What a month! Two front pages on Newgrounds, my first solo daily first, and over 200,000 views for Nintendo Power. What more can I ask for? Oh yeah, What are you doing for Pico Day?

I decided to revamp the Actravaganza series for Pico Day by letting voice actors create skits under a minute based on the various Newgrounds characters. Now that I am able to make fbf more effectively, I've decided to take a month to work on my Pico Day submission. But I'm not going all for comedy. Im' also hoping to have a few cute skits in there that will make people go awwweee.

Anyways, I just finished my new god of war flash, and I can't believe its already on the front page. I'm glad the Mod, Tom, or whoever put it up enjoyed it. Go check it out on the front page. Story of Kratos

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
427679

Also, Ive been messing around with this tool rtil used for Move Your Feet, and I can't wait to start animating with it sometime. I hope other artist start using it because it was rare to see a flash with such vibrant colors and well done sprites. I encourage other artist to use it. Rtil just my start a sprite delight revolution [YAY!]

Well here is a picture of what i drew with the tool so this thread doesn't look so bland with just words.

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I made a parody with my buddy Left Hand Sock about the old toon Top Cat. Check it out on the portal

Well, I would like to thank Newgrounds again for the front page for Actravaganza Vol.1!
I am working on a new project called Metropolis that will be released later this year. I would have posted this in the alphas, but its not working, so whatever. So I thought I'd break it down as if it were an alpha!
1. What is the story behind your latest creation?
A man named Jonathan Thorn is struggling to keep up with his rent. Because of a widespread layoffs in the major cities, many working class citizens have lost their jobs and are forced to protest and live on the streets. Jonathan happens to be in this crowd.
One day, during the scheduled dinner breaks the govenment has set in the state of Newy York, Jonathan and his daughter Elizabeth get something to eat. Jonathan ends up talking to his friend Richard who wants to leave the city and flee to a smaller town. The population growth in the United States have made things incredibly bad in every metropolis, which makes Richard want to leave. However, Jonathan knows it is impossible since the government has stopped travellers from leaving and entering New York.
After dinner, Jonathan and his daughter take a walk through the park. Suddenly, they hear explosions and screams. Jonathan thinks its another job riot, however its something greater. but what?
The government did say they were gonna solve the population problem. Is violence the alternative?

2. Who or what inspired you to begin your production?
Well, my government class really helped me grasp the idea for the story, but the person who inspired me was Adam Philips. His animations make me hope that someday I reach that level of making a movie.

3. How long have you been working on it, and when do you expect to finish?
I have been working on it for three weeks, but I hope that I can finish it before November ends. But it wont be in my hands for a week since I will have my music supervisor score the animation

4. Do you feel that this is better than your previous work? If so, why?
I think this is downright better than anything I have ever attempted because of the effort I have thrown into the frame by frame animation!

5. Do you feel that this is something original? What have you done to make your creation different?
I think the story has never been done before, so people will enjoy a new story arc that isnt about a desolute future or anthing! Plus my style is pretty original since the lines are very messy which are suppose to symbolize the characters, yet not to messy to make the animation look bad. Lets just say it loocks like a moving graphic novel!

6. What has given you the most difficulty during the development process of your new creation?
The most difficult part is of couse the frame by frame animation, but I have been also experimenting with different camera angles, so we well see how that turns out!

7. Have you learned new techniques from making this, and do you plan to use them in the future?
I plan to use my new way of creating backgrounds in the near future. I am finally using a different program to paint my backgrounds and make them look super gritty! Also, I plan to continue using frame by frame animation

8. Besides Flash, did you pull any other programs into the mix to deliver your desired effect?
GIMP, which is like photoshop, but easier for me to use!

9. How do you feel this creation will measure up to other submissions on Newgrounds?
I hope people would find it refreshing and embrace it for its artistic value and its story arc, but I guess we have to wait until it is released!

Here is a screenshot! Wisth me luck!

It is crazy that Black and White collab 5 got daily first. Of course, it was a slow day, so I doubt it would have gotten the same award on a busy day. Anyways, I digress. I have been starting alot of projects lately and have been talking to some animators here and there.
Cameron Clunes has been saying he would start work on a holloween project based around an ugly girl who has a miserable halloween. I told him i would do the backgrounds if he need me to, so I will probably be helping with that.
In other news, I am finishing up on this big project I've been working myself to the bone on while i was struggling to keep up with my college studies. It is called the Actstravaganza Vol. 1. Basically, it will showcase some very impressive voice actors and combine their talents with some top notch animation from me in order to attract more people to the Voice Acting Club. It will have 8 shorts which range from 1 minute to 30 seconds, kind of like the Awesome Compilations created by Egoraptor. There may also be some easter eggs, so make sure you look out for them. The Actstravaganza will be released this week.
Another project (i didnt really want to join, but I got suckered into) is the Halloween game collab 07, where they showcase mini games in one flash. I am working with Archmage-Flash, but i haven't had time to get to most of the sprites yet. I am trying, but i can't balance all these projects. However, I promised him i would make him some sprites, so i will!!! It is a mini-game where you have to beat up bullies who stole candy and return as much candy as you can. So that seems like a fun concept, for a minigame (OF EPIC PORPORTIONS----not really).
Also (hahaha, your probably wondering how i do it----motivation baby) I will be, after this is all out of the way, be working on a graphic intenseve political thriller that may take two months to make, depending on how everything goes. When i say two months, i just mean for part. 1. I have finished the script for part one, I just have to start production! However, when i do, I wil let you guys know in the Flash forums.
Well, thats bassically it for now. I will just say one more thing. Some people said they like the tribute to kill bill in the black and white collab 5 I made, which made me happy. Some said they thought i ripped it off. Fishhook said it was okay to rotoscope, so I did! Its not a big deal! There are plenty of collabs that rotoscope, but dont say i didn't work hard. I had another part in there that took me a day to complete which was the one where the guy with the jetpack flies in the monsters eye and he stomps on a car. The kill bill on took me a day as well. So I just want to say i was trying to pay tribute and nothing else. Im happy to admit it was rotoscope. I dont need to act like im the best animator ever, because im not, but i do try hard!!!!
Anyways. Here is a screenshot of what to expect from the Actstravangaza Vol.1 that will be released this week! BEWARE