HI folks, I've been getting some new fans lately, It has really been for a while, actually, so many thanks for your support in being my fans. I just would like to point out, I'm fully aware that I've been extremely idle since I got my Newgrounds of the Day award. I've been visiting many of your profiles and many of you, don't parton your support with the support feature this website offers. It would me, if not the website at the end of the day to support the website that I made my content for with a price as low as $2.99: https://www.newgrounds.com/supporter

And many thanks to my fans who have been a supporter of this website because it helps me greatly to post my animations which I create in my spare time as I have this space. I'm aware that this may seem like I'm a stooge for this website but how else is anyone able to view content on this website when there's an upkeep to maintain to hold the content here for easy access? It would help alot! Thanks!

Edit PS: Of course, there are ads but it will take a while for me to make content for me to post. Work hard for good quality animations.

Walmart UK selling this. We have a Lebanese community here at my location, so we get goodies from time to time like rose water products and this appears on the store shelves. Looks like I've seen this character somewhere else, nah! Can't be!

Just hope it snows again here. It rarely snows here but it would be fitting owning this as it snows.

Hi folks, I thought I'll drop another post. Something more of the collab side. Now, I've never have done any work for collabs despite my activity on the boards and signing up (but quickly backing out), so I will be happy to explain why! I'm not getting any younger, I've done group work elsewhere, on another website, as well as experiences during university and sometimes in the workplace, in the creative field of course, so I'm happy to explain what I don't like, what to avoid and why I don't take part in collabs.

Not to say that I don't like the collabs. I do think they are great and good for the works who successfully put a collab here, to kudos to you lot who've successfully been on a project and had it posted here with good scores. 

I'm not getting any younger. I'm really not, so I'm not in the mood to hide that. Firstly, Discord, I dislike the idea that users are coming on here or anyone to get users onto their discord to do the work. I don't see the idea how that helps to get the work being produced. Funnily enough, from what I'm seeing I think the website staff here prefers that, for various reasons, so I can't really complain as much about that, seeing how that seems to work around here. 

Myself, personally, I avoid Discord. It's usually because there's usually workloads that get created but don't get fulfilled, unfortunately for all the other users are left with the workloads and haven't got a clue or aren't given direction to quietly fulfill it. That's usually project managers job to do that. 

A good example being one project (not saying which one) placing signage that they don't want any animatic in their final work and they ended up including it anyways. What they could have done is that the trick is and I haven't seen anyone do this, they could have done this, is get whoever was willing to volunteer, put that energy into that work. Not as much and it will have a different style to it yet would look like someone else's work and at least the entire animation would be fulfilling. People notice that and please don't sit and think that no one goes after project manager to not question their ablities when they see it. Someone will. (not me, someone else). There are people like that in the world.  

Places like that, like the Discord, since I've been around there for years on end at one point, those users who like to turn up and just sign on and don't do anything, THEY ALWAYS RETURN! Get their usernames or an ID (or profile) and make sure you blacklist them! That's the only reason they sign to projects in the first place! I do this one another website, not saying which one but some people LOVE to get blocked sometimes. That's my experience and I don't care. Maybe myself, I'm a different person but that's usually why I'm wary signing up to collabs or going into a Discord.

I've signed up to two collabs, none of which I've done any work for. The last collab I had signed up off, is just another story, deserves another post in itself but myself, because I signed up to two and just happens that I couldn't fulfil both because . Maybe I am getting to old for this but at the same time, it's stretotypicial if project manager think that I should be "pulling my weight" or they have this high expectation from me because of it.

I understand that even at my age, I have to be a good follower but still, not willing to find out and have all that time and even seeing how they blame users for "leaving the project" and not think that they weren't doing much themselves? I mean come on!? They also expect feedback yet also want it done in a professional manner, when I start typing like this?! I mean come on!

and it's not myself cherry-picking the situation and find a situation is for me. I think the idea behind Discord, it's either people should be confident using their Discords and being productive. I know the mindless mentality isn't pleasant when doing work and for other people, but it does get its results. That passion for making content, even putting someone else name on it, gets you out of a lot of issues. Hardly comes by but it's worth it and no one would know. You get the credit for managing projects successfully, not them if people sign up and barely do anything. I hope this helps. It takes some time and patience.

Edit: Wanted to add a few more lines to this post, to help explain us to them, so I'll put edit next to each paragraph to be clear what has been added in!

It's that time of the year in the UK again and that is The Apprentice UK television show where the business magnate find his new employee to hire or in this case, gives a huge amount of prize money to invest into the winner. So what better way then to give a challenge to the contestants, for him to give them the challenge to make cartoons for kids? 

Series 17, Episode 3 (yes, the series is at number seventeen now, still hosted by the same magnate that hosted the first time around) has the contestants making cartoons but the briefing for this, was somewhat interesting as the host gives them the task. Lord Alan Sugar likes to give very novel briefings, maybe just to look good for the camera, so he somehow made a cartoon about himself, giving them the brief. Yes, he invited them Regent Street Cinema and airred the cartoon to them to brief them about the task, which his cartoon Lord Sugar and Friends!

So his character of himself walked down a street, pass the set of EastEnders and some judges from Strictly Come Dancing and Delboy from the 1980s show Only Fools and Horses, as he talks to various characters and then...

Edit: I think the idea is to give the animation extremely good cover to make the animation worth it's weight, given the history of animation the BBC and Newgrounds has, if not with any studio considering the BBC has been around for over 100 years.

he sits down and briefs the contestants to make cartoons.

Edit: I can't get over the opportunity of the people who were voice acting and it makes me think why, considering voice acting is all the rage now a days. So just in case someone makes a cartoon of Lord Sugar but have to get voice actors, yeah I think that's a benchmark for him. He's the type of kind who's out of touch but nope, it didn't stop Lord Sugar and the others to voice act.

This is for the show.

So the contestant head off and make the cartoons, between them. With 2 teams, the animations were interesting. The judges of the cartoons who decides who is the winner work in the BBC themselves. The show got very likeable judges in my opinion but they weren't afraid to hold back criticism on the animations. (and maybe wish Newgrounds got the same treatment?)

The first team concept was a giraffe with an Indian name, because the project manager was Indian but had a point that it was never been done before and the second team was an animation of two kids playing in a playground, but one of them was in a wheelchair while the other was having the time of his life running around, climbing and sliding down a slide.

So the judges saw the cartoons and started asking away. With the giraffe cartoon, one judge was quick to point out, as the giraffe was a female character, why she had a pink bow in this day of age. I'm not going to lie, as much as I know better and I've had criticism like that before (elsewhere) but I didn't notice. Clearly it was in hindsight and forget that it's no longer the 1990s. When the episode airred and I see the news being published online, so many media reporters were quick to pick that up like wild fire, quickly calling whoever had that idea, stupid, really, so I thought that was interesting.

The other team, I don't know what I can say about this:

Someone is really having a time of their life when someone in a wheelchair is watching. So take a wild guess what the judges have to say about this one?!

So the character slides down and the girl in the wheelchair feels the shade but the kid goes up to the girl and starts, what appears to be, clapping her hands but the animation really suggests something else and one of the judges had this to say. She says that it looked like they were trying to slap each other. That's what she said, she said that the characters looked like they were trying to slap each other. Obviously they criticised the lack of features on the characters like the hands and no feet. Even to ask where it went and to tell Lord Sugar's associates that the team made silly excuses when asked that question.

So after that, you can take a wild guess which team won the task. The giraffe animation won and then the other team were bought back in and someone got fired in true Apprentice fashion.

Edit: We get animations here that look like these but they can have excellent stories and they often pass around here, getting a 2 to 3 stars. This team in the show lost and someone in the team got fired. What kind of message are you giving out to anyone here, on Newgrounds, who watches this show?! The judges even asked why they weren't any hands or feet and in the boardroom, they got Lord Sugar associates to tell them that "at least they could have admitted they forgot to add it but all they did was made silly excuses" which hardly happens here, like never and maybe keep our distances from them and let the contestants and show in the UK be on their own to get to grips with animation but I suppose some respectability in seeing a scene like that in the show, considering how far the Adobe Animation scene has come.

So why am I blogging about this?! The Apprentice is filmed and airred on the BBC. The BBC is infamous around this website for trying to file a takedown against Newgrounds for their Tellytubbies parody animations, which wasn't successful and obvious this website had their say. The reason I've watched the episode (I got bored after series 9 and they're tell making the show) is that I wondered if there's any references to Newgrounds, maybe the only one being that the cartoons look like they are animated in Flash Animate (which is more of a tweaked version of Adobe Flash before Adobe reworked it heavily because of the falling repetation is had received back in 2017 to the point it had discontinued and removed everywhere at the end of 2020), so I wonder how they've moved on from it and I think this show is the best example. Yes, they really want to move on but I can't help to think they've capitalized on the idea that Flash is dead and just went on getting one of the biggest shows making cartoons.

Maybe the joke is on the folks here on this website, who've made animations this terrible as the losing team and fused that in there and watched Lord Sugar grill at them. A message maybe, who knows but that animation of the losing team did look like animations that used to be posted on this website decades ago. So maybe someone in the offices there had that vision for the show and it went their way. I think so. Thanks for reading. UltroEmo is going back under his rock!

I always get confuses with the icons on the blog posts, here. I always think the Red pencil means to compose a new post and the page with the plus symbol means to duplicate the posts. Confusing, very confusing.

Hello folks, so it has been a while since I've posted anything on this profile, if not across this website, especially considering that I was User of the Day, a few months ago, so maybe to explain where I've been, if not since a few months ago (when I was User of the Day) but maybe all the time, over the years. 

So I've been using chatrooms over the past decade, since 2011, non-stop and it wasn't because I'm unsociable or lonely or desperate or whatever. It was a slow progress getting into them. The idea was trying to improve the conditions of chatrooms and to make them friendly. So what's interesting is that the chatroom software I settled in and grown with, was powered by Adobe Flash.

So, the group I'm part with, since they've been part of that software which is powered by Flash. Because I have my skills and experiences in handling situations, like what happens in chat, I have users who turn to me, for advice and defenses and I've never had a situation where I've worsen what went on there. Other times, I've had users try to get me on their side, only to find that they had other chatrooms, to try to build, maybe to show off, a little bit. I've never been in that crowd. Not once, or felt like I've missed out. Stood my ground, stayed in that one community and did what I did for that website.

With chatrooms, you get banned or kicked out or whatever and it means something but other times, I get groups who try starting up but fail, maybe because they can't sort whatever out for themselves and etc. So because it was powered by Adobe Flash and because Flash was switched off from the beginning of this year, some website owners, had to deal with that. Some didn't. So what I did, some of them, dealt with it better then others and I told a few that those website aren't doing anything about it, so don't bother. 

I return and Flash gets its EOL notice, I visit those websites and there was no chance, unless they find another chat client in PHP or HTML5 or whatever, with the news out there on Adobe Flash, those months and years ago. They had to remove the page and it was just a front page or they were "sitting ducks" in the situation. The reason, in a way, I'm bragging about it because they never liked me, yet I give all this help to them and they treated me trash, so I don't give them the key compenents. That's was my chatroom situation.  

So Flash, it's kind of like why I don't talk about it because the more I talk, the more, someone out there is going to do something about it, using Ruffle for those chatrooms or whatever but since I've done a bit of a risk assessment in the situation, it's why I'm beginning to speak up about it. If anyone out there, is willing to get that software working in Ruffle, I'm not going to say which one. I'm telling you, that software isn't as good as they say, it is. 

Anyways, the situation I have out there, hasn't got anything to do with Adobe Flash and it's not really my problem, anyways. I just didn't want to say much about it, bceause there's folks who are doing in their power to keep it alive. They didn't invite me, so I don't have to do anything. One thing I would say, because it's a chatroom community situation, I'm sure many people have noticed that I disapprove Discord and I would reject the offer and leave projects. This is the reason why. Maybe a bit unfair but after my experiences with this other software and the communities maintain this software powered in Adobe Flash and with the EOL on it, which has locked out anyone who tries to use it. I don't want to use a chatroom or chat community, ever again. Never. Discord's like a messaging board but it's stylized like a closed gated chat.

I mean at the end of the day, they didn't invite me or ask for my opinon. They must have thought, I was going to speak up about it and tell them what's best for their situation. So how about NO! Never! They must have thought, I was a meek desperate piece of trash, that was trying hard to fit in and they struggle to get their heads around, how to keep a place, they were trying to keep running and whatever they were trying to do. This software had invisible mode for admins and they enjoyed booting people. I'm not going to support that. Get me to drink kool-aid for them.

I have people I knew, I met in places like that, simply out there to get me. They can come here and explain why they think I'm trash. I won't. Trust me, on that. So anyways, ummm, there's that and why I'm out and about and hopefully explains, why I don't log into a place like Discord, which is unfair for those who do use it, condisdering many have potential but I spent my time, when I was their age, in a similar situation and had posted enough, for them to tell me, never to use a service like Discord or a chatroom. If that clears anything up. Like I'm wasting my time, so maybe that's something I've taken on board. I don't know, I'm confused myself.

Because I have that situation and in a way, want to deal with what I have out there, it's why I've put making animations on the side. The animations have always been on the side, to get by and it's nice that there's some level of interest but I have to deal with this chat situation. It may even benefit Discord because the software landscape may change, so I'm prepping up, really. So I'm safe, blogging about this and I try not to be so harsh towards the Discord users.

Oh, hello, today, on February the 14th, I'm the website's User of the Day. So since it has collided with the other well known day, known as Valentine's Day, then what better way to celebrate myself being User of the Day, with the hint, my username waives out, then to give me something very dark, like black roses or dark gifts? Oh, no one has prepared to get those for me.

In terms of my account and animations, I do have more animations being made, I work full time and in my spare time, I make and put the animation frames together, slow process but it's worth it, so hopefully, this year, I'll get two animations out. Again, I never expected being User of the Day, thanks Tom, G-bot and everyone for your support.

With Madness Day 2020 gone, which I've made a video for. It's been a while since I've made a cartoon but there will be more. I've read the comments and I will make more, with Madness Combat, because I like the series, not just for Madness Day.

Here's the video: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/766490

More coming soon!

Hello, so I've been visiting this website for almost two decades now, really didn't phase me. I've been visiting this place before YouTube hit the scene and I think that explains why I haven't, not really an idea to point out that how YouTube taken over is the reason I shouldn't have visited this place. Something worth mentioning, I am amazed how educated viewers are. Before, make the most vile animations and it got you somewhere or make a point. Now, because video content is here, not just on You(Face)Tube... there's expections from you folks and it has changed some of the ideas in videos. 

But because of this, a few weeks ago, I decided to delete some of my videos. This was because they were getting in the way of the real world, my real world. If my boss saw it at work for example, I know I'll get fired of them or I have trouble telling people about how I make videos because of it's content and feel threaten. I've had some controversial says at work and I've had people in the real world who were "concerned" with some of the edgy claims I've ever made, not just in videos. 

Funnily enough, the videos, that I kept up are the videos I know wouldn't make outsiders question the content I've made. These just happen to be the content that I've cried my eyes out and break sweat for and spent weeks. Movies like Why He Named Himself Freethinker and Angel Interrupted for example. Thoses are the movies that went under my skin where I said to myself "I feel stupid making this!" but knowing it would get somewhere, just shows that it's made me comfortable with my edgy videos! I have personality have people who take a cheap swing at me bashing my videos but only do it as a cheap tactic to get me to keep making videos so they can just sit back and get entertained and even claim its them that's driving me but also funny is that no one talks to them or they have no one to talk too about that. It makes me laugh they don't have anyone to tell that too maybe because they don't have anything and just using that idea to get attention for themselves. Very very cheap.

But anyways, I am still working on my jaggy edge animations. Got three movies planned, so I can't get to get them together, polished and for the website. A lot more in the future.

A more light hearted movie under the dark tones. I met her in a chatroom. A very mature person who wants to be to herself. So what better way to make a movie about her but not in a horrible way, in a more cool way. That teabag in the movie is really me, how I turn into a teabag and get used.

Movie link: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/656807

She said that she was surprised I didn't make her look very bad and made fun of her and I've taken pride with what she said about the movie, it made me feel very good about myself. I mean I didn't want to ambush her with my movie, so I made some effort to make the character look decent and worthwhile and not keep making movies making fun of people.