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At 12/27/14 06:12 PM, TheMAM wrote:

At 12/27/14 02:39 PM, M-Abrantes wrote: Now in glorious fullscreen. Love it!

You can thank Swivel for that.

Looks great guys! I really like the flow this year MAM, you did a great job putting them together and getting them to "sync" with the music. Nice Touch!

At 12/25/14 04:15 PM, TheMAM wrote:

At 12/25/14 03:18 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote:

At 12/25/14 07:09 AM, M-Abrantes wrote: Wait.... where's @ReklessCreati0n 's entry?

What am I missing?

Oh crap.

Guys, make that tomorrow.

Need me to resend it or anything?

At 12/25/14 07:09 AM, M-Abrantes wrote: Wait.... where's @ReklessCreati0n 's entry?

What am I missing?

Updating to the New File, Releasing on YouTube tomorrow, if you would like the file so you can upload to your youtube page as well. Just PM me.

Will Release Information about A Girl in a Room III Shortly so we can start writing our parts. Just keep an eye out on my userpage for the theme details. ( Hinted at in the Updated File )

Feel Free to take some guesses :P

At 10/31/14 11:35 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Great job man! But can't we just release it this weekend (preferably tonight) and then update later? I'd like to suggest a different font for the credits while I'm at it. The audio sync doesn't look that bad by the way, except for maybe the credits. I doubt it'll affect the score though. Let's do it!

Oh, also... "contetnt" and "discresion". That's gonna need some fixing.

OH MY GOD! How many people have seen this and failed to point out that I failed at typing so hard! I will fix that for the edit. Holy Crap! >.< I'm Laughing at myself so hard right now, cause I stared at that screen for several minuets waiting for things to export/render.

Thanks Whirlguy for sending me back to the 5th grade.

So, I once again apologize about the late submission, I had really hoped it would be out last night, but I didn't get finished animating until like 2am. Then stayed up until 7am trying to get the thing submitted before I went to bed. Pulled a whole 24 hour day haha! I probably had it all put together at around 5am, but the rendering problem is what set me behind.

Who's ready for next years collab? :D

At 10/31/14 09:27 PM, M-Abrantes wrote:

At 10/31/14 02:53 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Stuff

I don't know about After Effects, but when I edit my animations in Vegas and export it in a .MOV file, the size is just insignificant and the quality is perfect. Just to give you guys an idea, a 10-minute animation I made had only 270mb.

(I've been following this topic since its creation. Can't wait to see the final product!)

Cool man, thanks for swinging by with that news, luckily I had found a video that walked me though a simple process that came out looking great and a small file size.

Hope you enjoy the finished version!

At 10/31/14 09:33 PM, Whirlguy wrote:

At 10/31/14 02:53 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: I have to go to work now, I'll try to figure it out when I get back in about 5 hours. Hopefully it's just a quick thing to figure out. In the mean time I'll send a copy of the larger file size to Tom to see if he can just push it though.

Don't think I can be of much help since I don't use After Effects. I found this on google though. Hope it works:
Link 1
Link 2

Let's get this thing in the portal man.

Done and Done!

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  A Girl In A Room II by ReklessCreati0n

  A Halloween 2014 Collaboration

  Type

  Movie Project

The Collab came out great everybody! Thank you all for participating!

Since I procrastinated on my part so long, I noticed some things that looked rushed in the final published version of my part, also I messed up the audio sync somehow. So I'll be getting those fixed up next week, feel free to take this opportunity to touch up any of your parts as needed. I'll edit the file here on NG and Release the Edited version next week on Youtube.

Touch-ups deadline - 11/4 (11:59PM ) Notice something that you want to fix? Clean it up over the weekend and I'll throw it in to the updated product.

Things I'll be fixing ( Editing )

Now that I'm more familiar with AE, ( slightly ) I'll try to do some nicer transitions and some extra spice.

- Transitions
- Credits
- Adding in a surprise

At 10/31/14 02:41 PM, Mrcoleman wrote: I wish I knew what the problem was but I don't use After Effects. :/

Yeah I just started using it myself. Basically what is happening is, when I export with decent quality (takes about 15 min to render) the file size comes out around 2gb +

IF I drop the quality (export using different compression) the file size is smaller, but the compression looks terrible. ( pixlated, wrong resolution, etc. )

I have to go to work now, I'll try to figure it out when I get back in about 5 hours. Hopefully it's just a quick thing to figure out. In the mean time I'll send a copy of the larger file size to Tom to see if he can just push it though.

Sorry about the delays tonight guys, I have been trying to export for the last several hours and can't seem to find a sweet spot on AE's rendering compression with Video Size ( Under 600mb ) and quality.

But the video is done, just a matter of waiting for Rendering times to get a good quality video. Anybody familiar with some good "Rendering Settings" for After Effects?

Sorry about the delays guys, I'm almost done, on the last scene now getting it all animated out. Will compile and upload before I go to bed.

One more Teaser before I head off to Class for a bit. Will have some more updates for you guys in a few hours. Catch you all then!

Took me a while to figure out what I wanted, but I've got the color pallet down for my Alien and have made quite a bit of progress in the animation.

I'll probably end up spending more time towards the end on his animation to add to the scare. Won't spend 'too' much time though. :D

At 10/30/14 09:58 AM, Whirlguy wrote: I realize it's a bit late to throw that out there now.

That reminds me, I actually maybe wanted to add something to the start of my video, but I chose against it because it had to start with the girl in the room. My alternative version would be to start with a wall of screens in a different unrecognizable room. All of those uncountable screens show the same girl within the same white room. My video would then zoom in on one of them and eventually play into my contribution.

My voice actress this time was headphoamz.

Thank you, and I've been thinking about the transitions a bit as well, I sort of liked how you had started your video, gave me a very classic feeling too it. If you wanted to make a quick transition for your part. I will be working on finishing up my video today ( inbetween school/homework ) and should be finished shortly. I'll be shooting for a release for tonight, if were able to make that scene you wanted before I finish up tonight, just let me know.

Almost Finished!

I've fully animated the Girl and the Robots, only thing left is the Alien himself. I will get the rest finished up tomorrow, put it all together and get it uploaded.

Final List Of Submissions

- Content Warning
- Intro : ReklessCreati0n ( done ) [ Credit Editing ]
- Part 1: Mrcoleman ( done )
- Part 2: Whirlguy ( done )
- Part 3: BazookaBonsai ( done )
- Part 4: ReklessCreati0n ( 85% )
- Part 5: FourCigarettes ( done )
- Credits: snickity /ReklessCreati0n ( done ) [ Text to be added ]

Please reply, with any Voice Actors and Newgrounds Music submission, you used in your piece. ( Even if you have messaged me with them )

At 10/29/14 09:45 AM, Whirlguy wrote:

At 10/29/14 04:12 AM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Me too, I'm sorry that I'm the one everybody is waiting for now lol. Will be uploaded by the 30th for sure!

More Teasers

Awesome, I can't wait! I'm sure you're too busy to respond to my PM's right now. You did catch my update though, didn't you? The one where the perspective was off? I did a quick fix on it. They're still the same links if you missed it.

Oh crap, yeah I did see that PM, looked much better. Thought I had already replied to that one.

At 10/29/14 03:44 AM, Mrcoleman wrote:

At 10/29/14 01:10 AM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Ooooh, that's what those symbols mean :P great job man, looks awesome! Your voice actress did very well with her role, and great writing too.

Been working today on my part. Made quite a bit of progress, here's a teaser.

Haha, thanks.Your teaser is great I can't wait until this gets uploaded!

Me too, I'm sorry that I'm the one everybody is waiting for now lol. Will be uploaded by the 30th for sure!

More Teasers

At 10/29/14 12:23 AM, Mrcoleman wrote: Alright, I'm done! I'll be sending you my part in a few minutes!

Ooooh, that's what those symbols mean :P great job man, looks awesome! Your voice actress did very well with her role, and great writing too.

At 10/28/14 09:52 AM, Whirlguy wrote:

At 10/27/14 07:47 PM, Mrcoleman wrote: I'm on my last scene so I'll be done very soon. If not tonight definitely tomorrow.

Looking great! I've been wondering what's up with that symbol on the wall for some time now. Guess I'll find out soon :)

mwhahahahaha

Been working today on my part. Made quite a bit of progress, here's a teaser.

At 10/28/14 10:43 PM, Mrcoleman wrote: Ok, After I add background music in my part and export it as an mp4 file I'll send it to you. Toon Boom just has a long export time. Hopefully I can make it in time.

No worry man, I've been animating my part all day. Been making a lot of progress and I think it looks pretty good too. :D

Slow start, but I've got my color palette figured out, so it should be smooth sailing from here. Hopefully I'll be done with a big part ( if not all ) by tomorrow night.

At 10/27/14 07:47 PM, Mrcoleman wrote:

At 10/27/14 03:09 PM, Oh-Sama wrote: Crap, I got sick in the last moments! I wasn't expecting to get the flu yesterday. So I'm sorry for dropping out. Maybe next year I could help you guys. But truly I did some good progress on my part and I'm so sad of not being able to complete it. Hopefully, when I recover few days later I will finish it and post it so that you can enjoy it. Again I'm so sorry for letting you down, it was beyond me :(

Sorry to hear that and I hope you feel better.

This is my first time ever incorporating sound with flash and I'm completely lost there lol. I usually use Sony vegas for my editing. So, my question is if the fla. file our only option for exporting or can we send mp4, mov, or something else? If it's flash only I'll try to look up a quick tutorial and go through a crash course on adding sound in flash haha. As for my part, I'm on my last scene so I'll be done very soon. If not tonight definitely tomorrow.

.swf or .mp4 are acceptable submission formats.

Adding sound to flash is easy, just drag and drop your sound into your library, then on the frame you want your audio to start you'll look at the "properties" window and it'll say "Sound" just select the sound file that you imported, then change "event" to "stream" to sync up your animation.

My way of doing it-

Make the audio file in Audacity, import voice files, then sort them accordingly. Add sound effects and music, and voila' I have a sound file to animate over. If I need to make any changes, I just update my sound file and re-export/import.

At 10/27/14 06:47 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Automation helps with the simulated room acoustics and all that. Maybe I'm overdoing it, but whatever hehe.

I'll be keeping the animation a surprise until release though.

I'll do the same. Speaking of which... I finished it just now! I'll PM you soon.

I agree with the simulated room acoustics, I'll have to try putting something together in FL Studio sometime to give it a shot. Better mastering options as well. ADD HARDCORE FILTER TO EVERYTHING! lol. I tend to use .mp3 files, but if wav files work better, I may have to look into it.

Sweet glad to hear you've finished. I haven't watched it just yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

At 10/27/14 04:26 PM, Whirlguy wrote:

At 10/27/14 03:09 PM, Oh-Sama wrote: Crap, I got sick in the last moments! I wasn't expecting to get the flu yesterday. So I'm sorry for dropping out...

Aw man, what a letdown! I really like what I'm seeing here... Get well soon man.

Hope you get better Oh-Sama, hopefully you can get it finished up with the extension, so rest up and hopefully you'll be feeling better tomorrow.

At 10/27/14 11:30 AM, Whirlguy wrote:

Good to know. I'll be aiming for today though. There's only a couple of things left to do for me. Working on the audio right now.

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Cool sounds great dude, looking forward to seeing your part come together. Btw, I use FLStudio to make my sounds then use Audacity to put them all together, I found that FL Studio exports don't want to work with Flash very well, but if you take the file and throw it in Audacity, then export works fine.. I think it's probably the bitrate.

I just got home from work myself, So i'll be working on my part ALL night, and the next 2 days are off. So I'll be posting some update images as I work through them. I'll be keeping the animation a surprise until release though.

At 10/26/14 01:57 AM, ReaperSound wrote: ReklessCreati0n you can bet the farm I will be a part of next year's collab. Seeing the finished intro made me tear up seeing my name. I feel so horrible I can't be part of this...

Yeah dude for sure, if all goes as plan then we should be doing this again next year, feel free to start planning out ideas for your parts. I'll try to figure out an idea after this one is done for next year's theme.

At 10/25/14 05:14 PM, FourCigarettes wrote: I'm 9 seconds of action away from completion, excuse the lack of activity within this thread. My part should be finished either tomorrow or the day after, definitely before the 28th.

A WIP of the final sequence (the woman will be redesigned for the final product):

Oh?! sweet dude! I didn't even realize you were still working on your part. Glad to hear it though, I've added you to the new List.

At 10/25/14 01:21 PM, Whirlguy wrote:

We are 4 Days away from the Deadline, and 7 Days away from Halloween.

Nice! So about the specifics of this deadline, is the 27th the last day for us to submit our work before 12:00 PM? Or is our last day the 26th, and the 27th would be overdue?

27th by 11:59PM ( PST ) But I probably won't be finished with my part (space), let alone getting things put together by the 28th/29th. So if you guys that are working on your parts and have shown a lot of progress, if you need a bit more time to work on your parts to get them crisp and polished by the 28th. ( 11:59PM (PST) ) So we can shoot for a 29/30th Release Date.

Luckily I'm decently fast at animating and most of the framework is set in place already, so my part should get done by the 28th. Giving me time to work on extra bits for the credits, and adding in some after effects ( using Adobe After Effects ). heh'.

ahem

The List!

-UPDATES-

Members

- Content Warning
- Intro : ReklessCreati0n ( done ) [ Credit Editing ]
- Part 1: Mrcoleman
- Part 2: Whirlguy
- Part 3: BazookaBonsai ( done )
- Part 4: ReklessCreati0n
- Part 5: FourCigarettes
- Part 6: Oh-Sama
- Credits: snickity /ReklessCreati0n ( done ) [ Text to be added ]

Pending Members/ Members that Haven't been active; Please reply if you're still interested

sweetyluli ( posted updates on Oct 6th )

RubberPanda
yetanotherjohn
VaguelyWonderful
ImaFreekozoid
CausticHarmony
RobertTaylor

TL;DR : Updated list, various replies, Deadline is Oct. 27th (11:59PM[PST]), Release should be Oct. 30th*.

*or sooner

At 10/23/14 06:00 AM, Oh-Sama wrote:

At 10/21/14 10:56 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Another Background Finished Up

But I can still send you the FLA file if you would like to.
I hope that you're OK with the MP4 format and that I can catch up on you on time.

MP4 works just fine Sama, hope you're able to get it done in time.

At 10/23/14 08:25 PM, Mrcoleman wrote: I'm almost done. Only 10 camera shots remain.

Looking great Mrcoleman!

At 10/24/14 10:29 AM, ReaperSound wrote: I regret deeply to inform that I will be dropping from the collab. I'm sorry truly I am for this. I thank you for the opportunity and the time that you have given. I've seen all the examples and works that everyone here has put and I know will be an amazing collaboration when it's put together. Good luck to you all and again thank you.

Sorry to lose yah ReaperSound, maybe next year man.

At 10/24/14 01:14 PM, SailorSilverStar wrote:

At 10/22/14 10:05 PM, SailorSilverStar wrote: This collab can not be done fast enough!!! ><

Congrats on getting that microphone you wanted!

Thank you I just got it!!! I'm on such a high right now lol

Awesome, congrats on your new microphone!

-UPDATES-

Members
- Content Warning
- Intro : ReklessCreati0n ( done ) [ Credit Editing ]
- Part 1: Mrcoleman
- Part 2: Whirlguy
- Part 3: BazookaBonsai ( done )
- Part 4: ReklessCreati0n
- Part 5: Oh-Sama

- Credits: snickity /ReklessCreati0n ( done ) [ Text to be added ]

Pending Members/ Members that Haven't been active; Please reply if you're still interested

sweetyluli ( posted updates on Oct 6th )

RubberPanda
yetanotherjohn
VaguelyWonderful
ImaFreekozoid
CausticHarmony
RobertTaylor

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We are 4 Days away from the Deadline, and 7 Days away from Halloween.

(posted the background without the sketches in the way)

At 10/22/14 06:15 PM, SailorSilverStar wrote:

At 10/21/14 10:56 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote:
Another Background Finished Up

-SQUEE- LOOKS SO COOL!!!!

Another!

At 10/21/14 08:40 PM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Working on the Backgrounds in photoshop, figured I'd try something new this year.

Another Background Finished Up

Working on the Backgrounds in photoshop, figured I'd try something new this year.

At 10/17/14 07:04 AM, BazookaBonsai wrote: Pretty good. I like the alien design and the voice acting is very fitting.
Perhaps make the alien shut her mouth like they did here. Preferably over time. For example, her mouth shrinks together more and more the more she tries to speak.

Funny that this is actually the effect that I was planning on doing, it just doesn't look right when it's sketched out. Her mouth is nearly sealed together.

A small question: I suspect there isn't any transition clip yet to keep the different collab works apart (like in the first installment).
Is it in the making on should we create our own transitions?

I won't be doing a 'seamless' transition like last year, but i'll be making the transition clips for the parts when they are put together.

At 10/16/14 06:58 PM, Mrcoleman wrote: Edit: False alarm, I just reached 1 minute lmao. I'm not used to working with 24 frames per second so I mistook 1440 frames as 2 minutes when its actually 1 minute. Gah, I'm so slow lol!

Lol, all good man, the 2 minuet thing is adjustable depending the parts. Looks like we'll have time to spare in the final piece.

Here's an update on my part. Almost done with the storyboard ( animatic ), afterwards I'll be working on the final animation. Shouldn't take me very long since I've nearly animated everything already, just gotta draw over lol.

Feedback?

At 10/15/14 01:39 PM, Mrcoleman wrote: Oh! About the voice actors, do you want us to give you their name for the credits or to have them make a newgrounds account for credit. I don't know why I waited until now to bring this up, haha.

However they prefer, I can use real names too, up to you guys.

At 10/15/14 02:49 AM, ReklessCreati0n wrote: Did a bit of work on my part tonight. Getting the storyboard down solid with some animation. Here's a teaser image.

fixed image.