At 5/3/23 07:39 PM, Scooby54 wrote:
HO HO HOPE you become a Newgrounds Supporter this year!
We're working hard to give you the best site possible, but we have bills to pay and community support is vital to keep things going and growing. Thank you for considering!
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
the year 2000 is already completed for all movie icons, please, move on
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1461060/24#bbspost27698483_post_text
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
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.
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...
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).
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
👍
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
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
🫨
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.
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.
@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.
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!
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.
I'm going to have a higher file count than post count before this is done... I know it
At 7/1/23 06:38 PM, EddFromEddsworld11 wrote:
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1461060/24#bbspost27701111_post_text
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 :)
here the rest of the thumbnails of yesterday that i was working on :)
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/93027b89ea9366b5740cac01d6f45dc6
to:
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/903ac3f68d6bf889dd262fe2038595ce
to:
I like to make animations :)
At 7/6/23 01:31 PM, NK2007 wrote:here the rest of the thumbnails of yesterday that i was working on :)
Updated!
Just mentioning, this is the main reason that the most of 50% of my thumbnails are redrawing.
I like to make animations :)
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
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 :)
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 :)
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
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!
Here, more thumbnails for movies.
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/516f0a0af0ef8d30f3584289c1ede226
To:
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/59958b349029976e369f806b25caeabc
to:
I like to make animations :)
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.
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 :)
