Because there's a slight chance I am.

Very slight.

My friend Joe just got set up at his appartment in London and well.. I'm thinking about moving there for work early next year. He's offering to put me up for a bit while I sort myself out.

I'm a european citizen, as I come from an irish family. So I'm able to live and work there...

NOW I'LL BE THINKING LONG AND HARD ABOUT THIS OVER THE NEXT MONTH. But it's something I want to do. So yeah, you could actually see me there next year.

Listen guys. This isn't some re-hash of a long running Newgrounds joke. I'm being completely fucking serious about this, and I want you to take me serious for a moment. This is very important and most of all for me to do... I'm slow at catching on to trends, un-hip, a square, whatever you want to call me. I'm slow with trends, I've known this since I was 5 and playing with Ninja Turtles when everyone else was playing with Power Rangers. I grew up in a pretty trendy enviroment and eventually had to break the news to my parents (who are very hip), when they caught me wearing parashoot pants in 2002 (seriously out of fashion). No I'm not a loser, I'm just very untrendy.. I have terrible fashion sense. Point is I hate myself for it. I absolutely hate the living core of myself for it.

Also I have thing for asian girls.

I've been slowly and steadily working on a new cartoon which I'm calling Nocturnus. If I get it done in time, I'll being releasing it on the 31st of October for Halloween. The story revolves around a parasomnia disorder I had as a kid called "pavor nocturnus" or more commonly referred to as"Night Terrors". It's basically described as a sleep walking, lucid dreaming, nightmare, delusion. Basically I was acting like a 12 year old on acid. I had them extremely bad as a kid, sometimes even 4 times a week. Although it's rare to remember anything from these episodes, rather then the absolute feeling of fear.. I can recall small bits and pieces. So if anything the cartoon is roughly based on these events (as recalled by me and family members), as well as some other personal fears of mine. It's still in animation rough stages, but I'm rather happy with what I've come up with so far. I have my good pal Redmongoose creating the soundtrack to it, so hopefully it'll come out nice and spooky. Ooogy boogy boogy.

There's also a part of the animation that required me to animate water.. So I went and did a bit of research on the subject of 2D special effects animation. I was able to dig up some rather interesting stuff. It's helped me get my head around it rather well. So I thought I'd share my findings with everyone. Most of the content comes from AWN and other professional sites.

Download it here.

You might have heard that Flash CS4 is coming upon us soon! And it's shaping up to be something interesting. Finally they've implimented a 2D rigging system! It looks like it'll be rather helpful for limited animation. Hopefully the tool will open up doors to new tricks that could benefit everyone. Cold Hard Flash has a great articles on the softwares IK systems, which is well worth a look. Or you could watch this guy teach you the interface.. It's funny really, it's like Maya followed me home to Flash.

And finally, I was wondering if anyone out there has a CINTIQ WACOM? I've been planning to get one for a now. I've been asking around about them and the cheapest I can find right now is $1.7AUS. Does anyone here who has one think they're worth the money? Does it help the process enough to deem such a price tag? As someone who prefers drawing on paper, this product really calls to me..

But yeah, is it worth it?

If you would be so kind to copy and paste the following list and rate each of these things out of 10. 10 being the scariest, 0 if you have no fear of it. I'd appreciate honest answers, as I'm doing research for a cartoon I'm working on.

List of scary:
That falling feeling.

Bugs crawling up you, or just bugs in general.

Dolls of a disturbing nature.

Clowns.

Dolls of clowns.

Small spaces.

Old paintings.

Large spaces.

Dark rooms.

The feeling of being watched.

The feeling of a presence.

Rape.

Drowning.

Losing limbs.

Being unable to move whilst in danger.

Sudden bursts, such as "screamers".

Zombies and or cannabilism.

Dead bodies.

Death itself.

Ghosts.

Skeletons.

Blood.

Being unable to defend yourself.

Faceless people.

Being lost.

Snakes

The world ending.

Can you remember the scariest nightmares you've had?

So like Jazza, I will be leaving foreve-- 2 years to do mission work in Perth for the Australian government (spy stuff, you guys wouldn't understand). I'll miss you guys. Mainly Luis.

:'(

Okay but srsly.

I'm finishing my studies in Maya this weekend! Had my theory exam tonight which I'm pretty confident I nailed.. Then this Saturday I have my 3 hour practical which I have to study for tomorrow.

SO I'VE BEEN FIDDLING WITH STUFF. I'm still pretty shitty at 3D, but I guess I'll put time into it after my exams. I'll lurk CGtalk or something in my spare time.

Here are some playblast renders of crappy crap 3D stuff I've done during the past 2 years...(THE DINOSAUR IS FROM HIGHEND3D, THE CRAP STUFF I MADE). DBZ thing was a dynamic simulation assignment, the other stuff is me just dicking around. The 2D stuff was first roughed out and coloured in flash then brought in through a PNG image sequence. Not really all that much animation on it, but then again that wasn't the point of the assignment.

Also I made this comic about Castle Crashers.

And I found this video yesterday, I'm still puzzled how I did this with my right eye.. Watch the start carefully.

"._o"

That's it I think!

Some of you might know this, some of you might not. I teach at a youth film school during the week AND I have a great surprise for you!

JAKE HARRISON!!!!!!

Jake Harrison is a young lad, 14 years of age. He's also a very a proud lad. He one day aspires to be a brilliant animator, the only problem is... HE ALREADY IS ONE. You should and check out his smash hit "RENT A NINJA: THE FILM OF THE MOVIE".

I think that this lad is the future of Newgrounds, lets make him feel welcome and loved. Tom if you're reading this, give him his big break and put it on the front page of the internet. I think the amount of hard work he has put into this flash is unrivalled and one day he will be the next Adam Phillips or something maybe probably.

Okay cool, this is Jake. Check out his stuff okay cool.

Also Spore is gay.

ALSO I GOT A NEW COMPUTER... *JUMPS AND FREEZE FRAMES* (You're the best.. around.. Nothings ever gonna keep you down!)

Read about my story here.

Steve is a tiny English speaking robot in the middle of the galactic core who gives you enlightenment and the ability to bring life to planets in an instant.

Yes, seriously.

Yes Spore has an ending.

I don't get it. I played through it from start to finish (it came out here early).

Also, the Grox are pussy shits who can be killed easy on their home planets by bringing up the terraform level to TIER1 (easiest way to reach the galactic core is to push through them with this method).

The Scorpinaptor Empire prevails :B..

Hey guys, I just wanted to share with you my sheer delight towards the new title "Castle Cra--

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