Flash Freestyle Battle '09

[Hellraiser]

Flash Battles:
Round 1
Round 2

It's been many years since I've last seen one of these...

Good time for participants. This forum needs more activity.

How This Works:

There will be no groups, tournaments, or any mandatory battles. This is for those who have the time to participate and want a little practice or for those who want to test their flash abilities against other animators. You MUST have flash to participate.

Basically, you leave a post with any given topic (such as Alphabetical, Stick Figure, Parody, etc.) and how much time you wish to work on it. From there another artist will respond and state whether they accept the challenge. You arrange a deadline (like 30 minutes, 3 hours, 24 hours, etc.) and expected to post your flash within 15 minutes of the given time.

Just have fun and enjoy yourselfs. Please keep flaming and spam to a minimum and respect eachothers work. If you have any questions or seek any feedback regarding your flash, please, feel free to ask.

Anyone is welcome to join.

This thread will only be for fun; hence the title "freestyle". No competitions will be held and no prizes will be given. (This had been a major flaw of the previous threads).

Hosts:
Deviantart
Mega-SWF
Imageshack
SWF Upload

Knock yourselves out.

[Hellraiser]

I forgot to add:
Once your flash movies have been posted, other posters will vote among the competing flash movies with a score of 1-5 (1/5,2/5,3/5,4/5,5/5) within 30 minutes after the deadline. The flash with the highest score will be the winner.

Just tally up the points (x) from [(x)/5].

[ButcheredCorpse]

Oh shit, this is genius. I remember the origional thread which was real nice. I'd love to participate when i get the time. I'll wait and see how it goes.

[hashbrown]

im telling you kiddos this stuff was the shit back in the day. really helps you improve and make rivalries

[Blaze]

Nice. I'm up for challenges.

Brings back memories too, hellraiser.

[TheThirdDay]

I'll be coming back to this thread after some people post some challenges. This could be a lot of fun.

[Hellraiser]

Would be nice if someone could construct a 'theme generator'. The origional one lost its domain.
Anyways, I'll challenge someone later yoday. Just to get this started.

[ButcheredCorpse]

Good to see people posting. :)

At 10/5/09 04:19 AM, hashbrown wrote: im telling you kiddos this stuff was the shit back in the day. really helps you improve and make rivalries

Yeah totally, just need to get more support here. Wouldn't think this could get much done with only a few animators here.
Then again, im up for a challenge.

IMO, An easy way to keep track or accept challenges could be with the new PM system and news pages. Since before I remember people using things like MSN/AIM which can still be quite helpful but shouldn't be needed as much anymore. Lets see this get started.

[Hellraiser]

Ok, I'd like to start a challenge. A very short deadline tho, 30 minutes.
Whoever accepts can choose the theme. Post up.

[zuperxtreme]

I remember the AS battles too. AI bots and stuff. Someone should make a thread for that, too. :D

[turtleco]

hell, I'm not busy on the weekends, sign me up baby! so... I guess I'll do something this weekend. :3

[JoHobo2]

i would accept your challenge but i would get owned because its midnight where i am and you'de be lucky to get a straight line out of me let alone an animation when im this knackered :P. great idea though might be up for this later in the week! *bookmarks thread* kkeep up the good work :D

[Matanza]

Could I still participate if I havn't posted any flash movies onto newgrounds? This looks like fun, I'll definantly have time for this in the weekend.

[Pingu1651]

I'm open for challenges. Please make it stick figure if it's anything over 30 minues, otherwise it can be anything, because I LOVE speed-anims.

[Hellraiser]

At 10/5/09 09:53 PM, Pingu1651 wrote: I'm open for challenges. Please make it stick figure if it's anything over 30 minues, otherwise it can be anything, because I LOVE speed-anims.

How much time you got? I'm gotta finish up an essay but i'll take your challene when im done.

[Blaze]

I've got a lab report to write right now, So i doubt I can take your challenge Hellraiser. But I sure could help up with a theme generator, if you gave me more info on that (:

Altough If you are willing to start that 30 min stuff, I sure could give it a try (: Just set up a theme.

[Hellraiser]

At 10/5/09 11:48 PM, Blaze wrote: I've got a lab report to write right now, So i doubt I can take your challenge Hellraiser. But I sure could help up with a theme generator, if you gave me more info on that (:

Altough If you are willing to start that 30 min stuff, I sure could give it a try (: Just set up a theme.

Well, I came late.
Add me on AIM: ARashOnMyyAss, We'll set a topic/deadline and ill post it before we begin.

[Blaze]

At 10/6/09 12:35 AM, Hellraiser wrote: Add me on AIM: ARashOnMyyAss, We'll set a topic/deadline and ill post it before we begin.

You're gonna make me restart using AIM... D: Well, fine.
Ahh, Gmail supports AIM (: I'll add you

[Hellraiser]

At 10/6/09 01:46 AM, Blaze wrote:

At 10/6/09 12:35 AM, Hellraiser wrote: Add me on AIM: ARashOnMyyAss, We'll set a topic/deadline and ill post it before we begin.

You're gonna make me restart using AIM... D: Well, fine.
Ahh, Gmail supports AIM (: I'll add you

Alright man, throw me a message when you have time.

Till then, I still got some time before work for a short challenge. Post a topic, I'm brain-dead.

[Matanza]

At 10/6/09 12:35 AM, Hellraiser wrote:

At 10/5/09 11:48 PM, Blaze wrote: I've got a lab report to write right now, So i doubt I can take your challenge Hellraiser. But I sure could help up with a theme generator, if you gave me more info on that (:

Altough If you are willing to start that 30 min stuff, I sure could give it a try (: Just set up a theme.

Well, I came late.
Add me on AIM: ARashOnMyyAss, We'll set a topic/deadline and ill post it before we begin.

I added you for when I got time for a challenge. Most likley some time this week I'll be free.

[blah569]

Ahh, I remember this. Was pretty fun whenever it was around.

[turtleco]

so anybody wanna challenge me this weekend?

[Luis]

At 10/6/09 10:56 PM, turtleco wrote: so anybody wanna challenge me this weekend?

I will. Its my first weekend back home in a long time

[Techno]

Some practice hmm... Anyone want to flash battle this weekend? Maybe into Monday if you are also off for Columbus day?

If not we can can do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday if that works for you.

SO WHO DARE CHALLENGE MOI?!

[Ani-x]

Im game to.
Lets make it a 3 way.

and I think a 3rd party should choose the theme(that way we dont use animations we have laying around)

what time is this shindig?

[turtleco]

At 10/6/09 11:10 PM, Luis wrote:

At 10/6/09 10:56 PM, turtleco wrote: so anybody wanna challenge me this weekend?

I will. Its my first weekend back home in a long time

great way to start a weekend when you are finally back home, so do you have anything in mind for the topic?

[Techno]

At 10/7/09 08:03 AM, Ani-x wrote: Im game to.
Lets make it a 3 way.

and I think a 3rd party should choose the theme(that way we dont use animations we have laying around)

what time is this shindig?

If you are talking to me, then i'm game.

Also yes, a third party choice of a topic would be good, as long as it isn't too...eccentric.

And by eccentric i mean unfunny and that jazz.

[Luis]

At 10/7/09 08:06 AM, turtleco wrote:

At 10/6/09 11:10 PM, Luis wrote:

At 10/6/09 10:56 PM, turtleco wrote: so anybody wanna challenge me this weekend?

I will. Its my first weekend back home in a long time

great way to start a weekend when you are finally back home, so do you have anything in mind for the topic?

You know what would be 'neat' is to have a simple storyline and just base each of our things on the perspective of the guy. So like the topic is something like crazed guy goes to the gun shop to buy a gun. and so like in your version of it youd tell it from the story of the guy buying the gun and maybe in my version i tell it from the point of view of the shopkeep. And so as a set, itd be like a nice collection of the same story being told from both of the parties involved. I dunno im just thinking out loud

[ButcheredCorpse]

At 10/7/09 04:59 PM, Luis wrote: I dunno im just thinking out loud

It's pretty funny knowing how you would participate in this thread, and whatever you make (in any given time) could be submitted into the portal for Daily Feature. :)

[turtleco]

At 10/7/09 04:59 PM, Luis wrote: You know what would be 'neat' is to have a simple storyline and just base each of our things on the perspective of the guy. So like the topic is something like crazed guy goes to the gun shop to buy a gun. and so like in your version of it youd tell it from the story of the guy buying the gun and maybe in my version i tell it from the point of view of the shopkeep. And so as a set, itd be like a nice collection of the same story being told from both of the parties involved. I dunno im just thinking out loud

awesome, maybe it could be between an inanimate object and some sort of animal or human.
Example: guy watches tv and says how boring it is and then watches some dumb infomercial. then from the point of view from the TV remote, he is just sitting on the coffee table when the hand touches his buttons. then it transitions to the TV remote, in court, pointing to the doll where the hand touched him, and the hand yells "YOU LIAR!"

At 10/7/09 05:32 PM, ButcheredCorpse wrote:

At 10/7/09 04:59 PM, Luis wrote: I dunno im just thinking out loud

It's pretty funny knowing how you would participate in this thread, and whatever you make (in any given time) could be submitted into the portal for Daily Feature. :)

but you'd coauthor me right? :(
jk lulz...