Don’t miss the Christmas roundup, there’s a lot of great stuff. Maybe the merriest Christmas in the history of NG?
Yesterday was Peter the Ant Day! Go smash some ants, or get smashed.
DoctorGrambo has announced a MessyPaints challenge for 2022. At the start of each month, he will host a poll to determine the subject for the month. Participants will then have the rest of the month to paint the subject (digital or traditional) and share it with the #MessyPaints2022 tag. The goal will be to have fun and see how much your painting improves over the course of the year! We’ll be announcing themes here throughout 2022 but you should also follow that thread if you want to keep up. If you were looking for the MessyPants challenge, we have content filters for that.
Drawing Tablet Giveaway
Today’s recipient in our Annual Drawing Tablet Giveaway is @Cryptospore!
Cryptospore is traditionally a physical arts guy, focused on painting and writing, however he would like to expand into the digital realm!
2021 Highlight
In the Christmas roundup post I noted @ForrestFireFilms made some brilliant brick films this year. Today I’ll expand on that a bit! These are all great:
@Sonjira also made some truly unique brick films this year, don’t sleep on these:
Is this turning into a stop motion recap post? Sure! @jellyeyes, a favorite stop motion artist in recent years, explored worms this year!
@MaxJohnsonINK used stop motion to bring Wally and His Hideously Malformed Wart to life:
@bessiebee utilized it for the adorable Girl vs Roach:
@toastcrumch made several stop motion music videos, including these gems:
@yarharcannon experimented a lot with animation this year, including papercraft.
@TheFroginator blends stop motion and traditional animation to great effect in The Looter!
@BrandyBuizel encouraged mixed media in the summer animation jams and used it for this NG bumper:
You will also find it in LUCKYBOY if you missed that in the giant box on the front page!
@moonshineanimations used articulated figures in fun ways:
@ayekerik told an extraterrestrial tale:
@NoobJew666 turned up for both Madness and Pico Day!
@DeskFable used claymation to take us on a Grand Day for Fishing:
@PilarGFS told a big story in a small way with By Day’s End.
@von-Brunk created a transforming Super Nintendo and animated it with stop motion.
@BoredKid crafted the atmospheric mixed-media short film, Paper Body:
There’s plenty more, browse the stop-motion tag for 2021!
Thanks to Ruffle adding support for video-in-Flash this year, some classics have also been preserved:
Other News
@Bill launched an NG Rumble Character Reveal Art Contest. The prize pool includes the money from sales of the Picollage Poster plus extra, with $1,600 total in prizes.
@VoicesByCorey is organizing the Newgrounds Voice Acting Collaboration 2022!
BadTwinZ is organizing a Resident Evil 2 Collab, to follow up 2020’s Resident Evil Collab.
Winners of the Streamers Universe Animation War were announced.
Pixel Day will be on January 23rd, 2022!
Update: The Pixel Day 2022 Prize Fund spreadsheet has started, thanks to a generous $100 donation from @olskoo!
The NG Winter Festival will be January 28-30th!
@Philljc, the creator of the Ray games, has been working on a new game for the past five years and launched a Kickstarter to finish it!
Double XP December
We’re awarding double XP for the rest of December, be sure to vote on at least ten items per day to log the max daily XP!
Tablet Giveaway Sponsors
@olskoo - $300
@ScarecrowArts - $300
@SaucySaucepan - $200
@squidly - $100
@Zachary - $100
@VariantSeven - $100
@Arzonaut - $70
@arkoirisangel - $60
@NamelessNathan - $60
@MSGhero - $60
@53xy83457 - $25
@pixelturkey, @Xorberax and @jeffz4000 - $10
@nek0ai, @Wegra, @Wizardism, @kaeojay - $5
Previous 2021 Tablet Recipients
