Pico Day 2011. Hopefully I'll have something this time.

I haven't been animating very much lately, since I've been really busy this last year working on my med school applications. I have done a bit of animation work for a company known as The Arctic*Empire. I'd like to give a call out to any musicians who are looking for some work that pays, and who want to be a part of this recent project:

The Artic*Empire is looking for someone to compose Music and SFX for their upcoming game ChaChing. They are short for time, as their other musician just bailed on them with a month remaining on the project, till its released.

They are looking for a person to compose a few tracks, sfx, and music for a animated clip. If interested please review their site (arcticempire.ca/chaching), just to get a gist of the project, and then drop Ricardo Evangelho an email (ricardo@arcticempire.ca), with samples you think would suit his games style.

Hey, I just wanted to mention that production on our Po3 game is back on track! I found some help and we're gonna be working on it during the holidays. For anyone that missed my earlier news post, the game is The Incredible Triplets, and it's going to be a puzzle-platformer game.

But regarding the good news for our Po3 game, I've decided its best to leave my christmas-themed flash until next year. I was about a quarter way done, and it'll be impossible to get it done any sooner than early january anyways, so I'll have to post-pone it. I was planning on just releasing it this January, but it's lame to release a christmas flash after christmas. But it'll definitely be out next year, and it's going to be awesome!

In other news,

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Po3 has produced some amazing games. I was amazed with the quality of some of the submissions, and I think it really shows the power of teamwork at its best.

I formed a group and tried to make a game, "The Incredible Triplets", which unfortunately never made it to completion. All the music and animations for the game were completed, however the programmer was unable to work on it and had to drop out. We still have the music and sprites gathering dust on my hard-drive, and I really hope that I can make use of them somehow. If there are any programmers out there that would like to have a look (here's hoping lol), feel free to send me a PM. I'm okay with just using them to make a mini-game or something, since that's better than nothing, and the artwork is some of my best, imo.

In other news, I plan to make a flash for the winter flash-off. It's going to be difficult with December exams but I hope to have it out before the deadline. I hopefully will have a screen shot to show in my next newspost.

Happy Holidays,
Zombie-Pimp

For those of you who don't know, T10 is Canada's biggest fighting game tournament. Games featured include GGXX:AC, SF3S, SF2T, MVC2, Soul Calibur 4, and for the first year ever, Street Fighter 4.

Tournaments will run from Friday, July 31st - Sunday, Aug 2nd, 2009. The event is held in Toronto
Click here for more information

I was wondering if any other newgrounders were going to make an appearance. I asked mindchamber and he seems interested. It'd be awesome to meet some users out there, since I've never met anyone from NG irl before.

If you plan on attending, leave a post and I'll start a list:

List of T10 attendees:

-Zombie-Pimp
-AronKing
-CrazedKiller-X
-Frozenfire (maybe)
-j3dude
-XxTurtleTommyxX
-killerrob

My flash work has been coming along very sluggishly, which is disappointing since I should have lots of momentum after the release of the PPP and SF colalbs. The main reason is my summer job. I try to make time for flash after work but there's really only so many hours in a day. I enjoy flash but I'm actually a physics major at UWO, and I work summers in a lab/hospital. Since I have limited time to flash, I have to prioritize which projects I'll spend time on. And the project which takes the most priority right now is my Power of 3 team.

Just to recap, our team name is Destruction Squad, and our teammates are:
-Zombie-Pimp
-Xceed
-CrapCulture

I like this team because we don't fit the usual "Artist/Programmer/Musician" mould. Originally, I'd planned that I be the artist/writer/director for the game, Xceed programmer, an CrapCulture compose the music. However, Xceed is a very creative guy, and has lots of unique ideas for our game, so he'll also be playing a role in writing/directing. Also, CrapCulture has some experience in web/graphic design, so he's going to help design a lot of the interface and menus for the game.

So basically, expect our Po3 game to be awesome, but don't expect any other releases from me in the meantime.

Here's a teaser picture of the playable characters from our game:

I found a programmer for Po3, thanks everyone who contacted me, I'll be working with Xceed.

Sup newgrounds, sorry I couldn't post earlier, but things got pretty hectic around pico day, I haven't even gotten a chance to watch every single submission yet. My exams ran right till the end of april this year (my last one was on pico day!), and I also started a new job this summer, which required lots of stupid paperwork and chasing around of social insurance and shit. Also, since our coder for our pico day collab had to bail out, I ended up having to assemble PPP myself (thats why the menus look so ugly). Special thanks to Afro Ninja for helping me out with coding the buttons! You're an hero!

Anyways, I'm really pleased with the way our collab turned out, and I'm honoured to be featured alongside such great animators this year. I'm surprised we managed to land third place, there were some incredible submissions this year. There was absolutely no surprise over the fact that RDR had the number 1 spot though, Nogfish killed it!

I'll take this chance to adress each animator in PPP individually:

Nogfish: Your entry really captured the essense of the "ultra violent" genre seen on newgrounds. Violence for violence's sake. The simplistic colouring really kept the focus on the amazing fluidity and form of your fbf animation. I'm glad I recieved your entry so early, it reminded me that I can't get lazy with my fbf if I dare allow my work to be displayed alongside yours.

Leafworthy: Your ghetto entry is definately one of the most creative pieces of animation I've seen on newgrounds in a long time. Aside from the quality of animation, which was superb, the style with which they danced was brilliant. My favourite dancer had to be the little guy with the hood. That smoke effect was incredible, I'll have to study your .fla to try and see how you pulled it off :P

Fleckogold: You are definately one of the (if not THE) most talented animators I have ever met. The quality of your work is in a whole other league. Your entry captured a crucial piece of newgrounds... the creepy, fucked up underbelly that keeps this website from ever becoming mainstream trash.

DeLine: Sometimes, all you need is a good joke or two, executed perfectly. I'm glad you were able to get your animation done under such short notice, it fits perfectly in there, and pays homage to one of the most beloved forms of newgrounds humour: the cock joke.

My next project will hopefully be another collab, this time with a certain blue robot, but I don't want to announce too much about 'that' because I'm not even sure myself when/if that's going to happen.

Also, I'm going to plug our new website www.crapculture.ca again, since I wrote another article for it. This time it's just a quick movie review, but have a read if you get a chance, and if you like it, browse around the other articles on the website as well:

Let The Right One In movie review

We're always looking for new writers who are willing to join, so if anyone out there is interested in writing an article or two for us, drop me a PM.

Sup newgrounds, I'll be coming out with a new flash soon. I'm not sure exactly which day it's coming out, but if I had to guess I'd say exactly 10 days from now.

In other news, I recently started writing for a website called Crap Culture.

Here's my first contribution to the site:
Attention Feminazis: You're doing it wrong
It's about my opinion on feminism. Be sure to check it out!

Crap Culture is still a fledgling website, with only a handful of writers so far. We're still trying to find our niche, so right now we're just writing about anything that we feel like. Our articles are mostly focused on our own opinions and observations, mainly about media and pop culture.

We're always looking for writers who are interesting, funny, and like sharing their opinions. If you're interested in writing some articles for us, let me know.

Sup newgrounds, Just a few updates about what I'm gonna be up to for the next little while.

Currently, I'm making an SF flash for the collab. I REALLY hope I can make it in time for the deadline, especially since I have midterms that I should be studying for.

After my SF flash, I'm going to start on my next project, which I'm not gonna tell you guys much about because I want it to be a surprise. Lets just say its "that time of the year" again.

I managed to get a summer student position through my university, which means I'll be working full time this summer in a lab or something. This unfortunately means that I'll have less time to work on my animations this summer.

I'll try to post more often to newgrounds from now on, since this website is slowly becoming a pretty big part of my lifestyle.

Here's a rough sketch from my SF flash: