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Posted by chluaid - November 3rd, 2007


OK sure it's been a month since my last post but Waterlollies is ready to submit pending one tiny addition. If that one little thing holds me up I'll submit it to NG, regardless.

To everyone who offered their support no matter how long the wait, thanks for your patience. I hated having to set estimated dates, only to see them go by as Waterlollies experienced further delays. It was (still is) pretty painful getting abusive emails, as if people thought I was sitting on my arse doing fuck all.

The fact is that having other contributors to the project meant that I could only set realistic dates for my own part of the work. So I worked hard getting all of the backgrounds, animation and effects done, putting the movie together and fine-tuning the flow of the story. For the other parts (scripting and audio) I could only encourage those artists to finish quickly, then step back and hope they would.

The important thing is that it's finished now and I hope you find that it's been worth the wait. Nathan McCree (the music guy) worked very hard on this. He's done amazing work as I knew he would. The music and the sound of Brackenwood is incredible and it adds so much to the animation. I'm very happy with the movie visually, audiblibabally and I'm also pretty happy with the story.

Speaking of story, I recently slapped my forehead as I came to the realisation that there's a difference between story telling and story writing. I do know how to tell a story well, but my story writing still needs work. I think this is why hitchHiker leaves a lasting impression. At its heart is a fantastic, gripping true story and I told it well.

My average Brackenwood movie however, the story is generally not as refined as it could be. So no matter how great the visuals, until I get my shit together the story will always seem a little lacking. There's been some positive and some negative response to Waterlollies story, but all in all I think it's better than previous Brackenwoods.

So I've invented a new motto: At the heart of a good story there's a good story.

See you in a couple of days!
-chlu

2 days


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I wander what a stick movie made by you would be like : D (saw senior-twinkies comment). I also wander if brackenwood fans would scream about it though.

additionally it makes me sick to hear people treating guys like crap by sending hate mail and abusive comments, its like they own you or something. kinda shows me the negative side of popularity, I'm very happy being a no namer for now : D

<3 yay

Hey man i am sooo happy to hear you say its finally all compete. i couldnt understand why people wanted to rush waterlollies along and complain that it wasn't there. every time you said it was going to be delayed i actually prefered it because it meanr that the greatness of brackenwood wasn't going to be rushed.

i expect to sit down some day and see bitey on the TV, your work by far is the best animation on NG and any other flash sites on the Web. it is just a joke even to try to contemplate how you animate and do it all yourself! untill i saw a few brackenwood stories and read you blog thing i thought that it was at least 12 people working on different scenes at one time; seriously.. the quality of your work is unparrallelled.

seeing your work is what inspires me to try to make my flashes better!

all in all man, its great to hear that Waterlollies is finished. i myself have ben loking forward to it since last july or around there. and i know that you dont rally care about what score it gets, but i seriosuly belive that Waterlollies is goin to be the first 5.00 on newgrounds. before i even click ' view this movie' its getting a strait 5/5 from me!!

see ya!

oh wow, its so awesome! (i wish my crappy computer didnt lag so much but hey its still awesome!) i love at the end how the bigfoot is just standin there like wtf?! this is gonna be #1 for a loooooong time, but you should put it on youtube for us crappy computees lol.

oh wow, i found a way to stop it lagging, all i did was pause it on the part where bitey grabs the green thing right at the start, then when that movie clip had finished i played it again and it didnt lag once! computers work in strange ways it seems.

oh wow, i just said "oh wow" 3 times in a row o_O

i am a really big fan of your work,the writing is well to my opinion,enleast your skills are better than that from recent writingstaff from pixar(ratattouie,cars and bugs life for a excample)

just thought i'd add that ure drawing and animation is better than most cartoons on TV now, and they have entire teams of animaters, i know that the movie will be on the big screen.

saw this on your website about 6 times already, it was amazing

not sure if i'm allowed to post the link or not so i won't :)

can't wait till it's on newgrounds!

i went on my bros laptop when he went to work, and watched waterROFLies without the lag......... I FREAKIN LOVE YOU, how in gods name did you do the water animation at the start, infact, how in gods name did you do ANY of the animation? oh and on ure wikipedia article, nice hair ;)

Just looking at that poster... it sends chills down my spine. One more day, just one more day, and we'll have one more flash of brilliance. I'm fucking ready!

woho it's so close to the masterpiece just two more days.
I hope I can hold until then

Today's the day!
Hopefully...

I can't wait! :)

hell yeah! I got 3rd reveiw! But you do know that a few days before the NG release, there was a topic on the BBS linking to waterlollies via <a href="http://www.biteycastle.com/waterlollies.html">www.biteycastle.com/waterlollies.html </a> . i doubt this was meant to get out?

yeah I announced the release on my forum so I was pretty sure the link would get out, which was fine by me.

I just watched it, it was amazing, i never knew you could actually get this much better since you made the yuyu

ignore the people who sent u bad insulting emails

they dont know what a final master piece needs to be done

You're a genious.
And a legend.

.M.

do you ever regret having left disney? or has it been awesome?

non-stop awesome. I go to bed at 5am and sleep until lunchtime. Best job I've ever had :D

OMG SCORE OF 4.74!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is this a record on NG? Does anyone know? I've only seen Tankman 2 as highest with 4.47 (4.44 now)
I hope Waterlollies score keeps going up!!

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