I recently applied for a full time animation position at a local studio working on the TV show Dogstar. Well the word is in and I made the top of the short listing for the job. I had to do a quick test animation for them over the weekend and my interview is on Monday. Turns out if I get the job my boss will be my old traditional animation teacher, small world huh?

Anyways, should be a good job if I get it! I imagine I'll learn a lot of cool stuff working there. Wish me luck (:!

Also on another note, forum member Fraws has started his service in the Italian military. So be sure to go wish him luck!

We salute you Fraws!

Hey everyone, just a reminder that you can catch me at Anime-Expo next week! Faye Mata the voice of June Snatchem will be attending with me, as well as Sadie/Ultraneko of "Sadie's Gaming Infection" on the Saturday of the event. You should be able to find me if you keep an eye out for a guy in a Gamer Tonight T-Shirt or one of many Newgrounds shirts that I own (also knowing that I have an Australian accent might help!). Also know that I'm going to doing a group Team Fortress 2 cosplay with some artist friends of mine at the convention (red team). So you might catch me dressed as the Sniper on one of the days!

Here are some highlights from Anime-Expo last year.





So yeah, heaps of fun! Lots of stories. Great times.

Can't wait!

ALSO, hoorah for my new ability to embed YouTube videos on the news posts!

So I woke up to about a jillion messages today wishing me a happy 22nd. Thanks everyone haha!

Egoraptor drew me this wicked surprise picture of Gobbles, Flappers and Kickflip. Totally flippin sweet.

Anyways, I'm commissioning a good friend of mine to fix up a few tidbits here on the site, so hopefully you'll start to notice changes. Such as YouTube video embedding on the forums and a bunch of other neato back end stuff.

Once this is all ready, you'll see the first 2 episodes of Gameoverse going up on the site! :D.. Sorry about the delay getting them up, I've had a few bothersome problems with trying to get a Playboy watermark attached to them.... Should be resolved soon enough.

Hope to see some of you at Anime-Expo this coming July!

Peace,

-Ross

Are you a young lad or ladette looking for a new fancy avatar, icon or image to butcher into a signature? Maybe a picture of your two favourite characters making out even though the situation itself is more then unlikely. Well don't let that stop you! Because do I have an opportunity for you.

For a limited time only I'm opening up drawing commissions! As you may know I'm going to California for a month in July for Anime-Expo and Comic-Con. But I'd like to save up a bit of extra money before I go.

Rates (in USD):
- Drawing with one character -
Sketch: $10 Inked: $17 Colored: $25

- Drawing with 2 characters -
Sketch: $15 Inked: $19 Colored: $30

- Drawing with 3 characters -
Sketch: $19 Inked: $27 Colored: $50

All additional character add $5 for sketch/Ink and $10 for color

If you're interested to see what I'm capable of, you can look at my past and present illustration work in my artwork folders. I'm very flexible as to what kind of style you want me to work in, so feel free to challenge me a bit :)!

I can do the work in either Photoshop or Flash, it's up to you. I won't be hand drawing sketches and mailing them, as I don't have to time to commit to that right now.



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Be sure to email me with your request (reference images to if you think I'll need it). Just be sure that I know which paypal payment to connect your request with (just state your pay pal email).



I'm only going to be taking a limited number of jobs, so be sure to get your requests in ASAP!


Cheers!

-Ross

Just this morning I was sitting eating my breakfast when our dog Bella got up on the chair to look at my sisters laptop. Hilarity followed.


Just incase you haven't seen it yet, go check out Awesome Cracks Down! But be sure to find the easter egg, because its faaaantastic.


In just 32 days I'll be attending Anime-Expo in LA. You should see me walking around there in my GT shirt and POSSIBLY one day I might dress up for a laugh (I've never done it before, but it looks like fun). Egoraptor most probably won't be attending with me. The only other member of the GT cast that will be there will be Faye Mata (voice of June Snatchem). Maybe we'll give another LIVE GT a go for a laugh at Comic-Con.. Maybe. If you see me there please don't be a stranger, come say hello!



Nothing much to report on Power of 3 at this point in time. The game is still in design phase, it probably will be for a few weeks actually. I'll keep you all posted as more news develops!

Peace,

-Ross

So out of the blue, Tom Fulp on Newgrounds puts forward possibly one of the most exciting community projects ever. Power of 3 is a selective team project where you gang up in a team of well.. 3! You're then given the task of developing a game within a 3 month time period (after a 3 week prep period!). I'd happily like to announce that I'll be teaming up with the talented Tom Vian of the Super Flash Bros. As for our musician, we haven't quite come around to announcing that yet. Right now you can see we're slated down on the team page.

We're currently a nameless team! The lame suggestions so far by me have been "The King and his Convict? Incline of Video Gaming? Toss O'Vian? Rubber Bros? OMG WE'RE ON FIRE?".. A dollar to you if you get all the lame old school NG references there. If it helps, just play this song and picture us walking out of mist all cool like (THAT'S HOW COOL WE ARE).

Let me just say our game will be legendary, I'm sure of it. It was originally proposed by Tom that my OTHER game be developed for this... But that happens to be my baby, so I don't want to rush it if I don't have to! Plus this will be a massive learning curve for me.

Wish us luck! Oh and feel free to suggest a team name for us!

Peace,

-Ross

Sorry for the lack of updates lately! I've been busy working on my game project. So far its looking fantastic, nothing playable yet though. Though after talks with a friend, it looks like theres a decent possibility that this could have online multiplayer capabilities (yes, in a flash game!). When it gets off the ground and I need limited testers, I'll definately be getting a majority of you guys in on that.

I've spent the past 2 weeks or so doing a bucket of design work for the 4 playable characters in the game as well as some rough character animation. You'll be able to find all of that over at my DeviantArt page! I'm not really comfortable explaining the game to everyone yet, I'd rather get something solid to show you first.

No word on when the next 2 "Champions of the Gameoverse" will be going live on Playboys website. But when they do, I'll be sure to let you know. I believe they only do weekly updates, I'm just not sure when!