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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-03 20:31:15 (edited 2023-05-03 20:31:35)


At 5/3/23 07:39 PM, Scooby54 wrote:


iu_962686_1892271.gif


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-06 16:16:31 (edited 2023-05-06 16:26:57)


@Scooby54

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1461060/24#bbspost27701069_post_text

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1461060/24#bbspost27701099_post_text

the minimum for accepted icon pictures is a size of 1920 pixels wide, 1080 pixels tall, per single suggested picture

we require this size to move forward with any of your requests/ideas


https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/387319/1898#bbspost27702434_post_text

we' will not be creating new genres for movies


please, focus on submissions that do not have an icon already assigned to the submission

the blank (tank picture) is an example of a submission without an icon that needs attention

iu_965019_1892271.png

iu_965020_1892271.webp


the year 2000 is already completed for all movie icons, please, move on

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1461060/24#bbspost27698483_post_text


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-06 22:31:34


a question for Tom ... or... whoever knows the answer to this


how are icons made for submissions that are uploaded to Newgrounds in 2023, is there some kind of computer that figures that out or how does that all work? I can't imagine that everyone that uploads something 100% of the time uploads their own icon, there has to be a computer of some kind


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-06 23:00:21 (edited 2023-05-06 23:03:08)


At 5/6/23 10:31 PM, tox wrote:a question for Tom ... or... whoever knows the answer to this

how are icons made for submissions that are uploaded to Newgrounds in 2023, is there some kind of computer that figures that out or how does that all work? I can't imagine that everyone that uploads something 100% of the time uploads their own icon, there has to be a computer of some kind


Most people who submit stuff in 2023 would already be using high quality thumbnails anyway, whether it's custom-made or a screenshot of their own, so no work on our part.


And no, there isn't any automatic thumbnail generation like YouTube has.

Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-06 23:05:32


At 5/6/23 11:00 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:
At 5/6/23 10:31 PM, tox wrote:a question for Tom ... or... whoever knows the answer to this

how are icons made for submissions that are uploaded to Newgrounds in 2023, is there some kind of computer that figures that out or how does that all work? I can't imagine that everyone that uploads something 100% of the time uploads their own icon, there has to be a computer of some kind

Most people who submit stuff in 2023 would already be using high quality thumbnails anyway, whether it's custom-made or a screenshot of their own, so no work on our part.


But it can't be 100% though


The best I can see is somewhere in the ballpark of 80% or something?


There can't be a set of people sitting around spinning in their chairs waiting for people to upload things and then find the roughly 80 submissions between the art portal and the movies and games portal that don't have an icon and they just go ahead and make one for them


there's GOT to be a computer doing that kind of work...

got to be...


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-06 23:13:47


At 5/6/23 11:05 PM, tox wrote:
At 5/6/23 11:00 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:
At 5/6/23 10:31 PM, tox wrote:a question for Tom ... or... whoever knows the answer to this

how are icons made for submissions that are uploaded to Newgrounds in 2023, is there some kind of computer that figures that out or how does that all work? I can't imagine that everyone that uploads something 100% of the time uploads their own icon, there has to be a computer of some kind

Most people who submit stuff in 2023 would already be using high quality thumbnails anyway, whether it's custom-made or a screenshot of their own, so no work on our part.

But it can't be 100% though

The best I can see is somewhere in the ballpark of 80% or something?

There can't be a set of people sitting around spinning in their chairs waiting for people to upload things and then find the roughly 80 submissions between the art portal and the movies and games portal that don't have an icon and they just go ahead and make one for them

there's GOT to be a computer doing that kind of work...
got to be...


Adding an icon to a movie/game is a requirement nowadays. And it's a concept most content creators or animators should be familiar with (It's been around on YouTube for many years).

iu_965368_8157415.png

Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-06 23:16:57


At 5/6/23 11:13 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:
At 5/6/23 11:05 PM, tox wrote:
At 5/6/23 11:00 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:
At 5/6/23 10:31 PM, tox wrote:a question for Tom ... or... whoever knows the answer to this

how are icons made for submissions that are uploaded to Newgrounds in 2023, is there some kind of computer that figures that out or how does that all work? I can't imagine that everyone that uploads something 100% of the time uploads their own icon, there has to be a computer of some kind

Most people who submit stuff in 2023 would already be using high quality thumbnails anyway, whether it's custom-made or a screenshot of their own, so no work on our part.

But it can't be 100% though

The best I can see is somewhere in the ballpark of 80% or something?

There can't be a set of people sitting around spinning in their chairs waiting for people to upload things and then find the roughly 80 submissions between the art portal and the movies and games portal that don't have an icon and they just go ahead and make one for them

there's GOT to be a computer doing that kind of work...
got to be...

Adding an icon to a movie/game is a requirement nowadays. And it's a concept most content creators or animators should be familiar with (It's been around on YouTube for many years).


Thank you Anonymous-Frog

insightful and helpful


👍


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-05-08 22:08:28


quick update


only another 536 thumbnails and movies up to 2002 will be done!


once these are done we will reach 18% total completion


2001 October, November, December,
2002 December

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-06 01:00:56


All of @JohnnyUtah's Games and Movies he contributed to / made have upscaled thumbnails now!




(GIF by @Memorizor)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-06 03:49:40


At 6/6/23 01:00 AM, Dungeonation wrote:All of @JohnnyUtah's Games and Movies he contributed to / made have upscaled thumbnails now!

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/520768
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/582116

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597841
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/241377
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/256647
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233428


🫨


Tom and I have been working on something hmmm????

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-12 13:56:43


Don't really have a milestone to announce yet, but I haven't posted here in a while either and wanted to say hi :p


I've updated 360 thumbnails in total from jan/feb 2005. Started off doing all videos, but that slowed the pace to a crawl, so I'm prioritizing featured content going forward.

Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-12 14:51:45


At 6/12/23 01:56 PM, Madmazel wrote:Don't really have a milestone to announce yet, but I haven't posted here in a while either and wanted to say hi :p

I've updated 360 thumbnails in total from jan/feb 2005. Started off doing all videos, but that slowed the pace to a crawl, so I'm prioritizing featured content going forward.


Getting all the featured content covered sounds good!


I've been randomly updating thumbnails as I go, the latest was @Knight52's games! SpikeMan is now running via Ruffle, too.



Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-13 19:14:07 (edited 2023-06-13 19:18:57)


@Explosm just needed this thumbnail done!


Also, this doesn't appear to play properly anymore, it always redirects to explosm. net once the flash loads in.

Some other movies of theirs in flash format seem to do this too.


(GIF by @Memorizor)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-14 07:20:17


At 6/13/23 07:14 PM, Dungeonation wrote:@Explosm just needed this thumbnail done!
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/500149

Also, this doesn't appear to play properly anymore, it always redirects to explosm. net once the flash loads in.
Some other movies of theirs in flash format seem to do this too.


Hmmm I'll file a Ruffle bug ticket for this!


Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-14 07:25:37


At 6/13/23 07:14 PM, Dungeonation wrote:@Explosm just needed this thumbnail done!
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/500149

Also, this doesn't appear to play properly anymore, it always redirects to explosm. net once the flash loads in.
Some other movies of theirs in flash format seem to do this too.


I think it's related to the preloader trying to access explosm.net over http, which Chrome blocks for being mixed privacy settings (our page is https). Filed a ticket, ideally Ruffle can have an option to force http calls to https.


Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-18 19:46:38


@Philljc's Repella Fella precursor Ray is all done, as well as one of his Flash movies (can't get the other two to load in Ruffle). @Graeme




(GIF by @Memorizor)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-06-29 23:16:07 (edited 2023-06-29 23:32:30)


iu_1008667_1892271.webp


I'm going to have a higher file count than post count before this is done... I know it


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-01 22:45:21 (edited 2023-07-01 22:45:41)



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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-05 11:52:44 (edited 2023-07-05 11:54:38)


more High quality thumbnails of NeroGeist movies:


https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/6ebbf257b5ff538b82bc2218ea8b779d

to:


https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b7b1989ebba68b9162fe25a1ef068abd

to:


meanwhile, im working on more HD thumbnails!


I like to make animations :)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-06 13:31:20 (edited 2023-07-06 13:33:41)



I like to make animations :)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-06 14:07:59


At 7/6/23 01:31 PM, NK2007 wrote:here the rest of the thumbnails of yesterday that i was working on :)


Updated!


Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-07 10:29:06 (edited 2023-07-07 10:30:57)


Just mentioning, this is the main reason that the most of 50% of my thumbnails are redrawing.

iu_1016632_11781426.webp


I like to make animations :)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-07 10:36:55 (edited 2023-07-07 10:38:09)


At 7/7/23 10:29 AM, NK2007 wrote:Just for mentioning, this is the main reason that the most of 50% of my thumbnails are redrawing.

Not saying you can't take that approach, but unless you're already very good at drawing (or just trace), it may be difficult to capture the style of the original movie. Not saying you aren't bad, but I think you might've gotten lucky with NeroGeist.


I also drew my own thumbnails occasionally. Some examples


Or alternatively:

Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-07 10:41:34 (edited 2023-07-07 10:50:16)


At 7/7/23 10:36 AM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:
At 7/7/23 10:29 AM, NK2007 wrote:Just for mentioning, this is the main reason that the most of 50% of my thumbnails are redrawing.
Not saying you can't take that approach, but unless you're already very good at drawing (or just trace), it may be difficult to capture the style of the original movie. Not saying you aren't bad, but I think you might've gotten lucky with NeroGeist.

I also drew my own thumbnails occasionally. Some examples
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/338888
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/284110
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/305176


No doubt, im Very good at redrawing, about tracing, the results are good too, Also i use the original image colors.


Note: i made nerogeist thumbnails by computer and mobile(which explains some little difference of line Art)


I like to make animations :)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-07 12:29:36 (edited 2023-07-07 12:32:56)


More thumbnails done! this time i finally used "screengrab", the resolution?

the screengrab is ok, in quality-wise, but the resolution i don't know if is 900x1000 or "1920x1080(problably, not)"


https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/241834816d5b90604ce18b0107cae762

to:


https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/52c742c19e16b9cc7214cd9b503e7815

to:


and....about the "(2005) klay sports" movie, i used a filter that "optimizes" the blurred quality of the original image

also with full screen mode.


-anyway, both of these has a good quality


I like to make animations :)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-07 16:46:16


At 7/7/23 12:29 PM, NK2007 wrote:More thumbnails done! this time i finally used "screengrab", the resolution?
the screengrab is ok, in quality-wise, but the resolution i don't know if is 900x1000 or "1920x1080(problably, not)"

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/241834816d5b90604ce18b0107cae762
to:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/283222

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/52c742c19e16b9cc7214cd9b503e7815
to:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/278440

and....about the "(2005) klay sports" movie, i used a filter that "optimizes" the blurred quality of the original image
also with full screen mode.

-anyway, both of these has a good quality


It was explained to me that we do a full screen, screen capture to generally maintain the soul of the creation/art/style that the original creator made when they originally submitted their content to newgrounds


Not a dunk on your abilities or anything buuuuuuuuuut... A trace or a drawing unless it absolutely needs to be done is even a little bit stepping away from the original creation


Though with some of the things I have seen in the early 2000's a trace or a re-draw would have given more life to the animation then the content provided. There are only so many ways you can screen cap a bouncing ball lol


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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-08 07:49:31


At 7/7/23 12:29 PM, NK2007 wrote:More thumbnails done! this time i finally used "screengrab", the resolution?
the screengrab is ok, in quality-wise, but the resolution i don't know if is 900x1000 or "1920x1080(problably, not)"


Updated!


Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-14 13:40:13 (edited 2023-07-14 13:40:51)



I like to make animations :)

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Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-14 17:44:01


At 7/14/23 01:40 PM, NK2007 wrote:Here, more thumbnails for movies.

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/516f0a0af0ef8d30f3584289c1ede226
To:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458264

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/59958b349029976e369f806b25caeabc
to:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/506440


These are great, thank you! The thumbnails have been updated.

Response to Thumbnail Crew 2023-07-14 17:47:47


At 7/14/23 05:44 PM, Madmazel wrote:
At 7/14/23 01:40 PM, NK2007 wrote:Here, more thumbnails for movies.

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/516f0a0af0ef8d30f3584289c1ede226
To:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458264

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/59958b349029976e369f806b25caeabc
to:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/506440

These are great, thank you! The thumbnails have been updated.


Thank you


I like to make animations :)

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