On this day 10 years ago I became an official Newgrounder. I've seen the site go through various changes and seen friends and animators come and go, but in the end, despite all the ups and downs I went through, I'm still here. Though I acknowledge being a Newgrounder since 2003, I didn't officially start animating until roughly late January of 2004. In short, this post is my way of thanking the NG community for the inspiration and the fans for their long lasting support. Special thanks to Tom and Wade Fulp for introducing me to Flash in this site when I was also just another "dumb kid" at the time. :D And thanks to all those animators who have ( in one way or another) inspired me to keep animating.
As for making more original content apart from making sprite movies, I do have an idea in the backburner, but we'll see.
On another note, regrding FSM 9, I have updated the percentage bar for it. Like I stated on episode 8, this episode's script was split in two since working on a 30 minute flash was too much for me to handle. So I left the second half with most of the audio already mixed, which leaves me to animate the rest. Also to further emphasize that they were both one episode, I will be reusing some of the content from episode 8, particularly the intro. It will help me save a lot of time during production and in the mean time I'm developing the script for episode 10 with some additional help.
That's it for now. Thank you Newgrounds and a big thanks to all the fans!
GabrielBarsch
good old times