Re: Epic Flash

I'd have to say Pico's Reloaded. It didn't have an epic storyline, but it was mostly just the effects. I have ideas that could probably beat it, but they aren't currently doable.

Re: Epic Flash

At 2/18/07 11:40 AM, Masterswordman wrote: I'd have to say Pico's Reloaded. It didn't have an epic storyline, but it was mostly just the effects. I have ideas that could probably beat it, but they aren't currently doable.

I don't think you made Picos unloaded :P. Anyway, mine the Tut Collab, but i aim to beat that sometime in April ;).

Re: 6000th post

Congrats, it's a lot of posts :).

Epic flash
Rocket booster is easily my biggest achievement. Although its not 100% mins so i would then have to say flathead.

Monster munchies was my first real submission and so i love it, but im just saying the others are my fav because of their scores.

Old flash
Which reminds me how much rubbish i have in the portal, space racers, skate and shading tutorial 1.0 haha :D

Epic Flash

At 2/18/07 11:33 AM, Lord-Sonx wrote: Everyone eventually makes a flash so amazing it is seen as their most epic mvoie ever < untill topped>. my most epic would probs be Canada's Really Big or AM7, but i cna easily beat them.. so, what do you consider your epic movie, and will you ever beat it :O?

I can't really decide which of my movies that is the best, I haven't made a serious movie for ages.
The one with best score is the fifth -Apple- episode, but I'm not really proud of that one. Hopefully, I'll release an epic, awesome, super great flash soon... But that's not very likely :P

ss shit
maybe it his a con so we won't be afraid of downlouding things from the bbs...

Old Stuff
A lot of people like to delete their old animations and games off Newgrounds. I for one think that we should retain all our Flash files to see progress, but others may feel differently.

What do you think?

Old Stuff

I agree with you. I liek looking back at my old submissions, seeing how shitty they were and how I've improved, and what i can improve on. Plus its just nice to have a memento of the past :).

Re: Epic Flash
The first time that I felt like something was my best movie ever was making Retro Witch Doctor. That was really advanced for me at the time. Then, I moved on to A Kingly Melody, where I GREATLY improved my graphics. Finally, I feel like What is Valentine's? is my best to date, mostly due to the fact I can animate people better now.

Old Stuff
I'm always going to keep my old flash. I even have my first flash ever. Made with my free 30 day trial of flash. And if you see my first flash submitted on Clock Day, it looks so bad to what I can do now, it's almost hilarious. I try to watch at least one of my old flashes each day, for memories and to see how much I have improved. I'm glad with my progress. :)

Old stuff

At 2/18/07 04:19 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote:
It consists of two movie clips, two buttons and a tree drawn with mynamewontfitin's tutorial.
BE AMAZED!

o wow that is awsome! :D I listened to that for way to long. the dog bit ahaha..

Old stuff

You should convert the rabbit bit into a .gif and use it as your profile pic thing. Anyway, reallt trippy, one of those things you can't stop watching ;D.

My First Game

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/364787
Thanks for the tips jmtb02. It really helps. =)

I didn't do any script for this though. Just graphics and the overall idea. GazSmithGames helped make my idea come true and turned it into a great game. Thanks man. <3

SS vs FBI

That's so untrue and unconvincing. :)

Sonx's 6k

Happy almost 6k, is all I have to say.

yay, rhyme

AS Question

Dumb AS question
Is there a way to.. like,
make a buton in flash that when you click it it opens a word document?

Host the word document on a website and instead of the C:\ code whoever posted that snippet of code, use the URL of the .txt. Good luck :D

At 2/18/07 06:50 PM, hashbrown wrote: neone have diddykong racing, i got it today:P

I had it when I was a kid on N64. Great fun, flying planes was the most fun though :)

AS question
yay!! thanks a lot!!
DiddyKongRacing

At 2/18/07 06:50 PM, hashbrown wrote: neone have diddykong racing, i got it today:P

I have the original N64 one, i really like this game, i dont ussually like racing games, but diddy has this adventure mode that makes it special :3.. i read that in the DS one there arent any more silver coin challenges, crap, those were the cool challenges, i got really pissed off when i couldnt beat them :P--

Dreams

I know we've spoken of dreams before, but I had a wild one today. This isn't the first crazy dream I've had in recent past, the other being that one where I got a breast implants(not sure if I mentioned that).
Either way, it was so damn cryptic. I got in a fight with a girl with curly hair that was hearing a winter jacket with fur on the hood and then things started to get a bit more...friendly...which was all in this weird roman themed courtyard. I ended up stealing a pillow from this mystery person, which I have no idea where it could've come from, and I brought it back to my home. But I totally don't live in a place anything like where I went to. And there was a crazy woman who lives across an alleyway from me who could see me from a large window. She was fat and annoying and liked to yell at me, but this time she threw ninja knives at me. So for some reason I pulled out an Uzi and started to shoot at her and realized that I had to find this girl from earlier because she was like the love of my life.
Obviously things are a bit fuzzy because its hard to remember everything that happens in a dream. I'm trying to figure out what the hell the meaning of this dream is. Hopefully, this is more interesting and easy to relate to than it is spam.

When will flash become obsolete?

We all know it will happen some day. The internet will be completely 3D, and there will be no use for flash. That is, assuming flash stays 2D. They could make flash a 3D application if it did come to that, but im refering to 2D applacations.

15 years ago the internet was pretty much unheard of in the public, and now we have kids in thier basement making quality games and animations. How long until these applacations become so advanced that we turn to software other then flash for internet applacations?

I think 10 years is enough really, maybe less. 3D animations is not out of reach for us, just to advanced for internet browsers to load efficiently. 10 years from now they will be, and graphics will have to be stepped up a notch. Its going to be insane. What the hell is newgrounds going to look like? Turn that little city in the background of the logo into a full fledged environment. Who knows.

What do you all think?

At 2/19/07 03:41 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote: I truly hate 3d animation.
But its the people that whore over it and dismiss traditional animation that make me hate it.

Your not really a traditional animator either. 2D, for sure, but do you do all of your animation on paper? no, chances are on a computer. Computers are not very traditional last time i checked.

At 2/19/07 03:56 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote: I didnt say i did traditional animation.
I'm talking about the whole Disney vs pixar thing.
And people seem to lean towards pixar because its all "high tech".
Thats what im talking about.

i do see what you mean there. i just watched Princess Mononoke again today, and it really reminded me how much nicer some good artwork can look compared to todays Shreks and Nemos.

At 2/19/07 03:09 AM, 23450 wrote: When will flash become obsolete?

We all know it will happen some day. The internet will be completely 3D, and there will be no use for flash. That is, assuming flash stays 2D. They could make flash a 3D application if it did come to that, but im refering to 2D applacations.

It's possible it won't happen, I'm sure there will still be many of those 2D cartoonish animators for a loooong time. Things like that don't end so fast, it's like a culture can't die in one day. Also I would doubt 'everything' would be in 3D, just because it has an additional dimension doesn't mean it's better. I would prefer browing on the typical 2D IE rather than some weird 3D thing, the additional dimension simply isn't needed in this case. Again, when I say an additional dimension I mean just a different structure of pixels displayed, really, of course computers change into some weird 3D field.

Also, flash will never be useless. As the internet and the world's technology advances, flash advances within it. I heard they're going to implement some new 3D features (or rather pseudo 3D) to the future Flash versions.

I think 10 years is enough really, maybe less. 3D animations is not out of reach for us, just to advanced for internet browsers to load efficiently. 10 years from now they will be, and graphics will have to be stepped up a notch. Its going to be insane. What the hell is newgrounds going to look like? Turn that little city in the background of the logo into a full fledged environment. Who knows.

I definately agree 3D aren't out of reach, of course they aren't, but that doesn't mean everything will turn into 3D. It's like when you make a fun and simple game and then you make a second version of it with tons of features and things that make it cooler, but at the end it's really not much more fun than the first one.

I'm not toast please don't ban me.

When will flash become obsolete

Well the people at macromedia/adobe seem to think every couple of years ;)

But well looking at it from the broader perspective I think flash will be around for quite some time. On a 2D plane/ psuedo 3D I think it will be a long time before the technology is created where the internet shifts from being a 2D environment to a 3D interactive one, and then when the technology is easy accessable by the broader public. You only have to think of how things like computer/internet was available but beyond the reach of most people.

Traditional Animations

Whilst I love alot of the new stuff that comes by disney/pixar the only thing that remains the same is how the story has been told which was always what disney was about. The movie cars was done fantastic I had to remember at times I was watching a computer animated film. Whilst I think its great how far CG has advanced in terms of realism I love watching the old films like Aladdin or The Lion King because of the awesome artwork and the amount of labour that goes into those films. The only thing that has changed is that a machine now does the labour, and with the power of the computers working on these you can understand how intricate the art has become.

Re: It's a Traditional Art vs CG Debate...

At 2/19/07 08:24 AM, BigBazz wrote: Whilst I think its great how far CG has advanced in terms of realism I love watching the old films like Aladdin or The Lion King because of the awesome artwork and the amount of labour that goes into those films.

Weren't the stampede and lava chases in those done with CG effects?

Okay. Nit picking aside, yes, it's nice to see people bust a gut with Trad animation. Two dimensions allows you a lot more creative freedom than CG when it comes to cartooning - deformation is a lot easier, casually breaking the laws of physics is just as easy as regular motion. Trad's strengths lie in that a talented animator or inbetweener can make motion larger than life every time they redraw the cel.

But 3D has that wonderful advantage of not needing to be redrawn. That character's going to be the same size, same proportions, same movements throughout the entire piece. And that saves on things that shatter your illusion of verisimilitude (like, lousy inbetweening, or cel colouring mishaps). Oh, and you can lay off all your inbetweeners as well, because the computer handles it better than they do.

Computer Generated stuff is fast, accurate and soulless. Traditional animation is expensive, emotive and prone to being destroyed by a single bad frame.

This may be why a lot of us are still with motion tweens. The computer does it better than we do...

Cybex rox at statistics
For once, statistics A level has helped me. I've just created a line of best fit generator in flash. Click to add points on the graph and a line of best fit will be drawn to show the general trend of the points.

As useless as it is, i'm very proud of my creation. I'll go add something to make it state how strong the correlation is.

RE: Cybex rox at statistics
Updated.

Still rockin'.

Re:Cybex rox at statistics

Pretty cool, nice little gadget you have there :). You could make a game where you have to do two points around an enemy to create a laser and kill it. Just an idea :P.

Re: MM Dreams

Wow, sounds pretty weird. Maybe its a sign that you love someone, but can't admit it :P? I'm no psychologist though D.

Re: Flash becoming Obsolete

I think there's a chance someone will make a better "copy" of flash in the future, with better interfaces/AS4 and such, but i don't think the way flash does thing will become obsolete.

You just can't get some of the effects with hand drawn animation, that you can with flash, or vice versa. Anyway, i don't think it will become obsolete, at least until the mind reading animation making crap comes out in 2050 or something :P.

Diddy Kong
Awesome game, the characters do handle differently. Pipsy is the fastest acceleration and best handling followed by tiptup. The large characters - banjo, the croc have higher top speeds but low acceleration.

Flash becoming obselete
Not gonna happen. I mean that 2D animation will never leave the internet because it is one style of animation and some thing will always be more suited to 2D than 3D.
Some people say that you should never animate anything that you could film because there is no point. This follows through that if you decide to animate something, then you can choose from several styles and one may be more suited to the story than another. Also 3D is much harder to learn than 2D so amateurs will always be using flash or something similar. I think Flash itself may end, possibly, but there will always be 2D animation being created online.

2D vs 3D
I went to an animation conference last thursday and there was a lot of talk about that. I do not agree that 3D is souless, I just think it is becoming souless with less and less work being put into it.
Low-end 3D stuff is never gonna look as full of life as high end 2D stuff but that doesnt make 3D souless.
It is just as easy to break the laws of physics in 3D as 2D.

@ BigBazz, I hope you mean the graphics were amazing because the film overall sucked. Thats exactly what's wrong with Pixar, churning out shit like that. You are right that the story and characters etc was what drove Disney features and that's what was crap about Cars.

The Rise and Fall of Flash

One thing that some people fail to realize is that flash is not truly meant as a professional quality animation tool. Regardless it has been branded it is still a tool thats intended purpose was to make websites with interaction. This could be either through flash menus or through an entirely flash based site that has animation within it(such as transitions). It was never meant as something to be used to make full length episodes of TV shows.

Re: MM Dreams

At 2/19/07 12:01 PM, Depredation wrote: Wow, sounds pretty weird. Maybe its a sign that you love someone, but can't admit it :P? I'm no psychologist though D.

Yes, perhaps it is something along those lines. I'll have to make an effort to get into this girls pants. Or...a stronger effort at least.

The True Meaning Of Aids

Enjoy :)

At 2/19/07 12:23 PM, TrueDarkness wrote: The True Meaning Of Aids

Enjoy :)

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At 2/19/07 12:01 PM, Depredation wrote: Re:Cybex rox at statistics

Pretty cool, nice little gadget you have there :). You could make a game where you have to do two points around an enemy to create a laser and kill it. Just an idea :P.

Thats a good idea, although i'll never make it.

We could make a collab desktop background pic. :)