I don’t see anything wrong with the commercial at all. Of course Hitler caused AIDS, as well as the Holocaust and World War II. Hitler is the cause of all evil in the universe, all disease, all tyranny, all death, everything wicked.

Hi there. I´m that Nutty Girl that draws the large amount of dragons and horrible looking beasties on the artportal. Anyway. I Want to draw something else than dragons for now ( Your allowed to request them though). So I’ll draw anything you want. But the drawing is made within 10 min. So the anatomy can be of and it can end up looking like crap. But what the hell, that’s the fun of it.

Go Post you freakin request

He’s an example of what it could look like. He has oversized hands, but the blood makes it look cool anywayLog in to see images! muhahah

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This is a test. nmvbbnm is conducting a test of the Art Portal Emergency Purge System. This is only a test.

For anyone that hasn’t heard… an art portal mod’s account was compromised. The person/s that gained access to it pruned i-bot… and everyone under him (which would be literally EVERYONE). Admin is working on getting things restored, but because it’s a holiday weekend here in the US, it’s probably gonna take a little longer than it normally would. So… just sit tight. *Hopefully* all scouts will return to normal in a few days.

This has been a test of the Art Portal Emergency Purge System. The Moderators in voluntary cooperation with the Site Administrators have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of a purge. If this had been an actual emergency, the post you are now reading would have been followed by official information, news or instructions. This concludes this test of the Emergency Art Portal Purge System.

Oh man, the mods are trying to cover it up.

People will find out you know. They’ll all find out, and you’ll be dead.

It’s all a conspiracy.

Don’t worry ReNaeNae, I belive you… now that I acctually read that it’s a blody drill…

I HATE drills >Log in to see images!

But I guess it’s ok since it was for a good purpose :3

But I still don’t like it >Log in to see images!

But I won’t hate you or the other mods for it :3

But – ok, enough is enoug, this joke got old before I even started it.-

lol… ok, thanks… it’s Sunday morning… I just woke up to find a bunch of IM’s alerting me to the events that occurred whilst I was sleeping (I was tired from playing LBP with BMK on my new PS3 til 2AM! YAY!)

So maybe that’s why I’m slower than usual?

So do you think that deleted submissions will be restored aswell? I know Matt-likes-swords gallery was completely wiped out, a long with an image of my own. Just curious if the admins even have the powers to do something like that…

It was pretty the same for me. I wonder what happens if the very first user who scouted others first and so on gets banned or leaves the portal, does the portal collapse since all the art will be removed from it ? At least until some higher ups start the twig system again … wich makes me think that this is not a very stable solution ,however through the occasional “purges” only active users remain inside.

im currently working on a munny as your reading this :3…

it was going to be for luis’s mini munny comp but it seems like he has either forgoten about it or far to busy… (most likey busy with the meet ups and the SB-tour)

but in all fairness i can see where your coming from… but in the same way they are similar… they come blank and unpainted and prepaired… i paint on details which arnt there and add structal elements to them as well… all i wanted was somewhere where i would get more / indeepth feed back… im trying to get my painting standards up to golden deamon quality and at the moment all my new stuff is better then some of the top quality stuff from GW… anway, i understand newgrounds wants to base everything around orginal and scratch built work… i just wanted to see what you guys thought about it… but i do agree munnys are far more bland with just a outline and so much possiblitys!!!... i might start up my very first thread as a munny showcase / wip… :3

thanks for the view…

I have …a few …quibbles about the Art Portal.

The main one being the quality work that gets through.

Its pretty damn obvious that a fair amount of **** gets through the portal, when no effort or time is put into it , and it seems to get through by people’s little interbuddys scouting them and voting 5 straight away. Being

generic also helps if you can’t be bothered to put in the effort.

I see others work, and although they may not be the best artists on the site, they deffinately have potential .

And yes i’d like to see the Art Portal full of nothing but the best, but at the same time people will never become the best, unless they receive crit, so they can self improve.

Unfortunately these people get less attention then the ’ lolface’ drawing idiots we harbour.

I feel the scouting system is a good way to get artists through, the same as the flash portal, but instead the work can be uploaded and found at a diffrent time ( an hour, a day, a week later ).

I just feel that be able to scout someone is a privallige, its showing the artist has been reckognised for their work, but as you can see, its abused.

Possibly some sort of limit to who can scout? Some form of qualification on who could scout, and how may times they cans cout in a certain time frame…

My last point is the reveiws. Basically i like to reveiw submissions, but in them i give crit, and i like to see how the artist responds to them, to see if more advise could be offered/ the conversation taken into a little more depth.

But i have to either favourite every submission i reveiw, or remeber where it was/ which one it was.

Some form of notification would be good, like the one under ’ My Account ’ that shows ” Flash Reveiws With Author Response ”.

I really love the art forum, and take it seriously. AFtre all this timewaiting, and the Admin’s hard work on making it, i feel its taken a little forgranted.

If i’m skipping ahead of plans and rushing people, then sorry, if this has helped then alls good.

I just needed a good rant about it.

* Thanks to ReNeaNea for pointing me in the right direction to post this.

To Mansellscore,

As far as your opinion about some of the art that’s in the portal, for the most part i’m on your side. There is some art that’s in the portal that I personally might not think needs to be in there, however none of the submissions you pointed out were particularly terrible or broke any rule (Well with the exception of OctopusPriem, but for some reason I do kind of like his work XD). So there’s no reason for them not to be in the portal, I didn’t check to see if you were a scouted user or not, but have you looked at the unscouted section of the Art Portal? There are WAY worse art submissions that could be in the portal, the stuff you have pointed out really aren’t that bad in comparison to the stuff that doesn’t get in.

There are some amazing artists in the portal, but don’t let them outshine the kids who are also talented in their own respect.

Love, Captain-Ben

Is this art?

Hi everyone, I recently found the Newgrounds site and was amazing at the huge amount of content here and also you have an art portal! The art I create is not traditional paper/pen or even 3dmax/maya but art created using a 3D game engine by ID software called Quake3. This is a hobby thing that I enjoy in my free time and have been doing for years. I always try to create stuff that is visually interesting and my work (full details can be found on website) is well known through Q3 communities for that quality.

The editor called GTKRadiant is a complex monster of a program that is hard to use and not very friendly but it is something I know and enjoy using. Here is some screenshots of the editor and how it looks:

Editor (All windows) – Small and Large.

Editor with different axis viewpoint (similiar to 3dmax) – Small and Large.

My latest map/level was created from scratch and was inspired by my recent holiday in Barcelona where I found Gaudi who created amazing organic stuff. I have photos of on my personal site if anyone is interested and it was used as inspiration for my current project.

I wanted to create something that was very much mood/style art driven and with odd upward angles from basic materials (wood/stone/metal) The 3D engine has some basic metal/stone but no wood so I used some textures of my own. I could have created all of my own textures but I wanted to concentrate on architecture more so used some existing bumets that came with the engine. I posted some final screenshots of what I created here and got good reviews and votes. Here is some final/editor views of those images I posted.

Image 1 – Final and Editor

Image 2 – Final and Editor

The editor views show the 3D shapes that were used to create the scene but the process does not stop there. The map has to be lit (lights placed and set to correct values), sealed up and material/texture shaders created. Once all the engine specific stuff has been done the map has to be compiled with a command line utility. Once all the technical stuff has been done the level is finally ready to walk around and enjoy. I picked several good viewpoints and then uploaded them to this site for people to enjoy.

After a crazy long rambling by me on the process of how I created my artwork, why this post? well I recently had all my artwork deleted and told ‘posting images in the portal that are created with an application that does all of the work’ and thou I was annoyed by the statement I just wanted to try and show this is not the case. The editor is blank when you start it, there is nothing, you have to build all the walls, supports, tweak the lights, align the textures yourself. The editor is simple a tool much like 3dmax.

I would like to post my artwork to this site but if it is not considered art then ok cool, I can accept that and move on. So as the title says … Is what I do art? Does it look good? Do you believe I created this myself? If any mod is reading this, please let me know if I can have my art stuff re-posted or not.

If you want further information on me or my other work then please check my personal site.

Thanks for your time

Simonoc

now… a few things to take into account… the textures your using are not your own?... the software your using is for a game and thus your taking screen shots of the map… and they arent really artistic… more of a future landscape… its very hard to say if its art or not beacuse art is put blantenly anything…

unless you were to paint or draw these pictures or make them from scratch without any pre-exisiting models or textures i would say no… it would open up the flood gate for people who use games and map making / modding… its also very hard to say if your textures are orginal or copies from elsewhere meaning that we have no prof that you made it or have stolen it from else where…

also been a 3d map as such… we wouldnt be able to use features such as tineye to see if the image was stolen or taken from elsewhere… i have seen your pictures and im still not sure what to make of it… 3d artists make models from scratch using simple shapes and warping the nodes and stuff (im not really into it myself but i know a bit) where are your just doing something similar… ahhh its to hard to say… im not in a posion to say yes or no… so i would wait for a gold aura person to reply Log in to see images!

Well I bumume after a day and no admin/mod reply I should pack my bags and go. It was a lot of fun posting my stuff and getting all the review/votes from various people but it seems my stuff is not welcome here. I would strongly suggest if you don’t want game engine stuff then say so in your FAQ, infact probably best just to cut the whole 3d thing to be safe! Log in to see images! (only joking)

I still don’t see why everyone has their knickers in a bunch over this, a game engine is no different to a render engine in 3dmax/maya. I could easily export my architecture to max and light/render it just the same, I still created all the architecture myself, there was no single bumon magic process as was suggested to me.

With reference to using the game engine bumets (textures), the game creators have no issues with people posting screenshots (max renders) to forums, it is not like I am going to profit from this! There are literally hundreds of legal sites on the internet where 3d artists are allowed to use downloadable textues for their own scenes. Probably the most popular one on the net is CGTextures which does specifically say in the site FAQ that textures can be used royality/credit free. I never once hide my sources or what I used to generated my art images with so I certainly don’t feel bad about what I did.

I wish you all good luck with your art portal and I hope it turns into the thing you want, because it seems to me you just want a traditional hand drawing thing only, which is very cool but please let people know this and not delete all their work after they have been posting for weeks and getting feedback from people.

If an admin could delete my account here, it would be awesome.

Thanks for your time

Simonoc

I’ve slept through drunk drivers hitting our house, a fire engine with sirens blazing outside of our house, tornado sirens outside my window, a tornado, an ice storm that nearly sent a tree through my bedroom wall, my house nearly collapsing, and several instances where police sirens where outside my house.

I had to have my brother tell me the story of all of those because I slept through it all.

I have problems sleeping, so I take medicine for it now.

I use to be the type of person who would go to sleep at midnight and wake up at four in the afternoon the next day, I can’t do that anymore.

Now I’m out around eleven thirty and up be eleven at the latest.

I miss my sleep.

They ****ing did it.

Treason. Although the design of the character was faithful to the series, the idea that they introduced a new character in the first place is complete sacrilege. It’s from a film that hasn’t been released in the US.

****ing discuss.

The title says it all. Homework is pointless. So tell me people, what’s the ****ing point of it? I mean, I do work at school, so why do I have to do it at home? When I get home, I just want to ****ing relax, not do more work. Besides, I forget to do it 95% of the time lolz. So yeah, I’m sure you all agree with me, so no need to ask. Stupid school system needs to get their head wired to their bum!

Who have you met randomly, not family members or friends or coworkers, but just people you came across briefly, who seriously impressed you in some way?

For me it was the guy who helped us pick out a mattress at Sears about a year ago. We started out by asking about the Tempur-Pedics, and he immediately said that they were bad because the way it indents according to your body shape actually makes sleeping awkward. Dubious, I tried it out, and in fact this was the case.

We then proceeded to examine the various spring mattresses they had in the store, guided by Mattress Guy’s unbiased reviews (clearly he was either not paid on commission or didn’t care about it, as he specifically told us not to pick some because they were too expensive), and came upon a choice between two that were only different in their firmness. They were about the same anyway, so I was just about to pick the firmer one in order to reinforce my delusions of manliness. It was then that Mattress Guy said that most men *say* they prefer the firmer mattresses, when they actually don’t, and furthermore that mattresses will become firmer as they become more used. At that moment I realized that I was face to face with a man who seriously knew his **** about mattresses. I took the soft one and never looked back.

TL;DR: Mattress Guy knows ****ing everything about mattresses.

The fedex guy at my old place. **** was the coolest ****ing person I have met or are likely to ever meet. He just.. exhuded cool. Not necessarily in an alpha way, either.

It is hard to describe. My wife saw him once and the words she mustered were “this guy is cool”. We would wear our best clothes and primp up for packages because of this.