Yeah Rei's alive. I hang out with the dude almost everyday. We live in the same building. [sarcasm]Did I mention how we're working on LQFA 3 too? [/sarcasm] haha But we are working on LQFA 3 again though.

Hey. If you've been passing by the BlueWolfStudio site you'll notice that there will be NEW SCREEN SHOTS of LQFA 3 in a couple of weeks.

The end of this year was an estimate. We're sure it won't be out this year. I can't even say that it'll be out next year either just incase haha. But I could say this... it will be out soon. Go to the site if you want to stay updated. We update progress on the movie and site related things every Tuesday if possible.

www.bluewolfstudios.net

If you want up to date info about LQFA or any LQFA related things just hit up the site.

http://www.pitchblue.tk/

Join the forums and get to talk about the movie and such. Don't get attached to the current site/forum since it'll be totally made over soon. Once again...

LQFA 3 WILL be RELEASED! Just I won't release the date yet. <3

On behalf of BlueWolf Studios (Merger with StalkingWolf productions and Pitch Blue Productions) You don't need to worry anymore. LQFA 3 and the new Blue Wolf Studios site are in the works.

Just wanted to let you guys know. Thanks for the support and much love to all of you <3

-Rafael

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=204140

I'm glad to see that you agree with me. I thought Tom really liked his work with Pico. When he started talking about making a console game I thought he was going to make Pico.

If you guys like this idea help me get this to Tom by e-mailing him a link to this thread.

I'm hardly on this site now due to work and so forth. I just want to know if there's any news that Tom might make Pico or the concept of Pico 2 for a console version.

I'm thinking it this way. Get the story of Pico 1 and mesh it with Pico 2 (with whatever Tom has writen for it) and create a console version of it. Since he did the same with Alien Hominid I think he should do the same with Pico. AH is fun and all but I would have prefered Pico over AH as a console game. What do you guys think?

Tom if you or Wade read this could you shine some light on this? Would you think about making Pico your second console project?

Let's ban anal peircings.

I'm being sarcastic of course. Anyone who has any anal peircings should be banned as well.

wadeplzban

At 8/6/03 03:28 AM, rsdig wrote: Shameless plug as usual! Check out my newest (and in my opinion best) movie!
RISE OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM

Saw it when you just uploaded it about 30minutes ago. Awsome work. The best work on Mario Sprites I've seen on NGs. Nice work on the layering as well.

Meh...

HAHAHAHA!

Don't forget Fidel Man :D {{{{{ALL}}}}}}

At 2/22/03 09:22 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Let me clear up some things for some people. :)

As far as pop ups we hope to stop most of them. We still might have some here and there, but overall they will be scarace. However, if we can't generate enough money with the banners, we might have to occasionally run pop ups. However, we would do our best to set the popups up so visitors would only see 1 popup a day, or once every 6-12 hours or something. This wouldn't be bad. We hope to never return to the days of pop ups with every page view.

As far as bandwidth and what it is. Bandwidth is how much data you transfer. So crappy movies on NG that no one watches don't use any bandwidth, they just take up HD space which we have plenty of at the moment.

As far as users suggesting things on the BBS or users having to watch movies before voting using more bandwidth, it doesn't really. You have to think of things in perspective. We've been doing like 1.1 million submissions views a day. If we get 200 new entries and they are all watched 100 times that's only 20,000 views! That's nothing! The bulk of the views come from the movies on the front page which can get anywhere from 10,000 to 60,000 views a day, each! So 1 movie on the front page could get way more views than all the new portal submissions coming in. Then after the front page the most viewed things are in the games, toons, and genres and series sections.

As far as the BBS it hardly uses any bandwidth. It's more database intensive if anything, but our database is running very well lately. Rarely do I see the old "NG under extreme load" errors. In the past we had enough bandwidth but not enough server power. Now we have enough server power and not enough bandwidth. If you do get error messages it is probably because there is an error or problem with one of our servers from a bad script, not over use.

Again, we do not host NG out of our house. It is hosted out of a professional hosting facility in NYC.

However, if contributers optimize their Flash files better it will help with the bandwidth.

We will be working on a page on optimization tips.

For starters always import your sounds and music as .WAV files! Get a MP3 to WAV conversion program. A typical 3MB MP3 will covert to a 30MB .WAV. Now you say "That's bigger! WTF!" Well, when you export to a .swf from your .fla Flash can't recompress an imported MP3. A 3MB MP3 exports as a 3MB MP3, probably at 128kbps or whatever they are. If you import a .WAV file Flash can compress that bitch down to 24-32kbps. Sure it's not CD quality, but if you watch my bumble bee movie I compressed a pretty long MP3 down to 32kbps and it sounds good to me and the file size is like 500k for the whole movie! The other option would be to compress the MP3's down to 24-32kbps before importing them into Flash. I find it's easier to just import a .WAV and let Flash compress it.

Then as far as images go, if you import a high quality JPG at 1280x960 pixels that's 500k or something, it will export at 500k. If you import a .BMP Flash can compress it into a heavier JPG. What I do is make my images as small as I can pixel wise (If my movie size is 550x400 and the image is only half the size of the screen I could make it 275x200 pixels, or whatever), and then compress them as much as I can without making them look to artifacted (grainy). So after all this most of my images would be 10-30k.

Then try not to make more keyframes than you need. Set your audio to STREAM if you are syncing animation to it. Also be sure to make everything symbols, etc.

Also when you import music if you can get away with using a loop rather than a whole song this will greatly reduce your file size. Hope this helps.

Well when i was with Ritual Famine when he was working on his movie he did do that with the sound and pics. When I made Fidelman for the movie I made Fidel as small as I can so when he put's it in the movie he'll just strech it out. Ritual Famine tried his best in making the movie small, and yes we did just get song clips instead of the full song. And it's really kool how you tell people this, it let's others know. I remember way back when i did my shitty Megaman Tribute series you told me (over an e-mail) that once i've optimized my movies you'd put them in the VG section, and you told me how to optimize them and etc. Thanx Wade. :) Also Ritual Famine and I really want to know when the multi author submit option will be up.

{{{{{{{{Wade}}}}}}}}}}

I don't have that much.

Voting Power: +6.51%

I have only 8% in b/p points the above power that you see is everything added up.

At 2/19/03 08:33 PM, A1ias wrote: textaloud mp3

Yeah i like that program. I use it with some of my movies.

At 2/19/03 05:12 PM, WadeFulp wrote:

At 2/19/03 05:08 PM, Keyser_Soze wrote: They made a fourth Toxic Avenger? WTF?!

HAHA! That's too great. He looks very FEMME in that pic, though.

Citizen Toxie... LO-Fucking-L

Hah, I took that picture of Tom a couple years ago. Maybe 3-4 years ago.

HAHA! The turtle neck he's wearing is funny.

You think you can put the clip of Tom poking out his eyes and put it in a flash movie so we can check it out :)

I think Tactics might be stolen.

When I saw this I laughed my ass off. I didn't know Tom was in a movie.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Fulp,+Tom

At 2/17/03 05:22 AM, aherdofgoats wrote:

At 2/17/03 04:07 AM, Mini3D wrote: I'm really glad you liked that part. I gave him the idea for the dog to explode :)

the whole thing with the dog was great.
Extreme random stupidness is the best type of humor

I think so too, but not to much of it. Just like all things, too much of one thing is not good. I'm glad you liked the dog part :D

At 2/17/03 02:25 AM, aherdofgoats wrote: Best parts
-When the dog is humping the dog, runs off, comes back, humps it, and it eplodes

I'm really glad you liked that part. I gave him the idea for the dog to explode :)

Hey Wade will the multi-author option be next to be released?

That's the same feeling I had when I submitted Street Spirit (fade out). I really wanted someone to post something like this in the front page sometime and thank god you did it. I too am being turned off on wanting to post anything on NGs, but I'm still going to. I like making my movies, and no matter how many morons say "I loved it but it had no hentai/FF/NUDITY so gave you a 0 BLAM!!" I won't quit. :D

I look at the score of my movie and i wonder why I didn't get at least 5th or 4th. Oh well, congrats to the marble game, it's kinda fun.

If you guys have your own movies you can fix the ratings for your movies by going to your Sign-in menu and selecting "Your Portal Submission" so you can edit the rating. Enjoy.

Well i have a couple of movies with audible explicit language yet it says it doesn't :p

Done :)

Hey Tom that isn't the only problem on the site. Now if you search for an author an error will come out and nothing will come out. It'll still tell you how many results you got but it doesn't show the results.

Ok this is the last time i'll post this.

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Ok let me end this endless amount of argueing to a complete stop. I will now answer all the thoughts that you "STEREOTYPICALLY" insert in your mind.

1. StrawberryClock is not are "GOD"... he's not even a janitor to us, he's just a mascot. Just like the Eagle is the mascot of the U.S. Do you see people saying "Screw the U.S. i hate eagles they should all die."

2. Clocks don't have a leader! We're all indevidules (sorry for the spelling) and we express ourselves in are or own way.

3. We do not target any movie, group of people, certain user, or any thing like that. The Ki1o this is all a joke.

4. We don't hate anyone and we wouldn't hate you, in fact i don't hate you at all i think your just REALLY misunderstood.

In conclusion i'd like to let you know, it's best just to stop this W.A.C. group because it won't do much of an effect because most clock haters become clocks themselves (i know because i used to be anti-clock as well). This is your chance just to drop this and we can all be in peace. If you decide to stop this group i'll forgive you and offer truce. You do know Clocks can help you with your flash work or answer questions to things you'd like to know about flash. And if you just continue with W.A.C. i'll just stop trying to knock some sense into you and let you stay in your little world of blind hate.

It's up to you.

:Mini3DdoritosClock Puts out hand:

{{{{{{{{{BiologicalClock}}}}}}}}}}}

We Run Newgrounds. Welcome.

Ok let me end this endless amount of argueing to a complete stop. I will now answer all the thoughts that you "STEREOTYPICALLY" insert in your mind.

1. StrawberryClock is not are "GOD"... he's not even a janitor to us, he's just a mascot. Just like the Eagle is the mascot of the U.S. Do you see people saying "Screw the U.S. i hate eagles they should all die."

2. Clocks don't have a leader! We're all indevidules (sorry for the spelling) and we express ourselves in are or own way.

3. We do not target any movie, group of people, certain user, or any thing like that. The Ki1o this is all a joke.

4. We don't hate anyone and we wouldn't hate you, in fact i don't hate you at all i think your just REALLY misunderstood.

In conclusion i'd like to let you know, it's best just to stop this W.A.C. group because it won't do much of an effect because most clock haters become clocks themselves (i know because i used to be anti-clock as well). This is your chance just to drop this and we can all be in peace. If you decide to stop this group i'll forgive you and offer truce. You do know Clocks can help you with your flash work or answer questions to things you'd like to know about flash. And if you just continue with W.A.C. i'll just stop trying to knock some sense into you and let you stay in your little world of blind hate.

It's up to you.

:Mini3DdoritosClock Puts out hand: