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Posted at: 5/12/09 08:14 PM

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i've recently started flash and have a few ideas about movies that i should make, can anyone give me some advice? any help is appreciated

i have numerous characters, but they can be split up into two categories:
(the instances where i use plurals like "we" are when expressing ideas that were a group effort between me and some friends.

1. the badly drawn original failed comic book attempt- a bunch of terribly drawn and badly thought up group of original characters, finding their way into our imaginations some years back, the original comic consisted of Dash (a green oval with orange wings, a toothy grin, and bad habits, i.e. in one comic the jumps off a cliff, takes lsd, and thinks a tree wants to eat his soul.) and Tweed (a shapeshifting box with three rounded teeth, and an attena which was originally a single hair with a bow, he is dash's moral counterpart, and is constantly having to "save his ass". there are other characters, but they aren't neccesarily important at this time due to the fact that we seldom use them.

2. the series that we thought up after seing the lord of the rings for the first time as kids- again we thought up some basic characters and civilizations, which consisted of a viking/barbarian race, a nomadic desert race, and a pseudo-european race, not unlike the roman empire (you know, except without all the pedophiles.) the europeans are driven out by the mad (and unkown to them immortal" wizard who had planned to overthrow the king and kill the heirs, the wizard raises an army of undead and exiles the remainder of the population, which then settles in the mountains between the nomads and vikings, with whom they ally and try to stop the wizards plot. (yes there is a race portaying the "orc" or "goblin", but we havent really done anything with them yet.)

if anyone has any advice, please let me know
again, any help is GREATLY appreciated :)

p.s. sorry for the incredibly long post


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Posted at: 5/12/09 08:17 PM

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meh, not bad, probably would need to see some drawings first


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They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.


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At 5/12/09 09:03 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.

unfortunately still learning to draw better

whpped this up in ms paint in like, three minutes....

do my characters suck?


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At 5/17/09 09:31 AM, badgerfrank10 wrote: whpped this up in ms paint in like, three minutes....

Im sorry but those drawings are awful.Spend more than three minutes at your artwork.Its the only way to improve.


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Posted at: 5/17/09 09:44 AM

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How about this?

do my characters suck?

Save a prinny, dood!

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Did that in less than a minute

Save a prinny, dood!

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At 5/17/09 09:46 AM, deadlynightshade009 wrote: Did that in less than a minute

There is your problem. Go away, think about it, put lots of effort into it, and try again.

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At 5/17/09 09:31 AM, badgerfrank10 wrote:
At 5/12/09 09:03 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.
unfortunately still learning to draw better

whpped this up in ms paint in like, three minutes....

whipped up in twenty minutes.

do my characters suck?

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At 5/17/09 09:53 AM, Phobotech wrote: whipped up in twenty minutes.

Gives me a whole new reason not to post my version.


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This is rather interesting the fact that those to characters are actually influenced by Watching Lord of the rings at a young age. Is this what your characters are going to look at the moment or are they going to be changed?

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There alright, are there drawing you're missing?

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At 5/17/09 09:53 AM, Phobotech wrote:
At 5/17/09 09:31 AM, badgerfrank10 wrote:
At 5/12/09 09:03 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.
unfortunately still learning to draw better

whpped this up in ms paint in like, three minutes....
whipped up in twenty minutes.

Stimpy, you EEDIOT.

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lol thats a good idea but you should make like a retarded kid follow them around alot.

im bored, entertain me

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At 5/17/09 01:01 PM, disorderly1 wrote: Fear the wrath of my cock.

yes, id have to agree.

As a great man(me) once said "shut up!"

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At 5/17/09 11:43 AM, PrinceFlea wrote: This is rather interesting the fact that those to characters are actually influenced by Watching Lord of the rings at a young age. Is this what your characters are going to look at the moment or are they going to be changed?

the yellow box and green oval guys are the failed comic characters, the LOTR guys are currently being drawn up by our head artist, those will, probably be more serious and detailed characters, these guys are just typical comedic bad influences.


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You guys, you need a little more kawaii.

You're all an insult to Windows, art, and MSpaint (no offense, dns009, but you need more work too)

If any of you are going to use MSpaint, make sure it's good.

I don't think mine's that good, is it?

By the way, I did this around 10 minutes.

Believe it or not.

Take it if you want to.

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No offense OP, but you might want to practice drawing a bit more. You might want to rethink the designs too, because as soon as I saw them I thought of the two pictured below.

do my characters suck?

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urmm.......

those characters look familiar..... im sunr ive seen them somewere else....

nope probably not


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At 5/20/09 03:49 AM, Dauthus-Nahts wrote: You guys, you need a little more kawaii.

I think we have enough of that crap.


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At 5/17/09 09:31 AM, badgerfrank10 wrote:
At 5/12/09 09:03 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.
unfortunately still learning to draw better

whpped this up in ms paint in like, three minutes....

These character designs have to be the most godly-made designs I have ever seen in my entire life.

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Don't exactly look like your ready.

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At 5/20/09 07:31 AM, sonicfeet1 wrote:
At 5/17/09 09:31 AM, badgerfrank10 wrote:
At 5/12/09 09:03 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.
unfortunately still learning to draw better

whpped this up in ms paint in like, three minutes....
These character designs have to be the most godly-made designs I have ever seen in my entire life.

i was on a very very low time limit, i could have made it much better if i wanted to


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At 5/12/09 09:03 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: They sound pretty good, but you should post some pics.

agreed

I'd pay a few bucks to watch a nerdy girl get off with a playstation analog stick MINDSEIZE THE GUY WHO CAUSES SHARP OBJECTS TO FLY AT YOUR FACE

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At 5/21/09 06:13 PM, HDMI wrote: in before this turns into a story thread

A long time ago, in a town called windsor, a bunch of retarded cartoon characters lived on an unnamed street. but no characters were more badly drawn and bad influences than dash and tweed, a green oval with DRAGON wings, and a drug habit and a spon- yellow shapeshifting box which had to keep the oval from using the rent money to sustain his drug habit, each attempt made by the oval was thwarted by the innocent and pure hearted box. one day the oval was very sad. the box asked the oval why he was sad, but the oval wouldnt answer him, so the box kicked his ass for doing drugs and spending the money that they would have used to pay the rent, but blew on drugs, so they had to move out of their crappy ass apartment to a new place which was also un-specified by the creators as they were seven at the time and did not think this story through, but of course this drug/rent story was just pulled out of my ass anyways, so it doesn't matter.


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At 5/17/09 09:44 AM, deadlynightshade009 wrote: How about this?

WTF they have no limbs


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Believe me, as soon as everyone gets Flash, they start making their own long-running series, with detailed characters. Trouble is, it sucks.

Go watch Trainspotting, or Wanted, or The Matrix. Learn some style. Then come back to Flash. Believe me. You'll realize how bad your stuff is.


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on the bright side, being critical of your own work is important to your growth as an artist.

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