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Luis

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Posted at: 9/16/05 07:49 PM

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Yes after a long delay the series comes back. Why the delay, well many reasons. The collab annoyance factor was at an all time high (still is?) and TT veterans were out of town. Anyways all you need to know is that its back with a new set of challenges none of which will deal with sharing music since everyone and their momma is doing that right now. On with the rules!

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The Challenge : Create a movie in which the environment/weather plays an active role throughout the movie.

*what this means is that it must rain/snow/sleet/be noticeably windy/ noticeably hot/ cold/ etc. Since most of us use backgrounds as just a secondary aspect of our animations I thought that for this challenge we would turn the tables and make the environment become its own 'character' in the movie ... so the goal is not so much about making the environment THE subject matter but rather having it play a ROLE in the subject matter you choose to persue. big difference.

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Rules:

-24 FPS
-550x400
-white background workspace
-Create your whole movie inside a movie clip centered on the workspace
-If you use fonts break them up or better yet handraw your letters
-Name all your symbols uniquely
-Name your file the name you'd like to be referred to as in the main menu
-Stream all sounds, use whatever music/sound you see fit.
-FLASH MX 2004/MX/5/4 ***important: do not save as flash 8 !!!***
-keep swf size lower than 1.5megs

Duedate - Sept 30 : 11:59PM
Turn in FLA dates - Sept 29-30 : no earlier no later unless you burn your house

Questions? mail me. IM me. post here.

Best 5 entries make it in.

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first post!!, maybe...? ok i wanna be in this one ^_^


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Count me in, big lou.

Also...house burning...a little close to home? >_>


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Duedate - Sept 30 : 11:59PM
Turn in FLA dates - Sept 29-30 : no earlier no later unless you burn your house

oh...BURN

I'll do it.

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Im here and i must say hurray hurray TT is back on this day..lol

OMG THATLOL!!


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Grant

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OMG! NGTT is back!


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i might go for it, depends how busy i am this month.


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Bug

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Sweet, I think I wanna try my hand at this. I just have one question though, it can be as long as we want right?


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Luis, could I make a game for the TT?


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Luis

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At 9/16/05 07:57 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: Luis, could I make a game for the TT?

I would prefer you not, simply because it generally wreaks havoc setting it up and also its just a big leap for people i mean you watch 4 movies and theres this one game there it stands out too much... you can have 'subtle' interactive portions like say a Dragons Lair type of scenario where its still heavy on animation but for the most part i would like movies.

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i wouldnt miss this for the world, consider me in >:D


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SaintShun

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ok b4 i leave, a tree counts as environment?


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Luis

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At 9/16/05 07:57 PM, BigArmyBug wrote: Sweet, I think I wanna try my hand at this. I just have one question though, it can be as long as we want right?

you can make it an hour long if you can somehow cram into 1.4 megs as a swf.
Some people are geniuses at optimizing some arent.
Just make a habit of testing your movie out and looking at the swf to make sure you are under. Generally for 2 weeks worth of time 1.4 is very reasonable. Its flexible, we can discuss as the deadline nears. On rare occasions i'll make exceptions. RARE.

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i've been waiting to be in one of these for three years 0_0

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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Luis

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At 9/16/05 08:05 PM, SaintShun wrote: ok b4 i leave, a tree counts as environment?

Its an environment but its not an active one therefore no.
It's easier to think about this challenge as dealing with weather its much easier to manage that way because we can feel and see weather therefore its easier to show in an animation. You could hypothetically state that an underwater world is an active environment. But you'd have to build it like such. In other words Spongebob squarepants doesnt really use the physics of an underwater environment (it does but very little), while Disney's the little mermaid did, gravity is different and its a whole new world. Make sense?

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i finally get it, tnx


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Bug

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Ok thanks for the answer. I just have one more question then I'll shut up, are you requiring our animatics?


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At 9/16/05 08:02 PM, _Luis_ wrote:
At 9/16/05 07:57 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: Luis, could I make a game for the TT?
I would prefer you not, simply because it generally wreaks havoc setting it up and also its just a big leap for people i mean you watch 4 movies and theres this one game there it stands out too much... you can have 'subtle' interactive portions like say a Dragons Lair type of scenario where its still heavy on animation but for the most part i would like movies.

-L

If its made in a MC it wont wreak havoc.

W/e how bout a preloader game? (no co-author needed, just credit)


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Luis

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GG contact me outside of the thread. and no i dont need animatics or anything other than the movie you intend to turn in... feel free to post here to get feedback from people and stuff.

-L

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Kickass... finally, a time trial where I actually saw the thread before it happened....

Fuck. No more animated sigs. Suck my left testicle.

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woooooo hooooooooooo ... im deffinatly in this one...

im gonna start animating as soon as I understand the topic..

THANK GOD THE TT's ARE BACK
I was growing immpatient

Revolution Now

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Oh yeah, Luis, I almost forgot to ask.

Dude, is 3d allowed? I don't wanna finish my animation to find out you only want 2d...

Fuck. No more animated sigs. Suck my left testicle.

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Luis

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3d is tough to pull off but if you can make it under the file size i suppose i cant stop you.

-L

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Aw, no flash 8...I wanted to try out these new filters

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Luis

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At 9/16/05 08:57 PM, McBean wrote: Aw, no flash 8...I wanted to try out these new filters

ok flash 8 is allowed i finally downloaded it. enjoy bitchez.

-L

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Posted at: 9/16/05 09:33 PM

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I'm so gonna try this =D

ok flash 8 is allowed i finally downloaded it. enjoy bitchez.

Woot we can blur ;D


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Posted at: 9/16/05 09:46 PM

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luis 2 things:
1. Can i PLEASE make a preloader game? I cant animate thats why all my stuff is games

2. -hashbrown- is joining but he's banned now and asked me to post


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SaintShun

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At 9/16/05 09:23 PM, _Luis_ wrote:
At 9/16/05 08:57 PM, McBean wrote: Aw, no flash 8...I wanted to try out these new filters
ok flash 8 is allowed i finally downloaded it. enjoy bitchez.

-L

finally


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