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Utah Animates American Pokemon

aaron — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:48:19 +0000

Following his Marvel vs Capcom 3 spoof from this past March, Johnny Utah has released another video game themed short. His latest is titled American Pokemon:

Brooks Creates Circle of Internet Pals

aaron — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:00:09 +0000

Jazza Studios’ Josiah Brooks recently teamed up with Newgrounds to release this new, Flash-animated short. Loosely using the often-spoofed “I’m a Mac” format, Brooks has Facebook, YouTube and Google+ embody humans. It just so happens that Google+ is a more ‘endowed’ human [NSFW - modest language]. Here’s Internet Pals:

Hanson Dispatches Awesome Noire

aaron — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:47:35 +0000

Arin Hanson’s continues his animated Awesome series with a riff on L.A. Noire, the new crime game set in the late 1940s. In Awesome Noire, we meet Cole Phelps, an LAPD Officer with a better than average handle on his trusty pencil.

Johnny Utah Helps Sell Marvel vs Capcom 3

aaron — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:02:53 +0000

Here’s a new Flash-animated piece from Johnny Utah, which has been lighting it up over at Newgrounds.com. It’s a “banned commercial” for the new video game Marvel vs Capcom 3, which arrived last month.

Gilardi’s Chilling Short – The Northern Incident

aaron — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:51:43 +0000

Max Gilardi (aka HotDiggedyDemon) has never produced silly work, but his animation has typically incorporated whimsical moments and comedic takes. His latest, an 8:30 minute short titled The Northern Incident, takes a turn towards the dramatic. It’s a bit of a horror/mystery, but in a J. J. Abrams kinda way, that takes place around a frozen, isolated lake. The story builds towards a conclusion that you may or may not find satisfying. Sponsored by Newgrounds, the film was animated in Flash using a Cintiq.

Egoraptor Reveals Awesome Chaotix

aaron — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:56:20 +0000

Arin Hanson’s latest is Awesome Chaotix, a new Flash-animated short that pokes fun at Knuckles’ Chaotix, which was a spin-off of Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog game. Hanson (aka Egoraptor) has had great success online with his Awesome series. Awesome Gaiden and Awesome Reach both have over 3 million views on YouTube alone.

Awesome Reach – The Climax of Halo Excitement

aaron — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:51:55 +0000

Arin Hanson, otherwise know as Egoraptor (Metal Gear Awesome – 6 million views on Newgrounds), has teamed up with Newgrounds to create a new game-related short. Awesome Reach spoofs the mayhem surrounding Halo Reach, the new Xbox 360 game that released last month. Speaking of release…. [NSFW - language and boners]

Time Magazine Hails Newgrounds.com

aaron — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:35:30 +0000

Newgrounds.com has been accepting user submissions since 1999, but here in 2010, reaching over 100 million users a month, they’ve been accepted into the mainstream. The site was listed in Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2010, along with Vimeo, Etsy and TheOnion.com. You’ll notice that the Time folks kinda botched their review, describing the site purely as a gaming depot. Doh! Flash-animated shorts are what put the site on the map, but it does seem like gaming is what elevated the site into the mainstream.

I uploaded my first short back in 2001, and ever since I’ve seen extremely insightful feedback poured into the comments section. Of course, I’ve also seen useless nonsense, but on the whole the site’s user-base is fairly respectful, especially compared to the mobs at sites like YouTube.com. What I’m most impressed about, however, is the collaboration, or collabs as they’re called at Newgrounds. Artists, voice actors and musicians team up virtually to create something new. The site even allows the teams to divvy up the ad revenue using a sophisticated profit-sharing system.

By the way, if you squint your eyes, you’ll see that my little show Larkmart squeezed into the bottom part of screenngrab on the Time.com site.

Newgrounds Documentary: Everything By Everyone

aaron — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:59:56 +0000

I was interviewed last year by Nathan Nathan Kuruna for an upcoming documentary about Newgrounds, and Ajay Karat recently sent me the trailer. Here’s the basic premise of Everything by Everyone: “it’s the story of a website called Newgrounds and the online cultural trends it helped create and drive over the last decade or so. It’s also the story of how the web became fun as well as functional.” The list of other people interviewed for the project is including John K, Bob Cesca, Adam Phillips, Sandro Corsaro, Chris Georgenes, Harry Partridge, Nina Paley, Kevin Pereira of G4, and of course Tom Fulp, the founder of Newgrounds. If you find yourself with a little extra lunch money today, go make a donation to help him finish the project.

Larkmart Episode 2 Gets Newgrounds Review

aaron — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:41:45 +0000

The second episode of Larkmart earned a “Daily 1st Place” last week over at Newgrounds, and a top 5 for the week. I’ve been a Newgrounds member since 2001, so that was a pretty cool milestone. Then today on the 1st episode of the NG Review Show (below), Sale Price was voted Best of the Week by hosts Levi and Darrin. Big thanks guys, for including me in your show!