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Thanks in Advance.

Well here we are again, another 2 weeks (and 3 days actually) since my last Cartoon Production Update. I hope you guys are actually reading these. Well, even if you aren't, I'm still going to make them, it makes me feel like I have fans, lol. Anyway, these last 2 weeks have been neat, I've gotten 2 portal awards, and I've gotten a fair amount done on "TV Rules the Nation"! For those of you who don't know what that is, come this way.

Okay, so, time for a recap of the past 2 weeks of my life. Okay, about 18 days ago (roughly) I submitted this cartoon, which took me only about 40 minutes to put together fully. This one was actually the first cartoon I made in Flash MX, and it's the first cartoon I used my tablet for, and to be honest, I couldn't be happier. I couldn't have asked for a better way for my first tablet cartoon to go, it gives me confidence in any of my upcoming tablet related endeavors. I feel kind of gypped in a small way, just as SirSchmoopy did when he made Splash Attack. Read about it here (warning long read). I mean, the cartoon got a higher score than any cartoon I've ever submitted to newgrounds. It makes you wonder why people put effort into flashes at all? Anyway, I don't mean to worry you, I'm still going to make fun stuff for you to watch, I just had to get that off my chest.

Onto my next flash submitted in the last 2 weeks: Jim and Pals Shorts Episode 5: Portal Mishaps. A parody of the very popular Xbox 360 game, Portal. I know that I'm a little late in making this, as the Portal fever has already died down exponentially; still, It felt like it'd been too long since I submitted something with any effort put into it, so I set aside TV Rules the Nation and made a short funny cartoon. Take a look at it if you haven't already. It turned out very well I think.

Okay, and now for what you've all been waiting for, the weekly percentage!

TV Rules the Nation:
Approximate Percentage: 49%
Current Runtime: 1 minute and 13 seconds

This cartoon has really been coming along very well, It's fun to do, and it's very pretty to look at, if I do say so myself. I obviously haven't gotten a ton of it done, like my last update, but it's getting harder as I go along (as I predicted) so it takes more time to make it good. Not a whole lot to say about this other than I think you're all really going to enjoy it.

Okay, now for something a little extra this week. I've been thinking a lot about Jim lately, actually ever since I made JaPS EP. 5 and I decided that I need to make another big Jim cartoon. I came to the realization that I hadn't made any long, really Jim orientated cartoons, since Jim Day 07. I didn't really count Tetris Unleashed 3 or Jim: The Movie (Trailer) because TU3 was more about Tetris, and wasn't comedy based, and JtMT didn't have much of a storyline (or any for that matter). So I'm going to be making a fairly long Jim cartoon after TV Rules the Nation is done (or maybe I'll start when I'm almost done, just to get a head start on things). I have some good ideas for this cartoon, and I'm going to start storyboarding it soon.

In conclusion, here's your weekly screenshot for TV Rules the Nation, my upcoming cartoon, and I hope you enjoy it.

~Jimtopia

P.S. The reason this Cartoon Production Update is so long is because I'm not going to be able to update until Friday, January 22nd. I am going to be visiting my sister in Iowa next weekend, she popped her arm out of her socket, yikes. Anyway, sorry about making you wait all weekend for this, I had to get my crap together, and hopefully next time, my cartoon will be 99% done. =P