Just released my recently completed uni animation to the portal.
Go vote 5 please

If, however, you don't fancy waiting 7mb for a minute long animation, you can just watch it below.

I should also have another short project released this week if all goes well: a mock CITV ad of sorts with Happy Harry providing some brilliant voices to the mix. So look forward to that.

Edit: In the portal now

First off, I wanna thank you kind people for the response on Narwhals, finally allowing me to see my name at the top of the Top 50 listing for a short while (I don't count Sonic Short collabs cos they're, y'know, Sonic.) I kinda wanna punch all the people moaning about it being a loop, but I never drank enough milk in my youth so I'd probably break my hand.

One thing you may have noticed in the animation, (as well as a couple of the animations I made for E4.com a while back,) was the sexy looking background animation.
This is a technique combining Gradient Transforming and Shape Tweening that I like to call 'Gradient Tweening.'
And since I had randomly downloaded a screen-capture software trial for a uni dooflip I'm doing (which HappyHarry87 is helping me voice :D), I made a rather mumbly tutorial about it. I'll probably try and add more annotations to it to cover for the more 'wtf are you saying' bits.

Also, just noticed Tom put up the achieve- er I mean, totally original Medals system on our pages. It currently only works on Portal Defenders atm but it looks like Tom will reveal the secrets to the magic nature soon enough. Could give games, and possibly movies, a new form of light.
50 for listening to a Weebl loop 25 times in a row, maybe?

So the latest volume of Sonic Shorts was released yesterday. We were a lot tougher on what went into the collection, putting a pox on all 'run into something' gags. I'm pretty pleased with how the animation for my part turned out.

There's also a new toon over at Weebl's stuff about Narwhals which should be up on NG later on in the week.
Edit: K it's now in the portal. Sadly he's submitting them now, so I won't be able to respond to your reviews personally. That was one of the fun parts of submitting a new flash. ='(

Going back to Sonic Shorts, TheWax was telling me as he was submitting it that he was unable to submit it with the intended title (it was originally without a colon, like the previous volumes) because a spam movie had already taken it. Whilst many of you will just go 'pfft, it's just a colon, no need to cut yourself over it', it does bring up concern that such a system exists. I don't know if this always existed, or whether it was just implimented for the recent upgrade to the search bar, but it does seem problematic.

Spam flashes following a popular video game parody series aside, this also brings problems for seperate artists having ideas for flashes that coincidentally share the same name. Like if someone wanted to submit their experimental flash they've been working months on under the name 'Apple', only to find they can't submit it as 'Apple' cos it was taken by a comedy about an apple trying to get lucky. Sure you can go with the seemingly cool '-Apple-' method of naming, but really you shouldn't need to.

In other news, got a couple more uni projects in the running, one being a mock commercial and one involving...erm... a sheep. Should be fun.

And anyone playing Street Fighter IV, make sure you play it with 'Arcade Requests' off, or you will hate life. More than you probably already do.

Vote 5

I know, it's a little late for Xmas, but duties pushed it back a little bit. This one contains considerably more effort than that other flash I release recently so it's worth a watch. :P

A now to flesh out this journal here's some Youtube vids I made recently.

A clown model I made with very amateur rigging set to weird background

Eminem synced with Kirby

And finally Yu-Gi-Oh set to Rhythm Tengoku Gold which I seriously want through my postbox right now.

Kdone.

Just got back from London, and boy was it a swell little dealie.

Met up with MrSimon and then headed off to Namco Station, where we saw loads of NG Peeps, including sexy man Tom Fulp. I forgot to bring my PS2 copy of Alien Hominid to sign so I asked him to sign my copy of Castle Crashers instead (hey, he found it funny). Dodgems were once again a blast, particularly since MrSimon couldn't put on his seatbelt cos it was stuck.

Once in the downstairs area, I finally got to meet my boss, Weebl (who i kept as a surprise prior to the meet :P) and it was pretty neat. Other people I got to meet included the two Edds (Eddsworld and Eddache), The Swain and the various staff people who came with Tom, as well as almost everyone who attended the last meet (Kayn, Sqeezy, Flash Bros., Hans, Luis, etc.)

A recurring theme throughout the evening was the ultimate duel between me and MrSimon, settling our 4 year rivalry. Here's how it went down:

DDR - MrSimon wins (despite me accidentally picking Easy difficulty on the first stage)
Air Hockey - MrSimon wins 7-5
Tekken 6 - I win, 2 games out of 3. (Kazuya vs Kuma, Paul vs Eddy, Steve vs Law)
Outrun 2 - I win, 1st place (i think it's the first time i've ever cleared an outrun course, and this is through all the hard paths too.)
Pool - Simon chokes on the 8 ball, I finish it off. I win

Supreme victory for me

Ahem, moving along.

After the Nacmo Station, we headed off to another pub, where there were more booze, as well as Cheesy Chips. And after that we went to another pub where there was karaoke and pizza randomly appeared from nowhere.

All in all a swell day. Much thanks to Luis to organising, Tom and Weebl for showing up, MrSimon who bought me drinks and the two kids who asked me for autographs. Good times for all.

Also, I got Tom to do this.

Good times indeed. :3

In other flash news, I'm working on some shit that I need to get done by next week. *gulp* But it should be cool.

And now here's Bezman doing a little dance after taking pictures of our arses all day.

Dammit it's making me hungry.

Edit: I'm getting a fair amount of reviews saying their experience issues with the subtitles. Make sure you have the latest flash player installed (at least 9 is required for this movie.)

Oh, and the NXE is now upon us. I've already made my avatar. Hooray for them providing good ol' mickey mouse gloves. Also tried out one of the Community Games, Artoon, which had a neat art style. Probably worth a shot for anyone on NG who knows anything about programming (ie. not me)

And the internet loves you (note: <- this comment might be complete bullpoop)

But what do we know about this device of ropey device used to catch inters?
Weebl and I have made this little guide for E4.com featuring everything you know
(ie. it has Rick Astley and Chocolate Rain in it)

It can be watchified via this link

Also, while we're on the matter, Weebl's also selling some rather nifty calendars, giving the upcoming NG calendar for competition.
Cool kids buy both of them. You do want to be cool, right?

Barack Obama. Somehow managing to make 'pie' funny again.

As for actual news, I've been concentrating on uni stuffs, which involves some Maya animation with rigged models and some...shit involving lovesick squirrels or something. If I can get a good chunk of that out of the way, I might make something for Halloween. I've also thought about getting a pumpkin for the carving contest, providing I can find one without deformations and what I can only describe as pumpkin-puss on it. ><

Update: Didn't have time for a halloween flash and pumpkins were sold out =(

And since I don't really have any flash screenies to post, here's a shot of the most controversial game coming this season...

What's Cooking with Jamie Oliver

Finally I have something to release on NG again!
Anyhoo, I've finished my Madness Day flash and am releasing it a little bit early cos hey, it's pretty much Madness Day in Japan and Australia at least.
Boat 5
There should also be a new toon released on Friday, so look out for that too.
EDIT: Okay, Credit Crunch is now in the portal!
And now to make the contents in this journal almost completely ignorable, here's a Youtube Poop of one of the Catface eps I animated. (I should really get Weebl to release more of those on Newgrounds at some point.)

So we had the NG London Meet III last week organised by Luis and it was pretty swell. Here's how the day went.

-Took a 3 hour long train ride, reading a couple of mangas to pass the time.
-Got to London and followed the 'random kid in a Newgrounds t-shirt' to the meeting spot, where I saw such people as Hans van Harken, Sqeezy, HappyHarry87, The EXP, and a bunch of other NGers who I probably won't remember but am grateful for the praise and general non-bashing I recieved from them. (Seriously, no one was all 'god you suck'. What's up with that?) We all bought some Mr Whippy's before Luis showed up later on. We all signed a Tankmen shirt (to which I wrote 'think this is dust?' above the white cloud following the tank.)
-Moved onto Namco Station where we bowled, played games and boozed up, and is where KaynSlamdyke and Tom and Dim eventually showed up. During the time spent, I revelled in my suckage at bowling, won a bunch of tickets which I traded for Drumstick lollies and a cuddly meerkat, got oh so close to winning a PS3 on the oh-so-tortureful Stacker game, which continues to mock me whichever country I'm in, rammed into everyone on the bumper cars (proper bumper cars where you really feel the damage >=3), whupped Sqeezy at DDR and Air Hockey and fumed at the price difference between the two times I bought a Smirnoff Ice.
-Afterwards we went for Pizza and Waffles, got split up and spent the rest of the time with the Flash Bros and The Exp at some pubs (at which point I had become bored of drinking booze and just had a J20 instead) before I had to head back home before all the trains stopped.

So yeah, a simple day out but one that was quite fun, due to the whole socialness of it all.
Hope to attend the next meet at some point. :P

Pics of the meet, including exploitable photoshop moments, can be found here: http://www.brainwashstudios.com/ng-lon don-meet3-day3.html