I plan on making a thread on general that is basically the same as the monthly writing competitions. Instead of the person winning money if their scripts places in the top 3 they are instead going to have their movie created by myself and a couple of friends.

So does anybody want to be a judge of this? I need someone who knows a good story when he/she reads one and someone that can be sure to stick with the process. Drop me a PM if you're interested.

I need one or two more judges. If I don't get any judges here then hopefully I will at least find some people who might be interested in writing for the competition.

Thanks for letting me ask here Tails.

At 11/27/09 12:59 AM, eeman1997 wrote:

machete. take or trash?

I'd take it for a couple of reasons. While it would pretty much be useless against zombies, it would be a great tool as it's pretty much a big knife. It would be good for cutting things such as rope. It would also be a good weapon against humans.

It's something to start with if you didn't have.

Chainsaw. Take or trash?

The old members know how I feel about chainsaws.

30 Days of Night was very cool, but I didn't think I would want to watch The Mist. Looks like it would be really cheesy and not scary whatsoever. You said it was one of your favorites so could you tell me a little about it? Chances are I'm probably not going to go watch it, but if you recommend it and give me good reason to watch it then I might.

Week 12 Schedule:
Green Bay at Detroit

Green Bay

Oakland at Dallas

Oakland

NY Giants at Denver

Giants

Tampa Bay at Atlanta

Atlanta

Miami at Buffalo

Miami

Cleveland at Cincinnati

Cincinnati

Carolina at NY Jets

Carolina

Washington at Philadelphia

Philly

Indianapolis at Houston

Indy

Seattle at St. Louis

Seattle

Kansas City at San Diego

San Diego

Jacksonville at San Francisco

San Francisco

Arizona at Tennessee

Arizona

Chicago at Minnesota

Minnesota

Pittsburgh at Baltimore

Baltimore

New England at New Orleans

New Orleans

Just a quick post asking for some help and I'm pretty sure this is the right place to come. :)

I plan on making a thread on general that is basically the same as the monthly writing competitions. Instead of the person winning money if their scripts places in the top 3 they are instead going to have their movie created by myself and a couple of friends.

So does anybody want to be a judge of this? I need someone who knows a good story when he/she reads one and someone that can be sure to stick with the process. Drop me a PM if you're interested.

Just a quick post asking for some help and I'm pretty sure this is the right place to come. :)

I plan on making a thread on general that is basically the same as the monthly writing competitions. Instead of the person winning money if their scripts places in the top 3 they are instead going to have their movie created by myself and a couple of friends.

So does anybody want to be a judge of this? I need someone who knows a good story when he/she reads one and someone that can be sure to stick with the process. Drop me a PM if you're interested.

Thanks for voting, Fro! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 9,340 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 30. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 16 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds.

Ok I'm really digging this level.

At 11/21/09 04:29 PM, DJ-Chilvan wrote:

Ha, I know what you mean. But don't worry about me, I NEVER delete any review or any song of mine (unless i really really really have to). (I didnt even know it was possible for me to delete reviews).
So, if you're looking for songs to review, mine are ideal =P

Yeah ha... you can't delete reviews. :P

He meant when artistes delete their submissions it also deletes all of the reviews on that submission. Meaning people can lose reviews over night when there was nothing wrong or abusive about them at all and it can get rather annoying as some work rather hard on their reviews.

I'm not sure if I should start Reggie Bush this week or Laurence Maroney in fantasy football this week.

With Reggie I have the chance of him breaking a big play and he has been scoring touchdowns lately. With Maroney he is obviously their back that is going to get the touchdown scoring carries and would of had two touchdowns last week if he hadn't fumbled at the 1 yard line.

So big play that may result in a lot of yards and maybe a score or the back that you know is going to get the tough touchdowns, but might not get the chance to with Tom Brady.

As long as he agrees to it then you can submit it. You can put yourself under voice and him under author, but again this isn't really your choice as you didn't make it.

You see submissions everyday that people only had a hand in making submitted, but it's only ok if you get the persons permission.

Also, if you want to get your voice heard then you can submit it to the audio portal under voice acting.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/

At 11/18/09 12:02 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Well, tis that time of year again, what's everyone's menu for next Thursday?

I'm looking at you Eagle, Byte, Lizz, Pork, Krev(if you're lurking the EGB), Fro, Ismael, hell the whole EGB. Who's doing what TURKEY DAY?

I'll be eating thanksgiving dinner at more then one place I'm pretty sure. I'll be eating at my house with my parents, at my aunt's house where my mothers side of the family goes to eat while my father goes and eats with family, and then with my girlfriend's family.

So three days of thanksgiving dinner. Doesn't really change my eating habit calorie wise, but just what I eat I guess.

Week 11 Schedule:
Miami at Carolina -

Carolina has been rather hot lately, but I'm going to go with Miami here.

Dolphins

Washington at Dallas -

Dallas

Cleveland at Detroit -

Both teams show that they can sometimes keep up with the bigger teams, but not for long.

Detroit

San Francisco at Green Bay -

A tough fight, but since it's at Green Bay...

Packers

Pittsburgh at Kansas City -

Pittsburgh

Atlanta at NY Giants -

Giants

New Orleans at Tampa Bay -

Saints

Buffalo at Jacksonville -

Jacksonville

Indianapolis at Baltimore -

Colts

Seattle at Minnesota -

Vikings

Arizona at St. Louis -

I'm almost thinking upset though.

Arizona

NY Jets at New England -

If they go for it on fourth down this week let's hope they make it.

New England

Cincinnati at Oakland -

Bengals

San Diego at Denver -

Chargers

Only because Orton is hurting, but prove me wrong Broncos.

Philadelphia at Chicago -

Philly

Tennessee at Houston -

Houston

At 11/17/09 07:39 PM, Joshsouza wrote:

To me, you are kind of lucky because Fro didn't post this when I came in the club or give me a link to his blog post which Fro, you should have done so you would waste less time.

Lol you are saying that it would save more time for me to link to a blog, that contained several other things that I didn't want to include such as links to clubs and others, which might confuse someone, would take longer then copying and pasting something from my blog?

Lol, oh boy instead of 2 seconds I spent 3 to 4 seconds on it. XD Anyway, it's a good little guide for incoming members to see.

At 11/18/09 12:46 AM, ThePortalGuru wrote: I would like to join this club, as I am eager to review any submissions any of you artists may have!

Your reviews look fine, but only if you stick with the more helpful ones that you've been writing instead of those random crappy short ones that you decide to write every now and then.

The only thing that bugs me is that your lower rated reviews should be the longer reviews since you should be critiquing and saying how to get better. If you start making those like your good reviews then yes.

At 11/18/09 08:12 AM, zack7521 wrote: How do i get 80% + on the p-bot game. I always seem to get 70% (Highest 78) and i can't get the character for it.

It's pretty simple. Try to finish the level right before it in any other the corners and then work your way up the screen till you reach the top (or bottom if you started on top). When you reach the top then move over enough to the side so you are registering more percentages and then clean down. Repeat this and you'll get it easily. I don't think I've ever gotten under 95% doing this.

For quirky.

Where the Missing Sock Go, by OxSox Type: Movie Rating: Ages 13+

Animation/Graphics - The graphics weren't the best. Not terrible, but not the best. I do think they could be worked on a little bit. The animation though was done very well. Good job on that.

Story/Content - The concept was really good. Perhaps just a little simple, but there isn't anything wrong with simple. Some pretty good humor all around.

Audio - The music that you used was a great choice and sounded very good with the animation. Perhaps the transition of the audio could have been a little better, but not too bad.

For twisted fun.

A Sign Of Happiness, by 2good2b4goten Type: Movie Rating: Ages 13+

A decent job on the animation. Looks like it was mainly a frame by frame flash. The style gives off a weird creepy feeling because everything is always moving and always squiggly. Nothing really to clean up too much here at all.

Dreams are always messed up like this. In our dream did you have the random Obey thing appearing? Your dreams are actually quite normal compared to mine. Not really bizarre at all.

The thing I noticed about this was that it was rather predictable. Once you started falling and the happy music started I just knew that you were going to fall to your death. Even though I saw it coming from a mile away I still laughed when he hit the ground. You know something is funny when you know it's coming and still laugh when it happens.

I didn't see the guy randomly throwing up at the end coming though.

Good job with the music all around. Sound effects and audio was well chosen and well synced with the submission.

For dirty. Again, it is best explained in my review on the submission.

Once When I Was A Kid SE, by tacobuttfish Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

Animation/Graphics - Very superior graphics and animation here man. Very smooth all around and very well drawn. Probably the best animated flash that I have seen today so far. I may just have to visit some of your other flashes if they are drawn this well.

Story/Concept - Wow, didn't see that coming at all. That usually deserves a 10/10 on it's own for complete originality, but the fact that it was so funny I knew it couldn't be any less than a 10/10 from me. You had great originality, humor, and a great surprise factor. I just thought he was going to talk about getting a boner or something like that.

Audio - Good voice acting, good sound effects, good music, etc... Nothing wrong with the audio at all.

At 11/17/09 01:11 PM, bdarkness wrote: Can i enter please please please!!!!!

If you ever submit flash, audio, or an art submission then feel free to follow the rules and request reviews here.

If you are wanting to join then I would have to say that would be a no. You left a review for the following submission.

Mojo Madness, by mojocondoms Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

You simply said it didn't work. That's never a fine review in the first place because you should be PMing the author if it doesn't work, but the thing is the game really does work meaning that it was your computers fault someway and why should he be punished for it?

The rest of your reviews simple state that you loved the game/movies and won't cut it for this club. People come to this club wanting advice on how to fix their submissions. Here are some tips for reviewing. (flash in particular)

*Note that these are made up by me and aren't rules, but just some tips.

It's too hard!

Don't give a game a low score if it's too hard. So be it that you suck at the game, not everyone does suck at it. Now if the game is nearly impossible or extremely hard for everyone that reviews then you may want to think about considering it when you score the submission. The best thing to do when reviewing a game that is hard is to practice it and play it several times. Check it out with other people to see if it's really hard. A good example of this would be the new Fear Unlimited game. I find it extremely easy and so does a large population of the people that play it, but yet you see numerous low reviews of "It's too hard" just because the person is bad at the game.

Personal Opinion

Don't let your opinion overpower the quality of the submission. Perhaps the submission is about goths, perhaps it's about politics, or perhaps it's about Mario dying and you just happen to love Mario. Don't review a submission low because it's not something that you like. Review the quality of the submission instead. Not everyone likes the same thing and what's it really matter if Mario dies or not? Does that affect you in real life? What the hell does it matter if you voted for Obama and there is a McCain support flash? You're going to give it a low score just because you don't agree with it? Bullshit.

Medals

For games that have medals don't review the game on the medals itself and nothing else. Giving a submission a low score because you couldn't get a medal, because the medal was too hard, because the medal is glitched, etc.. That's just retarded. Let the person know in your review what you feel, but don't let it affect your score. Remember your reviewing the submission not the medals on the submission.

Youtube

Don't say a submission belongs on youtube unless it really belongs on youtube. Just because a submission is liveaction video doesn't mean it doesn't have it's place here. Video belongs here on newgrounds if it has a plot, is funny, has any flash in it, etc.. Videos that don't belong here are ones of someone playing with their dog or skateboarding, etc.. Everything by everyone except for the really generic youtube videos like mentioned before. Video is perfectly fine if done well.

If you don't like a submission

If you don't like the submission you should do several things. List what you didn't like about the submission. Just saying it sucks doesn't help the author fix what's wrong with it. Along with what you didn't like say how to improve. For example if you didn't think there was enough comedy give the some examples of good things to add and where to add it in the submission. If your good with flash or audio even in this case then give them technical tips on how to fix things.

Opinion on author

Don't review the author. Your reviewing the flash submission remember. Don't even mention the author at all unless your mentioning how much effort or time that they put in or should have put in to the submission.

DOESNT WORK

Don't just look at one aspect of the submission. Say a submission doesn't have working audio or the preloader doesn't work then don't give it a 0 just because of that. Something like that does deserve the score to be lowered, but not so dramatically. Also, if a submission won't load for you, but works perfectly fine for others don't review it yet. You want to give it an honest review and if it doesn't work for you and does for others it's probably your computers fault.

Sound

On the subject of sound what happens when you can't hear anything on the submission, but other people seem to hear things fine when they review it? Then again it's probably your computer, your speakers, your bad hearing, etc.. If it's not like that for other submissions then it's ok for you to lower the score because of faulty audio. Always make sure to have your speakers on. There isn't anything more annoying then someone giving you a low score because they forgot to turn their speakers on or up.

Length

This all being said you don't have to write huge reviews. The most important things are if you don't like the submission say why and how they can fix it. Think of every scenario that they could make it better and put it in your review.

Spam

When reviewing spam review it like a real submission. Why should you review spam like a real submission? A big purpose of spam is to make people mad, even though I never understood why people would get mad over a flash submission on a website. So if you give it an honest review not only are you getting your points across that you didn't like the submission, but your also teaching other people how to review properly without giving the spammer the satisfaction that they would get from a "pissed off" reviewer.

Praise

If giving a submission a review of praise then it's perfectly fine to be brief. For example, "I really like this movie. I loved the animation/graphics, the storyline was hilarious, and the music synced up perfectly for the submission. Keep up the good work." You're going to run into situations where you can't find anything wrong with a submission in your own opinion. It's perfectly fine to leave reviews like this every now and then even though not all flashes are perfect so most of the time there will be room for critiquing the submission.

Watch the whole thing

For almost every flash you should watch the whole flash submission or listen to the entirety of the song. Yes I'll agree that most of the time a crappy loop is going to be a crappy loop no matter how many times you watch it. It only takes that one time that a movie is a crappy loop or crappy in the beginning and then the author makes it amazing after. I've seen it done a couple of times since I've been here on this site. So watch it all no matter if the person is a spammer or if they are a well known artist. How would you feel if someone didn't watch all of your submission before they reviewed it?

Stolen

If a submission is stolen or you think it may be stolen don't say it in a review. The review space isn't for saying the submission is stolen. If you think it may be then PM an administrator of the site and just leave the submission alone or give it a regular honest review.

Other reviewers

Don't comment on other reviews directly or even indirectly. So no saying you agree with someone or you disagree with someone. Instead put the review in your own words even if it does sounds similar to some other review. I'll keep stressing this that the review space is for you to review the submission. Not mention others. Mentioning another review in a positive way for a very small amount of your review is alright.

Demos

Review it like it is a regular flash. What the hell is the purpose of saying things like "demos don't belong here put them on blah blah blah"? Think about it. If someone is posting a demo they obviously want someone to critique what they have so far so their final product turns out well. The only way for them to get this critique is to submit the flash for people to review it. Not question why it's here if it's not done.

At 11/15/09 09:03 PM, PenisClown wrote: Retarded troll is retarded.

Though I get his point, I havn't had one supernatural experience in my whole life, I find it implausible you guys can go on vacation, come back, and have ghost stories to tell.

It's implausible for someone to balance 352 pound car on top of their head, to pull 416,299 pound airplane by hand, for someone to hold their breath for 18 min 32.59 sec and live. Yet all of these things have happened in real life.

Saying something is implausible is admitting that it is possible. ;)

Well it's really nice to see that three of the movies that I have chosen have made it into this section here. After viewing all of them (god the time spent) I'm still going to go with one of the ones that I original picked.

Killin' the Grade, by xthesnarfx Type: Movie Rating: Ages 13+

I think I said why the best in my review.

Animation/Graphics - I loved the style. It got a little sloppy in some parts with the text in between scenes and everything, but I'm guess that's what you were going for. The animation is very smooth and the drawings are done very well. A lot better than most of the stuff on newgrounds already to be honest.

Story/Content - I loved this haha. But do you really get grades like this or not? I've heard both sides of the stories. I guess I might have to do some research. :S Even though I guess it doesn't really matter since I have a single room this semester and next semester my roommate is a good friend of mine and I rather him not die. It's a great idea for a flash though and you really brought the story out well with the animation. Nice quick scene with the ghost at the end.

Audio - I don't think you could have picked a better song for the flash. I liked the fact that there weren't any voices or sound effects in this flash. I think it worked better that way. Great job making the audio work that well with the flash.

At 11/15/09 07:49 PM, deithe wrote:

At 11/15/09 07:43 PM, XIII13 wrote: Yuor movie has no ads in it. You can't earn money with out ads.

I thought it meant the ads on the side of the screen, the ones on the left hand side and above the animation?

You also earn money for those ads as well as I have gotten ad money from submissions of mine that don't have the ads in them themselves. Just like your userpage ads though you probably won't receive as much ad money from those as you put in your submission itself and that's probably what you are thinking of here.

At 11/15/09 11:33 AM, Hacsev wrote:

At 11/15/09 11:21 AM, Haggard wrote: You both should read the FAQ.

If you can't post photographs in the art portal, what about this user's famous NG plushies, Haggard?

Don't be confused with photography and pictures of art that you have made.

If you are submitting pictures of art that you have made then it's completely fine. I have a picture of a piece of art that I have made.

If you are submitting pictures as art then that's not fine. Such as taking pictures of lakes, trees, mountains, etc...

Week 9 Schedule:
Chicago at San Francisco -

Chicago

New Orleans at St. Louis -

Saints

Tampa Bay at Miami -

Miami

Detroit at Minnesota -

Vikings

Jacksonville at NY Jets -

Jets

Buffalo at Tennessee -

Titans

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh -

Cincinnati

Denver at Washington -

Denver

Atlanta at Carolina -

Atlanta

Kansas City at Oakland -

Kansas City

Seattle at Arizona -

Arizona

Dallas at Green Bay -

Um...

Dallas

Philadelphia at San Diego -

Philly

New England at Indianapolis -

Colts

Baltimore at Cleveland -

Baltimore

At 11/11/09 10:23 PM, michelinman wrote:

Resubmit:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 7692
Obituary:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 7681

Looks like it was blammed again.

So last night Ralphie May did a comedy act at my college. I have to say that it was quite funny and wasn't like anything that you would have seen on comedy central or the last comic standing as he didn't have to go with his safe jokes. Actually, he had to be one of the dickish/dirtiest comedians I've ever seen and I quite enjoyed it. :)

The last guy was quite funny too though even though his jokes were all on the safe side. (I'm sure you've all heard of him, even though I forget his name and I'm too lazy to search it) He was the guy who made the evolution of dance youtube video.

I guess the best things about these acts are they are free.

Well let's just say I've seen him work and it's not traced. Believe what you want to believe, but just know that your wrong if you think it's traced or copied meaning you really don't know what your looking for.

At 11/10/09 11:00 PM, Captain-Ben wrote:

He's either just good at copying characters exactly (which in my opinion is lame and not really scout worthy), or he traced/ripped them because i can find images that look exactly like that form stills of the shows.

Well he obviously didn't trace it as anyone that has eyes would have clicked full view and noticed the obvious errors such as the one on the left hand of Brian. It goes to show that he did it himself.

And whats the difference between him looking at a picture and drawing it and the one of you looking at your hand and drawing it? Damn you copied something. That's lame man.

Hey guys. I personally think that this user should be scouted. Some of his later work is rather good and his Brian and Stewie from family guy were almost better then the originals in the TV series.

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/falle nsoul289/stewie-griffin
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/falle nsoul289/brian-griffin

Yet another mediocre art submission from me. :P

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/fro/g ood-grief

It was basically an assignment that I had to pick an author/illustrator and kind of mirror their drawing style. So overall my picture isn't too great, but I do think I did a decent job at mirroring the simplistic style of Charlie Brown here.

At 11/9/09 08:58 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Not yours, his.
I'm considering a similar sort of piece for when I get my new microphone at Xmas. It's going to take me a while to get it just right and it will be the biggest piece of voice acting that I've undertaken so far. Since I share that opinion with you, it wouldn't be too good if I didn't defend it :P

Haha, when I took a second look at it I can see where it could almost be directed towards either of us, but for some reason I thought that you were saying that I was misguiding him.

Your saying it's going to be one of your bigger submissions? How exactly do you plan on tackling it? Saying a few lines at a time and then putting them together or saying the whole thing at once so you get the fluency?

In other news, Snow Wars (the movie, not the intro that you guys saw) is still being animated. Not only lasers, but several robots from the Star Wars series will be thrown in and there is a lot of effort being put into it.

I'm assuming that it's going to end up being two submissions around 20 MB each. I'm also making a movie this weekend that will probably take a week or two to completely edit, but that should be well under the 20 MB limit.

We've taken everyone's tips and for this submission we will be using the tripod for almost everything. Before we rarely used it at all. We will also be speaking much louder and clearer, but will still be adding subtitles.

The last movie we made everyone kind of agreed that the introduction really dragged on so we've even worked around that. There will also be many new faces in our movie that you guys haven't seen yet and perhaps a new fully animated introduction to the movie as well.

I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I'm pretty sure we have agreed on the title of, "Buttholes and Bottle Rockets."

I just watched Drag me to Hell. It was the first horror movie that I watched in what seems to be forever because the last time I posted in this club was the last time I watched a horror movie.

The movie wasn't anything too great in my opinion. It was one of those movies that you might get a little creeped out if you are home alone and it's night time, but I don't even know if I would get scared then. That along with some really bad acting and some cheesy special effects (special effects that I could do in flash or adobe after effects probably) made it not such a great movie in my opinion.

There was a nice little twist at the end of the movie, which while generic, it was very appropriate and was a nice ending all around.

I'd give the movie a 6/10 give or take a point.