I. New Dipthong Album

Some time in June I announced a second Dipthong album under the A+B name. Since then, in between many other projects, some that released, some that hadn't, I've made a bunch of progress on Dipthong 2. It's a Halloween themed album, so expect a little bit of spookiness.

The full name of the album is Phantom of the High School Puppet Theater. so expect a little bit less spookiness.

The whole thing is set around one big theater performance featuring a diverse and unusual sounding "orchestra", the kind where one of the violinists brings a 909, two of the tuba players are ghosts, and the choir boys are generated via ChatGPT. Every single song has their own distinct personality.

So far, half of the songs are already complete, and a few more are already in production. Since making these tracks, I've managed to get my hands on FL Studio, so I'll be using that in the later stages of production.

Here's a small sample of what's already released on Newgrounds.

Phantom of the High School Puppet Theater is set to release some time in late October.

II. Tankman Triweekly

The July 2023 issue contains a review of the best movies of June 2023, and I only ended up reviewing half of them. I wanted to review the rest earlier this month, but never got around to it. Or the rest of the issue.

There's also a bunch of stuff that I wanted to report on, but for various reasons, I had to cut them out.

Seems to be impossible these days to publish 100% factual news without causing at least some divide.

So far it's a low priority for me.

III. New Animation

This is something I've seriously struggled with in 2023. Outside of collaborative works, nothing I have publicly released represents my current skill level. I expect this to change some-time in the near future.

Out of three animations I'm currently working on, my focus is now on a Madness Day animation.

I originally started this project in July, but didn't really make any progress until after Clock Day.

I've settled on @50Steaks's song Nevada as the primary musical score. It may already be over a year old, but it's still a perfect fit for what I'm going for.

Do check out the rest of his music here, such as music based on the other 49 states of America.

The animation might be a little unpolished, but I'd like to focus more on lighting + staging as opposed to trying to get the cleanest lines or the smoothest movement.

Special thanks to @CartoonChill for giving a little bit of insight regarding finishing animations under tight deadlines, and their experience making Legend Of The Ancient Relic, a 5 minute short film, in 1 month. Let's just say I'm now in a similar situation.

You can check their video out here:

IV. Free Downloads

I also want to remind everyone here that my entire catalogue of solo work, whether it's through Newgrounds, Bandcamp, directly off Google Drive, or shared by someone else, are free to download for everyone. No need to torrent or charge $5 for early access or none of that shit. Just add it to your computer or put in your own projects.

Do note, if you do use it in a music video or something like that, do let me know. I want to see it.

If you have any questions, or would like to chat, etc. you might want to put that on hold, as I can only afford 5 seconds of your time until further notice.

This isn't true. This is impossible. It seems in his anger, he deleted the flash.

You might want to hear Dick Nick's take on this.

Hi. I skipped Pico and Piconjo Days, almost looks like I completely abandoned making anything that isn't the odd shitpost or collaboration. Lost all my ambition. Spent half the year slacking off doing something else. You name it. Despite all those odds, I am still grateful for reaching 400 followers on this beloved site even with all the odds stacked against me.

So, where does the future hold for an old frog like me?

Power Star Reanimated

@PowerStarReanim is a full-scale collab that aims to reanimate the entire Power Star series by @D-Sun. It was originally started by @Recorped and his friends, but over time, I ended up taking over the whole project.

We released Part 1 on March 10th (Mario Day), starting out with just 8 people. We're all very grateful for all the feedback we've received from the community.

I ended up rushing my one scene throughout February to March and edited all the scenes together.

We're already working on Part 2. As of today, all 22 scenes are taken and four have been finished. Join the official Discord server for updates. Or wait until Part 3 is available. You do you.

Special thanks to @jediwarriormike for finishing his scene early and @Str45x for his immense deciation to the collab.

Dipthong + Other music

On April 16th I formed the music duo A+B (@Anonymous-Frog + @BeepBoxClock), and released Dipthong, our debut album featuring both beeps and bloops from @BeepBoxClock and my own experimental sample-fests.

You can listen to it here or download it for free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFq_kmjrYsw

NEWGROUNDS | GOOGLE DRIVE | BANDCAMP (May or may not be reliable for this type of project)

My pride in making this is mixed. On one hand, I rushed it together in just under 2 weeks from primarily one or two sample sources at a time, but on the other hand, it was something I've never tried before. I plan to turn Dipthong into an entire series of albums, each installment bringing something new to the table.

I'm working on a second Dipthong album to be released later this year, which I promise will be better and much more substantial than its predecessor.

I'm also considering splitting it into separate "discs" so it can be easily distributed on Discord.

(Free users can upload up to 25MB, enough to fit 6-7 tracks. For comparison, the original Dipthong is 44MB)

In addition, I'm working on a Jingle Bells cover for the Christmas in July collab by @MasterHand4444 (MH4). It's about 80% complete right now.

Other Unnamed/Unrevealed Projects

I had this idea for a short film for quite some time, which I've storyboarded 10-15% of and produced a small portion of the soundtrack. May release sometime in 2024.

I may also make a couple of music videos. Either it's from the Dipthong catalog or whatever else I can get my hands on, depending on whether I have time.

A third SteakClock/BB10 game may be created for Clock Day.

That's all for now.

bye.

You want to see what's on the Daily Picks, but it hasn't shown up yet? Want to be there to congratulate the winners or give feedback before @Cyberdevil gets there first? Well I have a solution!

As you see here, P-Bot announces the winners at 12:00 AM EST, but the results aren't posted to the front page until approximately 20-30 minutes afterwards.

PICTURED: Screenshotted at 3:33 PM AEST (12:33 AM EST)

To see the results, you'll want to go straight to P-Bot's userpage and go straight to his forum posts. You may have to refresh a couple of times, but you're literally the first person there.

See Also: Ghost Coauthor Exploit

To celebrate March 10th (MAR10 Day) we spent just under a year reanimating Part 1 of the 4-part Power Star series by Daniel Sun.

Power Star Reanimated is a collab organized by @Recorped and features 8 participants, mainly sprite animators. We redid the animation, music, and more!

Watch here:

Also on YouTube

We're also reanimating Part 2. Join our Discord if you want to take part.

UPDATE: We got Daily 3-.... *dammit pull yourself together~!*

I updated my demoreel. I wanted to update it for at least 2 months, but I never got around to it until today.

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uPQFyGTNDA

UPDATE: Accidentally posted twice.

WARNING: Some links may be NSFW. Click with caution and turn the A filter off if necessary.

01/27/2023

The 10 second short What happens if you Reject Nemona? wins Daily 1st. Despite showing the author's skills very well, plenty of users still get upset, mainly as it was essentially softcore porn (as in, the main focus are boobs, but they aren't really exposed). | Relevant thread

Same deal with How people reacted to Grusha?, posted two days later from the same author and expected to have a similar fate. (update: it got Daily 2nd)

So, how do we prevent this sort of shit happening again in the futa? I mean future!

My solution:

An X rating, separate from the regular ratings that can be toggled on and off, as seen in this mockup

Under this "X" rating, submissions can't win awards and can only be viewed when the A filter is turned on, regardless of whether it's rated A, M, T, etc, and it'll be marked as E-x, T-x, M-x, or A-x.

Here are some use cases. Most submissions documented in my A-Rated Movie Statistics should fall under the regular A rating, while most content submitted nowadays that typically get A ratings should get the A-x rating.

With this new rating, here's what I expect would happen:

1) Fetish content, even if not directly deserving of the A rating, will still only be shown to 18+ users.

2) Erotic movies (that are rated M) are less likely to win awards and warrant "P-bot horny" comments.

3) Authors mainly known for adult content (eg. Diives) who post SFW content that are rated E-x or T-x, should reduce the chances of under 18s stumbling upon their more graphic content.

Even if authors still submit 10 second booby loops under the standard M rating, users can flag it as "improper" to mark it as M-x.

Please let me know if you like or dislike this proposed feature and your reasons why.

Recently, Pink Floyd launched an animation contest for their now 50 year old album The Dark Side of the Moon and it's been getting a lot of backlash on Twitter, namely, they claim ownership of all competition entries and you get absolutely nothing (unless you win), so this only really benefits the contest organisers.

But hear me out. Despite all the haters claiming it's very very expensive and you have to spend hundreds of hours, painstakingly creatively putting together a masterpiece of a music video, only to get 2nd place and win nothing (in that case, yes you would get screwed BIG TIME), you do not have to work as hard. If you're like me, and cut enough corners and be overall "efficient" with your workflow, you can shit one out in 3-7 days or less than 10% of your spare time and you won't miss out on much. It doesn't even have to use AI in the slightest, just don't draw that many frames, or better, motion tween that crap in Flash.

Example of such quality.

"Pink Floyd owns this video?" This is worth at most $40, so I don't really care, All them restrictive TnCs should cause all the actual talent to run to the hills and give us spammers the edge up!

Sorry to say this, but my animation that I was supposed to be released on Pixel Day has been delayed. It'll now have to be released sometime in February.

Here's another sneakpeak of it

Inspired by Delfy

Here's an exploit that allows you to reply to reviews, even though you hadn't accepted your invite yet.

YOU NEED:

1 FRIEND

1 MOVIE, GAME, OR AUDIO UPLOADED TO NEWGROUNDS

SOME REVIEWS

1- Have a friend upload a movie, game, or audio (Art coming soon) to Newgrounds.

2- Have them add you to their project as a contributor. Their credit status (ie. animator, writer, sponsor, inspiration, etc) doesn't matter.

3- You will get an pending request to join the project. Do not accept or decline the invitaion.

You'll end up in this weird limbo where you are both a member of the project and not a member at the same time.

Under the effects of the exploit:

• You'll be listed as "Waiting for confirmation" to all other members.
• The project will NOT show up on your page or the public
• The project still shows up in Your Projects"
• You can still reply to reviews, which makes it look like someone not in the project is replying.

For example, I was invited to a spam flash created by @biterrrr. You can see the results.