the lighthouse girl (working title)

[psi43]

my favorite part was definitely the light bolt at the end, that was pretty.

[Wasim]

my favorite part was definitely the light bolt at the end, that was pretty.

[rtil]

I watched the last two premiere's and I just couldn't stop gazing at the art and relaxing to the sound of the music. Everything was just so well done, but I think my favorite thing about the animation was the background art. Like, seriously. I'd never seen anything like it.

jenna aka channel-square/blvd-square painted them, you can see them all full size at her deviantart

how many times did u and jenna do it during the production of the cartoon
that's what i want to know

we did not keep track sorry buddy  

my favorite part was definitely the light bolt at the end, that was pretty.

that was jenna's idea, originally it was going to be a straight beam but we thought it would be cooler to have it fly around and stuff

[billy]

how many times did u and jenna do it during the production of the cartoon
that's what i want to know

that was jenna's idea

[rtil]

Warning text wall incoming...

I saw it at the 2pm show and I just wanted to say congrats on the piece ^__^ The visuals were pure and gorgeous eye-candy to look at! I sat watching and saying to myself, "Holy shit this is so top-class professional quality and it was done by only [size=]2[/size] people?! There is serious dedication to their craft in this." The backgrounds, landscapes, and day/night atmosphere were probably the strongest parts to me, especially the scene right after they left the house and we see the skyscape and bridge (also the tree part was great too). The green hand character was to me the best out all them all though because of the way he interacted with objects, opened/locked the door, swatted fireflies, and then played around with the um(blue cute things ^^; ). All these factors actually made him have the more believable character acting which is something I wished I'd seen more in the main character. The girl didn't really have much personality, since her eyes didn't wander around the landscape; she walked straight to her destination and then went back without a moment to get into her character. I would've liked to have seen a point where she skipped some rocks or played more with the blue things...maybe something as subtle as making a different face besides an ear to ear smile would have done it... heh idk. :b But overall those were the small things, and really this cartoon was just so solid on the technical parts, I guess it's the only thing I could think be fleshed out more. It definitely made me want to see more of the world, the actual reason for this strange magic lighthouse, and what the hand creature actually was (same for the blue things that provide it food to glow). Btw, the part where the hand scoops the water then swallows it haha, that was nice and I almost missed it because the camera moves and almost cuts it off. Anyways, great work! I don't know if you get this feeling sometimes, but there are moments in the process of animating where you just love seeing the world you are creating move and come to life that it gives you this rush of happiness that sits in your chest, I hope you had that moment somewhere because you and Jenna deserved it. :]

the blue guys are called waddles
i'm glad you had those feelings watching it, i know that i did the first time i saw it which is rare when you're looking at your own work. it was probably the overwhelming feeling of finally being able to say "it's done" more than anything else. thank you for sharing that

[MarcK]

The exact moment that it's available for viewing on a site aside from livestream (which lags to the point of a stillshot per minute with my crap connection) notify the hell out of me please. :B

[Casey Pixmintro]

The exact moment that it's available for viewing on a site aside from livestream (which lags to the point of a stillshot per minute with my crap connection) notify the hell out of me please. :B

[rtil]

http://vimeo.com/8185313

password is lg5

it's not public yet because now i'm all worried about this 'dont release it until after its festival run' stuff

[Casey Pixmintro]

I'm so glad I got to see it. The animation was fucking gorgeous but being the 500th person to comment on this movie, I can't really bring much new to the table so uh, great job.

[BluPhoenix]

^pretty much what prevented me from posting a comment.

[DrRumack]

just watched it

very kawaii/ backgrounds were amazing/ characters were adorable/ etc

[MarcK]

I loved it. The animation was fucking great, the backgrounds were unbelievable, the concept was fun, it was ecstasy in a video.

^pretty much what prevented me from posting a comment.

DO YOU REALIZE HOW BACKWARDS THAT MESSAGE IS BLUE PHOENIX X SEVEN?!?!!??!?

[rtil]

thanks guys. yeah chances of an ng version are next to zero

[MarcK]

When you release it you can submit a link to the video to the portal and put flashads for some pocketchange. It'll probably get frontpage too.

[rtil]

that is gay i would never do that

[MarcK]

well yeah, I'd think its an option for those who can't submit the movie itself it but would still like to advertise it to any audience.

[mexifry]

thanks guys. yeah chances of an ng version are next to zero

Lmao so many people dont even realize that the massive size of a video converted to swf format would be.
Could flash honestly handle that export, let alone would I want to watch a preloader frame for 3 hours for a 5 min movie?

[rtil]

it could, and an FLV container would reduce the size significantly, but then you'd have the problem of finding a good buffering tool and audio sync if it's not being streamed directly from another location. still, newgrounds is not a video site so it doesn't have its own tools for compressing video like vimeo and youtube. it's really impractical

[mexifry]

TBH the only thing I was honestly looking forward to for an NG version is a cool menu, but seeing how impractical that is, it aint worth it.

[Flash]

thanks for putting it on vimeo, I missed the live events. great stuff, the background art was amazing, the animation was fluid, and the music was a perfect fit.
fav. part was the scene with the toll guy