George W Bush - A Tribute
http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/69653

It has a "Politics" button, but the entry it self isnt on the politics page.

Not true. I watch moost of the movies anyway, but if I'm around family or other young children, I want to know what is i nthe movie before I watch it.

What about something similar to the Home Land Securety warning levels:

What happened to those steven seagal movies? There were three movie about steven seagal killing people. The first two were short but the third was long and amazing. I looked a few times over the past few months and i cant find it anywhere. Does any one know what happened? Was there legal trouble?

Oh well, no votes here either, I am a bit grumpy cuz my movie wasnt put in the Time Trial 4. I would have submitted it solo but now that voting is over for TT5, why bother.

Well theres always next season.

Is any one else still working on a movie or any one that hasnt turned it in yet? I am guy # 11 and Id rather not submit it by myself.

Luis, how about some standards. Should we all have a title screen? Should we all have a play button? If we keep it the same, it'll be better.

Hey, great idea. Im no good at singing or anything like that but its a great idea. good luck.

yay. Thanks for clearing that up luis. I was about to give up. Should be done in time now though.

well if luis did mean monday at 12, i hope he'll give a few extra hours because of the confusion. I went out on sunday because I thought I had till tuesday night, if I knew it was only to tonight, I'd have been done by now.

At 2/23/04 07:18 PM, Needle wrote: Tonight is Tuesday Midnight. When the clock strikes 12, the day changes.

Needle is right, however, the last time trial, Luis specifically said midnight, this time he just said tuesday. Well if it is du etoday at midnight, im probably not genna be able to finish so...

No, user levels have nothing to do with flash skills. If anything, a low level just means you have more to do all day then vote on other people's flash. The only reason they are used to tell a newbie from an oldbie is because they are displayed so prominently by your posts. If it was tucked away in your profile where it should be, and a level based on the movies you've made was placed in it's spot, everything would be fine. The level that you have means very little and it shouldn't be as well thought of as it is. Its just one more annoying quark of newgrounds.

I think its a good idea except for a few things. First, wait till the other time trial is done so people who want to do both can.

Also, its a good idea, except the name. You you shouldn't call it a time trial just so you dont get posts like the one above who dont like you using some one else's name. Either that or talk to luis and get permission so no one will bother you.

At 2/23/04 01:15 PM, Zero_Optix wrote: Okay 6 hours to animate.. this should be a breeze.. if I just stick at it....

but... the deadline is tomarow... Tuesday at midnight right?

At 2/22/04 11:10 PM, NumberClock wrote: Oh well, luckily 30 seconds isn't a long way and I have time to resize everything.

Just so you know, its 20 fps, not 30.
And the size is the standard 550x400
^_^

At 2/22/04 09:48 PM, Needle wrote: When you're completely finished with your movie, highlight every single frame of it, and Copy Frames. Then start a new document,click on the only frame in it, and select Paste frames. You literally copy everything over to a new document, and it strips any "Ghost References", once again reducing your file. It's kind of like auto-optimizing.

At 2/22/04 09:48 PM, Needle wrote: When you're completely finished with your movie, highlight every single frame of it, and Copy Frames. Then start a new document,click on the only frame in it, and select Paste frames. You literally copy everything over to a new document, and it strips any "Ghost References", once again reducing your file. It's kind of like auto-optimizing.

This works but I think the problem is a much simpler one.
So you have a huge sound file then delete it, but the filesize doesn't go down. Well, I am fairly sure that the filesize really has gone down, but the properties of the fla just haven't been refreshed.

This happened to me a few times on my last Time Trial and this is what I did. I saved the FLA as a different name, then delete the original. This will refresh all of its properties.

The reason why it reduces filesize is also it's problem. If there are any symbols in the library that's not actually used in the time line, they will be lost. That might not be a bad thing but it could be. Also, doing something like that is dangerous because its easy to mess something up.

Either way, always back up your files when you do something your unsure of. Even by deleting the fla, it gets backed up in the recycling bin for some time.

At 2/21/04 03:25 PM, NumberClock wrote: I'm debating wether or not to use music, because I don't have speakers so I can't hear anything, but I head music that I downloaded before so I know what it sounds like, but that increases filesize. =(

I'd say go for it and hope for the best, no music might be a bit dull. maybe get a friend to test it

At 2/21/04 03:25 PM, cap123 wrote: >_< arggghhh! for the first time in one of these things i finally push myself to start and i lose all my work because i'm too dumb to save!! *hits self*

ugg join the club, this happends to me all the time.

At 2/21/04 03:06 PM, NumberClock wrote: I wonder why people are saying "I'm in" when there are already 15 people who said "I'm in!" :-\

Luis siad not to worry about how many ppl there are, most of them will not do it and if there are over 15 i nthe end, he'll pick the best ones or something.

Heres a shot of mine. I've actaully had this idea for a little while now, before even knowing the topic.

Mr Luis, there seems to be alot of people who want in on this. Thats good but the problem is that they wont all be good and the bad movies would take up room for the good ones. what about picking the best 15, or even better, having more then just 15 people. why not have as many groups as there are people.

Well I'm in.

Other people can make time trials but if your genna do a colaboration type movie, come up with an origonal basis, it would do alot better because people would say something like "omg u stool this from dat luis guy!!1! 0 4 u! hawhaw! pwnd"

lol...
Anyway, the frame by frame thing is ok but not alot of people are good with that method of animating, and its not really a theam.
Like some one said, the music video is good too but too clock-like.
Think of the possabilities of my 5 elements idea. It would be origonal too.

What about the 4 (5) elements? Earth, Fire, Wind, Water (and heart?). Each person would pick (or be assigned) an element and your movie has to be based on that.

There are a couple of jams, atleast a couple of gropups. and theres alot of TT's (8 or 10 maybe?)

Anyway, these colaboration movies are great learning experiances for us, we should all pressure tom and wade to do this (they wont do it on their own, you have to ask them to do something)

Email them at tom@newgrounds.com & wade@newgrounds.com
Go ahead and send it to both of them

Hey, some one wrote a review with a great idea. We should get Tom and Wade to make a Collaberations section. So NG Jam and the Time Trials can get their own page. How cool would that be?

Group B's is done!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=151193

The audio is messead up though, all my sound is off sync, its playing too fast for the movie (not a big problem) and Dark_Drako's music is playing through half of my movie. also, when it says "the end" it should have had my music play again.

Any way, Luis is genna send me a copy of the FLA, I've run into this problem before and I think my friend Rcoky Pinnicle knows a way to fix it.

Guys, If I'm genna post the movie, thats fine, one idea though. Only the person who posted the movie can reply to reviews but since we all did it equally, why dont we do this. If you want to respond to a review, IM or Email me with what you want to say and ill post it with your name.
Who ever posts the movie should do this, but it's cool with me if you want me todo it.

If you finnished a movie, but cant get in contact with luis, I'd say you should keep trying, even though its past the due date.

Wow. I havent been able to play Halo since i started on my movie. its genna be good to get back into the banshee!

Long live group B!

Ok guys, B movie will be released tomarow. If we can all buddy-up now, it'll save us all some trouble later.

If you dont know how to add buddies, heres how:
Click Sign In, to accses your Grounds Gold menu. Near the bottem right, it says "Portal Buddies". Click it.
From there, just add each others names. Heres the member list for group B:
JohnMazz
KamaSutra
rilstix
LiveCorpse
Dark_Drako

^_^