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Why not the important staff members? By that I mean everyone other than Jeff, who knows what that guy really does.

I guess Charlie earned his unicorn wings this year? Yotam's work is NECESSARY, and on the note of author appearances I would suggest Luis in his cartoon form. God knows he's been here long enough doing absolutely nothing that he needs an honorable mention of some kind. Plus he's probably gonna be there in San Diego this year to frown at you if you don't.

Also, whoever said Housemaster is correct. Need more Housemaster.

From the description on the site, it looks like you'd have to be desperate to use the regular Bamboo for anything but writing. The Bamboo Fun is the better choice for artistry between the two.

I don't think anyone is watching me, I have my door closed and curtains down, LIKE A TERRORIST

Gotta lock this, but I thought I'd reply first <3

Happy birthday Newgrounds, I got you some whiskey! And by that, I mean I'm going to go have some whiskey.

At 7/3/08 07:05 AM, TomFulp wrote: Tomorrow we're gonna try to SAVE A LIFE so stay tuned.

It's gonna take more than $100 to cure AIDS you son of a gun

At 7/2/08 02:55 AM, Ositoozy wrote:

At 7/1/08 08:39 PM, kid-dude wrote: Don't forget to make a child sacrifice to the Fulp before you run it to gaurentee it will work, but of course that goes without saying lol.

And one must jump 3 times and say Beetle juice.

Cant believe u forgot to tell him that part :P

If you TELL him to say Beetlejuice, it won't work. Gosh didn't you see the movie :(

I know this doesn't help you very much or at all, but when learning to code in any language, it's better to figure out the concepts first and then learn the code that will help you to accomplish it. Asking people how to help your game to function will be a long but fruitless task.

For example, in this case think of it conceptually. Player position has an X position, and the enemy has an X position. The enemy needs to make their X position get closer to the player's X position over time. If you can picture the math and the concept, you'll be fine. To me it sounds like you're asking for help both with concept and with the code itself, and that's no good for anyone.

At 7/2/08 03:32 AM, UN32 wrote:

At 7/2/08 03:17 AM, The-Swain wrote: Is this the written speech from Out of this World, or Star Wars?

No. I don't know what you are talking about. I want feedback more like pros and cons of the design, not so much arbitrary questions that don't relate.

Until you specified just now the kind of feedback you were looking for, the topic itself was arbitrary. Just a friendly note for the future.

My personal and hopefully helpful opinion is that the first character is extremely busy compared to the others, almost like the pixelation of the character is much smaller than its fellows. To me it feels out of place, but if it's paired with others that are as comparatively busy as it is, I don't think it would stand out so much and could possibly stand its own ground.

Tell us more what this is for and you'll get some better feedback, I'm wagering. If you're lucky you'll get Luis responding to this topic; he's a font fetishist.

np, you'll find that designing a proper and balanced pose will amount for much more in your finished work. A crap character on a beautiful pose at an ambitious angle can really set you apart as an artist, if that's your goal ;)

At 7/2/08 03:24 AM, Swanwig wrote:

At 7/2/08 03:22 AM, The-Swain wrote:

At 7/1/08 07:56 AM, Swanwig wrote: Now here's a hastily drawn knight-guy.

What is wrong with his pose?
I know there's SOMETHING wrong but I can't pick it, it's like it's a bit distorted or something.

So, Art forum, WHAT IS WRONG with his anatomy?

The problem is that one leg is longer than the other for no reason. If one leg extends out, the other needs to be bent at the knee. Also, less rule-oriented but more aesthetically, he looks completely at rest while holding his shield up in front of him...if he's making the effort to brace his shield, why is he so relaxed? OR, why is he holding his shield up?

Yes, I see. Hopefully when I plug in my Graphics Tablet, I'll be able to fix it up. I'm okay with a mouse, but poses are annoying as hell with them. But thanks for telling me, I just couldn't figure it out for some reason.

Everything is glorious, but since you're looking for tips, the right arm (with the bow) seems like the musculature is a bit thrown off by his lack of a shoulder muscle. To me, it kind of looks like the arm cuts off where the bicep ends. In fact, it almost looks like you entirely forgot to draw the right shoulder :O

That aside, good job

At 7/1/08 07:56 AM, Swanwig wrote: Now here's a hastily drawn knight-guy.

What is wrong with his pose?
I know there's SOMETHING wrong but I can't pick it, it's like it's a bit distorted or something.

So, Art forum, WHAT IS WRONG with his anatomy?

The problem is that one leg is longer than the other for no reason. If one leg extends out, the other needs to be bent at the knee. Also, less rule-oriented but more aesthetically, he looks completely at rest while holding his shield up in front of him...if he's making the effort to brace his shield, why is he so relaxed? OR, why is he holding his shield up?

Is this the written speech from Out of this World, or Star Wars?

In four years it won't be funny anymore. Don't worry, everything serious needs a break for some kind of comic relief, and the presidency is no different. I mean, look at Van Buren.

If we're not dead in 4/8 years, let's all just laugh about it k?

that torture game is great i played it once and it made me kill a people, game s influence me

In all fairness, he's not asking for a top notch animator. Who knows, maybe he'll get someone with 5-10 days experience using Flash who is willing to collab.

To topic starter: No one knows anything about your project. Link to some kind of reference material or script synopsis and you'll get a better response, otherwise you sound like every other lazy jackass who wants other people to shoulder 100% of the burden and take 50% of the credit for their own work.

Strangely enough, you don't actually "make" movie clips into variables.

At 5/31/08 12:54 AM, LardLord wrote: I despise JAZZA for furthering the stereotype, and perhaps even more fundamentally, I despise the Newgrounds populous (composed, coincidentally, largely of that flawed and girlfriendless constituency) for accepting, and applauding his blatant characterization of that particular group of people (Many of whom actually care about art and music beyond the Neandethalic level portrayed in that flash.) as people with the intellect of an orange, who love to watch poor caricatures of humankind muddle through a bloated and unappealing abstraction, in which the main character, apparently, has some sort of strange impulse / fetish for crying.

That you define the validity of a person's opinion on whether or not they have a girlfriend is disappointing. You should learn not to be dependent on women, but instead explore a wholesome dependency on yourself. Go out there and meet the real you: he's dying to be found.

And if you're going to complain about theft and plagiarism, why not start with the people using actual copyrighted songs rather than bitch about a song you suspect might be inspired by something else? You know, speaking of whining. Your topic, not mine.

Oh, and bringing up Vanilla Ice is obviously the surest way to cinch an argument. Nice.

You could have picked somebody else who doesn't have it as easy, other users have to work like hell to get half of there name out where Luis, all he had to do was join NG early. Why do you think his topics are so famous?

And Waterlollies? We know the movies are done well but they boost not even half a good story, and there are far more interesting movies on NG.

And lastly, NG rumble, good game, but IT'S NOT ORIGINAL! Sorry, but a fighting game will never be original no matter what you want to call it.

I believe your second and third points are the reason why you're wrong about your first one. Luis is constructive, you are not.

If you don't see everything Luis does around here (or if you didn't even read Tom's explanation of why he deserved it) then no one can help you to understand. Also Luis gives the best head, so

I read the book, but I didn't like the "dramatic conclusion". It seemed like it was working its way toward some sort of personal revelation for the protagonist, but instead came to explosive anal beads. Hmm.

Oh well, at least I liked it up until the end. Better for me: now I know when to stop watching the movie :D

At 5/6/08 05:56 PM, liljim wrote: and we'll be adding a couple more replication slaves to the cluster for good measure.

And like we always suspected: Newgrounds runs on slaves.

You're allowed a trial version of Flash if you download it from the Adobe website. It lets you use the program for 30 days or so before it forces you to pay for it.

Happy birthday Big T. Don't forget to tell us what gifts you got, so I can claim that it's also what I got you and that I've now gotta go return it.

HMM I HEARD IT WASNT THAT GOOD.

Please no one judge the castle level graphics until it's completed, haha :(

Buy any Intuos tablet by Wacom, 6x8 is enough space for any artist.

An easy way to do outlines in Flash is with the ink bottle tool - try experimenting with different line thicknesses.

At 4/11/08 11:25 PM, LCurtis wrote: Yea, first off this sounds very much like a scam.

Hey guys, I fix computers. Just ship them to me and I'll fix your problems out of the kindness of ma heart.

Secondly, the purpose of this forum is for people to get help by posting their problems which may then help another person who has the same problem and by chance comes by the helpful post.

Normally I'd agree with you, but he's set up a system where essentially no one has to post in this topic to get his help, so effectively the topic is gonna just disappear from the forums unless he bumps it repeatedly.

If it's a scam (and I couldn't imagine how unless it's griefing), then it would be short lived. Actually if it's helpful it's gonna be short lived too.

At 4/11/08 10:19 AM, poxpower wrote:
Anyways I see you seem to be laying down your colors in a weird way, like you have a basic flat color, then you're using another basic flat color for one shading, like anime-style, and then you went back over you normal color with a more gradient comicbook approach.
You're trying to mary things that usually never look good together here :P The edges of your shadow areas are clean and jagged while your highlights are light and blurry.
Comic artists usually work from one base color and then they lighten it. From what I saw, they don't even use a darker shade, they start with the darkest and then gradually put light on it with a smooth brush or with a lasso with a 1-2picel feather on it.
I can't seem to stop using shadow entirely myself but it's a cool technique that you could try, although you'll see that it takes a lot of practice to get used to :p

Good eye on you, you've caught me being lazy ;) I was using the lasso to grab areas of base color for shading, and then got tired of that and switched to just using a hard-edged brush (obviously not hard enough [that's what she said {I am wearing my Dunder Mifflin hat today, sorry} ] ).

And you point out something I never realized I was doing wrong til now: when I do two-tone shading, I realize that I am laying down my shadows the way I lay down black areas during inking. But when I'm inking I've already covered all the areas that need hard shadow, and so I compensate when I lay down my darker second tone by really just swamping the figure with that color. But the idea of henceforth never using shading as a step, and instead coloring the figure darkly by default and lightening from there, makes so much sense that I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it before.

In a fully lit room with bright ambient light but no single light casting hard shadows, though, is a good time to use flat bright colors and add shadow tone as a secondary step, I think (because you use it as a reverse highlight, such as in the pits of the eyes or where light doesn't cross to the other side of the cheekbone). That's actually where I picked up the idea. My problem is I then applied that technique to every scene possible :(

Oh quick question...what was the purpose of holding Alt/Option in that one tutorial you sent me to? When I do it in Photoshop 7 it switches to the eyedropper, though it seemed to me like the colorist was using it like a color-within-the-lines type of tool.

At 4/11/08 12:28 AM, poxpower wrote: Well seems to me you're trying to color something like comicbooks do.

Anyways you can watch this shit all day long but it won't help you that much if you're completely clueless about light and shadows and whatnot.

Yeah that's one of the points I struggle with - I have my own way of coloring, and I'm battling between trying to learn the intense-primary-color-focal-point style of comic books while being unable to stop myself from tweaking it with "practical coloring", where I can't stick with bright colors without changing it to something I feel would be more realistic. The result turns out like the art I've posted in this topic so far.

I'll give those links a watch right now, though I'm going into it thinking I'm destined to remain a mediocre artist/inker rather than a colorist :D

At 4/10/08 07:47 PM, Temariix wrote: You might be able to keep the dark hoodie if you change either the background color or the lighting on the character. I think that the problem with this is that she seems to be 'eaten' by the background.

The color illuminating her is nearly the same as the background lighting, which wouldnt normally be a problem, but the figures (buildings) in the background are also dark, similar to her hoodie. I'd say to either make the illumination of the character brighter or change the background color to something slightly more contrasting to the orange illumination (compared to the current congruency).

Yeah I'll play with the background colors I think, I tried to darken them but I forgot that she has this orange halo from gradients right behind her. At first they looked good against the dark hoodie, but with the orange edge lighting i think I'm starting to see what you mean about being "eaten".

Blank inking.

I think I like it better without color, WHICH SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT I THINK OF MY TECHNIQUE ok there ya go.