Bubbly, another word for Fizzy. Fizz being the title of my new cartoon that I'll be releasing soon. Sadly I don't think the whole one cartoon a month thing that I mentioned awhile back is going to happen. Unless I somehow manage to get the second half of this cartoon done in less than 12 days or so. I mean, I suppose it's possible, just not likely. I would love to shoot for a November release, but we'll see.

There are a couple other things I'm doing this month though, I participated in a friend of mine's project, Flash Saga: 2. It's a trippy story about an alien trying to find his ship. I'm also participating in the Pork and Beans collab, which should still be happening, there was a little turmoil earlier, but hopefully the collab starters can get that worked out.

I'm also planning on a Jimtopia Christmas cartoon, I just really need to get the script finished, that's all that's stopping me at the moment. What I have so far is pretty good, I just have to finish it. Stupid writers block.

Wish I had more interesting stuff to say, I suppose I'm just keeping the folks at home informed.

-Jimtopia

Happy Halloween! Jim got all dressed up this year.

I kind of want to get the general consensus on this, do you enjoy when I (or anyone for that matter) updates more regularly, or do you prefer to merely be informed just when we have new content to show you? Do you like knowing how projects are going, or do you just want to see the final result?

Well, Jim and Pals 8 is out now, go watch!

This is the first on ever to be made in Flash. It's about time Jim and his pals updated to a program worthy of animating them.

This also marks the beginning of my one cartoon a month challenge! Let's see how long I can keep it up for!

Place ya bets!

~Jimtopia

Hey Newgrounders,

So I've sort of set a goal for myself, to release one cartoon every month; I just wanted to get the general Newgrounds user's opinion on this. Is this too little, should I try to do one every two weeks, is it too many, will it be too much work and I wont be able to keep up? Now, these cartoons will probably consist mostly of additions to the Jimtopia series, but when I finish one of my longer cartoons that one will end up being the monthly one. Thanks for reading, and leave your thoughts on the subject below.

~Jimtopia

P.S. Finally got iChat working, so I can now talk to users who use AIM as well as MSN and Yahoo! Drop me a PM if you're interested.

You clicked here? Oh well, you asked for it...

I have run into a sort of dilemma regarding the sequel to "TV Rules the Nation" (now officially titled "I Am the Brainwasher"). I didn't realize when I started it, but seeing as I'm using Celarents style that he used for Future, my cartoon is going to be compared to his, and my cartoon isn't as good. To be honest I'm just worried that it will be horribly under appreciated just because it isn't as good. I didn't have this concern with TV Rules the Nation, because it was just different enough to be my own, but this one looks a lot like Celarents, and I mean a lot. I am putting a lot of work into I Am the Brainwasher, and I guess I'm just hoping that NG doesn't vote it badly because it's not as good as Celarents absolute perfection. *drools*

Also, if you're curious how far "I Am the Brainwasher" is, I'm about 2 minutes in. So 20% done.

In the world of college/personal life...

College is going pretty well, all my classes are going kind of slowly though, considering 90% of the class didn't even know what Flash was; so we have to start on Step 0 with Flash, and it's killing me. Our assignments require that you animate at 12 FPS, on a 700x350 stage, and it can only be 5-8 seconds long. We're not even allowed to use movie clips or tweening yet! Our first assignment was that we had to make a cartoon about Autumn with the above requirements. Here's what I came up with (it wuz rilly h4rd 2 do!). Classes aren't terrible though, other than our sucky restrictions, it's actually pretty fun. We do a lot of drawing and movie-watching.

Okay, enough talking about real life stuff. This isn't myspace after all.

In other cartoon related news...

I am now announcing another cartoon I have in the works entitled: Fizz... something or other... I haven't really thought through the title yet, but if any of you remember the terrible cartoon Fizz that I submitted way back in '06, I'm basically taking the character, making him have a body, arms, hands, eyes, legs, pants, shoes... you get the idea. Anyway, I'm redesigining him, getting him a voice actor, and putting him in a superhero role! It's going to be sweet! I've only got about a minute left to animate on it, but considering I'm also working on I Am the Brainwasher, it still is going to be awhile before it comes out.

Thanks for reading,
Jimtopia

I really wish I had something to update about, but I really don't.

So instead, here's what's been eating up my time lately. I discovered it from this online forum awhile back. Apprently the guys from MST3K got back together a couple of years ago and started doing this thing called RiffTrax. Basically they just watch newer movies and make fun of them in the same way they made fun of older movies. But for those of you die-hard MST3K fans who think it wouldn't be funny unless they're making fun of something older then you are, they do old movies too! I'm putting it here because, to be honest, it's really funny, and not terribly popular, it deserves more praise then it's got.

Here's some samples I found on Youtube.

Hope you enjoy them.

~Jimtopia

Let me just be blunt. I wont be submitting anything for awhile. For two main reasons:

1. I'm going to college.

2. All my ideas are big, and will require time.

Okay, so first off; headin' to college, it's pretty crazy to think about. It seems like just yesterday I was a freshmen in high school who barely new anything about flash, and now I'm off to go major in animation! Crazy how time flies. But I'm not here to bore you with my real life, just letting you know how it's going to affect my Newgrounds viewers.

Well, to be honest, you aren't going to see anything major from me for awhile. Maybe a Jim and Pals Short here or there, but what I really want to work on, is the epic sequal to TV Rules the Nation, currently entitled: "I am the Brainwasher." This one will use Daft Punk music as well. One neat thing about the song, and I hate to build hype so early on about this, but it's 10 minutes long, and I intend to make the flash that long. I have this all planned out, and I'm very aware of how big of a project that will be, but I'm confident that I can complete it. Don't get too excited though, I'm currently only done with about 30 seconds of it, and some of that still isn't done, but so far it looks and is animated at least 10 times better than TV Rules the Nation was. Here's a few screenshots from it.

City at Night

Skyscraper

Omnipresent Screen

I wish I could show you the movie, but I hate doing that, it just seems to detract from a flash when you finally watch it.

Anyway, one major change that I'm doing with this cartoon, is I'm making it entirely in Flash CS3 rather than KoolMoves (which is what I used for TV Rules the Nation). Also, I'm doing this on my laptop I got from my college, which is a Mac with lots of RAM and Gigahertz and stuff... yeah...

Anyway, keep checking for updates I am the Brainwasher isn't the only flash I'm working on... ;)

~Jimtopia

By the way, for any of you that think that I'm stealing Celarent's style or ripping him off or something, I talked to him about it, and he said it was fine.

Bye everyone, I'm heading on a vacation for a few days, wont be able to check my NG page for awhile! To keep you all occupied, I submitted a cartoon!

Jim and Pals Shorts: Episode 7

Hope you enjoy it, and see ya later!

~Jimtopia

EDIT (7/31/08): I got my own series page! Thanks so much Tom! ^_^

Oh man, it was a great time. First off, let me make a list of all the people I got too meet:

Tom Fulp
April Fulp
Anigen
RedMongoose
Egoraptor
Rubberninja
Rina-Chan
HansVanHarken
Funy-Mony
Kirbopher
Danomano
Super Flash Bros
Tomorrows Nobodies
Cycon
(If I'm missing anyone I'll add you later)

Okay so,

Day 1-

Day one was filled with dissapointment, and enjoyment. I spent most of the day missing out or giving up on going to certain panels; luckily today was the day that I got to meet Tom Fulp. It was awesome, and Tom is a very nice guy. April took a picture of me and my friend next to Tom (I'm on the right, and he's on the left). I ended up buying myself a NG shirt, since I've always wanted one but never felt like waiting for it to ship to me. I then spent a couple hours wandering the convention center, taking pictures of intriguing things, and figuring out my way around. I then went back to the booth to see if I could find any other Newgrounders, which, to my surprise, I saw/met Egoraptor (right) and RubberNinja (left)! We all talked for a few hours, until finally me and Junkdog decided it was time to head out.

Day 2-

Day two, the day of the fabled Castle Crashers/Newgrounds party, which was absolutely awesome! Not much point in talking about the convention today, basically I met Rina-Chan and gave Anigen some gum. Anyway, back to the party; I think most of us were under the impression that we were all heading to some random bar, so Tom led us all outside, and we walked like 5 or 6 blocks until we came to a big building. As we walked inside we were all filled with joy as we saw that this place was reserved just for Newgrounders! With free food and free drinks to boot! We spent quite awhile there, I got a good chance to talk to David (of Tomorrows Nobodies) and Cycon. They had Castle Crashers and Mario Kart Wii set up, but this turned into more of a social event, and we all just ended up chatting with our fellow NG'ers. It was great.

Day 3-

Day 3 was fairly dissapointing considering what I did the day before. I didn't get a chance to see any of the Newgrounders, I stopped by the booth a few times, but I just kept missing them, also I didn't have my camera; so there wasn't a whole lot to report on for Day 3.

Day 4-

Day 4 was quite fun, and it all started when Rina-Chan noticed me and Junkdog walking by. She offered to interview me for a Comic-Con-flash-artist-documentary-typ e-thing. I obliged, and it turned out to be more of an ordeal than I first thought it would be. I sat around with RubberNinja, Rina-Chan, Egoraptor, Anigen, and RedMongoose for awhile, until we all decided to do the interviews later, and instead went down to the exhibition hall. From there we all sort of separated, and I spent a few hours walking around with Egoraptor, RubberNinja, and Anigen. After that we all collected at the Newgrounds booth, and talked for quite some time. I noticed people starting to disperse, and so, after waiting for quite some time, I was pulled out of there by Junkdog who was quite tired from the days events and we walked back to the hostel we were staying at without getting a chance to say goodbye to anyone... if I have one regret for the entire trip, it was leaving then, because it looks like all the NG'ers headed out again afterwards, and I would have loved to have gone. So if any of you Newgrounders who I never got to say goodbye to are reading this; Goodbye! It was great meeting you all!!!

I already have my ticket for next year, and I hope to see you all again!

**please note that any and all spelling/grammar errors in this post are my fault and will be corrected upon noticing**

~Jimtopia