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I'm not an arrogant idiot, with my head up my ass. I realize Gamer Tonight at its peak score, is grossly overrated. Now take your standard Gamer Tonight episode... Add about 5 dozen eggs and you get THIS.

The "Gamer Tonight Bloopers" were by far the most ridiculously loved out of all the current episodes. My obvious assumption is the more direct connection with Egoraptor made it such a success. I mean, lets face it.. Whatever Ego makes has a very high percentage of winning monthly prizes, because he seems to be so widely loved by most of the Newgrounds viewers. Ego can win because he's Ego! I mean I personally think the guy is a top bloke and a great friend, but even he has to admit it's somewhat true.

I mainly made this episode because around June 07, the time of the "final contract submission"... I was extremely depressed. My girlfriend of 18 months had left me for another guy 4 days before my 20th birthday and I was just feeling like absolute donkey shit. Out of boredom I was listening to some of the large recording files Ego had sent through for each episode. I always laughed at his screw ups, they always seemed to give me a laugh. So I guess a part of me decided to do the bloopers because it actually cheered me up working on them. It'd been a long time since I'd just made a flash simply because it made ME laugh whilst working on it. Which is rare, because generally with comedic flash I get completely desensitized to the humour by the end of it. So other then the satisfaction of finishing the cartoon, I really don't get all that hyped about the humour. Sad fact, but I've always been like that.

For ages I've thought to myself "is it really necessary that I post this on Newgrounds?". But I came to the conclusion that I will. I know a lot of certain artists are going to dislike it, but as long as they know my stance on this, I'm happy.

IF by chance this cartoon does win any sort of monthly prizes, I'll be requesting it be donated to a charity of Tom's choosing.

Until I honestly feel that I worked for that money, I don't really want it. When I feel I worked my fucking balls off on a flash, then I'll glady take it.

Why do I bring this up when I haven't even submitted it yet? Well quite simply, everywhere else this thing has sprouted up so far... It's been ungodly overrated. I'm just that worried about it.

It's funny though, back in 2006 I was so sure that I'd never touch any sort of remotely parody satire again.. But then this falls onto my lap and I start getting paid for it and it gets aired on National Aussie TV? Sorry, but that was REALLY fucking unexpected. I guess some bastard up there really wanted me to keep doing this, so to speak.

As you probably don't know, I've been asked back to do 8 more interview episodes. This wasn't something I was originally planning.. I wanted to be done with them by now, but the money for this new contract is really good.. And I seriously need it, since I have to survive in LA by myself for Comic Con. Plus I've landed a full-time flash teaching job, so on top of that... I should be okay financially for the trip. For the new episodes, I've completely started from scratch in terms of EVERYTHING. I took a lot of what was said seriously and worked countless hours to get the ball rolling on the new stuff. In terms of symbol animation, I wanted to aspire to something like "Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends".. haven't quite gotten there yet. But I guess so far.. I've done decently for one guy.

In short, I've been getting bugger all sleep whilst working on these.. As they want the first one by Feb 11th.. And I still need to finish building the new massive symbol library. I haven't even started animating yet

Also, on a final note.. Thanks for that weekly first on "RTS Gamer", but honestly it belonged to RTIL's "-Move Your Feet-". I found that flash quite inspiring. Be sure to check it out!

Anyways!

Peace,

-Ross

Below: First time I've really revealed as to what the new Richard will look like. So far he's only a Torso and he has 280 symbols.

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Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:31 PM RWA says:

The new design looks simply awesome! Except for the shadings on the hair. They are same at all angles,with simply isn't possible.
And I don't think the GT is overrated,with great animation,voices and humor deserves exactly where it's at now. Bloopers are awesome. Keep the good work now, in the name of the NG community :)

hehe,peace :)

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:32 PM RubberNinja responds:

"They are same at all angles,with simply isn't possible."

It's a 2D cartoon.. EVERYTHINGS possible

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:32 PM KingDavid says:

lookin' sharp ross, I really like the nads. As for the faces I don't know if the hair works, because the one on the far left hair gor spikey towards the right, then on the 3/4 view migically it turns towards the left :/

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:35 PM RubberNinja responds:

""They are same at all angles,with simply isn't possible."

It's a 2D cartoon.. EVERYTHINGS possible"

Go watch a 2D animation of Sonic The Hedgehog. Same deal. His spikes jump around without perspective being an issue. Same deal here.

Best example I can think of.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:32 PM KingDavid says:

hands not nads lmfao

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:34 PM RubberNinja responds:

I like your nads to David.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:33 PM mystic8ball says:

Well Ross

I've been a GT fan right from the start , but the thing has been HIGHLY over rated.

All tho I do admit , if i wasn't a flash animator (well... trying to be) , I would just vote 5 on the damn things without taking the animation into account.

I'm sure that you understand , Only an animator can truly appreciate an animation. But lets face it , even a complete noob at flash would see that you mainly used tweens and the occasional motion blur , with that being said ... they were very decently animated under the time constraint you had.

And as for the whole "Ego" thing , people love his voice acting so much that they can look past the animation's themselves. But like I said before "Only an animator can truly appreciate an animation".

Well , Good luck with the rest of the GT series , and I cant wait for GTL

And that Farkas model looks kick ass :) .

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:35 PM SpottableGnome says:

looks like you forgot to feed him

Jan. 15, 2008 | 4:37 PM RubberNinja responds:

Yeah, he was too broad in the early ones. I originally wanted him to be a much thinner guy. As his character is a "video games designer". Someone who most probably wouldn't be too muscular, since he works with computers a lot.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 5:07 PM JoeyBang16 says:

Those bloopers were funny. Also, like the new style :-)

Jan. 15, 2008 | 6:04 PM lenkobiscuit says:

I'm glad you managed to dig yourself out of the shithole you were in. I know how it feels too, man =(

Good luck with all this, and hey whaddaya know someone who knows how to get cash for his flash. Once I get a bit more established (and actually good) I'm considering putting a few things forward to some studios in Britland.

New model looks awesome too, and JESUS CHRIST you are a humble animator.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 7:13 PM subzerowins says:

don`t worry. every one have a tought day but i know you will recover yourself, besides GTS bloppers wasn`t so bad really :D

Jan. 15, 2008 | 7:24 PM ismellarat says:

O Rly?

Jan. 15, 2008 | 8:17 PM Luis says:

hopefully youll evolve from this series after your contract and show youre not a one trick pony.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 10:19 PM RubberNinja responds:

Yeah, I hope so to.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 8:31 PM Erreip199 says:

Hope everything go as u planed dude and holy crap how did ya learn to draw hands that way?!?!? freaking sweeeeet hands ya drew there dude =P

Richard looks way better now =D

Jan. 15, 2008 | 9:06 PM The-Landow-Nunder says:

Hey, man. I didn't know you are an Aussie. New concepts are looking great! Catch ya later.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 10:52 PM Scalene says:

Well, I can barely tell the difference between this Richard and the old one, except he looks more like the kind of guy you'd mug on the street.

Also: With the Gamer Tonight Bloopers, I'd be upset if they won an award. Thank god you haven't submitted them, but they're just random comments that aren't funny, really.

Jan. 15, 2008 | 10:54 PM Scalene says:

And also, look on the bright side. With these high scores on your Batting Average, you'll have no problem making a collab. If you ever happened to.

Jan. 16, 2008 | 1:44 AM Masquatto says:

When are you gonna make something that isn't a conversation flash that isn't about video games? :(

For a second there I thought you meant 280 layers. :S

Jan. 16, 2008 | 2:27 AM RubberNinja responds:

When I can afford to AND find time for it...

I have some sweet ass ideas, I just need to do them.

Jan. 16, 2008 | 12:33 PM cozzy123 says:

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooo0oooooooo ol i like your style keep it up or something realy stupid and random will happen MWAHAHAHAHA (this is a threat and a compliment)

Jan. 17, 2008 | 3:04 AM WolfBlitz2 says:

C is for cookie
that's good enough for me
oh C is for cookie
that's good enough for me
oh C is for cookie
that's good enougfh for me
oh cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C!
EVERYBODY NOW!

Jan. 18, 2008 | 9:34 PM Goat-Man says:

I always love when an artist makes a blooper real with their series. I saw this one awhile back, because I cheated and watched it on your site. haha. And when working with Ego, how can you not have a blooper section?

When you said he has 280 symbols already i had to curl up and cry for a couple minutes before i could make this post. I like the realistic hand motions. But fucking hell that's alot of fucking symbols! That's the only way I can even put it!

How do you organize all that? Do you name all yoursymbols? Do you use symbol folders?

Jan. 18, 2008 | 10:24 PM RubberNinja responds:

Lots of folders.. All organized.

By the time I'm finished with Richard, his library might have near 500 symbols. Although I'm really focusing on him so much because I HAVE to make him workable for the next series.

The new characters getting interviewed will be relatively the same as before. I still have those heavy time constraints, I don't want to be too harsh on myself.

Jan. 21, 2008 | 11:04 AM Scuzzfest says:

280 symbols? Good grief! I really like gamer tonight but I do agree with you that it's a bit overated and I like how you can see that for yourself, it's very modest! Can't wait for you to start with the away from interview work, you must be running out of ideas for stereotypes to interview!

By the way you must have a lot of simple things like how many symbols do you havee for say... eyes roughly?

Jan. 21, 2008 | 11:04 PM RubberNinja responds:

Tons of eyes.. like.. 30 or more?

Jan. 22, 2008 | 12:56 AM LtMcMuffin says:

Never again to do satire or parody? So there WAS no new Van Helthing... remotely underways... and you blew up Smiffy and NALO, too, huh?
*Tear*
Anyway, as a combination of pretty humorous dialogue and Ego's voice, that is an instant Daily First, if not Weekly. You ARE talented, you know.

Jan. 22, 2008 | 6:20 AM RubberNinja responds:

Van Helthing 2 was started.. But I lost it in a hard drive crash.. So yeah, after that I'd given up.

Jan. 28, 2008 | 1:50 AM iffjp says:

(claps)

Jan. 29, 2008 | 7:02 PM Kangman says:

so where do you teach?

Jan. 31, 2008 | 4:59 PM RubberNinja responds:

Filmbites.

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