Magic Mouse is the shit. My scrollerball hasn't functioned in month, and this is soooooooo much better.

Word to the wise though...it synced up perfectly to the laptop, but I had to get a bluetooth/USB 2.0 Dongle for it to behave with the desktop. Whatever...it's worth it.

:)

I might get one for my macbook. Sick of using super long microsoft mouse...

At 12/8/09 06:22 PM, Xeptic wrote: Cock, I forgot the picture.

There are too many minorities (minorities!),
In my water park

At 12/8/09 09:30 PM, Zyphonee wrote:

At 12/8/09 06:22 PM, Xeptic wrote: Cock, I forgot the picture.

There are too many minorities (minorities!),
In my water park

The lazy river has never been lazier.

IT'S A 40 MINUTE WAIT TO GO DOWN ONE SLIDE, AND THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE IN SPANISH ON THE ZIP LINE RIDE!

At 12/8/09 08:10 PM, doctormario wrote: Magic Mouse is the shit. My scrollerball hasn't functioned in month, and this is soooooooo much better.

Word to the wise though...it synced up perfectly to the laptop, but I had to get a bluetooth/USB 2.0 Dongle for it to behave with the desktop. Whatever...it's worth it.

)

I was so close to buying a magic mouse for my macbook pro, HOWEVER i decided against it because of the lack of the scroll-wheel-BUTTON (button = important, wheel = not so much)

Why you ask?

I'll tell ya! I'm one of them fancy 3D animator college kids, and the middle mouse button is how you pan in Autodesk Maya. Without that button, moving the camera around would totally be a bitch (with only rotate and zoom, the other 2 buttons).

Otherwise yeah i'd buy one :P

ALSO!!!! Check this out:
Lucky duck Luis got to see it already ;) He totally commented haha.

Tomorrow morning imma be all over that biteycastle page!

Really? Not ONE post overnight?

. . . .

Heres the new brackenwood movie :D

At 12/9/09 08:10 AM, Duchednier wrote: Heres the new brackenwood movie :D

Ahhh, I saw his tweet on my ipod earlier and you reminded me to watch it. Looks fantasmic as always.

At 12/8/09 10:01 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: IT'S A 40 MINUTE WAIT TO GO DOWN ONE SLIDE, AND THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE IN SPANISH ON THE ZIP LINE RIDE!

This the awesomest!

At 12/9/09 10:07 AM, liaaaam wrote:

At 12/9/09 08:10 AM, Duchednier wrote: Heres the new brackenwood movie :D

Ahhh, I saw his tweet on my ipod earlier and you reminded me to watch it. Looks fantasmic as always.

It's on NG now. It looks great, but you can't help but notice it doesn't look quite as great as the others. Of course this one was made in 4 weeks, and I wouldn't be able to make something like this in 4 years, but still... I'm also unsure whether I like the narrating.

At 12/9/09 01:02 PM, citricsquid wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 0604
new brackenwood, not anime

I didnt like it... It was like watching a documentary.

I thought this brackenwood was just as good-looking as the others.

I really enjoyed the deepening of the story. I didn't really catch fully what was happening without watching it a few times. Adam's setting up a pretty good story and doing it with a lot of style. Beyond deepening the Brackenwood lore significantly, it also makes re-watching the other brackenwood segments a new experience. That's a pretty significant feat for an indy dev, even one as talented as Adam Phillips. I'm glad to see he's not just overly talented in the art department, but brings some good skill to the writing table too.

I watched it. It's beautiful, as always, but I really wanted to see something new. We all know he is the master of water droplets, reflections, and satyrs moving at high speed through the forest. So.....yeah it's great, but kinda "same-ish". I'm sure his horde of fanboys will give me a thrashing for saying that, but hey...it's what I think.

At 12/9/09 01:52 PM, doctormario wrote:

:but kinda "same-ish". I'm sure his horde of fanboys will give me a thrashing for saying that, but hey...it's what I think.

Thrash, thrash, thrash.

I agree it is different and it brings a lot to the table. The narration and writing was fantastic, however it kind of loses the whole 'interpreting the story without dialogue but through bitey's actions instead' feel. The dialogue was as best it could be, but it it's almost like a lot of other 'trailer' or teaser ways of telling a story.

Don't get me wrong, I do like the new installment but what I love most about the series is the limited use of dialogue to tell a story and showing that you can tell a story through awesome animation storyboarding as well.

It will be interesting to see what he does with this because as the story gets more complex it gets harder and harder to tell a story with limited dialogue. So this kind of foreshadows a more in-depth story ahead. I remember from the first episode there was that witch and now it looks like she or he is back in this one (all those flying silhouettes were another clue).

All in all, I love the storytelling without words, but I suppose the story is skipping between past and present so dialogue is sort of needed for that. Adam's other animated shorts use dialogue so I am not completely surprised by this decision. I can't wait to see where this goes.

Ok now I feel dumb. Adam explained everything I just mentioned in his news post about it. >_>

As much as i love seeing bitey do his thang, it is true that him constantly dashing around doing dodges, ducks, dips, dives and dodges DID get a bit old. So while he continually does this throughout this flash, adam has brought something new to the table. Which i'm happy about, i AM really curious as to where this is going though, i guess we'll wait and see :D

And i agree with whoever it was that said it doesn't look the same as the last. I definitely noticed a decrease in the detail since waterlollies. I am not complaining though, as its still as beautiful as ever!

Ok Deadclever...unleash your fanboy anger on Duchednier... GO!

At 12/9/09 08:13 PM, doctormario wrote: Ok Deadclever...unleash your fanboy anger on Duchednier... GO!

And yet, i really didn't say anything negative about bitey...

But D.Mario is right, BRING IT BEE-OTCH!

At 12/9/09 01:37 PM, BoMToons wrote: I thought this brackenwood was just as good-looking as the others.

I really enjoyed the deepening of the story. I didn't really catch fully what was happening without watching it a few times. Adam's setting up a pretty good story and doing it with a lot of style. Beyond deepening the Brackenwood lore significantly, it also makes re-watching the other brackenwood segments a new experience. That's a pretty significant feat for an indy dev, even one as talented as Adam Phillips. I'm glad to see he's not just overly talented in the art department, but brings some good skill to the writing table too.

I have no doubts about the quality of his animation. I am just afraid that deepening a story that doesn't need much depth to enjoy might be a sort of death sentence for the animator. I'm sure we'll still give it a 4.97 score every time it comes out, but i'm not sure if i'll be able to look at it the same away again.

For the record, I do like it, and I think the quality is superb. I'm just really ready to see the scene that happens after the 2 legged furry is running through the forest, at high speed, with perfectly shaded water droplets galore spraying out here and there. I'm not hatin'. Not even close.

It is really good. But yes he spent like a month and a half on the actual animation so the quality isn't as great. But it's still awesome and loads better than most everything else.

i wasnt crazy about this particular episode cause it felt like one of those episodes / parts in a movie where its kinda slow but necessary for filling in the back story. It was kind of like the episodes of the simpsons where it concentrates on bart and lisa as adults or homer and marge before they had kids. Yes those episodes must exist but they arent that fun to watch.

I liked the energy and hunger i got from the yuyu, this one felt a bit too slow for my taste and the end didnt really resolve anything nor keep me salivating. I DO however think its a successful episode in building the franchise. I just wasnt excited about THIS particular one. Which i think that was Adam's goal anyway. He wantes to pump more muscle and bones into his series which is fine.

Whatever, the past and future simpsons are some of my favorites.

Don't you realize bitey's family was massacred defending the planet from some giant foe and his slowly learning about it from wizard woman will change his character from selfish to giving!?

At 12/10/09 12:11 AM, BoMToons wrote: Don't you realize bitey's family was massacred defending the planet from some giant foe and his slowly learning about it from wizard woman will change his character from selfish to giving!?

I never knew that Bitey had so much history behind him. It makes this one so much more exiting than the other ones.
Does anyone else think that the icon doesn't look right. His right eye is bigger than the left and the shading on Bitey's body doesn't look like Chluaids work. There were too many effects in this one.

At 12/10/09 12:11 AM, BoMToons wrote: Whatever, the past and future simpsons are some of my favorites.

Agreed.

As far as this new Bitey goes, I'm not a fan of the narration he has chosen to go with. I keep imagining the same story development, but with the same old silence of the previous installments. I can imagine Adam being able to portray his loneliness and searching through his actions and not words, and end up being more powerful. It might not be as straight foreword as narration, and moves alot slower, and maybe those were his sole reasons for doing so, but i still cant get these images out of my head. Images of Bitey's self reflection and loneliness as he wonders the forest alone, maybe latching onto something that he sees as a friend but they see him as the douchebag he has always been.

No matter what direction he takes, I'll still love watching them anyway. Maybe its all a moot point then. Meh.

Yay, it's my birthday.

Also there's too many people to thrash.

At 12/10/09 03:57 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Yay, it's my birthday.

Also there's too many people to thrash.

Congrats!

At 12/10/09 03:57 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Yay, it's my birthday.

Also there's too many people to thrash.

Happy birthday sir :)

At 12/10/09 03:57 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Yay, it's my birthday.

Happy birthday! :)