Because im going home to work on some freelance work. Yes indeed, ive had a rather large well paying animation job come in, why you ask? I dont know, i dont think im particularly worthy for such a thing, this thing being a music video that will be used in international marketing, i guess it just helps to know the right people. As i said, i dont think im particularly worthy, but ive asked a certain someone for help and im sure together we can make something special. Why am i telling you this? Because this is a news blog, and i consider it news. And ill no doubt be giving out progress updates over time.

What does it mean for my other projects is the real question. Ive already sworn to 2 collabs, one being quite a large task in itself. Along with that there were all my own shorts. I dont know what will happen, i guess ill just have to do a little bit here and there to get things done. Ontop of that i have some other people wanting some shorts done for their band, its all crazy. Hopefully at the very least ill be able to make some new Asparagus shorts, they are alot of fun and dont take a long time to put together, but we will see.

Also for those that missed it, heres a little something i released on Clockday, nothing special, just bits and pieces of Metal Gear related goodies, and by goodies i mean shit, because Metal Gear is a self indulgent load of shit, no offense to the fans.

Gerkin Gear Solid

And lastly, heres a picture of Skeletor i drawed all by my little old self. I did the front hand first, looking back at it i wished i did it the same way as i did his left hand... :(

Sometimes i wonder how this place really works. Then i wonder even harder about if there is a pattern for success here. I dont know. Anyways, i have a new flash out, as of now, strangely enough titled "Behind the Flash". I was excited about releasing this new cartoon, not because of the content, not because of the characters, but because after a 2 year hiatus "Behind the Flash" was the relaunch of the Nimbin Series and Universe, something i hold very close to me. As of this moment it is hovering at 3.17, not exactly the best that people are interested.

Behind The Flash

Maybe its because its short, maybe its because of the content. I guess it doesnt matter in the end, ill try another few episodes and then go from there. Its just frustrating when you spend so long working out a universe, working out the characters, so on and so forth only to find nobody really cares, i guess i should have learned that lesson with the first series of Nimbin. Im not the kind of person that complains about scores and the number of hits something gets, but it would kind of be nice to get some recognition some day. Even with "Break on Through", something i spent a few months on (on and off, and i know that it was by no means even close to perfect), it hit front page (which im still shocked by, thanks Tom) barely made a ripple in the community compare to everything else that was front paged around the same time. Why was that? I dont know. The Newgrounds community is as easy to predict as it is impossible. In the end tho it doesnt change anything, if i was doing this for other peoples enjoyment, for the pats on the back and the emails asking me to teach someone flash, id go back to what i was doing in 2004, tweening mario around. But thats not why im here, im here to leave a thumbprint, to remind people theres more then one way to make a flash cartoon, theres more then one way to tell a story, and theres more then one story to tell.

That said, upcoming movie news.

Hush: I started work on again last night, id be crazy to try to predict when it will be finished, but it should be some time within the next few months.

Nimbin: I have 2 shorts started, one almost entirely storyboarded (the animated kind mind you). No dates on these yet either. On the plus side they dont take all that long to animate.

John The Fisherman: My friend who was here when i was filming accidently took my storyboards home, i have no idea when they will arrive in the mail, but ill be starting that day.

And im in talks with someone about turning a 10 track EP he did into a 10 episode animated series, all done with sprites. My own sprites mind you, at the moment its more of a project for next year, but we will see what happens.

Now heres a comic by Gerkinman (the character, not me). Hes an internet celebrity in the world of Nimbin for his highly original and endlessly clever webcomic "The Video Game Comic"

When people think of Australians on this site i get the feeling they usually think of either Adam Phillips or Rubberninja. Adam Phillips is the only one of the 2 i think actually makes Australianish cartoons (Hitch Hiker being an obvious example), so ill stop talking about Rubberninja as of now. But after some digging i found 2 other guys i think are rockin pretty hard. As bold as it sounds i think Australia has some of the best writers on this website.
Ive been a big fan of Sexual Lobster since way back in 2004, but for some reason i never picked up on his accent, i always knew there was something about it, but it didnt know what it was. Im kinda slapping myself in the face now. Turns out he lives not far from here. But back on topic, ive never been a fan of dialogue driven cartoons, i always found it to be kind of a waste of the animation medium. Yet Mr Lobster has created characters and uses dialogue i dont think would work in any other medium. His animation is also really nice too boot. Everything he does feels distinctly australian, whether its the voices or just the humour in general, and people seem to love it, i dont understand why theyre arent more Australians doing this sort of stuff.
Now Cameron Clunes on the other hand i only just discovered recently. I dont know how i missed his cartoons up until now. While his animation is ususually rather limited, his dialogue never ceases to crack me up. And while only a few of his toons rather really Australian, his writing always carries the animation beautifully, which is incredibly hard to pull off.
I know there are alot of other Aussie authurs out there, so if you are leave a comment so i can go check out ya stuff.

In other news, heres a video of me and my friend who also happens to be named Daniel dancing like the big ghey faggots we are. Dancing is fun. Id love to make more of these sort of videos, theyre simple and just a heap of fun to make.

And to finish things off, heres a cowboy...

Oh ho!

Bait and Switched again!

Anyways, time for some news, as i sometimes like to tell people about whats going on in my life rather then focusing on the negatives surrounding the flash "community". So what is this news i speak of?

Well first of all, Break on Through, my second "real" solo effort for this year has been released, and relatively well received. I dont know whether to thank The Doors for its success or the Newgrounds community. Ill let you people make up your own minds. For those who havent seen the cartoon yet, you can find it here.

Break On Through

And while keeping on that topic, last week i uploaded the second episode of my Ultimate Asparagus series to Newgrounds in its original format for the first time. It didnt do as well as i was hoping, but what can you do. I kind of like prefer the animation (if you can call it that) over live action style rather then the darker grittier style i used in "Episode 3: Whats that Sound" So any future Asparagus cartoons will be done the live action way, its just too much fun. For those that missed it the cartoon can be found here.

Oh Noez Land Shark

As for future projects, my next cartoon is pretty much finished, im just waiting on lines from Rina Chan, and if she cant get them to me for whatever reason i think i might ask SqueakyToad to take her place...as herself. So that should be fun and/or confusing. Look out for "Behind The Flash"... sometime in the future.

Also on the way, now Break On Through is done, is Hush. It will be my main focus. I have spoke about this flash a few times before, its essentially just a look at my day to day life, displayed in a cartoony and metaphorical way. For example my boss obviously isnt a robot in real life, but his in this.

And lastly, i have a short film storyboarded id like to have done in time for a local film festival. Its called John the Fisherman (after the Primus song, tho the song doesnt feature in the cartoon anywhere). Its just about an old man that goes fishing in the same spot everyday like clockwork, but never catches anything. It will be made the same way as the second Asparagus cartoon, with live action backgrounds. Ive decided to go with this format to keep the film feeling local and gritty, so hopefully that will come out nicely aswell.

On a completely unrelated note to flash, my pet rabbit was stolen from me this weekend. So that kind of sucks. And uhhh... thats all for now. See you again same time next week.

Heres a Frenchman i drew. :)

I had a dream, nay, a vision, and in this vision was a place known as Newgrounds. It was the year 2010. There was a robot in every house hold, cars could fly, and women knew that they belonged in the kitchen. But that was just the beginning, yes indeed. One day in the year of 2010 i decided to check back on my old time killer, Newgrounds.com.

It would seem the site had gone threw some major changes. While the yellow and orange colour scheme had long since moved on to a colour scheme of Orpiment and Cadmium, the user base itself remained unchanged. Tom Fulp with all his wisdom knew that in order to keep the people happy he would need cater to this generation of internet savy children, and so, a new voting and review system was born. This generation didnt have the brain power to discern between good and bad, nor did they have the intelligence to put there thoughts into words, so Tom devised the most brilliant of schemes. It was called the "Yes/No" System. After years of studying the voting habbits of his user base Tom realised that the only 2 ratings people ever voted on a flash were "0" and "5" he realised that he could quite easily just switch the system to "Yes" for a rating of "5" and "No" for a rating of "0". And so he did, and the villagers rejoiced. But sadly, this wasnt enough, no, the review system too needed a large reworking. So once again, after much research and stat tracking he discovered most reviews consisted of either "lol funny" or "wtf, blam this shit, go die". And so, the review system was replaced with the choice of 2 pre-determined options, namely "lol funny" or "wtf, blam this shit, go die". And once again, the people rejoiced.

I couldnt help but wonder, what happened to all the artists that focused on original creations, and low and behold, there they were, complaining about the fact they get ignored, and theyre the parody animators were, bragging about the fact that their scores were infinitely higher. I had thought to myself that by this time everybody with a drop of originality would have realised it wasnt the websites fault nobody cares about them, but rather the fact that society hates what it does not understand and would refuse to support anything that was beyond its brain capacity. But no, the pointless war wages on. Would it ever end? Who could say.

By this time i had had enough, i closed my explorer window, shut down my computron and proceeded to engage in sexual intercourse with my wife, and her 2 clones. This was the tale of newgrounds.com in the year 2010.

And then i woke up...

Holy shit, i just had Wonchop call my mobile, i have no idea how he got my number, i dont hand it out to anybody. Anyways, im sitting here at work, my phone rings, i answer it, and its fucking wonchop saying Gerkinman over and over really slowly. So, because this is so strange i ask him whats going on. He tells me everybody on the internet has turned on him and hates him, even people he thought were his friends. Hes very stressed at the moment. I ask him why he has called me, especially since i hate him myself. He tells me because i know what its like to be hated by everyone. After that uplifting piece of information i told him to just leave the internet and wait for it all to blow over, but no, the internet means to much to him. Then he tells me he has a gun in his hand and screamed into the phone for about 20 seconds. I proceeded to hang up on him and turn off my phone so he couldnt call me back.

This all happened just now.

So dear Wonchop

If you were being serious, i hope you went threw with it, the shit you pulled was bad enough, but to make an international call to tell me im the only person you know thats as hated as you are and that makes us friends and i should help you is bullshit. Good riddens.

If you werent being serious... grow some fucking balls, man up and move on. Consider yourself lucky i wasnt at the con. While most people around here thrive on E-Drama and rely on their friends and words to solve their problems, both online and off, as was evident at the con, i personally prefer to solve my problems with my fists and would have been more then happy to have hit you, several times, had i been there.

Dont ever call my fucking mobile again and dont ever, EVER compare yourself to me again and pray we never meet in person while your at it.

In other news, heres a picture of Gerkinman and independant aussie comic star Billy Demon Slayer i drew.

And that special someone is sliced bread. Yes, today is the 80th birthday of sliced bread. Happy birthday sliced bread loaf. The world wouldnt be the same without you.

On a side note, expect a new movie in the next 2 weeks, what it is however is a secret.

Also, heres another picture i did. Isnt the bee cute? Awww.

First of all, id like to just say i have a new showreel up, its pretty much everything ive been working on over the last 6 months, some of these cartoons have been released, others im still working on, so its as much a preview as it is a flash back.

Now down to business, im sure their have been quite a number of people here who have seen the trailer for "Disaster Movie" This little gem here.

Holy shit does it look terrible, and a majority of people agree. So my question is, why is wrong for hollywood to make shit like this, but Newgrounds promotes the exact same tripe, albeit in flash form, as something worthy of being noticed and popular? Now im not saying parodies are bad, infact Spaceballs is one of my all time favorite movies and its a parody.

The difference being its actually well written and the jokes come from the source materials rather then just mashing pop culture references together in the hope that for every ten misses theres atleast one hit. But once again, back to my original point, who the hell is the audience that keeps going to see these piece of shit movies? Im guessing it has to be the same people that make the craptastic parodies here. So heres my advice to you people. Keep making your piece of shit parodies, and make them less and less entertaining, hell, dont make them entertaining at all, and you too can one day join hollywood and get paid millions to make horrible horrible movies. I cant wait until we start seeing 4chan references in my hollywood movies, the idea of a 50 million dollar "Over 9000" movie gets me excited...in the pants! Newgrounds, 5 years from now we will be seeing names from here gracing cinemas greatest abominations.

Where does that leave anybody with a drip of originality in them? In the gutter, where they belong. Dirty Swine.

Finally, heres a pic i drew =D

But i didnt work on that, however i did work on a movie called "Whats That Sound?" and it too came out yesterday/today. You can find it here.

Whats That Sound?

Currently it has a whopping score of 3.57. Not bad for a flash that only took a few hundred hours (Mainly on the backgrounds). Not to mention actually getting the rights too/ and commisioning music for. If you havent seen it yet go and check it out, and vote fairly. Ones and Two's seem pretty appropriate. It is an original cartoon after all and hardly what you would call conventional.

So i suppose now thats out of the way ill have to finish "Break On Through" and ill be ready to start the new Nimbin series. Or maybe ill get a Nimbin short out before its release, hard to say at this point in time, i do have some ideas for some 1 minuteish shorts that wouldnt take too long to make... in theory.

And so, i will leave you now with a few skits from an Australian TV series called Pizza. Why? Because Newgrounds needs more ethnic comedy, and god knows im not the man to make it...or am i?

And finally, in celebration of "Whats That Sound?"s release, heres the full version of the second "Ultimate Asparagus" toon that wasnt featured on Newgrounds because of the live action backgrounds.

Another week goes by and another week without the release of the final Ultimate Asparagus cartoon goes along with it. Its coming its coming, just keep waiting, not long now.

However, looking ahead, as hinted in my last Journal, Nimbin is officially coming back. I wont be giving anything about stories away, but i will say that this will not be a serial, some of these Nimbin cartoons will be very short, others will be longer, most will be around the 3 minute mark at most. They will focus on different characters (much as the original comics did) and seperate stories. It might take a bit of adjusting to get used to the new art style and character designs, but im sure for most people (Since Nimbin wasnt all that popular originally anyway) it wont be a big deal. Nimbin comics are also being written for a graphic novel release, much like the shorts these will focus on completely different stories and different characters, two are already written and only one contains any of the original cast. I was also going to originally recruit some of Newgrounds "talent" but after Egoraptor shooting me down because i dont like his other stuff and hes not interested in doing anything "different" i once again decided to do all the male voices myself. Ive come a long way since the original series was done and you can expect to hear a more old skool Ren and Stimpy approach to the voices rather then the more common "annoying and fast paced" voices that seem to be popular at the moment. So if any girls out there can act without sounding like the kind of girls found in the typical anime dub feel free to contact me. So uhhh... heres some concept art.

Yes, i am blending real people in with my animation, and no, its not like anything you have ever seen on Newgrounds before.