Today marks the long-awaited release of Lucky Day Forever, making its web premier on Newgrounds!
Sarkazm first posted a trailer for LDF back in 2010 but some of the thematic elements go back even further. If you were around in 2004 you probably remember "Smile!"
Watching an artist grow and evolve over the years is one of the most satisfying things about life on NG.
On Wednesday another big project was premiered by long-time NG contributor, Sherbalex.
Sherbalex has been uploading movies to NG since 2002 and you may remember his joyful Christmas treat, "Winter."
"The Worst" has been in the works since 2009 and the final production involved over 250 megs of combined SWF files. Mike's Swivel software was able to crunch those files to video and merge them into the 15mb MP4 spectacular you see before you. YES, we'll be releasing Swivel to the public soonish!
On Thursday we had the first submission from NG newcomer and Calarts student Jacob Streilein.
I actually hunted Jacob down after seeing his stuff; I don't solicit people often but now that we have video support I want to be sure artists know about it. All of these movies depended largely on Flash for their development but none of them worked as traditional SWF files. I'm excited about what we can accomodate now that we support more formats!
On the technical side, we are setting up a video conversion server to process video files. This will make our system less picky in terms of artists handling their compression properly and will also allow us to serve smaller videos for mobile and computers that choke on large 1080p video.
Ultimately, with the help of Swivel and our conversion server, we intend to have video alternatives for every noteworthy movie on NG. This means NG classics will be available on devices that don't support Flash (iPhone, iPad, Roku, etc.) and we'll be better preserving NG's vast library of movies, many which have never existed anywhere outside of NG.
If this gets your gears spinning, it's only part of our adaption plan for the future. Stick around and see!
Also, if you like these movies, be sure to favorite the authors. You will get updates the next time they do something amazing!
http://sarkazm.newgrounds.com/
http://sherbalex.newgrounds.com/
http://jacobstreilein.newgrounds.com/