At 10/12/08 11:04 AM, GoldbloodedDragon wrote: -Don't be shocked if you don't make the cut!
-Dont care about what people think.
-If you don't make it, be proud of yourself for trying.
-Don't rub it in if you DO make it.

I love collab organizers who are just so damn full of themselves. Honestly, you're not that good anyway-- if you tried to join a collab of some of the pivot experts that are out there, you'd be laughed at. But be proud of yourself for trying!

At 10/16/08 02:23 PM, DarkSkyForever wrote: Yes, it is a lot of code, and several hundred lines are placed in over a hundred separate movieClips.

Looks like I do it the long way.

You might be able to use the find tool somehow.

At 10/16/08 02:24 PM, Alpharius120 wrote: By Tom Fulp sponsoring your game.

Yeah, it's supposed to only go in NG staff productions or flashes sponsored by ng, but a lot of other people put it in their movies. Like, I have an fla of it, and could put in my movie if i wanted, but I won't.

At 10/16/08 01:41 PM, Angry-Banana wrote: Click here

Well actually its more a sneak cycle but whatever.

pretty good, dude. i feel like he's moving a little slow, though-- it's more like a speedy crawl, to me, and it seems like he ought to be moving faster.

At 10/16/08 10:14 AM, RandomFreak wrote: Wait the bible says the anti-christ will be Muslim now? I remember a few years ago they were saying the bible said that the anti-christ will be Jewish. Granted I'm not bible scholar but my own rudimentary research doesn't show the book of revelations saying ANYTHING about the faith of the anit-crhist, only that it is a "he" and he will claim to be Christ.

I hate when people just make up crap saying "the bible said it" assuming nobody's going to check because of how big that freaking book is.

someday i WILL read that book, if only to refute the claims of others.

I used to get chain letters all the time. Rarely about actual events, they were usually of the "repost 15 times or a dead girl will bite your earlobes off" variety, but in any case i'd pick apart the obvious flaws and terrible writing. I find any chain letter about a political issue always takes the same condescending, falsely apologetic tone-- imagine "my friends" injected every few sentences, and I can picture John McCain reciting this at some rally. It's a pity the panic-inducing shock-tactic chain letter continue to be circulated instead of the counter-literature opposing them.

nice job, though

At 2/2/08 09:07 PM, Obsessed117 wrote: Jesus wasn't even Christ's first name.

IT WAS JESUA

Jesua = Joshua.

They only changed it to Jesus when they first printed the bible.

that's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. I hate people like you who latch onto some obscure counterculture fact and then spout it every time there's an opportunity.

oh look guys, it's 2000 again

when I do programming (not often at all) it's usually just redirecting between frames and things. I'm still using AS2 because I'm not at all a programmer and it's still the easiest for me. I have CS3, but just out of habit I always start an AS 2.0 document :3

At 10/2/08 11:19 PM, cweb85 wrote: This site has a ton of great, high quality animations which I'm sure took top of the line software to make. But seriously, are even the crappy animations made with uber expensive flash? There must be a more economical solution somewhere...

Don't try and reason to yourself that this is not true.

At 9/30/08 06:11 PM, TomFulp wrote: If you check out Madness Regent, you will notice that authors can now have unique descriptions above their names, such as Programmer and Artist. We've been in dire need of this feature ever since the whole Johnny Rocketfingers 2 controversy, where NegativeOne has finally been credited as the Programmer.

man, finally. Two years later and he finally gets the credit he deserves. It's nice, but I'm feeling a tinge of "too little, too late" here, honestly. That said, I think this'll add a lot to the co-authoring process... or something

Are you seriously still getting angry emails about these? Man, where is the LOVE around here

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FDHJGKH

At 9/27/08 10:59 PM, Spikrodd wrote:

At 9/27/08 10:30 PM, Tystarr wrote: Hopefully it'll b out by my b-day! Sept 30!!!
Lol no rush Luis.

at this rate i predict duke nukem: forever will relese before this

Duke Nukem Forever will be delayed until the stars fall from the sky and the world collapses in the final cataclysm of the dying universe.

And Duke will be alone with the stars... forever.

I love CN. It's pretty, the art on there is fantastic, and I really need to draw somethin, holy shit. it's been a while.

http://campnorth.tv/profile/ansel

I was thinking about this same idea the other day... People spend so much time complaining about gas prices or whatever, when they should be thinking about how great it is that they can drive at all. That oil came out of the ground far across the globe, and was shipped to the US in barrels, carried by truck or plane to their area, and then distributed to gas stations. They can simply pay money to fill their automobile (one of the most complicated pieces of equipment available for consumers) and then DRIVE AWAY. It's like "stop bitching, when I was a boy we had to make our own oil out of dinosaurs we killed ourselves thx."

At 9/21/08 12:07 PM, pepocho wrote:

At 9/21/08 11:15 AM, TehChahlesh wrote: Slow down there!

First, make sure the video's real. Then you can condemn the US military.

i highly doubt the US government will actually say the truth and say if its real or not...

we've got a rebel, gents

look out, he's dangerous

At 9/21/08 01:37 AM, mexifry895 wrote:

At 9/21/08 01:32 AM, Ansel wrote: FAVORITE FLASH GAME

This is not even slightly difficult to answer. Supersoldier.

This is oddly similar. :P

oh fuck all of you i am so sick of this bullshit

At 9/20/08 11:58 PM, Contipec wrote: I hope Obama wins because Americans are a bunch of fascists who don't have any respect for other nations and who abuse power constantly.

Hahaha, what an obvious troll attempt.

FAVORITE FLASH GAME

This is not even slightly difficult to answer. Supersoldier.

Something about this game is deeply appealing to me. the colors are beautiful, the animation is lovely, and the whole game has this incredible feeling of completeness and cohesiveness to it. I don't even know how to explain it. I love it. go play it.

:|

i'm sure you all remember junkycow... those were the days, yes indeed.

man, i haven't dropped in here in a while. it's still the same five people though, so whatev

ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, if this particular note has not yet been covered, what do you guys eat/drink to fuel your flash work? There is one drink that I consume almost constantly at the computer. it is-- raspberry lemonade. it is fuckin delicious and everyone should drink it. I'm serious. For food, I'd have to say cherry sours. If you don't know what those are, they're these small chewy red candies that you can buy for like 60 cents a bag at any convenience store... they taste nothing like cherries but damn they are incredible.

tl;dr - post u fave foodz n drankz

anyone else been getting these? It happens to me every now and then when I go to the Portal.

i'd say use 2, definitely... it's the only one that fits with the sprites visually. speed it up a bit, though... blood is a liquid and they move pretty quickly.

so i'm working on art for a game. a lot of symbols onstage, a lot of objects moving around at once. I don't know whether that's related to my problem, but it seems quite likely. My problem is that when I try to test the movie, Flash locks up at the "exporting flash movie" window. The progress bar never moves, and the mouse flickers very quickly between the cursor and the little thinking spiral wheel thing. I can't do anything in Flash, and the only way to get it out of its little dream world is to shut it down via task manager. This has happened SIX TIMES so far today.

Any ideas on what's causing this, or how I can stop it? screencap below

my first post: "im in!"

I thrust myself into the emoticonization collab and actually made something somewhat decent, especially considering it was my first flash work on this site... not a bad start in my opinion

I made another little one... I was going to draw GLaDOS but she's very difficult to make look right. I settled for this bit of her.

This took me about an an hour and a half... I improvised a lot on things, and I know the turret needs an antenna and I don't care. hope you dig it, post some of your own portal art if you so desire

Make a new account. It'll take much less time than waiting for Wade to change it, which he won't, since it'd me much easier for you to make a new one. Seriously.

At 8/24/08 10:30 PM, Palix007 wrote: If nintendo could workout a deal with bungie then Master Chief would be just about the best character EVER.

And I thought I'd actually make it through this thread without seeing Master Chief.

At 8/25/08 01:51 PM, mwmike wrote:

At 8/25/08 01:47 PM, Eric-Eazy-E-Wright wrote: Nevermind i figured it out... if you tracfe a bitmap does it make the filesize bigger?

No, it splits the bitmap data into a rough vector copy, it looks really nice.

Unless you do it poorly, then it just looks wiggly and... trace-bitmapped. It doe a poor job with gradients and areas with anti-aliasing. If you trace-bitmap, then clean it up a little,you can get a fairly accurate copy.

At 8/25/08 10:53 AM, Wolfears2 wrote: If I did my math correctly, a full professional set is gonna set you back...
$1600 dollars
Still wanna do flash?

Wow, way to be a bitch. The full CS3 is not necessary to make flash movies-- only Flash is. Other programs may help, but really aren't necessary at all. A mic and recording programs are good IF you plan to do your own recording, but if you're like me and depend on others for that sort of thing, that's unnecessary as well. The only thing on your little list that actually seems somewhat important is a Wacom tablet, which I do think is a very good tool. Also, Flash is available at student discount prices for only $250.

So if I've done my math correctly, making Flash will cost you...
$250.
not a large amount of money if you have a job or something similar.

Have fun :D

I'm making an animation where the main "character" is a robot with one shiny pink eye. I'd like to go beyond the average gradients and highlights, to do something beyond the generic "shiny" look. Does anybody have any advice on how to draw/animate glass with somewhat accurate refraction and reflection? Links to tutorials,etc. Please help :)