At 12/15/08 11:56 AM, Warrickneff wrote: I love you

I am wearing that shirt right now!

You're a cool guy with a cool hat, Warrickneff.

At 12/15/08 07:50 AM, MindChamber wrote: Mad? mad at the fact that none of you knew how to animate, or had a personal presence on NG until you joined TBA? why would I be mad at that haha,

lmfao what? seriously, WHAT? Man Ignorance is Bliss was HUGE long before TBA even existed.

At 12/15/08 04:22 AM, HerrSamsa wrote: way to give away another tablet to a person who already has a tablet. how coincidental that they all died during the big tablet giveaway!

Listen big boy; mine died over the summer!

I am taking the opportunity to announce my campaign for president of the United Sates.

At 12/14/08 07:13 PM, Zerok wrote: Who was the other dude? I had remembered the other day and now it escapes me.

Pako. It was Pako aka Frank Bouchard.

I love that picture!

At 12/14/08 02:17 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: Yay!! not only is MRat talented and deserving, but he's incredibly good looking!

Just ask him!! ;D

LMFAO WAT!?!?!

Also thanks for all the well wishes from my friends, and especially from all the people I don't know.

Tom, you're a really swell guy and don't let anyone tell you anything different.

Finally, this is just fucking awesome. I don't really celebrate Christmas, but my Birthday is this Saturday so I'm ecstatic. I cannot for this to get here. I recently dropped out of college and this is just the thing to pick me back up and help to time go buy.

Thank you Tom, so very much.

The little guy swinging around as the weight heaves him is really nice.

Maybe I'll do some of these!

I danced a jig and sang his name. He will be blessed with good luck for a decade.

At 11/20/08 04:59 AM, omegared wrote: It is a fact that no other flash deserves to be in 2008 flash portal history than this gem.

That's the absolute truth.

Anyway, is there a specific date when you'll anounce who is receiving one and who isn't? I'll mark my calendar.

At 11/19/08 01:38 PM, Luis wrote: You never finish anything Ryan. Shh.

I wasn't exactly talking about me anyway, but not having a tablet has lit a fire that I haven't had in a long, long time. I just want to make lots of silly shorts. Lots. My epic projects can go on hold, but by God I will make cartoons if I get one of those things.

What about just giving the tablets to people who are more likely to continue to submit and participate in NewGrounds, regardless of their experiences.

At 11/19/08 02:06 AM, Shadowii2 wrote: I already have Wacom Intuos 3 A4, but I never really use it. I feel more confortable with mouse appearantly so it's pretty much useless. At least my sister puts it in to good use when she draws, lol.

...Mouse drawing FTW

Want to sell me that for 50 bucks?

At 11/18/08 09:49 PM, SalterAnimation wrote: Damn! I'd love a new tablet. My graphire is too small. Too bad I only have 1 newgrounds submission.

It's true, but let's face it folks, that one submission is damn near perfect.

Hey I sent a PM asking for one.

Danger Will Robinson, Danger.

I enjoy looking at these. The elements of design present in their conception have please my eyes.

I reccommend going back to square one. Don't bother with details yet, you're not at a stage where they should matter.

Take lots and lots of time working out your shapes and weight. Your drawings are stiff and flat, and pretty much lack any real definition. Without his clothes and stuff he could be anyone. Try and define you're characters without an outfit or hair, and add those later.

A good thing to think about is that you should be able to tell who your character is just by his silhouette.

Also do some life drawing or grab an anatomy book and sketch for it for like 20 minutes every day. In a few weeks even you'll surely notice your characters have more weight and balance, and will seem more real.

TBH it just looks like bland anime stuff that anyone could have copied out of a book.

Deal.

We open with a fade to Mitromem strolling idly in some very vibrantly coloured aisles in a corner shop. He remains black and white. The music is jarring, but not ominous. He pauses and ponders over a potential dish soap, but upon close inspection of the label, decides it's not for him.

Mitromem exits the shop and cross the street to end up standing in front of a glass statue of a woman. She is very grungy and dirty. He shakes his head and stares at the crotch of his pants, which remain as they have been.

He continues to move down the street, and happens upon a clean, vibrantly coloured (again), statue of a man. The man is somewhat bent, as if he was picking something up. Mitromem's pants are visibly tighter, and he begins to flush with colour.

The End.

Get it? It's a joke for those of us who know what the name means!

Not bad at all. Nice simple design, and good clean linework as far as penciling goes.

Take a look at your anatomy though. Her right leg is oddly askew and out of perspective compared to the rest of her body. I imagine it would hurt her hip joint to have it in that position. Some goes for the twist in the torso; it appears bunched up and heavy, like a bag over filed with grain rather than flesh wrapped around bones.

Did you use any reference for the pose?

Ugh please for the love of God make posts only relevant to the art at hand itself. I know, blah no backseat modding, but it musses up threads and is counter productive to banter about irrelevant and frivolous things like changing icons when the thread should be about the icon he made.

That being said, back on topic. The production work here is pretty nice. It's simple, clean and gets the message across very easily. Still though, I would have liked to see you really push the design more. It's very rudimentary and plain. I know you just took the two basic icons and blended them, but you could have distorted and warped them. Tried to challenge yourself. See how far can you shift things without losing the icon's message or purpose.

All the same, 8/10 for some solid presentation.

So far the content doesn't interest me at all. I'm very tired of hearing about Scientology, and I wish people would just leave Scientologists alone so they can practice their religion like everyone else. A few gags and laughs here and there are fine, but I've had my fill for the time being.

Still, I'll give it some points for having solid presentation and pacing so far. It's flow is tight, which is nice.

As for the art, I think you need to straw away from those stiff outlines. They feel unnatural and kill weight in your character. Try something really loose. Just let your wrist roll and the brush glide around to make some shapes and forms. Try to work simple and refine from there, making sure to keep those volumes and proportions from your original shapes.

What a lovely symbol to ponder over and interpret.

I liked mynamewontfitin's. The others I found pretty bland and uninspired. Fairly typical stuff.

He's a masterpiece and I demand to see 100 cartoons with him right now.

It's bland, the lineart is unconfident, and for concept art, there isn't much of a concept.

It just looks like a mediocre face filterraped with text on top.

Dear me I am in love.

At 7/6/08 03:01 AM, Leering-Abstemiously wrote:

At 7/6/08 02:50 AM, MRat wrote: Honestly I think the use of gradients is a little excessive. Also take a good long look at the perspective. The eyes are lopsided, and the mouth makes no sense. The line art is really nice and clean, but I think you need to take a step back and really think about form.

Right now alot of shortcomings are masked by polish, and alot of people do this, so you need to spend some time, I think, working out angles and sighting form, because he is hideous. The work itself is fine, but where things are placed and how they appear with respect the everything else is a wee bit off kilter.

Not to regress, but I don't quite understand what you mean by angles. The gradient part I do get, however...otherwise, you mine being a bit more specific?

anywho, thanks for the thoughtful criticism.

Well look at his mouth. Those teeth really don't make a lick of sense when you consider how much his head is turned. There is no way you'd see his teeth like that. Also the his left eye is bigger and higher up than his right eye, and it should be the other way around.

Little things like that.

At 7/6/08 03:25 AM, hypeserver wrote: I can't even think of how many cock jokes would be in that animation series.....

Actually, there wouldn't be a single one.