Animation Breaks

Within time of animating, and having a good time at it. Usually your finished product turns out either a total disaster or a victorious product. I've been thinking alot about animating, but I haven't been able to be inspired enough to even start on working any projects which is really weird for me.

I haven't been around for a while on Newgrounds though. I've checked it a few times the previous week, but that's really it. I just lost interest a bit. As well, probably the flash scene in general. Maybe, it's just a phase I'm going through that I'll eventually grow out of.

I used to love animating, but for some reason, about 2-3 weeks ago, or maybe even last month I've lost interest. I'm probably going to pick up animating again, but I quite don't know when. Maybe, I'll go on a Newgrounds/Animation break, take a little vacation from it all for a bit. Drink a bit, and just sink in my utter-not success of this life of mine.

Animating was a hobby of mine, but for some reason maybe I should just back away from it for a bit. School is starting tomorrow, and this is the first time I've checked the Lounge in a while. I'm trying to see what's going on here, how everyone's lives are doing, what's exactly happening. You guys may not see my face around here for a while. I'll be taking an animation break, maybe I'll update my blog here and there but that's really it.

Hm, that sounds good. See you all maybe in 2 months. I may crack an animation or two out for the holidays. No idea yet. But All I know now, It'll probably be nothing promising. I'm a mess.

If you're even interested in talking to me; I guess contact through email or MSN/AIM. I highly doubt it though.

Email - dragonballsr@hotmail.com
MSN - dragonballsr@hotmail.com
AIM - rudynumber2
Myspace

After many problems and frustration the Apocalypse Collab is finally finished! This has to be my first collab I've ever made, and it runs about 9 minutes plus 2 minutes worth of extras. Of course it wouldn't ever be possible if I didn't have the authors who helped me so much in this collab. I'd like to thank all of you below:

(Wurmy1029, DrunkenDog, Doomshock, Penboy, UnReal-Me, rudy, razveck, kyledafox, sinistermuffin, the-claww, slick productions, kinesta, jonimator, battered-prawn, st1k, toasterdemon, Ergoengan, Cybermonkeystudios, InvaderChris, and CheektoGhetto)

I'm very proud of the outcome of this collab. Especially since my computer crashed and I lost everything. From there, I had a month to rebuild this whole thing and release it. It was either that, or give up. Of course, giving up wasn't an option for me. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

Thanks!

WATCH HERE.

How to detect your Batting Average:

Despite the Newgrounds Redesign, alot of people have been lost and asking many questions involving features and problems in the system. Of course you can always Report Bugs or maybe even PM Tom Fulp --There is a simple solution to solve your questions. Today, I bring you the simple answer on finding your "Batting Average."

The Batting Average is an averaged total score of your top 3 Newgrounds submissions. The reason why we really need to know about the batting average is because it applies to many users to create Collabs in the Flash Forum. The rules state that you need over a 3.0+ Batting Average to arrange and hold a collab for many others to participate in.

To clear up some questions, I thought maybe I should just post a News Topic involving this change, and MAYBE clear up some questions that are lurking around in people's minds.

Here are the steps to find your batting average:
: It's the only way I know of so far.

1) Simply type your name in the Newgrounds Search Bar, under the USER search.
2) After detecting your submissions, You'll see your icon on the right of the screen, as your submissions are at the right side.
3) Hover over your icon, to reveal your Batting Average.

That's the simple and easy way to find out how to find your batting average. Many people, have been wondering on how too, so I thought I'd make this to clear up some questions. Hopefully this helped!

Thank you.
-Rudy
: Here's an example screenshot:

Despite the new redesign, I'll be updating my page dramatically of course. I'll have features and updates on new Flash Animations and Games bound to hit Newgrounds.com. I'm really glad it's finally released. I think I'm going to just...go crazy due to the whole new upgrade. I'm impressed -- very impressed.

In other news, I'll be making a new website design for Tsunami Productions. This makes me extremely excited, I'm hoping to team up with a few of my friends to get a HTML full based site, and make it pretty kickass. I've been updating my NG User Page as well if anyone is interested. The character is designed to look like me, and I'm very pleased with how everything is turning out.

Another thing I'll be releasing soon is a Redesign Flash Animation, later on tonight. To get out all the mischief of the submissions about it, I decided to work on something on my own. It'll be a little rushed but hopefully it'll turn out nicely. I'm also going to use this as a journal based kind of thing, so I hope you enjoy the whole design and entries.

Thank you.
-Rudy