Hai,

With Summer fun lurking about, let's get down to the point and start a pretty eventful collab. Why not dedicate to our home, we know today? Here, I introduce to you is the Newgrounds Collab. This is a collab basically dedicated to Newgrounds.com, as well as the creations in which live upon it.

In this collab, you will have an option to animate any Newgrounds characters and starring roles in animations across the portal. Some examples are; Pico from Pico's School, Strawberry Clock from the Clock Crew's work, or Bitey from Brackenwood.

I never quite saw a collab as the official Newgrounds Collab, but why not start one? Of course, in the past, there has been various collabs based off a bit of Newgrounds characters -- especially the All NG Fads Die!!! collab series, but that's besides the point. It focused on destroying the NG Fads like the Clocks, Madness Characters, There She is, etc. This collab on the otherhand is a tribute in which will show us tipping our hat off too these awesome animations that made Newgrounds what it is today.

I don't quite want this collab to be a laughing-stock or considered a joke. I'm hoping for people to actually take this collab seriously and not just shit out 5 second animations with shitty tweening or tracing that is considered their piece. Let's take our time and actually make this thing successful.

In this collaboration, I'm hoping for various animators and artists to create an animation based off of Newgrounds Characters. To prevent overuse of various Newgrounds Series, we will most likely have a minimum amount of people wanting to do a certain Newgrounds Character or Series. We will most likely only have one person doing one thing. Maybe, I'll allow more in further time -- but I want to focus on first come, first serve at the moment.

I will keep note on which series have been done already as well as which characters have been called for -- as well as which NG User is taking the piece. In the end, My goal is to have a whole list of various animations being covered. So this should be interesting.

Now it's time to touch up specs in which are needed, such as deadlines, co-authorship, as well as what our FPS and Flash settings will be.

^ You are required to create an animation in which is based on a Newgrounds character, or Animation Series which lives on Newgrounds. Great examples are; There She Is! Blockhead!
* We honestly want to stay as much away from dialogue as possible. Which means, sounds or voicework, but there will be an exception if your part REALLY needs to involve dialogue. But the short silent film, is what we're aiming for. (I'm still iffy on this. If you make a really good dialogue part, this most likely will change.!)
* We really don't want to allow the robot clock voices either.
* No half-assed animations.
* You must be able to show a really good example of your Flash Animating Skill to be qualified to submit a piece. We really don't want any noobs taking the spot for a possible good animation parody.
* Have fun !

Adobe Flash Document Properties:
Dimensions: 600X400
Background Color: White(default)
Frame rate: 24 FPS

The sound and audio for this collaboration will be decided all in all by the people taking part in the collab. I don't quite have a set track in the right set of mind at the moment -- But at a further date, we'll have a nice little poll on which audio track will be decided for our ending collab.

To prevent further interruption or problems, I would appreciate it if when you send in your collab piece, that you will send me a Flash 8 Format file. I can not work with CS3 files due to the lack of the program. Only submit Flash 8 work. Thank you.

Another thing, please avoid using names of your Movie clip, and symbols as "Tween 1" or "Symbol 1." Use a unique name, such as "Rudy_01." So it'll prevent any further editing of names, it'll help out alot. Thank you for that as well.

The Co-Authors will be determined by your animation skill. The best animator of the bunch will be selected to be co-authored. So if you're aiming for a spot, please take your time on your part and earn the right spot. There are 9-spots for Co-authoring -- So I apologize for whom don't get a nice spot. I'll announce the people whom get coed at a further date, when the collab is actually completed and files(parts) are finally turned in.

Every author will have a affiliated name which will link to their Newgrounds page, as their part is playing, so people can be directly brought to their artists page. I will most likely not have a BIOs section, due to the fact that it's not quite needed. I'll think about having one later on, if you guys strongly encourage or recommend one.

For anyone whom wants to affliate this thread and tell your friends about it, you can download the signature/view it from either the link here, or save it from my own signature. View here.

The starting date for this collab is AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. We want to get this thing off the road, as fast as we can. We don't quite want rushing, but we don't want people to wait either. Take your time, but know that your time is valued -- and if you wait til the last minute to complete your piece, than you'll fall behind to the back of the line.

The deadline date will most likely be late August, Early September. I don't quite people to slack at the moment, so we'll have that as an official date. It gives us about a month and a half to complete a piece. The set date at the moment is: August 30th.

To start off the fun, I call Fancy Pants as my Animation. So no one else can do Fancy Pants from Fancy Pants Adventures.

To whom who wants to animate, please pick a fad so I can add it to the below list:

NG-Series Animations:
1.) Fancy Pants Adventures - Rudy
2.) Blockead - Masterswordsman
3.) Nameless - Goat-man
4.) Brakenwood - Toasterdemon
5.) Dad N' Me - OPEN AND FREE FOR USE !
6.) Neurotically Yours (Foamy) - denzel-crocker
7.) Madness -/kuorydaninja
8.) MoreLikeBlue - Lazymuffin
9.) Alien Hominid - KartuneHustla
10.) Pico - RWA
11.) Weebl N' Bob - Matt-Frozenfire
12.) Gamer Tonight - Hylian-Mafia
13.) Eskimo Bob - VintageBro
14.) Dads Home - FrozenSheep
15.) Johnny RocketFingers - Willobeen
16.) Mr.Coo - Chillycheese
17.) Another Day - Rudy
18.) Reboot - Lambinvoker
19.) ??? - KyleDaFox
20.) Mastermind - Racky
21.) Toof - Alpharius120
22.) Brakenwood - SergeantWeavern

*List will be updated as animators take parts.

When completing your work, send all files to: rudy@tsunami-productions.net

This is right before Summer Break ends, so school won't be tied in with your work. But just keep note that I would like to see some progress and previews on your work. Please show some progress, so I won't loose faith in you kids.

To conclude this, just keep yourself on the ball, and take your time -- but work with patience and talent. I expect to see alot of good outcome from this collab. So let's have fun.

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This is probably the most homosexual looking video I have ever created. Not only we are singing to eachother, but we seem to be pretty intimate. We are totally straight though.

It's basically a joke, nothing to get all homophobic about. And if you're all like "oh my god, you guys are gay!!!"

Just shut the fuck up, and learn how to take a joke as well as acting. It's just for fun. Don't get your panties in a knot, bitch.

Comment on YouTube here...

IT REALLY WORKS !

Heyo, I've been pondering on whether or not to start animating again so I start on a nice little gem I'd like to call a Super Mario Spoof. I'm sure you're wondering on whether it'll be Sprites or Drawn -- Well, I'll sum it up now.. It's going to be created using Sprites. I apologize but this seems like the ONLY way to portray the story I want to be told based on the Super Mario World game for SNES.

The animation will have various jokes based off of a theme I'm set with. The reason why I started thinking of this was because I recently purchased Super Mario World on my Nintendo Wii, actually. It's a rather interesting game and the musical score inspired me to actually work on this animation. I'm yet again pushing off the Life of a Smiley Series -- Especially Episode 1 which I've mentioned in various past news posts.

To hold you guys over, Enjoy the screen shot below featuring the intro of the animation. If you have any questions or comments, leave them here. Maybe recommend things for the animation to include? That's be appreciated. Well, I should be going now.

Take care everyone.
Check out Tsunami-Productions.net for more information.

In my recent post, I discussed leaving Newgrounds for a while due to many things going on in my life. Things HAVE been getting better but I'm still going to stay away from Newgrounds for a bit. I'm just making a Front Page post to reassure you guys that I'm still alive. Not like the two of you reading this actually care.

Well, since you're here. I wanted to know some feedback on my site, Tsunami-Productions.net. I wanted to know where could I improve it and what I should add in the future. It was released about a month or two ago, and I've been thinking of a redesign already with comment sections, rating review boxes, etc. But I just use CSS and HTML -- Should I get into Javascript and maybe use Wordpress for my site? Eh. Who knows. Just leave some feedback.

Another thing, I want to plug in a fun little cartoon I came across. Nathaniel Milburn released a pretty goofy cartoon recently and it turned out pretty damn good. It's short but sweet and I really enjoyed the details on the characters. Very professionally done. I swear that kid has some talent.

Another pretty good artist is actually featured on front page for his animation /Chuck's New Tux!. Which is a very impressive animation indeed. It seems like all his animations have a nice feel to it. The creator is Harry Partridge and he is very impressive with his animation skills.

To conclude this, I'd like to throw in this side note. It seems like Bug is actually creating something worthy again. Remember when he created "Ignorance is Bliss" And it was pretty damn good, and afterwards his Newgrounds account turned into complete rubble with horrible animations with Hitler and shit. Yeah, well he's actually making something pretty good and it looks very impressive. He created a newspost about the process... His style always reminds me of one of those sunday cartoons. I love it.

Well, guys you have a nice summer since it's approaching really fast. I have finals this week so that should be fun ! Woo. Ciaro!

Recently, I have come across a few things in my life which pushed me away from Newgrounds for a while. So I'll be going on a little Newgrounds Vacation for a while. I have to get a job sometime soon, as well as bring up my grades for finals -- along with working out a few things in my personal/social life, so I apologize.

I had alot in store for my Newgrounds Career... I was planning to release Episode 1 of the Life of a Smiley series, but I never gotten around to finishing it. It was based off of Mother's Day -- Even though, it has passed, whenever I come back around it'll be released even though Mothers Day is like over. But whatever.

So Newgrounds, I apologize but you won't be seeing my face around here much often. If you want to discuss something email me and I'll try to respond to you as fast as possible.

I probably will be creating YouTube Videos for my account though. I don't quite know why but I've been dissing that thing for a while. Here are a few installments I've created over the past week:

I'm not even good at guitar, I'm basically strumming the strings, but honestly -- I felt the need to do an amateur cover with his track in the background... I had too..

Credits to John Lennon, my boy on back up vocals. Ahah.

I feel the need to do this at the moment, the song really has hit me hard.

I know I can't sing or play guitar. fuck off.

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MY NAME IS BENJAMIN, NOT TYLER !
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Thanks everyone for your support, and I'll try to keep my site updated in my developer blog maybe.

Toodles.
Check out my site.

Enjoy the Hulk Rudy.

Hello losers :)

It's me again with another stupid update. Well to start things off, I'd like to say shut the fuck up about the Newgrounds Tank Awards. You guys are obviously stupid for ranting about nothing. Yeah, it'd be cool to have the "people's" vote instead of just a ton of judges but whatever, it's not the way it is. No more time to cheat the ballot.

Moving on ... Anyways, I recently released a new introduction to a little cute series called the "Life of a Smiley." The pilot episode was suppose to be released today but it didn't end up happening, the same exact episode will be released sometime this week though. It's basic idea is about Mother's Day. :) The whole idea of the series in general, is to express the life of the Newgrounds Smileys, which is a fun little idea that came about.

Life of a Smiley: Intro

In other news, I released another Two-Hour Time Trial to celebrate the holiday of Mother's Day over here in the United States. I apologize if you guys are offended by the harsh music it features, NSFW or more like NSFM. (not safe for mom :()

Two-Hour Time Trial V

Well thats about it so far. Maybe check out my site and have a good time over there with my random updates.

Alright, toodles and have a very happy mothers day. :)

Leave your hate-mail: here

Hello Newgrounders,

Sorry for the delay in updates but I have tons of updates for you nice little people. :) From Pico Day to all the way to a new website + new content, I'm here to fill in all the cracks of this crazy world involving my Flash scene.

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Pico Day 2008

With Pico Day suddenly coming to an end, many heads were turned with the various submissions released on the given date of April 30th, 2008. Submissions like House of 1000 Cats or N.G. Showdown, personally a few of my personal favorites were very impressively created in all due respect to Newgrounds.

Besides, the top-notch animations that day, I on the otherhand released two animations.:

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List of Pico Day 2008 Submissions:

1) Nene's Nude Photos - An animation which wasn't quite amazing to begin with, started off with Pico tell Darnell about some photos of Nen he discovered in her room. Rushing and roughly completed, I hope you enjoy this.

2) Tom's Birthday Song - Based off of Tom Fulp's Luis Day Submission, this little animation was created in honor of Tom Fulp's Birthday. In case you didn't know, Pico Day was also Tom's birthday. So as a dear and close friend, I released this animation to honor him. Actually, I don't even fucking know Tom, but oh well. The creator of Newgrounds is a friend of mine. NO HOMO.
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New Collabs:

I thought with a nice epic Newspost, I'll update everyone on what exactly was going on in the flash scene with me. Actually, I've participated in a few collabs this month. If you're interested, there is a list below about the collabs in which I took part in.

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List of Collab Submissions:

1) Good Night Collab - A silly collab arranged by Fion, I took part in this collab in which was created in a 96 FPS annoying set FPS speed. >:(

2) When You Were Young Collab - A song created by the Killers, I took part in this little collab which flew right under the radar during the day. Not much impressed with the outcome, but I left my share in the collab, so I must give recognition.
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Other Recent Submissions:

A few other submissions, I released will be listed below.

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List of Other Recent Submissions:

1) Sorry Tom? - An animation in which was dedicated to the "I'm Sorry Flashes" submitted by the Clock Crew. Sources told me that on the Clock Crew's last spam day, They submitted various animations starring these weird camels. Due to this, Tom called of Wade to delete them, and than Wade deleted them right after. This was the outcome, in which I felt the need to portray.

2) Two-Hour Time Trial IV - They're backkkkkkkkkkk.
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Tsunami-Productions.net LAUNCHED!

Finally, after many many months of using a Freewebs account, I actually took it upon myself to release a new website for my animations and portfolio. The website was created within a Saturday day in which I was bored so I purchased the domain and released this nice little site which features my recent work as well as OTHER people's work that I enjoyed.

If you have any animations that you would like to throw upon me, than just email me at my new email
here. It is my site account only, so any work you'd like to see on Front Page, tell me and I'll see what I can do. The content will update every week with new Other People's Work. If I enjoy the content, I may put it up. :)

So please take time out of your day, and check out my new site. Thank you.

Tsunami-Productions.net
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Animation Challenge Weeks 4-6 Submission

I'm aware many of the artists and animators taking part in the Animation Challenge Weeks were very curious on which Weeks 4-6 were going to be released to the portal, and actually, I finally got around to completing the animation as I put the contest on a hault to complete this to begin with.

After many hours of restarting Flash, renaming thousands of symbols and movieclips, I completed this baby with ease as it features a tutorial section to help you complete the tasks in which we did during the week.

I present to you: The Animation Challenge Weeks 4-6!
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Other Gems

In the near future, since I've finally completed the Animation Challenge Week animation, I plan on taking a break from animating for a while. I need to cool off for a bit, but I will still release content onto my site. By the way, I may add a nice little art section on it, as well.

Besides all the chaos, I do have plans for upcoming Flash projects.

First, I'll probably start on this little animated short I have in mind. It'll feature some old Dad and his daughter, and they will come across something very interesting. I'm hoping to maybe make a little "mini-series" with the pedo-dad and prep-daughter. We'll see though. They will probably be about 30 seconds long though. Not too epic.

Second, I want to start a collab to start off the new year. I haven't really ran a nice 08' collab yet, but one thing I'm planning to do, is group up a few famous NG artists on this one, and see where it'll take me. It won't be released to the public, until it's finished. ;)

That's about it so far, I have a few ideas in mind, Renovating my site, adding additions and updating, along with screwing around with codes or whatever. I have alot to do... Heck, anyone planning for their Madness and Clock Day submissions yet? Not me. :3 I should think of at least something though... Eh, It's like 5 months away, IT CAN WAIT.
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In conclusion to all of this, I hope you enjoyed this major update on my recent work and upcoming work. I still have yet to finish that "Something" animation but whatever, we'll see what happens. Hopefully, I can bring alot of good solo projects this year.

Thanks for checking out my newspost. I hope you enjoyed.

Later.

Hââ-pô Newgrounders!,

Welcome to the traditional, Weekly Animation Challenge! It's that time of the week again, and now we're going to make things a bit more interesting.

To start things off, If you aren't familiar with the whole "Animation Challenge" Deal. Here is a simple explanation of the whole jazz.

These "Weekly Animation Challenges" are a challenge given to all the artists on Newgrounds for whomever to enter. You are a given a specific theme to animate during the whole week. At the given deadline, you are qualified to hand in the .fla file of the animation to be compiled in a finished .swf to be submitted to Newgrounds. Oh, but no this isn't just for fun - The best animator and piece will be rewarded with a nice little cash prize. ;)

The amount of money that'll be given is $4.00 per Two Submissions. Meaning Each submission is worth $2.00.

But let's get down to business about our challenge of this week.

The challenge this week is to create an animation portraying a "slam dunk.".

Slam Dunks, you know the whole deal of slamming a basketball into a hoop with one leap. Mike Jordan has got it down, so now you have to as well ! This week's animation challenge was actually inspired by "Totty Arts Weeklies," which are pretty interesting and very impressive.

View their site here!

Example shown here!!

Let's make some speculations first though.
24FPS
DEFAULT DIMENSIONS. (550*400)
Rename all movie clips/tweens/symbols with a unique name.
No specific time frame limit. It can be as long as you want, just not drastic minutes long. Etc.

Other Rules are listed as followed:

Rules:

1. For every 2 entries done to satisfaction quality, $4 is added, so even if there are only 2 entries added, money will be available :) See rule 7 and 9 also. Basically each person is worth four dollars each. :)

2. The parts must be the right frame size / fps / Timer length / and any other thing stated in the specific thread.

3. ALL of the parts will be submitted to various flash sites.

4. ONLY ONE submission from each person counts, although you can submit more than once.

5. There is only one winner, the winner will receive the amount of money specified BY PAYPAL ONLY!

6. Winners will be chosen by YOU, the people! See later rules for more information.

7. No clocks or anything of that nature. No animations that'll involve sprites either. I want full animation skills. If it doesn't meet the qualifications than it will not be accepted.

8. Remember that this is for animation practice as much as anything so it doesn't have to be perfect, unless your serious about getting the winnings ;).

9. There will be a maximum of $100.00 granted to the winner.

10. If there is tie, The cash prize will simply be split in half to the top two winners.

11. Post the .swf files in this thread, but a maditory rule is to host is at The Spam the Web Uploader!!

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Note: After completing the full week's submissions, Send me your .fla files at dragonballsr@hotmail.com, so I can compile them within a folder and soon create a .swf compilation of the work for a submission to be featured on Newgrounds and SpamTheWeb.

Also, remember that each animation is worth two dollars. So let's say for example, if we have sixteen animators, the top prize will be $32.00. $100.00 Limit Maximum.

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Key of Winning:
To win, you have to simply be voted for the most. When the submission of the complied work hits Newgrounds, Voters will vote for their favorite work via PM or within Reviews. In conclusion to the deadline of votes, We will present the Cash Prize Via PAYPAL ONLY, and you'll receive your earnings.

There are following up rules to the voting round as well:
- Do not mass vote/review.
- Any suspicion of mass voting will result to a disqualification from the whole contest.
- You cannot vote for yourself nor can you vote at all. The authors will not be eligible to vote for the winners. They have to sit back and watch the show. :)

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Quick Note: Please send your .fla file in FLASH 8 format since I do not currently have Flash CS3, so to be eligible send your files in a Flash 8 format. THANK YOU.
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Co-Authors
Co-Authoring will be accepted before submitting, you will be contacted to accept buddy request if you haven't already. The flash will be submitted and I'll co-author the top 8 animators. Since number one slot is taken by the SpamTheWeb Newgrounds account.

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Deadline: Thursday, April 17th, 12:00AM. (Eastern Time.)
The deadline will be Thursday night which is a week from Today. You are given a week to complete your work! So use your time wisely.
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The whole contest is basically simple. Just follow the rules and guidelines and you should be fine. Thank you for your time, and hopefully this will be a fun week.

Any questions?
Reply to the thread or email me. Or even IM me (dragonballsr@hotmail.com)
AIM: rudynumber2

Thank you.

: Apologies for delay in release of this weekly challenge. I was hoping for a week off but SpamTheWeb created it and pushed forward. Oh well. Thank you.

View Thread here !

Guten Tag Newgrounders!,

Welcome to the traditional, Weekly Animation Challenge! It's that time of the week again, and now we're going to make things a bit more interesting.

First of all, These "Weekly Animation Challenges" are a challenge given to all the artists on Newgrounds for whomever to enter. You are a given a specific theme to animate during the whole week. At the given deadline, you are qualified to hand in the .fla file of the animation to be compiled in a finished .swf to be submitted to Newgrounds. Oh, but no this isn't just for fun - The best animator and piece will be rewarded with a nice little cash prize. ;)

The amount of money that'll be given is $4.00 per Two Submissions. Meaning Each submission is worth $2.00.

But let's get down to business about our challenge of this week.

The challenge this week is to create an animation using the technique or style persay, of personification..

Definition of Personification

-The metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes--attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on. As the name implies, a thing or idea is treated as a person.

-Is a figure of speech whereby an inanimate or non-living object is given human characteristics.

It's a fun challenge. You can have a chair walking away, a moving ball, a car living an everyday life. It's just a broad topic that you can use your imagination on. Be creative guys. :)

Example shown here!!

Let's make some speculations first though.
24FPS
DEFAULT DIMENSIONS. (550*400)
Rename all movie clips/tweens/symbols with a unique name.
No specific time frame limit. It can be as long as you want, just not drastic minutes long. Etc.

Other Rules are listed as followed:

Rules:

1. For every 2 entries done to satisfaction quality, $4 is added, so even if there are only 2 entries added, money will be available :) See rule 7 and 9 also. Basically each person is worth four dollars each. :)

2. The parts must be the right frame size / fps / Timer length / and any other thing stated in the specific thread.

3. ALL of the parts will be submitted to various flash sites.

4. ONLY ONE submission from each person counts, although you can submit more than once.

5. There is only one winner, the winner will receive the amount of money specified BY PAYPAL ONLY!

6. Winners will be chosen by YOU, the people! See later rules for more information.

7. No clocks or anything of that nature. No animations that'll involve sprites either. I want full animation skills. If it doesn't meet the qualifications than it will not be accepted.

8. Remember that this is for animation practice as much as anything so it doesn't have to be perfect, unless your serious about getting the winnings ;).

9. There will be a maximum of $100.00 granted to the winner.

10. If there is tie, The cash prize will simply be split in half to the top two winners.

11. Post the .swf files in this thread, but a maditory rule is to host is at The Spam the Web Uploader!!

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Note: After completing the full week's submissions, Send me your .fla files at dragonballsr@hotmail.com, so I can compile them within a folder and soon create a .swf compilation of the work for a submission to be featured on Newgrounds and SpamTheWeb.

Also, remember that each animation is worth two dollars. So let's say for example, if we have sixteen animators, the top prize will be $32.00. $100.00 Limit Maximum.

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Key of Winning:
To win, you have to simply be voted for the most. When the submission of the complied work hits Newgrounds, Voters will vote for their favorite work via PM or within Reviews. In conclusion to the deadline of votes, We will present the Cash Prize Via PAYPAL ONLY, and you'll receive your earnings.

There are following up rules to the voting round as well:
- Do not mass vote/review.
- Any suspicion of mass voting will result to a disqualification from the whole contest.
- You cannot vote for yourself nor can you vote at all. The authors will not be eligible to vote for the winners. They have to sit back and watch the show. :)

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Quick Note: Please send your .fla file in FLASH 8 format since I do not currently have Flash CS3, so to be eligible send your files in a Flash 8 format. THANK YOU.
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Co-Authors
Co-Authoring will be accepted before submitting, you will be contacted to accept buddy request if you haven't already. The flash will be submitted and I'll co-author the top 8 animators. Since number one slot is taken by the SpamTheWeb Newgrounds account.

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Deadline: Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 (NIGHT.)
The deadline will be Tuesday night which is a week from Today. You are given a week to complete your work! So use your time wisely.
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The whole contest is basically simple. Just follow the rules and guidelines and you should be fine. Thank you for your time, and hopefully this will be a fun week.

Any questions?
Reply to the thread or email me. Or even IM me (dragonballsr@hotmail.com)
AIM: rudynumber2

Thank you.

View thread here!