The left one is correct, if you're The Flash.

At 4/4/08 01:08 PM, GrayJovial wrote:

At 4/4/08 12:53 PM, idiot-monarch wrote: full view thing

You have something against blacks?

Apparently not. Look at the package.

At 4/4/08 10:29 AM, jaammiie wrote:

At 4/4/08 10:16 AM, Hoeloe wrote: Draw something with exactly the same dimensions as your stage (550x400 default) then make it a MovieClip and make it follow your camera. If you aren't using a camera, just put it as the background.

Is the issue that you're still figuring out how to use layers? If so then the above piece of advice is valid, but for further specification, take "background" to mean the layer underneath the other layer(s) that contain your animation.

I'll probably do what Ego has done, only I doubt Mastermind 3 will be very popular on Youtue, if the previous 2 are any indication <3

At 4/3/08 01:27 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 4/3/08 12:09 PM, The-Swain wrote: ...unless you're just griping about the fact that sites are doing this rather than being worried about your own movies being stolen, at which point welcome to the internet. :/

That reminds me. Swain, you are putting Mastermind up on Youtube before some fucktard steals it from you? Some people are currently rasing hell against that site because they stole thier video game parodies

Gifs are your best bet I think, and if you're importing as JPG you can move the slider down to lower the quality of the images.

If you're trying to keep the FLA itself small, then good luck - they get notoriously large no matter what you do.

If you're talking about converting something drawn by hand into vector automatically without tracing, then I wouldn't hold my breath.

If you mean importing hand drawn images to be used with tweening, then you want to chop your image up in a program like Photoshop if necessary and then import the piece(s) into Flash.

If you mean importing hand drawn images as a sequence to stand alone as an animation without drawing anything in Flash (like the Supervillain series), then do just that, and assign each image to a frame, I suppose. This would be a terribly inefficient method though.

Don't know if this is relevant, but 11 minutes usually translates to a LOT of audio, and if the sound files you imported are at a different bit rate than you're asking Flash to export to, then it has to convert all of them. Might be better to re-import your sounds to match the bit rate you're using, as that's one less operation for Flash to cover in the export process.

If you've already done this, then may the gods be with you.

It has to be turned to your advantage. Make sure your work advertises your site. If you're worried that exposure to your site will be reduced by your work being featured elsewhere, then make sure to find a good ad system that runs from your flash rather than banners on your site, or even add code that prevents the movie from being watched elsewhere.

...unless you're just griping about the fact that sites are doing this rather than being worried about your own movies being stolen, at which point welcome to the internet. :/

Go to those frames and remove the duplicate labels?

If you name frames the same thing, Flash gets cross with you.

At 4/2/08 04:36 PM, FBIpolux wrote: But yeah, I guess The-Swain's prime reason for getting modded is so he can go in the Moderator's Lounge... Kinda like Psycho-Goldfish or Luis back then. Except Luis is actually really active on the BBS.

I hear that Luis wasn't nearly as active until he was modded - he promises the same thing is going to happen to me. You can imagine I'm already cutting myself. :O

At 4/2/08 04:23 PM, gumOnShoe wrote:
Ok, then this is all making more sense. Newgrounds administration wants a unified site and they want their forums to be mostly about newgrounds. Just like when they made the video game forum and were hoping for some discussion of flash games, as well as your standard system games. It makes sense, and I guess it means we are going to see more and more admin pressure for the topics to shift towards a general newgrounds theme as we go. I'm just a tiny bit sceptable at the ability of moderation to mold the ideas coming out of the masses, as its a reaction and not a momentum.

Believe it or not, Tom hasn't given up on the site for CC just yet. I talk a lot with members of NG on a very regular basis, but mostly via PM and userposts when I can manage, so as a mod I'll have better access to the site as a representative rather than just a guy with a few cartoons. Really though, I think that Forum Mod was the closest mod to social modding as they could get for me.

At 4/2/08 04:25 PM, Mr-Contradiction wrote: It was against you, and it wasn't much of a burn... I can see how writing dry random humour could cause someone to lose their flaming abilities, but that barely made sense... Did you mean "doing it ON a smaller..."?

Nope, I like my preposition better thx.

At 4/2/08 04:09 PM, DarkSoldier wrote: I'm finding mods that just post good flash are becoming mods. This site is a flash site of course so it is smart to be adding mods which contribute to the site but some mods just post spam flash's.

Anyways...just like Sard. He submitted the movie about the wii being sold out and BAM! he's a mod.

For The-Swain it is the same thing. He just submitted a flash which won daily feature and BAM! he's a mod also.

I know why I was modded, but I think that the backstory is actually more like your theory: get the BBS more in line with the Portal by incorporating people who know both. Only problem is that I don't use the BBS much more than for lurking and seeking out help topics, so I'd better fix that quick-smart before I get raped :O

At 4/2/08 03:56 PM, Sekhem wrote:

At 4/2/08 03:55 PM, Fragment wrote: Let me be the first to say congratulations. He must have been modded for his posting habits, so we'll have to wait and see how good a job can he do modding. I wish him the best of luck.

he was modded because he slurped and swallowed it all

bahaha one look at your favorites list speaks for itself. Apparently we're both sucking off, only you're doing it from the smaller, significantly more shriveled unit.

At 4/2/08 02:49 PM, NeoSkywalker wrote: ComiX episode 2 only got 4th place :C

No such thing as "only" 4th place...an award is an award, and it'll make sure he gets noticed :D

At 4/2/08 08:36 AM, Wonchop wrote: light cut made me lol, as did space alligator

No love :(

--

Also, I didn't deserve Weekly 1st, I just got lucky with accidentally submitting at the end of the week :( At least it wasn't on April Fools Day, or I would have been taken even LESS seriously than usual.

This happens when you listen to too much Incubus.

Tip for Rob: learn how to drink if you don't know already. It's the only way you're going to make it with this team.

wait what's pico

At 3/6/08 04:02 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: squeakyswain

THX

At 3/2/08 01:13 PM, JonBro wrote:

At 3/2/08 09:20 AM, Major-Blood wrote: Great flash.

YOU SAY THAT EVERY DAY! XP

The Mastermind game was cool. I found it to be kinda easy, but I still enjoyed playing it for the things the guy said. "Mwahaha, you suck!"

After the Blockhead game, I owe it to everyone to make games they can beat :O

At 2/10/08 04:11 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote:

At 2/9/08 10:10 PM, TomFulp wrote: TOP FIVE MOVIES:

1. TANKMEN .5
2. Mastermind 2
3. - Move Your Feet -
4. The Nut Job (part 1)
5. Race Across The Rainbow

Since Tankmen was an in-house production, the prize pack carries over to the first runner-up!

6. Gamer Tonight - RTS Gamer

Also, Swain has requested that his prize for Mastermind be passed along to Zekey, who would have been 7th place if The Nut Job wasn't a two-parter:

8. Bench



RUNNER-UP MOVIES:

7. The Nut Job (part 2)
8. Bench

ok um

uhhhhh
let me think here.

okay. So tankmen was in house so the prize went to down a notch to 2-6.
But the Swain didnt want his, so his prize should go to whatever's in 7th right
so its 3-7 as opposed to 1-5
my math skills are terrible.
I guess overall it went to me because you guys didnt want to give the Nut Job the prize twice?

Although I gotta say, how on earth did Bench even get to 7th?
I mean, yeah, I worked pretty hard on it. But its like 20 seconds long, and..like....what.
People didnt even really like it that much. I dont get it :(
I really hope i'm not becoming one of those people who can submit absolute crapshite and win awards due to it. I dont want to be IllwillPress. Or LF.
But then, that Valentines thing I made in like 45 minutes has a high score now. :/
This is probably not a good trend. I guess I have fanboys upvoting my crap regardless of quality or something now. Thats not good. :(
I dont really deserve that cash. Can I donate my clams elsewhere or wat?

Ok I'm gonna admit that Bench wasn't your best piece, far from it naturally. But SOMEHOW it got as high as 7th place monthly, and that's good enough for me. Dude, if you don't deserve it for Bench, then you deserve it for something else. I got 2nd with MM2 and probably put as much effort into it.

btw you have to sell out for years to match up with illwillpress. Really, accepting one duly-earned monthly award won't hurt you <3

At 2/10/08 12:50 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 2/10/08 12:15 AM, The-Swain wrote: You know, I didn't even give that one a chance until Bob recommended it to me. I am so pissed off that I can't animate either at that quality or within that kind of time frame. I wish JEALOUSY gave me as much power as BEER does. Oh well, you're right though, it was quality. I guess it just didn't sell itself somehow?

I tried to keep it on the front page extra long, but it never snagged many daily views... I SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THE ICON TO A GIANT BOOB, I BET THAT WOULD HAVE WORKED!!!

BURN. Maybe a gold aura around the Tom's Choice submissions on the front page, eh? Why must it always settle on the boob factor!?

At 2/9/08 10:53 PM, KupaMan wrote: I'm a little upset Tickles' Magic Pickles didn't do better. Oh well. Swain excels yet again, and deservingly so.

You know, I didn't even give that one a chance until Bob recommended it to me. I am so pissed off that I can't animate either at that quality or within that kind of time frame. I wish JEALOUSY gave me as much power as BEER does. Oh well, you're right though, it was quality. I guess it just didn't sell itself somehow?

Sometimes, rather than enjoying a hot, delicious sandwich, I like to pay a hobo to run out and get it for me. In addition to the extra cash I pay him in order not to run away with my tasty meal, the sandwich comes back to me stale and mangled. It's alright though, because everything is always better off with a middleman.

P.S. THAT WAS AN ANALOGY !!!11

At 2/1/08 03:09 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote: HAY CARRIE IT'S THE GUY WITH AN AFRO FROM THE LOBBY, U READY TO PARTY!?!?!
k

MY BOYFRENS ASLEEP BUT WE CAN TOTALLY SMOKE IM ON THE 6TH FLOOR!!

I'm gonna bump this for relevance, because I'm kinda curious too. I don't remember it, but now I'd like to play it.

At 1/21/08 12:24 PM, wizardman wrote: Alright, Swain with a new flash, and it was awesome, loved it. How'd it place second? *checks who's first*

ah, Tankmen. Also amazing. Pretty great day for newgrounds, the Daily 1st and Daily 2nd being of such great quality.

Strange day when you can pull second place with a score of 4.55 :O

There's no such thing as burning out for good, Tom. You're not going to quit CC before it gets finished, which is the only danger to most artists who bite off more than they can chew. For better or worse you're going to learn plenty from this adventure, the most significant lesson being that you've gotten too big and come to account for too many things to keep flying solo on every project.

After a very, very brief post-CC respite, you'll find some tiny project to amuse you for three days and then remember that it's possible not to have too much to do at once, and that the only thing slave-driving you is yourself. Blockhead used to take me a few days at most to release an episode...don't you remember when personally updating content on Newgrounds was the same way?

MAKE IT HAPPEN TOM. I SUPPORT NWO, "NEWGROUNDS WORLD ORDER"!!1

At 1/15/08 07:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: Without me even making a post telling people to vote, Alien Hominid HD managed to win XBLA Game of the Year in Kotaku's Reader's Choice Awards!

Just like this time last year, I'm in a deep Castle Crashers trance, working all hours to get the game to Alpha. It's been a long time coming and there's still plenty of road ahead, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I just have to make it before I burn out for good. Just like everything else, the game has turned out to be way more ambitious than we ever intended, and I'm hoping everyone enjoys the hell out of it when it's done. :)

That isn't to say there isn't plenty of stuff in the works for NG! Ross just released an overhaul of the review system, which brings more attention to the reviewers (check out those user pages!) and makes the reviews look prettier in general. Abner, of Shotgun Man fame, is putting the finishing touches on the new NG store, which we hope to launch by the end of the month - keep those fingers crossed!

There are other projects in the works that we'll surprise everyone with later, and PsychoGoldfish is working towards getting that new chat system launched... eventually!

I was planning to post a big STATE OF THE UNION for the coming year, but right now I'm too absorbed in work to write an epic post... I'm thinking once we wrap up some of these immediate projects, I'll try to present the scope for just what we hope to accomplish this year! It's a big scope and people might die.

But enough about us... What are YOUR goals for 2008?

At 1/11/08 12:45 AM, Afro-Ninja wrote:

At 1/10/08 07:36 PM, f0d wrote: yeaah uhh afro ninjas guitar thing isnt exactly great filmmaking...

Certainly not, but does it have to be? (.... etc etc ...) I'd rather watch it than a medicore animation, even if the animation took more time.

NO DONT WURRY SHAN I ALREADY DEFENDED U!!!1

Ah, like "My Newgrounds"? Well, obviously stuff like Afro-Ninja's "How to be a Guitar Hero" (which was nicely thought out, long, and well edited considering it was a one-man-production) are deserving of the attention they get. And yeah, making a "real film" takes just as long if not longer than it does to make a "real cartoon", but I haven't seen much of either around here ;)

At 1/10/08 11:44 AM, JackPhantasm wrote: Sorry but making a real film takes just as long, I wasn't referring to youtube crap.

You guys think that you can just film something in 60 seconds and it will look like you want it to.

Haha.