For the poeple with short attention spans that don't feel like reading this. I will quickly summarize what I'm trying to say. Obviously people aren't reading the thread entirely. (Clears his throat). I am not trying to do anything at the moment involving a animated film. I am just expressing what it would take to do something like it and hopes for there being a collaboration to do an animated film. No the film doesnt have to be 100 mins long. That's just a maximum. For the people who think I just want people to do work for me, that is not the case. I would definitely put my time in animating a part of the project if it were to happen. This is just a case of What IF. Nothing is official. No of course there is no story to even make an animated film for the person who wanted to know. I explain that you would of course need writers and even then, people will tend to not want to animate other peoples stories. Yes it would be hard, yes you would need a story (duh), yes i understand all the problems that will arise

I had this thought on my mind all the time... why don't I make a movie. I always wanted to make a film. My goal in life before I die is to create a film one day. I don't care if it sucks or stands the test of time. As long as I finish it, then that would make me happy. So, I look at all the artist on Newgrounds and ask myself, why don't we all collaborate on a movie. Making a quality animation for me takes about a month for every 2 minutes of animation. Now, I don't mind making a short animation for a film festival. Actually, later in 2009 I plan on making a submission for film festivals so I can get a head start on my independent career. I seriously want to be an independent animator, so in order to do it I have to take the steps to become exactly that. But anyways, let me get to the point I was trying to make

There are a ton of incredible artist, writers, and voice actors all around Newgrounds. If I made a list right here and now, it would take me the entire day. Basically, there is a lot of talent. If we could group all of these people together, we could definitely come up with a movie in a period of about a year. If it takes me a month to do 2 minutes of animation, then think of what 50 or more animators could do in a year. I think if there was a collaboration to create a movie on Newgrounds, it would help people understand the process that goes into making an animated movie. It would be an incredible journey and a great learning experience. Who hasn't ever wanted to make or be a part of a movie?

Anyways, I've been trying to gather ways to go about doing this so it would actually be a feasible goal. Usually, animated movies never exceed 100 minutes. As an animator and a student, I would probably never have the time to complete an animated film at that length. It would take me years, if not a decade of working on the animation. I would love to put the time into something like that, but doing everything by myself can be a hassle.

If you handed each animator maybe like 2 to 4 minutes over a period of about 7 months, they will come out with some beautifully done line animation. Then when the months have ended, you can compile all the work, and come out with an animation that can turn into a movie. It sounds easy when I type it, but then I run into the problem of people who have trouble working with someone's style of drawing that may drastically differ from there's. If there is in fact gonna be a collaboration such as this, we would have to all convert to one style of animation to keep things similar. That's the only way it can be done, unless the project was gonna be like the Animatrix, but generally the artwork has to be exactly the same. So we would need concept artist to come up with the style. If you are gonna work on these types of animation, then you have to learn to change styles in order to make a more fluid animation. Usually 3d animations already have the character models set up for use and all the animators have to do is put them in poses. However, for 2d each animator has to learn to be able to animate what they are given for concept art.

Anyways, If we could get really great animators to join in making a colaborative movie one day, that would just be astounding. Maybe next year after I finish my projects, I'll start to make this collaboration. Or maybe, someone else will come along and make it themselves.

Everytime I think of making a collaborative movie, I always think about the script and the story. Its hard to get people to commit to one story and one story only. Sometimes, people may not agree and want to add something so they can animate the way their own scenes. The only way to make sure that it is fair is if no animators partake in writing the script. It would have to be the script writers that help writing. It would be good though to have everyone, writers, artist and actors to add things they would like to see in the story however before any writing is ever done. It would be great if there was already a script made and we had artist come in who read the script and want to join because they love the story. Those would probably be the best ways. It would be cool though to get writers into it as well.

Background artist and concept artist will have to do the same thing the animators do and come up with one style to go with. The backgrounds have to go from background to background just as well as the animation.

I think in the long run, for this to happen, we definitely have to appoint a director, someone who can manage the entire project. I wouldn't mind doing it myself, but I doubt anyone wants to listen to me direct them. It would have to be an admin, or someone people respect more. It would be pretty cool if Tom Fulp orchestrated the whole thing, or even Mindchamber or Johnny Utah for that matter. If it had to me, I would definitely put in the time to make it happen, I just doubt people would want to join me anyways :). Put hey, I will be glad to orchestrate something like this whenever I get the chance next year.

So yeah, a movie made by the people, for the people would be an excellent collaboration. I would love to see some newground artist come together and make something for film festivals or even movie theaters. You never know. If you guys would be interested in that sort of thing, let me know. I will try my best to put together something solid so people can join. There would be alot of documents for me to write up so everybody knows what they are doing and etc, but I think that this collaboration, if it were to at least be attempted, would be a great experience. Even if it is never finished, it was still atleast attempted and thats all that matters. It would be good if it was finished and complete though :).

Well, thats all I have to say on the matter. I think my love for animated films makes me want to accomplish something like this one day. I was watching Iron Giant for the 200th time yesterday and Paprika (by the way, if you have never watched this movie, get off your ass and watch it because the animation is surreal), and everytime I watch movies like these, I keep asking myself... when will I make something like this. Well, hopefully a collaboration can happen. Well, to end this post, here are my top 5 2d animated movies for you guys to check out:
Iron Giant
Paprika
Akira
Lilo & Stitch (made me cry)
Lion King

I wish that American Studios still made animated films, but what can you do?

Well I finally finished this bad boy. Took me about a month and a half. Andrew Sinclair did an excellent job with the musical score. I want to thank Deven Mack and Francine Louise for doing the voices in this. It was great working with them again. I hope you guys enjoy it. It's a story that's really close to my heart. Now hurry up and go watch Little Aviator

Also, I started making sprites for a robot action platformer game I had in mind. I just started drawing as soon as I finished Little Aviator. Its actually turning out to look like a badass action game. The next movie ill be doing is Wizard Kin over christmas break and this game. I don't know when I'll finish them, but I'm just letting you guys know I'm starting something new. Well that's about it for now.

Here is a pic from Little Aviator

Yep, I finished little aviator if anyone wanted to know. If you guys are wondering why I haven't posted it up yet, well its mainly because I'm waiting for Andrew to finish up the musical score. It should be out sometime this week so keep an eye out for that. Now that i finished, I'm actually incredibly bored and waiting to find something else to work on. You'd think I'd be ecstatic about finishing, but im just really bored. Can't tell you why really. I guess i just need to animate something.
I can't wait to start on the boogley collab and the Johnny Utah one, whenever that's suppose to start. Anyways, Imma just surf newgrounds a bit. I'll make a front page post when i release Little Aviator. Well, peace peoples!

Quick note though: I still want to explore my animation chops a bit. Little Aviator is good, but i feel like I can top that. But im pretty sure when i do my next project, I'll say the same thing. Whenever I finish something I never feel like its good enough... I don't know why I do that. Maybe I just expect too much out of myself :P

Anyways, here is a pic to savor your appetite for my new project...

Today, two years ago, was the first day a friend at school showed me a website called Newgrounds. The first cartoon I ever watched was Metal Gear Awesome. For a flash that came out a few months ago, it was still one of the most popular flashes to hit Newgrounds. I laughed and laughed and continued to journey through the portal to find cartoons. I started reviewing, checking the forums, and voting every five days trying to level up like it was an RPG. Then I watched a cartoon by Adam Phillips called the Yuyu. Right when I watched it, I knew then in there that this is the time to start praticing animation and the medium he used was flash. I told myself, if he could achieve quality like that, why can't I? So i started to practice. Then I made my first animation. Back when I first made it (Viva Las Vegas- check it out in my flash page), I thought it was the best thing ever.

So i submitted it, and I got a few reviews that told me what I should work on. So, i went back to the drawing board and conitnued making more flashes. The first flash I made that won an award was something I worked on for a week and it felt great holding that award. But I decided that i needed to do better. Then I saw a cartoon called Haphazard created by a crew called Toonimated.

The frame by frame at that time was so incredible that I knew that i needed to switch my way of animating and learn how to fbf. Basically, it has been a large transition of the two years. I went from a bad flash animator to one that can make an animation and make it look like decent pro work. It has taken me so long and I still have alot to learn, but I would like to thank Newgrounds right now for getting me into flash animation. Without Newgrounds, I would probably be lost as what to do as a career plan, and I probably wouldn't be animating period... EXCLAMATION POINT! I also want to thank the artist here, especially Toonimated, Luis, Mindchamber, Adam Phillips, SexySexyBicycle, and many many others that would take a while to name for inspiring me and making flashes that have helped me understand animation over these two years.

I actually got in touch with Toonimated a few months ago, and I started talking to arturo alot. Now we both talk to each other regularly and I always tell him everyday thank you for making your flashes. He's always like, (thanks man? lol) but hey, I feel the need to tell people I am thankful for their art and contributions to the community and helping become the artist that I am now.

So to celebrate my two years on Newgrounds, it's about time that I contribute more to Newgrounds. And to contribute, I figure I make a schedule of projects for This month and my goals for 2009. Hopefully I become the artist that inspires someone one day. Like i said before, I still have alot to learn as far as animation goes, but I think I'm pretty awesome right now as far as making cartoons. Anyways, here is a list:
Little Aviator: Well I will be releasing the project hopefully on December 8th. Its pretty much done. The project is sort of everything I taught myself about flash and all the techniques Ive learned are put into affect in this flash. It's also a story close to my heart so I hope you all enjoy it!
Boogley Streets Collab: I'll be making something for the collaboration. I feel that I need to contribute more and a good way of doing that is to join collabs from artist that I really like. Also the idea of the collab is pretty cool

-Johnny Utah said he was making a collab so we will see how that turns out. Whatever it is I will animate something for it. Even if its a big COCK joke collab, I'll be animating a penis in frame by frame. I regret not making stuff for transformers or the MGS collab. I really wish I made something so I will not pass up the moment ever again. EVAR!

Cambo, the creator of the sherry enema, and making an episode for him as a guest animator. The first thing we ever did together was a short about a dog (even though the animation was sub par at best lol. I sucked so much back then). So hopefully I do a great job for Cambo. I love sherry enema so I'm gonna make sure I do a bang up job. I probably wont go all out on the fbf like i did with Little Aviator, but Ill have animation sort of like what SexySexyBicycle did with These Pancakes are Tiny. This will probably happen later this December. I'm not to sure, its all up to Cambo really

I'll be starting a video game with a friend of mine that lives in houston. Because I live near him, it'll be easier to work together. Of course, I'll be doing the animations and backgrounds and design, and my friend will be doing the programming. I always wanted to do a video game and it will be a really new experience for me. This will start sometime January.

Wizard Kin will be in the mix of all of my projects, but I'm gonna be animating this show pilot for a while. It's one of those things that has to be perfect... This is a animation that opens the doors as far as being a real pilot to shop around at studios. That's all I'll say about it :). Lefthandedsock will be working on it as well, but he is a full time animator so he doesn't have much time to do much of the work.

2009 will be the year I enter most of the contest on Newgrounds. The main ones I want to enter are PIco Day, Madness and Halloween. I already have something planned for my madness day short. Its gonna be one of those hardcore fighting flashes that will hopefully be kickass

That's about all I have planned as of right now. I'm mainly focusing on school. I wish I can be independent, but who knows what will happened. I may have to start working in an animation company in the summer which will either be fun or very tedious. I wish i can work on my own animation and make my own projects and deadlines, but it doesnt seem pratical when I finally finish school. It might be harder than I imagine at the moment. But as long as I'm in school, Newgrounds is the place to be.

Like i said, I haven't really been a member here all that long. Two years isn't really a long time, and it's crazy how i learned flash to the point where I got most of everything down to a T. Hopefully 2009 I will become a really active member

Once again, I want to thank Newgrounds, especially Tom Fulp, for making this site in the first place. I and other people can complain about the things on Newgrounds all they want, but when it comes down to it, if it didn't exist, where would I be? Would I still be drawing. I almost nearly focused on my writing until I found out that this site was around. Tom Fulp opened the doors for a lot of people and he is probably one of the most inspiring people of all. All that he has accomplished is inspiring. Thank you Tom! Thanks for being so active in your community and taking the time out to talk to people and well...everything This is probably my longest post haha. I just thought I would take the time out to celebrate my two years by thanking the people and the artist.

OH, and i have to thank the users. Some people that leave reviews can be irritating (especially the people who leave dumb stuff like "I like poop... it feels good coming out of my asshole".. or "that's sucks dfjdsfjlds" whatever that means.
BUT....
The people who leave reviews that really talk about my flashes, whether it be negative or positive, it really helps push me and make stuff that's better than my past cartoons. I read all my reviews, and when I get a review that really goes into problems or ways that i can better myself, those are the ones that help me in the long run. People who leave comments about dumb stuff... especailly with Nintendo Power where I left out characters and they complain about it... that doesn't really help me. So the reviewers that really care, I would like to thank:
One of the reviewers I can really name off the top of my head that always leaves good reviews is Yoink... He is probably one fo the most active and really tells people what there flashes need to improve on. MindChamber does this alot too, sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't, but when he does, its really cool to hear from a well known artist. Anyways, thats my giant thank you. I wish I had the time to make a list of thank yours....

OH, really fast. Ironically I want to thank parodies. Especially Egoraptor and Kirbopher specifically. As much as people complain about their flahses, it is really the parodies that bring people here. I remember the only reason why a friend brought me to newgrounds was to check out Metal Gear Awesome. Sure, it may seem unfair that they win alot of stuff and whatever, but i also think they deserve some thank yous.

If I forgot any artist, then I apologize in advance. I love you guys

-KartuneHustla

As promised for the week, I would give a quick update on Little Aviator. Well, it is in its final stages of completion. I'm in the process of coloring, adding a few more backgrounds, and fixing up lip sync. Hopefully I will be done by the deadline I made for myself if nothing comes up.... December 8th. Keep your eye out for the release.

Another update is that I just started the Making of Little Aviator thread for you to read. I will be updating it for the next 13 days before release. I think you guys will definitely be able to take something away from it. Here is the link:

Making of Little Aviator

Well I guess that's it really, I'll leave you guys with a picture. Nothing more I can say thats already in the thread above

I haven't made a post in so long. I disappeared for a while because of school taking up so much of my time, but don't worry people. I have returned!! I know, you guys are so excited

So, I want to clear the air for a second about Wizard Kin. I had to put it on the back burner. You won't see anything Wizard Kin related until Summer time. The reason why I am waiting for Summer is because I wont have to worry about school assignments. I will have three months to finish the five minute premiere of Wizard Kin with no interruptions. But, until then, I will be working on shorts that are at least under 2 and a half minutes. They will probably never be above that. Also, because I had gotten a new tablet, it took me a while to get used to it. Now that I am really good with it, its hard for me to go back to Wizard Kin because I have to restart animation with this new tool

The good thing about my new tablet is that it makes animation go by faster. Now, I have already started a project called Little Aviator. This was going to be my submission for the newgrounds Christmas contest, but Im not to sure if there is going to even be a contest or not. But anyways, back to Little Aviator. So the project is shaping up to be the culmination of everything they have been teaching me in school. Ive been showing a few people close to me my the minute of animation I have so far, and from what they say, they love how fluidly everything moves. I think I could have finished this cartoon a week ago, but I have been being (as always) incredibly attentive to detail. So now that i can draw so fast with the tablet, I have been filling every scene with so many inbetweens that everything moves so smoothly. Its sort of like an actual traditional animation, but in flash. Also, this is the first project where I used Coral Painter X and Storyboarding.
I never use to storyboard, but now Im glad I did because it makes everything so easy and moves the animation process along. Mainly, Little Aviator is an animation exercise for me personally. But not only that, its a story thats really close to my heart. Its about your childhood dreams and i got the inspiration from a small poem called Little Aviator. Hopefully you guys enjoy it when it comes out. I only have another minute of animaiton to complete, but its pretty much going to be done by December 1st. I probably wont release it until the Christmas contest is announced. I seriously hope there is a Christmas contest. I am working super hard on this, that its crazy to think how I even managed to make this animation look so professional. Ive came a long way from my first animation. A very long way

So, before I release Little Aviator, Ill be releasing a making of Little Aviator in the flash forums. This will mostly be a large commentary of how I made it and a tutorial for people who want to make frame by frame cartoons but don't know how to. If you are serious about animation, then you should look out for the making of when i release it. These are the things Ill be going over in the post, and I will be showing you all the materials and files from my project so you can get a real good feel for how to accomplish certain things:
1. Storyboards and Concept art
2. Animatics
3. Finding Voice Actors
4. Animation
5. Backgrounds
6. Visual Effects
7. Submitting
Ill be writing everything I went through to make this animation. Trust me when I say this will atleast help one person out there.

Now I want to talk about an album that is coming out by Kanye West called 808's and Heartbreak. I'll keep this short. Some people out there are saying that Kanye is making a horrible decision by using autotune. I have to disagree. From what I heard so far from the album, this is turning into one of the most emotional albums I've ever heard in my life. This guy is seriously putting his heart on his sleeves with these songs and its even more impressive that he is singing. Now, hes not the best singer out there, but hes not bad either. And the instrumentals definitely fill out the vocals that seem a bit weak. There is one song that sort of gave me chills when I listened to it and I keep feeling the need to animate it when the album comes out. The song is called Coldest Winter. Its one of the best songs on the album next to Robocop and Welcome to Heartbreak (that's just my opinion). Keep your eye out for the album because I have a feeling its gonna be his ( I wouldn't say best) but better than Graduation. I'll just leave it at that.

Well thats all for this week. Next week I'll give an update on Little Aviator. So in conclusion: Little Aviator is gonna be my best animation to date. 808s and Heartbreak will probably be on my Zune on Repeat. Wizard Kin will be continued during the Summer. And after Little Aviator, I will be working on small shorts from time to time.

Also, I want to contribute more to the newgrounds community. So I will be entering contest on newgrounds starting now (I might join some art contest, but I doubt it. Mostly only flash contest). I will try to be a part of more collaborations created by the moderators and prominent flash artist in the community. And I will continue to make high quality flashes just as good as my upcoming Little Aviator. Hopefully you guys will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

-KartuneHustla

Well, I'll try to make this read as conveniently long as I can. So far, Wizard Kin is moving along smoothly as far as animation goes. Right now I am still working on finishing so more animations so it is in its black and white stage. That means no color or backgrounds or sound effects have been added at all. Gotta get the frame by frame look good before you add the pretty parts. However, I took the time to color a cell of animation to show you what the final project should look like. The picture should be at the end of my post.
Luckily my new tablet just came in thanks to my buddy D-mac Double for purchasing me one. That was really cool of him to do that. It was a gift for my birthday, but I still feel like I must make it up to him somehow. Hopefully I can make an animation for him soon as my way of saying "HOLY CRAP I GOT A BAMBOO!".
Since I received the tablet half way through the project, i am gonna be sticking to whatever smoothness I have it on since most of the animation (like 55%) has been completed with a mouse. I still want to keep the style the same even though I got this new piece of awesome equipment. I can't promise the exact time Wizard Kin will be done, but I estimate between 3 weeks or 4 weeks. Shouldn't take any longer than that.

Now for side news. I just got back from watching the Dark Knight, and It is seriously one of the best superhero movies I have ever laid my eyes upon. If you are not even into Batman, I still think you should just check it out for the performances, especially Heath Ledger's as the Joker. Just walk out right after you see Heath Ledger finish his second introduction. He does a magic trick you won't forget :P. I can not stress enough how great Heath Ledger was. My spine was literally shivering and he had me laughing as well. There were scenes where I felt I just wanted the joker to just pop out of nowhere and make an appearance.
The movie plot wise and visually was outstanding. The musical score was so brilliant and I love how during silent parts, there was a thud that makes your heart pound as you see the intensity build up. The plot flowed very smoothly, and there were enough twist to keep you at the edge of your seat. I don't care how long this movie was, I didn't want it to end. And when it ended, I was like " Dammit that was so short". But my friend told me 2 hours and 30 so minutes had passed. I couldn't believe it. I never sat through a movie that long without yawning at least once and this didn't make me yawn one bit. Did I mention that the Joker was awesome? Also, the action sequences greatly improved over the first one and for a pg 13 film, there were a lot of gruesome scenes that weren't really gruesome if that makes sense. I guess like, all of the graphic stuff happens off screen but still is creepy. I guess that's the genius of Chris Nolan's directing abilities. So yes, the movie is worth your money and make sure you go to the bathroom before you sit down. You don't want to miss a minute.

So thats all for now. I'll wrap the post up by saying go see Dark Knight, and watch out for Wizard Kin ( a series for Newgrounds). Hopefully you guys will like it

Oh, and also, I am joining the Newgrounds Collab after I finish Wizard Kin. Ill take an hour out of each day to do my part so I can make the deadline :). Rudy has a cool thing going. Check it out if you can. I'm doing alien hominid

Here is a picture from Wizard Kin. Let me know what you think about having the Newground's logo in the corner as the animation is playing. When i watch Nicktoon cartoons, I usually see the logo in the corner. I was thinking it would be cool for Newgrounds to have a logo in the corner of the movies so when people jack them or upload them somewhere else, people can click that logo to take them directly back to Newgrounds or just make them wonder, what the heck is Newgrounds anyways? I think it's a cool idea and can only help Newgrounds. So, any ideas on how the logo should look. Let me know what you think Tom if you read this. Post over

Well the post behind this one was suppose to be front page, but I didn't click the button so I thought I would add extra news so I won't look like an idiot

Collin & the Wishing tree is finished so definitely check it out. Out of all the cartoons i ever made, this was one of my more ambitious projects. Hopefully I can keep a my patience level up like i did with this to make more quality toons.
Nothing much more to say except i had alot of fun making this cartoon. Most of what I needed to say is in the author's comments. Enjoy

In other news, Im working with lefthandsock to bring a series called Wizard Kin. I don't want to give much away, but its gonna be fun and we cant wait to share more information with you when we get the story a bit more developed and begin animation. So far, the tests and the script is going well. It's gonna be another magical adveture :).

Dont be afraid to leave a comment or pm me if you ever need to. I usually check my pm's more than my email. Well, bye

Man, its been a good while since I created a post. I wish I was on the internets more often (well I am now because school is over so that's a good start). Sometimes I tell myself there is never enough time. Somehow, I was able to make time out of my busy schedule to make a cartoon called Collin and the Wishing Tree.

Basically, it all started after watching The Misadventures of Flapjack. I know, what the heck! Anyways, after watching this cartoon, it inspired me to get back into animation and try to make a cartoon you would see on cartoon network. So for a week or so, I practiced my drawing style and came up with some good sketches. Then I scouted for a voice actor. I found that the infamous Tomamoto had made story called Collin and the wishing tree (it had me laughing my arse off). We went over his awesome story of a boy who finds a wishing tree and is granted three wishes and how i wanted to animated. He was SO excited to hear his story was going being animated. I honestly can't wait to finish this baby. I've been working on it longer than i ever worked on a cartoon before. I actually sat down and took my time making this so hopefully you will enjoy it when I release it.

I can say right now this is better than anything i ever made EVER. Now that I look back, there are alot of things I could've done better, but I was inexperienced back then. Actually, I'm still learning stuff about flash that I didn't know and I've been doing this for about three years. Right now I'm at the process of wrapping up the animation portion. I didn't want to make a post until I was sure everything was pretty much done on the animation side. I usually would make a post right when I start making an animation, but this had to be a sure thing before I just declared "Hey, this cartoon is coming soon guys".

When I say soon, I mean a week or so. Here is the overall progress
Animation: 90% done (all fbf)
Coloring: So far the coloring is being done right now by my main man Frozenfire. He is working like a kid in a sweat shop (Ah, child labor :D). He's staying up extra late to get it done
Backgrounds:5% I wanted to do animation before I do backgrounds Plus, all the backgrounds are gonna be made in Gimp (its a program like photoshop)
Lipsync: 5% Again, animation comes first :P

I definitely will make sure tomamoto will piss his pants when he sees this. I havent shown him much, but I want to make him proud. Hopefully I make you guys proud too

In other news, after this animation, I will probably chill for a day or two before working on another project. Lefthandsock has something in store for me and I really really want to make something for either madness day or clock day. I think thats everything for now. Look out for Collin and the Wishing Tree, its gonna be the longest Ive ever worked on a cartoon. So far its been about 2 and a half weeks and I'm only finishing the animation :P

Here is a picture from the production

As an animator and filmmaker, I watch different people stuggle to get their films distributed and noticed in the movie industry. I wrote two screenplays so far, and I have learned the trouble of getting them out into the market place. What I write is usually labeled as Dream Specs. They will probably never see the light of day. I can't trust the success of scripts like Little Miss Sunshine or Juno because out of the millions of scripts pumped out every few years, these surfaced for their marketable assets. Distributors are increasingly more worried about marketing rather than originality. Which is fine, but when do we draw the line. Films like Four Eyed Monsters and We are the Strange have been overlooked for their unmarketable nature as artsy films. So the filmmakers seek self distribution. It is hard to gain an audience when you don't have the money to market your film, especially when it is a great film.

So why am I talking about film distribution. Well, I am currently finishing my third screenplay which is a drama-comedy called Love.Therapy. I've decided to use my money to try and make my ideas come to life rather than wait for companies to scrape them. And as I look at other filmmakers, they struggle to find an audience. So what am I proposing. I want to try and use the resources around me.

Newgrounds is a well established website filled with millions of viewers that are fans of different artist that make content for newgrounds. Unfortunately, it is just animation. There are rarely videos, but when there are, they are sometimes frowned upon. There are independent animators who never even heard of newgrounders who could probably have used the fanbase to help gain its animated short momentum. And filmmakers could do the same.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if newgrounds can open its door to independent filmmakers like me and others who create work that never make it even when their work is showcased in film festivals. Film festivals are incredibly corrupt sometimes, especially when people win awards from prestige festivals like Slamdance or Sundance, only to find no deals and stay in debt from over-budgeting filmmaking. Newgrounds can potentially be a safe haven for independent animated shorts and films. A website called is from here to awesome hoping to help filmmakers get their works distributed with no submission cost and the revenue comes directly into the creators pockets.

Maybe an awesome start to the distribution revolution would be for sites that have a huge following audience wise can help independents strive, such as newgrounds and youtube. If we can band together, just think of the endless possibilities. Newgrounds is huge enough as it is i think, but the problem is that it's sort of swaying to where film festivals are which is creating media that is marketable rather than original. And Newgrounds suceeds to keep it artist oriented and helping get incredible artist known. But I really think it could be open even more.

Newgrounds already holds contest for animators every so often, but I really think if these flash oriented websites pulled together can even host film festivals for animated short films and even, I hope feature films (something I hope to accomplish this summer by creating a film). I hope we can discuss this possibility even more in the forums or I hope Tom can make a front page post about independent filmmaking. This is my way of saying how we can get the media to the people without the need for industry executives.

I really think Newgrounds is on its way to making an online film festival. Something that it pretty much is already on a daily basis. It hands out awards and etc. But I believe it can be something even bigger.

Also, I would like to take the time to tell people of the film that I'm working on and the positions I am looking to fill during the middle of May.
The name of the movie as I said before is Love. Therapy and it is kind of like Wes Anderson's Rushmore but with the focus more on a boy trying to figure out what true love is and him getting over his shyness over women. This is just a quick sentence summary of the film. It is more complex then it sounds.
The positions that will be open are:
Editors
Animators: there will be animated sections in the film as we dig into the character's mind in certain scenes
Composers: Because of budget concerns, i'm hoping to keep away from comercail songs. I just want independent musicians.
Effects Specialist: Basically if you have any skills in after effects for color compositio and etc. We arent looking for like people who do cgi or anything. Just stuff that can help make the video look better in post production
This film will be submitted to different film festivals.
If you have any other information, just pm me or just add me on myspace here

I really hope we can discuss the future of Indie films right here and right now. No need to wait.