I just found my list of goals for 09 on my computer
12 animations and a game, I'm so on track for that...

hai

I figure if I sporadically pop in people might confuse me with someone important

hai peeps

At 5/19/09 10:42 AM, aidan-8500 wrote:

At 5/19/09 03:17 AM, NextToNothing wrote: I am SOOO sick of being right.. if you're going to trace a picture at least shade well...
overlayed the pictures set them to 50% opacity resized them using the ear on 2pac and the nostrils on marley...

I'll post the without overlays just to finish any debate

thanks for proving the werent traced with the over lays, cuz half the pics dont even line up, proving they were not traced

and even if they were they would look perfect, my pics arent perfect

There utterly traced even if you messed up/changed small pieces, it's clear you didn't spend the time necessary to sight size copy them just by the poor shading... anything that lines up that closely in every spot is more likely to be me inaccurately resizing than anything else. Own up to your mistake and it's a lot easier for people to forgive you.

as promised the without overlay... what sucks is that it looks like he put a lot of time into them could have been used to actually draw something even from reference but w/e

I am SOOO sick of being right.. if you're going to trace a picture at least shade well...
overlayed the pictures set them to 50% opacity resized them using the ear on 2pac and the nostrils on marley...

I'll post the without overlays just to finish any debate

At 5/15/09 07:33 PM, BoMToons wrote: The best site on the internet:

http://www.google.com/logos/fan.html

I wish they had stuck with the name backrub, I think "Idk give it a backrub" would make our society sound much more erotic than "idk google it"

I hate to say something but I'm pretty sure the head is huge... not sure if its deliberate but I'm only seeing roughly 6.5 heads which would put the figure under 5 feet tall if his head was of adult proportion (roughly 9 inches)
That might be deliberate or it might be the angle of the picture just wasn't sure if you were aware. Wish you weren't so far along if it wasn't deliberate
Looking quite good otherwise.

If you're hittesting duped mc's you're gonna need to put it in a forloop or you could be lazy and put the hittest in the thing being duped and make it if(this blah blah blah instead of _root.instancenameofthethingbeingduped

I've never actually been smart enough to know for sure but I bet having an onEnterFrame in all the dupes is a lot more processor intense than just using a for loop

At 3/23/09 09:05 PM, MichaelHurst wrote: Oh and another great part of it is...Yesterday it was 75 degrees. haha.

Those two statements are contradictory. Explain yourself >:(

You can also buy a gun at 18... apparently I have the maturity to own an item capable of killing others as well as myself, but not the maturity to limit my consumption of a beverage that has the abillity to kill me if way too much is ingested.

also

Stale Sanitizer #1, by NextToNothing Type: Movie Rating: Everyone

shameless plug cus I'm a bitch,,,

At 3/21/09 11:45 PM, x-factor11 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 7915
this game deserves achievements..

I'm glad I popped on just so I could see that. The music is epic.

I know its probably been asked a million times but how do you convert a .swf to dvd on a mac?
Need it for a summer app thing and I've never paid enough attention to the responses,
search bar isn't doing me any good since you need a search term of 4 characters and convert is bringing up tons of .swf to fla threads =\

At 2/19/09 09:10 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Had 3 midterms today.

God damn trick questions.

On discrete math, there was this problem about variance and independence and expected value. I kept getting -1/2 for the second part, but that wasn't a choice on the test.

As it turns out, after the test, I found out the question said "two-headed coin" not "two-sided coin"

And this professor never did trick questions like that before.

I feel so much more satisfied when I figure out trick questions that it balances out the annoyance I feel when I don't get them. But come on, the course is "discrete" math you gotta expect some cutty shit.

This one time me and gust and haXe got a hotel room and we.... nevermind

You lack the skill to charge for your services, well you can charge, but I really doubt anyone will do it.

You should buy a book on anatomy, glaring porportional errors are REALLY distracting even in non realistic drawings.

At 2/5/09 11:13 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 2/5/09 11:00 PM, NextToNothing wrote:

At 2/5/09 10:58 PM, K-Guare wrote: Reminds me of my elementary Safety-Patrol days.
It was the only cool way to be the teachers pet,
because they gave you a badge for it.

Damn, I was the fucking man. :3

Your cloud is in the wrong place. I do not approve.

and yours is the wrong size. I do not approve.

It was my sense of individuality from the original movement =(
also
yours has ears, I'm neutral on this issue.

At 2/5/09 10:58 PM, K-Guare wrote: Reminds me of my elementary Safety-Patrol days.
It was the only cool way to be the teachers pet,
because they gave you a badge for it.

Damn, I was the fucking man. :3

Your cloud is in the wrong place. I do not approve.

At 2/4/09 11:00 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

not if you change yours. Cloud sigs could use a comeback

Indeed then I wouldn't feel horribly out of date. =)

I'd throw in a few bucks if I thought the person deserved it.

But, I think it's a joke, and a hilarious one at that. Even if it's not I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

At 2/2/09 07:43 AM, Alpharius120 wrote:

My schools lucky enough so that the only time it will close is in -34 degree weather. Actually, never mind, we got a two hour delay for that once. It was -32 at the bus stop...

boohoo put on a sweater bitch.

I always thought hockey was silly I watch it and wonder what the point is. I get that you could do the same for every other sport but I don't get that feeling except while watching hockey. Also any pro sport that just takes a year off isn't a real sport.

not efficient at all but you can set up a variable to increase if your space key is down then have your actions take place if that variable is equal to 1, then just have a if space isn't down your variable is set to 0. That's the most straightforward way in my mind but definetly not the best way.

At 1/29/09 10:51 AM, SweetSkater wrote: I play online poker at fulltilt.
There are different strategies to use at low limit tables... I make the final 3 on a 9 player table 3/4 of the time. I suggest going to www.tournamentindicatorforum.com to learn how to play online... It is different to live play.

Dry Period
You need help

I played at full tilt for a while I went like +200 on a 50 input in a week or so, I final tabled 4 or 5 free rolls before that and won one. Online is totally different from real life, I find it way less enjoyable, we still play 10 buck buy in games occasionally but it's hard to get enough people to come for it to really be worth it and people get tired of losing money.

My motivation seems to come in a set amount, I can either be super motivated to draw, to animate, or to code, or some other thing that's useless like video games or T.V. If I had like 10 more hours in the day I might be able to focus on more than one thing but usually I get home eat then do something straight and that something usually changes every few weeks.
Best way I've found to get motivated is to get yourself into a routine, if you force yourself to work every day for a few hours after a few weeks it feels weird not doing it, I'm kinda a slave to routine in that sense =\.

Bridgeman's drawing from life and the practice and science of drawing are both really solid books, I'd redline but I don't think I'm really qualified, Also I think you're gonna want look more into porportions than anatomy.

Standard figure is 7.5-8 heads high 2 heads wide nipples are 1 head down, then roughly the navel then the crotch, then the next head is above the knee about a 1/3 of a head below that are the knees. You can prolly pick up loomis' life drawing for all its worth off the internet somewhere that's always a really good one.

At 1/27/09 12:41 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: Special Effects

Something I don't hear much about is special effects in flash animations. I was thinking, do artists prefer to manually make these effects? Or is there not much talk about it because it's not really a technique that's implemented?

explosions are one of the most fun things to animate, so hard to do wrong and so easy to fix when they do, lava and fire are the worst for me, fire's not to bad but making looping lava is actually driving me insane.

At 1/26/09 12:03 AM, ImpendingRiot wrote: Finally got around to watching Fargo, and I've decided the Coen brothers love to end their movies with some deep and thoughtful discussion between two people. At least that's how it is in No Country For Old Men and Burn After Reading, as well as Fargo.

Burn After Reading was one of the biggest disappointments of the year for me, and the people who think their part of an elitist group that "get it" made it even worse, as if it wasn't the most straightforward comedy ever. I'm part of the elitist group that not only got it but also thought it was stupid and kinda boring XP.

I haven't seen Fargo yet is it worth a rental?

At 1/25/09 04:21 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 1/25/09 03:37 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 1/25/09 02:48 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote:

I'm not quite sure, personalized advertisements and web-services based on data trail you leave behind on the interwubs is the next big thing though.

So basically I'm going to get nothing but porn ad's in the future =\
I suspect most men will suffer the same fate.

At 1/21/09 12:06 AM, Rudy wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/47 9629
Yayyyy. New week is up. Three weeks in a row, and haven't missed one yet ;)

I'm jealous of that dedication, I might join you if I get less lazy in trying to push something out once a week.

At 1/3/09 08:19 PM, Katzenjammer wrote: and another : )

Love everything here that one in particular the checkerboard just does something really neat, can't wait to see what more you put up

If you're majoring in graphic design the most important thing is that you make it look good (speaking on the radioactive barrel thing) which right now it doesn't. The birds kinda lack 3d form, they look pretty flat, on the woodpecker I wish you had captured the 7/8th's rather than drawn the head as a dead profile. Both birds are a little centered for my tastes, if there studies it's w/e but if their pieces I'd try to make the composition a little more interesting.
Not bad work so far.