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Whirlguy

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My Newgrounds History - 2008

Posted by Whirlguy - November 20th, 2013


[NEW IN 2008]
2008 was a very interesting year for me! I've been noticing how there were audio contests being held in preceding years, and really wanted to join one of those someday. So I went to the forums, but found something entirely different: A cool little initiative by SolidElectro called Continue The Song Game. I decided to join in at the last second. The result of the song ended up being alright, but it made a pretty big impact on the audio community. I quickly joined CTSG2, as another song was being made. To my surprise, Rig then took it to a whole new level. He introduced CTSG to the flashforums! I was quick to get involved and ended up playing an important role in completing this bad boy. It was a great experience which I ended up documenting. For me, this was the first time I had ever gotten featured on frontpage before. In the meanwhile, everyone made fun of Rig's face. Lochie and Writersblock became really good friends of mine, and we often collaborated. Then in October Wallpaperman went to Amsterdam and we first got to meet eachother in real life! Great news: Tom and April were expecting! I also spent a lot of time on the general forums, where there was a lot of picture editing going on. This is what actually inspired me to start using photoshop. THEJamoke eventually took a liking to my work, and invited me to join the Newgrounds Photoshop Headquarters. This club consisted of Newgrounds' finest photoshoppers and had some really fun competitions going on. Also, Campnorth was a popular thing at the time. Too bad it died.

[FLASH & COLLABORATIONS]
Apart from the CTSG collab, I had a couple of other projects running. I joined the NG Level Collab, for instance. I got really fed up with that project, eventually. The founder of this collab was always out of reach for some reason, and they weren't open to my ideas. It ended up being a really shitty collab, with no eye for quality. I don't think it ever got finished. Also, I was really inspired to do a Halloween project this year, so Writersblock wrote "The Delusion Duology" part 1 and 2, for me and Lochie to animate to. Unfortunately I was the only one who finished it before Halloween, and Lochie had to abandon the project. The following year I decided to animate his part of the story, but never quite finished it. Back To The Front was progressing slowly but surely. That is until my computer crashed this year. I lost the project and had no way to continue it (if only I was better with computers at the time). Wallpaperman spent a lot of time away from newgrounds, playing Team Fortress 2. Eventually I started playing it as well, and we both made an animation about it. Truth be told, it was the only way I could get him to animate. He never finished another movie after that. Not even Greenbeetle, which we both adore so much! Such a shame... Anyway, Lochie and me started working on games. Sadly all of our games were abandoned this year.

[AUDIO]
There's not a whole lot to be told about my audio this year. I got involved with CTSG and learned that you could download VST's. This really caught my interest, and so I worked on developing a different kind of sound. Furthermore, I ended up not finishing any songs, creating a whole bunch of loops instead.

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My Newgrounds History - 2008


Comments

Dude. Rigs fucking face.

Ridiculous! :D