I'm really buzzed from two cups of coffee this mornin'.

I don't understand animating on caffine guys - it's too fast, too rushed, they say the coffee helps and makes ya more creative but I can't be creative when the thought I'm thinking about is a few sentences ahead of me.

On the other hand its Hilarius because it makes animating so intense. Though I like drawing when my hand stays still and find a lot more control z-ing happens on coffee.

Anyway enough I have a midterm in poetry to take today and then poetry to write. Wish me luck my reg peeps!

Little Things in games

Lil things are important. Like having a lil' sound FX play each time the character hits the ground. I did it in demenius darkness but I'm fumbling figuring it out in my next game but got some ideas. Other things like in-game dialogue separate from cutscenes. The dude walks up to some traps and the character has his own comments. Really helps playing as the character or getting into the created world.

Backgrounds
I feel I have more experience as a character animator. lol As my favorite bits are focusing on makin the animated dude come to life with the right blinks and facial expression or arm movements. Can't wait til the more action filled Duder episodesto animate more violence. But ya I feel I'm a shit BG artist though I'm getting there. Perhaps the next peice of mine to the art portal will be a practice BG. I'll have to take a good look at some of Adam Phillips animations to learn how it makes it so beautiful - I bet just looking at it I can pick some things up.

Oh shi-
Midterm starts in 30 mins and I'm a 35 min walk away. Peace guys!

Last night. A lot of beer, many pot shots, and I passed out after puking around 7:30 PM. lol
I want to take a long break from the booze I think. Wait til' new years or somethin' 'til my next beer.

All my friends ended up doing mushrooms. Poor mom. lol My one friend broke the laundry machine and I'm paying for a new one or to fix it.

Still had fun. My only goal was to have fun with my friends. Didn't expect to be the only drunk and feel kind of embarrassed.

At 10/31/09 04:11 PM, 23450 wrote:

One more pick of the other costume i made. My girlfriend. Silent Hill nurse.

WICKED!
These are awesome!

At 10/30/09 12:07 AM, doctormario wrote:

I wrote a fuckton of literate today.

I think this might be my favorite quote of all time. Criminal Duder...we need to make shirts of this stuff. :D

Ya think people would buy t-shirts with my quotes on 'em? I'd be worried - but, I'd love the money - if I could make just thirty extra bucks a month from flash or shirts it be a big help on my bills and rent.

NG dreams
I am frightened because I have not dreamt about NG in a long time. It was a short one of me at the NG homepage reading a large newspost Tom posted listing a bunch of flash and a few paragraphs of text - somewhere in there were 3 Duder flashes - one of which I didn't recognize so perhaps I'm seeing into the future in this dream.

I dream about Tom Fulp just posting links to my flashes on the front page. lol I feel like such a NG nerd.

Though I can admit I only read half his answers for the thingy linked in here the other day.

At 10/29/09 04:57 PM, Saza wrote:

At 10/29/09 04:51 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 10/29/09 03:53 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I got the sun stuck in the river guys!
Shit. I'm in trouble.

That... that... made no sense at all to me.

Hes been smoking again.

Sober.
And that was actually a quote from a poem - or part of a quote.

I wrote a fuckton of literate today. Ya can check it out
here. Wrote 6 new articles.

K. Now I'm going to smoke - because I've worked all day and earned it - and it's going to make it that much better...

So relaxed. :3

I got the sun stuck in the river guys!
Shit. I'm in trouble.

At 10/26/09 10:53 PM, zrb wrote: University/College

Have any of you payed it all by yourselves or are going to pay it all yourselves ?

I've payed for every dollar of my uni, classes, books, and all the fees. Everything. And ffffffffff..... it's cost me. I don't like the idea of loans and debt so I may be nearing the end of my uni days soon. Thankfully in the 2 years thus far I'm happy that I explored different subjects. Though now I am really trying to find something that goes somewhere. I never wish to work labour for the majority of my life.

I want to get into somethin artsy - writing, filmaking, flash, internet television, etc. Only taking poetry classes right now cause the campus I'm going to teaches philosophy, some writing, some theater, and mostly dentistry. Getting my license would be a good idea - then I could drive - but then more cost from air care, gas, car accidents, and court time after I run someone down in road-rage.

Flash tricks

I've never used motion guides - I forgot how. I was taught it along with tweens, and basic stop play and button pushing actionscript 2.0 way back in grade 9. I'm self taught but I really feel I owe a lot to how much I've grown on the support of others, the few compliments that ment so much, the astonishing eye-opening advice, and overall changing flash mentors and forever flash mentors I probably will always look up too even if a few years from now I'm collabing with them as equals on projects.

My main trick is drawing with a wacom instead of a mouse if ya call it a trick - though I find myself colouring with the mouse most of the time - perhaps cause its faster and easier for me. It's weird using the wacom pen to reach all the way to the colour thing to change the thing so your pen size is smaller or colouring inside or outside the selected vector colour material. Sometime back I found out how to paint selected or not too which I think is my fav trick and makes colouring easier when ya can just select what ya wanna colour.

Saving back ups is an excellent trick. Learned this one late and lost of large project once. (original duders ep 2 :*C) I rarely use any hotkeys...... actually I think I know Ctrl Z for undo which is basic, and ctrl shift z and c or just c or some shit for the opitmization of the curse tool thing which is really hopeful for both lowering filesize and cleaning up the drawing - but sometimes it actually makes the drawing look worse and I get pissed using it sometimes cause then those arent the lines I drew anymore - I let the computer violate my work and turn my art into its. Horrid feeling. Like a mothers egg bein' stolen and aten by a snake.

Only other trick I can think of now to make things easier/better. Havin' the audeo and actionscript layers at the top. keeping the entire timeline organized, and having your entire library organized - that means a folder called lines for all the lines, a folder called mouths for all the mouths, BG for all backgrounds, etc.

Wacom tablet

This post has given me passion towards my beloved wacom tablet. I'm going to take this time to give my thanks to my Wacom for all its time it's let me use it to draw my animations, roll joints on, eat dinner of off, and as a weapon to smack my anime-obsesed friends with while bored.

Thank you wacom tablet. :3

At 10/12/09 08:44 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Just earned my first ever penny from NG, thanks Tom!

I earned a penny too this month. Thanks Tom!
One day I'll earn more and buy me big shoulder DIGI-CAM at 120 FPS for independent film. :3

Mullet-Mans Pickle Quest!, by TheCriminalDuder Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

Ding.
Part of this game - well a big part of this game was inspired by my ol' online persona Mullet King.
Have a good one guys. Ya'll rock!

Flash crashes for me a bit. Thankfully I've learned to break big projects up before the final version when everything's done and is slapped together then touched up and uploaded.

Crashing sucks especially when you've spent an hour plus working on something important to you.

I would love a giant ant farm as a pet. Easy to take care off and interesting to study their behavior and what kind of tunnels they tunnel.

Also poetry classes are going great. I'm doing some independent study on campus in my free time. I'm researching all delicious types of poetry... prose and haiku I plan to get into next though I plan to try my hand at writing a monologue.

Furthermore, funky picture is frighteningly funky. Hurray abstract photo-manipulation... or at least I think thats what its called. its fun to experiment with.

I've been very active these last week and few days off work and back at uni. Got a game I'll be uploaded soon I'm sure ya'll will giggle at and been doing a bunch of recording, composing, writing, practicing singing, makin arts, workin on some game docs, and thinkin up even more ideas for future. It's wonderful. I caught myself in somethin' nice.

Happy birthday Xeptic!
Cool guy who ain't a dick!
Let us wish him happiness!
And drink, drink in celebration!

Happy b-day man. Have a good one. :D

At 9/15/09 07:00 PM, Duchednier wrote:
i live in winnipeg! fly over here now!

Winnipeg does sound like a rad place.
Ok. I'm coming to Winnipeg either later this year or after winter - most likely sometime after december when I'm off uni. We'll have to arrange some stuff but ya, it'll be sweet. Even if theirs no meet up I'll come just to get drunk with Duchednier! :D

At 9/15/09 06:52 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 9/15/09 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: much to early in the week to get drunk.

No it's not.

These words have inspired me.
I love whiskey. I picked up a bottle of Crown Royal after class yesterday. I got class tomorrow, but a lil' hangover will be nothin'. It's sitting for an hour and 20 mins listening to a crazy prof talk about modern poetry and quantum mechanics once and a while.

Now everyone in the lounge - my flash peers!
Do me a huge fav and test out this lil' tutoreal for my upcoming next game. (The game over screen was the first thing I made sure that worked this time. :P)

DING

I wanna get drunk.
But with flash people.

I'm saying it now - if their ain't going to be a NG meet close to my parts in B.C. Canada then I'm going to be the sucker to host and pay for it. Assuming I can round up enough people to go also assuming people would come, fly, or actually live in the general area.

I wish a fellow NGer lived near. Then I could run down and get drunk and talk flash with him/her.
What day is it? Tuesday? Shitty... much to early in the week to get drunk. Where's that peotry book I'm writing? I guess I'll pick that up....

I should to start not posting half posts and half thoughts on this thing... but when theirs a keyboard and being so use to letting it vomit out my mind onto this machine... its difficult.

Also some evil creature stole my herbs last night.

DING!

Duders: Sadistic Sabotage, by TheCriminalDuder Type: Game Rating: Ages 17+

Remember how I was workin' on a game few months back and couldn't get the game over screen to work?
I'm not a programmer and never got it workin' working at it on/off so I said fuck it and decided to turn it into a very interactive Duders short. Theirs a few lil' things that still annoy me 'bout it, but I got no time to focus on remaking the programming for an old game. Glad to see I found a way to get it out there though.

The story for the game - the scenes are special to me. This was one of the first times in a bit I managed to recreate what I imagined almost exactly how I'd like it and it turned out wonderfully.

Ive discovered my own art inspires me to animate even more - especially when the other Duder E. staff compliments it.

I like this. I feel I've made it to another stepping stone up the way. I look at my last 4 submissions and they all have a great new look to 'em that was the look I was after when I started animating. No offense to the Super Flash Bros, but starting off with tween inspired card board cut out characters was probably not the best first step. Especially just getting into flash - it wasn't until Jay Short 1 & 2 and Jay Vs. Val 1 that I started FBF and mixing the two.

Yes happiness. I have found my style for sure and I can now only continue to improve upon it.

At 9/7/09 11:40 AM, SweetSkater wrote: Aion online... I'm downloading it now. Looks like a great MMORPG.

You can be Wolverine! What more could ya ask for?

Oh right there was fruit salad MTC made too. It was so good. I got to eat more for lunch the next day.

And one small correction I should mention since I just reread that now when I posted it which reminds to read posts fully before posting.
It be nice having a boss, at an animating job, that WOULD and DOES boss me around to get A LOT of work done. An animating job where ya animate a lot is good practice for animating as a hobby/life/dream living on the sides.

A I have the urge to be in a threesome again and want to find some nice girls at a rave or bar. >:3

At 8/31/09 05:35 PM, Duchednier wrote: Yeah they're everywhere. I swear i thought it was only in the movies!!

College is a silly place. Everyone in the one I went was all one of two stereotypes I most definitely did not get along with... Snobby rich kids and church kids. If their was one metal head, punk, stoner, internet person, or gamer I'd be happy.

I HAS JOB

I work 6 in the mornin to around 4 - 7 depending on the days. Concrete work. Laying the foundation to poor the concrete in and stripping it when its dry. Worked two days now. First day I hit my leg badly with a hammer, gave myself lots of blisters, didn't pace myself and nearly threw up many times on the tired way home. Today I paced myself but I think it bein an easy day had a big thing to do with the small amount of tiredness I experienced.

The work environments cool. I never thought I'd be in construction though. After this any brainwash-blank-minded-company-slave cubical robot job may actually be not so bad and bearable. Physical labor ain't too hard as long as ya drink ya water and eat a big breakfast. I could site down, cyberslack, drink coffee, all infront a computer all day.

Plus I'm a scrawny fuck. I never knew I COULD do construction. It be wonderful animating for a living though, not livin off the Duders, being an animator for a movie, cartoon, or something as actual work. It be great practice havin' a boss who's not me commanding me to draw this, animate that, and do this now. The practice and experince would be highly beneficial to my animator skills (or whatever I have).

I'd like to also mention that I screwed up at work and hurt my finger with string and still can't feel the one side of my finger - it's completely numb on one side.

My boss drinks a lot and bugs me about how I smoke pot. Randy my friend told him all 'bout me. It's cool. He's a nice guy. He isn't for the herb himself and likes to poke fun at my with stoner jokes. He gave me peaches to eat today after work. They were incredibly juicy and tasty.

I guess it's true that every artist needs a day job. Mines concrete. I want everyone to try to image lil' hick mullet-head me with a colourful vest and a hard hat workin in a consruction site... with my hippie-like attitude.

First thing I save up for is a $180 USB mic with a $24 round circle sound filter. I'll have great audio quality for the Duders with that and for music. I never quite feel that my friends take Duders as serious as I do sometimes when we have such cheap low-quality equipment. The wacom is old now and all inspiration it brought to the Duder staff is dead. I'm hoping this or some other thing I think of can get my men motivated. Just my friends being excited or amped about somethin' Duder gets me SUPER AMPED - able to go into mullet-man-mode EXTREME UBER OMEGA.

I've been gettin' myself amped with the newest game I've been conjuring up from the depths of my mind and old games of mine. Waitin' on voice actin' from Duder staff and callin' in a special guest voice actor.

And now a DUDER STORY!

Gee such a long post. Such worthiness to be called a post this post. Never before or at least in long time have I posted such a post.

First day at work my friend Randy who got my the job and also works there yells "Thirsty?" at me. Tired from the last few hours of work in the hot sun I didn't hear to well, but I managed to make out him yelling "Whiskey?" to me. I stood up and perked up instantly with the pleasurable thought of whiskey at work. I yelled back to confirm - "Whiskey? I'll have some whiskey! I'm down!" to which he informed me of my error in hearing. After work all I thought about was whiskey and began to feel quite sad... I was really excited and happy about whiskey at work for that split second moment.

A few days later me and Darryl after finishing a bottle of tequila and gin decided to find a good Irish mix drink. We decided on an Angry Irishmen and Leprechaun. Both involved a good bottle of Irish Whiskey. Half the whiskey and half baileys original was the disgustingness that was the Angry Irishmen - it definitely tasted angry. We got 'em down and had the leprechaun - most tonic water and whiskey, it tasted wonderfully divine like the perfect pancake for breakfast.

Today I woke up with a small hangover and went to work or got called in at around 12:45. Got to work at 1 and was there till 6:30 - a small day. On the drive back though I remebered the last time working about how Randy yelled "Thirsty"... this brought a large smile to my face because I realized that I had a few shots of Whiskey left from the other night. So now I'm home from work, had a shower and still stink, was animating and doing the horrid programming of all evil again... and now I finish this post and have a couple few many shots. :3

Finally I also had the best breakfast the other day. Bacon, mega omelet, and a giant strawberry, chocolate, pancake. MTC cooked it.

At 8/29/09 01:26 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote:
the word you are looking for is bliss

Divine ultimate warmth filled unquestionable euphoria bliss state.

Also American beer is weird. Canadian beer is strong how I like it. I've actually had an Angry Irishman today. Half Baileys half any Irish Whiskey. It's nice though I hate how the alcohol shrinks my brain.
I like dutch beer a lot mostly due to my dutch pride of bein 50% dutch. I agree with Xeptic. Holland is overrated. I wish people instead realized the beauty of the country, the dikes, the windmills, the meadows, and the shrinking red light district. It's a great country with lovely adorable culture just as rich in wonderful as British, English, German, and etc.

At 8/28/09 10:44 PM, BoMToons wrote:

You do the same duder?

Wanted peppers but had none. Garlic I had though with a lot of dill. Got a few weeks to wait till they're ready too. I don't give any away though... I love my pickles.

33 lovely jars

At 8/28/09 04:49 PM, Josh-B wrote:

How long will it take you to finish off all of those?

Give me a week.
Once their ready.

I shall devour all 33 five jars.

This post was dedicated to jar 34 and 35 five which were saddly lost due to self-destruction durring the pickling process.

It's page 1699... Where all the 699 jokes? It's a 69 but with an extra 9 in there for fun.
Here's looking forward to the orgy of 6999, 6699, and 6669.

Also I have Jars of pickles.
Anyone remember my pickles of last year? I'm doin it again.

At 8/28/09 05:01 AM, Jimp wrote: .

I want a steampunk bong.

We have the schismatics for it. Now we need a 1000 monkeys writing porn on a 1000 typewriters and someone to make the bong. The monkeys are just for something to watch once the bong as been made.

I like boots especially ones with neat designs (CALL FOR NG BOOTS NOW). Though bell-bottoms wold be cool. They seem comfortable. Now if I recall from something I was doing before this post I was going to post a piece of exciting news...

but first I must be distracted from firefoxes spell checking making red lines appear almost all my words and making me right click and correct them just because.

Oh hey its the halfway point between lunch and breakfest... or close enough... wheres some food or a baby to kick?

Steampunk
I love it. I want a steampunk violin, I wanna turn my bass steampunk, and most of all I want a fancy pair of steampunk goggles with roach clips, binoculars, and those aviator light-amount controlling things.

And I have a story.
I went to the glasses place (IRIS) to get a new pair. It was the first time I walked about and tried a few diffs on and saw what they looked like. Usually I just grab a pair and GTFO. Anyway I found a pair of John Lennon type glasses and then ordered a pair of UBER frames for 'em. Static resistance, scratch resistance, transition lenses, etc. So I look forward to my pair of UBER John Lennon glasses - they really help with the hippie look I've been goin' for. I still need tie-dye shirts and more funky bracelets.

At 8/19/09 10:43 PM, SirSloth wrote:

At 8/19/09 07:23 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 8/19/09 06:51 PM, jmtb02 wrote: It must be Fall. Everyone gets so fussy around September.

I never got why you American don't say Autumn, it's a much nicer word :P

Because it's fall.

Autumn sounds like some horrible rash you'd get from a night with a hooker you'd wish ya'd just fuckin' not had done and regret heavily.
Also beer guys - beer. Its a writers best friend, just like psychedelics is an artist. Coffee just makes ya use more energy - I don't like that. I run on Mullet-Man power fueled by drugs and chocolate bitches.

So my uni campus was SOLD and I HAVE to get my license if I ever want to be able to drive and actual get to future schooling. I also got sort of an ACTUAL job. I'm on call for some concret place. $13 an hour and 7 hour days. I've never had so many blisters and my arms feel like I was workin' out from all the lifting and hammering.

My future home is almost ready for consruction. Here's hopin' it won't be much longer.
I've been trying to get time to fuck around on NG more. I want more medals and I rarely even get my daily experince anymore. Duder ep2 I put lots of work into along with unfinished projects. Been job and college huntin' lots too.

And I've been debating joining Doctor Steels Toy Soldier Army - he IS goin' to rule the world one day ya know guys?

Doctor Steel Doctor Steel

Anyway I'm off to go on an adventure slaughtering gnomes in hopes to acquire the golden guy fawkes mask. :3

And fallout 3 on the computer with mods is super fun. :D

I missed clockday. I'm disappointed in myself.
Here's lookin' forward to Madness day.

At 8/9/09 01:02 AM, CrazedKiller-X wrote: Glad to see Tommorows Nobody is back in business!

Duders is back too with episode 2.

That's bigger news. >:3

So guys.

The Duders Episode 2!, by TheCriminalDuder Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

It's here.

Animation. It's a slow process on its own... and the more ya seem to put into it the slower the process takes.
But is trading time for better quality the only way to archieve better quality? No. Their must me other ways, different ways, worse ways, and better ways. However running the extra lap and bein' chill with it... takin' your time and makin' it look real nice - that seems to be the best option I've been abusing lately.

So much time though. The remake of DudersEp2 is is goin' to take twice as long to make. I miss makin' shorts, but shorts would make more sense with the episodes and story out there.

Work, work, work... wait... can't work. Fuck. I got a bunch of bottles to take in to the depo, then liquer to buy, and then poeple to chill with, then work, then sleep, then more work. Yes.. work... work...
Ya gotta work more poeple! WORK!

Animating crazy - it sinks in after a while.