At 3/20/15 01:39 AM, DragonTherapist wrote: Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that you're making a movie about NG.

Not about NG, but to honour it.

I hope you share it wherever there may be people who don't yet know about the site and I hope it brings in throngs of curious newcomers.

There will be more than just people who don't know the site reviewing and rating like this video that was approved by Tom. I'm sure people spending lots of time on the site would watch it since I got mine approved by his brother which is pretty damn close to Tom.

What kind of well-liked work on Newgrounds is analogous to all the airheaded ditzes video blogging about the mountains of crap they bought for school, or shrieking obnoxious douchebags playing and overreacting to computer games, or anyone else hopping on some trending viral video archetype to make a quick buck? Youtube is kind of a cesspool because channels like those exist to churn out vapid content while begging for likes and subscribers and being immune to criticism. Those are the entrepreneurs I'm talking about.

Sure, but there also a time on NG when people used to put mountains of crap for animation and did copyrighted animation or just random animation that didn't even make sense or so on, but Tom later made some established rules about what animation can make it to the portal and what animation can't make it.

If Tom can do it for animation content and stop bad animation from entering the website, he could do it for LIVE content as well.

Do you allow all kinds of animation on newgrounds?

At 3/4/16 02:02 AM, Solge11 wrote: Do you allow all kinds of animation on newgrounds?

Yup! Doesn't have to just be Flash.

At 3/5/16 01:16 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 3/4/16 02:02 AM, Solge11 wrote: Do you allow all kinds of animation on newgrounds?

Yup! Doesn't have to just be Flash.

Welp, that right there has just convinced me to start using Newgrounds.

I've been tired of YouTube's crap for the past six years and have wanted it to have competition desperately. I always knew about newgrounds, but for the longest time it only supported flash and I do not make flash animations. Now that I see that has changed, I will definitely start becoming active on newgrounds.

At 8/3/14 02:01 PM, morcov wrote:

At 8/3/14 01:22 PM, TomFulp wrote: We hope to see your next animation!

Maybe Newgrounds should pull a Netflix and fund animators to make NG exclusive original series.

i would totally make a NG exclusive original series!

At 8/3/14 02:23 PM, Emrox wrote: As seeing as a lot of big guys are turning to patreon these days, have you thought of adding "support this artist" features to encourage people to keep posting on NG? It could be as little as a special button you could put on your submissions that links to your personal donations page.

These are all great ideas I could totally get behind this!

I would consider moving here to Newgrounds if there was a way to make collaborative work easier. One of the biggest problems I have with youtube is that there is no way to make a studio there. If I want to give someone access to my account so they can upload something, I have to give them my password to my google account, which is not safe. Not only that, but there is no way to distribute power, either I give someone access to the channel and they can upload, delete, or do whatever they want with the channel, or give them cero access to it. Does anyone know if Newgrounds has something like this so that I can work with other collaborative without risking loosing all of my work or giving private information? Like ranks you can give people like "Moderator" or "Editor" or something like that? If they do then I'm moving here, if they don't then you need to get on that Newgrounds, because this is a place where people come to upload their creative projects, and stuff like film and animation require a team most of the time.

At 3/19/15 06:17 PM, DragonTherapist wrote:

At 3/19/15 12:33 PM, Master-Awesome wrote: I know you prefer flash, but I believe NG can have LIVE videos and not the type on YouTube. What will be different is that we make it ourselves and compete for front page. I think you might even see lots to of new people join and proudly be artists. You could also make it a separate portal.

This is antithetical to what NG exists for, as I understand it. Maybe my apprehension comes from watching cartoon channels I loved as a child, like Nickelodeon and Disney, convert to cringeworthy, ludicrously bad schedules stuffed full of live-action shows with piss-poor acting and even worse writing because such programs were cheaper to produce and they could maximize profit and investor interest. I just don't believe such a strategy has a place here.

That's because NG nurtures artists, not entrepreneurs. It's pure because it's the artists who own it. You'll have a hard time finding any other outlet that truly depends on its community to live, while it lives for its community.

Moving closer to Youtube with things like live videos will move this place away from that purity. It doesn't take an artist to make a video. It doesn't take practice to edit a string of shots together. It doesn't take patience to come up with a skit and record it on the spot. With a skill ceiling so low you'd have to crouch to fit beneath it, the motivation moves away from the work itself and into pure profit.

Here's what NG does have that Youtube never will, though:

At 12/15/14 08:48 PM, Rixxx wrote: more boobs

That's our strength. We're free from entrepreneurs and we can take risks as artists.

If you think making a good live video or film doesn't take skill, then Idk where you have been. Allowing live videos would let other types of artists in, which are called cinematographers and film makers to post their work here. Making a short and a good script with good dialogue is no easy task, and there are some worthy youtubers out there that definitely put more effort into all of these stuff than you give them credit for. I think live videos is a good idea, but it has to be controlled, it's not like all the animations here are top notch either, most are pretty crappy.

I think live videos is a good idea, but it has to be controlled, it's not like all the animations here are top notch either, most are pretty crappy.

THANK YOU!