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Hmmm... with all these people being close to being done I guess it's about time for me to start eh? Of course, I guess I could wait a few more days...
Wait, didn't I say that a month or so ago?

Anyhow, I think mine will be cut back from it's original planned storyboards because I just have way too many other projects that need taken care of. Who knows, maybe I'll go all the way back to the drawing board and do something completely different?

Now I'm just rambling, but I haven't been on the NG BBS for seems like forever so I just wanted to write something or other.

Thanks for the encouragement everyone!

Here's a link to the third Cubetoons: http://cube.ign.com/mail/2005-03-18.html
Doesn't look like I'm running out of ideas so I guess stay tuned (or Cubetooned ha ha ha) for the fourth level coming soon!

I watch there she is over and over and enjoy it every time. Everything just flows perfectly, and look at those character models! That's what they teach you in animation school- keep the characters simple but animated perfectly. Personally I still like the first one better, but the sequel is amazing too. It's all about the effort they put in, and you can sure tell a whole lot of effort went into those!

People like things that look as good as that, even if they aren't that funny, or cute, or whatever. Look at the Fallen Angel Teaser. It's been up there a loooong time because it's beautifully done.

Woo! I'm really excited now! I did a sequel to the http://cube.ign.com/mail/2005-03-03.html comic and it's up on IGN as well! Check it out http://cube.ign.com/mail/2005-03-14.html

I think the second one will make some kind of sense even for those who don't follow IGN as much. Look out for a third one coming soon! =)

At 3/17/05 04:52 PM, kla_kla wrote: heres what ive done so far. tell me what u like and not like. i need some encouragement.
click here

I think you're on the right track! I really like the sink, it's nicely done. Perhaps you should skew the ripple circles so they are in perspective. Aka don't make them so perfect a circle, make them oval. Also you'll have to change your background to the light blue at the end anyway, so you might as well do it now.

Looking good! Keep at it! You can do it! Rah rah rah! (Insert more encouraging words here)

At 3/17/05 04:44 PM, TheLionZ wrote: Go SOB5!!!! I think till 17 of april is too much time. But thats me.

That sure is you! Those of us in the "Shades of Procrastination" Group think that the 17th is way too soon. Of course, putting it off a few more days won't hurt........

At 3/16/05 03:00 PM, eh-productions wrote: as i said before. so far everybody on this page is level 9 or higher. how many of you level nines decided to give up after seeing how many points you needed til level 10?

just thought i'd say that

I'm not giving up, but it is pretty disheartening... I think I'd rather have level 7 or 8 be 200 exp or something instead of just dropping 100,000 on us out of no where at level 9.
Lousy level 9... Just you wait until I get to level 10, then I'll show you........

At 3/15/05 04:36 PM, High_Roller wrote:

At 3/15/05 04:34 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: if that's what floats ur boat

or

blows your hair back
finds the lost remote
helps you sleep better at night
..?

FINDS the LOST remote?? What the heck kinda saying is that? CRAZINESS!!!
And I really have nothing more to add. Drat.

Oh I know! Guess what? I haven't done much of anything on the cartoon for this collab yet! I'm doooooomed! Yay!
No wait. Not yay. Boo.
Yes. Boo.

At 3/15/05 11:27 AM, RuneAura wrote: On another note, I have noticed some people "yelling / flaming / arguing" and I whould just like to say, "Where's the love? Love > Hate." For the most part people have been posting constructive critisism, and people have been taking it as constructive critisism.

I'm glad to see that people have been apoligizing when others find there coments, insulting or rude, but some people won't accept it because they think the other is being sarcastic.
Also, I made a big mistake last collab and accused another Scripter of being a "cheater / lazy person". Don't make the same mistake. If your gonna say something bad abotu some reason, have your reasons on why its not that good and how you would fix it, or whould like it fixed.

Amen to that.

Sorry to hear you're dropping out. Your character design was really cool! Oh well, maybe you can use them for the next Shades of, eh? =)

At 3/14/05 03:47 PM, TheLionZ wrote: Thanks. ill change the glass but where am i gonna put water? it starts in the pool. A glass of water poors out the credits,... its got my charecter waterman( watch h2o ep. 1 and 2 of mine and you will know who he is) . Thanks for the review, ill think about that.

I could just call it: A strange day by the pool! People would associate it to water and it would be alright. The Name can sometimes change your mentality towards something.
Anyways... Ill think about it

Yup, I bet if you change the name it'll help a whole lot. Great idea on how to tie it all together.

At 3/14/05 03:07 PM, TheLionZ wrote: Short annoying guy (feat. pico)

So this is it. Now, Space_Chicken, you can review.:D. Anyways review please and give suggestions. And say if you think it will be chosen out of the ones you saw or if you think its defenitly not going to be chosen. Just say stuff about it. Thank you and bye. Mynamewontfitin and Space Chicken, please review:D

I like it. Turned out very well. I'd say it's got a pretty good shot at making it into the top spots, but even if it doesn't, I'd say it'd certainly make it into the collab as long as there was room. Here's the one thing I think will keep it out of the top five: Water. Since the theme is water it's going to be difficult to get away with just having only 40% of the cartoon with water in it. I bet if you at least hint at water elsewhere it'd be better. I'm not sure where you'd put the water, but someplace. The only thing is it appears that there are several cartoons with water taking a backseat to the rest, so maybe you'll be ok with what's there.
Also I liked the glass pouring the credits, but when the glass enters from the right you need to work on that animation a little bit more. It's not clean enough. Nice job though! Good luck in the final voting!!

At 3/14/05 01:43 PM, TheLionZ wrote: heres the final product kinda:

review please...

Your final product is a blank line?! Crap, what happened?! Man that really sucks. I don't think it'll make it into the collab... Sorry man.
Seriously though, if you provide a link I bet we'll be able to review it a little better. =)

On 03/11/2005 Space_Chicken wrote (as a review):
The little story was funny and your character was well drawn. The fire in the opening was GREAT. Perhaps next time you could use some actual typeface for THE END because hand drawn words look kinda bad. You've got a great start here, keep at it!

Then ZekeySpaceyLizard relied to it with:
A great Start?

Dont you recognize me, Space? From the Shades collab thing. We are bruddahs from the same collab, yo foshizzle!

But you can't reply to review replies so Space_Chicken is saying here right now:
DOH! So sorry ZekeySL! I never really look at who makes the movie... I just watch them! Oops. My bad. Tell you what, I'll start looking at the name and next time you'll get a 5 and all 10s, ok? =)
Again, sorry!

At 3/12/05 12:58 AM, ReNaeNae wrote: I might not be participating in this one...[either]... after all of this time, I still haven't come up with a good idea! ...I had one, but after telling it to a friend, we decided to make it a full movie... so, now I'm back to nothing! ...ugh! I so suck!!! :(

Nooooo! After that amazing Sig and all the chats we've had?! Egads! Say it isn't so! Oh I get it! This is an early April Fools joke, eh? Ha ha! Good one. Now go do your SoB toon. =)

Anyway, I'm sorry to see you not doing this one, but hey, there's always Shades of Purple. =)
(Just so everyone knows I'm just making Shades of Purple up and have no idea the next color in the series)

Ps. Obviously we all think you don't suck!

At 3/11/05 01:38 PM, TheLionZ wrote: check it out... Not much done but give your opinion (specially mynamewont fittin and spacechicken )
little bugger

Hooray! My opinion means something to someone! =)
Seriously though you've got a GREAT start going here! I just see a few places to touch up and you'll be well on your way, my friend.
Here goes:
First, the speed lines when the car first drives away with the shoe need work. They aren't smooth enough to fit with all the other excellent animation.
I have to say, the twirling of the blue guy ROCKS! Best part visually if you ask me.
Your opening half deals a lot in the water, but then doesn't after that. I think you should cut the shooting personally, because it A) adds to the length of the parts that DON'T include water and B) does absolutely nothing to improve your story/idea. Perhaps you think differently or I'm missing something, so I'll let you decide if you want to keep it or not. I believe replacing it with perhaps a part where the one character slips on a puddle of water would improve your overal cartoon (and add some extra comedy and water!)
Finally what do you think about adding a little gnomish laugh at the end with the tiny guy sitting on the big guy's shoulder? Just a "Hee hee!" might add to the toon's ending.

You've got a really nice thing started here, and I can't WAIT to see the final product (if you do decide to change anything.) Really original and fun- great work!

At 3/11/05 12:26 PM, Astropuff wrote:

At 3/11/05 11:11 AM, eh-productions wrote: anybody is open to enter. you just need to comply with all the rules, get it done by the due date, and have it voted in the top. only the 4 best will be co-authored and the rest will have their names writen in the authors comments.

Does that mean you will be including all of them again??? If so, put some form of order into the appearence of the submissions. Like have the most-voted ones on the very left of the scrolly thing, then descending votes as you scroll to the right. It was so random in the Green-Collab, I gave up fishing through them all.

I doubt they will ALL make it in, because even last time not every single one was included. But the runner ups in the voting did get their submissions put later in the Shades of Red. So I suppose if there is room this time as well then the runner ups (as long as they're good) will get in too. I think it's a matter of space and quality.

At 3/9/05 05:35 PM, demon_xion wrote: i think anybody can, but remember that they will be voted and only the 5 best will be in, or co-authored, cant rmemeber

I think they ment join the club of people who don't think they'll be able to make it. It's pretty cool that there's a club for such things! I think I'll start a club for folks who have every intention of joining but "will get to it later" and then throw something together at the last minute. =)

At 3/9/05 03:39 PM, elkrobber wrote: http://img148.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img148=shadesobship22eq.swf

I really don't have much at all.
But still, i would apriciate comments and crititisim.

Well it's a good start! I like the water and the ship is very well done. Add some sound/music and story (plus more animation) and you'll be on your way! Nice job on all the art. Just focus on improving everything overall and keep up the good work.

At 3/9/05 11:19 AM, SantoNinoDeCebu wrote: Incase you didnt notice Twinsen, djamin didn't write any of that, he just quoted wrong. Read the posts properly before you jump down someones throat.

Thought I might aswell post a pic of what I'm making seeing as everyone else is. I'm just gonna make a short though. a very short short.

Yikes, mine has to do with a pool too, but I better up the quality after seeing that pic! Nice work! Hope it animates as great as it looks.

At 3/9/05 10:57 AM, G_C wrote:

Ps, in the next one I will bring back the virtual boy look with black and green (but you will be able to use any shades of green between black and the shade I give you. maby. I'll think about it.)

Wouldn't that just be a game version of five shades of green?

To a degree I suppose. But there will be no shades lighter than the green it appears, so that takes away the white that was in 5SoG. Plus they're all games. I don't think anyone would confuse the two.

At 3/7/05 06:15 PM, Mitch-Mac wrote: Im borred so Im in! Whats everyone else doing so I dont copy anyone?

I don't even really KNOW yet! I have some ideas. But I think you should be ok as long as your artwork is original. Just try to be creative and it won't matter what anyone else does. Each should be unique!
Glad another person is joining!

At 3/7/05 04:35 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: 200 x 150
Well, Xelius, that is the size of the high score box.
So far I'm the only one ready for high scores. My game is called "Fireworks"
Maby make the high score box look like an american flag? or not. You decide.

Problem is if someone's game isn't about the american flag then it would be out of place.

At 3/7/05 04:08 PM, djamin wrote: Hey peeps. Heres my entry but I dont think its completed. I really dont like how rushed the ending seems I might redo the end. Anyways tell me what you think;

http://img179.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img179=5shadesofblue9zo.swf

It's looking good! I like the character style more now that it's closer to complete. Very nice. I would perhaps add some water effects so it has more of the whole water feel. Just ripples and such. Looks cool though. I like the box effect in the middle.

At 3/7/05 02:47 PM, TCStyle wrote: With a AS decompilar, and some knowledge of php, that highscore board is very unsafe:)

Well that's good to know, now you wanna help fix it or something??

At 3/7/05 03:46 AM, SpartanZero wrote: Well, I'm almost done my flash that I've been working on for awhile now. Like I said before, it's not in the exact blue shades posted, but it's damn close. If I hadn't started the flash before I saw this, It woulda been so. But even though it's not, I was wondering If you would even wanna see it still?

Doesn't hurt to look at it! Let's see. Maybe it's so good we'll all force you to redo it in the right shades of Blue!! =)

At 3/6/05 12:29 PM, The_Mercenary wrote:

At 3/5/05 08:22 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: yeah, well, red and black started out slow too.

well, it was labeled "Flash Game Contest". Anyway, man I wish we could have used black in this one, oh well.

Yeah, black would have been nice, but I think the whole point is to see how creative we can be with such limited resources. It doesn't take nearly as much work to make something look good in full color, but in order to pull off something incredible in limited color, you really need to be a good artist. It's an interesting challenge that's for sure!

At 3/6/05 02:19 AM, demon_xion wrote: lol

well, anyways, wots mynamewontfitin mail? i already finished my entry =°

and here it is...mmh...wait, should i post it or wait till,,mmmh, well u doods are gonna see and rate if it should be in anyways, so heres the link XD
http://img170.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img170=demonxionshade8ls.swf

Pretty nice, but a quick suggestion, at the end it should be "AN" event of my life, not A. You may want to change it. Very well done though.

I'll tell you what, I'm going to TRY to do something for this one. I'm not sure if I'll end up making it in time because of the million other projects I HAVE to do for work, but I'm sure going to try. I've got an idea but haven't made that type of game yet, so we'll have to see. Cross your fingers.

At 3/4/05 11:27 AM, VeryProudofYa wrote: Congrats, I personally didn't find the comic very funny but congrats all the same

Well, it's funnier if you read the IGN Mailbags daily. That way you understand w\hy Craig is in a kangaroo suit, and who the characters are. But thanks for the congrats.

At 3/4/05 12:17 PM, demon_xion wrote: XD yay thanks, and for anyone who says taht it doesnt hav anything to do with water, dont worry, it will turn to be at the very ending =P
and yeh, ill expect to nsee ur work too xD

Yeah, looks pretty cool (and here I was going to mention the lack of water =)

Keep it up, I have a feeling it'll make it into the final! Although I hear everyone else is working pretty gosh darn hard at this!! I guess I really better get a move on... But it's just so easy to procrastinate! April is so far off still!
(And even though it's unrelated, forgive me for saying I got a comic in the March 3rd IGNCube Mailbag! I'm just so excited!) =)