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No, seriously, guess...

Welcome you all to the caption contest. You should all know the rules by now but in case you don't:
Download the image, fill in the speech bubbles, Upload it and post here. Thimple.

This weeks image is DRAWN, wh00t:


And I've coloured it already so there's one element of fun I've destroyed for you. Maybe there should be a colouring contest sometume...

Anyway, have fun. The winner starts up the next contest. Hopefully you'll have more luck with Google Image Search than me.

Inspiing photos are so hard to find on the internet. So i just drew a bunch of people gurning.
Enjoy.



Rules (if you don't know them by now): Add your own dialouge and narration and then post iwhatever monster you've created here. Yay! Fun! If you win, you get to start up the next contest.

Gah!
Everytime I try to ink a picture I've done; the outlines come out all horrible and wobbly like this!

But I want nice, clean outlines like this or this or this

I know these things take practice but I don't even know where to start. Please, please help me...I'm fed up of ruining my best lineart with shoddy inking.

If I try doing it quickly with fast, flowing strokes I miss the lines completely and everything becomes horribly mis-shapen.
But when I try carefully going over the pencil slowly the lines come out shaky with big blobs of ink where there should be smooth lines.

So...Please...Share your knowledge, great ones. Let me know the secret of this dark art. I will give you cookies! CYBER cookies!!

[THE REALLY LONG OVERDUE POST YOUR BOOKMARKS HERE TOPIC]

Today I discovered that Mozilla can export all the names of stuff in your favourites to an HTML file, so without further ado: The most popular and amazing topic EVARZ...

THE REALLY LONG OVERDUE POST YOUR BOOKMARKS HERE TOPIC

(with links where available, I've also removed obvious stuff like links to my E-mail account)


Comics
Sequential artwork

Welcome to SLG Publishing
My favourite comic publishing company.
More Slave Labor
Stuff by my favourite comic publishing company on the website of my my favourite comic selling store (Ie. the only one anywhere near where I live)
Flying-Suit Reiko Universe
WEIRD Animé style webcomic. Check out the Muertitoes series.
Eternal Wings Issue One by Mel P. (Book) in Books Entertainment Graphic Novels & Comic Books
Something I should probably buy. It's a book by a friends cousins friend.
DrunkDuck - Free Online Comics & Comic Hosting!
Comic hosting site, the home of Abby. :p
Count your sheep
If this comic was reviewed in a TV guide, they'd probably use the word 'heartwarming'
Head Doctor Productions - short story comics and random comic strips.
If this was reviewed in a TV guide, the word 'shkuydfgopjgh' would probably be used. Seriously, this guy's a genius!
SORE THUMBS * Mon-Wed-Fri * Political Gaming Manga-Type Comics by Owen Gieni and Chris Crosby
Silly webcomic about a video game shop run by a raving Bush fanatic. Is madness!
EGS Story for Saturday, November 9, 2002 - Copyright 2002-04 Dan Shive
Occasionally funny webcomic that seems to have degenerated into a fetish showcasing soap opera surprisingly quickly...an addictive one, though. It's set at a random date because I'm only partly through the story.
Purple Pussy
Possibly the funniest and most offensive thing I've ever read

Animation
Stuff to do with animation

Will animate for food
The Official Website of Butch Hartman - Creator of The Fairly Odd Parents
It's not very usual for a guy who works for Nickelodeon to have his own personal website...His own, personal, unfished website....
POWERPUFF.COM - FORUMS
This is where I go for my 'useless animation trivia' fix.
Newgrounds.com - The Problems of the Future, Today!
Some of the very best and a lot of the very very worst examples on flash on the internet.   Have a look around, you might find something you like. More likely you'll find a sprite movie.
LegendaryFrog Home
An amusing, but inoffensive flash artist. He's made some really great stuff. you do get some arses in the forum, though.
JamesFarr.com
Keep your eye on this guy, he's going to go far. If you don't believe me; take a look at his Xombie project. he's currently developing a TV show with Film Roman called 'My Pet Robot' Whee!
iLL WiLL PreSS
Formulaic, but cool, webcartoon. The characters have become something of cult icons
Homestar Runner
You probably know about this one already. If not: where have you been?
High Score
Reasonably funny webcartoon. I believe the guy who makes these occasionally posts on the AGS forums[/url]
College University
A very TVish (that could be a compliment or an insult) series.
Cartoon Network limited edition cel Animation Art limited edition cel of the Powerpuff Girls From Cartoon Network
I know I'll never own this, but I like to open up the site and stare longingly at it.
Flash Kit
Stuff to help you out with Flash. Friendly community.
umop.com - Comics, Music & Games!
A controversial (and by controversial I mean: lowbrow :p) animater. He seems to be quite a talented guy.
DC-DVD - The Premier Source for Region 1 DVDs & Multi-Region DVD Players.
An apparently very good Tv movie spin-off that I'd rather import a DVD of than wait for it to be shown here.
Animation World Network, the Hub of Animation on the Internet
Pretty much what it says on the tin. Some interesting articles.
[uirl=http://www.bonusstages.com/]Bonus Stage[/url]
Matt Wilsons attempt at being cool. Sometimes it's hysterical, sometime's you'll feel like commiting suicide. It's fun!
t h e B R I S T O L S C H O O L o f A N I M A T I O N C O U R S E S page: A N I M A T I O N S U M M E R S C H O O L S
The 10 Second Club
A very important animation school. So important that it has to leave spaces between every letter. That's how important it is!
The 10 second club
They take a ten minute sound clip from a movie, then let people animate to them. There's some VERY high quality stuff here.

Games
Computer/online games

The Kingdom of Loathing
Online gam that a lot of people around here are into. I'm a PASTAMANCER!!
Reality-On-The-Norm]
I love that game, one day I might even own it...
[url=http://ron.the-underdogs.org/]Reality-On-The-Norm
RON. Anyone remember RON?
juncSource -- The Adventure Game Resource --
Yup. A handy resource indeed.
Home of the Underdogs
Legitimate abandonare site. Very nice
Good Old Adventures
It's the chatroom in the style of an AGI game!! Y'know...The one no-one ever uses...
DIY Games Save The Game The Adventures Of Fatman
Something else I should probably get around to buying...i regfuse to simply download it because I want the voice pack.
AGS Forums - Index
You probably haven't heard of this...
Adventure Game Studio
Again...
Display External Text in Flash 5: Tutorial: The Gurus Network
A tutorial I found, it's in my favourites because I still need to master it.
Fully Ramblomatic.com - the trapped wind in the colon of society.
Yahtzee's website. I put it in games to remind myself to get round to playing 7 Days a Skeptic...I guess...
Welcome to TV Tome's Fantasy TeeVee - An online television fantasy game
A game which sounds super-cool. But I can't play it until after summer, bah!

Music/sounds
Stuff I can hear

rVoice
Type in silly things and here them spoken. Whoo!
Lemon Demon
TRAPEZOID IS A MUSICAL GENIUS! I bought his album.
Amazon.co.uk
Music Cult[/url]
This band playts heavy metal...ON CHELLOS!!
Voiceacting.co.uk [Online Aspiring Voice Acting Resource]
Whoo. Do these guys love voice acting. They'll do anything! (Except Abby: part 2 it would seem)
Superpickle Music Arts
Good music. Confusing website.

Illustration
People who are more talented than me

TV's Kyle Yeah, I'll BET you are.
This guy has very muscular artistic talent
Uloo's Studio - Art By Jon McNally
Another great artist who I found through...
shaneglines
Someone in the animation industry that I didn't know about!! IRC users may remember the moment when this site was introduced to me...but you probably don't, even if you were there...
deviantART where ART meets application!
Start up an account. Upload stuff. anyone can do it. Sometimes it seems everyone has.
Lynive.com:The Art Of Lynne Naylor
Someone in the animation industry I DID know about...Why couldn't  have been quizzed on her?
Igor Sinkovec - Doodles Without Noodles
Igor! Anyone remember Igor?
Dreamtek Ltd store, Product Page
It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine!


Whew...That took a while...
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[ESCAPE FROM DR. DRILLE]

Hah. I bet you all thought I'd forgotten.
Well...I had...UNTIL JUST NOW!

You should all know he rules by now, I give you a situation and a problem and you, using your awesome puzzle designing skills must think of a way to solve the problem using only the items i say you can and a limited amount of new ones. The more inventive an intricate your puzzle is...the better. I won the last competition by roughing out an entire small game design document.
The person who the votes declare the winner gets to choose the next Puzzletime competetition.
We spiffy? We spiffy.


This weeks competition shall be:
ESCAPE FROM DR. DRILLE

You are a ten year old child (any gender) and you have managed to give teeth like a collander. So, your mother takes you to the dentist: Dr. Drille!
The game begins in a waiting room, but feel free to take it anywhere you want. Just keep the title in mind 'Escape from Dr. Drille' so don't make the game a love story between a pickle and a sickle or something.

Here are the items you can use, you don't have to use all of them:
A PICKLE
A SICKLE
BOTTLED LOVE
A TOOTH
A DRILL
AN OUT OF DATE MAGAZINE
A PEN
A NOTEBOOK
A HADDOCK
A SEVRED HAND
A RUBBER GLOVE
A NAMETAG
A LOLLIPOP
ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM OF YOUR CHOICE
Remember, these are just inventory items, rooms, immovable scenery and characters don't count.

Additional rules: You can only start off with one inventory item

Well, I've allowed quite a bit of freedom this time so...LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!

[Reasons by America is better than England]

I'm back! And I brought Sears Tower merchandise for everyone!!


America was amazing. Everything is so big, the buildings, the space, the helpings of food...
There were...were...DOUGHNUTS!!

Okay, okay. We flew to illinois with Air India, complete with in flight entertainment. If there's anyone here from India then I'd like to ask...are all your sitcoms that naf? Because those were some naf sitcoms, I didn't even know the language, I could still tell they were naf.

So, anyway. The first week as spent with cousins in Naperville, including little squishy cousins with impressionable minds who I turned into raving Zim fanatics, then every day we'd drive out to Chicago say 'Wow' then drive back at about 11PM.

Yay!

The second week was spent in this little cottage...thing...well, I say cottage. It felt a bit like a trailer without the wheels but it was nice enough. Anyway it was right next to this beach, wal a few metres and you could swuim in lake Michigen. I've never liked beaches but thyis was because all the beaches I've been to have salty sea water, yo ho. This was a lake, a freakkin' big lake.

Also, it was close to Wal Mart. Wal Mart is where Sainsburys shoppers who've sinned go when they die.

Okay, now it's time for...

Reasons by America is better than England
1) People are more friendly, if someone asked me if I was lost in London I'd probably run. In Chicago (murder capital of America apparently) people justy want to help

2) Everything is bigger and prettier, in england everything is bunched up and within walking distance. America has so much space it doesn't know what to do with it all.

3) There's a certain philosphy the Americans have on life which I greatly respect; 'Everything can taste better with frosting'

4) America has Hot Topic, which, for those of you that don't know, is a branch of GAP for people who hate GAP. It's amazing!

5) America has the word 'pacifier' and the word 'band-aid'. Pacifier sounds like some of sort of alien weapon
"Glorgo! The baby is crying again!"
"ACTIVATE THE PACIFIER!!"
Zap Zap POw Ka-FlAn!

6) Churros.

Reasons why England is better than America
1) No Arby's

2) Again, no Arby's

EDIT: Wow, I got pretty erractic with my typing nearer the end. BUT I'M TOO LAZY TO FIX IT!!! BWAHAHA! CHURRO'S FOR ALL!

[TOTALLY AESOME AND AMAZING LIST OF THINGS TO DO WHILE IN AMERICA]

Tommorow I shall be setting off for Chicago for two weeks, It'll be my first time in America and I'm really looking forward to it. Here is my
TOTALLY AESOME AND AMAZING LIST OF THINGS TO DO WHILE IN AMERICA

1 Buy DVD's
2 Buy T-shirts
3 Eat a waffle with loasds of random garbage thrown on it...FOR BREAKFAST
4 Buy DVD's
5 Say 'Band-aid'
6 Convince people that I live in a mansion and wear a monocle
7 Buy DVD's

Yeah...um...

WHOO!

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Been watching some old Ren and Stimpy cartoons recently, I like how they try to make every movement look funny. Anyway, it inspired me to do this.

I really want to be good at this animation thing so any advice you can give me on how to improve shall be most well recieved.

Okay, has anyone seen this?

Now, I'm sure you've has some experience with adventure games made in flash, they're usually pretty lame. Limited interaction with various illogical objects, padded ouit with action sequenves and twiddle puzzles.
It is rare that any game made with Flash ever comes near to anything you have to install, let alone becomes one of my favourite adventure games ever.

Really, play it. It's a great concept, it's well-designed, the characters are colourful and interesting and the graphics are...well, nice. Truly, this the way it should be done!

Anyway. I just thought it would be good to let you people know it existed.

[Rules:]

Well. According to the PM I just recieved I won the Puzzletime competition!
w00T!!11!

Rules: Every week a post will be made with a list of items and a scenario. Using your wit, skill and lack of mental health; find a way to complete the scenario with the items provided. You can only use a set number of items of your own choice. When I say use your skill, use it. For example: you have a boulder and a reinforced window. I advise not using Pick Up boulder chuck through window. Think of something adventuresque to use
Voting: After the week voting shall commence!
What If I win?: The winner chooses the next scenario and list of items.


Scenario
Okay, I'm going to give this one multiple rooms...for added...um...complexity...
Consider this: Your house is surrounded from all sides by an army of undead fast food workers you want in to your house. You have access to a front hallway, living room, a kitchen, a bathrom, your bedroom and a cellar, you also have a front garden but...what with the zombies and all you probably don't want to go there...
You need to find some way to stop the zombie hordes from being a threat, by either escaping unknown, getting them to go away, zombie-proofing your house or even going out there androyally whooping the rotten, mangled arses of those reanimated mofos...So long as you do it in an intelligent...adventure gamey kinda way..

ITEMS:

Hallway
Front door
Phone
Doormat

Bedroom:
Bed
Bedside table
Lamp
Window

Bathroom:
Bath and shower
Sink
Toilet
Rubber ducky

Living Room:
TV
Sofa
Window
Plant
Remote control
Magazine

Kitchen:
Cupboard
Bottle of ketchup
Mouldy bread
Fridge

Cellar:
Shovel
Lawnmower
Ligthtbulb

You can come up with up to three new items of your choice and put them anywhere.

There's no rule that says you have to use all these objects or even all the rooms, make your soloution as simple or complicated as you want.

Have fun.

[5: Hulk]

Well, I had a search around and it didn't look like there'd been a topic dedicated to this before.
And even if there has been, we can still have fun with this this, right?

...

Right?

Okay den!

Here are my five least favourite films. Most of them are pretty recent due to me being young and inexperienced.

5: Hulk
Hulk smash! Hulk jump! Hulk make some horrible attempt at artsy-fartsy dialouge! Hulk jump some more! Hulk shows off his CGI muscles from THREE DIFFERENT ANGLES! And more jumping...

Well...maybe you just need to be a fan of the comic to really get it, but to me, this film was a dull, reliefless slog through tediousville accompanied by graphics that look almost good enough to be in a video game.
I think this movie could have benifitted from dumbing itself down a bit and aiming a little more in the direction of entertainment. I mean, to be honest, it's a little hard to take a film about a muscle-bound shrek in green boxer shorts seriously. Tongues should be in cheeks at all times.


4: Dinosaur

Eisner: I have an idea for a movie!
Staff: Yay! What's it about?
Eisner: It's a 3D movie...
Staff: Yeah, but...what's it about?
Eisner:...It...it's 3D...


Okay, you've got some pretty looking dinosaurs.
You've got some pretty looking locations all over the world.
You've got the ability to ability to splurge it all together and make it beutiful.

So what was wrong with this?
Well, it was utterly, utterly formulaic. Now, this isn't always a bad thing, but when you use the formulas in this sickeningly pants fashion it all seems like a waste of a perfectly decent animation team...


3: Ghost in the Shell
My God...The Wachowski brothers must adore this movie...

Now, I'm not going to attempt to say this is a bad film because it has a huge fan base and many redeeming features. It's thought-provoking, detailed and visually stunning.
No, this film is on my list simply because it is not my cup of tea...

The main reason this film was so hard for me to watch was the endless sea of increasly confusing dialouge. I mean, it's okay in a manga. People are aloud to talk alot because speech is instantly there in the readers brain and if your brain starts to melt you can just read it again. In a film it actually takes time to say things and it begins to get tedious when there's nothing much physically happening to break it up.

In fact, that's the only reason I found this film hard to watch. The yhing is, when you're using animation there's practically no limits to what you can show on screen, and these guys know that and there are some utterly beutiful sequences in the movie. But the majority of the film is spent talking. It hurts me to see the obvious talent and work that went into creating these scenes is wasted on basically illustrating a radio play.

After watching this film I felt tired, confused and rather like I'd wasted 70 minutes of my life. Sorry, obsessive Animé fans.


2: Deep Blue Sea
I'm the token black guy AND the token religious guy all rolled into one. I can cook too!
Now, THIS film I have no quarms about stating what an a large, steaming pair of old granny bloomers it is!

Seriously, what IS this movie? It's not scary, it's not thought-provoking, it's not even any fun. Why does everyone I meet seem to think this is the ultimate thriller.

Please tell me I'm not alone of this one, Deep Blue Sea is remarkable only because of the fact it is so blatently unremarkable. It adds nothing new or exiting to the world of film and everything in it has been done before and done several squillion times better.


1: The Matrix: Reloaded
Agent Smith was the only thing that made the first film worth watching. He is the one and only, and that's why he's so great. But...wait a minute, now there's THOUSANDS of Smiths, all talking some tripe about purpose...I am not amused!
Okay, I wont spend too much time on this one since there's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said before.

I despise this movie and I know I'm not the only person who feels this way about it.

[me = Eggie] is attacked by a Warner Brothers marketing exectutive who rams his hand into my chest and transforms me into an obsessive Matrix fan.[/me]

Oh em Gee! The camera goes ALL THE WAY around them! Ergo; The Matrix rules! I'm going off to buy a Matrix comic. It can go with my Matrix dental floss, Matrix underwear and limited edition Matrix vibrator!!




Well, that was fun. Post your own typo-laden rants about your least favourite movies. It good for getting the aggression out.
Oh, and if you disagree with my opinion, feel free to say. We're all among friends here *prepares E-mail bomb*

Here is your magical collection of random images

If you've never taken part in this competition before; here's a quick run through of the rules:
Download the image above, then add TEXT to the comic. make it funny, sad, random, erotic whatever. Just have fun.

Whoever the judge (that would be me) deems to have the best entry gets to do the next caption contest.

Get it? Got it? Good!

Off yer go!

I hope that's not too random...

Okay. I got The Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams (damn good book) and spent an evening locked in my bedroom watching some choice moments from the Powerpuff girls movie frame by frame and...

I think with a bit of practice I could do it!
I could animate.

Anyway. Some of you may or may nor know of Mr.Blurry. A character from a short-lived series of pictures on 2Draw and an even more short-lived series of comics.

Well, I've decided to use him as my frame-by-frame guinnipig.

Here's the little animation I came up with (you may have to click the 'download' arrow to view the .swf):
Version 1
Version 2

I know it's not particuarly expressive but I think it's a good start...

Anyway. ANY advice you have for me on improving it in any way will be greatly recieved. I really want to become good at this, be brutal!

I'm using a ProcessClick() command in my on_mouse_click function. And, of course it doesn't work on the GUI's....

So...Could i please request some help from people more inteligent than myself?

It might be cool to have a topic for people to post links to their deviantART / Elfwood / Personal websiteish gallery(s).

I mean, it can't do any harm...
http://eggheadcheesybird.deviantart.com/

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/a/g/agwhit/agwhit.html

http://eggie.sphosting.com

Found this website today. I dunno if it's been discussed on these boards before but I like it.

The cartoons usually only apply to message boards that are specifically for flame wars but I recodnised a few people from here in there.

I think I'm a combination of...Acne, Loopy and Big Cat. You?

I've been wondering about this...
How do you tell the difference between a story aimed at kids and somthing aimed at adults?

I mean things aimed at kids don't generally have explisicit sex or violence...but neither do a bunch of things aimed at adults...

Is it the weight of the story?
No...there's a bunch of kids stuff with horribly dark and claustrophobic stories, light, fluffy adult things and vice versa..

Could it just be the style it's told in?
This, I'm not sure about...there are so many different styles of writing stories it's pretty much impossible to catergorise them into just two.

Is it what the reader relates to?
No...there's adult stories starring kids as main characters and (a few) kids stories starring adults as the main characters.

So...basically. I don't know, surely there must BE a difference...

[Software pirates of the Caribbean]

Since I'll be on holiday for Andails Short Story contest I figured I'd make a littl story now. You'll probably understand it better if you've seen Pirates of the Caribbean (Which I recommend you do, it's great fun) but any film you've seen that uses CGI technology will apply.

Anyway, it's really, really short so reading won't take too much a chunk out of your day


     Software pirates of the Caribbean

“Arrrr!” Captain Scragglebottom exclaimed as he sat down to eat with the lovely Governors daughter; Miss Generic.

“Tell me, Miss Gurner…”  (She had given the pirate a fake name previously) “What do ye know about this CD-R”
The old pirate reached into his pocket and produced a rewritten Compact Disk. “How did ye come to own it”
Miss Generic paused for a second before saying “I downloaded it off Kazaa.”
Scragglebottoms fist came down hard on the table “Do ye think me a fool, Miss Gurner? Kazaa is respectable software with harsh rules about software piracy!”
The Captain then calmed down and slowly sat back up.
“This disk has a lot of history behind it. Many years ago some sad get came up with an affordable way to create impossible things on screen… Of course, we were jealous so in the dead of night we waited. Then, when he was slouched in front of his computer in a caffeine-induced coma; we stole all his hard work on Compact disks!”

“We frittered them away, selling the technology to large, Hollywood companies. But we soon realised that on all his software the creator had placed a terrible anti-hacking system! We are cursed men, Miss Generic. The only way to lift the curse is to return all the disks and write an amateurish fan-fiction about each movie the technology was used in…”

Miss Generic looked up from hitting the cute, merchandise-friendly monkey that was trying to eat her left ear and said
“I hardly believe in amateurish fan-fiction…”
The Captain slowly leaned forward until the tip of his nose was almost touching hers.
“I’ll prove it!” he said briefly.

Captain Scragglebottom then walked over to an old computer. He brushed some dust off the top and turned it on.
“The light of a computer monitor shows us for what we truly are…”
As Miss Generic watched the pirate began to change. His flesh rotted away, his clothes tore themselves.
“Ye’d better start believing in amateurish fan-fiction, Miss. Ye’re in one!” he said as the transformation was complete.
“My God! You look like something from a cheap Playstation game!” Exclaimed Miss Generic while desperately trying to stop the monkey crawling up her dress”
“Arrr” Captain Scragglebottom said with his lips not-quite-synching-up-to-his-speech “Please refrain from spanking the monkey.”

               The Swashbuckling END

So what did you think? Was it descriptive enough? Too much dialouge?