This is the short film I wrote, directed, and edited in my winter semester at college. I've just started working on my second film and am preparing myself for the innumerable headaches and heartaches that await me along the way. In the meantime, I always wanted to share this with NG and show why I haven't been producing many animations. This took up all my time! Also, this film won Best Narrative and Audience Choice award at my college's film fest :D. I don't think it's really in the NG community's taste but lemme know what you all think.

Capture The Flag: Episode 3 is now in the portal!! Why are you still reading this? SEE IT HERE!

Make sure to watch Episodes 1 and 2 first!

Finally, after way too much time, I release the third part to my series. This animation has been in production hell for over a year and I've worked on it on and off, balancing school, a short film, and a part time job. I do have a small but very loyal fanbase that has been pushing me to continue and I appreciate your patience!

Episode 3 is stock full of secrets and hints that help unravel the CTF mythology. As I have always said, I want to create a compelling well thought-out narrative here on Newgrounds and that has always took priority over animation or drawing techniques. I have the entire storyline figured out. Not making this up as I go along. So theorize, analyze, and hypothesize! Ask me any questions you want. I can't promise to answer all of them but I will give some clues.

Edit: So I exported it and everything looked fine and dandy until I went home and realized the synching for all the mouths were off when they looked fine on the school's computer. So, as it turns out, the school computer lags when I test the movie and doesn't show me what it will truly look like. I just came in again and exported three different copies, one of which seems to work when I run it on a normal, competent, and not retarded piece of hardware. I have to go home now to make 100% sure but if all is a-go, CTF3 might very well be up in less than 24 hours.

WISH ME LUCK (AGAIN)

Edit: I have the swf file right here on my desktop. It's all done. I'll be uploading it probably Sunday or so.

C'mon. You all saw this coming!

But only 1 week! Capture The Flag: Ep 3 will be on the portal by then! I'm just finishing up animating and synching the mouths then it's on to the facial features. I always leave this for last considering it's the most monotonous and time-consuming part of animation in my opinion. I have to work the next couple of days but I'm going to squeeze in four hours before work now and tomorrow.

I am also a little worried because this is the first time I have ever not watched my flash movie scene by scene in succession. There is always a glitch or problem along the way or the file crashes when I try to export. Towards the end, the file always glitches out and stops playing. I'm worried I won't be able to fix it but... I have to.

That's right. The third part to my series will hit the portal in 2 weeks...ish. This time that ETA isn't wrong! There's still quite a bit to do such as lip synching and facial animations but besides animating those and a few little inserts, the flash is ready to be packaged up and delivered. However this will only happen if flash gives me a break! Scenes that work fine individually seem to lag and tweens sometimes move at double-speed when the movie is viewed as a whole. This causes the whole file to fuck up and I don't know how to fix it. Also, the last scene always seems to crash. I have no idea what's causing these problems. Either a corrupt symbol or the sheer weight of the flash is too heavy. This is my biggest, most epic flash. Running time is about 10 minutes and the file size has already hit 10 mb. Tom, please let me submit over the file limit! Can anyone help me flash-wise?

It's been way too long since episode 2 and those who have been fans since early 2008 (and even 2007) will hopefully not be disappointed. This is the most cinematic of the bunch and if you liked the other two, this will only wet your appetite for more. So no, episode 3 is not full of answers but it sets the stage for the chapters to follow and it concludes the first volume of the overall story. It is also packed full of little clues and easter eggs to help you develop a theory on Camp TF. I know the mytholology and story arc of Capture The Flag from beginning to end and while it may annoy you that you won't get your final answers in this ep, it is the most revelatory of all three. It's been a long time but I'm finally here. I'm going to put eps 1, 2, and 3 together in a video file to create what will essentially be a 22 minute pilot that I can shop around when I'm a little older. Last year, I wrote a pilot for CTF and sent it unsolicited to a Canadian Kids Television Network and naturally, it got rejected. I was young and stupid... but guess what... I STILL AM. I plan to one day make a television show or a movie out of this series. The story needs to be told.

I promise to let anyone on Newgrounds know how the story concludes... whether or not CTF continues in the flash medium.

Hey guys,

As you can plainly see, CTF3 isn't up yet :(. I know I said late March but I stopped working on it to continue with my short film. It's due at the end of the semester which is a month away. I'm sorry to say that I can only continue working on CTF3 when that time comes. It's on the verge of completion so this is especially annoying. I'm so sorry to you guys who have been waiting it out this absurd amount of time. One of my big concerns is that the flash won't be as satisfying as you all hope it is. If this hiatus has done anything, it's build up anticipation -- which is a good thing but I hope that you don't close the flash window disappointed when the time comes.

I'm a horrible marketer.

The Newgrounds common man speaks for thousands. Simple words say it all.

Hey Guys. Due to a recent post that got me thinking, I decided to put together a little chart which will help users determine the true scores of their favorite videogame parody flashes! The formula is simple -- Just take the score of a recent videogame parody and minus it by .5 to figure out what it really deserves. I took 3 of the game parodies on the front page and applied the formula and (OH BOI) the experiment is a success!

Just take the Videogame Parody Chart formula and apply it to anything as diverse as Gamer Tonight or the Awesome Series. Notice how The Real Legend 3 is still in the 4.00s. That's because it's a quality animation.

The truth is... it's coming soon. I'm using this break as best I can to make progress and I've already completed 2 scenes. THAT'S A BIG DEAL OK. I have the next 6 days off and I'm not leaving my computer chair for anything. I know how long it's been. I know how annoying it is. There's nothing for me to say that I haven't said before. But now, it's really moving along.

ETA: 1 MONTH until it hits the portal. 30 days guys more or less. Also, it's my birthday so you can't get mad. HA.

I just googled Evan Kingsley (hmm... I wonder what would come up if we googled other characters) :

Listen to it here!

She can't make front page posts herself so I'm doing that for her. All the information about the doc is on her blog.

For a short summary though, the audio doc is about the rivalry between two distinct types of flash authors in the NG community: the ones who put time and effort into their submissions and the ones who make quickly animated video game parodies. If you're a regular to this site AT ALL, you should be aware that there has been tension between these two groups over the last couple of years, especially this year. The documentary is really informative and you get to see things from a ton of different view points. It's an eye opener.

Now go listen! The doc's got big NG names... and me too >_>