Finally Made Newgrounds

Congratulations Gabe.

I have to say though Gabe, even after they added the preloader, some of your mouth shapes are missing here and there. Time to slow down and pay attention to the details of your delivery.

Newgrounds is a nice place to solicit feedback, if you are thick-skinned enough.

Just keep in mind that the average Newground visitor is not likely to be invited to a premiere at Sundance. Many of them are kids, some of whom apparently still struggle with basic writing skills (or, for that matter, basic etiquette).

Take it all with a grain of salt.

I have sold over 1500 DVD's of a cartoon that received a rather lukewarm reception on Newgrounds. Lesson? Know your audience.

A few seconds of a mouth disappearing can be a big thing if you are trying to market your animations. Time to buckle down.

sometimes after spendingf like 2 weeks on a movie, I just get so excited when it's finally finished that I dont go back and fix up the small stuff

They say that the first 90% of any job takes 90% of the time needed to finish it, and the last 10% of the job takes the other 90% of the time. ;)

But OH how important that last 90% of the time is. I am doing public review for emotion-poses in my online classes right now, and I was off to a good start, but the "little touches" revisions that the term before me passed down took it to a whole new level. Thing is, I spent twice as long putting those changes in as I did to make the original pose. And that was a decent amount of time. But it was worth it.

Congrats on the Newgrounds thing! It takes a lot of guts to submit your work I'm sure!

Dumb luck. I stumbled onto a distributor at a convention who specializes in similar content (you can learn more about my DVD at fritzthefox.com , if you are curious)

I'm still in no danger of getting rich any time soon :-) But it's nice having it out there.

My website just brings in a few odd sales now and again. The distributor is where the real money is...although it is, frankly, a deal with the devil. I don't trust'em as far as I can throw'em, and he makes more than I do off of a product I created from scratch myself.

Gotta love capitalism.

It's great to get an animation anywhere, so congrats on that. That said, I've never been a big Newgrounds fan. It seems to cater to the violent teenage male crowd. (i.e., if it doesn't have blood or vomit it probably won't make it there). Plus the reviews tend to be on the non-constructive side (though I've never submitted anything there and probably never will). But they have put out some decent stuff here and there, depending on your tastes.

I watched your Newground animation. One thing: watch your audio levels. The sound clipped a number of times throughout. You can easily fix this either with your sound recording program or in the Flash audio properties. I also agree with the comment made above on the animation of the voicing.