A quick announcement

Greetings, everyone.

Sorry for not following the weekly schedule, again. It's just a lack of things to write about. Long story short, Dokuroshima is still worked on: several scenes left to animate, plus sound effects, plus music, which is taken from the Audio Portal. Most likely it will take a few days at least since there was more work to be done than I thought. I'm trying to finish it within the month, but chances are that the project will be delay until the first days of December. Not apocalyptic, but still awkward :/

And a more proper description of circumstances as of now will be provided in the next update tomorrow-ish...

Weekly Log: 2015.11.09

Greetings, everyone.

Yet another week passed, and not much more things happened.

As you can probably see from the previous rant post, I've unknowingly used a copyrighted track in one of my animations according to YouTube ; it will be fixed soon.

As for YouTube itself, I've decided to transform the video dump I had into a channel actually meant to show things to people. Playlists of my videos are arranged, and the header changed into something I think looks cooler. Eleven subscribers are reached already. My imaginary rainbow Fedora tips to all of them, and I hope the whole YouTube gig will actually get me somewhere awesome.

As for the projects, more progress is made as always. And just as planned, I still aim to release the next Dokuroshima installment this month.

P.S. If you're interested, you can see the said YouTube channel through this link:

youtube.com/channel/UCo1n5X14cKggbuZWw3QZgjg

A minor rant

Greetings, everyone.

I'll just cut it short: I stepped on a copyright claim on YouTube.

Let me explain the situation. I made a flash movie, and I used no other music than whatever I found on the Audio Portal. I had no idea the tune was copyrighted, and guess what? I see the video being flagged (or whatever it is when you still got the video up and it's monetized in the copyright owner's favor).

I do not blame the owner since it's his tune (as I found out later) , nor do I blame the moderators since they have done their job by finally taking the track off the Audio Portal. Sure, I may be to blame since I did not check if the tune is copyrighted before downloading from Newgrounds, but why do I have to do that when it's clearly said in the upload screen that the tunes themselves are supposed to be made by the uploaders?

Not only the situation for animators on YouTube is hard enough in general, it only takes three copyright strikes to have your channel taken down (and I had been contemplating quite the plans for mine, where I just recently started to put some effort in maintenance). And then there's this prick who comes to Newgrounds, jumps to the Audio Portal to upload stuff ripped off the Web. And then some unlucky author decides to unknowingly use the tune just to step on a copyright claim, only because some asshole though NG Audio Portal was an mp3 dump where you can store your personal copy of Metalocalypse soundtrack. Lemme give you a hint: it isn't.

If you try to find a way to watch the stuff you can't afford to watch or play, that might be questionably fine. After all, that is one of the reasons why Pirate political parties even exist. But if you downright steal content by slapping your name on it (and that's practically it when you upload third party content where it is assumed on the upload screen that the uploader is the author), then go fuck yourself.

P.S. If you're wondering, it all comes down from Randomness-4-Real on YouTube where it received a copyright claim. I may have to replace the music and reupload the video.

Weekend Log: 2015.11.02

Greetings everyone.

Not much to say as of now, and I think I'd start with something more significant.

Many have kicked it off on Halloween, and so did I with Facadeness: Melonation. It's another Madness short, this time starring my new OC, Ash Thompson, who just happens to be a widely known robber in Nevada. Also it obviously has the Façade game as the location.

And now that I finally got that out of the way, I have one less thing to distract me from Dokuroshima development. New scenes are drafted, some even finished, as always. Another piece of soundtrack is also contemplated, and I might even post up an early version of it. If I feel like it that is...

Apart from that, next year (long after the current part of Dokuroshima is complete) , me and one of my supposed comrades, Momoiro-kun (with whom I worked on "Taco Tuesday MLG" as a background artist earlier), plan to make yet another interactive flash. As you may think, yes, it will contain pr0nographic crap, however, this time, more focus will be on the storyline and teh horror/thriller elements. Currently, we cannot tell jack shit about the project, but if there's one thing I can tell so far, this will be among the most edgy things we ever worked on.

So, that is it for now...

See you next Sunday, and happy Halloween.

If you don't like happy Halloween, then happy holidays, and if you don't like happy holidays, then happy Shut-the-fuck-up...