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It'll never happen, but one can only hope.

Sounds like a great idea really, I just hope that it can happen one day with someone from Newgrounds. :)

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If it ever did happen, you'd need a team of awesome artists like JohnnyUtah, TheSwain, MindChamber and all those guys working together on a big project. It would be awesome if a flash did win an oscar, but do the people with the skill have time or motivation?

Yes, 10K is motivation!
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So guys, get your butts and dicks together and start sperming, I mean, get together and make something awesome!
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NOTE TO PROSPECTIVE ANIMATORS - Any animation with this song in it is guaranteed to win at least 3 major awards.

no need to thank me

At 2/24/08 09:57 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 2/24/08 09:51 PM, AshfordPride wrote:

At 2/24/08 09:43 PM, TomFulp wrote: NG will award them with a $10,000 prize!*

*Only redeemable in certain locations. Results may vary. Offer void in Alaska and Hawaii.

On that note... $10,000 and a t-shirt!

A T-SHIRT!!!!!? I'm in!!!!

Haha, I might actually consider doing this cause I'm really crazy at the moment. Wait.... What if we win
Best Animated Full Length. Hell I'll just make two... One full length and one short. That way one can win best short, the other can win animated feature, and best picture.

At 2/24/08 09:43 PM, TomFulp wrote: So I'm issuing the challenge: If anyone ever submits an animated short to NG that goes on to win an Oscar, NG will award them with a $10,000 prize!

Wait, we have to get nominated AND win the Oscar? Oh, you like to play hard ball Mr. Fulp.

Oh yes, $10,000 will fit nicely in my wallet next to the 10 mil I collect off box office receipts. HAHAHA!

Well, whoever is the winner, it gives the oppurtunity to recognize this site in the outside as home of best animators and movie makers. It'll mold the talent of an individual and a bonus of $ 10,000 for that.

10 grand do you say? well if i learn how to make flash.. that could be mine!

Haha, nice idea. I was watching the Oscars as well.

anyone out here that makes a good plotted flash movie and a nice length could win one
i mean look at the one El linked us to, not that awesome of an animation but it had a nice concept.
not to disrespect or anything but many people on ng could had been nominated for an oscar. i mean many movies on ng are better than the link.

?how did that get nominated? did it had to be sponsored , submitted? or they just pick it out the internet and if they like it?

cause honestly we have some great stuff here on ng.

At 2/25/08 12:16 AM, gamerpeepinpa wrote: Haha, nice idea. I was watching the Oscars as well.

I am watching also the Oscars this morning here. I don't know who will be the Best Actor? Best Actress?

Elementary my dear Fulp,

Just get Stamper and Chluaid and like 5 other awesome people to get together and make an orgasmicly good short flash movie.

oh and rtil.

I believe it could be done.

I think it would be cool if some of NG's best, collaborated on something epic.
YOU CAN DOOO ET!

I would just want a trophy, and a kiss from you, cute Tommy Fulpie :>

At 2/25/08 12:19 AM, youngblood26 wrote:

At 2/25/08 12:16 AM, gamerpeepinpa wrote: Haha, nice idea. I was watching the Oscars as well.

I am watching also the Oscars this morning here. I don't know who will be the Best Actor? Best Actress?

It just finished here, so I know the winners =P

Seems like a lot of people doubt them selves and there fellow newgrounders. I've seen sum amazing animations in lesser software. flash is a pretty versatile piece of software. I believe with the right motivation, talent, and patients one could create a magnificent piece of work. the only problem I for see is the rules of nomination. newgrounds would have to set something up for this to happen. But don't get to down about the rules. there's always a way around them.

"And the Oscar goes to...

DICKTITS AND COUSIN FUCKING TIT SHITTERS"

Ten

Thousand

Dollars

At 2/24/08 11:39 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote:

At 2/24/08 10:56 PM, DariusR wrote: With that prize, Adam Phillips never has to work again.

err.. if Adam Philips can live forever on 10k, his talents extend far beyond animation :)

I meant if prizes like that keep popping up...i wasn't talking about this one alone

At 2/24/08 09:43 PM, TomFulp wrote: After much toiling to finalize the list of nominees for the "Tank Awards" (sorry it's been taking so long), I was watching the Oscars tonight and just saw the nominees for Best Animated Short. It made me wonder, will a Flash movie ever win an Oscar for Best Animated Short? Has anyone ever made a Flash movie that COULD have won the Oscar if it had been considered?

While I believe the Tank trophy is much cooler than an Oscar, I still think it would be a fun "challenge" for someone to make an Oscar-worthy Flash movie.

So I'm issuing the challenge: If anyone ever submits an animated short to NG that goes on to win an Oscar, NG will award them with a $10,000 prize! Depending on the future success of NG, I hope to raise that pot with each year that passes by. In the meantime, I hope the Tank trophy is enough to encourage people to step up their game!

Wow that is exactly what I was thinking. I think that there are some amazing Flashes out there that could win right now. And even if they don't, there definitely will be. I think it is just a matter of getting the flashes to the committee that picks the nominees. I don't think they really know what is out there.

wow... $10,000 prize... I mean... that's huge...
& amazing...
I think Adam Phillips could the one
but... also a big NG collab (and the prize is divided on the winners.. obviously) could be good

so...
c'mon ppl... let's work
XD

At 2/25/08 12:26 AM, gamerpeepinpa wrote:

At 2/25/08 12:19 AM, youngblood26 wrote:

At 2/25/08 12:16 AM, gamerpeepinpa wrote: Haha, nice idea. I was watching the Oscars as well.

I am watching also the Oscars this morning here. I don't know who will be the Best Actor? Best Actress?

It just finished here, so I know the winners =P

Well, it's via sattelite here.

At 2/24/08 09:43 PM, TomFulp wrote: After much toiling to finalize the list of nominees for the "Tank Awards" (sorry it's been taking so long), I was watching the Oscars tonight and just saw the nominees for Best Animated Short. It made me wonder, will a Flash movie ever win an Oscar for Best Animated Short? Has anyone ever made a Flash movie that COULD have won the Oscar if it had been considered?

While I believe the Tank trophy is much cooler than an Oscar, I still think it would be a fun "challenge" for someone to make an Oscar-worthy Flash movie.

So I'm issuing the challenge: If anyone ever submits an animated short to NG that goes on to win an Oscar, NG will award them with a $10,000 prize! Depending on the future success of NG, I hope to raise that pot with each year that passes by. In the meantime, I hope the Tank trophy is enough to encourage people to step up their game!

The solution is simple. Make a cartoon with very shoddy animation (calling it artistic and expressionistic), set to a very odd soundtrack, and make the central theme the plight of some war-torn, starving, diseased nation and the children and other innocents affected by their government. Make sure to blame the current American government as much as possible for the world's problems. Then make the main character a blind homosexual black female whose father hates her.
Also, simplify it to something odd involving a butterfly and the moon, making ridiculous metaphors of every object that appears.

At 2/24/08 09:43 PM, TomFulp wrote: So I'm issuing the challenge: If anyone ever submits an animated short to NG that goes on to win an Oscar, NG will award them with a $10,000 prize!

I think im going to learn flash now.

Well come on, if Beowulf can be put into theaters then certainly someone on Newgrounds can win an Oscar with a Flash video! And I think I'm down for that whole lock up a bunch of artists plan, nothing morally wrong about a little starvation right?

At 2/25/08 12:56 AM, squeakytoad wrote:

The solution is simple. Make a cartoon with very shoddy animation (calling it artistic and expressionistic), set to a very odd soundtrack, and make the central theme the plight of some war-torn, starving, diseased nation and the children and other innocents affected by their government. Make sure to blame the current American government as much as possible for the world's problems. Then make the main character a blind homosexual black female whose father hates her.
Also, simplify it to something odd involving a butterfly and the moon, making ridiculous metaphors of every object that appears.

Yes but this is supposed to be from Newgrounds. So let's combine the best of both worlds shall we? We'll have have a very shoddy animation set in a diseased nation but the blind homosexual female will have giant downward pointed eyebrows, shout things about the hotness of her tribe mates, and yell profanities. Then we'll throw the spotlight on the academy and have them claiming what the fuck, they didn't expect that and of course, that nobody told them there was genocide there. What will it be called? You guessed it...Darfur Awesome!

...then she comes out of the screen and shoots them.

I THINK WE HAVE A WIN YOO GUYS.

To anyone out there that thinks that this isn't possible... I'd like to say a few words.

The reason why Tom Fulp has done so much in his life is because he tries. Some people would think that's a way too lofty goal to set, but that's the problem. If you never try, or set goals for yourself, you'll never succeed. The concept of Newgrounds would seem like an impossibility to a lot of people, and they would just give up right away. They don't have drive.

Tom started this site from the ground up, has appeared on AOTS, countless conventions, has a part in the video gaming industry, and has Newgrounds to boot. All because he did something he loved to do, and was never afraid to take it to the next level.

It's dependent on being around like minded individuals who feel the same passions as you do.

There will be a flash that will win an Oscar someday. Hopefully from Newgrounds.
To those who think its impossible, it will never be you.

Rig, hopefully keeping the "first post on each page is made by a yellow aura" streak alive.

At 2/25/08 01:18 AM, Rig wrote: Rig, hopefully keeping the "first post on each page is made by a yellow aura" streak alive.

Yup.
Also, has any Flash movie EVER been in a theater with paid admission? That would be a great start.

At 2/24/08 10:39 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 2/24/08 10:30 PM, Rig wrote: WAT ABOUT SOUNDTRAKS DAT WIN OZCARS???
That'd be cool too.

Ok, $10,000 to any Audio Portal folks who win an Oscar and mention NG on stage. :)

would it count to violently enter the stage, take control of the mic and scream "NEEEEWWWWGROOOOOOUUUNDSSSSS" innit? Or would one have to actually win the Oscar? :(