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At 9/6/14 07:31 PM, ReaperSound wrote: Hey that's a pretty good tip. I was having a bit of trouble with designing hair. I know may be something simple but I have been having the most trouble with that in particular. I pretty much have the characters that I wanted just need a few more body formations to draw and redraw again but hair is giving me the most problem especially in CS4 there's not many tools and the paintbrush is sh*tty as it is. You think you could lend me a hand on a few tips picsor examples? Something simple I don't want to pierce my bamboo pad with frustration... again.

The character's hair for this collab is pretty basic. The hair comes out about 45*s of her scalp, then sprout from there. I drew an image up for you to give you a little more information regarding her hairstyle.

Dark Red is the key points to her hair design, if you get those areas then the rest sort of falls into place.

The underline facial structure is useful as well for starting out drawing a face.

Start with a circle
> make a curved line about 2/3 down from the center of the circle
>>draw cheekbones from the intersect,
>>> Eyes belong on the 2/3 line
>>>> Nose is just under the bottom of first circle. ( Mouth a bit under that as well )

This method works well for 45* angle as well.

here's an example of an animation I've done using the 45* method

At 9/6/14 03:19 PM, Oh-Sama wrote: The work of today I'm really proud since I don't usually get such results using my computer mouse :)
But still, I have not made the storyboard yet. Just working a little bit on some stuff and techniques, like the backgrounds and the colors before getting started :D

Looks good man, a general tip that I'd throw out there just to help you cut down on your work. Design your characters to be at a 45* angle. It makes it so you don't have to draw multiple angles to them. For instance, if you designed the rats at the 45* angle you could use those designs for your animation. ( just by rigging the bone structure) Think about most cartoons on TV now-a-days like Family Guy, Simpsons, hell even MLP. All are set to a 45* angle so they can re-use art.

At 9/5/14 05:05 PM, Oh-Sama wrote: I really appreciate your help sir! You gave me some great ideas on how to organize everything. I'll try to storyboard my idea in the next few days!

No problem, just keep in mind my input is just how I personally would do it, you're welcome to approach your story any way that you see fit for yourself as an artist. Don't feel like i'm censoring your work, I'm open to a lot of things for this collab as long as it fits the general feel, and theme.

But keep in mind that, as far as I know the cheese industry requires no blood just two primary ingredients which are Lactose and Salt which are found in the human body, lactose in breast milk :^D and salt in sweat...
The lab rats will focus their experiment on female humans. The first intelligent rats created by the human experiment are kinda the politician rats and will rule over the next cheesy generation :D They will create a giant army and tries to take over the world, perhaps lead galactic wars XD

Of course I'm not going to tell the whole story in 2 minutes so I'm going to focus only on the girl but I'll make sure the animation tells most of the events.

You should be fine, I think you'll get the story told in that amount of time.

BTW, I did some research and found an interesting link (mature content)

ewww... lol

I know this whole thing could be creepy or disgusting for some people and I'll try to keep my part Teen rated :)

Yep, the thing about the gore is I didn't want gore pieces, you guys all seem to be generating story without gore being the driving force. I'm not saying that there needs to be an absence of gore, but just not a lot. Imagine your teachers/peers watching it, and go from there.

At 9/5/14 04:13 PM, Oh-Sama wrote:

Not yet but will surely do a new design or maybe I'll use yours since I really like it :D
But hey man that was both nice and quick, you surprised me!

Also, I'll try to keep all the events in the same room except for the flashbacks (if there's gonna be any) I can't handle that...

I was thinking you could tell the story just in the ending scene. For example.

* Start *
-Girl wakes up in the room wearing the vest, she looks puzzled and tries to force it off.
- She notices that one of the walls appear to be a window, and she can see figures on the other side, but only sillouetes
-They turn on the machine and she starts screaming, yelling that it really hurts and asks them to turn it off
- After they suck out her insides/blood, the camera follows the hose on the machine to reveal the other room, *still dark though*
-You then see the corpses of the scientists, possibly wearing similar vests or what-not
- The camera still following the hose finally leads to the machine where a rat *clearly visible* grabs the cheese and sniffs it, then licks his lips
The rat carries the cheese *camera following cheese maybe?* and you see other rats opening a cage to another lab rat, they take the rat out and feed it the cheese. The lab rat begins to grow in size, as the other rats watch.
-END-

That will tell the story without commentary, so you can piece together that the lab-rats have taken over the laboratory from the dead scientists. ( you can show a bit of gore, just try to keep it Teen rated ). You then can see that the rats are trying to recreate the experiment with cheese, and are also testing on humans.

At 8/30/14 07:28 AM, Oh-Sama wrote: So hi guys, I've been doing some concepts for my part and today, I ended up with this character ^^
Not sure if anatomy and shadings are enough good, I'm very bad when it comes to these two points.
So you guys tell me if there's anything wrong so I can correct it.
I also did this short scene few days ago.
These are just concepts, not sure if the final thing will look the same ^^
My part for the Sketch Collab is nearly complete, so I guess I'll be posting more artwork soon.

I really like that "short Scene" feels very creepy already. As for the Rats that you have designed, they don't really come off creepy to me. I feel they look like they'd be in a saturday morning cartoon from the image shown. I'm sure you've re-designed them after you came up with your story, but here is a concept I came up with that you're welcome to use (if you want) I think it'd fit better with what your plot is.

At 9/5/14 01:37 PM, Oh-Sama wrote: I hope my story meets your Collab requirements. I spent two hours editing the script. I would love to get some positive feed back from you since you did not reply to my last post here but any critic is strongly appreciated and please if there are any linguistic mistakes in the expressions I used in my script, let me know :)
Thanks for your time ^^

It's very interesting, I can't wait to see it made. I like the idea of the Rats doing experiments on humans, sort of a reverse of what currently happens with lab rats. From reading it, it made me think that a lot of the story would happen out of the room, so try to keep a lot of it focused on the girl in the room. You're welcome to have segments out of the room for your story, but I hope you're able to get the story/idea across in your part.

Great work, can't wait to see it.

At 8/30/14 08:35 PM, Whirlguy wrote: If anyone's having trouble coming up with a good story, here's a spare idea I came up with:

At 8/29/14 06:08 PM, snickity wrote: 1, 2 or 3?

Number 3, definitely. Contrast is always a plus in horror and I like how it compliments the wall textures.

Today I decided on a color palette for the animation. Here's a quick sketch I did.

Sweet sketch Whirlguy, That story is super creepy, I'm curious to see what you're main part comes out to be. Just be sure if anybody uses your story to give you story credit.

At 8/30/14 01:08 PM, Haris wrote: No parodies, but what about comedy?

I prefer to keep it horror/suspense. Not a comedy collaboration.

how about scary comedy? :q
both don't necessarily contradict each other

The thing about comedy is I think it may sort of take away from the feel of the rest of the collab. Now if your part was super creepy, and you had something small that was comedic but didn't take away from the rest. That's fine.

For example;
Girl wakes up in the room and notices a body dressed in black laying on the other side of the room.
Girl: "What the fuck?"
Girl slowly walks over to the body to examine it, as she's walking over she hears screams and impacts from far away
Girl: "What.. the..fuck??"
She approaches the body and rolls it over to reveal the face. The face has been removed from the body, and the girl continues to stare unscathed. The screams and impacts suddenly stop
Girl: "What the fuck"
She looks around wondering why the screams stopped, then instantly the screams continue but they are louder. Hands start to reach from inside the walls to her.
Girl: "What...the..fuuuck?!?"
A hand reaches out and grabs her hair from the wall, but she breaks free, backing up to the center of the room, she bumps into something, and a shiver runs down her neck. She looks up revealing the faceless corpse that was laying on the floor standing behind her. He smiles and says
Corpse: "What the fuck"

End

I'd be ok with something like that, as long as it stayed true to horror/suspense. The script above still has the chill factor, and doesn't over-saturate itself with comedy. ( Make sense? )

I actually really like that script and want to make it now >.<

At 8/30/14 01:08 PM, Haris wrote: No parodies, but what about comedy?

I prefer to keep it horror/suspense. Not a comedy collaboration.

At 8/29/14 09:37 PM, ReaperSound wrote: I was wondering. Since your going to make everything converted into an MP4 format does that mean I have to get a new vcam or something? I'm using CS4 and I am using an AS3 v_cam
I'll leave en example on what I mean.

The V-Cam will show if my videos are converted to MP4. (Does that happen with anyone else?)

Export as a .swf
> Use Swivel to convert to .mp4
>> Live your life happy and carefree!

I only expect members to submit a .swf copy of their part. I will be using Swivel to convert to .mp4 then After Effects to piece everything together.

At 8/29/14 06:08 PM, snickity wrote: 1, 2 or 3?
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/323cd6587da3b5f054949432444f8ef5

I prefer 2 myself, gives more of the sci-fi feel to the room. The others are good, but 2 goes best with the theme (imo)

At 8/28/14 08:35 AM, snickity wrote:

it's only a preview, so there won't be any blur in the end
enjoy
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b1a380074412c7c24de018c49c669a41

kthanksbye

That looked legit Snickity! I'm pumped for working on the credits now. With the text you put into the piece it looked cool how it was on the wall, but I had planned to just input the text -over- the video so the text isn't needed from your end. I'm also thinking that the "A girl in a room II" title isn't needed either, but I kind of liked it there. I suppose we'll see what other users think about it.

Great work Snickity, I'm glad you were able to make the tiles falling part, it made it really epic! I will be taking care of the music portions for the ending, and sound effects no worries there. Once I get the intro, and my part done, I'll get the credits finalized.

At 8/25/14 06:04 PM, ReaperSound wrote:

At 8/25/14 05:37 AM, ReklessCreati0n wrote:

I have one painfully odd question to ask.... Does nameless girl HAVE to die? because I have one way of ending my part of the animation/idea where she lives. I know strange to ask but I think the way she lives would be a bit more realistically scary than her dying. Also I don't know how to kill her to many ideas have hit me already.

Nope, she doesn't have to die at all, in my part she doesn't die either, so not a problem at all. She's just the center character for the most part. The terrifying entity in the piece doesn't even have to interact with her, but the focal part of the collab is that there is a girl in a room. So she has to be involved in the story, so if she's just in a room, and you zoom out to show the walls as two way mirror type things, and the creature is just creepily watching her. That's fine, as long as it generates suspense and/or horror.

At 8/24/14 03:33 PM, ReaperSound wrote: That video is really awesome. I'm doing my best on my part the design of the woman at least. As for the video intro it's really setting the mood for it on the creepy factor. Since watching it I am curious. Is there anything that you'd want us to end our addittions? I don't mean the animations themselves. More I am mreaning a fade out to white? I see how your going with the intro should we folllow that same sort of route?

Nope, no expectations on how you end your particular part, it can be abrupt or slow ( like the intro) I can make it work, for instance the Intro will be a slow ending ( fade outs - title sequence ) and my Part will be an abrupt ending, with a scare towards the end. So it's up to the user to decide how they want to end it.

At 8/25/14 12:46 AM, johnathan-wrathborne wrote: So graphic violence is allowed as long as its not too excessive and yer trying to stick more towards the psychological aspect of things...Generally speaking psychological horror and gore are usually opposites.

I'll see if I can come up with something for the collab. I usually don't participate because I'm terrible with time frames and deadlines.

Cool, hopefully you're able to come up with something before the deadline of the collab. Just keep in mind that if you want to be an animator in the future, deadlines are something you'll be dealing with constantly.

At 8/22/14 08:32 PM, Budj wrote: I remember the first one and I liked it! I'm working on a few other things right now but I would love to take part if I got a good idea. :>

Cool man, I'm sure you can come up with something pretty twisted,

I sent the other VA's a message letting them know that i'm still working on 800 Miles Out, but just ran into a wall with time restraints. Started a new job/school/internship all at once. I've got a pretty solid schedule worked out now that I can make some animation progress. After I finish my parts for this collab it's back to 800 Miles Out, I'm really excited to get to it again.

At 8/22/14 02:29 PM, Oh-Sama wrote: Just updating my status here guys! I'll start working on this Collab once I finish my part for the Sketch Collab. Just about 9-10 more days to go, so no worries :)
I have the idea already, I'll try to do my best.

@ReklessCreati0n
That Intro really kicks ass and the music is quite enjoyable :D

Cool man! Can't wait to see everybody's stories come alive. I'm really interested to see what twisted things you awesome artists can come up with. I don't see "too much" horror related things on Newgrounds, so it's interesting to see them. I'm not even much of a horror buff myself, I mainly do comedy, but Horror is so fun, and get's me into the Halloween Spirit. :D

Thanks for the compliment, been putting in some work on the intro over the last few days, I don't know if you guys have gotten a chance to see it yet but it's turning out great I think. Here's a link if you haven't seen it yet, I would definitely like your guy's input because it's the first thing people will see in the animation (minus the preloader)

A few things I'm looking for about the intro:

How are the audio levels? Too soft? Too Loud?

Does it make sense? ( can you see it making sense when it's done )

Do you like the idea?

At 8/22/14 08:59 AM, VlikeVince wrote: So this time there is no egg?
Everyone can be as creative as possible?

Yes Snickity is right, no "object" to interact with this time, still in the room though, and the theme is science fiction.

At 8/22/14 12:38 AM, Tenpouin wrote: If there is any room left, I would love to be a part of this collaboration.

Still plenty of room left! Glad to have you part of the team.

Updates, got the majority of the second background part done, just a few details and shadows I have to add to that part.

At 8/21/14 02:22 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Teaser

Everybody got their stories figured out for their parts?

New Teaser

Started getting into final animation. Teaser Image below ( of the above animation )

At 8/21/14 07:38 PM, MacDonaldFin wrote: Hey everyone, just updating to say I've now all the free time I need to finish up my part. Week and a half should be more than enough for me. Now, with that said, here's a preview!

That's freaking awesome dude! Love the Camera angles you chose to use, very cinematic! Great work so far!

I finished my signature for the collab and sent the .fla over to the Boss Man! (BossMAM?) I did use a few animated symbols in my animation, but I don't think that they would affect the outcome of much if you added a play/stop button. But that's my bad, just the way I'm used to animating and organizing.

At 8/21/14 02:09 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Background 1 practically finished

COMBO! Implemented camera work and the background into the animatic. This is my last update for a few hours, gotta go to my painting class, I'll continue my progress afterwards.

Teaser

Everybody got their stories figured out for their parts?

At 8/21/14 02:59 AM, ReklessCreati0n wrote:

At 8/20/14 11:38 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Did a little bit of sketching today for my "main" part. Here is the revised 'creature' design.

Also working on the background images for the intro, here's the progress of the first background.

Background 1 practically finished

At 8/20/14 11:38 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Did a little bit of sketching today for my "main" part. Here is the revised 'creature' design.

Also working on the background images for the intro, here's the progress of the first background.

Did a little bit of sketching today for my "main" part. Here is the revised 'creature' design.

At 8/20/14 04:27 PM, VlikeVince wrote: But I would love to still be a part

Members

- Intro : ReklessCreati0n
- Part 1: sweetyluli
- Part 2: Mrcoleman
- Part 3: VlikeVince *
- Part 4: Whirlguy
- Part 5: ReklessCreati0n
- Part 6: RobertTaylor
- Part 7: Oh-Sama
- Part 8: CausticHarmony
- Part 9: ReaperSound
- Part 10: TerribleDesign
- Part 11: Open

- Outro/Credits: ReklessCreati0n

Pending MembersMembers that Haven't been active Please reply if you're still interested
RubberPanda
yetanotherjohn
VaguelyWonderful
HipnikDragomir
ImaFreekozoid

Music Production

PM if you would like custom music for your part
Azhthar

Voice Actors Post your Script here and character information, you'll get PM's from Voice Actors

Voice Actor Wanted Thread

Female Voice Actress PM Them With Script and Role; be polite

ATheatricalSongbird

Male Voice Actors PM Them With Script and Role; be polite

DoMiNovoX
Shock-Dingo

At 8/20/14 02:14 AM, TerribleDesign wrote: Glad that you like the idea. I will definitely have enough time to get this done.

Cool! Can't wait to see the idea pan out. Glad to have you aboard!

At 8/19/14 11:10 PM, TerribleDesign wrote: Is this still open for new people? I got a good twist.

I like your idea, but I think it could work better if you were able to keep it isolated to the single room for the most part. I'm imagining when you say she's being chased by something you want her running down hallways. Find a way to isolate it to the single room and I think you've got a great part planned out.

Unless you had already planned for it to be chasing her around the single room already, then that's great :D

Page 3 of the Thread! New Update:

Members

- Intro : ReklessCreati0n
- Part 1: sweetyluli
- Part 2: Mrcoleman
- Part 3: snickity
- Part 4: Whirlguy
- Part 5: ReklessCreati0n
- Part 6: RobertTaylor
- Part 7: Oh-Sama
- Part 8: CausticHarmony
- Part 9: ReaperSound
- Part 10: TerribleDesign
- Part 11: Open
- Outro/Credits: ReklessCreati0n

Pending Members Members that Haven't been activePlease reply if you're still interested

RubberPanda
yetanotherjohn
VaguelyWonderful
HipnikDragomir
ImaFreekozoid

Music Production
PM if you would like custom music for your part
Azhthar

At 8/20/14 12:27 AM, ReaperSound wrote:

Right now I'm not worried too much about maxing out members because I'm assuming that some people will drop out over time, so I don't want to shy anybody away that might help make the collaboration amazing.

That makes my senses horny. And really I am grateful for the answers. Though I may have more questions to clarify things. I do apologize if I am being a nuisance on the thread I don't mean to be.

Prerecorded voices or soundboards are they allowed?

Sound is allowed and encouraged in your part, if you need help with sound design I am available to help. All of the sounds in my part are taken from other recordings but just manipulated in the way I need them. Also I have voice actors helping me with my actual part. ( not just the intro )

I do however want the sound to be as important as your animation, because bad sound effects can take away from the scare. Try to find sounds that aren't easily recognized, same with voices. I would prefer finding a voice actor/actress to help with character sounds. ( I think all VA's secretly enjoy making "grunting/screaming" clips ) Just be sure to post in the thread who the voice actor/actress was so we can give them credit where it is due. ( link to userpage and role )

Senseless (Al) gore I see the reason people want to scare the viewer though jump scares won't do it for me. I can provide a watermark of my own if that will save some work.

No problem, and yes jump scares will be easy to do, but not as long lasting. I won't shy away from a few jump scares in the collab though. Keep things interesting :D

At 8/18/14 02:47 AM, ReaperSound wrote: I just have a few more questions. I noticed that there is a members list does that mean there is a limit to the amount of people who are going to be in the collab? Are you going to need a watermark for the individual members? Is it going to be one long? SWF file video or is it going to be a scene selection sort of deal.

Also I saw the intro swf. really sets the mood I love it short simple and creepy, in short awesome.

The final product will be a .mp4 file. So a long movie. I included the member list so if collaborators wanted could get together with other members to possibly involve each other in their parts. The member list hasn't been updated in a few posts. But I try to keep an up-to-date one on each page of the thread. Watermarks are allowed but not mandatory. I'll likely add in watermarks for users if they didn't do so themselves.

Right now I'm not worried too much about maxing out members because I'm assuming that some people will drop out over time, so I don't want to shy anybody away that might help make the collaboration amazing.

At 8/18/14 07:21 AM, Azhthar wrote: That sounds awesome! I really love making music for horrorfilms, because you can do very different stuff here. Actually most of the filmmusic I made was for horrorfilms. So if somebody needs a composer in his team, here is some stuff from my NG account:

Awesome Azhthar! Glad to have you around for any musical needs that users will likely need. I encourage anybody that would like audio help to get in touch with you through PM.

At 8/17/14 04:51 PM, Whirlguy wrote:

figured I had enough time, so I didn't get started on my part yet. I'd like to have the animation finished by the time October begins though, so I'm definitely starting soon.

Sounds great, really hoping for some interesting and twisted parts this year.

At 8/17/14 02:30 AM, ReaperSound wrote:

At 8/17/14 01:18 AM, ReaperSound wrote: Can anyone be a part of this? I'd like to submit something :) How do I join who do I talk to?

I should ask more than just the few questions. Can the room have a window of sorts? furniture bed computer lamp? What about the flash itself? I am using CS4 are you wanting AS2 or AS3? Does the girl have to have long hair and a green tanktop? Why just panties?

Yes anybody can be a part of this, just keep in mind if your part does not fit in with the theme or motif then it will not be included in the final piece.

The room can change, I would prefer if the room started out as a blank white room ( sort of like an insane asylum ) but after you've introduced the character in the room, you're welcome to have furniture "appear" into the room. For example my room will start off white, then a panel will slide back revealing outer space.

It doesn't matter which version of flash you use, just make sure your .swf file will be exactly how you want it to look, I will be using swivel to convert final pieces into .mp4.

I would prefer for the model to be similar in each part, as far as "just panties" I don't know, it's just how I designed her, makes her feel more vulnerable to the audience.

At 8/16/14 09:25 PM, LULZ64 wrote: I'm glad we're doing this shit again. Last year's video was like a mixed bag of good and bad. But I hope this year's is a lot better.

I agree LULZ64, it was entirely my fault that the collab didn't flow correctly last year. Due to a lacking number of parts, I had to make a quick ending that replaced the original idea. ( The creep ending ) which did not compliment the rest of the project. That's why i'm making sure we get this announced here early for plenty of time for parts to be completed. As far as the theme this year, it should translate much easier as well. ( the egg was confusing )

At 8/16/14 01:27 PM, CausticHarmony wrote: Hi, still open? :3
Cause i really would like to give it a try.
Although i never really made an animation, the closest thing i made to an animations is this gif yesterday.
(it's totally a coincidence that it is a girl in a white room :p)
Something of that quality will be ok?

Yes the collab is still open, although it may be a little tough for your "first" animation, I'll be happy to help you out with things as you need it. ( especially audio compression ) I'd say start by working out a storyboard and go from there. Glad to have you aboard.

Hey Everybody,

We've got about 2 months left ( and a few days ) until the deadline. Time for me to start buckling down on my end of the project. Started a new job so updates from me have been sparse.

Quick Storyboard of Intro -

This is how the collab will be starting off, there will be no menu since it will be a .mp4 file type in the end. It will work similar to the previous collab. A few days after halloween I will also post the collab to youtube for their mobile support.

I'm happy so far with the intro and am excited to set aside some time to get the final ( colored ) art into play.

How is everybody doing on their parts?