HAPPY (late) NEW YEAR PEEPS!
i hope you've all made your new years resolutions and STICK to them ya PERVERTS!!
If you're having trouble maybe i can help you ^_^
I've decided to FINALLY finish growing my beard this year, i'm half way there already so this should be the year :D If this seems stupid, allow me to explain..
It has been a life long dream of mine to grow a full beard (thats right, i have very high ambitions indeed)...but my philosophy is that it's good to have ambitions that are inevitable because at least you can't have the dissapointment of not achieving them...aaaaaannddd it makes your life seem that little bit more triumphant when you take that last breath on your bumpy and frankly quite uncomfortable death bed, having failed at everything else you ever attempted including (though having tried your hardest not to...) still having a damn child...DAMN
Now if this doesn't seem much like a resolution, think of it as overcoming the beautiful, addictive yet decadent sloth that is procrastination ;) (on a biological level)

P.S. THANKS to whoever keeps voting up CatFat 2, it shot up since the treasure hunt, 4.21!!?? ...whoa..

my birthday!
and this time ...NO AUTOMATED CONGRATULATIONAL MESSAGE FROM NEWGROUNDS???!!!
Well i am offended by your lack of consistency :P

yeah please, if you have the time to spare, please watch my new flash, i sacrificed ALOT of time, to make it and i've since editted it to the specifications of some newgrounders. It will most likely be the last one i make for a while, as it's too much work (too many hours) for too little a response.
Leave a review or something thats what i made these for, i always respond to ALL of them!

EDIT* forgot the link! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
510151
lol

well i give up....it's obviously not worth spending so much time on flash...
EDIT* okay i finished editting it, it's much faster now, has alot more pace, i also removed ALL the boring and unneccessary parts, thus cutting the whole thing down by about a minute and a half. Only took 2 extra days -_-, flash kept crapping out on me so i kept having to restart flash, or even sometimes restart my pc...frustrating as hell......... I've decided i'll re-release it earlier tomorrow, around 2-3ish england time :s

UPDATE: okay i'm removing the animation, it has a ridiculously low score (3.20) for the amount of work i put into it, i might try editing it based on what people didn't like about it, making it faster etc, dunno how long it might take or when it will be done....-_-

UPDATE; okay i just released it only 4 DAYS LATE YAY, or ..well...9 if you count my original target...but eh..yeeeeaaahh....:| The actionscript is a bit of a mess, but it was my first time and i did my best, so there are a few bugs here and there :S like subtitles appearing every new scene so you have to press the off button again, i spent 10 hours, (all today and half of yesterday) trying to fix it soooo....oh well, one day maybe i'll work it out
i hope it does well...it's the hardest i've ever worked on an animation, especially in the last 2 weeks!

[UPDATE 3 24/08/09] Okay so this'll probably be the last update till the release. i have finished all the lip syncing for each character now, aswell as having coloured one...so that just leaves 1 and 1/4 charecters to colour, with the backgrounds ontop of that, i'll be finished tomorrow, no doubt...
It couldn't come sooner as my neck has really started to ache in the last few days and i SWEAR i am seeing AND hearing things that aren't there...like all to frequently..:S
anyhow...even thoughbi will 'finish' it tomorrow, you shouldn't expecr it until the day after since i'd really like to include a scene selection optiin and possibky some subtitles? i'm not sure how much trouble thats gonna be scripting...

[UPDATE 21/08/09] all the characters are finished in their final lining now and i just finished the arm animation too, so that leaves just the lip syncing, partial colouring and backgrounds to do...WOO! :S
the backgrounds and colouring i could do in one day, but the lip sync..well im not too sure how long it may take :( BUT i'm still sorta on track for the 25th ;)
P.S. i'm REALLY happy with this episode, especially the last two scenes, they've turned out well :)
PPS, i really think im gonna need to request an upload limit expansion...:S (thing is, i don't remember how to do that...)

[UPDATE 17/08/09] i have edited and compiled the audio, it sounds like...the BEST thing i've ever made!!! but it's long so i had to split the last scene into 2 parts, and just now at this very minute of typing, i have finished animating the roughs for both parts, it took a while, what with the storyboarding and such. BUT, tomorrow i begin the final outlines of each character!
let's hope i can finish this before the 25th...(apparently the date i started it last year...)

Catfat episode 2 / 1..:S has been in production for nearly a year now...:( having started it sometime august last year.. but alas it's completion draws nearer, i have today just completed the 3rd scene, that means there's only ONE more to go!!! AND that has already been recorded!! (something that tends to hold me back alot). SO tonight i am gonna be sifting through all the recorded material and hopefully produce the final cut ready for tomorrow. I expect or, better put, intend to finish the animation within the week..let us pray that happens :|

aaaaaand in other news i just earnt my first 2 cents!!! BOOYAHH!! (i have no idea how though...:S )
anyway
here's a screen shot of scene 3 ;)

So as some people may not know, we over here in England have been having some freak snow storms lately, the worst in more than 20 years infact!
Well, me and two others took this opportunity to erect (get it ERECT...) a superior snow structure (9-10 feet tall) outside our own home..this is the result,
(me on the right my cousin on the left) I'm sure the good folk of NG can appreciate the craftsmanship :)

BTW, you could actually sit in this like a throne, with the testese as the arm rests but thats a different picture

Its been a while since i updated anything here, not since September infact, but since i went to the NG meet yesterday it only seems right to do an update.
SOoooooooooooo recently i've just been so busy doing other things beside sitting at my pc that i haven't done much animation, for at least 2 months i got caught up in late night partying with some friends which consumed more time than you'd think aswell as getting into the world of graffiti which is just so exhilirating might i add. And then of course there are games that are just too addictive and can hook for days at a time. But since the meet i have found fresh motivation to carry on animating more intensly again from meeting and talking to the likes of Mike Swain aswell as some less well known newgrunters who are just as inspirational!
Well i just'd like to say thanks to everyone for the great day! :D

Here's my first outdoors graffiti entitled the Barking Dog, which happens to be preserved by the owners of the wall, lol? :S

So that means i'm now legal for a shag,... who wants some?

I got me a sexy Ipod Touch (it's sexy), ah yeah (it's sexy) not quite the Iphone but it's good enough for me (it's sexy)
Also since i've been abroad for awhile i've only managed to get a few days work done on MR CatFat, but isall good. While i was away though, i was drawing alot more and i'm pretty proud of what i did, i'll post some pics of my favourites on my lonley blog some time later, once i get some new batteries from the greedy camera..

I also wish to thank the NG staff for their HUGE effort at wishing me a happy birthday, it was very thoughtful of you to go through all the trouble of sending me an automated email, i didn't get one last year so thank you ;)

*EDIT* Here's a picture that i meant to upload with this post

Whilst down in cornwall this summer, me and my friend ant came up with a few short ideas for CatFat. Since the older episodes that i've written are so long i'm leaving them till later and decided to write some fresh shorter episodes, so that i can release them more frequently. anywayzzz we came up with this really funny (inside joke) element to mr thins character which will be revealed in the forthcoming episode, it was based on my uncle and his friend. Anyway this episode's gonna be shorter, random and seeping with inside jokes, it will also have a larger cast! .......by about one person...but then minus one characters lack of appearance, ....it's about the same... so i've recorded the intro and i'm starting it about....NOW!! :D

BTW, i put up a new banner, that's cornwall, just so you know ;)

I released that new animation thing, i hate it, but you might like it so...watch it!!
please........:(
It's my first CatFat one, but i'm not happy with it, the others are already written and miles better and alot different, with a story, so certainly watch out for those in the future! ;)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
441038

Welllllllllll...now that that got your attention!
Okay two things :)
1st! My good friend Simma-T whom i made acquaintance with, through NG, is working on an animation for the hilarious song 'Albie The Racist Dragon' which is turning out really well, note that it is made with a mouse, he is certainly one artist to look out for ! once he gets his tablet, instead of spending it on luxuries like XBOX's etc all the time XD! You can read all about't right here http://simma-t.newgrounds.com/
I had to post this on FP for him because
i've luckily got ONE award! Woot!!
Anyway!
2nd!
CatFat, YES! CATFAT! the thing that no-one has actually heard of! Is coming along pretty well, now that i've really buckled down into it. I just completed, near enough, the third minute of the animation, that's a whole minute and a half of animation in 4-5 days! woot! Now, this first episode was intended to be an introductory episode, so that means no real plot, just a guide through, meeting all the little characters pulled out of a childs pubic brain. And so it was intended to be a 4 minute episode, but after recording it, it became a whole 8 minutes :S thus i managed to cut it down to 6 minutes so far, though the end has yet to be recorded :/ sooo, thats a bit worrying. My estimate of the length is just over 7 minutes, so i've completed about 3/7ths of it taking about a week per 1/7th, so as i thought, i issue an appology to all the people waiting in anticipation for it, from watching the tester teaser,..... thats about 4 of you! sorry!! :D

There's a screenshot below of a completed scene, starring, you guessed it! CatFat! This aint gonna be anything to special ^^