8-bit flash on newgrounds

[Digitalguardian]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=214733

[CHICAGO¤lollie]

Yes, that's the ever in/famous 8-Bitch Fyve.

Originally Posted by Misteroo (journal)

In this episode, it was directed towards the innundating amount of people copying stuff from nuklearpower.com into their own horrible little sprite comics/sprite movies. The main target was the 8-Bit Theater flash series--or, rather, its viewers, who don't exactly realize how easy it is to import sprites and make them recite prewritten script when all that is really required to pull off the job is a microphone and excessive use of the 'import' function.

The overall lesson behind the movie is "Yes, *anyone* can do this. So don't." It's harder to pick up a pencil and create something new *AND* successful than it is to copy, trace, or butcher something else someone else made because it's already popular so you might be able to syphon some of it away.

Originally Posted by Misteroo (stopframe easteregg - found in AIM Window Flood)

Explanation: It shouldn't be too hard for you to figure out the lesson behind this movie, but you'll probably just blam it outright and send some flames or something like that. We're fans of the original comics but we hurl over the flashes. Even when drawing the characters in this pointy-shapey style and screwing things over entirely, it's STILL an improvement.

Explanation: The point is that nobody actually gets anywhere if they don't actually try and something and a lot of people think that they can just ignore that fact entirely, throw in some video game characters or rip off The Simpsons, and crown themselves as God, thereby ignoring all advice given to them, such as "spend more than 5 minutes on this" or "test your work out before using it." Sadly, this is seen everywhere.

Explanation: Clevinger spent years working on his material and it showed dramatic improvement. He learned his awesomeness. Someone else making a 'movie' (with an extremely low amount of animation) and copying it word for word-and somehow being rated well-was what triggered the creation of this flash to hijack the 5th episode. We're only doing this once.

Explanation: So for those of you who really want to make something of the things that you spend your time on, remember that quality and originality are worth far more throughout your lifetime than making some stupid knockoff of someone else's work. You may now proceed these 4 frames and write a lot of angry flames.

Note, I don't entirely agree with the Explanation, but it makes some good points.

[Rhyos]

And those points were well taken. Props to Oma-however the hell you spell his name for actually e-mailing Misteroo. :thief:

[Dj_StarChild]

I've said it before, I'll probably say it a million times.

We don't seek popularity, popularity found us.
If we get rated well, it's because new fans appreciate brian's work, and will eventually find their way here through the animations, OR current fans appreciate our tributes/homages. While the animation may be simple, when one is trying to do the best and truest representation of something, you can't very well change the style of art without changing the mood and theme. 8BT:Animated uses/used 8-bit sprites because it wouldn't be 8-bit anymore if we didn't. We'd have to call it 'hand-drawn' theater, which completely drops the whole inference toward the original NES that one can usually draw from the phrase '8-bit.' While I appreciate satire, I find the arfenhouse animation to be completely unfunny, and without enough of a commentary to be worth viewing. Sure it's easy to do, but we want to expose people from a different community to the great stuff in this community, and we're the most true-to-form representation there is, regardless of how little our voice actors sound like your imagination.

Also: The sound quality on the voice recordings is better than some of the more famous flash series out there, for example: Neurotically Yours, and Innumerable submissions to newgrounds. Hurtin' on our voice actors' microphones is without grounds, and unnecessary. Mind you, I don't like to blow my own trumpet, so to speak.

There is a lot of effort put into these animations, regardless of how easy it looks, and not just in terms of animation. We try to put out the best work we can, and if 18, 000 crazed fans think it's worth 4.20/5.00 (which isn't really that fabulous anyway.) Then, that's their beef. We just do what we do because we like to do it, and we appreciate Brian's writing. What we do isn't any different from What Batman Begins does, or Spiderman, or the Fantastic Four.

We interpret the comics our way, and bring them to live (adding the dimension of movement equals 'life' for now.) There will be more innovation in later editions. Like I said, we've got lots up our sleeves.

[Rhyos]

Keep in mind: I work full time in retail management. I still can barely afford gas to and from work and food to keep me mobile. I tend to have to trade off between one or the other.

In other words, I, nor can any of the rest of the cast, afford a $300 microphone. Though I know where TO get them, I cannot AFFORD them. Although in Misteroo's bash, I think he was referring to some of the other animations. (off-topic sidetrack: As odd as this sounds, at one point I used HEADPHONES as a MICROPHONE. It CAN be done. Try it at home, kids!)

If this post sounds cranky, it's because I'm in the middle of the south on a hot, humid night, and have been without air conditioning for the better part of a month. Even with 2 fans, I'm sweating buckets.

And no, RM's voice isn't butchered. :thief:

[Klyco]

Originally Posted by Rhyos

(off-topic sidetrack: As odd as this sounds, at one point I used HEADPHONES as a MICROPHONE. It CAN be done. Try it at home, kids!)



And no, RM's voice isn't butchered. :thief:

Please, do tell!

[Rhyos]

All I've given myself liberty to say is that it isn't butchered. =B It's another voice to grow on. :thief:

[Carnivore]

Erm, Rhyos, I think he meant for you to tell him about using a set of headphones as a microphone.

[Skatzo]

lol, im interested in that as well

[Rhyos]

Y'see, I was drunk at the time. >_>



The experiment involved earbud headphones. All I did was stick 'em in the microphone port, held 'em both to my mouth and tried to record... and it worked! I have no idea how, but it worked! Give it a shot sometime.