could you elaborate on that a little more because that sound interesting? Right now I'm not having a lot of lag issues so I think the flash is my oyster at this point.

here is a chart of my positions.

oh and the last one is me standing on one leg, for some reason i do that.

Hey, my upcoming flash The Bohemian is going at a snail pace but today I actually managed to sit down and knock off the background effects for about a 20 second segment. It'll be hard to understand them without my character actually in it, but if you could just tell me if the effects look pleasing enough the eye. All you really need to imagine yourself is someone falling through an abyss/abyss like air. the weird flash at the beginning is actually the inside of the characters mouth and it's a transition into the falling part.

The Bohemian Background Effects Test for Guitar Solo

At 8/23/08 06:06 AM, hrb5711 wrote:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,"

or what he said about Indians (the dots not feathers)
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."

Or him being forced out of the 1988 race because he basically plagiarized a speech from Neil Kinnock.

Yes, these all came up during the primaries and there's no way they're not going to be brought up again. I have a feeling they won't do much since I think another part about beng vice president is that you're more able to be recognized as someone who had the potential, just had too many background flaws, to be president. Also, the vp spot is a famous shouting post for the prez to negatively attack his opponent then denounce the comments for cheap shots.

At 8/23/08 07:53 AM, Frank-The-Hedgehog wrote: Due to my... eat almost nothing diet, my metabolism has been slowed down till that I will gain weight by eating almost nothing. Is there any way to speed it up without eating a lot, also without drug use?

The best way to speed up metabolism is a combination of two things and so it seems you know at least one of the reasons why you have a slow metabolism.

Diet: Calorie starvation is incredibly unhealthy since not only does it usually coincide with nutrient deprivation but yes, it also forces your body to do more with less (which works if it's a lifestyle choice, that's why many people from poor foreign nations sometimes post the highest life spans). The best solution to fix your diet is to gradually fall back into eating, which is not a hard thing to do, it should only take a few days to a week, but the eventual goal for an optimum routine is to actually eat constantly, in very small portions. Snacking is far and away the best kind of diet if done right because it lets your body use energy efficency and in the moment not "when it can get it" or "all at once". Just remember tha snacking doesn't mean junk food and it doesn't mean eating the same thing all the time since that will get monotonous quickly. Vary your foods to keep it surprising, alternating your favorite fruits and vegetables. Just remember to cut up your portions so you're not gorging, but don't deprive yourself so that you're hungry after you've eaten.

Excercise: Plain and Simple, excercise dramatically increases metabolism especially while you do it. If you are a moderate to strenuous athlete mix in eating during your workouts/matches to handle your bodies sudden need for calories. And keep hydrated. If you're not an athlete, start off with walks around your block since going straight to jogging can be intimidating when you're out of breath after the first hundred yards or so. hopefully this helps.

I think the story itself is fine especially because while the moral of the is love conquers all, there is a definite duality in both the protagonists that is fleshed out more in this. The cat is not only having to cope with his own species and many bunnies turning against him attempting to take the hits for his girl, you can see at the end what this sort of counter-logic resolution leads to, confusion and clashing and eventually hopelessness and overwhelming self-pity.
On the girl bunny side, she has so far shown throughout the series that she is willing to brave this kind of shitstorm to the extent that both of their lives are endangered. Again, at the end however, we see the shift in mentality. She most likely blames herself for has happened and so what started as her "two tickets to paradise" an escape where she and her boyfriend can go somewhere where they can love without obstacle, has turned into guilt and so she believes by removing herself from the picture society will once again be in its own peace.

This flash asks us the classic question of utilitarianism, does the immense happiness of a few people deserve to disturb the public norm of society. This flash does not really address how this thing called love really prevails in all form in society but rather the whole series is about the confusion and distress caused by the birth pangs of a progressive movement, for example, the one bunny realizing that the bunny he punched is none other than his friend from Step 2. What is the world to do when something we do not understand becomes violent, too late realizing that not all of us are on the same side?

*puts pipe back in mouth* mmm hmmm

As for the animation, I really hope they go and redo some of the scenes back a lot of them were lacking the smoothness of the previous steps, there were way too many stills.

At 8/1/08 02:12 PM, Chicken-Choppa wrote: What about now? I think he looks a lot like him but I don't know why.

the shapes of their heads are roughly the same and like an above poster said, mildly in the chin.

At 8/1/08 02:23 PM, mayoarm11 wrote: firstly, let's call it what it is - a collab :)

Besides the fact that I'll be animating, writing, voice-acting, and doing pretty much everything else that isn't charitably given to me, sure call it a collab.

Luis wrote:

i like how muscular my legs are. lmao

well if you didn't want your legs to be so muscular, you shoulda took a damn picture of them at CC. now I bet you feel like a total asshole huh!

In celebration of the awesome NG showing at Comic-Con this year (or as I witnessed via stickam feed) I've decided to make a mockumentary style flash on comic-con starring many of the people that attended Comic-Con this year including Afro-Ninja,Krinkels,Danomano,AlmightyHan s,Dim and Tom of the Super Flash Bros., Tom Fulp of course, and surely you can't mock newgrounds before first going through luis.

And there may be a few surprises in "Comic-Consternation '08" :P

Unfortunately, I'm just starting to go through the tough part of the college admissions process so my time is very limited. I was wonderng if anyone could take some of the workload and help out with the later stages of the flash so we can finish this in a timely fashion.

What I mainly need is...

7 Comic-Con Backgrounds, and if possibly they should mimic the style of how I've drawn luis, geometric objects are very smooth, and rough objects are detailed with a three shade color. The setting can be anywhere, in the booth, outside the convention center (in a chariot haha) bjut thehy should have variation. They don't have to be immense backgrounds with lots of stuff going on, but that need to be 550 by 350 at least (yeah I'm going smaller what now?) You can post them on here at your leisure since they don't all have to come from the same person.

Also if anyone wants to do any character designs for any of the aforementioned ngers than you're welcome to it. I pretty flexible animating outside my style.

At 7/29/08 12:45 PM, Elfer wrote: You can't destroy the entire internet. It's not just a big box somewhere that you can swing an axe into.

If companies try to do this, they'll end up with a whole lot of angry software engineers on their hands who realize that consumer technology is widely available enough at this point to create a more distributed routing system on a voluntary basis, which would provide free, unrestricted (and high-speed, for people in urban areas) internet access for anyone willing to be part of the network.

At worst, that venture would evolve into a system of ISPs similar to what we have now. There will always be a demand for unrestricted internet access, and in a capitalist system, it's impossible to remove it from the market because of this.

But as with most products (if for the first time we can actually consider the internet to be a standalone product) there will most likely be a phase out period that will probably raise the same concerns with upsides and downsides like what's going on with the phasing out of analog television. I don't know how possible it is to have two competing internets with traffic costs as expensive as they are getting.

Another interesting note about net neutrality coming as a huge issue in recent weeks is the case of how comcast is restricting it's customers from using bittorrent. This is primarily because of the huge toll its taking on comcast's bandwidth, a problem a lot of other companies are having that leads them to consider monthly plans by the gigabyte. But about what p2p restrictions entails and the FCC is relaly getting onto this case (for better or worse we'll see)

Being a guy who still likes to watch his movies on a larger than life scale, and seeing as mostly large files like movies are the ones to most benefit from such a transition, I'm not so sure I like the strides towards Internet 2.0 since that will certainly cause the deaths of the movie theater, and most likely non-internet streaming television will also get hit hard by this. And yet no one seems to stand to benefit besides netflix and few others.

my first and only bump

Isn't there a bbs rule that bans all Seinfeld jokes? Cuz that's the only reason I would agree to them.

At 7/26/08 01:35 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: BlueHippo made it yesterday. Greatted by Hans.

so cute. :3

Is that luis looking forlornly at the happy couple?

I'm really surprised people are trying to interpret this as something that's it's not. It's a campaign move, it should not subject to interpretation other than that. It's a good move because he wants to showcase to the voters here that has received international applause.

I'm also getting frankly very tired of these so called "non-supporters" on here whose justification for their arguments is "well I don't support either of them so I can argue both sides of an issue when the other fails". That's fine if you're going to rant I suppose (in which case funnily enough these people often call supporters mindless) about how americans are voting based on what the media says and that germany is supporting Obama (the reports were actually that is was a warm but not necessarily enthusiastic reception) and that these people somehow have the same mindset that is identical to when hitler rose to power. Judging from the fact that since Hitler germany has seemingly gone through the entire marxist cycle and back, i would think they are of a slightly more cautious mindset. But back to the point, please remember that as respectable a point you might have, it is made less respectable when you conclude that whoever supports anyone is mindless. Perhaps they have merely made up their mind.

wow terrific ironic essay you've put together here. This completely convinced to vote for obama. thx for making things so clear!

At 7/25/08 10:28 AM, Mr-Contradiction wrote: You sound like a Caucasian person trying to immerse himself in African-American culture. Please stop.

Define: "Immerse" as well as "African-American Culture"

Because you say it sounds like "You're trying to act black" which is impossible since I reference Talledega Nights in my post. And it seems as though you're referring to the game of basketball as "African-American Culture" which btw is incorrect. The fact that I scrap for rebounds against them doesn't mean I'm "immersing" into them

At 7/25/08 12:35 PM, Dew wrote:

At 7/25/08 10:58 AM, joeyjoe1 wrote:

At 7/25/08 10:28 AM, Mr-Contradiction wrote: You sound like a Caucasian person trying to immerse himself in African-American culture. Please stop.

(since whiteys can't dunk).

Oh please. There are many if not the same amount as black people that can dunk. That is just a big myth that is widely untrue. Last year, there was this 5'10 WHITE guy who could dunk. Yea.

Again, they sucked big time, because their biggest player was like 6'2 aswell.

The big guys on our team are like 6'7 and 6'6. Again, nothing spectacular, but a lot better than 6'2. Hope you do well anyway ;)

Ha bull, african americans are generally known to be better dunkers because they are more likely to have superior natural lower-back strength. I still can't dunk yet tho, I'm like an inch or two from making a clean slam.

And no that isn't some lame reference to dicks that I'm trying to turn into MEME. NOT THIS TIME!!!

Anyway, yesterday I was playing the boards (I am obviously talking about basketball) playing my usual position as the 6 foot 2 center on my team (yes I am the tallest, big uh-oh for next year") and I'm guarding this small forward who all the sudden thinks he can post up on me, so i bear down on him like a giant spidermonkey and start tearin his ass up, but then throws his head back and WHAM!!! right in the mouth, my head is shot back, and the blood starts gushing. I wait til I'm subbed out and then I stop the bleeding by shoving some paper towel in my mouth. Five minutes later I'm back in the game with bloody paper in my mouth, an injured swallowing mechanism, and a fire in my eyes.

Here's a pic of the busybody after a healing sleep.
Now I'm off to visit Northwestern with a fat lip!

How u doin!?

let's see egoraptor....

Well since I fantasize about ripping off his "bad drawing, but it's okay it's supposed to be that way" style, so I guess it would be hypocritical to say that I think his flash are slightly over the gun...

I still do. :P The guy himself seems like a good guy tho. And anyone who dedicates their time to the good of ng is doing their own type of charity work in my opinion.

At 7/24/08 07:26 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: Anyone who says Doom 1 and 2 have horrible music is not a true gamer.

I agree, true gamers understand that what comes out of that game cannot possibly be classified as music.

I don't why people just won't give anyone the credit they deserve for pulling good campaign moves. It doesn't matter what you think of him, but it's pretty obvious that receiving an incredibly positive reception along the lines of 200 thousand members from a foreign nation should be a very persuasive device two use whenever the question is asked "but will other countries be diplomatic with you?"

People just don't seem to get. Perhaps I don't have the money to pay for all this, perhaps this is most impractical of all my deliciously impossible fantasies and could never work. But that's not the point, WHAT IF IT COULD!?!?!? That's why we need to do it. JUST DO IT!

I was just trying to figure out a way how I could get some more consistent shading since when I do major frame by frame work, my art sometimes gets that jittery thing going. It's especially important when you're attempting a 3D movement and you're not going for that artsy type of jitter, that you're shading is very consistent as are the shapes since nothing bugs a viewer more than jittery shading when it seems out of place. Here's a rundown of what I have done (and I'm sure many others have done)

What better example to use than my upcoming flash "The Bohemian" to demonstrate, seeing as I just found in the middle of once again working one frame at a time (If you want my advice, 30 fps is not all that it's cracked up to be).

1-3. As you can see, 1 and 2 look fairly decent, but there are obvious differences that could possibly ruin the movement. The fact is, simple or complicated, the viewer responds abou tthe same to fluid animation. Anyhow, the shapes are different, and the shading is definitely different (imagine 8 frames of this in a row and you can imagine that this would like there are patches of light running around on the characters head. To correct this, I did the following to get the consistency of 2 and 3.

4 and 5. I'm not that great at making tutorial images okay! so basically it shows how when you use the onion skin in combination with the outline option (see 4) that you end up with (see 5). The great thing about this (although it's incredibly hard to see in the image) is that since I'm using onion skin and not edit multiple frames the previous outlines are faded and now I can distinguish between the outlines of the current frame and that of the ones i need to trace.

So that's basically it, I'm sure many of you are thinking that is pretty longwinded for something so simple, but consider that I've had flash for 5 years now and have now only discovered using this. SO maybe it help so beginners in not waiting so long for something like this to come along. Anyway, if anyone has anything to add please do so.

You know that feeling when you're about to pop a cap in some guy's ass but you get the sense that the guy just isn't as pumped up about as you are. Well fear no more. Post your ideas here for way that can make violence a much more enriching experience for both involved parties, or at least they'll go down with a smile. Perhaps one day we shall see your idea on the market or on a second rate news blog even!

"The Cannon of Whoop Ass"

At 7/24/08 01:38 AM, smc316 wrote: Why don't you combine several countries in one post instead of making a post for every country?

Also how many countries do you plan on reviewing, exactly?

Well I'm just trying to review the most relevant and discussed countries on this bbs but Im trying as many as i can.

Japan

I'm going to talk about the Japan that was born from the aftermath of WW2, if anyone thinks that earlier times need to be considered please pipe up.

So anyway, since WW2 destroyed the tremendous military might of Japan the United States was basically given the oppurtunity to decide a country's fate (note: this worked because the Japanese for the most part were completely unified) and so they established a Japan with a constitution that is extremely similar to its own. So basically Japan had to reindustrialize but once again this was simple for the island and for the next forty years they had an amazing GDP.

Japan is a key ally of the U.S and this fact does seem to be going to change any time soon, as Japan is a huge exporter of tech to the U.S, as well that the U.S is looking out for Japan in term of possible threats from the Koreas, China, and Russia.

If we were at all concerned with the actions of Japan's military it would be towards the korea and china (pre WW2 might actually make an appearance) because as it is Japan is one of the densely populated nations in the world and so it's getting harder and harder to to keep a population growing to get the economy going. so just from a strategic standpoint they're are obvious reasons why they are still technically at war with russia despite having a dismantled armed forces (their military has recently been allowed to take on teh role of peacekeeper in Iraq however).

I do however, wish that the U.S would respect Japan more (as with other nations, U.S gives little respect even for a democracy it created) like signing onto the kyoto protocal, japan's host treaty, would be hugely symbolic not only to Japan as a sign of respect but would be a beneficial global decision. Maybe we needn't even take it that far, maybe we need to just let Japan know we see more to them than "maker of nintendo, cars, and weird comedy shows."

I am going to try to be as unbiased towards this as I can. Basically, I'm aiming to draw conclusions on foreign nations and in particular the outlook Americans should have when discussing foreign policy. Feel free to argue with these conclusions since I am obviously not a world historian nor a policy maker. But....

North Korea

From what I've read about North Korea and understand about it's past, is that the downfall of the Soviet Union triggered a reversal of industrialization (the DPRK was once of the wealthiest countries in the world in the 1960s) and after the 1990's completely destroyed any hope of regaining former glory, they intensified their campaign to hint that they are trying to reunite the koreas.

So what I've concluded here is that basically, as naive as it may sound, North Korea is playing the attention-whore of Asia, and that is basically the jist of their nuclear program, which they appear to be very helpful in dismantling at the moment. This makes it seem as though NK is a spooked horse rather than a member of the "axis of evil". Judging by how badly they want to eventually reunite with South Korea, I'm very sure they would also agree to drop the Stalinist Dictatorship and phase in the democracy of South Korea. This feels like a very similar situation to Vietnam albeit a very industrialized, radically different in terms of environment and history. But they are very similar in some ways, such as that the move to socialism was spurred by a fear of japan and china. Hmmm perhaps I should do japan next.

Despite my inability to join on this project. The concept is fantastic considering the step you have already put forth in creating a moviemaker, I would be happy to beta the flash anytime. Here are some ideas

don't have actionscript be the artist,
find some way to creat frame by frame animation.
Open source the code so if anyone has any ideas to build upon this they can.

You're still not showing me the failure here. I'm looking out for the long term, as the socialist mind often does. Yes it is for the better of humanity, because the run down of humanity in this day and age in the life of a skilled worker is to get out of the homeland and go to an industrial nation, where he will be greeted with discrimination because he is an immigrant there trying to take a native job. Not that he's qualified to work in an industrialized nation anyway, so he's better off being a cabbie. this leaves one more worker out of his area and no one at home. Redistributing the wealth in the world will not work, but redistributing the mind power will make it so it won't matter where you live 20 years because you will have reformed home. everywhere is a success

At 7/11/08 03:27 PM, Elfer wrote:

At 7/11/08 03:14 PM, EKublai wrote: The qualm I have with all substances (in particular mind-altering substances for recreation) is that I don't think it will result incompetition with alcohol and cigarettes, I think that drugs like marijuana can go hand in hand with other drugs

Correct, it can go hand in hand with other drugs. Whether it is legal or not.

and with drug education the way it is in this country (a disgrace) I don't think its a good idea for legalize anything that would support such a hazard to the health to those around you.

Since drug use is already rampant, is the solution to try to crack down harder due to the poor education, or to improve the education due to the poor education?

seeing as we already crack down hard, there should be improved education. In fact, I'd be completely fine with it being legal if we had a thorough education standard in place. For instance, when my (theoretical) son reaches an age where he starts becoming fascinated by women and starts looking at porn on the web, do I let him experiment and develop his own opinions about what things like love, feminism, and chivalry based on what the direct source teaches, or do I want to talk to him about how unrealistic that kind of world is first? It's the same with drugs, education first leads to wiser experimenting.

And yet through education and help from the medical community, the prevalence of smoking has decreased dramatically, without resorting to prohibition. This is an example of treating the cause (desire/pressure to smoke) rather than the act itself (inhaling tobacco smoke).

But then therein lies a piece of evidence that prohibition (at least regulation of its use) is effective and that's how smoking dramatically falls after smoking bans are put into place on public facilities, again because it turns smoking into an isolationist activity.

Problem: It obviously isn't sufficient to keep the use at bay.

You missed my point, illegality is a symbol to the people who are uninvolved with the crime. people don't feel they should have to shoulder the repercussions of being discovered with someone else doing something illegal. At later stages, it turns drugs into an isolationist activity I also think that a sense of responsibility is gained through this (designated drivers)

I think a lot of the arguments you guys are using/going to use are based on the faulty assumption that prohibition is actually doing something to curtail the use of drugs. Do you have any evidence at all to back that up?

Other than the very reason why I've steered clear of marijuana, no. I know I'm a different kind of person but I'm sure I'm not unique in this reason.