Summertime has rolled along nicely.

I just recently moved to CA, for a job related to my engineering BG. Its a good possibility that I may move here permanently in time. I'm staying with a roommate, and he's talked me into going to Anime Expo 2009.

Legendary Frog has asked me to join in a Resident Evil collab - guess what kinda skit I'm doing... (=

Kirbopher, Psyguy and I have entered the Power of Three Summer Event as team Kronecker Delta! Kirb will be doing the art, Psy will be doing the music and I will be doing the programming. We've got a script going and are working on the theme/art of the game. I might make updates about it, but I'm secretive.

And of course, I'm still working on PK4" in extra time :/

Haf funzorz,
-Richie

$00pah NiN10Doh!

Our first deadline when everyone was assigned their parts was the end of August. I finished my piece in the end of October, and the last of us finished at the end of December... After 3 days of unsuccessful compilation of the final individual pieces, Kirbopher sent the files to
JohnnyUtah and just like that, he got it done and Kirb submitted it. (=

I hated the crap we had to go thru compiling the first collab, and after working like a madman to get my piece done, I never wanted to be part of a collab again... But Kirbopher soon had scripts written out for the sequel, and I gained interest when I read my piece 'Pokemon Snap XXX'.

My piece was originally supposed to be about 10 seconds long, and not nearly as explicit... Of course I fattened it up, and blurred it out. I originally had all the pokebabes wearing clothes/swimsuits, but I thought as a 'sequel' to my Ash v Pikachu piece in the first collab, I should add blurrs and make it 'mature quality', SO I DID! When I handed my piece back to Kirb, he said it may be too explicit to put in, but after a check with the other artists, outside opinions, and my nagging, he kept it in. (= It seems I polarized some viewers with my piece, I hope it doesn't take anything away from the other pieces. You wont see anything quite as explicit from me for a while.

I watched the finished piece last night, along with everyone else, and I loved every piece of it, and I thought I could provide my own review for the artists who put so much work into it, even if they brush off my opinion:

Menus - I thought it turned out well.. AND THERE'S A SCENE SELECT THIS TIME!
Mario Party 287 - I liked the fast pace and the smooth-'bubbly' type animation.
Excitebike Wipeout - I've never played it, but it was nice watching him eat shit.
Low Low Low - The emotion switch and animation work great - I love when he pops into Joey's piece.
Olimar Forgot - I did not expect the ending to this piece, found it pretty funny.
Revenge of Metanight - I loved seeing Kirby in my voice. (= This was the first piece I saw of the collab, and it gave me some oomph inspiration when I was working on my piece. The color, animation and style are off the charts.
Duckbill Hunting - Shows great emotion in the animation, and the voices really get me into it.
Starfox Perventures/Pokemon Snap XXX - ....Awe-inspiring animation on the fox part, soo smooth. Snappness = hawt too.
Majesty of ROB - LOL That is so FRUSTRATING! I love the face the guy makes - AWESOME!
Campfire of the Four Swords - More smooth animation, and great coloring.
Kongcest - Eeeeew... I find myself quoting the line tho - 'THATS EVEN BETTER!'.
...Wario's Emporium... - I liked the use of the line tool, and the smooth lipsyncing and transitions.
Planet of the Kongs - Perhaps my favorite piece, because of the voice acting and animation style/expression he gave the characters.
Cook - AAAH! LOL! FRUSTRATING! Also another great piece, i love it.
Master Hand Throws a Fist - Cute. Dedede has a great set of expressions throughout the piece, I like his smile. (=
Pokemon Snap XXX cont. - Blurrs - WOOT! I LOVE the piece added at the end - 'WTFs THE PAUSE BUTTON!', cherry. (=
Fire Emblem - Grrr... Marth... I like the inturruption tho - WANNA HELP SAVE MY GIRLFRIEND?!
Revenge of Metanight cont. - More smooth animation and good expressions on the faces. I like how you used my final 'heee...yay' at the end, sooo cute!
Starfox Drama Mission - 'uh-huh...' Animation is great, awesome expression/motion on the characters.
Pokemon 5th Generation - I was wondering this myself. Funny meeting at the end. (=
Tetris - LOL - long setup, but it was worth it. I loved watching the S-guy breaking into pieces, and the 8-bit SFX added hilarity.
Final Battle - Nice animation, GREAT expressions! METAL GEAR! Jiggly's cute. The trophies are AWESOME! I wish there was a pause botton, so I could look at those- they go by too fast! Great ending.

The voice acting for every piece was great! Voices are critical for setting scenes up, and they really did a bang-up job setting the tone. (=

I created some wallpapers for this collab, uploaded them on my site:
http://www.johnrichie.com/V2/downloads .php

I am proud to be included in this collab with some of the best animators I've seen, you guys made this turn out great. Thank you very much Tom for sponsoring us!

Go watch it!
$00pah NiN10Doh!

For those of you who don't know, we won second place in the NG Pico Day 2008 for TANKMEN INFINITY. We got our NG Pico Day 2008 award package today - A Pico Award Statue with our names on it: John & Richie, a Captain figurine (came out of check), a new NG Tshirt, and a check for $1980.00 bad boys from Tom! Its all so awesome, thanks to everyone who voted for our submission, and thanks to everyone else who participated in Pico Day, you all made it fun to watch. We are going to take out $200 and send it to our Voice Actress, Kellie. She's done all the female voices for us over the years-did 'TankGirl' on short notice-and now that we have some money we'd like to show her our appreciation. With the rest of the money we won, along with what we've saved, we're gonna buy a Cintiq 20 WSX tablet. It'll take a while to get used to, but it'll be nice to have some professional animation tools, and move away from the mouse.

Thanks Tom! Hope you're having fun in Jamaica (=

The second reason we're posting, is that we're looking for someone who can do a good Jack Bauer impersonation. He has a tiny part in our next movie and we'd like to do him justice. So if you think you can do a good Jack Bauer voice, please send us some samples at: jackbauerlines@gmail.com. Use his usual "Damn!" and "SonofaBitch!" lines and make it interesting. Please just send a single email. If we think you're good we'll send you some official lines and then we'll use the best impersonation in the movie, and of course the voice actor will be mentioned in the credits. Thanks!

-John & Richie

We have a new movie out!
That's 2 so far in 2008, after a year of nothing and its only April!
I just got my TANKMEN Tshirt (along with $50 we got after the split up from the NiN10Doh! collab) from Tom yesterday. Its AWESOME! Tom also sent us a Certificate for 'Outstanding Contributions to the Community'. I put it up on my wall, next to the first one we got from Midnight Snack.
Tell us what you think!

So its about time we added a post to our NG page. Richie created an up-to-date profile pic, in the NG-Style. All our regular news will be posted on our site... Recent News/Flash Standings:
John Graduated College
Richie's about done working on 3 shorts that will be included in the NiN10Doh! collab, organized by Kirbopher
PK4 : 40% done
BK4 : John is still in the preliminary stages...

Leave comments, we read em. WOOT NG!