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This is one of the coolest themes ever!

I love Newgrounds. You have a lot to be proud of. And I'll keep returning whenever I have something that I'm proud of as well.
I think it's easy to get a bit lost on the Internet these days, because you have the potential of make a living off of it if you're lucky. But it was never really about the money to begin with, was it? Because if it was there would certainly be easier ways to go than being an Internet animator.

At 6/11/14 07:59 PM, dylan wrote: So I kind of pulled a Sif and left my tablet pen 200 miles away for a week, but I'm back now! Time to get started on that storyboard.

Ahah, that should be an actual thing. Glad to hear that I'm not the only one that can happen to.

Also, a bit of a reminder as to one of the things you're fighting for, should you win and chose to go for the trophy!!
It's totally awesome, whenever the light shines in, it reflect a bunch of rainbows into my apartment. Rainbows are awesome.

Thanks a bunch for the monthly 3rd! I think that's a first time for me

And i'm really glad to see Bill get the prize, it was so awesome to see Sweetest in it's final form at last : D

He made it the pro round and ultimately lost out to Hikarian, who went on to win NATA 2012.

Ohh Tom, it wasn't that long ago! Only 2013.

I'm really amazed at all the entries this year as well though - It's been so much fun to judge, but also quite a difficult task. There are so many that I want to see on to the next round!!

GG, man. GG.

I like the idea, but couldn't the Speed Painting genre be added to the Art Portal instead? I know it doesn't normally support movie files, but I feel like it rather belongs there, so maybe it could be worked around.
To me it seems like in the voters do not take genre into consideration in the Movie Portal, and I don't think that there is anything wrong with that as such. But because of this I think that speed paint art and time-lapses wouldn't be recieved that well there, just like trailers usually aren't.

Could be cool though.

Here's another thing.

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  Little Merry Ego by Hikarian

  Little Merry lives in an iceberg below the surface of the sea.

  Score

  Under Judgment

  Type

  Movie

  Popularity

  25 Views

  Rated

  Everyone

Gotta love those themes. Excited to see how this'll turn out

Lots of interesting submissions have come up these last couple of days - Thanks for the daily 2nd, peeps! I'm glad that some liked my animation.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/620849?updated=1

Okay, I'm calling it done now.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/618586

Okay, I'm calling it done.

Huuh, interesting. There are quite a lot of soundtracks that are based off of somewhat negative feelings, so I guess the comedians are going to have a challenge on their hands. That, or we are going to see a lot of contrapuntal music.

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out! =)

Huuh, interesting. There are quite a lot of soundtracks that are based off of somewhat negative feelings, so I guess the comedians are going to have a challenge on their hand. That, or we are going to see a lot of contrapuntal music.

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out! =)

Cool! Last year I got 16th place in this open round, sooo... there's an improvement I guess. Good luck to the 32 who made it to novice. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out :)

I'm going to go ahead and publish this thing now:

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/615906

How's everyone else's entries coming along?

Well, there's no shame in getting 5th place on a day like today - lots of awesome entries :D

Hey, thanks - my first daily 1st! Though, considering how much time went into making "PHASE ONE", I feel like that one might have deserved the trophy more...

At 7/14/12 10:26 PM, NATA wrote: [8:23:49 PM] coughing-dog: elfmans got a lot riding on this
[8:23:54 PM] coughing-dog: theyre gunna break his legs
[8:24:32 PM] Elfman Rox: Two broken legs is all the more reason to spend 20 hours a day in front of my computer
[8:24:49 PM] coughing-dog: who needs legs.

Awww, I'm missing all the fun! save a leg for me, ok?

At 7/4/12 07:25 AM, BPremo wrote:

At 7/3/12 02:26 PM, NATA wrote:

At 7/3/12 10:37 AM, Jomillex wrote:

FAST DUMP THE COKE IN THE RIVER AND START THE CAR!

AHHH NO ONE STARTED THE CAR!!!

*Starts car* Wai---- I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!

Hey, if anyone wants to talk about animation and such, feel free to add me on Skype as well: hikarian002

At 6/22/12 04:21 PM, BPremo wrote:

At 6/22/12 12:05 PM, JerrodStorm wrote:

At 6/21/12 06:54 PM, Emrox wrote: All set up for the long two weeks ahead

Hooray! I'm not the only one who uses a mac!

Me too!

Me three! :P

At 6/17/12 09:58 PM, Pahgawk wrote: Exam time starts for me tomorrow, so I'll be taking a week-long break from animation and the internet. It means I won't be able to do as long of a movie as my last two, but... well, school comes first, I guess. I'll try to make do.

Talk to you guys in seven days!

Just how many people in this have exams to concentrate about? Oh well - my exams are just about over :D

At 6/15/12 12:28 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 6/13/12 01:28 PM, Hikarian wrote: I wouldn't mind getting access as well! Though it will probably be a little while before it's really relevant for me.

All set!

Thanks! I may test it out soon with a little motion comedy-comic-short-thingy :P

At 6/13/12 11:54 AM, TomFulp wrote: Pahgawk and jagondudo bother have MP4 upload access now if you ever need it. If anyone else wants it, let me know!

Jagondudo - for future video stuff you should try prepping it as an H.264 MP4 and uploading a 1080p video. You will want to get the compression to something manageable for web viewing. Right now we don't process the videos on our end but we're setting up a processing server to do that (so there are good web, mobile, etc. formats available).

I wouldn't mind getting access as well! Though it will probably be a little while before it's really relevant for me.

I'm getting this vibe that everything has to be made in flash on Newgrounds, because that's what most people do, but isn't that just because it's the easiest thing to work with when it comes to swf files? It would be fun to experiment with a project made with TVPaint, After Effects and Photoshop :)

At 6/12/12 04:42 AM, BPremo wrote: I'm trying to reread my copy of 'Story' by Robert Mckee but all the pages are stuck together with semen.

Kind of looking around at different ways to set up a good story. Is this one of those books that helps with that? Can it be translated into making a short?

Anyone else have some recommendations for some relevant readistuff? Concept, delivery, storyboard, setup... you know, about all those kinds of things? :)

At 6/12/12 01:35 AM, DaveBruno wrote:

At 6/12/12 01:07 AM, Hikarian wrote: Forced inspiration doesn't neccisarily sound like a good thing in my ears... But I sure would love to see some new animations from you!

Haha thats because it isnt! Hence the ominous italics lol

Italics are evil, force is bad... but inspiration is good :D

At 6/11/12 10:15 PM, DaveBruno wrote: Ive recently come under some... forced inspiration... Theres a small chance I may fight alongside you troops this round, as I was thinking of a way to deal with this... forced inspiration... and I think animating my emotions may do the trick, luckily the theme works with what I had in mind anyway... We'll see, good luck everyone!

Forced inspiration doesn't neccisarily sound like a good thing in my ears... But I sure would love to see some new animations from you!

At 6/11/12 05:48 PM, ExtremeFudgeMaster wrote:

At 6/11/12 04:34 PM, Hikarian wrote:
It's almost like... What do you call it? Friendship...?

It's almost like you have... companions.

Nooooo...! I wouldn't want to be social! That would be disastrous!

But it is nice hearing the thoughts of other animators :)

At 6/11/12 10:37 AM, DuDuL wrote:

At 6/11/12 10:17 AM, CatFat wrote: Ah, I'm relieved I made it through but It's bittersweet, seeing our NATA family get smaller :(

Well once NATA is over i'm in for Assembling our 'family' once more for tribute collab :D

Best. Family. Ever.

Still going to haunt these threads for now. It's the first time I've been active in a forum, and as Tom said, this has a really nice vibe to it. It's almost like... What do you call it? Friendship...?