Hey everyone!

I know I don't exactly make flash movies on newgrounds anymore but it's more or less because I have expanded to using more than just flash! The new Unforgotten Realms can been seen now on The Escapist every other Thrusday! (psst sorry Tom they pay me monies ;_;)

Episode Four comes out this Thrusday!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos /view/unforgotten-realms
http://www.urealms.com/

Now although this may look like I'm mindlessly plugging my new cartoon which I totally am, I just wanted to give a big thanks to Newgrounds because honestly I was never an animator, writer or voice actor until Newgrounds came around. Now mind you I hardly consider myself any of these jobs but since I legally get paid to do them... High Five for making silly cartoons as a profession. Take that firemen!

Advice for you young children submitting your work to Newgrounds?

Be original, be funny and your score means very little in reality. The first ever UR cartoon I submitted had less then a 3.4 after the first month it came out. It wasn't even a 4 till the fan bois bumped it up almost half a year later. If you make a cartoon without floppy penises, sprites, nintendo/sega characters, or rip off ego raptor AWESOMENESS then you should look at your score and double it in your head. Nice work ace, you get my seal of approval. In fact go ahead and write you got my seal of approval to make your cartoon. In fact here have the seal (=S=). Sure it might look like a cheap seal but that bitch cost me at least 20 bucks if I remember right.

Expand your work. Flash is a fantastic tool but when you combine it with other programs you can greatly get away with your animations. I have zero natural drawing ability but I fake it pretty well nowadays. There are websites that will sell you cheap royalty free music, cheap special effect overlays, cheap sound effect library. Invest in them. I know you can search the web to find that gunshot sound everyone uses in there movies but in the 45 minutes you spend searching you could have instantly taken a sound effect from your source and saved a ton of time and have a better overall quality production.

Once you have your idea, ignore the haters. If you honestly think what you got is something good, Roll with it because it will only get better. All you need to do is get one good idea to start an animation with and your golden. Take something that you know and even apply real life experiences to the mix. Do a show about developers of video game companies and there wacky antics, a show about Cats that are really big in to politics. Take what you know and apply it. Big on movies? Use it. Watch a lot of anime? Appeal to that crowd.

And for god sakes, don't give up. This crap is hard. A lot of people will insult you. People are going to tell you that the second episode of your show sucked and then there gonna say the third is even worst. Your going to spend 8 hours animating only to have your PC crash and restart. Your going spend 3 months on a cartoon to only then scrap it and say "This isn't any good". Your going hate lip syncing and want to cheat (I do and always will). Your going to drink caffeine like you have a Soda Transfusion (I drink two cases a week, I will die before I'm 40 most likely). You will fail 100 times and even then you are not guaranteed one good movie. You will suck, people will tell you that you suck but you will get better because thats life. If you see someones movie and you think it sucks, tell them it sucks because by doing that you are helping them. Don't be a pussy and say "Nice try, I'm sure your next one will be better", that shit doesn't help. When everyone tells you that you suck, BAM you get better. This applies for everything you do in life not just animating.

Playing Super Smash Brothers with your friend and he picks Donkey Kong? Tell that little punk he sucks and to pick someone else.

Your brother makes a Peanut Butter Sandwitch but uses Whole Wheat bread? Tell bitch face to make it on white because only sucky people eat whole wheat.

If everyone tells you that you suck. Get better and show thoses bitches who sucks now. Thats right. Their mother sucks.

Special Thanks to
MetalDart
Bezo
Logo
Clunes
The Fulps
and whatever other fans I'm sure I want to thank but can't remember.

Thanks for the experience, the exposure and the career Newgrounds.
Team Rocket can suck my balls.

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Quick Edit: Am I leaving Newgrounds? Well Yes and No. Sadly I don't really animate much with flash as much as I use too and my time is really spread thin. However newgrounds has been on my favorites toolbar since I was 14 and I have an almost always will come back here now an again. I'll try to keep updates to the show up on the News thing here but man I'm so bad at updating things.