Each year around this time we give away a bunch of Wacom tablets to up-and-coming artists!

Last year I announced a winner every day for over 30 days straight. I'm planning to not be as crazy this year but we'll see what happens.

The first Wacom winner for 2009 is aap!

If you aren't familiar with aap, here are some goodies:

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  Blergh

  by aap

  A kid goes out for a walk...

  Movie

  18,691 Views

  (Ages 17+)

• 

  Blerf

  by aap

  Another kid goes out for a walk...

  Movie

  16,541 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Taxi

  by aap

  Did you know the truth about taxis?

  Movie

  42,284 Views

  (Ages 17+)

You may also be familiar with Gher, which made front page but never got a lot of views:

• 

  Gher

  by aap

  Gher is going to Croatia!

  Movie

  42,990 Views

  (Everyone)

• 

  Gher 2

  by aap

  Gher's going to Azerbaijan!

  Movie

  36,918 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Aap's most recent movies are about a monkey!

• Unpublished Submission

• Unpublished Submission

Aap is hoping a Wacom tablet will allow him to bring higher quality art and animation to his future movies. Hopefully more intestines, too!

In other news...

lenkobiscuit has made a call for characters to appear in his upcoming Winter Flash-Off submission!

Monthly voting for Best of November started today, so check your account options page to see if you're in the voting pool.

Artists should check out yesterday's post about Twitter skins and the Winter Flash-Off.

So have you considered wacom cintiqs yet :P
grats aap!

ahaha thanks for the plug fella

I meant second... you know...

Conglaturations, aap. Hope your art is vastly improved by getting this.

At 12/1/09 03:33 PM, TomFulp wrote: Each year around this time we give away a bunch of Wacom tablets to up-and-coming artists!

Oh shit, not again

The first Wacom winner for 2009 is aap!

What a strange username. Congratulations

Monthly voting for Best of November started today, so check your account options page to see if you're in the voting pool.

Done and voted

FFFthanks for deletin my reply, saved me the humiliation
Also I spent all the prize money that I won on chocolate, thanks

Can I get one for being a pretty cool guy?

Oh yeah, I remember Gher. With that guy dancing in that silly way, lol.

Hmm, no option for me to vote this month. Guess it might be cos I've been slacking when it comes to depositing my experience.

At 12/1/09 03:33 PM, TomFulp wrote: The first Wacom winner for 2009 is aap!

Oh wow, that a nice surprise and well deserved. From what I understand is that his Gher movies are based on a real professor who likes to dance in class but whatever is true I really enjoy his movies.

Twelth!

I win. Prize pl0x

Yeah I remember aap. He's cool, I loved Gher, too.

is anyone eligible or are there requirements?

What kind of tablet are you giving away?

I don't think I'll enter, I already have my trusty bamboo...

Haha, good work aap :D Finally it's time for you to work on that Wacom, now that you won one, you gotta' use it! ;)

(Told him a million times! But he kept using the mouse! haha)

Veel plezier er mee Jornster :D

Lol, my first submission went up today! Does that make me an official flash author dude?

At 12/1/09 04:22 PM, Jinx-Studios wrote: What kind of tablet are you giving away?

I don't think I'll enter, I already have my trusty bamboo...

They are Bamboo Fun Mediums.

Random side-note, if anyone else wants a pixel winter logo, I just worked some magic on the pixel tank logo that Anna Anthropy originally made for When Pigs Fly.

Wait, you have to enter or something?

Yeah, how do I enter? All my college's tablets are busted and don't like CS4.

Fuucck, I still havent done anything worthwhile (flash wise) with the tablet I got...sorry Tom

Also congrats aap

From my original post:

Thanks to the ongoing success of Castle Crashers, we're once again giving away a bunch of Wacom Bamboo Fun tablets for the holidays.

Submitting your information will not guarantee you a tablet, and PLEASE don't apply unless you have a proven track record on Newgrounds; examples include high scoring submissions, submissions that have won awards, or featured artwork.

To apply, PM me with the following info in this specific order:

FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THESE RULES WILL RESULT IN YOUR REQUEST BEING IGNORED.

1. The subject "WACOM TABLET"
2. Line one: Your NG USERNAME.
3. Line two: Leave blank.
4. Line three: Your full name.
5. Line four: Your mailing address (may be multiple lines)
6. Next line: Leave blank.
7. A brief or long story about why you want a tablet and what you hope to accomplish with it.
8. Direct links to your best Flash or Art contributions.

Sorry for being so strict but hundreds of people come out of the woodwork each year and I need to keep my notes tidy!

At 12/1/09 03:33 PM, TomFulp wrote: The first Wacom winner for 2009 is aap!

Cngratulations, aap. I look forward to seeing the new stuff that you can produce with the tablet. Don't forget to put it under the tree, because you're not allowed it until December 25th!

A few pixels in that logo were bugging me, here's an update:

Random side note, do you guys think this wallpaper would get us kicked off Twitter? I'm not sure how picky they are.

Congratulation, aap!
Ik hoop dat je er veel plezier eraan beleeft met je nieuwe Wacom tablet ;)

haha, i am happy that my frontpage post (and only one ever) helped gher get frontpage, congratz aap!

At 12/1/09 04:59 PM, TomFulp wrote: Random side note, do you guys think this wallpaper would get us kicked off Twitter? I'm not sure how picky they are.

I don't think they would. I mean, it's not like small children who would get offended by that go on Twitter anyway.

By the way, did you get my PM?

Well deserved, i loved the Gher serie. Hopefully he will make another one, i wanna know where in the world is Gher going now.