Iv Waited Long Enough!!!

[zornuzkull]

Greetings people of Newgrounds iv been admiring you wonderful animations music and Art work for many years skulking in the shadows looking from afar.
hell its been so long since i logged in i compleatly forgot i had an account shameful i no
anyway back to my reason for this incredibly late post
im sick of it sick of watching and listening glaring in envy at such magnificent work

i want to dive in and become a part of the piece of internet history that is Newgrounds .com
i want to work on an animation but not having any idea what software to buy drawing tablet ext
i was wondering if somebody out there could give me a bit of advice
if this post falls on deaf ears no that Newgrounds will always hold a special place in my heart

[Jomillex]

Do some research. It's not hard to figure out the program we're all using. Check out the Newgrounds flash portal it might hit you like a brick wall. As for tablets just go look on Wacom.com there's something for any price range

[zornuzkull]

At 2/19/14 07:21 PM, Jomillex wrote: Do some research. It's not hard to figure out the program we're all using. Check out the Newgrounds flash portal it might hit you like a brick wall. As for tablets just go look on Wacom.com there's something for any price range

much appreciated

[CartoonH2O]

At 2/19/14 08:34 AM, zornuzkull wrote: Greetings people of Newgrounds iv been admiring you wonderful animations music and Art work for many years skulking in the shadows looking from afar.
hell its been so long since i logged in i compleatly forgot i had an account shameful i no
anyway back to my reason for this incredibly late post
im sick of it sick of watching and listening glaring in envy at such magnificent work

i want to dive in and become a part of the piece of internet history that is Newgrounds .com
i want to work on an animation but not having any idea what software to buy drawing tablet ext
i was wondering if somebody out there could give me a bit of advice
if this post falls on deaf ears no that Newgrounds will always hold a special place in my heart

For software, you can't go wrong with Adobe Flash. A lot of people like CS3 the best, but any version will be fine I think. How you acquire that software is up to you, it is pretty expensive.

As for the tablet, I would recommend going to ebay and getting and older model for slightly cheaper, since it's your first one. I got a Wacom Intous 3 for really cheap over a year ago and it's served me very well (I just ordered a new one the other day though which I cannot wait to arrive).

I would HIGHLY recommend you head over to youtube, and watch some Flash tutorials. In fact I will even link you to some of my favorite ones (i'll link the first episode and you can go from there)

Harry Partridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtoFwHh38Q

Oney's tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0igv_BKikg

Spazkid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7fTDMaZwVs

Alex Small-Butera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFDVybD0QAs

This should be enough to get you started. Good luck man!