Musicians: The Art Inspired Music Contest just launched today! The theme is to create music inspired by art here on Newgrounds, it’s a great way to celebrate fellow artists and cross-pollinate between the Art and Music Portal crowds!
Epic Battle Fantasy Art and Music Contest
May 1st is the 10 Year Anniversary of Epic Battle Fantasy on Newgrounds and Epic Battle Fantasy 5 recently released on Steam. To celebrate the occasion, we’re hosting a fan art and music remix contest here on NG!
To participate in the art contest, create Epic Battle Fantasy fan art, tag it with “Epic-Battle-Fantasy” and upload it to the Art Portal by May 1st.
To participate in the music contest, remix any of the songs from the Epic Battle Fantasy series 2-5 (when Phyrnna was making the music), tag it “Epic-Battle-Fantasy” and upload it to the Audio Portal by May 1st.
Entries will be judged by @matt-likes-swords, @Phyrnna, @ronjaw and the NG office.
The ten best fan arts and three best music remixes will receive Steam keys (Windows only) for EBF5, EBF4, Bullet Heaven 2 and the EBF5 soundtrack.
Supporters can participate in our Newgrounds Player Beta, which allows you to play Flash content on NG without having Flash enabled in your browser. 2020 what?
Art Portal Updates
We made some big changes to the Art Portal hub this week! It’s now utilizing larger thumbnails and we’ve removed the left column category list, instead moving those to a dropdown. Registered users default to seeing the latest art, while unregistered users default to featured art. We plan to add a tab for your personal art feed but want to get ratings filters working with feed data first.
You can now toggle between scouted and undiscovered artists, or view All Artists combined for the first time ever.
For people who preferred pagination vs endless scroll - the pagination system was a huge bottleneck that made it difficult for us to integrate advanced filtering options. There was already a complicated system in place to filter results by content rating without killing the servers; we’re happy to be moving away from that.
The next update will be the ability to browse with custom date ranges and other updates will include blocked user and blocked tag filtering. We’ll be bringing all this over to Animation, Games and Audio once we’re happy with how it’s working.
If you like the ongoing progress around here, please consider becoming a Supporter and if you missed it, check out the Best of March!