Whirlguy 2015-04-24 14:00:43

Oh hey, thanks for visiting.

Whirlguy 2015-04-29 05:46:08 (Updated 2015-04-29 19:23:59)

Right you are, it definitely needs a change. That picture's over a year old by now, heh. I arrived in Holland this morning at around 8:30. That should have been 2:30 over in Philly. I imagine everyone was still up at the time, playing games, or doing whatever they do. I think I came across some karaoke pictures while adding people on facebook. I didn't really want to leave, but oh well.

It was great to meet you man! I had a lot of fun hanging out with you. I really hope Cyberdevil uploads his recordings of the stream soon, so we can all relive these great memories :)

Whirlguy 2015-05-12 08:35:08

Yeah, I hope these links don't scare people off or anything. Things are moving slow, and I'm not sure how best to promote everything at once. A newspost would be best I suppose. I so much regret not promoting this thing on the stream! I'm also starting to wonder how many people follow a thread by clicking the heart at the top. I should probably make more announcements to get people involved. It worked miracles for the audio thread. Thank god for the @ function!

I treat troisnyx as a vip when it comes to this project. Without her, this thing wouldn't be where it's at right now, and I would have loved for her to partake in this. She decided against being an organizer, so I started off on my own. Unfortunately she hadn't noticed my shoutout at first for the audio project. She came in the thread a little late, but I managed to make room for her. After a week or so, she told me she was having a little hiatus from music. So that never happened. I still really want to involve her with the project, but I'm not sure how at this point. Her music is very genre-specific, and I'm not sure if it'll work out for the menu. Either way, I will definitely make her a project contributor. Without saying, she'll get some glorification within the credits as well.

Oh, and I see you just signed up for the writing project? That's awesome man! I can't wait to see what you come up with! :)

Whirlguy 2015-05-12 10:01:18

I see. Yeah, Troisnyx' thread spawned a lot of ideas, and I decided to go and figure out how to get it all done. Two people were eager to organize something. One of those people was me, the other was RealFaction. I'm sure you know of his project, as you partook in the video:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1390485
I've decided to go and join that thing. I've been thinking about joining NATA as well. I'm not sure if I will go through with that though, heh.

As for Tom's announcements, the animation part already had a plug before:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1389019
The collab is on the calendar as well. Regardless, I guess another plug wouldn't hurt. Speaking of which, have you been advertising the collab to some of your friends just now? I couldn't help but notice a sudden bump in activity :)

Maybe you've got an idea on how to involve voice actors? I was thinking each story could be narrated, but that doesn't exactly allow for a lot of freedom. I really want them in somehow.

Whirlguy 2015-05-13 01:53:47 (Updated 2015-05-13 09:02:52)

Neat, plenty of people I can shoutout to now. The list consists of the people you just recommended, voice actors I formerly worked with, and a list of people from Troisnyx's thread. Maybe I should check out the list of contributors for "Voices Of Newgrounds" for more voiceactors.

I think the key to using voice actors lies in the menu somewhere. The progress of the menu was put on halt for a while, because we scrapped our initial art project idea. Each part of the menu is a different location within a house, and one of the rooms didn't make sense anymore. Now that all the ideas are here, I've decided to get back to it.

Once the menu is done, that should probably be the moment for me to make a thread in the voice acting forums. Beforehand, I'll have to decide on a list of (talking) NG characters. And then once the voices are all there, I'll have to PM all the animators to see which character + voice they want to animate.

Or maybe I don't even need a finished product of the menu, and should just go for it once I've decided on the characters.

I'm running out of time D:

Whirlguy 2015-05-14 08:51:42

I imagine it'll take a while for everyone to finish their story. Recording these stories sounds pretty time consuming as well. As far as voice acting goes too, it doesn't seem like a very exciting thing to do. Plus, those recordings will really add up to the size of the flash file, so I'd rather just use short sentences.

Like I said, I'm working on a menu that will have characters in it. There's still a few location missing, and the "art gallery" is being replaced for something else:
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/52de07ccbd613b613230961cf7c42ac4

And here's visual representation of every menu character. The dark images don't require any voice actors.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f0d3935d5e56e0b4c3470c8e5347315b

It would be nice if the menu characters could be interactive. That means when you click them, they'll start talking. Here's a spreadsheet I've made to keep track of voice actors:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYs2szQ_Z-7UEOr_vmCEuFuaPbHyDVrXN7uSJj7jS1s/edit?usp=sharing

I guess all I have to do now is make a thread. I'm annoyed with the lack of girl characters though.

Whirlguy 2015-05-14 10:44:19 (Updated 2015-05-14 12:41:49)

Thanks for the recommendations! It's pretty tricky to figure out who should be in the menu, and who shouldn't. I started the whole thing off with a list of characters, figured out what years they spawned from, and then decided to pick at least one character from each year.

I decided to take StrawberryClock out of the list. I'm just going to put an actual strawberryclock in the menu's livingroom, similar to the one that hangs in the NG office. The king of the portal will be replaced by Miss Dynamite.

The other series you've linked me to are pretty interesting. I've thought about putting in Weebl and Bob in there, but then decided on Catface instead (I decided on keeping one series per author. Dan Paladin is in there twice though. I'm thinking of keeping Alien Hominid and getting rid of Dad 'n Me). I never saw Rats On Cocaine before, I really like it! I'm not sure if it's good enough to be in the menu though. And while Alice Is Dead is a great game, it's based on Alice In Wonderland, so that's not happening either. If you know of any other girl characters though, they're very welcome! :)

Whirlguy 2015-05-14 12:58:07 (Updated 2015-05-14 13:33:00)

Haha, it's alright. These things are important :)

Lazymuffin and Oney are already on the list. I guess Phantasia would be a proper character, but I'm not too sure. She's been voiced by a guy after all. Come to think of it, Saladfingers and Jerry Jackson are by the same author too. Hmm...

I was reminded of last year's Pico Day design with all the NG girls on it. Characters included:
* Tankgirl
* Fallen Angel
* Gamer Turbo
* Raw Latex
* Nene
* Metropolis Circuit
* Nyan Cax
* Merry Melony.

I'll avoid the years 2004 and 2005, since I'm already using 3 characters from those years. That means no Fallen Angel and no Merry Melony. Also, no Raw Latex and Nene. I'm already using characters by those authors. That should leave us with:

* Tankgirl
* Gamer Turbo
* Metropolis Circuit
* Nyan Cax

Let's see... I could replace tankmen's captain with tankgirl (maybe replace Jerry with Jackie while I'm at it?), and maybe involve the girl from Metropolis Circuit. I'm not too sure about Gamer Turbo and Nyan Cax, but two more girl ought to do it. Here's the adjustments I made:
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f0d3935d5e56e0b4c3470c8e5347315b
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYs2szQ_Z-7UEOr_vmCEuFuaPbHyDVrXN7uSJj7jS1s/
What do you think?

Whirlguy 2015-05-14 20:08:28

I feel a bit weird about adding real people. Edd Gould is no different I suppose, but at least there's an entire series based around him. I probably have enough girls now anyway, although I'm thinking of replacing Violet with a more memorable character. Who knew that finding memorable girl characters could be this hard? :P

Whirlguy 2015-05-14 23:42:00 (Updated 2015-05-15 05:25:29)

I think I've finally got it: Snow Snow For Lucy. Or maybe not, ugh. Her personality is just too quiet to talk. Also, that toon's not even on Newgrounds anymore. Speaking of which, the little girl from Xombie would have worked too, now that I think about it.

Whirlguy 2015-06-20 15:08:15

Awesome! I think I read something about editing the story before "publishing"? It's not mandatory, but it would definitely be off great help. I don't mind if you guys end up finishing this thing a bit late. I love to see you guys so driven to finish this thing in time though :3