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2009-05-10 05:48:53

Good Job

I applaud you sir

dreftclub responds:

A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".

I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?

I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.

Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.

I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.

Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.

But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.

I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.

I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.

People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.

For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.

Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important

justi313

2009-05-10 05:15:24

The animation depression.

I go off track, a lot, and I'm none too bright.

The bar is raised, do you remember when 'that' guy used tweening? it was still funny and he got votes of 5, but now that he don't, we won't, and whoever will, gets auto 'i dont like this', no matter how original or fun his or her idea can be, and whoever CAN animate, AND tell a good story, works. Right now, for newgrounds, that can be summed up with Awesome.

Such a good reason to make a flash, and I'm sure you're using Irony for the joke, but that just doesn't go out to people in a matter like this, this is what they love, who they are, what they can laugh at. I laugh at Awesome, it's funny, it is.. funny, extreme exaggerations of minor observations make me laugh, it's just who I am, but newgrounds is not about laughs, it's about... everything by everyone, and I hear you when you think it's 'Princess Zelda''s Boobs by Egoraptor' But that isn't his fault, you can't get monty python to make serious puns, he's doing that crazy wtf humor about completely random moments. But they've gone, no more funnies from them, and now what's our inspiration? continuing failures in movies of late, look at Adam Sandler - Zohan, then Adam Sandler - Happy Gilmore, the difference in audience is huge, and that effects us!

this is because there are two types of comedeys. Well thought out humor[WTO], and WTF humor, no matter how the joke is told, it's either completely unexpected [HADOOOOKEN], or funny, because of a reason you have to think about [ie, 911, i locked myself out of my car, and I left the top off, it's starting to rain.] until someone comes up with something creative and new, it's going to be the same comedy that no one notices because it's been done, and abused.

It is important, because this doesn't only apply to comedy, but also every other genre that appl-.. it just effects everything, if you're raised with a funny environment, you're gonna know a couple of good jokes.

...Waaay off topic there.
Anyway
People either don't know how to make a joke, or how to tell it. Egoraptor knows how to tell his own joke, but nobody else does... that's why penis, boobs, and mario conquer newgrounds like pedobear tailors little boys suits. he's all over them. =O

The bar is raised, all the old jokes, stories, and songs have come and gone, and either history repeats himself, and we find another charlie chaplin, guns n roses, and steven king, or no one will ever be original until flash animation is dead and gone. that's how sitcoms work, once they've run themselves into the dirt, they just end, like f.r.i.e.n.d.s, but they never shut up.

...I looked away for a bit, lost what I was talking about. ._.;
SO, TL;DR?

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONE, IT'S HARDER TO DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL EVERYDAY, BECAUSE EVERYTHING BY EVERYONE MEANS EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONE BY SOMEONE, AND UNLESS YOU'RE SOMEONE NEW, YOU'RE GOING TO BE SOMEONE OLD. PEOPLE AREN'T WITH LACK OF CREATIVITY, BUT ARE JUST BEATEN BY PEOPLE BEFORE THEM.

"For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear."

-You.

What are you doing now? To Awesome, it's unique, -in it's own way, it's very VERY similar to everything else.- Maybe, soon, someone will have something original, something you would like, that isn't about porn, or parodies. There are some people out there with original jokes, and instead of preaching to us, why don't you at least try to fix the problem yourself? you seem smart enough to make your own jokes, and if you've read through all this, you have a lot of... ........patience! i'm rambling and rambling, and a flash takes a lot more attention than this, become the solution, and I'll be waiting for something good from you!

Oh, by the way, flash wasn't funny.