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Alright everyone, here's a slightly updated version of it I made last night. It still has some things to adjust, all I did is adjust the navi, replace the tombstone with another picture (which I need to finish), and show you what it looks like with sample work (It's acedareaper's). Since you all seem weary about the BG being distracting {which, I have to agree), I figured it would be a good time to introduce the 'Dim the lights'-esque function. Click the horrible drawn circle to see it in a different 'light'. Still a WIP...

Anyway, keep the submissions coming- we need more art! Also, as acedareaper said, see if you can make Easter Eggs and if you have a spooky audio loop in the works [or already finished] share it with us!

^^ Opps, my bad. I forgot I messed around with some of the art earlier. That movie is missing some parts, namely the rest of the logo and some colored clouds. Go ahead and look at it anyway, just keep in mind nothing is set in stone and some things are missing! XD

At 10/5/09 09:06 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: Since this has become a communal project, I'm gonna throw in my two cents and agree with ashman112... the pink isn't working for me either. You should try purple. The little tombstone thing is kinda sad looking too. If we're going for Halloween, what about something like a black cat, a bat, or ooh... a skull?! Maybe if you posted what you have so far, everyone could give feedback and stuffz!! :D

Thanks for grabbing the reins though! If there's anything I can do to help, lemme know! :D

...and yeah, we need more arts!!

Thanks for the input! The background does change, and it is still in a VERY early state. [Here is an even early version to look at, I still need to adjust colors (oh so much), smoothen transitions, and the like. [and now that I think about it I'll be re-doing the side bar]) It's coming along though. I will also have a 'Dim the lights'-esque button [more on that later]. I like your idea about the background for a box, I never liked the tombstone anyway XD.

Anyway, input is much appreciated! So keep it coming and I'll post a newer design tommorrow!! Thanks everyone!

Alright, a bit of catching up to do. I've been hard at work with the designs and such. Sorry if I miss anyone:

At 10/3/09 11:00 PM, acedareaper wrote: the 27th sounds like a good cutoff date so that they can be gone through final design on the board and menu can be made.
easter eggs would be a good idea to make too so people start making some easter eggs.
it looks good E-Yeah try a more refined look though something that would pop out at the people and still go along with the grim style.

Good tip. I've basically finished the design for the slides and I'm working on a menu. Maybe I'll post the .SWF up for everone later!

At 10/3/09 11:14 PM, flyingmonkey456 wrote:

At 10/3/09 11:00 PM, acedareaper wrote: sorry i didnt see it, do you have anything you can offer now? if not you can be first in easter eggs if its put in.

perhaps i could do the coding end and he can do the art end. i can code a preloader and a few buttons in like 5 seconds so just give me the art, preloader, sidebars, buttons, etc and i'll put it all together.

Sorry we over looked you! I'd love for you to code it (saves me a lot of work XD), I'm not very good with AS anyway. PM me your email address and I'll email the swf file to you when I finish. What version of flash do you have, and do you use AS 2 or 3?

At 10/5/09 08:32 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 10/3/09 09:48 PM, E-YeahStudios wrote: Finally, finally, here's another low-quality (slightly trimmed) picture of the flash board.

Yeah looks good. Its nice to see this collab back in the saddle (okay, wrong expression, I know).
Id make all three boxes the same width though.... that is: make the "NG user/artist" box a little slimmer.

lol Thanks for the tip, but the slightly uneven box looks better in the flash itself because the background changes colors.

Finally, thank you everyone who has submitted their art! I've seen some really cool pieces! I'm glad this is all coming together despite Genocide's absense!

Good call. A lot of people are complaining about the scouting system, and I thinks it's good to start fresh!

At 10/3/09 08:05 PM, ashman112 wrote: sorry dude but they got it down, and can i just say try a darker purple for the side the pink doesnt

:work in my view, but yeah that work

Agreed. I added the borders now (including boxes around the logo and stuff) to make things more balanced. The background will be changing colors to give it a 'mysterious' feeling, by the way. Anyway, if someone could find some Halloween-themed music from the Audio Portal, that would be a nice touch.

Finally, IF (keyword: if) I do end up making the layout for it, can we have a surfire cut-off date? ~October 27 would be nice that way acedareaper has enough time to go through the entries and I have enough time to add them to the flash. That way it can be posted on or around Halloween.

Finally, finally, here's another low-quality (slightly trimmed) picture of the flash board.

At 10/3/09 05:16 PM, acedareaper wrote: hey maybe you and i can do it if your good at making a flash board

OK, if you want too! :)

Not to get ahead of anything, because Genocide might come back, but here's a low-quality image of the WIP for what might be the flash board. I still need to add a border, finish the backgrounds, fix some images (exspecially the tombstone nav button) and such, but tell me what you think. I tried to make it go with the color pallete for the logo.

At 10/3/09 04:49 PM, Angry-Banana wrote:

At 10/3/09 03:48 PM, ArenaFox wrote: Yeah, thats what I'm thinking about doing.

I guess if anyones interested in showing me a rough sketch of the logo, its a fox with armor (seriously, whats more awesome than that?).

Here's a quik rough sketch I made just now from the top of my head.

Totally random, but I love the looks of that drawing! It just reminds me of a 90s cartoon character mixed with modern internet mascots! Very good job.

Anyway, just my 2 cents that I just wanted to say. Continue... :D

It would be a shame for this collab to go to waste, there has been a lot of great submissions for it! I agree that if Genocide does not come back within the next week someone should take it over.

On that note, I'd be happy to help with some of the display for the flash if the new organizer needs any help (that is if Genocide is still MIA).

How much longer is this open for, anyway? (I really need to get around to finishing my art...)

Here's the Nintendog WIP so far... (sorry for the low quality)

At 9/30/09 08:47 AM, billowillo wrote: Ive also come across this site

Soungle

That is a cool site there! Never knew about it!

At 9/30/09 09:45 AM, Xeptic wrote:

At 9/30/09 09:40 AM, HonterGames wrote: Ok well the average eye sees about 24 frames per second, so 24 / 25 fraems per second is a good place to start.

Actually it's closer to 60, but the way human eyes process imagery doesn't compare to fps.

Correct. I did a science fair project on this a while back. I learned that how many fps the eye can see and identify actually correlates with age. At around 60 FPS, those over the age of twenty had trouble identifying images, while those around the age of 5 could identify them up to around 112 fps.

Back on topic, I usually go anywhere from 18-30 FPS depending on the animation. I use 24 fps more than most times, though.

Perhaps you should give us more info? What voices can you do? What is your range?

Maybe you could make a demo reel of your voices to show us. (There's just something about saying 'your voices' that sounds crazy, am I right?)

At 9/28/09 08:35 PM, Araelyn wrote: I want to start up my own site, but I don't know who has the best web hosting. I really want to know personal opinions and possibly your own experiences so that I can turn my research in the right direction. Thanks!

If you don't know any coding at all try Webs.com , if you want a free host and you know coding, try x10hosting, if you are willing to pay, 000webhost looks good (there are a lot of great paying hosts, look around for reviews).

"Cutting a character up" (I love your word choice!) is an easy way to animate, and I use it often. Although I absolutly love the look of hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animations. They look more traditional and fluid, but they take more time. I'm experimenting right now with having some parts of the body that don't change much (like the head) movieclips and then more dynamic parts (like the arms) are hand-drawn.

At 9/27/09 06:07 PM, PowerWave wrote: When people make flashes that have to do with drawing, do they draw theirs with paint, or some other program?

To make flashes, you use Flash. Thus the name! XD

At 9/27/09 06:07 PM, PowerWave wrote:

:And what is frame by frame, what are the other ways besides frame by frame?
Well, there's different types of animating. There's frame-by-frame where you just miniputlate the parts of the character to make it move, re-draw the character to make a frame-by-frame (it appears more traditional), and there's tweening, where you just draw the character at the start and end of a movement and flash will 'in-between' the movement.

At 9/27/09 06:07 PM, PowerWave wrote:

:Right now, I'm at a point where I'm not sure what to do, whether to do a drawing flash or a sprite flash...

Sprite flashes are by far easiest, because there is no guess work when it comes to making the animation natural looking. But there are limitations; you can only animate what is on the sprite sheet, and you can't really make it 100% original work, unless you are a sprite artist. And even sprites usually don't look as nice.

At 9/27/09 06:07 PM, PowerWave wrote:

:I'm trying to learn how to draw anime, but it's getting frustrating...

NEVER learn to draw with anime. It limits you on what you can learn. Anime characters have differing proportions and shape to them, so once you learn to draw like that it can be challenging to learn to draw with other styles. I recommend starting out learning how to draw real shapes and people, then slowly evolving into other styles (I went from realish, to anime, and now I'm obsessed with retro-style drawing, for instance). Always start out by drawing what you see (not tracing), then select a picture by an artist that you like and try to 'imitate' their style (DO NOT copy, just try to learn to draw like they do).

I would say "Happy Madness Day!", but then I realized that would be an oxymoron... ;)

Clock Day, closely followed by Pico Day.

I dunno... I'm not even much of a fan of the clocks, but I just feel like Clock Day has the most 'holiday spirit'. It's fun to submit random entrys, boost your PROTECTION Pts. by 155000000, and watch the hilarious movies some users submit.

I like Pico Day a lot, but it just isn't quite as big as Clock Day... maybe it will be one day, but for now...

At 9/22/09 01:55 PM, poxpower wrote: Why is 99% of entertainment made by men? I have yet to see a single good youtube video made by a girl.

Oh my gosh, I never realized this (I new most entertainers were male, but never dawned on me that that ment 1% were female XP).

Granted, there's a lot of literature... JK Rowling, Jane Austin (although some of their books are love 'em or hate 'em). A decent amount of music and acting (it's an art form, right?). And then there's DeviantART, which has a lot of girls... but when it comes to creating things like movies or animations, no one. =O

Sounds like fun, I'll give it a try! I don't have a BA as of yet, but I will posts the swfs when I have them mostly done, and then you can decide if you want them or not.

I'm currently working on a shooting mini-game featuring P-Bot, n00b flashes, and spam flashes, and an avoid mini-game. As I said earlier, I'll post the swfs once I get them done/precentable.

:Um... I own CS4 and it can't save as a Flash 8 doc... That might be a problem...

Sorry I haven't been posting my progress on my art peices. Haven't had much time to work on them, ya'know? I've worked on the Ghost/Grim dude a bit, completly re-constructed his scythe and face, and I've started the line-art for this scarecow-girl thing. I still have time to finish, though, so I'll post back later!

At 9/21/09 03:03 PM, Wonchop wrote:

At 9/21/09 02:54 PM, E-YeahStudios wrote: ...Can we make an International Talk Like a Clock Day?

That would only increase the homicide rate

Oh, I guess it would. :/ Not to mention the suicide rate for the Anti-Clocks...

Avast! These thar animations make this old sea dog long for the days aboard me ship... Amazing work, mateys... Oh wait, Talk Like a Pirate Day is over... :(

...Can we make an International Talk Like a Clock Day?

~Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!~

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, mateys!

At 9/15/09 07:41 PM, Kinsei01 wrote:

At 9/15/09 07:35 PM, M-Vero wrote: I wonder if some people even read the first posts

People on the internet read? I figured they all just got around looking at pictures.

What's reading?

Might throw something together for it. 2 questions though:

1. Can we have some standards, like, perhaps not allow way to many Google images or make people have SOME sort of animation? Because I have an awful feeling this might turn into a "Random images flying across the screen with stick-figure bodies Collab". XD

2. Will there be music playing, or do we add our own sounds?

(SSB vioce) "Complete!" (...I think??)

Popichu

Kirby of the Starfy!

Mrs. Captain Nesbit

Nintendogs, anyone? (Serious WIP [workings on textures, touch-ups on coloring, and so on]):

At 9/12/09 03:33 AM, JKAmovies wrote: Ok, sorry I've been absent. . . I've been sick lately so I'll make this post quick since I'm feeling really ill.

Hope you feel better soon!

Had the flu last week. Take your meds and sleep (and if you're anything like me, try not to puke your guts out). Feel better soon!

On a happy note, you won't have to worry about the Swine flu anymore once you're better!

Oh also though he ment .swf animations, not sprites. That's why I asked that. ^_^;