I know you're sick of my news posts. Don't worry, I'll stop posting ponies on a very specific moment. When Battleblock Theater is out. So, ha! So don't expect it to be anytime soon!

The reason I made this is to warn all of you who are sick of ponies all over the internet. You know why? Because the first episode of the second season aired yesterday. That's right, the popularity of the show will explode again. (Can you do that? can you explode twice?) Yes, if anything, there will be even more ponies than ever before.

Fun facts: the main villain's voice actor is John de Lancie ("Q" from Star Trek: The Next Generation) and there's a Chocolate Rain reference in the episode.

They drive me to pony. Yeah, I know you wanna kill me for doing this. Good thing I stopped caring a while ago. And as you probably would expect, I entered Ryan's contest. This is my entry. Yay. (Hate comments in 3...2...1...)

School is just around the corner, I got less than two weeks left, and you know what that means: good-bye long flash projects.

What I'm saying is, for the next few months, although I'll probably visit Newgrounds quite often, I won't work on any long flashes. I'll focus on school almost entirely, so no scrips or plans for more animations until November/December, which means, this year I'll probably have only two flashes on "2011 submissions". I hate that.

But when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When school drains my time and does not allow me to work on long projects...make shorter projects! I've made quite a few comics and flash loops recently, all pony-related, so if you do not like that, stop reading. If you do like it, good news, because since most of that stuff takes me at most 3 days to make (each), I can pump these out quickly. Passable quality content that's easy and quick to make? Perfect!

COMICS:

Ponycraft 2 - Protoss
Ponycraft 2 - Terran
Ponycraft 2 - Zerg (part 1)
Ponycraft 2 - Zerg (part 2)

FLASHES: (these have music and no play button, check your volume before clicking)

Twilight's black hole diagram
Nightmare Moon - animated
Applebloom sleeping - animated

You wanna murder me for these, don't you? If you don't, and you actually like it, check my dA profile every now and then, because I'll probably submit stuff there that I won't submit here (like the flash loops, or comics I may not consider "Art Portal worthy".

Hey, another multiple post this time. First of all, I want to say that C. Crashing a Wedding got Daily 2nd and Weekly 4th, so thank you all who voted, favorited and shared with your friends. And also to tell you that I'm quite surprised that so many people actually noticed I put Derpy Hooves in it...In fact, the flash actually got mentioned in Equestria Daily's Nighty Roundup #40, which was honestly very unexpected.

And that's not all, also, both of my Ponycraft comics (so far, I'm working on the Zerg one) and a short flash interactive I submitted to deviantart, Twilight's black hole diagram. Got featured too...You want to murder me for this don't you?

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Users I want to give thanks to:

During the almost two years I've been on Newgrounds I've seen the work of lots of amazing authors, but there are a few that have had a bigger influence on me than others. The following are just some of the ones that have inspired me to work harder (not all of them, the list would be huge):

Darkar: He's Mexican like me! You have no idea how popular this guy is over here, I ofter hear people in my classes talking about his flashes or quoting lines from the characters.

DanPaladin: Mostly the fact that he makes ART of VIDEOGAMES for a living. That's the most awesome thing ever.

Gonzossm: His style is so developed that anyone can recognize his work without having to look that he made it. I hope I will be able to make my art style so specific and different than the rest in the future.

NCH: I don't know...something about the fact that his pokemon animations are so awesome that most people that hate pokemon like them anyways.

SamBakZa: These guys proved that you don't even need to speak English or even have dialogue in your animations for them to be good. Since the first There She Is!! in 2004, they have been part of the history of the Portal. I admire that.

RicePirate: My my, this guy has been in here for just a little bit more than a year and he's already one of the most well-known artists in the site. He integrated to the community so quickly it really makes me wonder how into the community I am personally.

As I said, these are just a few, I can't possible put all of them here, the post would be gigantic...
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FUTURE PLANS:

This will probably be the most interesting for the majority, some of you are already wondering: "What are you gonna do next?" "When is part 2 of the wedding flash gonna be out?" "Are you gonna do the Necromancer?" "Do all the bosses in the whole game!!". Alrighty, first things first. Since I'm going back to school soon, I will have no time to animate long flashes, so you'll probably just see short loops (like the Twilight one above) or art until December, sorry.

Second: sorry if you misinterpreted the author's comments of the flash, but there's not gonna be part 2 (the parade). And chances are that would be the last C. Crashing I make, at least for this year. It just takes so much time, and seeing that flashes that people take a a couple of weeks to make get better score than what takes me months, kills me a little inside. So if I make anything else, it will probably be shorter, and maybe comedy to practice humor.

Sup newgroundlings, got good and bad news regarding the development of C. Crashing a Wedding. The good news is that I found a way to handle the .fla even though the animation is so long, by making a new scene, the loading time when saving and testing the movie are shorter, so I can work better. The flash still crashes constantly though (the irony) so I have to literally save every minute. I'm not joking.

The bad news is that the flash itself seems to be dragging too long, so if I don't speed up, I won't be able to finish before I go back to school. If that happens, the release will be delayed until probably September or even October. It feels just like with Sailor Pokemoon a year ago, I thought I'd never finish that one. And what a coincidence that Rina-chan helped me with voices in both flashes.

So well...to compensate for my bad news, here's a video of some guys dressed as the Castle Crashers and doing a little dance. Enjoy.

By the way, did you know that C. Crashing a Barbarian was not the first flash about Castle Crashers I made? A while before that I made a short loop of them dancing the Macarena (again, I'm not joking). Check it out!

See you in the next post, I'll go back to work.

PS: ponies.

Greetings spawns of Newgrounds. Today I, again, come with a double post (Double post all the way across Newgrounds!) Well, actually a triple one...

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Alien Hominid poster:

Isn't it adorably awesome? I got it off one of my brother's issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly. It was an old issue, actually, when I was little I remembered seeing it, and when I joined Newgrounds I saw that Alien Hominid was in the picture of the Flash Portal along with other characters, I had no idea Tom was the programmer of the game! The issue also had an interview with Tom and John, and one of the questions was awesome (Quotes are not accurate, because it was the EGM version that is in spanish, so it was translated):

EGM: How did you guys came up with the idea of the Alien Hominid flash game?
Tom: Dan Paladin called me a morning and told me he had a headache, and that it felt like a creature was biting his head. He drew sketches of what the creature could look like, and that was where the idea of A.H. came from.

By the way, do you know a good way to stick posters in walls? Ducktape sucks and I don't want to use nails...
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COMICS:

Yeah. I've made two comics recently, they're both in the art portal. You know how I combined Sailor Moon and Pokemon and made flashes about it? Now it's My Little Pony with Starcraft. Weird, huh? When I like stuff that is very different from other stuff I like, I often end up putting both together.

PonyCraft 2 - Friendship of the Void (Protoss)

PonyCraft 2: Wings of Friendship (Terran)

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C. Crashing a Wedding update

Good news and bad news. The good news is that the battle scene with the groom is over, and the second scene itself is close to be over. The bad news is that I didn't work as hard this week, I have only 195 seconds (and extra 5 seconds in sketch form) done and that the .fla is behaving badly. Loading time when I save or "test movie" is very long and the program crashes constantly (how ironic) so release date may be delayed a bit, and if it is, and I don't finish before vacations are over, it will be delayed even more.

Well, see you in the next post, and have a nice day.

Hey Newgrounds, what's up. Me? nothin', just coming here with the weekly update on C. Crashing a Wedding. I've got news, you know how much I have done? THREE. MINUTES. FLAT and if you didn't get that reference, I don't blame you. That's right, 180 seconds of animation done, the second of three scenes is almost over, and there's a slight chance I'll be able to finish it before August!

Now, I think that this screenshot below will be the last one, from now on I won't post any along with the update, because beyond this point it can spoil the flash. Anyways, hope you're still interested, this animation is taking way longer than I thought, I kinda die inside when I see 1 minute long tweened flashes with pure dialogue getting awards/frontpage when I'm killing myself making fbf and detailed backgrounds, not knowing if people will like it...but I won't give up! I'll promise it will be awesome!!

Oh, and also, I made a forum post, just in case you wanna help me out, I'm trying to get suggestions for good xbox360 games...d'ya know any and wanna share your thoughts? Okay, see you in the next post!

Hey Newgrounds, a late update here, the thing is I left town and I had no internet for some time, but now I'm here (yay!), although chances are you don't care, right? Anyways, I come with a double post, talking about a random thing and then the update of C. Crashing a Wedding.

And as the title suggests, I'm talking about summer in the North (that's an important factor) of Mexico. Do you have any idea how it is? Well, think about cartoons that stereotype Mexico: a desert, lots of cacti and donkeys. Well, it's just like that, but it's concrete, buildings and cars...oh, SO many cars...Summer over here is BRUTAL if you're not used to it, or if you don't have an AC.

In the north, rainy days are VERY rare, in fact, just today it rained in my city...for the first time since September 2010!! I don't know you, but to me, weather affects my artistic performance. Autumn is my best season (not too hot nor cold, it's comfortable to work) and Summer is the worst...do seasons affect you like that?

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Now for the update. As I said, I left town, so my source of inspiration (Internet) was cut, so I worked more slowly. Nevertheless, I managed to animate an amount of almost one minute. That's right, that makes 156 seconds of C. Crashing a Wedding complete! Still, I feel like it's gonna take long to finish, the second scene is only about halfway done, so again, be patient. I'll see you in the next post!

Hi people...and ponies. Today's post will be way shorter than my last one, instead of talking about a random thing and then an update, like my other posts, I'll only inform about the update.

In that last post which I linked to, I mentioned I had 60 secs of animation done. Well, guess what? good news! I now have about 100 seconds done now! That's right, been working hard! And now the first of three scenes is done, and the second one is doing pretty well. If I keep this pace, I may finish the whole flash, maybe not by June, but by mid-late July, but who knows, may be earlier or later.

Alright, that's it for this week's post. Leave a comment if you want to inspire me to work harder, I like comments. See ya in the next post!

Greetings newgrounders from Newgrounds. Today's post is WAY longer than usual, so if you're only interested in knowing how C. Crashing a Wedding is doing, feel free to skip to that part, if you want to kill time, or if you're interested in what's next, read the whole post.

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Well, I come here to tell you my thoughts (actually more like an in-depth analysis) about...yup; you guessed it, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. First of all, I wanted to tell you how I got to watch it, but it's a long story...let's just say that I stumbled upon PonyCraft 2 after watching a Starcraft 2 trailer and it got me interested.

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At first I had doubts, I thought it would be girly and annoying, but still I decided to give it a chance because no other cartoon had ever got my attention like that.
I watched the first episode, and I was like "I was so wrong, this is a great quality cartoon." I started to watch more episodes...Three days after, I had finished the whole first season (second one is not out yet), 26 freaking episodes in three days! That has to be the series I've engulfed the fastest, it was almost scary.

Note: On the comments of the videos, I realized most of the watchers were actually 18+ year old males, so think about that if you've wanted to watch it, but you're scared of what others may think. Give it a chance; don't judge a book by its cover.

As I wish to be a professional animator in the future, I decided to analyze the series. What does it have that made me watch the whole thing so quickly? Knowing that would help me create better work in the future, so I broke it down into pieces and here are my thoughts:

STORY/WRITING

Yes, that's the first thing that got my attention, it has a story, it's not complex, but it works perfectly. I'll explain it shortly: The main character, Twilight Sparkle, has a task given by her mentor (Princess Celestia), and that is to write her letters (reports) about the things she learns about friendship every day. Easy to follow, and it's perfect, because that way, the moral is clear but not annoying, check an example (I made it up, it's not extracted from the show, but that's the "format"):

Right (MLP): "Dear Princess Celestia, today I've learned the importance of sharing, not only being generous, but also being open to what your friends have to offer. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

Wrong (others): "See kids? That's why it's important to shaaaaaaare...*annoying laugh*

See the difference? The creators found a way to make the morals clear without shoving it in your face like other shows do, that's a huge thumbs up from me.

CHARACTERS:

Simple rule: characters that are appealing make a show good, annoying characters don't. There are six main pony characters, and all of them have very different personalities. By having very different characters there's lots of potential for jokes (see the characters from any comedy series if you don't believe me), and I bet there's at least one character that will remind you of yourself.

MUSIC/VOICE ACTING

Another important thing, from the main theme to the background music, songs have to be top quality and catchy. MLP does a great job in here. "Winter wrap-up, winter wrap-uuuup, cause tomorrow spring is heeere~!" Oh darn, still got that song in my head, sorry.

About voice acting, you must have voices that fit with the characters personalities. MLP does that very well too. Every character has a very special way of expressing itself. One can be smart and calm, another one timid, and another one cheerful and happy, and the voices fit those personalities perfectly.

HUMOR (well, jokes...)

Oohh... trying to do this one well can be a true pain in the flank. Good humor can be decisive in a kids cartoon, because kids won't like something that's boring, but what kind of humor do you need? Simple stuff, like somebody slipping on a banana peel may be fun for kids, but not for adults, and complex jokes are fun for adults but kids won't get them, what's the solution?

It's the balance of simple humor for kids, and puns, hidden jokes and references for adults, which is fun for children, and also for the older brothers/parents that watch the cartoon with them (That's why this show is so popular with men). If you notice, the most successful cartoons are the ones that can balance kid and adult jokes correctly. *cough* Animaniacs *cough*

ANIMATION/ART

It looks like the show was animated in flash, I'm not sure, but that's another thing that got my attention. The backgrounds are colorful, the characters are simple, but they're very well drawn and animated, lip syncing is good too. (Wow, how ironic that the thing I focus on the most is the one I have the least to talk about, huh?)

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Are you still reading this? Wow! You must be really bored, good to know, 'cause now it's time for the conclusion.

If I had to rate the show, I'd give it a 9.5 or maybe a 10, just because it does something most cartoons made to teach kids could never do: being appealing to both kids and adults. Alright, that's it for now; comment if you want to tell me your opinion about this.

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And now for the ANIMATION UPDATE:

Hope you're happy to know that since the last post, I've worked a lot on C. Crashing a Wedding, and that I now have over one minute of animation done! Still, I have no idea when it will be out, but please be patient, I'll promise it will be worth it. I'll see you in the next post.