Classic Billy Mays:

Billy Mays: BOWFLEX, by Grasso Type: Movie Rating: Everyone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtHI6e_Ex hc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnVNZpnv RI <- Last words, "You shittin' me!?"

Great stuff. I figured it was too soon to have any flash material out on the matter. This will hold me over until tomorrow.

Also haha, on the "donating his 'organ' to a child." Seems one NGer didn't catch the joke.

When I choose "classic" in the drop down menu for the layout, there is no 'SAVE CHANGES' button? However, there are plenty of 'SAVE CHANGES' buttons for the wide layout, not my concern though.

Perhaps it's just me or my lowsey browser.

At 12/3/08 12:23 PM, Luxury-Yacht wrote:

Again, as so many people have said already about several of the winners of the wacom contest, I didn't know that this guy used a mouse.

I mean, it makes you think: If this many respected animators rely on computer mice to draw, what would happen if wacoms were more widely available? Honestly, if wacom tablets and tablet PCs were more accessible, flash animations would probably become MUCH better to look at in general, creating a revolution in flash art. It's just much more intuitive to use a tablet. I know, since I have a tablet PC laptop (my college required a tablet laptop, so I got one, although I think it's fucking sweet no matter what). My drawing has definitely improved, and using a mouse NEVER worked for me. The proliferation of tablets could make flash animation in general much more aesthetically pleasing in general.

Before anyone else gets a tablet or makes an observation about getting a tablet, we should probably concern ourselves about increasing our memory and/or attention span. Either people can't remember what they just read or they don't have the discipline to read through 3 paragraphs. But FleckoGold stated yet again a few posts up, "I HAVE/HAD A TABLET FOR YEARS, BUT IT'S BEEN HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES."

Luxury-Yacht isn't the only one saying this, he got the idea a few posts above him. Anyway nice work FG.

"his 30 something Drexel friends & that one weird kid from Kutztown U."

Thought I read something bout Jeff being from KU; no love man, I'll tell ya.

Glad to see NG getting more publicity, perhaps there will be twice as many "unique" visitors next month.

It's funny how far flash has come as well as artists. If this were posted 6 or 7 years earlier I'm sure it woulda have destroyed the portal. A little hard to understand but still aesthetically pleasing in my opinion.

"Listening Post"

Last one, I remember the days of tackling tigers and trying to fight sharks with sticks, ha. Not the best graphic wise, but still worth a look considering the time period as well as effort and humor.

"Marooned"

Check out "Don't Kill The Ninja"

The first one leaves you a bit lost but I love the style. Part 2 is my favorite, I wish the creator would have closed the story but, oh well; still enjoyable.

"Don't Kill The Ninja: Part 2"

Make sure you view the gif with explorer or mozilla. If you use that windows media viewer, that's default on most PCs, it won't be animated.

Also when choosing to publish animated gifs, make sure you also select "Loop Continuously" which can be found in the same menu as static or animated.

Apparently right now.

When are the 'BLACK NG LOGO SHIRTS' gonna be restocked!?

At 8/21/08 12:02 PM, Dezimo wrote:

At 8/21/08 10:00 AM, Helicopterz wrote: the next step is an offline store right?

also way to finally branch out and connect your site,

you have enough artists and people here btw to make a real store, with like hundreds of shirts and games etc

the only games they have are alien hominid and castle crashers
and they don't exactly have a huge amount of products to sell yet, they'd need to expand the store a lot first

there are tons of problems with having a real store

The real next step is 'Free Tour Fridays!'

Every 4th friday of the month NG opens it studio/office to the world for a small nominal fee (free). Nothing will get accomplished cause of all the tourists/users mucking everything up. Then before showing the paying guests the door, blam you throw some shirts at them & make them pay. There's your store right there, plus a good way for me (the users/fans) to see the studio.

Someday.

At 8/20/08 09:03 PM, JohnnyUtah wrote:

At 8/20/08 07:02 PM, AtomicToast wrote: I know i'm going to quickly be flamed for this, but I'm only 15 so obviously, I don't have a credit card which means my parents have to buy this kinda stuff for me. My only problem is...how do I even show them this store with the penicorn on sale? Hell, I might get blocked from newgrounds if they see that shit. (not that I still wouldnt go here, but you get the point.) is there anything that could be done about this (sarcastic comments expected) so I might be able to get a Awesome T-Shirt, mabye the Tankmen Shirt?

I know theres not many ways this could be done without alot of hell for you, so i'm sorry for that. I just felt I needed to ask.

thats a fair enough question..
maybe put everything in your cart first, THEN make em come in when you're on the checkout page

they'll never know

AtomicToast,

Or when you get the store front page click on T-shirts & Apparel, no penicorns there. Just show that page to your folks, hope something works out for ya.

So I made my first purchase from the NG store at 11:38pm 8/19/08 (LAST NIGHT).

To my suprise less than 12 hours later, I check the mailbox and behold... My NG gear.

That's just ridiculous, I'm only an hour from Philly but, come on guys.

Nice job on the new store by the way.

I heard NG was gonna track the IPs of everyone voting 5's on spam.

I heard NG was gonna delete the accounts of those encouraging spam by by voting 5's as well as the accounts of those who submitted the spam.

That's what I heard.

At 8/7/08 02:07 AM, Weirdo wrote:

You should get "Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi" (If you're willing to shell out more bucks after buying 6 of his films). Lot's of great info about him and lots n lots of great drawings he made for all his films!

Oh yeah, I totally dig your Totoro pixel chalk art graffiti!

I also picked up a copy of Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair after reading your user page post. You're puttin me in the poor house, haha just playing. I really appreciate your thoughts, advice, and all the reference material you hooked up for everybody.

Thanks on the Totoro comment, I'mma have to keep an on your user page. Thanks again, stay motivated!

At 8/6/08 03:08 PM, jtm17 wrote: lol people think that castle crashers is racist

Tom Please Watch This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-LQDdnE WU&feature=related

Some one send her Ralph Bakshi's "Coonskin."

As for Ralph Bakshi, I was totally in the dark about him, I had no idea who he was nor any of his work. However, thanks to NG I spent most of the day reading up on him and taking a look at his track record. This in turn lead me to purchase 6 of his titles. Thanks NG, seriously...

good post!

Finally a place where this flash might be appreciated.

Cockgirl

P.S. By the way, nice work everybody & here's mine.

Capture from "Lunch Break"

At 5/28/08 10:53 PM, thechris wrote: Why wasn't I appart of this!? Other than the fact that I can't draw and I had work. Looks awesome man, gotta check it out in person soon.

Your wack son, I can't believe you live 10 minutes away but I never see you. Next time come out with me and bring your cam so you can make a silly time lapse.

At 5/29/08 07:01 AM, MindChamber wrote: impressive, nice work how you freehand all this,

I cant draw without access to control Z :(

I actually used some Ctrl Z. I did the original concept in flash using a pixel mod that rtil used in one of his pieces. Then I took to the streets, not as clean as flash but still worth wild.

At 5/29/08 02:09 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: you did that whole thing with just 3 pieces of chalk? they must last a long time, think i'll pick some up

Haha, I wish. Sorry for the confusion; what I ment was I paid the same price for 3 pieces of chalk from eternityarts as I did for 65 pieces of chalk from Crayola. The actually piece posted here took 6 & 3/4 pieces = $7.00

At 5/28/08 08:31 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Thats pretty damn cool, i love doing sidewalk art and stuff, but it never looks very clean because it's hard to get completely filled colors like you did, but when i looked up the chalk you said you used. that's some nice stuff, and pretty pricey

think if i ever have money to blow i'll pick up a 72 bundle, wouldn't mind doing some characters around town

Yeah, I bought a box of 65 colors for $3.50 of Crayola sidewalk chalk, haha. Needless to say those colors suck so I found good stuff at eternityarts, the only place I actually found chalk. And I paid about the same price for 3 pieces as oppose to 65 hah, but well worth it.

However I did waste more chalk than I needed to. The concept of blending didn't cross my mind until I was doing Totoro's stomach (the last part I filled) and ran out of color, so I started smearing it around with my hand. It covered pretty well.

If anyone makes an attempt at some sidewalk chalk art, I'd love to see it, any art for that matter ^-^

At 5/28/08 05:03 PM, LindseyMathews wrote: looks cool bet you had a bunch of chalk on you after drawing it though

Hah, it looked like I was working in a coal mine on a 12 hour shift.

At 5/28/08 05:06 PM, mranarchy wrote: Its probably just because I'm stupid but the first thing I thought that was, was a cat sucking on a big cock...Then I read 'ran out of colours for the stomach'

Thats amazing work tho!

take very long?

It took about 2 hours, not including interuptions from spectators & police.

And thanks everybody for taking a look, glad you enjoy it.

At 5/28/08 03:13 PM, Raguel wrote: This looks completely Photoshopped.

I'm not saying it is because I have no knowledge of this chalk that you're using but if it's genuine then well fucking done, it looks sweet.

Haha, it's funny you say that. My boy was there in the flesh and said the same exact thing.

At 5/28/08 03:22 PM, AlacritySoundz wrote: HAHAHAHA. Thats some ghetto ass materials to go use chalk Lmfao.
But yo there aint nuthin wrong with that tho...Just go rack shit. Paint is hard to come by these days dependin where ya are. But hell Chalk Bombing seems pretty legal to me Haha.

KEEP chalk BOMBING!

mtncolors.com & bombingscience.com is where to get them cans in the US. As far as paint sales else where, I have no clue.

You wanna check out the chalk go here Eternity Arts. The stuff is like pastels, it's sweet.

At 5/28/08 01:32 PM, Shitsurei wrote: awesome, that looks like fun. I'll have to try it sometime.

Just curious though, why did you draw it pixelated?

I did it pixelated just to add a little style to it. As oppose to just duplicating the original picture, I wanted to put a little of my own touch on it. I'd encourage you to try it, I'd like to see some pics.

Me and my boy are planning to do a Toe Jam & Earl piece in about two weeks, I'll have pics of that when the time comes.

At 5/28/08 01:26 PM, mraw wrote:
Thats sick!! I would love a giant totoro somewhere in my town :D

Is chalk bombing still illegal, yknow cos its temporary. I might try this somewhere

I was actually reported to the police for "spray painting" after the cops showed up they clearly recognized I was not using paint. They said it was cool as long as it's not profane or offensive.

I think the cop even liked it, he was staring at it for quite sometime and was real cool about the whole thing.

So until I'm told otherwise, I'm gonna be doing a lot more "chalking."

The chalk isn't too pricey but it aint cheap either.

I dig your work mraw, I'd love to see ya put up a piece some where.

Thanks. I've got a more detailed pic on deviantart HERE!

From a distance.

So I made my first attempt at a chalk piece this past weekend. Ran out of colors for the stomach but overall I'm happy with it. Why "bomb" with chalk? Because it's temporary, cost more than spray paint, and is overall inefficient, haha. Regardless, I enjoyed it.

Anyone out there know of any "chalk bombers?"

Dang tough month. Too many great submissions, not enough 1st places.

Thanks to everyone who contributed as well as those who replied to this thread. If anyones interested in checking out the stupid complete project, then you can find it right here!

At 4/3/08 03:36 AM, speedmetalmessiah wrote: What exactly do you mean by infomercial/game-show type sound? If you give us a link to something similar to what you want it'd be really helpful.

I appreciate the reply speedmetalmessiah, what I'm looking for is a softer and more mellow sound that is similar to this piece Elevator Music. If you've never seen the opening to an infomercial or wheel of furtune it would be something like that. I'm looking for a short loop to apply to an infomercial I'm filming for school for a prodcut called "Monster in a Bottle." The sound will be mainly ambient as people will be speaking and conducting interviews over the music. If you have any suggested links to this style of music I'd appreciate it. Sorry if I still didn't provide you with enough clarity.

I have yet to even browse 1% of the music in the Audio Portal so I appalogize if these upsets anyone?

To the point, I'm looking for an infomertial/game show type sound. I've been through a bunch of pieces listed under "miscellaneous" but have only found one piece that I might truely consider. If any artists or fans have any info on where I might find this type of sound or a direct link it would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.