THE SIRENS' CARNAGE: ISSUE 2
Here it is, Volume 2 - Issue 2 of Star Trek: The Animated Graphic Novel created by RoTV at GoAnimate. This is part 2 of a 4-part series.
The Sirens' Carnage: Issue 2 by RoTV
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Star Trek: The Orphan - Part Four
Part Four of Star Trek: The Orphan! It was a long, long time in coming (sorry!) but the end is finally here!
GoAnimate.com: Star Trek: The Orphan - Part Four by Megora
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THE SIRENS' CARNAGE by RoTV
Hi, all. I just finished the first issue of the second volume of Star Trek: The Animated Graphic Novel. I truly hope you all enjoy my latest GoAnimate project.
<b>GoAnimate.com</b>: The Sirens' Carnage: Issue 1 by RoTV<br/>
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Santa's Got a Kinky Side. As If You Didn't Already Know...
Happy Holidays
There's nothing like starting the New Year with animations from last year :D
Here's the entry I put in for GoAnimate's Holiday Contest.
Santa Flushed got Dirty
Actually, Version 2 is actually the original I made. I figured it was a little too obscene for general audiences on GoAnimate and didn't enter it into the Contest
Here's one from AniBoom with a similar idea. Even a toilet is included! The Claus Family is an all-around kinky kind of family. What else is there to do in the North Pole?
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Behind the Scenes: "Meow Meow: For Unto Us" by @Coadytnp
"Meow Meow: For Unto Us" is finally here! Learn what made Meow Meow, well, Meow Meow. And watch as sibling rivalry is taken to another extreme.
Meow Meow 1: Family Values
Meow Meow 2: For Unto Us
The GoAnimate version can cause trouble to older or slower computers. Please use the Mega Video HighQuality version if your computer has had trouble in the past with Flash. Thank you :)
GoAnimate.com: Meow Meow: For Unto Us by CoadyTNPLike it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
High Quality MegaVideo version. Link: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=BSSZRSVU
"Meow Meow: For Unto Us" was a major undertaking for me. Having only made a handful of Flash props and a couple characters, What I had envisioned for MM2 was a little more work than I originally thought. Matching the pace of the animation and the script with the music was quite the challenge, but ultimately it's something I love. And it's a story that is very personal to me in a strange way.
Writing the story.
Having known the outline for this video for months, I figured it would be a breeze to write. But for some reason I hadn't counted on how short I had to make it. Telling this part of the story while limiting myself to the time of the song was quite a challenge. A challenge that I failed by a few seconds. But that's ok. :) It kept me from losing my mind from Shockwave crashing. It only started crashing here and there near the end.
Music To Animate By
Carol of the Bells has
been my favorite Christmas song since I heard it as a wee lil boy. It just has this great energetic melancholy behind it. I love the incongruity of the sad feeling of the
song and the cheery lyrics which is why I thought it would be perfect for this animation. I wanted the whole feel of this video to be a celebration of advancement, change or evolution, but with the idea that troubles can and often will happen.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's version just amplified all the emotions and strength that made it perfect for "Meow Meow: For Unto Us". The song also hints at where the Meow Saga will be going.
At the end of Meow Meow 2, you may have noticed at the end of Reddplague's speech the song changes... That's where I failed on the song for a few minutes. the speech was a little to long, so I decided to throw in the end of the caroler's version of Carol of the Bells.
Animating
Animating to this song presented a little challenge. The song is really short and GoAnimate's characters take their time with their actions. I wanted a little more control with this video, so I decided the fight scenes with Death Hammer and the StickFighters I's use KoolMoves to remake GA's characters to customize the fight the way I wanted. I wanted to be able to change the speed on the characters jumps midway to be able to show the impact of the hits in a different way. I wouldn't say I failed, but I don't think it's perfectly the way I had envisioned; that will come with practice. I do like the slow motion effect, but it still needs to be perfected.
I thought if I could make the fight with Death Hammer in KoolMoves it would free up some time on the GoAnimate studio. It wouldn't crash as much and it would make the whole thing a smaller package (as far as computer memory goes) so that people like TET and Mojochi could watch it without problem. What I didn't realize was how huge the set is behind them. About half way through the fight I asked some people whose computers are known to not be able to make it through animations to check it out. Already it was facing the problem of messing up people's computers. I was not happy. I thought I had made it more carefully. I decided to change my plan on how to make the ending.
Enter Reddplague
Reddplague is a character I'd envisioned almost as soon as the character of Meow was thought of. Reddplague has some symbolism behind him. The obvious one is he's an ode to a GoAnimate (GA) user called Reddplague. An excellent animator on GoAnimate who uses Flash to provide the community with new characters and high quality props. It's amazing how his stuff just keeps getting better and better. And when you think it doesn't get any better than what he's already given. He ups it even more.
The user Reddplague is one of the few popular animators who uses "bad guys" as his avatar, which I kind of admire. I figured I'd ask him if I could use his name as my character's name, and he thought it would be ok. I figured it would be appropriate to name my first major unique character after the person who inspires me most on GA with his flash work. I wanted my Red character to reflect Reddplague's steady improvement by making him a scientist who is creating this massive machine that will change him into a monster that will be able to transform and make things subject to his will (much like the GA user does with Flash). Hopefully, I've been able to pull that off. And with Showtime's voice skills, I believe it provided the right finishing touch on the introduction to the character.
The Final Scene
On the final scene, where Red transforms into ReddPlague, I didn't want to make the same mistake as I had at the beginning. My original intent was to use the Stick Theme props to build most of Red's lab and just have to create Reddplague, But I figured with the way Flash is made, it may be easier on viewers' computers to just upload two-second-scenes at a time. So I decided to just build everything in KoolMoves (besides Meow and Death Hammer), and animate it until the end. Hopefully, this provided a smoother viewing for everyone who watches it on GA.
The Haunting Beauty of New Life
The End of Meow 2 was difficult for me. I wanted the right cliff-hanger. I needed to end it quickly, but still leave the audience wanting more. I debated actually starting the fight between Reddplague and whoever, but I believe the introduction to Reddplague was strong enough with him tearing apart the lab and then promising to be a threat to Meow. I wanted the scene to give the idea of the birth of a new creature, like a reptile from a shell, the emergence of Reddplague was, hopefully, enough to show the potential upcoming threat and the haunting excitement of this adversary.
Meow Meow 3 promises to be an exciting episode that will bring the stick fight to a new level on GoAnimate. I hope to be able to finish it by mid-2010. Until then, expect to see a comic book style version to show up on http://www.ToonPub.com.
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Quarterlife Crisis #1
After dinner with his parents, Paulo finds himself in a financial dilemma.
GoAnimate.com: Quarterlife Crisis #1 by XanatosBlackLike it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com.It's free and fun!
-XanatosBlack
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Win a Nintendo DSi by Locking Santa in a Bathroom!
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1. Why Santa is locked in the bathroom on Christmas Eve?
2. Something on your wishlist and why you absolutely need to have it.
You can have as many submissions as you'd like, but can only win one prize.
You need at least 50 views and it needs to be shared at least once by December 24th, 2009.
You also need to include specific words- to find out the complete rules check out GoAnimate's contest page.
The winner will be judged by GoAnimate's staff. To see all the entries so far click here!
If you make one, feel free to send them to ToonPub! Click here to find out how!
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The Making Of PandaBoy's "This Christmas..."
This Christmas...
Pandaboy is a young Canadian animator from GoAnimate. His friendliness and kindness adds a great deal of strength to GoAnimate. As an animator, Pandaboy has grown leaps and bounds. I believe the maturity behind "This Christmas..." shows that Pandaboy has a strong grasp for story-telling and emotional intelligence that surpasses that of most young men his age. With well made voice-over and animation, and a well made animation, Pandaboy is a shining example that young animators on GoAnimate can keep up with the older crowd in making good original content. - Coady Nickerson
GoAnimate.com: This Christmas... by Panda Boy
THE INSPIRATION
Ever since I joined GoAnimate in March (the ninth, I think), and had watched Ryco's Christmas animation:
GoAnimate.com: My holiday message by Ryco
I felt inspired by this animation to create another good animation with a good moral and an inspiring message. I tried to satisfy my longing for this style of animation by creating a biography of one of GoAnimate's Cartoon Classic characters: Jay. I filled this animation with the warming saying to believe in your dreams, and believe it or not it turned out better than any of my other animations at the time and recieved a staff pick and over 400 views.
Biography of Jay: Believe in Your Dreams
Biography of Jay: Believe in Your Dreams by Panda Boy
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Although this still holds to this day the title of my favourite animation of mine that I'm proud of, it didn't quite fit the animation type I was looking for. I kept thinking and racking my brain for hours on end yet still nothing would come to me. I searched through the animations with every tag you could think of but no luck. So, that's when I did what any other animator would have done weeks before: I gave up.
Finally, not even a month ago, I felt like watching the older animations of some of my favourite animators. I checked Gipsy's page to find exactly what I had been looking for months before. Inspired by Forrest Gump's opening credit scene, Gipsy's animation truly impressed me.
GoAnimate.com: A red rose on my bed by gipsy
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I didn't really want the same plot. No, not at all. What I desired was for my animation to have the same sympathetic effective feeling that Gipsy's had had. It was a miracle that I found this at the time of the Christmas contest when it would be most popular and might even win me a prize. I asked Gipsy for permission and of course he said yes.
I immediately got to work and urged myself to stay up for five hours two nights in a row, along with an hour in the day here or there. I finished it in less than 48 hours and ever since it was published it has gained many more views than I expected. That was a really fun animation to create as since I was the one writing it, and doing the voiceovers, I really put my heart into it. I hope you guys enjoy it and have very happy holidays!
This Christmas... 2
GoAnimate.com: This Christmas...2 by Panda Boy
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After the success of Skitzo and This Christmas convinced me that I just had to do a sequel to either of them. Of course I chose Skitzo as I knew immediately that it would be much more popular. I put many hours work into "Skitzo - The Halloween Story" but it just kept crashing and losing it's data, and GoAnimate staff couldn't replace all of it. So I was just as happy switching over to do a second "This Christmas".
While making "This Christmas...2", I wanted to make an animation that made you cry even though you had just already bawled your eyes out at the original. I wanted it to be a touching animation and REALLY make you feel grateful about how nice it is to have food, shelter and the chance to win a DSI in a great contest (wink@GoA Staff).
I decided to make the second saddest type of homeless character besides a poor child: a poor elderly person. But what if you could find out what they wanted for Christmas; and with the help of the GoAnimate studio, give it to them?
This is exactly what I did. I thought, if I were an elderly man, what would I want? I chose a selection of items then narrowed it down to the ones I thought would really add to the animation. It offers an alternate ending to the original This Christmas, because it ends with the old man... Oh, never mind, just watch the animations and see for yourself. ;-)
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Megora's "Trek the Halls"
Hilarious contest entry to GoAnimate Holiday Contest.
"The Enterprise collides with a certain holiday someone's sleigh, and Santa Claus is throw from the sleigh into the ship's bathroom! Captain Kirk can save the universe, but can he save Christmas?" -Megora
GoAnimate.com: Trek the Halls by Megora
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In The Making Of "Skitzo - Introductions"
Skitzo - Introductions by Panda Boy
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I was on YouTube a few weeks ago, searching for some audio that could possibly fit into a GoAnimate animation. I went through everything from horror ghost stories to stand-up comedies to sad and touching videos. Eventually I just decided to give up. I came to the conclusion that I wasnt going to find anything, and the very least I could get done that day was uploading one of my older GoAnimate videos to YouTube that I had recorded with Jing (similar to CamStudio). As I logged in, I saw a new NigaHiga video that was 'Recommended For Me' called Skitzo, and I was immediately off to check it out. I found myself watching it over and over again. It was simply hilarious. I knew this was what I was looking for and recorded it with Audacity... which unfortunately crashed. I wasn't feeling very happy when I discovered TET's Animator Dominator Contest. I read the rules and requirements and once again got my hopes set on Skitzo. I used a terrible quality recording program called GarageBand and uploaded the audio to GoAnimate. I was set on making this my best and most well-synced animation ever. Well, it turned out as planned. But there was one thing missing. Ryan Higa didn't say "You're never going to believe this" once in the whole thing. So I went back to GarageBand and added a bit of an intro with RoTV just to fit the contest rules. The most enjoyable part of making this animation was creating the opening theme with the little cards with camera shots of the characters: Regina, Ryan, Hanate, and R-Dizzle. The 'people cards' were made using a .png screenshot. You can take a .jpeg screenshot simply by clicking 'Screen Shot' in the studio. Also, I'll soon be releasing a copiable version of the theme song. Skitzo has become my most viewed animation of all time. It has reached over 5000 views in less than a month. I can only hope the sequel will have half the popularity that Skitzo - Introductions had.
-Pandaboy
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