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At 4/9/14 01:13 AM, MAbrantes wrote: Hey guys, I know I said I wouldn't post images here anymore but I have a question: Is it okay if I color the main characters like this one? Or the fewer colors the better?

I think it looks fine, but it looks like you're rigging it for tweening. I personally would try to give it more of a non-polished feel for the sketchbook theme. Something you can try if you're rigging it for tweening is going in to each piece and making them 6-8 frames long. Duplicate your line work onto another layer then do a smoothing to the top one with just the line work to give it a "hand drawn" sketchy feel.

I like the art you've done though. Looks awesome.

At 4/8/14 11:17 AM, MAbrantes wrote: Damn, RC! You settled a really high standard for the collab. I'll try to make my part as good as yours. lol

Ha, thanks man! Always glad to hear that I'm doing something right. Also I don't mind answering questions to all of you who have them. I'm here to help you all out ( when I can ) as well as contribute to the collab. As long as you're eager to learn and improve, I don't mind helping you out.

Today's update.

And a screenshot.

At 4/7/14 05:03 PM, MAbrantes wrote: I want to avoid spoil the whole thing. This probably will be my last update with images/links. :p

Looks good man, can't wait to see it finished.

Here's an update image for my part, progress from today.

Not much to this update just some of the fixed art and clean up really. I should have more progress for you all next week, don't you just hate essays.. amirite?

At 4/4/14 10:53 AM, MAbrantes wrote: Well, actually, I have something yet...

Nice, sweet drawing so far. Looking forward to some gladiator type action from that... errr no homo.

At 4/2/14 09:43 AM, MacDonaldFin wrote:

At 3/31/14 10:31 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: What's and update?

Nice. Love it so far!

Thanks! Feedback is always appreciated on my parts.

Update- Fixed some minor art today, will probably continue animating later on tonight.

At 4/1/14 03:34 PM, sleeeeep wrote: sorry pic didnt load right

Looks good so far, although I believe using colors is frowned upon. I'm trying to keep everything gray scale myself.

What's and update?

At 3/29/14 12:39 PM, Oh-Sama wrote:

At 3/28/14 03:08 PM, TheMAM wrote: Understudies:
1- spacegod105
2- MocaNico
3- EASTBEAST
4- Britbau
5-

SpaceGod105 is out check his user page here

That was posted back in February, I don't know if it applies to this collaboration.

At 3/27/14 11:38 PM, A-Genius wrote: what do you actually mean by dope? is that's a good thing?

Dope: 1. adj. cool, nice, awesome

it's a good thing lol.

At 3/27/14 07:16 PM, WooleyWorld wrote: Let's be sure to keep a high standard guys.
Don't turn in shit. We're all quality animators.

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANIMATE!!!!

don't pressure me :(

At 3/27/14 05:09 AM, TheMAM wrote: Important stuff about music, mixing, and shit you don't even know about.

We'll see what happens when we have the final piece. It's possible we can find a song that fits all of the pieces together well. There are plenty of songs here on NG that have tons of highs and lows. When we get to the music part, I'll see if I can mix a few songs together an have it sound amazing. If not, at least I tried :D

Also, updated picture!

At 3/27/14 03:51 AM, A-Genius wrote:

At 3/26/14 09:01 PM, TheMAM wrote:

Here is a small peek on what I will be working in

Looking dope man!

At 3/27/14 03:43 AM, TheMAM wrote:

At 3/27/14 03:40 AM, sleeeeep wrote: Can u have a more upbeat faster song this time please? Say for action scenes

Wasn't last year's song upbeat enough? And I try to find music that would tie the collab together. If you have suggestions for music, I'd like to hear them. :)

Here's an idea, why not use more than 1 song? We could mix them together. So we can bunch up the action parts, dramatic parts, and comedy parts. Then we find ( as a group ) a couple songs that will reflect the genre of the parts.

It's not difficult to mix the songs together, I can help with that stage in the end. That way we can get more audio artists in the mix too. :)

At 3/26/14 11:09 PM, artistunknown wrote: Huh, if the stage size should be 854x480, why is the background image 848x480?

I noticed that too, I just stretched out the BG to make it fix, I'm sure they'll fix it when they put the final piece together.

At 3/26/14 09:01 PM, TheMAM wrote: Important collab stuff

I'm getting creative this year with using just the greys. Progress So Far

What do you all think so far?

Teaser image

At 3/26/14 12:24 PM, KanturuX wrote: Well as you told me, here is what I made. I want to expand it a little bit more though.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/67c1420f05d27a736e47293416a8b7b7

So let me know what you think :)

I like it! Here are some suggestions to make it have a bit more depth.

I'd recommend having the Tank-Man press a button on a remote or something ( comedic even ) to 'summon' the tank.

When the tank bits are falling into place, I think it would look better if slightly zoomed in, then when they hit the ground. Move everything as if the ground shook a bit.

( Shaking effect )

- Everthing moves up to the right for 2 frames, then ( from the center ) back down to the left. Then back to center.

Also you could zoom everything in a bit more, you have a lot of negative space.

Those would be my recommendations.

At 3/25/14 07:01 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: First Teaser

Fixed a few things that were bugging me in that first part. Also I think I've got a solid storyboard for my part. What do you all think?

Will get to animating it over time.

First Teaser

At 3/25/14 01:53 PM, TheMAM wrote: Also, check out previous years. :)

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

You could say it's Newgrounds's longest running collab. ;)

I'll see if I can do something again this year.

Hello everybody, I've been working hard on my upcoming series 800 Miles Out. I've been thinking about having an awesome intro like you see in nearly all anime series now days. I'm looking for a talented music producer to create an intro theme song for my series.

What I'm looking for:

A 30 second - 1 minuet song.
upbeat and energetic, punk/pop

funny incoherent singing, "bla bla bla" maybe, (staccato)
preferably female singer ( main character is female )

Ending with the lyrics: (staccato)

"no matter how much you scream and shout,
nobody will hear you 'cause you're 800 miles out"

I'm terrible at lyrics, but the title of the series is "800 Miles Out" if the song ended with that, would be awesome.

About the Show:
Anime, action/comedy. Takes place mainly on a giant space station orbiting a earth-like planet. The space station is inhabited by the poor/underclass citizens of the planet because the rich wanted cleaner air. The show follows Niri, a punky rebel type girl who is obsessed with a lame superhero named "Captain Authority". One day their school is attacked and Niri fights off the robots, Captain Authority then asks her to be one of his sidekicks.

Visuals for intro
I'm really wanting to do the intro as if the viewer was leaving the planet heading towards the orbiting station. With crazy things happening as you leave the planet/break the atmosphere. I'll be introducing the characters as well one by one in the intro much like shows do.

Inspiration videos and songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5KHLXrcF8
( I really like this opening, the only thing I don't like is vocalist, too naisil-y )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OkpRK2_gVs
( not really punk, but very energetic with lots of changes )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb0N855lp_4
( awesome opening )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJEGb4MPV6I
(singing from this, staccato) [I understand it's mostly staccato because of japanese]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F87LlJxgZTk
( only thing with this is the ending, where they say the title of the show as the music ends, it's what I like )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ2lWyTi0oY
( what I mean by incoherent lyrics, not really a language or anything- can fade into awesome lyrics if you're inspired )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGIi7XJjfdI
( visuals )

added a picture of the main character for.. inspiration?

Hello Newgrounds!

I'd like to state first off that this is not a 'typical' collaboration, but it still is a collaborative effort.

I have started doing a live stream via Twitch TV, on Tuesdays and Thursdays ( 10pm GMT ) I work live on my current projects in Flash and Photoshop.

The Idea:

During my Tuesday and Thursday stream I'd like to have a different guest on each day to talk about what they do. I want to hear from everybody, either it be a Voice Actor, Animatior, Music Producer, Writers, and Artist; practically anybody!

Requirements:

A Microphone
Skype

How do you get involved:

Make a post here showing interest, post a few samples of your work, from there we'll talk over skype to work out what day you'll be on as a guest.

What will happen during the show?

We'll simply sit back and have a conversation over skype, I'll probably ask a few questions about what you do, why you started, etc. Each "Interview" will be saved as a 'Highlight Reel" on my page so you can view it afterwards. I'll also try my best to promote your work and Newgrounds Profile.

How many people will be watching?

It's hard to say, usually when I'm working on cartoons I'll have a few regulars chatting with me and that's about it. With you guys doing interesting works each show will be different, some people may be interested in a certain topic and the possibility of having a large amount of viewers isn't far off.

Any questions?

Just tested my videos that used to take forever to load, they loaded up nice and quick now! Thanks Tom!

At 1/14/14 11:27 PM, curtisscifres wrote: Have a project that my company has been working on for a year. Pretty big and nice project. Needing some good quality sound effects for the game and other projects. Pretty much just need a go to guy for sound effects. Willing to give a % to anyone interested in being on our team. Please Message me on here if you're interested.

-Curtis

Hey Curtis,

To avoid you from being ripped off by some "foley" artist, most sound effects that you would need can be obtained online for FREE. Do a google search for "FAAction-Pepper" 'sound effects', you should be able to find a zip file which will have about 100 different sounds. Enough to get you started on almost any project, if you feel the need to edit the sounds at all there is a program called Audacity (free) that is easy to use.

Otherwise more sound editors can be found here

At 12/16/13 09:24 PM, deadlyfishes wrote:

@ sculpted-cold

I'll try to check your stuff out too!

Not totally punk, but I have some punk influences. Most of my rock tracks are on my website here:

http://www.matthewpablo.com/rock

That Arclight song is bad ass dude, I might have to use that as a boss theme one day. Incognito maybe.

At 12/15/13 11:59 PM, HighBallers wrote: Yooo.....let me record on some punk riffs on your rap tracks. Im always down to do some crazy collabs

heres a sample of my work punkier stuff
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/376222

Awesome, cool track man, I'll try to get a list of things that I still need put together for everybody.

@ sculpted-cold

I'll try to check your stuff out too!

Awesome thanks for the reply's guys. I'll be checking out your works and see if there is anything I can use.

At 12/12/13 08:45 PM, Bigohpow wrote: The way I worded it must have been just fucking stupid then. The god damn speaker has a shitty flash animation and would like a new one, I don't know how to fucking animate. I was like hey I know this place called newgrounds I can look for some animators to help you out. But no you guys are just fucking cunts then. The way I worded it was stupid now that I re-read it. So just all of you can fuck off cause im done with this.

Great to see you attempting to do something with a good moral message. Here are some things you should know about newgrounds. There are a lot of new people that have great ideas for collaborations, but do not have the experience to push something like that for completion.

A lot of artist are un-easy about working on something only to see it go to waste because of a failed organization. Your idea is great, but here are some things animators need to get started.

Project Properties:

Screen size: A decent size is 960x540, although 1280×720 can work too.
Background: Flash Default
FPS: 24 (default)

Theme: (You presented it well enough)

I hope that this information will help out a bit. Also remember that the Collaboration Fourm is less active than the General Fourm so response times will vary. I try to schedule Collaborations month(s) in advance.

If you're looking to learn flash I'd recommend starting HERE

- Good Luck

Hey what's up NG musicians! I'm experimenting with a new song, but lets face it. I can't play guitar to save my life. Even If I could, I lack the fundamental knowledge of what it takes to be a Punk guitar legend.

Here is the idea, I want to collaborate with the Punk Gods of Newgrounds to make a theme song for My upcoming series.

What do I need?

--Guitarists! --

Can you shred? Prove it! I need some clean guitar tracks to mix into a smooth old school hip hop beat. ( wait wut? )

BPM- 90
Key- C Major

Punk Bands!

I'd love to have some original music made for the series, anything from kick ass fight scene music. Chases, Space flight, dramatic scenes, you name it. Get in contact with me and I'll get you guys a theme for a song.

--Punk Enthusiasts. --

Newgrounds has a huge Punk community, how about some recommendations for some of the GEMS here in the Audio Portal that I can consider using for my series.

I've been looking around a lot in the Portal, but I want to know what your favorites are, since I'm not too familiar with the genre I want to make sure I'm informed as possible when choosing music. Last thing I'd want is to have a song that everybody hates bring the quality down.

--Punk Haters!--

I want to hear from you too, throw out some suggestions of songs that I should use other than punk.

800 Miles Out - Sci Fi Action Comedy

3 Male Roles and 1 Female Role.

Male Roles

Teacher- Deep Raspy, irresponsible personality, worst possible teacher. Character ate 28-30

Zach- High school Student, class clown. Minor role; character age 15-18

Male/Female Role

News Reporter- Standard news voice, trying to get an interview with a celebrity.

For more information on all Roles Click here for my News Post with audition lines and drawings!

Tom, I wouldn't let it get you down too much, Pigpen has been making very controversial content for a while now. He is a great animator, but his content seems to be aimed to piss people off.

All I had to know is that the game was by Pigpen. Let him put it on his own site.