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At 10/2/05 12:30 AM, im_a_lollipop wrote:

At 10/1/05 10:54 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: Thanks, and no, not in swift 3d...

maya.

roffle I won't go there.

Yeah. That seemed next to impossible in swift 3D...
But how do you make your maya animation into a fla?

So wait, you couldn't do something like that in Swift? Why not? Seems like it might take longer or something, but no impossible. Of course, I don't know it well yet, or know Maya at all so I guess I shouldn't talk, eh?

At 10/1/05 08:16 PM, GDevlin77 wrote: Lol, it's kinda hard to make your character more noticable when you're limited to 5 shades of Purple :p Maybe if I darken the backround a bit?

I think the guy stands out okay. One thing you could try is making the backgrounds a little less thickly-lined in black. That way your main character will stand out more.

On another note, do you use Swift 3D Twinsen? I assume so, but I don't know for sure. If you do can you point me in any directions for good tutorials on the program? I'm trying to learn it myself, but it's so freakin' complicated compared to what I'm used to... Or if anyone knows any good sites for that, feel free to share! Thanks.

At 10/1/05 07:14 AM, Striker_F2 wrote: Allrighty, here is the 2nd out of 3 ships I will be using in my flash, i would really like some feedback on how to improve it.
http://img159.images..mage=sf25sop24vc.jpg

I wish I could help you, but I don't know how to draw ships and machines very well. Sorry. The only thing I can say is that it is pretty dark all over, so you could try adding a few highlights. Also additional lines help to give a more industrial feel, especially if they're thin and look like seams. Know what I mean? I think at this point the ships are great, it'll be all about how you animate them.

My SoP is not coming along at all. I've got the idea and everything down, but haven't worked on it yet. Not that that is unusual, I always wait until the end anyway, I just thought this time might be different. =)

PS. ReNaeNae that looks amazing, as always. Sigh- I wish I had the talent you do! And I sure hope you don't quit this one!

At 9/30/05 04:49 PM, Flea_Productions3 wrote: Argh, Everyones is like, uber-good. And mines only...sub-par. =\

I understand how you feel- I've been trying to one up that ol' SpaceyLizard for almost a year now =)

Anyway, the big thing is that you try. And what is really great is how much time you have. If you work hard to KEEP improving (and not just make something and leave it alone) you can make something tons better than anyone else. You just have to commit to it. With a month before it's due, there is plenty of time if you dedicate youself. Good luck!
Also it really does help to post here when you've got something. Then people with a little more experience (like Greedom for example) can help you to make your work even better!

At 9/30/05 03:57 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: http://img291.images..yspaceylizard5yr.swf

Not quite done.

But close.

I assume I must contact Luis over AIM.

Wow. That is freaking GREAT Zekey. Man, I wish I even knew what a Time Trials was a few days ago, I'd have tried to do something too. (I read your Shades of Purple post and then did some research.) Oh well, I guess I'll have to keep a look out for the next one.

Really though, amazing job. Your characters are increddible and the concept is brilliant. (The computer I'm on has no sound, so I don't know what that's like, but the art is mucho bueno!)

At 9/29/05 11:39 PM, hypractvmidget wrote: hey, nobody answered my question, is it too late to join this collab?

No, not at all. Anyone can make an entry as long as you get it in before the due date (currently November 4th at Midnight). The best ones will make it into the collab! So come one and all and try out! It doesn't even matter if you start 48 hours before it is due! Heck, that's what I've done for the past THREE of these, hee hee.

I only wish I could have done Shades of Green back in the day. Then I could be in every one from the start. Sigh...

I started the script for my SoP today. I can't figure out what to keep and what to cut, because if I include it all then mine alone will be uber long... Guess I'll just trust my humor instincts.

At 9/28/05 04:29 PM, Flea_Productions3 wrote: I'm gonna do my parts for the Teenage Wasteland collab before I start this....or i'll do both at the same time...

Oh yeah, I'm using future spaceships and races and stuff...

No way!! You're using STUFF?! That is SO unfair- I'M using stuff!! Well we can't very well both use stuff so I better just quit now.

At 9/27/05 08:31 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: Like my sig? :)

I like it! But only if this isn't the last "Shades of" collab. If you decide that it is the final one, then I HATE IT BOOOOOO! (Ok I'm a liar, it's still nice...)

At 9/27/05 09:33 PM, im_a_lollipop wrote: The moon is made of ice cream in the future!

Mmmm... Ice cream... Almost makes me want to go to the moon. Anyway, I think you've got a really nice start here. A few suggestions: Because the due date is still so far off you have the really great oppertunity to make the animation even better. Keep at it! Also I think you need to slow down the ending, it flashes the text about the moon being ice cream way too fast. Good luck, and post a link if you do change something!

At 9/27/05 10:38 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: Pfft... you guys saying yours will take one million bazillion hours...

you've obviously never tried 3d :-P

Funny you should say that Twinsen, I just got into Swift 3D the other day! Woo, man, it's going to take some getting used to. And yes, I can see how it would take even longer than some other animation types. Keep up the good work in 3D!

I've got my idea started and some storyboards done. Don't know what style I'll go with yet, but I hope it will be very professional looking in the end. We'll have to wait and see!

At 9/27/05 02:52 PM, Prellz wrote: I want to get all 3. Any body know the prices yet?

The Xbox 360 will retail for $399 in the US. Currently it is the only next-gen system that has a price. Rumors speculate that the PS3 will be extremely expensive (according to comments from Sony executives) and the Revolution from Nintendo will be less money than the others.

There is also a "Core" system for the 360 for 299, but it is retarded compared to the actual unit at 399 so don't even bother with it. You'd need to purchase almost $100 in accesorries just to play games on it in the same way as the 399 system.

Considering that it is still unclear as to whether or not Sony is lying about the current screens of the PS3 being real-hardware-produced or not, (They have in the past) I will reserve judgement until the actual system is playable. Though personally I don't care much about the power of a system, and am looking forward to the new innovations of the Nintendo Revolution at the moment.

At 9/27/05 01:14 PM, Zictor wrote: Which version of Flash can we use? Cos Flash 8 Just came out which has cool effects that we may want to use....

Myname says: "Well i might buy flash 8 sometime soon but now I'm using the trial which will run out any day now. Try to stick with MX 2004 or less untill i can confirm that i will definatley get flash 8"

Hope that helps. Also, danny_is_on_fire, the first page has all the rules. Due Date: November 4th, 11:59 PM (subject to change later)

And I did a quick new signature for the Shades of Purple, below. What do you all think? (It has nothing to do with the cartoon I'm doing, just the fact that I will not accept that this is the LAST Shades of! Such a thing cannot be!!!)

At 9/27/05 10:36 AM, Hamslice wrote:

At 9/27/05 12:22 AM, im_a_lollipop wrote: After 7 hours of flash nonstop, I have finished mine.

Only seven hours to finish?

=( mine is gonna take like 20 hours...

Well mine is going to take a million, zillion hours. =P (I guess I better get started)

At 9/27/05 10:50 AM, -Puzz- wrote: Okay I'm in Dan, hope I'll have something done soon!
Btw, purple is kinda gay.

I think you're mistaking it for lavendar, which has often been seen that way by certain people. Purple is actually symbolic of royalty and wealth. Color Theory 101.
Later I will try and post a new signature pic that no longer says Shades of Brown.

At 9/25/05 04:56 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: ATTENTION:
This may very well be the last of the 5SO_ Collabs so if you've been meaning to try for one but never had the chance, make sure you try for this one! Also, becuase of this, I will be flexible with the due date.

Last? LAST?! Oh captain, but why?!? Sigh. Oh well, I best get a move on to make something so amazing that you change your mind. A purple future, eh? Hmm... Should be interesting!
Good luck everyone!

At 8/1/05 01:30 PM, wodahs wrote: A better way i think would be to toggle the visibility.
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Hope this helped you out!

Yeah, thanks, that's a good idea. Here's one thing I'm concerned about though, how do I make it carry-over to other scenes? I very very rarely work with a single scene for my Flash cartoons, so I'm not sure how to make sure if the subtitles are off in one scene they stay off for the next scene. Any idea?

Thanks again for the help!

Hey everyone,

Two things. One: I was wondering people's thoughts on Flash Cartoons having subtitles. I know there are many out there that do, some that don't, and some that SHOULD since you can't understand a word they say.

And as a follow up, unless everyone says they hate them, I'm going to start adding subtitles to my cartoons and was wondering if anyone had any tips on how I would actionscript a button at the bottom to turn them on and off.

Thanks!

Horray for Front Page!

...

Ok that's all...

At 7/7/05 09:57 AM, mynamewontfitin wrote:

At 7/7/05 09:54 AM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: First review is a 10, starting with 'WHOAH!' and continueing with 'i liked Zekeyspaceylizards part bestest

Of course; everyone likes Zekey's the best. Lol.

Of course, what else it new? :P

At 7/7/05 10:05 AM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Haha, but I liked Space Chicken's the most (all the others were great ofcourse) because it was the funniest!

Woo! I guess not everyone! Thanks Carmelhadinosaur!
Well SoBr seems to be doing quite well in the portal. We'll have to see if it continues at this level throughout the day. Hopefully we'll get it to the front page because I love reading all the hundreds of reviews that come with getting work showcased there. Looks like Shades of Blue got some more views now that brown is out too.

At 7/6/05 01:33 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: Okay double postin here.
The movie so far is 4.29 mb and that's only with the top 5 authors and thats also with my movie being externally loaded. So i don't think well be able to fit any more this time...

Boo, I like having more variety with runner-ups as well as the top 5. Blah. Oh well, I guess there's always next time. I didn't see an official list of who's in, but if I made it in then I can try to cut my file size a little if it will help to get someone else in too. Let me know!
Oh and I agree it should be purple next time. Or yeah, yellow is cool too.
And with that aqua thing? I think aqua is blue and green mixed together right? So it might not be too close to blue if the theme isn't anything like water. (I KNOW! The theme for aqua can be FUTURE! =)

Hey everybody!

I just got back from a long-weekend trip, and from the posts up above I guess I can assume that SoBr hasn't found it's way to the portal yet. Myname, you should let us know when you're thinking of submitting so we can refresh patiently at the portal and then vote when it comes out =)

Well that's about it. I feel like I should be typing more but I've run out of things to say.

At 7/1/05 02:12 PM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: My top 4 are:

Mynamewontfitin - for going against the norm and making something unique

Geez Zekey! How many of these collabs have you been in? We don't vote for Myname remember? He gets in anyway, so you should give your fourth vote to someone else also deserving. But still I'm sure he appriciates the nice words.

At 7/1/05 02:16 PM, ConAir wrote:

At 7/1/05 02:02 PM, NutjobM wrote: I think it should be illegal to vote for those. Theyre a shoe in, meanwhile, little people like PharoahMan and me have no chance at all.

Maybe make a better animation next time with more story like all the "shoe-in's" did?

I agree with you both. On the one hand, it's tough for animators with less experience to make it to co-author spot with the "Shades of" collabs. Mainly because some people have been doing them from the start and have gotten quite good at it from experience alone.
BUT at the same time, I think it's a good thing. I personally got a lot of votes, but I know that every time I do the next version of this collab I try THAT much harder just so I can beat... certain people... I won't name any zNeAkMeEyS. Anyway, that sense of competition is what keeps the cartoons always becoming better.
So do what I do and as soon as you get word of the next Shades Of collab, start it anew and put your best foot forward.

And if you really want to be like me then forget about it after the first week or so and come back when it's due in 12 hours and work like a madman. =)

At 7/1/05 12:37 AM, mynamewontfitin wrote: Also, how do u like the little webpage i made to showcase the submissions? :)
I thought the previous zip file and crap was kinda inconvenient so i decided to whip this up with a javascript popup thinggy so that you can view the movies at the right dimensions.

Aha, very very nice Myname. It looks quite professional.

As for the votin, here we go!
DNR!: Wow man, I gotta say, that animation blew me away! (Hey that kinda rhymes) Anyway, great work, it gets my "best of show."
Oobar!: This was a funny little toon, and I am very big on the comedy ones. I really like your style, especially the guy with the remote. Nice work.
Greedom!: Very deep. I like the art style and the effects were cool. Maybe too deep for my tastes, but the quality can't be ignored.
And finally
Zekey!: I didn't mind that it wasn't an emotional cartoon like some of your others, I liked it. It wasn't as good as your Shades of Red in my opinion, but that's probably because I loved that wacky little alien character in your SoR cartoon so much. Nice job though!

Really, good work to everyone who submitted! I think these were some of the best submissions I've seen in a while. I hope a lot of people can get squeezed in even if there's only a few co-authors!
And Myname, did you get your Flash working ok?

Ok everyone, see you! I'm leaving for Tibet now and won't be back/have internet access for the next 15 and a half years! I'll catch you then!

Ok, maybe I'm not going anywhere... but everyone else seems to be and I feel left out. =)

Oh well at least I'll get to vote. That's exciting, right? I get to sit here and wait for the voting to start. Just sitting here... staring at the computer... hitting the refresh button...........

At 6/30/05 10:06 AM, RuneAura wrote: Guys!!!!!!

I leave in 2 hours! Then I'm gone for a month with no access what-so-ever to computers! I wanted to be able to vote, and see it on newgrounds...

Man that sucks. No access whatsoever? Geez... Well have a good time whereever you're going. Sorry that all the problems with Flash delayed the collab so long... I guess the color brown really is cursed. I bet when it's sumitted to Portal NG will explode or something.
"We're sorry, the server crashed because some punk users tried to submit a file that, when scanned with Norton, was found to be filled with curses."

At 6/29/05 10:45 AM, mynamewontfitin wrote:

At 6/29/05 10:42 AM, Space_Chicken wrote: Let me know what you think, and I'll keep trying to work on the problem further. (Oh and sorry for all the stuff in parentheses.)

That is a very good idea. Do you have teh 4 pieces still on your computer? I should start setting it up soon in case it takes a while.

Yep, I'll send them to your gmail account later today (gotta get to a meeting right now).

At 6/29/05 10:31 AM, _Siggy_ wrote: Sorry for the Triple Post, but I TRIED UPLOADING IT to quite a few sites that i know, and it had the same problem as wiTH MY EMAIL!

Something is wrong with my computer cuz uploading won't work!

Yikes, that's no good. Well you should try taking it to another person's computer and see if it works. Also, did you try sending/uploading other files? Just to check if it's that one file that's a problem or your whole computer. Just an idea.

MYNAMEWONTFITIN!! I may have a solution for you. Maybe. It depends. Don't get your hopes up too high. =)

Here's the deal: I tried to isolate the problem with your file by chopping it up into tiny little pieces to see where exactly the problem was. The tiny pieces all worked. Wacky, eh?
Anyway, I then began to reassemble your whole Flash and got it to four nicely even sized chunks (again, all that work fine). Then I tried making two nice chunks and bam, the crashing came running back at me. So apparently your file does not play well with others. (Others being, you know, itself.) Anyhow, I now have your file that can be published but in four pieces. SO depending on how much effort you want to put into it (and I say go for it, the animation is awsome) you could technically (I think) call the files externally and everything will work out and flow together. Again this is a theory, but isn't that what you did with Twinsen's huge files in the past? Just have them load in the background and play one after another. Possible? Anyone?

Let me know what you think, and I'll keep trying to work on the problem further. (Oh and sorry for all the stuff in parentheses.)

At 6/28/05 04:19 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: Okay i'm havin a huge problem. I finished my submission and everything but it won't export. It goes throught hte whole exporting process then i go to see the file and it's not there. Then when i try to do test movie right in flash, it crashes. I have no i dea wuts goin on. It has never happened to me before...

I've had such things occur. Two things may result:
A) You may have to uninstall and then re-install Flash. This has fixed many, many problems for me, though it takes a long time and I hate to do it.
B) The file may be damaged beyond help and (if you don't have an older backup) all work is kaput. You can TRY copying all the frames from the broken file and pasting them in a new one and save it as something different, but that may not work if the problem is in the frames themselves. Could be actionscript related too, I imagine.

Good luck with it, I hope you can save all the work you've done! I want to see that catipillar tank or whatever the biscuit it is! =)

At 6/27/05 06:25 PM, Oobar wrote: mine is done but the fla is to big to send over hotmail and my firewall doesnt let me send files over msn...

what should i do!?!?!

One thing to try is going back into your Flash file and optimizing some things as well as bringing any large imports (music, images) down in size. Then resave the file as another name (otherwise it'll still be just as large) and see if that makes it under your file size limits. Good luck!

I am anxiously awaiting the voting process. I think it's my favorite part of the Shades Of collabs.

At 6/27/05 04:41 PM, Mp3_Lock wrote: I am interested in joining this fine collab

But is it too late?

Um... well it was due yesterday... but I would imagine if you had an entry by... right now or the next few hours... it would still be okay. Sorry. There will (I don't doubt) be future "Shades of" collabs done by Mynamewontfitin so you should definately watch out for the next one and enter if you don't get done before the vote of this one.

I myself am very glad that I was able to submit mine last night at riiiiiiiight before 12AM. I really didn't think I was going to make it. Sadly I had to cut a few corners in some spots but I think it still turned out well. I can't wait for the votin'!

At 6/26/05 09:48 PM, temariix wrote: ok, i have a bit of a problem... i have everything finished but im having actionscripting problems!!! i cant get my button to work! should i send it to mynamewontfitin anyway?

Probably. I mean, try to fix them first but if you can't get 'em working then send it along before midnight and continue to try to get them working. Are the buttons very important? You could just take them out.

Nothing like the horror of a deadline staring you in the face to get the creativity flowing. I guess I better finish mine up, toon's due in under two hours.

At 6/16/05 02:58 PM, Balla_Baby17 wrote: how do u raise ur whislte level?

You blow the whistle on portal entries that are not acceptable. If they are found to truly be unacceptable, you get whistle points (which you can't see) and eventually your level goes up.

It took me a long long time to get to bronze, so keep at it. Good luck.

I'm glad there's a little extention cause I'm doomed. I'm never going to finish this piece with music on time... Man. That sucks. Ah well, I'll give it a shot anyway. It might not be very good, but you can't fail unless you try... At least the title screen will be pretty. =)