thebackalleys flash tag official thread

[CoolDrMoney]

lets shoot to get this done before september

august will be the month we put the most work into it

OH THANKS FOR THE WARNING STOOPS!

[f0d]

dont worry guys not all of you have to think of a character. a few people will animate the real world looking characters and the pans into their brains, and a few others can animate only mind sequences if they like.

Ah, if that's the case, I was kind of wondering how many characters will that be then? Because I think we need to get the some characters down first so people would get some idea of who they'll animate later and bla de bla bla.

yes i agree

i will listen to the song and time it out to see where new characters could be introduced. then we'll decide how many characters there are and everyone can choose whether they want to do character animation, mind animation, or both

[MRat]

I'd like to do both, I just need to come up with an interesting character. Everyone I been drawin recently have been generic, or are people I plan on using in other projects.

[psi43]

let's release it on clockday

[f0d]

let's release it on clockday

fuck no too soon

it would be pretty damn nice though, and might even act as a backlash to all the stupid clock bullshit

[sQueef]

name it happy clock day or somethin while its under judgement actually im just kidding releasing it on clock day would probably be a horrible idea since it would more than likely get passed over and not get any recognition. Then tom fulp would watch it and be like "wow this is great why did you idiots upload it on clock day? you knew when clock day was and you knew itd get swamped by clock submissions im confused" or some shit i dont know what im goin on about ok

[f0d]

but we'd get a 4.9

[sQueef]

daily + weekly 1st, rcp
frontpage
500k views

it will be amazing

[f0d]

lmfao yeaah RIGHT

lucky if we break 4.0 but who gives a shit we arent makin this for attention, just to improve our animation skills and make something that we might actually be able to show to non-internet people without being ashamed for once!

[sQueef]

lmao yeah i dont think my mom has liked any of my flashes
she didnt laugh once at mgf i was sad

but some college chick who works with my mom apparently loves my flashes

but anyway the reason i wanna work on this is because it seems fun and i like collaborating with people on flashes

[f0d]

my part is nearly finished, shouldnt take more than one or two more days

[MRat]

Chances are it will take me 9999 years to make my part.

[f0d]

OK SO

i finished marking off the different sections of the song. ive got it divided up into the opening sequence, character sequences, mind sequences, and closing sequence. there are 12 characters and 12 mind sequences in all.
considering ALL of us will be pitching in on the opening and closing sequences, thats a total of 24 parts. not bad, 20 people signed up so only 4 of us will need to do both a character and mind sequence.

its really amazing actually, there are perfect little 5-15 second intervals throughout the song. do you guys think i should just ditch the flash tag / anijam idea entirely and make this a conventional collab? you know, split up the song and let people choose their parts?

i think thats definitely what we should do. then we can listen to the individual parts and decide what the mood of the music is, and base our characters on that. im listening to it right now, there are parts where it goes from soothing to scary very abruptly.

this could make for some reeeally interesting animation material. for instance you show a preschool teacher teaching a class that looks all nice, then when it zooms into her head and the music changes moods, you show some dark secret of hers like she killed someone or something

[Mushroomboy5]

do you guys think i should just ditch the flash tag / anijam idea entirely and make this a conventional collab? you know, split up the song and let people choose their parts?

I agree with this.
However, there should still be some flash passing and collaboration between the person doing the character sequence and the person doing the corresponding mind sequence, simply so the two parts fit well together.

I call a mind sequence, preferably one between 0:17 and 1:45. Also, I only have MX 2004, so If we're pairing up, I need someone with 8 or below.

[f0d]

I agree with this.
However, there should still be some flash passing and collaboration between the person doing the character sequence and the person doing the corresponding mind sequence, simply so the two parts fit well together.

absolutely

I call a mind sequence, preferably one between 0:17 and 1:45. Also, I only have MX 2004, so If we're pairing up, I need someone with 8 or below.

thats ok flash version doesnt matter now that i think of it.

[texas]

i want to do both types of sequences
also
i think the really good artists like zekey rtil bug wps and whoever else i cant think of should have top priority
like we should kick some people out in order to let them have parts if we have to
id include dan on that good artists list but hes already doing his

wait so are we doing a conventional collab or are we passing it

[MRat]

i want to do both types of sequences
also
i think the really good artists like zekey rtil bug wps and whoever else i cant think of should have top priority
like we should kick some people out in order to let them have parts if we have to
id include dan on that good artists list but hes already doing his

wait so are we doing a conventional collab or are we passing it

hey duck you I'm a good artist!

[texas]

yeah i forgot about you i like your avatar

[sQueef]

yeh but this cowboy is neat

i knew youd end up splitting the song up

[f0d]

wait so are we doing a conventional collab or are we passing it

thats what im asking

at this point, a conventional collab makes more sense but you lose some of the spontaneity of flash tag