As you know, I'm officially involved in the Kubrick Collab and I'm doing the 40-45 second segment on 'A Clockwork Orange.'

I originally said that I was going to use my own original artwork, but I suck at drawing (especially when trying to imitate) so I'm going to find some fancy Photoshop plugins and tweak up images from the movie and then animate them in the fashion you saw with the Lolcats. I can draw, but for what I want to do with this animation, I have to cop out and do a bunch of photo editing instead.

I would have loved to use my own artwork (and will in other animations), but I don't want my segment in the collab to be a steaming pile of shit.

For those of you who still need the links to download the Lolcat DVD, here they are:

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Since teaching my friends how to use Flash is probably going to take some time, I decided to do a small project in the mean time that you guys won't be seeing for at least a couple months.

I'm officially involved in the Kubrick Collab (I got a good feeling about this one) and I'm doing the 40-45 second segment on 'A Clockwork Orange.' I'm looking forward to this because this'll give me a chance to mature my animating skills even further. And no. I will not be cutting out the characters from the movie and animating them like I did the cats. I'm actually going to be using my own artwork.

For those of you who still need the links to download the Lolcat DVD, here they are again:

(Oh and by the way, I intend to release another bonus feature this coming Friday)

Mediafire hosting:

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EDIT: For those of you who may be interested, while I'm going to be a little inactive with the flash for a couple weeks (and on top of that I got the flu so I don't feel like doing anything anyway), I will be randomly releasing some of my music. If you haven't checked it out, I recommend it as they're pretty good listening. Also, if my sentences don't make sense grammatically and whatever, it's because of this flu. I can't think straight at all (it took me like 3 hours just to make that update on my web page and it should have taken maybe like 20 minutes).

Go to http://www.jiggitysmith.com to send a donation and receive a hard copy in the mail (or to get the links for the free downloadable version).

The RAR archives are about 95 megs each and there are 7 of them (for a total of around 660 megs).
These uncompress to about a 2 gig DVD .iso file.

You can skip a few steps here if my web site is down (my hosting blows), you don't want to donate,
or you just want to see it right away:

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Hope you enjoy it and please leave a post what you thought about it!

EDIT: BIG LOL at the fact that the 2 gig DVD .iso file compressed in winRar to about 660 megs (So yeah, it'll be up by tomorrow although it does take a little while to uncompress).

Well out of the past 35 hours, I worked 29 of them and slept like shit for the other 6. But most of the problems:

(like ghost lines that looked like bad reception, the audio mysteriously disappearing after reconverting everything to get rid of those lines, finding out I cut out a minute and 10 seconds of just me saying umm and ahh out of the commentary and still not catching all of them, and finding that I still had to make changes to the animation so it would play accurately on a regular TV and not just a widescreen, etc.... )
--have been resolved.

So far the only problem I can tell with it is that television sets do not like the audio very much in some places (It may sound distorted like it's cranked up at times and I think that, due to the up-converting to 48khz, it overprocessed the sounds or something).

It does sound a lot better if I play the DVD with nice head phones or nice speakers, but it's a problem I'm unable to fix due to the original quality of the samples.

I'm hoping to get a few copies uploaded and hosted by tomorrow (or Friday) and I will be releasing the music video when the DVD is available for download.

For the people who want to donate and get a hard copy (thanks by the way), can I accept paypal donations without it being verified? I'm currently in the process of verifying it and it's going to take a few days. Oh btw, I do intend to burn each dvd at 4x on a DVD+R to help ensure compatibility, but I can't guarantee anything - it depends on your DVD player.

Also, I don't plan on signing them because I don't know if marker will react with the lightscribe material (but I won't be releasing the DVD art).

Anywho, yes that is a cookie and I'm not accepting donations yet because I'm still spot checking the DVD for any possible problems.

UPDATE 03/05/08:

I've gotten the DVD pretty much done at this point, however, it will take me some time to find some file hosting sites that will host large files (like around 1-2 gigs) and give unlimited bandwidth (if anyone knows any good ones I'm all ears). Also, my upspeed is, at best, 70k/sec so it will take me a few days to upload it to a few different sites for hosting (just in case one goes down). It will probably be in a RAR archive (that will unrar into an .iso for your DVD burning convenience).

UPDATE (AGAIN): A friend of mine might help me out temporarily with my bandwidth issues, but we'll see how that goes.

The release date has *possibly* been moved to Friday because of this and I've seriously been working for almost 24 hours (18 to be exact) on this DVD just to get to the point I'm at now (I'm way too tired to be able to sit through and spot check for bugs/errors but the good news is I believe I've caught them all).

Just because you all are such a great audience, here's the unskippable FBI warning that's going to be on the DVD:

For my ViewEra V202D-B 20.1" monitor. Yeah it's a cheap brand, but it was a great monitor till it sort of just fizzled out today (after a few years of strong usage).

It's fortunate I was running a dual monitor setup with a 17" monitor (I was able to use Flash in all its glory in the 20.1" widescreen monitor and surf the net on the 17")

Now that I just have the 17" one I feel like I have tunnel vision...it sucks (especially since I can't afford another bigass monitor at the moment).

Fortunately all the video and animation crap is done at this point for the DVD and I'm mostly working on subtitles, commentary, menus so it's not a huge setback...

AND part 5 comes out today (it's past midnight for me so it's technically Friday)!!

But I'm still a very sad panda:

Update 4 (Thur):

Lots of trolls out today. Must have been 'stay home sick so I don't get my ass beat' day for them.

Update 3:
Finally got the DVD pretty much synced at this point (after working from 7am-almost midnight today).

Running time: 23 min 15s (parts 1-6)
Bonus features running time: 7m 45s
So a total running time of:
31min or basically a fucking half hour of animation.

Update 2: Converting Flash to DVD and having everything remain synced to the audio is a total bitch. First I had to split each episode into 2 parts (so I could export them uncompressed due to size issues) and then fix the syncing on the second halves, THEN I find out that I have to eff around with it even more when I export it uncompressed due to it rendering without any lag.

Update: I'm done with all the animation for the bonus features on the DVD (so in other words I'm really hoping and expecting it'll be ready for this coming weekend).

I decided to see if anything at all was done with the first submission of the Part 4 (the one that got flagged).

Well it's out of admin review but it was blammed (maybe the admins just force-blammed it since I rereleased it).

But CHECK OUT THE SCORE AT DEATH. LOL!

(It's at the top)

Update: My web hosting is effed up or something so jiggitysmith.com is temporarily down (don't worry there isn't much there that you haven't already seen).

Update: OMG! I got front page again (with part 3).

Well. I made it out of under judgment this time. Not much else to say right now except see you next weekend for the conclusion.

By the way, just warning you ahead of time: part 6 is mostly the end/credits/tying up loose ends (and therefore part 5 will be liked a lot better). There is more than one ending (no, not choose your own adventure) so I mix up the credits / what happens quite a bit. Well, you'll see.

Just between us, I'ma let you know some of what I plan for the bonus features:

There's going to be an interview with Wilford Brimley and Brimleycat (I have so many quotes I didn't use it's not even funny -- so I made this).

There's going to be an outtakes reel.

Also, a rap music video for the second credits end theme (which is a rap song that I wrote, recorded, etc, from scratch - minus the Eazy E beat).

Part 4 was submitted and everything was peachy keen. But apparently I write such good material that enough haters submitted it for administrative review (although it doesn't break a single rule and is quite excellent I might add).

Until they clear the matter up and strike down the people who attacked my animation, go watch it on my Deviant art: http://jiggitysmith.deviantart.com/

or you can watch it on my webpage:

http://jiggitysmith.com

I would say sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm not the one who did this.

Update: It's been over 6 hours and I haven't heard anything. The link to it: here still says flagged for review so I guess Wade is out partying this weekend or too busy at the moment. Hopefully I'll wake up tomorrow and find it's all fixed (either that or I'll have to wait a few days). Also, I don't intend to resubmit it because once it's fixed I'll have a duplicate submission and I want to make sure the douchebags who flagged it get their whistle status downgraded.

For the losers who did do this, you are only hurting your own stats and delaying the inevitable. Also, Happycat pretty much sums things up:

Well as you may have figured out, I'm no longer front paged, which is sort of sad, but I'm not too worried about it. I have a gut feeling that after this next week goes by (since everyone's been saturated with the lolcats during the first release), I may get front page again with parts 5 or 6.

I dunno though, I may not. I honestly didn't think I was going to get front page at all to be serious.

Anyway. I'm releasing part 4 tomorrow at around 1:30 pm or sometime between 1 and 2 (and there is some good dialogue / events that happen in that one - especially with the monkey butler and a couple new characters that people really seem to enjoy).

It's a shame it's going to end next weekend, but like I said I am working on bonus features and I'm more than likely going to revisit the lolcat universe sometime in the future after I do other projects.

I'm also putting some serious thought into hosting a lolcat-related collab when this is all released (some of the guidelines would be that it has to be original artwork and not done with pictures like how I did. Also, I'm pretty hard to please so I might be a dick about letting in a number of submissions).

Anyway, glad to hear from you guys and if you've noticed, I actually respond to my userpage comments and any mail that I get.