So first off, any hot young animators that be chillin in university of Santa Cruz, hit me up :D

Second....Oh golly ya'll it's been a "hella" sick week. Lot's going on, lots of fresh idea's, lot's of free pizza. Can't wait to start working on it. As of now classes are about to begin so the honeymoon phase is pretty much done. Still University is awesome, just thought I'd throw that out there

also, chalk drawing at 1:00 A.M is a very rewarding experience :D

yes...yes I did, and it was awesome...ish

Review mode...ACTIVATE:

lil history that probably effects my opinion:
9 is based on an animated short created by Shane Ascher "I believe it was something he made over his 4 years in college" the short proved to be a marvel and set the young fellow up to be one hell of a future something. Now we have 9 the movie, produced by Timmy Burton but still directed by Shane. A talented man no doubt, but someone who has never made a feature length film and as such, makes a mistake or two along the way.

It begins:
The first half of the movie suck's you in with a combination of incredible visuals and a surreal post-war world rendered in what Shane call's "stitchpunk". It's the kind of stuff you generally only get to see in short films on the interweb "newgrounds :D" and seeing such a world fully realized is something really worth seeing. As the film progresses though, the flaw's start to show a little more.

Them flaw's:
While the world that 9 takes place in could literally be described as breathtaking, the pacing and structure is not. Their are a lot of very well thought out "scenes" that alone work very well. However, they don't always click with each other, and at times it feels like their was something important that the movie forgot to bring up. Think of it as you would if you've ever dreampt up a story but never wrote it down all the way through. You have some very specific things you want to do, but you don't always have a plan to get from point A to point B. I was incredibly worried that Shane would lose some of the creative control in the project. However, this seems like one of those rare cases where it would have been perfect if someone more experienced in film making "timmy B" helped direct the director in the right direction "say that 5 times fast"

The Awesome:
9 however, is by no mean's a failed attempt. What it lacks in structure it makes up for in style and originality. Throughout the majority of the movie, every time I began to have a critic moment of "hey now, that's not really working" something would happen that would come over and slap the little critic in me back in his place. Every frame is made with care and diligence, helping to make a visual masterpiece. Every creature and machine is unlike anything you've ever seen before, from the massive clanking "fabrication machine" the timid sack-boy's them selves. Yes 9 has it's issues, but when thing's are done right in this movie they are executed perfectly. If you want to see something imaginative, check it out.

Final Word:
Ultimately 9 is a flawed, yet still very amazing film that has the potential to be a cult classic, depending on what kind of person you are and what you prefer to see in a movie. I recall having a similar experience when I saw Repo, the genetic opera. Flawed like hell, but still filled with enough heart and style to prove it has an audience in this world.

So, I have finally learned the code to make a basic platformer :D I messed around with the stuff last night and had a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll be able to use this wonderfull knowledge for some sort of game in zee future, untill that day, please enjoy a glitch ridden journey through the clouds of imagination and glory!

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/070909 /86245_platformer_test_Scene_2.php

So yeah, finally made something new over the weekend, and gatta say, very happy I did it. Inspired by a heat wave that hit my town a few days ago, please do me the honor of checking it out.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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My parents have seen fit to bestow upon me a new laptop as I am off to the world of college and fancy things! This being the case I thoguht I would share thiswonderfull news with the world! It is true, tech does not make the animator, but it does make the animator happy! That being said, I'm off to re-install flash and get all them old files stowed safley within my new hard drive. :D thank you and have a pleasant day, night, evening, breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, party, bbq, or social gather of your choice

peace out :D

New toon, didn't do as well as I'd hoped, still glad I got the tablet practice in.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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It seems to have gone up to a respectable Green :D! I wonder if that quality's it to go into the Awesome collection. That'd be rather ...AWESOME :D

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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was part of a collab, got cut. Figured I'd submit it here :D. and vwa la! Little ticked I could'nt get the icon I Wanted to look right, w/e

This here's a little demo of the new Chib modelz. Had a lot of fun messing around with it. The song is "dont ask me" by ok go if anyone's wondering and that bit at the end is some other thing I Threw in for kicks :D

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/070709 /75280_chib_models_2.php<Photo 1>

It is in times of great sarrow, when darkness swallows up the land, when all hope has been extinguished by existentialist's...that we must grab the bull by the horns, then saw off those horns and sell them to make a profit...

The box of several hundred X's had been slain, and with it, any hopes of acquiring several pirates bounties "as stated in the scrolls of yesteryear" I was beside myself in front of a mirror "what have we become" I asked myself. And he asked me "what have we become?" in perfect unison.

It was at this moment that a voice echoes through the halls of the common room "NEVER FEAR! I Shall revive him!"

and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but an African American president, with a smile and good cheer! He said several well phrased words, then went straight to his work. Unscrewed the bolts of oppression and dismantled the DVD drive with a jerk. Then he placed several pennies, all in a neat line, cast a quick fire spell "he was level 99" then snapped his fingers, and gave the box a smack. Then turned to me and said back.

"Hope is here...have a crackerjack!"

and then he flew out the window to do more good dead's, while me and the box of X's celebrated in great jubilee. Peace was restored, once again to the land, all because of the teacher of "yes we can"

Tragedy today my comrads...wrenched tragedy, from a story that must be told...for the sake of a well needed moral, in todays cold cold world.

It was a fine, summers day. The birds where chirping, the wood elves where baking cookies, the Emerald clan was away dueling with a group of gypsies, and I Was merrily trotting along, on a quest for the road less traveled.

Yes, it was the perfect set up for a tragedy to occur, and so the cruel fates that be decided "man...lets go F with this guy" and that one fate in the corner was all " na man, he's not doing anything fowl, let us use our mighty powers for a more fulfilling task" but the other fates in the room all bit their thumb's at that silly rouge, leaving the already ostracized fate to flip several biches and go for a stroll of his own, leaving me to do battle with the fowl concoction the not so awesome fates had decided upon.

I saw before me a box. Inscribed with three hundred and sixty X's. Which I eminently recognized as the symbol pirates uses to mark their bounty! Assuming this was a box with the contents of three hundred and sixty pirate based fortunes. I Immediately grabbed it and ventured home, to boast afront all dem "fools" who be up in my grizz-ill.

When suddenly the box shook, and emitted a vibrant red glow. "death" it whispered, in a voice that haunts me even now. "Death from the rings of RED!"

"A DEMON!" I proclaimed! tossing the box of several hundred X's aside.

It died that day, and I feasted heartily upon it's flesh, but not before reminding myself, that though this demon was vile beyond imagine...all it ever wanted...was to be loved...a task I had failed to accomplish.

But the memory of this event will forever be immortalized in my mind, a scar on my soul that tells me to be the better man...to help the old woman across the street, and to live my life as a Glorious and shining example of Awesome, instead of a lowly cashier...

Think about it...BE the change