YES OH MY GOD IT IS AMAZING

I had CS4 since 2009 and just upgraded.  I've spent five minutes in Animate CC and am already in love.  Can't wait to make some rad shit.  STAY TUNED!

It's been literally 3 years since I actively produced art.  I just finished a client's animation, and wrapped up my part for the latest @FlowDownStream project.  I've been making pixel art on my phone before bed every night, and drawing in my sketchbook.  And it's awesome.

But now all I want to do is make art.  But I can't just make art all day.  Because only like 30% of my contracts involve art.

How will I spend my time today?

[_] Make money to feed my kids and pay my bills

[_] Make art

[_] Eat a box of donuts

[X] (none)

Starting a conversion gets me hyped up, and then hearing the little jingle at the end is like waking up to presents.

Thanks Swivel.  10/10

SOON

Congratulate me and shit.

Just found out:

• You can set the start point of a symbol in the properties inspector
• There's a "convert to symbol" hotkey
• You can hold enter to play the timeline and release it to stop, instead of pressing twice
• You can click and drag to select frames on the timeline instead of shift-clicking

Also found out:

• CS4 bugs are just as annoying in 2018 as they were in 2009

That CC subscription is looking damn good right now.

Streaming til 5 PM EST

Come hang out while I work on an animation for a client, based on the Catana comics!

Hey Newgrounds!

The tabletop RPG that I have been working on for the past 3 years just launched its Kickstarter. This is probably the biggest moment in my career thus far. Even if you don't end up backing it, I would be eternally grateful if you'd share it a @bit and perhaps give your thoughts in this thread (even feedback on the KS campaign in case there's something I missed).

I'm also doing a livestream in 30 mins which you can tune in to from our FB page or Kickstarter page.

Happy Tuesday!

I'm a nobody on the internet right now.  I have no face.  No fans.  Handful of friends.  I want this to be the year I finally get back on the train.  Let's get down to business.  If I can accomplish all of these goals and all of my new years resolutions for this year, I'm rewarding myself via taxes in 2019 with a huge purchase that I've been eyeballing for literally 11 years as of this post.

Do you have any goals?  Check up on me and I'll check up on you!  Let's support/nag each other!

Here are my NG goals for 2018:

Submit a game that scores 3.5+

I'm hoping to make the Construct 3 jam my first real game submission to Newgrounds.  The trash I have up here now is a prototype for an abandoned commission.  I have a literal megabyte txt full of ideas.  So there's that.

Submit an animation that scores 3.5+

The only animation I am proud of is like thrice the age of my daughter.  Unacceptable.  SAD.  I have NO ideas for animations, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.

Get an art submission frontpaged

Long have I longed for the Fronte Paege.  I haven't really made significant art since I graduated from college, 5 years ago.  For this I will stand NO MORE!  Some stuff I want to do:

Paintings of my kids
Nene fan art for Pico Day
Art for my old OCs
Environment art (I've literally drawn like 10 environments in my entire life)
Fan art or art in the style of some of my favorite NGers
Newgrounds WWI-style recruitment poster

Submit audio

Maybe a voice reel, maybe a song, maybe some sound effects.  I want to dabble in all three and have a decent mic.  Let's see what happens.

Host a contest

Not sure what kind of contest, but I want to host something wherein I give away supporter status to the winner(s).  Maybe even an invitational of some kind, related to my next goal...

Scout & support 50 users

Lots of new talent coming and going on here and I think if someone took the time to connect with them they would stick around.  NG is a great place to learn and grow with similar minds.  That's what I'm really here for.  So let's do it :)

Endless Realms RPG Kickstarter launching in April

Just a reminder that the super sick RPG I've been working on, Endless Realms, drops its Kickstarter at the end of April.  Go check us out on Facebook!  I'll post again when we go live of course!

Right now we're polishing up our rulebook and bestiary, as well as getting a head start on some Kickstarter rewards.  I've been working on this monstrous project for 3 years and it's almost the end of the line.  It feels totally surreal.

Building up the Newgrounds Community

I'm hecka broke.  In an ideal world I would love to be able to be a paying supporter AND gift out supporter status to other active members.  But it's just not like that.  So instead, following tomfulp's most recent thread about supporters, I've elected to make it my daily ritual to leave genuine reviews on Under Judgement content and unscouted art. 

There's a steady stream of new accounts on NG every single day, but honestly NG just feels...  Quiet.  It doesn't feel like a social atmosphere.  And to me, that's just not how a website driven by user content should feel.  I'm a semi-active forumer, so if I feel that way, I can only imagine how a budding artist feels, sticking his neck out and getting nothing from the void.

Tom is right - if we want to help NG grow, we really just need to let new creators know that we see what they're putting out.  It only takes a few seconds to leave your honest thoughts on a submission - let's hear and be heard.

I'm the lead writer for a pen-and-paper RPG (like D&D, only cooler).

Check out our Facebook page where we regularly post about creatures, locations, classes, races, game theory, etc.

We're launching a Kickstarter in April.

I may be doing a video or stream at some point in the nigh future, so if you want to check that out, subscribe to the FB page or to me here.  I'll make a post about it on Newgrounds ahead of time.

If you have any questions about the game feel free to ask here or on FB.  I love questions!