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Hey guys

First of all I wanna say that I'm very honoured to have won the top animation of Madness day and the month of September; I honestly wasn't expecting the outcome to be so good but I was proven wrong thankfully, haha. Thanks to the NG community and everyone who watched and enjoyed my anim, yadda yadda. But yeah.. I think madness day had a really great showing this year being really creative and all that. Great stuff.

So now that I'm done with that, I'm probably gonna decrease my attention on animation and focus more on my drawing abilities for a while. I haven't really drawn too much in the past and I think it would be extremely beneficial to my progress as an animator. Right now I think I'm really limited to my capabilities in drawing and I find it hard to animate full fledged figures consistently. So yeah, hopefully this new focus will help me a lot.

2ndly my dad's bringing back this kickass large intuos in January, so I'm kinda psyched for that... can finally replace my terribly small 4x5 graphire =__=. So maybe that will help me make like smoother lines or some shit.. idek lol, but it's still awesome.

Thirdly, I'm still doing flash art and effects and stuff, so if you wanna give me money to make you money, then I'd be glad to help.. wooo. School's terribly annoying though but I think I can find time still.

And last but not least, I'm most likely gonna be working with my buddy pal Terkoiz to work on a potentially big project.. Don't get your hopes up though, cause I hate disappointing and shit. Speaking of him though, he just released a couple of ass spanking new animations (TopStick and Grafight V) with another one coming it's way. So if you like my animations you'll probably like his too.

But yeah, that's about it for now.. School's hard and gay like my dick. I'll keep you guys updated... or not, w/e lol.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Enjoy!

Hey all.. I'm almost done my madness day animation; it's about just over 2 mins of action so yeah.. I have some questions regarding the day though:

1. I might be using this song: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen /418522
But it's a remix of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HueLQb-
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Does this still count as copyright?

2. If not.. help me find some really fast paced action music or something lol

3. I was wondering if I could also ask for sponsorship from NG even though it's already being made for a competition. I pm'd Tom about it, but he has yet to reply : S.

But yes... See you in like 5 days or something...

Hey guys so I finally finished summer school and have a one month break before school starts again... oh god...

So yeah, I need to make some extra bucks to pay for my education... (<very sad). But now that I'm free I can spend some time to work on flash games and what not.. so anyone in need of a special effects animator or just an animator in general can ask me or something and we can work out the rates or something...

In other news, I'll probably spend a shitload of august working on my madness project. I have like almost 2 mins now.... but it's taken like the whole year just to get those 2 mins..... but hopefully I can get a lot done now...

yeah... that's about it.. I didn't really think this newpost through. Good day.

Also an explosion! http://miccool.deviantart.com/art/Expl osion-220489165

Hey, if you haven't heard already, I've been working on my madness day project since September to try to put the best animation I can for the occasion. However due to school and stuff, I took a 3 month break... But I've recently picked up on it again and it's going great! Hopefully I can make it at least 3 minutes... if not I'll probably just do some bullshit, anticlimactic ending.

As for school.. I have finals right now, so I should be studying... But I'm not. I'm currently taking 1st year math, chem, bio, physics and another bio.... And so far I'm failing 2/5 courses. OH WELL... Anyway, I'm thinking of majoring in computer sciences, so I picked some introductory courses for the summer. If any of you are doing compsci, you can tell me your life story or w/e.

In other news, I've recently spent some time on JAZZA's giant game project, Ortus. I'm doing special effects animation and so far everything's been pretty chill. So look forward to that if you're interested.

Lastly, I've began using youtube and livestream a lot more.. I often post a video on youtube saying when I'm gonna animate, then delete it afterwards... So if you're interested, look at my stuff, subscribe.. w/e.

So I started working on an animation for madness day 2011 even before madness day 2010 took place... Since I'm pretty slow when it comes to animating as well as school work at college, I decided I might as well start. I don't really have a plot yet... just the generic Hank goes into a base, kills people, and has a final duel with that clown guy. I might add a mini back story if anything good comes to mind and if can pull it off.

So far I have roughly 40-60 s of animation which I still need to clean up for the most part. Again with all my animations, I'm learning many new things as I animate. I've started getting the hang of the program "painttool sai" for drawing rough backgrounds and trying to clean up my brush strokes. For some reason clean up work is really difficult for me and never comes out the way I thought it would be when I drew the rough copy (hank doesn't even really look like hank =( )... so I'm still working on that.

Speaking of that, I remember seeing a recorded video on Zeurel's livestream and his brush strokes were almost impeccably perfect in every stroke. But whenever I try, the smoothing always either makes it too edgy or too rough... or just fucked up in general. I was wondering how he made it so perfect... is it that he has an extremely good tablet or that he's just too hardcore good? Anyhow.. Back to madness.

I got the idea of doing a madness animations cause my friends Mesmay and Drifts who used to animate stick animations along with me did some madness animations and they looked pretty cool and faired pretty well as well. So I figured... since one day I would have to break out of the whole stick animating thing and go into full figures and since my drawing skills aren't up to par yet (imo) why not start with some madness?

My animation is gonna mostly inspired off of Hulaloo's madness stuff and mindchamber's "with my minds madness" as well as those cool anime fight scene things..... I'm trying to aim for around 5-6 minutes; hopefully everything goes according to plan. That's it for now! Peace.

By the way, should I call it Micmadness? when I did it with micwizard a lot of people thought it was either neat or really fucking retarded... but it might be cool cause then any animations starting with mic- will be associated with my animations... kinda like egoraptor and the awesome series or something.... idk. Also naming it "madness ________" is starting to get old.

V Final draft will look like this probably V

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More sticks killing each other.... promo!

Oh yeah, and I moved the date back to the 14-16th.
Animators in here are: Jomm, hyun, dbs1029 and me

and I mean 2 years by I started two years ago, then did nothing for a year and a half, then finished it.

This is

for next year.

See you in 365 days.