These are the noob files, so leave all the feedback you can. This first one was unanimously voted to be featured here by the ABS Forums community, and it's pretty much their site, so here you go.
You may remember from last year, TOFA contestant Nicol3 created some sheepie characters for this site's banner featured on Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day. Thor, Clod of Blunders has alerted everyone that her Untooned Spongebob Squarepants has been featured on Cartoon Brew. Good job, Nicol3.
Stay tuned for some Mr.Fizzy, and maybe some Tube Tuesdays, except probably not on Tuesday.
1/2 Update
Ryoshenron is a master of Web series, but since his Ashley Cat he seems to now be experimenting with platform Flash games. Expect a second Fantasy XF in the future.
This game will have people asking you what you are doing in the bathroom so long. I've always been a fan of escape games, and it has been quite some time since one was created for ABS.
Although "escape" is in the title, the following game is yet another pixelated platform game, soon to be in the pixel games section. I think this game does its job in promoting music I otherwise would not socially be allowed to listen to.
The following is a noob submission from Gareth Watson. Break-Thru Xtreme 2 is just like regular Break-Thru except it spams sends your high score to Twitter. Sorry, Gareth, but you'll need this type of feedback to get where you want to go.
The last soundtrack featured was the 100% Korean There She Is !! Soundtrack. This one, however, is two thirds Dutch (Dr. Evil is going to be very unhappy) and one third fake-Latin. When you read the lyrics, though, scroll down for the English so-called translation and see how lines like Zippy drives the CD-ROM, slap me 'round Olson clowns, get Kepple to match it, are we allowed to name the elite haxor?, and of course the French erotic film came to be. If you have no idea what I am talking about, then you obviously had something better to do than visit this site in 2003.
This was supposed to part of a larger update, but SOMEBODY didn't "have enough time" >:| That somebody is me :(
St. Sheepie's Day
This year's St. Patrick's Day contest theme is simply "Feelin' Lucky" and any completed animation in the short timespan of two-weeks is pretty impressive. One thing I have noticed is that each entry has at least one character that is extremely angry. First up is Andrew Kepple trying to hide his accent.
What's probably going on here is AvidLebon portraying some sad reality into her animation. This idea came to be from her discussion with friends about the type of guys they dated. You'll also notice competing contestants have no problem helping each other out.
Mr.Fizzy completed his entry in the first couple days and watched everyone else panick trying to meet the deadline. Do you know someone like that at school. Although I always wanted to be that someone, I just work too well under pressure for that to ever be me.
So there you have it. Comment to give feedback and help decide the winner, not that it matters since it will all depend on luck, of course. Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day from members Andrew Kepple, SaltyPeach, AvidLebon, Mr-Scriblam, Mr.Fizzy, Thundaboom and Lepy. Wear green responsibly.
Beware the Ides of March
The St. Patrick's Day animations should come in nicely and steadily around midnight. In the meantime, I rerun some Pogo for an iPod/iPhone compatible Music Monday and try my hand at being a "film cricket" as Homer Simpson would say.
There are three types of virgins. A. Virgins by choice. B. Virgins by way of poor social skills and C. People who should be in group B, but claim otherwise for reasons of prestige. - Le Grand Content
R. Wappin has made some small changes to Happy Noodle vs. Sad Noodle making some images that were on the screen for very short periods more prominent. Also, one non-Flash, but ToonBoom school creation titled, Oh, Mr. Woofykins which still contains the classic R. Wappin Flash style much like Apple Story.
Enjoy the There She Is !! soundtrack. Some of these musicians got fame from the Flash series itself, which says quite a bit about the virality of Flash.
Alright, these are the noob files, so they will need all the feedback they can get. Michael Jessen plans to make Sidekick Stan into a series. My thoughts (which I usually don't make public) is that while the dialogue is there, the voice acting needs more realism, but the artwork is unique.
Update was getting a bit long, but I got some R. Wappin for next time, plus some noob files. There's a little St. Patrick's Day contest going on in this site, if anyone is interested in animating for it.