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gratz to B2B! I love the unicorns :)

vincoid has been co-authored!

now all we need to find is that sneaky little biskits dog. COME OUT LITTLE BISKITS DOG! :)

man, they even made you use her credit card? thats crazy. not much anyone can do though. :P

well good for you not giving up, frankly, I probably would have just not bothered getting it, what with waiting all day and everything. it's clever that they do those trouble cards though.

congrats marcy! thats pretty cool!

when he was asking for original characters for the new poster I PM'd him and said skaterV2. :)

INCASE YOU DIDNT NOTICE, CARDBOARD CITY IS TOTALLY OUT OMG WOOOO!!! and I would post a link to it, EXCEPT ITS PRETTY EASY TO FIND SINCE ITS IN THE TOP FRONT PAGE SLOT! :D :D :D:D: :D:D:D

woo!! and NG COLLABS!!!! FRONTPAGE FTW!! :D :D :D

we'll keep thinking about where to go with it next. I'll PM you for sure dr clay, good luck at work! :D

woo DAILY SECOND! not bad chaps.

i PM'd tom, explaining what happened. Hopefully we'll get a response.

Thanks for all the support guys! Haha, I was on a jet while the score was jumping all over the place, I hear it was at 4.04 and then all the way down to 3.50something?? thats really bizarre. well now its doing okay, so lets hope it stays how it is! :D

about tim frommeyer, whats all that about? he's such an established guy, theres no reason for him to be doing lame, stupid spamcat stuff. he got a daily second, weekly fifth, AND like, 500 bucks for LSD the first time around, so really it makes no sense to me.

I think it has something to do with him not liking the RWD or something. bwah. I'll PM tom about it 2moro morning once the awards are out.

but yeah thats lame. I liked that guy, Sqeezy. hell, I still love his style but the character has lost some of its coolness.

RAWRAWR!! Man, the reviews on Cardboard city are awesome. and hilarious. where are all these people getting the idea that there's some sort of story, I wonder? Its pretty amazing that the work you troopers all did was so cohesive as to make an almost legitimately vague story, and I think for that, you should all be applauded. the consistency was beautiful. :)

Here are a few of my favorites :P :

Alright, first let me say that using purely cardboard textures in a Flash collab was pure genius. It's seriously a great idea, mainly because I haven't really seen it before.

Furthermore, the preloader game was also executed well (props to Coolio-Niato for making that, as well as Nicholas-Deary for the art). As well, the music suited the piece and was of high quality.

Now, what is disappointing for me is that, other than a few strokes in ingenuity in this collab (the opening sequence, the subway part, the hot air balloon), the content as a whole seems a bit... dull. I realize that the theme of the collab was to capture urban living in cardboard form, but it would be nice if there were some more interesting pieces. You guys are certainly a talented bunch, so I was hoping to see all of the parts stand out in a good way. Granted, the whole "rain on cardboard" thing that someone did was a unique touch.

Overall, the premise was really good. I just wish that there were some more memorable parts to it. But, other than some difficulties in execution, it gets a solid 9 out of 10 for the sheer amount of effort you guys have put into it. Great stuff!

Oh, yeah, and I noticed ads for "Corrugated Cola" throughout the entire thing. Intentional? ;)

we love you kart man. you're cool. good review as well. it always makes me laugh when people find things dull or whatever about collabs :D because like, its a collab! I dont think it would have been much fun for the amazing, talented animators if I had given them a script and told them what to animate, hahaha. glad you liked it for the majority though, we always like to hear criticism on something that the reviewer also enjoyed! :D

next:

I'll give you credit for two things:

One: making the most out of simple vector animation through the use of masking.

Two: keeping the file size under 10 mbs.

Other than that, I'm not sure if there was a "message" here. The artwork was gimmicky, but decent enough to support a message if you chose to work one into your piece. I realize you may just have been going for a "slice-of-life" type of plot, but even then you could have included a bit more interesting occurences -- or rather framed the occurences in your movie in a more interesting way.

Perhaps you were just trying to make a statement of how boring or dull our daily existence is within the confines of a city by constructing it predominantely out of the muffled colors of cardboard, foil, and denim. Or perhaps I missed the point entirely.

Regardless, the point of it all, beyond "having fun with flash," could have delivered a bit better. Content is almost certainly the aspect of your artwork that could use the most improvement.

Still, a visually pleasing submission with good music choice. I particularly liked the subway sequence.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks theDeekon! This is another of the interesting things I notice from time to time, the idea of 'messages'. as awesome as they are, its reaaallly hard to incorporate them into collabs so that THEY ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE, unless the overall theme for the collab is a message, like 'stop wars' or something. when you try to put a theme like that on top of another theme, like cardboard city, for instance, things can get pretty hazy.

we'll work on content, I promise. I wish I was a much better storyteller. Until that day comes though, my goal is to make animations so weighted to the style and art side (as opposed to the story/content side) that in the mind of the audience, the style IS the content. its kind of a neat concept. :)

WHAT OFTEN HAPPENS ON NEWGROUNDS is that if something is different, or unusual, like this project was, it'll do okay, maybe not as well as you thought it would, but still, it does OKAY, and then the SEQUEL does reallly well.

what I'm trying to do here is hint that I want to do a sequel. just so you know. :)

nighty night, cardboard population. we'll see what happens in terms of sqeezy's resubmitted masterpiece tomorrow!

be up bright and early for push ups as well, ESPECIALLY you kyle. :D

Moro

WAIT NO LONGER!

ITS FINISHED WOOOOO!!!

I think it turned out reallllllllyyy really well guys, great work, all of you! Some things to wrap up:

that co-author for embodiment thing was a tie. :P I gave it to Ziwon AND HandsomeJake because both of your parts really exemplified what nick and I were thinking of when we launched the thread, but both were also different, so it would have been hard to just choose one.

haha, but either way both of you got co-authors and there isn't one slot that actually SAYS 'coauthor for embodiment' so I'm afraid all I can really award you two are bragging rights :D

well that was fun. I hope you guys like coolio's game. I think its great, its so easy and fun to play!

haha, there's also a (low filesize) easteregg on the menu, so you should all go find it! :D

YEAH NICK WE DID IT HIGH FIVE! cheers everyone! to a collab that will exist FOREVER! and hopefully also a collab that lots of people will like, and watch! we'll just have to wait and see I guess. :)

Im leaving on a plane in 20 minutes. I'll catch up on everything once I've gotten off the plane. in two hours.

I will be very happy to try out this whole 'collab leader' thing again, in a little while that is. for now, thats about it!

love you all <3

Moro.

THE END *scene of sunset fades to credits in feel-goodcliche movie*

haha, sorry :X

well guys, ITS LIKE DONE WOWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOO

so now I'm going to write some 'author comments', coauthor you guys up, add a little picture, and hit submit! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

At 7/12/08 01:08 PM, DrClay wrote:

At 7/12/08 01:05 PM, MorrowDays wrote: because of being so close to 10 megs, I can't use your easter egg part with the shoe dr clay

Thats ok man, maybe some other time. Atleast I got to show you guys.

well we did use the super long awesome one, thats working great actually, I was talking about the one with the nike shoe that comes down and squashes everyone, just in case you thought we weren't using the big one. :)

unfortunately, dr. clay and kyle, because of being so close to 10 megs, I can't use your easter egg part with the shoe dr clay, and I can't use your second part kyle. I WOULD HAVE REALLY LIKED TO BUT I CANT.

its up to you, I just almost always put ease on tweens because it looks more natural.

oh man we're getting so close to the filesize cap..! this thing is massive guys, its like, 7600 frames long!

At 7/12/08 09:38 AM, Coolio-Niato wrote: So are you submitting now?

yes, as soon as its finished! and there isn't a lot left to do, don't you worry. :D

it worked! you're good.

at this point most of you have actually already added me, here's who I've got:

Coolio
Dr Clay
Goat Man
Handsome Jake
Nick
MarcyVF
Ziwon

so I guess that means we only need vincoid and biskits and we're set!

haha, okay. well it might nnot be for a litttle while... ;)

end of night update!

its looking great. got coolio's game to work, finished the credits, finished the menu, all thats left is adding in dr clay's piece and the easter eggs and we're ready to go! oh and sound on the menu and those little corner signatures. but thats literally it. THE END IS IN SIGHT!

oh and we also wouldn't have gotten a daily 2day nick cos two like, 4.30+ things came in just before nine :P so don't be too mad at me :)

nighty night, all you amazing animators you.

moro

oh and there definitely will be a next time, kyle, don't you worry! :)

yeah, its not done. Im working into the night. updates when I'm heading to sleep. I would have liked to have it finished today as much as you all did, but it wasn't possible.

people who should add me as a portal buddy if they'd like a co-author spot:

nick xD
handsomejake
ziwon
drClay
biskitz
coolio
vincoid
marcyVF
goat man

so. thats nine, and then there's me. I was starting to lose it because we're only like, one person over, and it would have been REALLY nice to give everyone a spot, but sadly, we couldnt :'(

Im pretty sure I've forgotten someone. this happens sometimes, I KNOW I've forgotten something but I just can't remember what it is! :(

its looking great, we've got about 4 minutes of really beautiful content at this point!

now to finish this up.

oh, and yeah, if I submit it before all of you add me tomorrow, If your name's on the list I'll add you as soon as I see your name pop up on the little pending box, so don't be like, omg im not there! if you're not there when you see it in the portal.

moro

cronic, put huge amounts of easing on every possible tween, go into the custom easing window and make an S shape for everything and it'll look a lot better, its starting to look really good though!

Here in 16 you can get a full time job, therefore you can take up flash full time if you so wish.

that said, it's still really hard.

thanks kyle, but that should be okay. nick and I got it covered ;)

BISKITZ YOUR RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME PART DOESNT WORK! :( :( :(

ITS THE THIRD PART AND FOR WHATEVER REASON WHEN I TRY TO OPEN IT ITS LIKE DUDE THIS FILE TOTALLY WONT OPEN >:( AND IM LIKE, DAMN!

so if you could send it to me again, I would like to use it. <3 <3

I'm also PMing you about this.

sorry I should have clarified, thats something biskitz did, which is totally awesome, I just felt like posting it!

I still prefer marcy's, its got more fun to it. my mind could be changed though! :O

oh and

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/050608/6 3053_cardboardcollab_part_3_to_the_regul ar_holmes.swf

actually I'm changing my mind, marcy, we'll use like, 90 percent of your part BEFORE the credits, and then just the very end with the balloon and the BWAA after the credits.

and I'm combing the thread stealing images and those poems gatling found, ziwon I'm using your beauty queen picture :)

yeah we're pretty close!

right now I'm just going over the part, making sure I haven't overlooked any parts. here's a list of whats left:

To Do
-check over pages 5-14
-wait for nick/coolio to finish preloader game
-get all the parts into the timeline
-put the preloader game in the preloader :X
-add sky textures
-sync the WHOLE ENTIRE THING to the awesome jaga jazzist music jake found
-add buttons on the menu to return to preloader game/dr.clay's standalone/dr.clay's easter egg
-CALL IT A DAY!

so yes, that is it. I'm sure I'll come back to this list so I don't forget stuff I need to do.

oh, marcy, can we put your part after the credits? I'm starting lose confidence in how well that would go over with audiences, and that it would sort of defeat the peaceful/artsy vibe that the whole piece carries. I still really really really want to use it, just, after the credits, if thats okay. :)

co-authors.

this is really hard. I was supposed to have these out on like, tuesday, but I didn't, and I still don't! we're two people over the limit if me and nick are correct in our double checked list of contributors, which is really too bad, because everyone's done a really great job. you all deserve spots. but I can't give them to all of you! :(

hopefully I'll have a list by tonight, as I would like to submit this before I go away for a week on saturday.

At 7/10/08 03:58 AM, Night-Mare wrote: I HAVE A NEW PROGRAM TO DRAW IN AND IT'S AWESOME

...pencil? :P

Work in progress preview.

nice shtuff.

At 7/8/08 04:55 PM, Goat-Man wrote: lololol AH CHANG'D MI MIND HAHA LOLOLOLOL

FINE GOSH.!

oh and nick, you rock. AWESOME TEXTURES WOO!

yeah thats a good idea goat man, cool. I'll do that.

cool beans, goat-man!

hey look I said cool beans, aren't I hip and with it.

so. I expect that all of you are trying to do extra parts right now as we speak, hoping to make the midnight deadline. :P

goat man I think I'll chop that part in HALF, if thats okay with you, for suspense, of course. I don't mean that I'll only play half of your part, that would be dumb.. the first part will play, and then there will be a part or two, and then the second part will play!

hey, WHAT IF EGORAPTOR DID BRUSH TOOL? xD