Let's stream some more!
Finishing up Sacrifice.fla, the second in a series of cartoons following Deimos.
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Saturday stream day! :D
https://www.youtube.com/user/MDKrinkels/live
4-5 hours of animation, hot and spicy, served right up! :D
Stream time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrF_60BnjlE
Hop in and give a watch, won't you? :D
Sacrifice.
The choice is made. There will be a stream on Feb 4th to kick off a short themed to 'sacrifice'. Same pattern; less than 20 hours of animating to get the point across so as not to take away too much from MC11. Should take 3-4 streams.
2018-02-01 16:27:14 +0000 UTC View PostAnother short at the next milestone...
Mc11 marches along, Thankfully the way my life is arranged things move faster. When I reach the next milestone (say, the neighborhood of 8000 frames of animation) I will take some time to stream the creation of another short cartoon.
That said, I got a couple vague themes I could work with for a short and heck, lets use this here poll to hear what you guys are thinking on the matter. These streams will occur during February.
Credit question
Thought i'd ask, do you guys prefer the initial for the last name, or is it better to write the whole name?
2018-01-05 03:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post2018 is going to have numerous releases
1 big cartoon is ridiculous. I've resolved to see about banging out short cartoons along the way because letting ideas die in sketchbooks is a crime and I'm no crime-inal. I'll be streaming work on these short cartoons when I can, right there on the MDKrinkels youtube channel.
It just occured to me that all this time, pushing frames on madness11, and having little else to show for it (i mean, it's a side project, but STILL) I know I can do better.
The kills come, the kills go...
The whole of the cartoon moves along. Not much to report other than it moves, and moves well. 2018 is going to be one hell of a year.
6000 frames
what ARE frames, even? What's the measure of progress in a cartoon like this? I could pad out hundreds, even thousands of frames of drawn out dialog, and I probably should at some point, but right now it's just a chain of violence.
I can't even count the number of rewrites I've gone through as I stitched frames together moving forward, but hopefully where I land will be decent. As I make all this sluggish progress I start thinking that a 2018 release is very do-able. I'm...
Violence unending.
The lack of simplicity in some of these scenes is killing me, and giving me perspective on what is important. Namely, the killing. A bunch of fun nonsense is a great way to put a fun slant on the ongoing mayhem, but at the end of the day it's all about the volume of violence. I appreciate your patience with me as I move forward on this, here's some of the damage going on.
2017-11-15 14:43:25 +0000 UTC View PostJust plugging along.
Scene after scene, kill after kill. Some scene transitions are cooler than others, and then some days all I do is go back and add shell casings to all the shooting.
2017-11-01 17:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostMany many frames of animation.
I've reached 5250 frames of animation on this. I'm a little surprised at the pace I am keeping up but stacking up bodies like boards comes naturally in Flash. Some unconventional backgrounds are going to slow me down in the future but I'm always moving in a part time manner. I appreciate your patience, this will hopefully be a lot of fun.
2017-10-19 13:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostProgress, mostly just people gettin' shot.
Here look, an image of an agent being shot in the face. There's a lot of that going on here in MC11, as it turns out. A lot of people being shot, a lot of weird things going on really, but mostly just shooting and violence. Progress is slow, still, but some times it moves faster, and considering the density, 4850 frames ain't terrible right yet.
Madness Day 2017
Hey there guys, another year has marched along, and what a year it has been! If you've been following my progress on Madness: Project Nexus 2 you've seen that we've starting to squeeze storymode into the game, and the feedback from people like YOU has been helping us immeasurably! We're seriously looking at an Q1 2018 release for this beast. At least, we think we can swing that.
Madness Combat 11 though! It's been moving along, at a soft trundle of about 10 hours of work on it a wee...
Drawing stream!
Can't share my work on mc11, because SPOILERS, but I can surely let you guys watch me re-design Hive!
2017-09-15 19:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostShit that takes me way too long
It can't ALL just be frame by frame blood, cool shit has to happen, right?
2017-08-28 00:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostSome kills are more satisfying than others.
Implants present a tactical danger to the user.
2017-08-13 01:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostMadness Combat 1 is fifteen years old today.
What a way we've come with this, eh? Granted, the animations have ground to a halt with a transition into game development. But it's good that I've been moving again on that as of this year. MC11 moves along at a slow and grueling, but steady pace.
I just wanted to thank you all for supporting me through the years, be it an active supporter of Project Nexus 2, a Patreon, or having been a fan for such a long time. It means the world to me, as it should, because all ...
These guys...
So clumsy...
I'm clipping along faster and faster. While it's not the full gallop I'd like (and won't be, so long as M:PN2 remains my primary focus) the amount of time I am devoting to this cartoon is squeezing into the many chronological nooks and crannies of my day.
Many frames down, many more to go.
Animation, but mostly just me.
Watching nonsense on my computer while animating mc11. Drop by and hang out for a few hours? :3
2017-07-09 22:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostA little late night streaming...
Working on mc11, wanted to stream, so... come in and watch cartoons with me while I work on mc11 in the background :D
2017-07-07 01:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostDoodling...
I put this in the "wouldn't it be cool if..." pile. Also a thank you for everyone who has been supporting the Madness.
2017-06-26 23:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostProgress is good.
I don't even know why I try to 'write' madness combat episodes when I am not animating them. I find that no matter how much I think up plot points and write them down, I wind up deviating wildly when I am in flash. I suppose they give me a 'launching point' from which to work off of, some junk ideas just floating around in my head that can be smushed together like clay or outright bashed into shards and re-arranged into more pleasing shapes.
At any rate, progress is painfully ...
A little late night background streaming
Cracking open flash for an hour or two of BACKGROUNDS! Hop on in, won't you?
https://www.twitch.tv/mr_krinkels
New scenes are so nice.....
A little planning, a little backgrounds, and action... action, sweet delicious action.
I will post about a stream when I draw these background assets, unless I get scared of it being entirely too spoilery. Hell, is this sketch too spoilery? Should I just continue to work behind a sheet for MONTHS? This is heinous ;~;
Some of that late night sketch draw stream
Drop on it, won't you? Just a couple hours of me hacking away at some drawing. :3
2017-05-23 02:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostStream late tonight.
Gotta finish that tricky drawing, I'll post tonight when I'm at it, probably around 9-10pm est. Then It's back to silently working on mc11. Soon I'll put together some non spoilery teaser stuff in regards to what I've been working on there.
Your patience is monumentally valuable to me as I slowly work on mc11 in a part time manner.
Madness art time!
Why not? I mean, I could always just animate madness combat 11 quietly and NOT stream, but what's the fun in that? Drop in, ask questions, get mad when I don't answer them, and watch me suck at drawing madness stuff!
2017-05-14 18:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostDoes FBF add enough to a cartoon?
what are the diminishing returns on hand drawn flames/electricity/ect? I ask because during mc11, there will potentially be a LOT of this, and I am starting to look at ways to cut corners to prevent me from working on it forever. I hate that I can't do this full time, I am only one man. Just a thought for tonight as I animate hank getting beat up.
2017-05-10 02:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostScene transition thingie
Look, a thing that is used to make people go from one scene to the next. I feel like I should re-use this one frequently instead of drawing a brand new set of a zillion keyframes every time this happens. We'll see.
Thank you for your patience as I work this part time madness animation on top of full time madness game development.
Sure beats taking the door, this method of transportation....