It honestly perplexes me that Blender doesn't really have an out-of-the-box... thing that allows using Phong shading or even vertex shading in the program itself, and that I have to supposedly use something like Godot just to achieve that effect. I mean, I like Godot, but can't I just do the damn thing in Blender itself?

Really. Blender. Powerful, multi-hypenated Blender. Award-winning, realism-capturing, Used-in-Spider-Verse Blender. Capable of doing any style in the art spectrum. Incapable of doing old tech shit from the 1990's, or at least I have to wrangle a dozen nodes just to get a similar effect. Why not the real thing?

I'm a huge fan of how fun the logo looks!!!!! If that's your intent, I'd say you did a pretty good job.

The one thing I'd change is to make the letter strokes a lot more consistent. As it stands, the widths of the strokes vary a lot which can kind of screw with legibility.

Here's my shot at tweaking the logo in MS Paint:

Most I did was just made the U in Cub smaller and thicker, among other strokes. I also just tweaked the kerning (space between letters) to be a little tighter!!!

This is frankly terrible. The black outlines end up making the logo look a lot more visually noisy in comparison to the original. Spaces between specific strokes of characters have been reduced (like the space between the lowercase e's) making it less legible. For whatever reason you also just decided to distort the characters' shapes.

I personally like to restrict the outlines to the outside edges of the logo only, and fill up any inside spots with the color of the outline.

I think the little details are kind of the point. The guy pretty clearly said the logo was made "as a middle finger to the corporate minimalism going on in most media nowadays". It kind of harkens back to a time when logos had a lot more detail going into them and weren't designed to work as an app icon and whatever.

Understandably it doesn't work when put on a business card or something, but again, not really the intent anyway. If it were, they would've made a logo that was a lot more clear and sanitized.

My workflow has always been general story outline > script > storyboard/thumbnailing.

Maybe for some other people storyboarding first might work better; IIRC this is what the guys at Marvel did back in the early days. Famously known as the Marvel Method, usually some artist would receive a general story outline and make the art based on that outline, and then the writer would add in dialogue afterwards.

This, honestly. I subscribe to the idea that you should do both scripts and thumbnailing at the same time for the best effect.

Although, as much as I am very particular about my layouts and whatnot, I always prioritize making a basic story outline, and then a script above all else.

Looking at https://ikig-y.newgrounds.com/art/tree, it says you're unscouted.

It might've happened by accident, or the guy who scouted you got unscouted. Now those are just guesses so don't actually quote me on that one lol because I don't truly understand how the scouting/descouting system works.

References references references. Use lots of references. Google it, Pinterest it, whatever.

On that note, make sure to beat the living daylights out of anybody who tells you that using references is cheating.

You can add some "texture" to your artwork by putting a noise layer above everything else, setting it to Multiply, and changing its opacity to 10-30%. Alternatively, in lieu of a noise layer, you can just use a paper texture nabbed off Google.

Get used to gradients and soft brushes. They surprisingly do a LOT to boost the quality of an artwork. You can still use cel-shading, no doubt, but try to mix some very subtle gradients in (base color -> slightly darker base color), as opposed to just totally flat colors.

On the topic of cel-shading, something I like doing is blurring the edges of the shadow. This is something I picked up from Wind Waker.

This is mostly true for daylight lighting. In most other scenarios I recommend using warmer colors, or just colors more relative to the environment. I say this as someone who religiously picked purple as the shading color for most of my artworks early on when I first learned about using Multiply layers for shadows.

Yeah, probably should've used a less strong word than dogshit. I did watch it back when it was still in its peak for curiosity sake and it was surprisingly just okay, though the constant powerscaling got pretty tiring.

I had and still have no qualms regarding children watching it. I spent a good portion of my life religiously watching ExplodingTNT, and other people were watching TF2 SFMs and Gmod videos that were maybe equally if not more nonsensical, which was why I gravitated towards calling the series "weird dumb kids' entertainment". I honestly kind of mean that in an affectionate way

this is cheating roflmao

Preach. My go-to advice for new animators is to get good at art first. Take a year off, don't use Flash, and just learn how to draw better and stuff. Learn colors, simple anatomy, how to draw humans or animals or whatever, because everything else will just follow. It'll look good and you'll feel good.

For the actual animating part, ease in and ease out is your best friend. Seriously. Half the time, if you're clever enough, you don't even need to in-between anything.

Honestly a big fucking bummer the creator is apparently (!!!) locked out of their own creations. Skibidi Toilet was dogshit but it was man-made dogshit.

I prefer my weird dumb kids' entertainment MADE. BY. MAN

Personally no. This answer is part of a larger discussion on disassociating internet points with the quality of your work, but that's not something I have the energy to repeat. Just know that it doesn't really matter, just make stuff and try to get better at making stuff.

What I find interesting is that people are a lot more lenient when it comes to voting art, because most people just give everything a 5 and move on, something I'm admittedly guilty of. Which is pretty cool if you're into that sort of thing, aka those who base their self worth on numbers on their screen, and kind of useless for people actually looking for comments and critique, and if you're looking for the latter then you're better off actually talking to friends or in servers and whatnot.

Movies and games are a whole different story, for whatever reason people are a lot more precise with how they vote. Try hard enough and you'd usually get a 3. If you're lucky, maybe even a 4.

I personally commend NG for sticking with the star system in the age of only likes and dislikes (and sometimes only likes), but truth be told it's nothing to be worried about. I've had this opinion ever since I started, back when the most troublesome event in my life was having online beef with an autistic thirteen year old who liked Ben 10, and my opinion hasn't changed since.

EDIT: On the topic again of scores mattering "in the long run", I think we're all kind of scared we'd lose engagement/visibility because we have less stars on something, because social media platforms like to use STUPID FUCKING ALGORITHMS, and those STUPID FUCKING ALGORITHMS punish accounts whose posts don't get enough likes. Or even for not posting enough. Or, for INSTAGRAM's case, being midgetsausage.

Rest assured it doesn't matter on the technical side as well, because NG is not one to engage with STUPID FUCKING ALGORITHMS to begin with.

Weehee!

Hi!!! Incredibly late to the party but I made a comic called COOPER BULLET!!!!! As for what it's about, I refer to you its incredibly brief description:

So far I've released about four issues/chapters/"Files" at this point, and a fifth one is currently being written!!!!!

Here they are in chronological order:

I hope you guys enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed making them!!!!

I'm also in the midst of lurking this thread trying to spot comics I might enjoy

i'm SAYIN like JOE SHE HAS A HUSBAND ALREADY QUIT CHASIN AND GET OFF DA INTERNETS

biggest glazer ong FR

she won't let u hit bro

won the contest. later suckerz

here is my submission . can i plz has supporter

mfw I do more animation in the entry I make for the parody of the collab I'm hosting than the actual entry I made for the actual collab

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/7ce7e1dd35ba7b12f1f9595d0f90d5bc

@MrShmoods @SplatterDash @Squidly the people have spoken. let me in

Can I join? I can't draw but I can twerk my booty really good

I don't fucking know. I think the urge to create either way is just too great.

Believe me, there have been days (and even weeks) where I'd just lose all motivation because, oh guess what, nobody fucking cares about you as much as you hope. Oh, nobody actually looks at your work. Nobody's waiting for you to put something out, you're just playing to an empty audience, it's a waste of time (har har), yadda yadda... all the thoughts and anxieties that plague you and I. Maybe these thoughts are true. Maybe they're not.

But I don't know. I still keep going because damn, making shit is fun. Even if you know fully well that nobody's probably looking at it in the end (and I won't lie, being rewarded with indifference for your hard work is demotivating), it's still just fun to sit down and make something.

And sometimes, I think that's all that really matters.

[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

good lord would you imagine a similar partner program for nsfw artists LMAOOOOOO

peak

You guys are never getting this collab