new cartoon battle.

[AJCrowley]

OK, looking as it might be a walkover in the monster battle;

creating (in flash only, without the use of scanners or any other software tool)

a character animation, looping, of 5-15 seconds, in flash, with an appropriate background, under 30k. (with sound, top it up to 100k)

and to top it off, make it the same dimensions as a 3 panel comic strip, say, 200x650.

theme to be decided by a mod. so come on mods, get this one rolling too, give us a character theme, and an event theme.

hehe, chew on this one :cool:

let's put it this way, i did a rip off of weebl (http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/) with a soundtrack and sound effects + dialogue which lasted about a minute and that came it at 53.8k.

[AJCrowley]

oh yeah, maybe a bit longer to do this one, maybe two weeks ?

[AJCrowley]

bumpety-bumpety-bump

[Marz]

I'm in.. Do you actually want me to take this seriously this time and worry about things other than comdey.. It seems creativity doesn't reign anymore :(

Anyways.. 5-15 seconds.. Looping AND under 100k? 200 X 650 Pixels... Okay... I get ya.. Shouldn't be to tough.. Since I won't be worried abou my game creation I'll have time to do this one.

Later on.

[AJCrowley]

why not, i'd bet we'd see vastly different stuff to the characters battle, and then there's the question of optimisation and the rest of it to fit it into 100k i dont think that's too hard really, i mean, episodes of weebl come in at around a 100k anyways...

[Kitiara]

If I can think of a decent idea, then I'm in too...

[AJCrowley]

bump (again)

come on, surely there must be some more interest in this one ?

[pom]

Why not? If a mods decides to show up... :phil:

[senocular]

Im by far no cartoonist... but what fun would it be if I was :) count me in.

[Sraet]

If flash noobs are welcome then I can give it a try, tho Ill admit Im still really poor at Flash, hehe.. Anyone got an animation tutorial around? :o

[AJCrowley]

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.asp

funnily enough ;-)

[AJCrowley]

thinking about it, to the mod who eventually gives us some rules, make it 3 weeks or a month. means peeps can really go to town on this one.

[Kitiara]

Dagnabbit, since no other mod has stated some rules, I'll put my neck out and do it.

I'll post a new sticky thread up in a minute. If anyone disagree with the rules / subject / date etc, then please voice your opinions below. :)

[Sraet]

I do not have anything to disagree with rules wise, they are made to make it a challenge, not to challenge them. But um, my name is Sraet :) (Its Tears backwards, hehe) not Straet :)

Can I browse the web for graphics to use? I am not very good in that department

[AJCrowley]

hmmm, that could end up being very b3ta (http://www.b3ta.com)

[Sraet]

Question about what to do here.. I am kinda new to this, being not only my first comic attempt but my first battle of any style... There is no way it will take me the whole time to make acomic, not really expecting to get even a single vote, but Ive spent most of today designing my character (tough task for those of us graphically impared) and working on adding simple animations to it..

Question is, what do I do with it when I am done? Wait for the turn in day or just post it up here to be collected or ... ?

[pom]

Just wait for the turn-in date :)

[Kitiara]

First off, please accept my apologies for spelling your name wrong - I'll go and correct that on the Battle thread in a second. :sure:

Secondly, all you really have to do is make your 5 - 30 second cartoon, then post it (or the URL that leads to it) up here before the end date. These all get put into a poll and the good people of the forums place their votes. :)

[AJCrowley]

I'm quite looking forward to this, should be interesting ;-)

[Kitiara]

Interesting... Yeah, I'm still desperately trying to think of an idea along the theme.

And the stupidest thing is that I came up with the theme in the first place. :smirk:

[Kitiara]

Actually, I've been wondering about the dimensions of this cartoon. I know the original height and width were based on a three panel cartoon, but since we're animating it, I'm not sure it's a good idea to have it that wide...

What do you guys think?

[AJCrowley]

nah, stick with it, gives you a lot of width to play with, i know it's animated, but i still sugegsted those dimensions, coz they result in a nice letterbox format...

[AJCrowley]

those dimensions also suggest a character size to deal with, and good dimensions for backgrounds, depending how complex you get...

[Kitiara]

OK, fair enough. :)

Just wondering was all. :)

[AJCrowley]

sorry for the ranty nature of that, bit stressed today...

[senocular]

Im good with the dimensions... it may not be 'appropriate' or 'normal' but in the same respect that adds to what can be done and what interesting results could arise from it.

[Sraet]

Don't feel bad about me name, for some reason every place I go I get called Straet for some time till I go Ahem, ya know, hehe.. Dont ask my why that happens :)

Well since it came up, with the dimensions and all, Im used to WidthxHeight (its how they come in the order of Flash as well)

Is that 200 width 650 height or the other way??? The letterbox comment makes me think I was right to assume it was 650x200 instead.. Just want ot know before I get too far into it :)

Third question I had, is there is no way to make/edit sound clips in flash is there? Kinda limits the sounds me comic can have if I have to rely on finding already existing clips...

Anywho, Im already having fun doing this! :)

[AJCrowley]

actually, yes, good point, i think for sound we could allow editors, god only knows how i'd do it otherwise....

i'll prolly end up using cool edit... mainly coz soundforge keeps letting me down on wav exports...

[AJCrowley]

oh yeah, it is 650 wide, 200 deep... ;-)

[Sraet]

Thanks :)
Almost 6am tho, time to get to sleep so I can dream up a good comic idea, hehe

[Kitiara]

Does everyone stay on here till weird hours in the night or something? You must get about an hour of sleep... :sigh:

I'm thinking of hitting my head with a mallet to try and think of an idea for a cartoon.

Does it have to be funny? Or just a wonderful display of artistic / animated talent? :P

[AJCrowley]

well, your theme ;-P

i'm sure we could all agree on a different one.

as to concept, up to you, i mean, humour does lend itself to cartoons very well, but if you want to do something dark, with social comment, it's your flash ;-)

[Kitiara]

Well, if anyone's got a better idea for a theme, please suggest it. ;)

I've got a vague idea of something, just remains to be seen whether or not it will work... And whether my artistic skills (or lack thereof) are up to the job...

[senocular]

"hitting [ones] head with a mallet " IS a common cartoon theme =)

[AJCrowley]

here's a curio (http://d-wolf.net/saddam-movie.swf) i did a while back, a mate of mine was going on about b3ta and how mad their stuff was, so i put together this little oddment to see what wierd **** i could come up with.

was going to be a sort of wacky racers kinda spoofy thingy...

AJ

[AJCrowley]

no. i'm off the prescription tablets now.

[Kitiara]

hitting [ones] head with a mallet " IS a common cartoon theme You know, you might just be onto something there... Hehe, I think I've got me a cartoon! :evil:

[Sraet]

Well due to my very distinct lack of artistic ability, and this being my first animation attempt, Im going to be going for the funny aspect of the cartoons, LoL :)

[Marz]

well.. I tried the funny aspect in the last cartoon.. with a witty boogieman and sicne it wasn't graphically developed... It got 0 votes.. So I'd best say.. Just make somehting that looks good..

BUT..

This is a 3 frame animation.. Therefore.. Looks aren't going to be eveyrhting.. You can't draw garfield in three frame slooking good and it work out right.

[Sraet]

Umm.. I saw nothing saying we had to seperate this into frames, just that we had to use the size of a normal 3 panel comic (650x200)

[PS:Edit]Please note I am expecting 0 votes, I just want to try :)[/PS:Edit]

[AJCrowley]

Originally posted by Sraet
Umm.. I saw nothing saying we had to seperate this into frames, just that we had to use the size of a normal 3 panel comic (650x200)

Quite right, you didn't. no reason to break it up into 3 frames unless you want to.

[PS:Edit]Please note I am expecting 0 votes, I just want to try :)[/PS:Edit]

precisely why i made the challenge, i don't think it's winning, just playing the game :cowboy:

[Sraet]

Muwahahahahaha!!! <=- Evil Laugh

Comic is comming along but still looks dumb, hehe.. Everyone else faring well I hope! :trout: :whistle: