11 Forum Posts by "burgerdog"
Couple of personal favorites of mine:
Technical Itch - The Hand (Dungeon Master Mix)
Total Science - Monkey See Monkey Do (Baron Remix)
It may be obvious, but my taste in jungle/DnB comes almost entirely from GTA 3, lmao.
At 4/26/25 07:13 PM, Painbringer wrote:Did I really kill this thread back in the day??
All this time I thought I had simply stopped poasting.
I miss the good ol' days.
So, um, any slackers/"quiet quitters" here?
You didn’t kill it, everyone’s just been procrastinating on their responses.
1: Posting consistently in any medium can be frustrating. I’m working on a comic with my wife, and best advice I can give you on this? Stagger your releases. Make a couple ahead of time and schedule releases to make it seem like you’re consistently pumping stuff out.
2: I’ve been around here and online for a loooooong time, and I can tell you stick figure stuff just had its moment and left. On here, AlbinoBlackSheep, YouTube, it’s been done all over the place. You’re free to stick (lol) with it, but just know that the audience may not be waiting for you.
3: That’s unfortunately out of our control. Just try new things, break out of your comfort zone, try new styles, even if something looks bad, try to make it work. Hammer it out, put your all into something that may not even be feasible. That’s how innovations come about.
4: I’ve used ClipStudioPro and ToonSquid. Both are great programs, especially if you’re working on a tablet like I am. You just gotta familiarize yourself with the features, and it’ll get easier. I’d recommend CSP over most anything, but the EX version which has all the animation features comes at a pretty hefty price. It’s a one time fee though, so it beats out Adobe imo.
5: I used to animate on my days off when my wife was at work and I had full access to our PC. Now that I have a tablet, I typically work anywhere from four to seven hours a day if it’s something im committed to. It helps to break things into a process; I storyboard, then sketch, then line everything in, then lay down flat colors, then work on the background, then configure camera positioning. It’s work, dude, but it’s super rewarding once you see your finished piece.
I really hope this helps and that you don’t get discouraged anywhere along the way. As artists, sometimes we need to understand that the world doesn’t revolve around us, as unfair as it seems. We need to be okay with failing and creating solely for ourselves, not to impress people or win awards. I wish you nothing but luck on your journey, and don’t be afraid to keep asking questions; ultimately it will help you grow.
At 1/18/26 01:03 PM, MecitGames wrote:At 1/18/26 12:51 PM, burgerdog wrote:From what I understand in the 90s, it was really similar to SomethingAwful where people uploaded controversial flash animations and were generally mean spirited. I started using the site around 2001 or 2002 I think, and it was wild. There was no way to enforce age limits, so you had grown men calling 14 year olds the n word and telling them to kill themselves, there was consistently porn on the front page next to flash animation of the power puff girls being kidnapped and brutally murdered, one of the earliest series’s I remember on here was called Retarded Animal Babies, totally different place from what it is now looking back. Kinda miss it sometimes, but we all gotta grow up eventually.
Wow, as someone born in 2005, I've been so far removed from pornographic content for 18-19 years that when I looked at this pornographic content, I used to think, "Do people really have such disgusting fetishes?" I never imagined that this site was rife with pornography even in the 2000s. I thought it was more like the site gradually expanded after Zone and Shadman started developing the content.
But looking at the site after 2017-18, the R34 content from that period seemed less and different than it is now.
I don't know. But in terms of games, the gore and violence, combined with the freedom and unrestricted nature of that era, resulted in quite successful content.
Back in the 2010s, when I played games on sites like Friv, there was a lot of variety. Excluding pornography, this site was truly quite advanced in terms of freedom of expression at that time. Now that development is progressing, but back then, people maintained boundaries and balanced the content. Now, the site has been banned in Türkiye between 2008 and 2014. Whoever did it, I would have said, "Fuck OFF, this is too much!" Because those times and now are very different. I could accept it if it were after 2020, but banning it back then was not a good decision at all.
That's my opinion, by the way. I've always heard about this site since I was a child, but I never thought about accessing it. How could I know that this site was where the videos and games I played and watched in my childhood originated and changed history?
Yeah, the freedom of expression is what keeps calling me back here. I can take a lot of stuff to be honest, the smut, the gore, the edgy propaganda people try getting away with posting, but I can appreciate how liberating it feels to wear your heart on your sleeve like that. The discomfort is what lets you know you’re free sometimes.
I can’t say anything that nobody else has said, but yeah, it’s cheap, easy to work with, and you have a huge audience because most anything can run an 8 bit game. Plus sometimes, the mold gets broken and we wind up with stuff like Hotline Miami.
From what I understand in the 90s, it was really similar to SomethingAwful where people uploaded controversial flash animations and were generally mean spirited. I started using the site around 2001 or 2002 I think, and it was wild. There was no way to enforce age limits, so you had grown men calling 14 year olds the n word and telling them to kill themselves, there was consistently porn on the front page next to flash animation of the power puff girls being kidnapped and brutally murdered, one of the earliest series’s I remember on here was called Retarded Animal Babies, totally different place from what it is now looking back. Kinda miss it sometimes, but we all gotta grow up eventually.
If I have to live through another Seattle/Denver Super Bowl, I’m gonna super blow myself.
At 1/17/26 04:26 AM, art-dude wrote:At 1/17/26 12:55 AM, burgerdog wrote:Hi, I’m burger.
I’ve been on newgrounds since I was like, 7 years old or something, so it’s not really my first time here. Made this account in 2018 but didn’t do anything with it. Here I am now because my wife convinced me to pick it back up and start uploading art and animations and music or something. So far I’m liking the idea of the site. Hopefully it’ll keep my attention long enough to really make something out of it.
Hi Burger, and welcome back. I think you'll love it once you get the hang of it. Does she have a name here too?
Yeah, she’s ShutUpJen on here. She also had her account sitting for a couple years and just started using it again, lol
Hi, I’m burger.
I’ve been on newgrounds since I was like, 7 years old or something, so it’s not really my first time here. Made this account in 2018 but didn’t do anything with it. Here I am now because my wife convinced me to pick it back up and start uploading art and animations and music or something. So far I’m liking the idea of the site. Hopefully it’ll keep my attention long enough to really make something out of it.
Honestly, both. I’ve written out scripts before that’ve gone nowhere because I couldn’t visualize it properly, and I’ve storyboarded stuff that never went anywhere because there was no source material to follow. On top of doing both, you should also have some kind of bible or reference to fall back on so you can properly incorporate key aspects of your work and rework things that seem out of place. It’s work, but if you do it right, you’ll have something you’re really proud of.
There are furries everywhere for those who’ve eyes to see.
