For more understanding of what NATA is here's this link.
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1302004

I've decided to dedicate the next few months doing NATA until I lose. I'm going to legitimately try my best. I will update this page with new information.

April 18th 8:05 AM
So far I've finished all the audio for my animation and I've storyboarded all of it. I just finished up a depressingly slow walk cycle and some color effects. I still need to add a background.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f69cde582b39 b018168823dce7649220

This is all I'm going to show, so enjoy this sneak peeeeeeek. CUZ THE REST OF DIS SHIT IS SECRET AND SHIT, SHIT.

So I'm entering NATA this year. I've never done it before but I intend to make it my main priority the next few months. I've already finished the audio for it.

If I've learned anything from entering the halloween contest it's to make a submission that isn't too long. I entered my cartoon Undead Grandpa in the Halloween contest last year and while I was successful in pulling off 7th place I went through utter hell in the process. I did the whole thing in 22 coffee stained day and nights. I had requested off work for the last few days in the contest but McDonald's scheduled me anyway. I was just in over my head. The end result wasn't what I had imagined and the file size was too big so I had to lower the sound quality. Yet I came out as a stronger and better animator after all of it.

So anyways back to NATA. The open round theme is "discovering time travel", I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of submissions with the same idea.

I've come up with an idea and I'm confident no one has done it and hope that no one does it as well (besides that no idea is ever original) I'm just really content with what I have so far. I'm animating a music video based on this song I made today.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/481400

I've got 30 seconds storyboarded and plan to pull off the other 113 seconds tonight. I don't have work the next 2 days so I'm going bawls out with every second I get. Although, writing this post wasted my time. My webcomic, WHATTHEDO, is going to have to take a back seat while I run a train on dis contest.

At this time I've slowed down production but I've decided to go back to the writing and storyboarding of the animation to tweak all the flaws in the story telling. I've redone a few walk cycles and the timing on a few physical gags. It looks so much better than before and I'm confident that this will be one of the greatest flash animations ever to grace the face of Newgrounds.

Give Peas a Chance is being delayed while I work on my website. Expecting it sometime in May.

www.whatthedo.com

I'm hoping to get it done by March 10th. I was going to split it into 3 parts, but I've decided that it just blows if viewed in 3 different files. I've heard that if you email Tom he can up your upload limit for larger files so I can upload it all as one. Wish me luck I'm working my ass off on this.

I got my rejection letter from CalArts yesterday. I put a lot of effort into my application and a few months of hard work but I still got rejected. It really doesn't bother me much, I'm more concerned about how well Give Peas a Chance will do when I submit it here. I'm keeping busy. busy. busy. busy.

www.whatthedo.com is my weekly web comic website I'm having a great time maintaining it. I need to get back to work there's too much to be done. Keep fighting the good fight.

-Bill

wow

This was my first flash submission from August 2nd 2003 the summer between 6th and 7th grade. It got blammed of course. I remember feeling so good about finishing it. I was kinda crushed when it got blammed but oh well it just made me stronger. By the way I'll be done with Give Peas a Chance within the next week or two. Get ready for it !!! (yes I realize no one reads this)

I finished a cartoon recently it's on youtube but I've decided to put it here on Newgrounds. This flash is too big to submit in one file. So I chopped it into 3 parts. I realized it needs to be viewed as a whole or I need to make each part better and longer. So technically I'm working on 3 flash animations right now.

I've poured over 200 hours into this thing and probably will pour another 100 over the next few weeks. I'm not sure whether to release them one per week or one per day in a 3 day period.

One thing I learned is if you really want to improve your drawing or painting skills in general, spend over 6 months on one project. Just from making over a dozen detailed backgrounds in photoshop it's sharpened up my painting skills. Frame by frame animation is where it's at. Having to draw something just from your head and making it move in 3 dimensions will test your knowledge and skill. Putting the animation and backgrounds together and making sure they match up in shading and lighting, it's like making thousands of paintings.

I do believe animation is and has been the next step in art. Music, drawing, painting, story telling, and film. It has it all. Entertainment is art too.

If you missed the link above here's give peas a chance the original

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