'M THE PINATA OF DISAPPOINTMENT

That's where Luis hibernates over winter.

JMTB02's portal might be Spearmint-flavoured, but mine tastes like bubblegum!

lololol