So yes, I said I'd come back, like, a month ago but due to some personal crap, that didn't happen. But now that I got the chance, here I am! ... Like a hurricane! Anywho, well, I do have a couple of projects right now, like to upload a little animation I made for school about zapping cancer cells. (Google that, it's really awesome.) But my main priority is to start Episode 3 (or episode 4, whatever.) ASAP, and the script is on its way. (The episode is technically already written, but I'm rewriting and revising most of it to update it to my newer style of comedy.)
On the personal side I went to see Iron Man 3 today and it was pretty awesome. Great plot, Marvel-ous special effects ad hilarious bits. Here's a tip. When the movie ends, wait for the two minute-long credits to roll, there's a last joke aftereards.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Why Newgrounds is Starting to Tick Me Off
So when I joined Newgrounds in my first account, I was very excited to join such a cool community. I had discovered Newgrounds from Eddsworld, who heavily promoted it as a way to publish your crap. So I joined the famous site on May 2010 and began posting some animations now and then, but then when things got serious and I started with this Suburban Life thing, I knew someone whose username was itsmemario1234 would not be taken serious, so I tried to make a new account and close the old one, and that's when I discovered the first flaw of Newgrounds.
You're not allowed to close your account. Seriously, you can't. There is no way. And you can't link two accounts to one email address either. Your best hope is to simply make a new e-mail address and create a new account, then never use the old one again. That was not really a problem to me, as I actually needed to make a new email address for this whole project of mine, so that's okay.
I enjoyed my first months, it was really fun, until I saw that the site was going to be completely redesigned (and I hate that, YouTube should've never changed, but oh, what the hell) and strangely enough, I actually liked the new layout because I thought (and still think) it looked really cool, and was eager to use it, which is good, because my first animation was just about completed.
When I finished "The Replacement". I was pushed by Shadana to post it right away without seeing that it had some really bad mistakes in there, which eventually went unnoticed until I saw the actual animation online. I was actually a bit confused by the new layout but got orientated in a while. I instantly took down the animation and re-uploaded it correcting minor Actionscript mistakes and a random note that appeared suddenly on the screen after the first scene. I was surprised to see that it was particularly easy to take down and re-upload your movies and I fell in love with the site. (I think they did expect that new artists would mess up every now and then).
So then I uploaded my second animation, without problems and began working on the third one. I finished one week later and tried to post it, and that's when things got sick.
Every time I tried to post it, stupid messages came on, random "errors" appear. Either the file has been moved or deleted, or the file is identical to another one, or (my personal favorite) "You are only allowed to upload two submissions per day and you already used yours". Just... what? I don't know if it's now gonna consider submission ATTEMPTS (because if they don't fix the bug they're not gonna be anything more than that, attempts.) as Portal Submissions or WHAT, but it's very frustrating and I'm starting to get sick of it. It's been three days and I still can't get this online.
The last straw is that when I tried making a post about it nobody answered, so I read the rules. I admit my mistake, my post what titled "WHAT?!" and the rules specifically said not to create titles which did not contain any useful information, so that was my bad, so I made a new one that clearly specified my problem with uploading, and got what I needed least, a rude response from a self-appointed admin or something. I would paraphrase what he said, but I'll better quote it.
"Please do not re-create threads just because they did not get any replies. You are not the only person having this problem and there's no sure way to fix it yet. The staff are aware.
This is not the correct forum to be posting this sort of stuff in. Normally I'd say repost in the Where is / How to? forum, but there are already several threads there about the same issue."
Gee, thanks a lot! You didn't answer my question AND you closed my thread for further help. What is wrong with Tom today, I know he's trying to fix it, but come on, this?
You're not allowed to close your account. Seriously, you can't. There is no way. And you can't link two accounts to one email address either. Your best hope is to simply make a new e-mail address and create a new account, then never use the old one again. That was not really a problem to me, as I actually needed to make a new email address for this whole project of mine, so that's okay.
I enjoyed my first months, it was really fun, until I saw that the site was going to be completely redesigned (and I hate that, YouTube should've never changed, but oh, what the hell) and strangely enough, I actually liked the new layout because I thought (and still think) it looked really cool, and was eager to use it, which is good, because my first animation was just about completed.
When I finished "The Replacement". I was pushed by Shadana to post it right away without seeing that it had some really bad mistakes in there, which eventually went unnoticed until I saw the actual animation online. I was actually a bit confused by the new layout but got orientated in a while. I instantly took down the animation and re-uploaded it correcting minor Actionscript mistakes and a random note that appeared suddenly on the screen after the first scene. I was surprised to see that it was particularly easy to take down and re-upload your movies and I fell in love with the site. (I think they did expect that new artists would mess up every now and then).
So then I uploaded my second animation, without problems and began working on the third one. I finished one week later and tried to post it, and that's when things got sick.
Every time I tried to post it, stupid messages came on, random "errors" appear. Either the file has been moved or deleted, or the file is identical to another one, or (my personal favorite) "You are only allowed to upload two submissions per day and you already used yours". Just... what? I don't know if it's now gonna consider submission ATTEMPTS (because if they don't fix the bug they're not gonna be anything more than that, attempts.) as Portal Submissions or WHAT, but it's very frustrating and I'm starting to get sick of it. It's been three days and I still can't get this online.
The last straw is that when I tried making a post about it nobody answered, so I read the rules. I admit my mistake, my post what titled "WHAT?!" and the rules specifically said not to create titles which did not contain any useful information, so that was my bad, so I made a new one that clearly specified my problem with uploading, and got what I needed least, a rude response from a self-appointed admin or something. I would paraphrase what he said, but I'll better quote it.
"Please do not re-create threads just because they did not get any replies. You are not the only person having this problem and there's no sure way to fix it yet. The staff are aware.
This is not the correct forum to be posting this sort of stuff in. Normally I'd say repost in the Where is / How to? forum, but there are already several threads there about the same issue."
Gee, thanks a lot! You didn't answer my question AND you closed my thread for further help. What is wrong with Tom today, I know he's trying to fix it, but come on, this?
Friday, March 29, 2013
New Girl... I mean, episode.
I have recently completed a new episode. I am sorry for not posting in here for some time close to a month. Naturally, the ratings (if any) decreased dramatically. There are now virtually no pageviews, but I would like to continue once again with this blog.
So the episode is no normal episode. In fact, the episode is actually an excuse for something. You see, I've recently replaced Sven's voice actor, Jimmy, with this new voice actor that ShadAna suggested. That's great, huh? It is! Buuuutt... his voice is damn deep. Yes, he's 17 and Jimmy is barely 15, but what the hell?
So ShadAna and I came up with an idea of having Sven's puberty into an [actual] episode because we knew secondary school doesn't last forever and Jimmy and us would eventually take off, plus the new guy is ShadAna's friend online and is technically available forever. :DD
So it's recess on a Thursday and everybody left and we were left alone, so she mentioned the episode again and I was like ughhhh why now and stuff, but agreed to plan it now. I came up with a one-minuted clip in two minutes and she liked the idea, so we agreed to tell the guy he had been "hired" and proceed with the animation right away. It took me around ten minutes to record my voices and she sent in the guys voices that same night, so I begun with the animation (i.e. created the Flash File) on March 21st, and concluded production on March 28th.
I tried to upload it that same night, but the new Newgrounds is now making it very hard to upload anything, and God knows why NG told me I had posted more than two contributions on the Portal when I didn't make one. So, after trying today again I gave up and opted to simply upload the video to YouTube. Apparently today isn't my best day, as my Xilisoft video converter told me it had randomly forgotten the license code and it wasn't able to convert more than three minutes of the file. (That's not a problem, this episode is barely a minute and a half long, but regular episodes are 10+ minutes long ¬¬) I looked for the license code but couldn't find it, so I decided I've had enough stress and called it a day and converted the video anyways.
Then I began to watch my idol, TomSka and here I am :) OAH, I almost forgot, here is the video for you to enjoy!
So the episode is no normal episode. In fact, the episode is actually an excuse for something. You see, I've recently replaced Sven's voice actor, Jimmy, with this new voice actor that ShadAna suggested. That's great, huh? It is! Buuuutt... his voice is damn deep. Yes, he's 17 and Jimmy is barely 15, but what the hell?
So ShadAna and I came up with an idea of having Sven's puberty into an [actual] episode because we knew secondary school doesn't last forever and Jimmy and us would eventually take off, plus the new guy is ShadAna's friend online and is technically available forever. :DD
So it's recess on a Thursday and everybody left and we were left alone, so she mentioned the episode again and I was like ughhhh why now and stuff, but agreed to plan it now. I came up with a one-minuted clip in two minutes and she liked the idea, so we agreed to tell the guy he had been "hired" and proceed with the animation right away. It took me around ten minutes to record my voices and she sent in the guys voices that same night, so I begun with the animation (i.e. created the Flash File) on March 21st, and concluded production on March 28th.
I tried to upload it that same night, but the new Newgrounds is now making it very hard to upload anything, and God knows why NG told me I had posted more than two contributions on the Portal when I didn't make one. So, after trying today again I gave up and opted to simply upload the video to YouTube. Apparently today isn't my best day, as my Xilisoft video converter told me it had randomly forgotten the license code and it wasn't able to convert more than three minutes of the file. (That's not a problem, this episode is barely a minute and a half long, but regular episodes are 10+ minutes long ¬¬) I looked for the license code but couldn't find it, so I decided I've had enough stress and called it a day and converted the video anyways.
Then I began to watch my idol, TomSka and here I am :) OAH, I almost forgot, here is the video for you to enjoy!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Hey guys... It's March 25... In memoriam
So as I write myself ito the night, calling it a day after completing a whopping 15 seconds of my next big thing, I look at the date and think of a very special person.
Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was born on October 28th, 1988 in Isleworth, England, but was better known by his Internet name, Eddsworld. And although he began animating in 2003, he never really drew much attention until 2005, when he made an animation in which two boys fall in love with their lesbian heighbour. I never heard of Eddsworld until 2010.
So there you got a 11 3/4 me, surfing the Internet when I came across this video named "WTFuture" by a guy who called himself Eddsworld; I watched it and enjoyed every second of the 10 minute film.
Baturally, it wasn't much time until I planned my OWN cartoon in which I used some previously designed characters (except cooler).
So, I spent countless hours trying to emulate him, putting a great deal if effort into my recently created masterpiece, hoping that I would, TOO, become an Internet sensation; episode one wouldn't be animated in two years.
So on the night of March 27th, 2012, with a little over 6 episodes written, I came across this video called "RIP Edd Gould". Because of Edd's big sense of humor, I thought it was an April Fools joke, but my soul was crushed when I learn Edd had actually passed away.
Edd is in a better place now, filled with cokes and bacon, and although he cannot see it, I dedicate every single animation to his honor.
Edd Gould
1988-2012
Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was born on October 28th, 1988 in Isleworth, England, but was better known by his Internet name, Eddsworld. And although he began animating in 2003, he never really drew much attention until 2005, when he made an animation in which two boys fall in love with their lesbian heighbour. I never heard of Eddsworld until 2010.
So there you got a 11 3/4 me, surfing the Internet when I came across this video named "WTFuture" by a guy who called himself Eddsworld; I watched it and enjoyed every second of the 10 minute film.
Baturally, it wasn't much time until I planned my OWN cartoon in which I used some previously designed characters (except cooler).
So, I spent countless hours trying to emulate him, putting a great deal if effort into my recently created masterpiece, hoping that I would, TOO, become an Internet sensation; episode one wouldn't be animated in two years.
So on the night of March 27th, 2012, with a little over 6 episodes written, I came across this video called "RIP Edd Gould". Because of Edd's big sense of humor, I thought it was an April Fools joke, but my soul was crushed when I learn Edd had actually passed away.
Edd is in a better place now, filled with cokes and bacon, and although he cannot see it, I dedicate every single animation to his honor.
Edd Gould
1988-2012
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
It's coming, kids.
Hey, so with this, I'm officially back into blogging. I started this blog in December 2012, and gained a total of 183 pageviews for the month, 153 in January (because I quit blogging halfway around the month) and... 3 in February. So I would like to excuse myself in the abrupt pause from blogging by saying a pedestrian excuse... Eh, school kept me occupied.
Nonetheless here I am, ready to type.
So yes, as I stated on my Christmas post, I am 14 years old, even though you could classify me as a post-pre-pubescent, let's just leave it a wider range, I am a teenager. And as a teenager, I have my great days, my awful days, and emotional swings.
A few days ago I noticed something. A couple of friends and I were talking about how kids hit their growth spurts randomly, and how a tiny shot guy that made you feel a skyscraper ended up being two feet taller than you. So yes, we mocked the seventh graders because they're tiny, but then we noticed they were exactly as tall as we were in seventh grade.
Why am I saying that? Well, to me, you grew around 4 inches and you didn't even notice. I think that's exactly what happens to your maturity. I didn't notice when my voice cracked, I was anxious for that to happen, but then I checked and my voice is pretty damn deep. That doesn't go only to physical changes, but also to mental changes, which is what I want to talk about.
Let's admit it, you didn't think the same when you were 13 than when you were 14. I believed I was gonna marry a pretty girl and be happy for the rest of my life when I was 12, but when I was 14, we didn't even talk anymore. I used to think toilet humor was hilarious, but it all seems disgusting now. You see what I mean? I hear teens complaining about how badly they want to grow up, but it all makes sense now. QUIT THINKING ABOUT IT.
Nonetheless here I am, ready to type.
So yes, as I stated on my Christmas post, I am 14 years old, even though you could classify me as a post-pre-pubescent, let's just leave it a wider range, I am a teenager. And as a teenager, I have my great days, my awful days, and emotional swings.
A few days ago I noticed something. A couple of friends and I were talking about how kids hit their growth spurts randomly, and how a tiny shot guy that made you feel a skyscraper ended up being two feet taller than you. So yes, we mocked the seventh graders because they're tiny, but then we noticed they were exactly as tall as we were in seventh grade.
Why am I saying that? Well, to me, you grew around 4 inches and you didn't even notice. I think that's exactly what happens to your maturity. I didn't notice when my voice cracked, I was anxious for that to happen, but then I checked and my voice is pretty damn deep. That doesn't go only to physical changes, but also to mental changes, which is what I want to talk about.
Let's admit it, you didn't think the same when you were 13 than when you were 14. I believed I was gonna marry a pretty girl and be happy for the rest of my life when I was 12, but when I was 14, we didn't even talk anymore. I used to think toilet humor was hilarious, but it all seems disgusting now. You see what I mean? I hear teens complaining about how badly they want to grow up, but it all makes sense now. QUIT THINKING ABOUT IT.
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