At 10/21/09 11:29 AM, JoeTheToucan wrote: Aw, what, no artist fun fact anymore?

Yea itll be there ... just wasnt shown on that mock-up.

Its not like Rolling Stones 150 best albums of all time have ever coincided with what i considered to be the greatest albums. So ya. Live with it.

At 10/23/09 11:14 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 10/23/09 09:16 AM, Luis wrote: It would be fucking boring if that top 50 list never changed.

Never has there been a more true statement spoken. This is one of the reasons that I constantly vote waterlollies down and vote up other flash of Adam Phillips' I'm a particular fan of Bitey, as that one broke new ground in my view, where Waterlollies hasn't really done that much more

Well my only caveat in even my own statement is that yes let us not forget that we have a young audience in the portal voting stuff up or down. There will always be zero bombers and hardcore upvoter fanboys. Thats just the personality of the portal. Its a portal that is unforgiving and down right unfair sometimes. But its a portal we learn to love even in all its imperfections and immature audience.

I think that if you truly think Waterlollies is the best of all time you should just classify it as such in your userpage. Where you are in control :)

At 10/23/09 09:05 AM, hdxmike wrote: The NG voting system is a bitch , most people have no taste.

Yes waterlollies is old but you would be hard pressed to find anything better .

Its a shame really because NG should be advertised as a great place for aspiring artists and inspire them to do great blockbuster flash work , instead... pixel shrooms . *sigh*

It would be fucking boring if that top 50 list never changed.

The label 'best of all time' is a misnomer. Its just an algorhythm / mathematical aggregation of highly rated movies. Its not some high respected film critic or something. Movies naturally degrade over time. Waterlollies is many years old now. That doesnt discredit it as not being a quality film. Just simply that in the way that that top 50 list is setup, movies/games naturally degrade over time (their scores anyway). That actually is what is inspiring for artists. The fact that you cant just make a waterlollies and just sit on your ass expecting to be number 1 forever. Adam is working on his next installment. People are working on their own quality projects and to have the top 50 be a flexible list thats 'alive' is more motivating then seeing the same movies there for 50 years.

At 10/23/09 09:00 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 10/23/09 08:58 AM, Luis wrote: That it sets a bad example to young people walking by.

If they see you smoking, they might think it's okay to take drugs and joyride! You're an awful influence Luis!

One of these days I'm going to be smoking out there and naked. I can only hope you guys make a thread for me.

Im reporting this thread to tom. He has been depressed lately

that guy lives in my general neighborhood. I am frankly not suprised by it. We have a really old straight-laced community of white people that are very homey and old-fashioned, soccer moms and such. I remember being 'nicely' asked if it would be too much of an inconvenience for me to smoke in my back yard rather than at the doorstep of my house. That it sets a bad example to young people walking by.

Be sure to visit JohnnyUtah's they have a mechanical bull! Look at em titties bounce

how hard could the streets of england possibly be is my only question?

At 10/20/09 10:31 PM, M-Vero wrote: Will there be an announcer like last year?

Yes there will be an announcer. I havent figured out who yet. I'd like to try someone new. Sorry swainnn

I heard the NG Chat would be running briefly while the rest of the site is down for maintenence.

So youll be able to chat while the beloved forums are down

Most of you will be at school tho so.

At 10/15/09 10:30 PM, Rhunyc wrote: I assume it won't be till after it's released??

I will probably make those available a week or so before the actual sketchbook tour is released, so that people can see it alongside your other artwork in your userpage/art portal

I dont have any travel plans for a month so I'm going to really work on this. FOR REAL.

Heres an update. wip. Theres still some stuff i may want to move around, dunno yet. Might tweak the color palette some. On my laptop it looks great, but on my desktop the color on that monitor looks more saturated and thus maybe too subtle.

My main focus this year is cleaning out fluff. I really want less focus on what 'other' works the artist has done and more emphasis on the piece you are looking at. Detail views and such.

london is pretty great.

cool a collab he'll never see

At 10/15/09 01:30 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 10/15/09 01:12 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: we still can if you really want to

who goes in the middle? How tall are you? I'm taller than Luis so I can't go on the middle.

I think the only persons im actually taller than are Cally and DanPaladin lmao. oh and liljim but thats expected.

At 10/15/09 12:29 PM, ElDavid wrote: ¿Any news on how the Sketchbook is coming along?
October is half gone and I haven't heard anything about it.

Also, if you were to buy a dslr camera, would you be more interested in its megapixel count or the fps count?

Its comin along ;)

there, update.

As for advice, i agree with what other people have said, it would be good to show the bottom of his shoe as he transfers, you see that its apparent in Richard Williams' example as well. I think that frame really sells it.

I scanned this page from Sir Richard Williams' animator's survival kit. Thought you might find it useful.

(The cut off frame on the right is just a repeat of the first one. )

At 10/15/09 01:31 PM, Xeptic wrote: Heh that sucks. 2Games just being the sponsor I suppose he couldn't know (talked to the guy a couple of times, he's also the guy behind Bubblebox.com and a Flash developer himself). Any idea who the real author is?

Well its blammed now for some reason... he must have removed it.
meh. removed the post, no point in linking to a broken link.

At 10/15/09 12:22 PM, citricsquid wrote: me, bbm and Luis. low key indeed.

theres a few others .. they just dont do the facebook thing :P

also, sorry for bumping this old topic. I just dont want to make a new topic cause i dont want people to figure its some glamorous event like the meets in August.

At 10/15/09 11:40 AM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote:

Let's have none of that here - this isn't a mod meat, you know :P

Did you just misspell "Mod Meet" on purpose for it to say "meat?" Because if you did then it will hopefully be a nice meating for all of you.

Mod meat has always been spelled like that

At 10/14/09 06:46 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: It's cool. If needs be I have no objections to getting a room in a youth hostel somewhere for cheap. I can probs find a bed for £20/night or whatever. Although I'd prefer to snuggle up with you.

It should be fine, it seems like itll be a very low key event for a change. Most of the kids are in school now. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

i think pretty much ProfessorFlash summed up the thread.

Different people have different views on what makes something 'great'.

This is a question that will never really be answered. I dont know why people get bent out of shape about someone else feeling like it IS the greatest and someone feeling like it is not.

You need to spend money to make money...
Being entrepreneurial takes risks. the idea is to take calculated ones.

At 10/14/09 02:42 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 10/14/09 01:19 PM, citricsquid wrote: okay holyfuck I actually did it, ordered my tickets! See you there, guiez.

hahaha yeah right you'll cop out you feg

anyway

i'll be there the whole thing. I have fridays off this semester. :D

we gonna be sorting out all our own accomodation this time or wat?

I'll see... i dont mind having people crash with me as long as it doesnt get outta control... im not doing multiple hotel rooms or any of that shit. This isnt really an official meet. its just me celebrating thanksgiving and americas invasion of native american land by invading you alls land.

Happy birthday bob

I didnt bother to see if you guys already made this thread so delete this if so. thnx.

At 10/14/09 11:22 AM, 36Holla wrote: Purple nurple :P

At first I didn't realize that the two sides were half of a picture, and thought that there were two standalone monster like figures. The right half by itself looks kind of like a Big Daddy from Bioshock with the shoulder pad being the giant head.

Yea i thought it was a big daddy pico also. I wanted the little nene around there somewhereeee

o sweet gagsy is comin.

So after a few hours of being on the phone with Virgin Atlantic, i will lose a ton of frequent flyer miles if i dont use them by the end of the year. I've been flying with United for awhile, and i forgot i had flown a bunch of people on Virgin back in january.

Long story short, im coming over next month.... again.

I dont want to make it an 'official' meet. maybe not even a new thread.... but just whoever happens to be around, cool. I'll be around, weekend of Nov 27