The next one will begin tmrw follow the flash forum and wait for the new thread to appear created by me. More instructions will be found there.

The last group is :

Aenlma
Hatterclock
dark_drako
and somebody who didnt put their name on their fla (competition.fla?) if this is you let me know asap.

-L

Hmm yeah your right... well this is probably due to people who have sound set up as event sounds (and did set them as sound objects) as opposed to streaming... this group was by far the biggest headache to put together.. definately need to make better rules next time...

Anyways I have no idea why your name isnt showing up Az3r .. you were on my buddy list and everything... might need to email wade about it.

-L

At 2/12/04 03:43 PM, Aenlma wrote: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr still not in a group
there must of been lots of ppl that gave in there tuff

As i've told you many times via e-mail, you need to resendyour stuff cause all your fonts were messed up cause you didnt break em up

Some of you guys who turned movies in didnt break your text like i told you to. Either that or you did not break it up into fills. (Regis & Az3r) When you break it up you actually have to hit Ctrl B twice.. because hitting it once breaks it up into characters and doing it again breakes it up into fills.. in other words just breaking it up into letters does me no good because you can edit the text and flash assumes i have the font.

Group B:
Az3r
Regis
LuckoftheIrish
Mr_Luis
PunishedOne

Shall announce group c tmrw .. u know the drill...

NG TT II Group A was posted early in the morning (eastern time) so that it would have a greater chance of pickin up a daily. Havent figured out who is in group b yet because i have so many entries to sort through and put together but as soon as i have it figured out ill let it be known.

-L

At 2/12/04 05:51 AM, -SQEEZY- wrote: why is punished one in the co-author list?
his movie isnt even in group A.
fix that please..

Youre right, i shall have s1nt3ch fix that.
Regis, got your file fine.
Az3r, got your file but as I told you in the email, you are sending me files with fonts still attached. break them up.

-L

This is group A which will be released in approximately 4-5 hours. If you see your name on this list make sure you add em to your portal buddies..

s1nt3ch
sqeezy
justjusty
draximillian
NumberClock

Group B I will announce tmrw. Dont think there will be a group C but if so I will anounce day after that.

well we will definately need to put file size limits on peoples FLA's next time this is getting rediculous... 10-20meg files from people on dialup.. it would make your fla's alot smaller if you resampled the audio portions on it to something like 56kps ..

-L

youre right. well since that part is still up in the air add me to your buddy lists. as groups become more and more defined i'll update you guys.

-L

We're nearing the deadline, i have a few more instructions.
If your file is LESS than 3 megs. e-mail it to me (email is in my profile)

If your file is MORE than 3 megs or you simply want to send it through AIM .. message me

If your file is MORE than 3 megs or you simply want to send it through MSN... add (benz55amg@hotmail.com) to your list.

That should cover all the bases.. it would be helpful if you put all your symbols into a folder with your name on it.

Oh one more thing.. dont include any preloaders or anything no need to.

Good Luck.

At 2/10/04 11:30 AM, s1nt3ch wrote: i believe in mx 2k4 you can save your fla as a flash mx one. Just go to save as and look for the option.Also What address will I send the link to or AIM? my username here is the same as my AIM.

Hey send me an IM tmrw and we can sort out all that stuff.

-L

well what you can do is try saving as.. flash 6 or whatever.. I do that in mx to work in flash 5.. you might be able to do the same in 2004.. i dont know for sure because i dont use 2004.

-L

Reminder:
-Name your symbols. (do not leave them as tween 1, tween 2, tween 3, etc,)

-Convert fonts to fills (ctrl B) or dont use any text to begin with.

-Use flash mx or below. We ran into alot of probs in NG TT 1 because someone had used MX2004. So PLEASE do not use MX2004. I've said this before but I'm sure theres someone out there who didnt listen to me.

At 2/10/04 05:03 AM, ecstasy122 wrote: I might as well quit, it lookin very sharp but the fla is 17 mb and will get bigger because of the 3d´im using. :(

Now why the heck would you choose to go that route when you are well aware that you have to stay within 1 meg. I mean cmon choose your battles for crying out loud.

-L

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please make sure you break up all your fonts into fills. <ctrl B>
Especially if you are using unusual or personal fonts.
Failing to do so will cause your work to not look like its supposed to and it wont be my fault.

-L

we can iron out all the send details on wed. just work on your stuff and meet back on wed.

actually the 1mb is for the swf. even though you are actually sending the fla.
The reason for this is, in order to squeeze 5 entries into one fla we have to make sure nobody hogs all the space with their flash so 1mb seems reasonable to me.
However having a large fla file makes it a headache to send so, it wouldnt hurt to have a small-medium fla file size either.

-L

pretty simple concept guys, no reason to have all this confusion. have a flash with a person getting up from bed the rest is up to you.. the end.

TOPIC:
you wake up from bed

Challenge: create a toon that starts out with the scenario presented. you can do anything, make any sort of twist or deviation.

Deadline: Wed 11:59 pm eastern time

Send entries to: Me, Mr_luis

Specs:
320x300
background color- white
20 fps
1 scene
1mb file size limit

Ive been flooded by instant messages from people a second ago.
There seems to be a NG TT #3 that popped up when #2 isnt even started. Disregard this. T0MMY was one of the people who was supposed to be in group B of NG TT 1 but he didnt get his work in on time and so i had him make a group C. however for some unknown reason he posted a thread somewhere stating that it was NG TT #3? which is impossible. If you missed out on NG TT #1 but still want to do it then turn it into tommy but if you want to work on the current and true NG TT then remain here.
I've also noticed theres people tryin to spin off of this idea.. no comment on that.
In the future if you hear it from me then assume its legitimate. if not then approach with caution.

-L

we'll figure something out.. the first time we did this there were like 12 people interested yet only 7 ended up making it to the end. if there does happen to be more than 10 and they are all great we'll just make a group c or something no big deal.

-L

well as ive said before. the challenge is given on monday and turned in wed.
So i you want to be in it, check in here on monday and turn your shit on wed.
Oh one more thing. you cant turn in your entry early you have to turn it in on wed.

-L

You'll turn in your stuff to me since im online like 24/7 almost and ill fix it up and put it in a nice package. I may sit out this next Time Trial challenge... depends how much client work i have to do next week.

ok enough of my blabbing.

-L

The universal specs for all NG time trials are the following:

20fps
white background color
final swf of less than 1 meg
*no multiple scenes
**no games
***movie size= ?

*people who made movies with alot of scenes made it a real headache to put it together into one fla. You have to keep in mind that I have to mix it in with everyone elses work. Its MUCH easier to only worry about one scene than 15.

**people who made games in NG TT 1 had a hard time getting it to work within the NG TT interface so rather than work so hard and not see it work on the real thing avoid creating games.

***the movie size will be different for each one to keep things fresh. It will be announced on monday.

Well considering that alot of people joined and dropped out last time or simply tried to turn it in a day late i thought that there would be no list this time. If someone wants to join they are welcome to .. all you need to do is turn your project in on Wed. and you'll be included. The project itself is limited to 10 entries, group a (5), group b (5). If there is more than 10 then those that turn it in after the 10th person miss out on it. I mean its a time trial for a reason. Besides there will be another time trial the week after so if you miss this one just wait till next week and try again.

-L

Let me make myself clear: DO NOT START ON ANYTHING UNTIL MONDAY

the beginning of the challenge will not be announced until then so if you start today youre wasting your time. simply mention possible ideas and on monday we'll randomly pick one or something

ok lets stick to sqeezy's create a beginning and you fill in the rest. we can announce a concept on Monday. the deadline will be Wed. so dont miss it. If you want to be in then simply have it done and turn it in on Wed. its that easy. If you were in the last one and want to do it again ok so do it again, its just for fun.

-L

I figure now is a good time to begin thinking about the next challenge. The main problem with the fist one was that it was easy for people to "cheat" and use prefabricated symbols or ideas.. so in an attempt to make it a real time trial here are the options:

-Everyone create an animation using an audio loop selected by a nonparticipant

-Create an animation around a random inanimate object selected by a nonparticipant

-<enter your idea here>

Challenge will be announced on monday so there are two days to decide what to do. The trial is limited to 10 people or less.

-L

ok well group A is up and running go check it out.

groupa

Group B will run tmrw probably