At 6/5/12 06:33 PM, Pahgawk wrote: Hey guys, I now have a light table in my room. Of course, this happens conveniently after I've finished my entry... oh well, this will be awesome to use later.

You're going to have a lot of fun, light tables are the bees pancreas.

At 6/5/12 06:33 PM, Pahgawk wrote: Hey guys, I now have a light table in my room. Of course, this happens conveniently after I've finished my entry... oh well, this will be awesome to use later.

WHOA. you planning to do something hand drawn next round?

At 6/5/12 06:33 PM, Pahgawk wrote: Hey guys, I now have a light table in my room. Of course, this happens conveniently after I've finished my entry... oh well, this will be awesome to use later.

woo :O paper animation next round ?

Does anyone else find that animating the end is the hardest and worst part X_X because i know it's killin' me!

At 6/5/12 08:11 PM, DannX3anim8ion wrote: Does anyone else find that animating the end is the hardest and worst part X_X because i know it's killin' me!

Yeah ... for me its because i never know what my ending is gonna be xD

At 6/5/12 07:40 PM, JerrodStorm wrote:

At 6/5/12 06:33 PM, Pahgawk wrote: Hey guys, I now have a light table in my room. Of course, this happens conveniently after I've finished my entry... oh well, this will be awesome to use later.

WHOA. you planning to do something hand drawn next round?

Well, if I make it through to the next round, it definitely won't be ALL hand drawn because that'll take forever, but I do plan on trying it out. I'd still be vectorizing and importing all the drawings though.

At 6/5/12 08:37 PM, hill143 wrote:

At 5/13/12 11:58 PM, BobyB64 wrote: Ahhhhhhh now I get it. Nice! This is going to be a challenge!

my classmate's step-aunt makes $71/hour on the internet. She has been out of a job for seven months but last month her income was $21824 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more on this site LazyPay10.com

Sweet dude! I will!

At 6/5/12 08:37 PM, hill143 wrote:

my classmate's step-aunt makes $71/hour on the internet. She has been out of a job for seven months but last month her income was $21824 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more on this site LazyPay10.com

A bot on NG ? lol 5 forum posts and they are all about the same xD

At 6/5/12 09:24 PM, francisyfl wrote:

At 6/5/12 08:37 PM, hill143 wrote:

my classmate's step-aunt makes $71/hour on the internet. She has been out of a job for seven months but last month her income was $21824 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more on this site LazyPay10.com

A bot on NG ? lol 5 forum posts and they are all about the same xD

Spam bots have taken over Newgrounds, it seems. Their blog posts are ridiculous sometimes.

I found the hardest part was to get Flash to STOP BUGGING OUT ON ME.

Sorry I got a little worked up there.

5.1% remaining

Heyo!

So I will have some sutff coming to you guys soon (character animation and timing are my next topics)

-BUT-

One of my housemates, Anthony (the guy who was just published! http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615726141 ), was kind enough to write something on fleshing out characters:

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2012/06/making-characters.ht ml

Here's a handout I was given in my acting class that talks about the dimensions you need to consider when making characters. I will upload this to the NATA blog when I have some time, but it's a bunch of scans:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3959205/speech/charAnalysis.zip

Granted, you don't need to really flesh out each character to the extent that's listed in the handout, BUT there are some important things you need to establish because a character's personality is going to dictate their body language and WHY they move certain ways (a schemer might be constantly hunched over looking over his shoulder while an arrogant son of a mother will walk as tall as possible with his nose pointed upwards and his chest puffed out to make himself larger-- maybe he doesn't actually have any confidence and is feigning the whole thing, etc. You can get pretty darn deep with this stuff. I will write more on this soon, but this is actual character animation!)

Here are some of Anthony's other articles (These deal more with tabletop RPGs, but character building and storytelling fundamentals apply to different media):

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2010/01/bringing-your-charac ter-to-life.html

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2010/02/fleshing-out-your-ch aracters.html

http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/node/3590368 ( http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/howtoguides )

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2011/12/protagonist-driven-v s-antagonist-driven.html

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2010/12/what-hot-fuzz-taught -me-about-running.html

At 6/6/12 05:10 AM, Fungasm wrote: My horribly unfinished entry. http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0d14f015068861433d41d09b 2a3a4ddf

I love this.

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2012/06/making-characters.ht ml

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3959205/speech/charAnalysis.zip

Here are some of Anthony's other articles (These deal more with tabletop RPGs, but character building and storytelling fundamentals apply to different media):

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2010/01/bringing-your-charac ter-to-life.html

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2010/02/fleshing-out-your-ch aracters.html

http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/node/3590368 ( http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/howtoguides )

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2011/12/protagonist-driven-v s-antagonist-driven.html

http://www.realityrefracted.com/2010/12/what-hot-fuzz-taught -me-about-running.html

This is awesome, thanks for the articles! Now, I don't want to take too much of your time, but I do have a request:
Would you be able to write or find anything about concept and delivery? Just how to set up a story and tell it in an interesting manner...

Anyways, this will be useful for future reference, not just for NATA :)

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596784?updated=1

At 6/6/12 08:11 AM, LazyModeComics wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596784?updated=1

awesome xD

finished my last exam now so finally got time to start my entry lol (im soooo screwed)
i've got a vague idea of a plot and i just wrote and recorded the backing track.
if anyone wants to watch me try to animate this in under 40 hours im livestreaming it here
i've got to use a mouse until i can get my tablet back from a friend i lent it to

sorry typed the link wrong

here

At 6/5/12 10:41 PM, Emrox wrote: 5.1% remaining

How are you calculating that?

At 6/6/12 10:26 AM, JerrodStorm wrote:

At 6/5/12 10:41 PM, Emrox wrote: 5.1% remaining

How are you calculating that?

Finally someone asks !!! i was asking myselft the same question XD

At 6/6/12 05:10 AM, Fungasm wrote: My horribly unfinished entry. http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0d14f015068861433d41d09b 2a3a4ddf

i really liked this, finish it :(, i like your art style btw

At 6/6/12 05:10 AM, Fungasm wrote: My horribly unfinished entry. http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0d14f015068861433d41d09b 2a3a4ddf

Wow that was really cool. It's like one of the old UPA cartoons.

At 6/6/12 11:38 AM, ExtremeFudgeMaster wrote:

At 6/6/12 05:10 AM, Fungasm wrote: My horribly unfinished entry. http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0d14f015068861433d41d09b 2a3a4ddf

Wow that was really cool. It's like one of the old UPA cartoons.

Gerald McBoing-Boing ? :P xD looks so cool that style

I am so lazy.

:S

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  Elephant in the room

  by MihaP

  Trailer for a movie:)

  Movie

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  (Ages 13+)

At 6/6/12 02:29 PM, MihaP wrote:

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596801

Wow, you're art style is very interesting to the eyes. I liked the detail you put into it, and your colors were really nice too. Very smooth animation.

Lots of great entries so far!

At 6/6/12 02:37 PM, BananasFoster wrote:

At 6/6/12 02:29 PM, MihaP wrote:

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596801

Wow, you're art style is very interesting to the eyes. I liked the detail you put into it, and your colors were really nice too. Very smooth animation.

Lots of great entries so far!

Wow, thanks alot:). Flash on this animation crashed like 100 times(because of details in some scenes).
Thanks again and im looking forward to see yours:)

At 6/6/12 02:48 PM, MihaP wrote:

Wow, thanks alot:). Flash on this animation crashed like 100 times(because of details in some scenes).
Thanks again and im looking forward to see yours:)

I used to have a lot of issues with Flash crashing, especially since my laptop's memory has been running low and my computer runs slow in general. My solution to that was to break my animation into chunks, and combine them all into one Flash file once everything is complete. I also constantly save - after almost every frame. I really hate having to redo stuff.

..and thanks! Sadly, my probably won't be completed again, but I'm still going to submit it. I always seem to get way too ambitious, but at least I can finish it when I have time.

At 6/6/12 03:27 PM, BananasFoster wrote:

..and thanks! Sadly, my probably won't be completed again, but I'm still going to submit it. I always seem to get way too ambitious, but at least I can finish it when I have time.

i never saw your open entry D: could you link it ?

At 6/6/12 03:29 PM, francisyfl wrote:

At 6/6/12 03:27 PM, BananasFoster wrote:

..and thanks! Sadly, my probably won't be completed again, but I'm still going to submit it. I always seem to get way too ambitious, but at least I can finish it when I have time.

i never saw your open entry D: could you link it ?

Here you go:

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/fa2c94c679bb41696d3cbb3a 5754daf3

At 6/6/12 03:41 PM, BananasFoster wrote:

Here you go:

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/fa2c94c679bb41696d3cbb3a 5754daf3

Awesome XD