TurkeyOnAStick has announced the winners of the NG Sculpting Contest! Here they are if you missed it in the Art Forum:

First place ($100): @b0em - Behemoth & Lindworm

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  Behemoth & Lindworm

  by HongKongBong

  3D Art

  5,455 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Second place ($75): @torithefox: Thea

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  Thea

  by torithefox

  3D Art

  2,607 Views

  (Everyone)

Third Place ($50): @Fireangelz - Tyrion Lannister

Thank you Ama for organizing the contest!

Today is Follow Friday so why not follow b0em, torithefox and Fireangelz?

Earlier this week we announced improved Unity upload support. Check out some of these Unity devs you could be following:

Evil-Dog is no stranger to NG and has made some of the greatest Flash games on the web. He's also been making games with Unity!

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  Ninja Yubi

  by Evil-Dog

  Kill a shitload of ninjas, fair enough?

  Game

  92,619 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Range of the Dead

  by Evil-Dog

  A shooting mini game and story sequel to Lab of the Dead.

  Game

  242,520 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Hypnohustler also has a history of awesome Flash games here on NG and his latest work has been Unity as well.

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  On the edge of Earth 5000

  by Hypnohustler

  You're the sole operator of a space ship. Time to go to work.

  Game

  37,587 Views

  (Everyone)

I've been following rogueNoodle on Twitter for a little while now and I'm excited to see him on NG!

• Unpublished Submission

dinopuncher released his latest game and I was surprised to learn he has a long history with NG. His original account was Ishamael70 and he made 3 3ast 3 3urious back in 2005!

• Unpublished Submission

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  3 3ast 3 3urious

  by Ishamael70

  The sequel to 2 Fast 2 Furious

  Movie

  979,854 Views

  (Everyone)

There are still plenty of awesome games being made without Unity, of course. zqf joined NG in June and just uploaded this Flash game:

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  Gunnihilation Prototype

  by zqf

  Run n Gun platforming combined with twin stick arena horde shooting.

  Game

  22,467 Views

  (Ages 13+)

FamousAspect used HTML5 and Flappy Bird as a vessel to examine the cruel realities of a midlife crisis.

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  flapping bird

  by FamousAspect

  a game of midlife crisis

  Game

  11,335 Views

  (Ages 13+)

VascoF just released Freeway Fury 3, the latest in his popular series, made with Flash.

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  Freeway Fury 3

  by VascoF

  Cars and tanks and UFOs, oh my!

  Game

  83,393 Views

  (Ages 13+)

If you're interested in Haxe for game development, xKiRiLLx has been writing tutorials!

Other News

Yesterday we launched a test where the NG search was replaced by a Google search of NG. Everyone agreed it was ugly but lots of people also found the things they were looking for. Ultimately I would like to have an NG-hosted search that defaults to a site search, with the option to toggle categories such as games / movies / audio / art / user / forums. For now, we've gone back to the traditional search BUT on non-content-specific pages it defaults to "Everything", which is the Google search. We're gonna keep watching to see how it impacts traffic.

Monday is Madness Day! Share your Madness-themed movies, games, art and music for a chance to win a prize!

Also be sure to join in on the Madness Thunderclap; our social accounts will be auto-posting tomorrow to promote the Project Nexus 2 Kickstarter, which is nearly complete!

Those sculpt are awsome! Such a great idea of Ama(ranthus)!

At 9/19/14 02:49 PM, Ama wrote: Also everybody follow me because I organized it.

Do it.

Where did you get the prize money from?

At 9/19/14 03:38 PM, Ama wrote:

At 9/19/14 03:37 PM, ComicD wrote:

At 9/19/14 02:49 PM, Ama wrote: Also everybody follow me because I organized it.

Do it.

Where did you get the prize money from?

I threatened to post Tom's nudes online and he gave it to me.

OMG! YOU'RE SUCH A FUCKING GENIIOUS!

I thought that photography wasn't allowed on the Art portal. Is it permitted just for this contest, or does this only qualify as sculpting and not photography at all?

At 9/19/14 03:48 PM, Gontronic wrote: I thought that photography wasn't allowed on the Art portal. Is it permitted just for this contest, or does this only qualify as sculpting and not photography at all?

Photography is fine if it's a photo of a piece of art you created.

Behemoth & Lindworm is really well painted!

At 9/19/14 03:50 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 9/19/14 03:48 PM, Gontronic wrote: I thought that photography wasn't allowed on the Art portal. Is it permitted just for this contest, or does this only qualify as sculpting and not photography at all?

Photography is fine if it's a photo of a piece of art you created.

What about mixed media?

At 9/19/14 03:56 PM, roekrScreen wrote: What about mixed media?

I believe mixed media is generally accepted, although some people have tested the boundaries of what is considered mixed media, in terms of how much it varies from the original source material. I'd say give it a shot though.

At 9/19/14 04:09 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 9/19/14 03:56 PM, roekrScreen wrote: What about mixed media?

I believe mixed media is generally accepted, although some people have tested the boundaries of what is considered mixed media, in terms of how much it varies from the original source material. I'd say give it a shot though.

Awesome! I have already posted a photo that I drew over in PS. It was well received and is probably the reason why I got scouted so fast.

At 9/19/14 02:47 PM, TomFulp wrote: winners of the NG Sculpting Contest!

[does a little jig]

At 9/19/14 04:22 PM, roekrScreen wrote: Awesome! I have already posted a photo that I drew over in PS.

This pic?

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  Through Hell and High Water

  by roekrScreen

  Other

  1,404 Views

  (Everyone)

Seems fine, and you said it's a mixed media pic. I occasionally wonder whether reviewers are aware that certain features are photographs, or people just paint-over photos (which is laaaame).

West art on NG man

At 9/19/14 02:49 PM, Ama wrote: Also everybody follow me because I organized it.

Do it.

This is why I don't organize collabs/contests, no recognition for the great idea.

At 9/19/14 03:55 PM, roekrScreen wrote: Behemoth & Lindworm is really well painted!

Thank you very much, took a while!

And I want to thank you guys for this, it's been 4 years since I won anything here, this is awesome!

I'm glad the traditional search is back! :)

At 9/19/14 03:38 PM, Ama wrote:

At 9/19/14 03:37 PM, ComicD wrote:

At 9/19/14 02:49 PM, Ama wrote: Also everybody follow me because I organized it.

Do it.

Where did you get the prize money from?

I threatened to post Tom's nudes online and he gave it to me.

Aka you robbed a bank

Can't wait for Madness Day 2014,i hope it won't suck like last year's MD.

Also,congrats to Krinkels and Swain for getting the needed money to fun the game. Too bad the extra game modes won't be there...yet.

At 9/20/14 02:30 AM, Wiesi wrote: I'm glad the traditional search is back! :)

Me too, staying as far away from Google, as I can.

which is virtually impossible, but worth the effort

At 9/19/14 03:55 PM, roekrScreen wrote: Behemoth & Lindworm is really well painted!

Indeed! It was a fully realized work, just felt bad the runners-up, like the Duck-Hunt dog and the Chewbacca looking mask, which were also perfect visions of their creators.

i'm kicking myself for being ignorant of a sculpting contest going down! the prizes couldn't have gone to cooler submissions though. A big hand to everyone that took part, as i think we'd all love to see more sculpting continue in the art portal!

At 9/19/14 05:46 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

At 9/19/14 02:47 PM, TomFulp wrote: winners of the NG Sculpting Contest!

[does a little jig]

At 9/19/14 04:22 PM, roekrScreen wrote: Awesome! I have already posted a photo that I drew over in PS.

This pic?
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/roekrscreen/through-hell-and-high-water
Seems fine, and you said it's a mixed media pic. I occasionally wonder whether reviewers are aware that certain features are photographs, or people just paint-over photos (which is laaaame).

Thank you! Yeah, just doing paint-overs and pretending that you drew it from scratch is lame, but I have seen a lot of good artist using photos to create textures or other cool effects.
Dunno about reviewers. I think it is often noticeable if there has been used photos, but not always.

At 9/21/14 02:13 PM, RealFaction wrote: Nice!! On an unrelated note, question about tomorrow (Madness Day). I've made four songs for an animation, can only one be entered for madness day? I don't see an official contest or saying you can only enter one, but I know which one I'd enter if I had to pick one. Is that a rule this year? I have to tag four but yeah :S idk

You can enter all four!

Good stuff. Congrats to the winners!

At 9/21/14 05:21 AM, VicariousE wrote: Me too, staying as far away from Google, as I can.

which is virtually impossible, but worth the effort

Ditto. Can always trust at least NG to always respect my privacy... I hope. :P

At 10/5/14 08:26 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: Ditto. Can always trust at least NG to always respect my privacy... I hope. :P

NG does deserve a lot more credit in the privacy department; we aren't tracking everything you do (for example Facebook records everything you type, even if you hit backspace and never post it)... We don't even know what pages you've visited unless you've favorited them or written a review. We also don't share your email or other information with anyone else.

At 10/5/14 09:56 AM, TomFulp wrote: NG does deserve a lot more credit in the privacy department; we aren't tracking everything you do (for example Facebook records everything you type, even if you hit backspace and never post it)... We don't even know what pages you've visited unless you've favorited them or written a review. We also don't share your email or other information with anyone else.

That's good to know! Yeah I've read about FBs ominous omniscience.. one of the reasons I avoid that place as much as possible...