all of your skateparks are ridiculously awesome. they're building something similar in toronto but its only going to be done by the end of the summer :(

plans

so it should be ridiculously awesome once its done, but its not done yet. but lochie, thats an awesome park. Im totally moving to australia.

At 6/8/08 01:05 AM, Rudy wrote:

At 6/7/08 10:40 PM, Swordsbite wrote: why did it cost u money to host this collab?

Yeah, I'm kinda curious about that too.. I host my collabs with no cost whatsoever.

we were kidding, guys :)

awesome! can't wait to see them. did anyone else get the skinny gap? :O

k, its sent.

its not really about the awards though guys. I mean, this is a time trial collab. it's meant to demonstrate we can animate, quickly.

if anything, if I was an artist who got a daily sixth to a 5 hour collab after working for maybe like, a month on something, where as they spent five hours, I'd be fustrated.

the way I see it, the more time trial collabs that dont win awards, the more people respect the collab scene. Too long have people written in dismay about lame (not to say this one was, it was great) collabs winning awards, and thats really a shame.

at the end of the day, we made something cool that shows off our talents, something that people appreciate for what it is. While NG awards are nice, they aren't the only thing to go for and that needs to be remembered.

+1 Skill points to all who participated, all the parts were great. Gratz to nick for formatting the thing and making it look classy.

I'll definitely be here for the next one too nick :)

Moro

nick I'll send you the second part now... when I left, I really did leave, I've been out since then :P

kays, emailing it to you now.. just so you know it'll cost you $25 :O

sounds awesome.

At 6/7/08 01:19 PM, Kweaks wrote: Yes!
I'm going to try my best for a co-author spot.

kweaks is rad.

I'll start... now! :)

Sad to see deathgore not win. it was fantastic.

At 6/6/08 10:20 PM, Rammer wrote: (both are in the word 'syzygy')

wait a minute... is that really a word?! :O

syzygy
noun ( pl. -gies) Astronomy
a conjunction or opposition, esp. of the moon with the sun : the planets were aligned in syzygy.
a pair of connected or corresponding things : animus and anima represent a supreme pair of opposites, the syzygy.

cool. +1 to Rammer for language skills.

I think the idea of an actionscript lipsyncing engine is awesome, it would be really cool if someone took the time to do it. I might have time this summer to meddle, but I don't know how to lipsync all that well so I probably wouldnt be the guy for it. cool concept tho.

At 6/6/08 09:25 PM, Kweaks wrote:
I agree with frameslinger; it looks like it belongs in the cardboard city collab to me :/
Other than that it's fine.

haha, mine ^_^

BATTLE OF THE COLLABS

haha, I think I might call it a pomegranate just so I can have it explode with those awesome seeds. but pomegranates dont have green leaves on them :O thats why I thought it was an apple. But hey! Might as well let people choose for themselves. Choose your own adventure, fruit style!

thanks for the support. Frameslinger, I'll detract the needle. will do. promise. :)

marky, I've worked in that 'harder than it looks' style a lot, (surface texture) and I think you've got a stage full of patterns and you're using masks to show the areas you see the patterns in for the final product. but its just one pattern, correct? Yeah, thats rather time consuming.

One alternative would be to put the characters in movieclips in which they're drawn with the texture, and then in the main timeline, change the alpha and the tint. Unless thats what you're already doing. Hmm.

but yeah that'll save you some time.

we love you goatman. so helpful, so goat like.

new preview very soon.... :)

this should be great, can't wait to find out what the theme is! xD

Marcy, Tommy, what are your MSNs? I would like to talk about the secret circle!

YEAH YOU BETTER get some picz, I want to see this!

oh noes cronz!

I'm backz. yay.

montreal was fun, good tour. nice place.

haven't caught up on the many pages I missed while I was out, you guys have all been posting like, 1000+ word essays for posts recently. haha. BUT OH MY GOD

ITS A PREVIEW INVOLVING AN APPLE EXCEPT NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT IT LOOKS A LOT LIKE A TOMATO SO I DUNNO I GUESS ITS EITHER AN APPLE OR A TOMATO BUT I THINK ITS AN APPLE SO ANYWAYS THERES THIS APPLE AND ITS KIND OF BIZARRE LOOKING BUT THATS OKAY AND IT BLINKS COS I MADE A BLINKING MOVIECLIP AND LEFT IT ON THE TIMELINE AND ANYWAYS A HAND COMES IN AND STICKS A NEEDLE IN HIM AND HES ALL LIKE POKE AND THEN THIS LITTLE BULGE THING HAPPENS AND YOU'RE ALL LIKE OMG WHATS GUNNA HAPPEN NOW???!!!

hope you like it so far, booglez and everyone :)

oh noes cronic, just read the yeah right 2 thread :(

well I guess that adds a few parts to SFC3.

its a shame people weren't super into it. It was an awesome idea and everyone who had done stuff had done a good job. but there werent enough of those people. oh wellz

I vow to learn how to lip sync. Its always been something I've been uncomfortable with as an artist, and I see everyone else doing it seemingly easily, so yeah, thanks JMTB, great thread!

At 6/4/08 08:58 PM, dadancinman wrote: Mountain time (usa, canada)

O____O

yeah nick, you see what I did there ;)

expect stuff from me! Or dont and be surprised, I guess its up to you. <3

haha ya same...

biskits thats like the raddest thing ever! woah. yeah. super good.

I'm too young for exams, I'll have them next year.

back, by the way :)

montreal was sick. if any of you get a chance (even though you all live in weird places) go there.

haha no worries! we'd rather have a good part in a while than a rush part in a week!

I'm leaving for a few days, back on wednesday, miss you everyone :(

school trip to montreal woo! yay!

so... Im going away until wednesday.... bye!

To be co-authored your name has to begin with Mo and end in -rrowdays, sorry everyone other than me! Haha kidding. Its really just people who are all round nice. You know, the team players. usually co-authors aren't given to people aiming to get a co-author, thats another thing to think about.

So if you're like, hmm, I want a co-author! I should help out in the thread/make a few good parts(!), then it'll probably show and thats not what you want.

The weirdest thing about it is that its the people who are in it for the true collaboration between artists who get the co slots, so the people who want co-authors have to like, trick themselves into not caring about the co-author spots, and then it gets very confusing. I dunno. Im going to stop now. :)

clarkit, your signature takes up half the screen, you should fix that. other things to do are to neaten up the lipsync and the characters and add a background. its coming along but some work still needs to be done.

wouldnt that turn out almost identical to the original NG food chain?

I know! You wouldn't see 'soymilk is good for your eyes' written on a milk container now would you? So yeah it must be liez. previews soon.

haha awesome, do that rain idea, really clever!