Happy MLK day? XD

When will Episode 24 be released?

I've been busy with my Sister Wulfia Focka series on Slipshine.net, commissions, etc. It really sucks that I'm stucked producing 5 minutes of animation a year for Miss Dynamite. I imagine it's ridiculous to follow a series where episodes only come once a year, with so little material.

But there's not much I can do to change that. Sponsors are more interested in games than movies. Also, as my movies became more complex and of better quality with time (QUALITY lulz ya i heard...), it now takes a lot more hours to work on them. Sometimes Flash can barely handle to job properly. And that's starting to make me a little sick of Flash. I don't think working in another program would help. It's just the complexity of the job that weights on me. Writting, storyboarding, drawing, coloring, animating, sound editing. It's all very technical and not always fun (sound editing is especialy boring). And then there are all the computer bugs that can doom a project like that. I get cold sweats when I'm close to finishing a project. So close to the end, yet so much can go wrong, particularly when you add the audio. It was a lot easier when my animations were about bouncing pogo sticks, with only dialogues and one music loop for audio. I can't regress to that for obvious reasons.

But don't call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHmbulance just yet. I'm not just bitching; I'm gonna do something about it. I can't regress to making shitty animations, but I can return to comics, which is a lot more fun and simpler for me. And judging by the reactions so far, I'm not alone to appreciate this. (though the reaction might be different on Newgrounds since it's a animation website) When it's done, episode 24 will be my last Miss Dynamite Flash episode for a while. Instead, I'll be starting a new web comic, about Miss Dynamite, obviously. A good web comic this time, real comic pages, not strips, with a story. I've aquired more experience over the years and I think I can pull it off. I don't care about computer bugs; with comics, all I need is paper and a pencil. I want to see if I can make some web ad money with regular updates. And I'll be able to produce a lot more stories in comics. I'll probably still do little bits in Flash and Newgrounds will be the place to show it. I hope many of you will follow this new comic.

For the moment, all I can say is Episode 24 will be released before Spring.

So it's a day late, but it's a lot more than I promised. So Obama wins, you win, Blackie wins!
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The 3 page Miss Dynamite hentai comic is here.
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If you're an American citizen over 18, depending on the State where you live, it's time for you to register to vote on Nov. 4th.

Since it's illegal for me to donate money to Obama, I'm going to help him in another way. I'm going to convince YOU (Yes, you!) to vote for him. How?

If Obama is elected President of the USA, I will draw Eva and Blackie naked, frenching, in color. (posted online one day only, Nov. 6th, be there and fukken save)

Now you can't say votin' don't get you anything!

REGISTER
VOTE
OBAMA FTW

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X-D

Forget about the Miss Dynamite collab for the moment. Maybe later. I didn't exactly promote this project a lot. And I should have had a story to start with.

Also, I though Miss Dynamite 24 could be ready this month, but I got sick, work pilled up, so blah!

Otakuthon 2008 was a great success. You can read my full report here.

I hate sound editing. But you have no idea how.

Sound is easily the most skrewy thing in Flash. (I don't program, so I don't know if Action Script is buggy.) I cannot bare the stress of working on the animation for hundred of hours, only to see everything fall apart when comes time to synch the audio.

Here I am, inserting sound effects in Miss Dynamite 24, when for no apparent reason, the sounds in one particular Movie Clip goes completly out of synch, even though they're set in Stream. (which means they should be in synch.) Is it my fault and there's something I did wrong and I don't see? Is it just Flash that's fucked?? Beats me!?!

So I erase all the sound layers in that Movie Clip, I edit them back in. Now, if there's a constant background noise set to Stream, all the audio is in synch. So it works, but it still makes no fucking sense. The sound effect should still be in synch, no matter if there's a background noise or not.

So it works, but the bug is still there lurking, and it's gonna drive me crazy until this movie is fucking done. What's gonna go wrong next? This is the part of working on a Flash movie where I regret it. I remember that the only reason why I started a new movie is because I forgot that part of working on it... Drawing comics is sooo much easier. I don't even need a computer, all I need is a pencil and paper. But I can't do animation without technology, without Flash. If it lets me down, I'm fucked! I felt a fucking knot in my stomach when that sound went nuts. Did I work all these hours for this out of synch piece of shit?

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!

My back hurts, I think I worked over 12 hours today in Flash. x_X

You can check what's done so far here.

Don't watch if you don't like spoilers or fan service or if you're one of those "OMGOD YOU USING TO MUCH TWEEN BAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!"

Pic related. Blackie is either cute or ugly when she's pissed. I can't tell which...