Yo!
So I thought I'd post an update with what's a brewing on my end and what you should be expecting in the future.

Well as you may already know, Casper and I have been working hard on getting GTG2: Islands of Fire out before the end of the year. It's turning out to be quite the pain since I've decided to work some 3D into the little movies that play throughout the game. However, I thought they would add that much more to the experience of the game. I want it to look as amazing as it plays, and on Casper's end, the game play is amazing already.

Secondly, I just wanted to let everyone know about the contest that are on the internet right now. I really recommend some newgrounders entering because there is truly some amazing talent on here.
I (along with my friend Brian) have been working hard to get our entry together for a contest at Nesquick and we have just started work on the Klondike contest. So go check out these and other great contest opps at websites like:

http://adooga.com/
http://www.vidopp.com/

Good luck to everyone who enters and keep me posted if you do because I would love to see your video!

It's about time I finished that project! I was getting so tired of working on it all semester long and I'm not even sure if I like the finally product. I'm sure it'll look better within the content of the actual gallery. I'm just not so sure it makes a great flash.

The Art Show

Anyways, I'm going to be working a lot more on Griswold: Islands of Fire over the summer and I'm hoping Casper and I can get it on here before the end of the year. I have a feeling it'll be our best game yet but it's just so time consuming.

Also, I probably should be looking for a job or something. I mean I have one lined up possibly, but I really wanted to do something involving animation/art. If anyone knows of any cool openings, keep me posted. :)

YO!

Ok. So for anyone interested, my Kraft Commercial (that I did in flash) is going to air tomorrow morning on TNT during the times of:
- 6:08am (Angel)
- 8:38am (Charmed)
- 11:25am (ER)
- 1:41pm (Without a Trace)

Let me know if ya catch it!

Furthermore, my submission for the Hans One Shot comic is underway for the deadline of April 4, 2008. I should be done by sometime tomorrow with it. I'd post what I have so far, but I'm not sure if that would be cool with Hans.

Finally, my college years are almost up, and I'm about 75% done with my Art Show Within an Art Show project. Can't wait to show you all.

Yo,

Well it has been over a year now since I have submitted any flash to NG. I could blame school and/or work on the fact that nothing has been submitted, but I won't do that. I could even say I've been working so hard on Griswold 2: Islands of Fire that it's eating up all my time, but then I would be lying to everyone. Instead, I'll just blame my lack of doing anything new to my new found laziness.

It's not like I don't have the time to work on anything new. I have plenty of free time on the weekends. I just can't motivate myself enough to get down to it and make a flash. I got several projects under my belt as it is and I just seem to keep adding more instead of finishing the ones I have already started.

However, starting today I will try to finish up all the older projects I have stored away in various files in my computer. This includes (but not limited too):

Griswold 2: I.O.F.
Art Show - Promised for May 5th
Ghostly Encounters (Working Title)

Oh well. Just thought I'd get this down so it could be one less thing off my mind.

Hey everyone.

If you're wondering, I won the Kraft contest. I wanted to Announce it to NG before they announce it in about 10 mins or so.

The contest link can be found here:

Have a Happy Sandwich!

I just wanted to thank everyone in this community for all the support they gave me with this contest. I think it was cooler seeing everyone come together on here to support someone you may not know. I've been getting a ton of people keeping up with the contest over the last 2 weeks.

So, now a member of NG will have a nationwide TV commerical for Kraft Americian Cheese. Sweet Treat, right?

-Chris AKA LiL' g

Hey everyone.

I made it to the top 5 with my Kraft cheese commercial. I'm asking all my newground fans and all fans of flash to go vote for my film at www.myspace.com/haveahappysandwich. I have a chance at 50 thousand dollars and a chance for my toon to be turned into a commercial which would be really great to win! My video is the 4th one over on the main page. It's going to have a Toast sandwich standing next to a tanning bed.

You can vote once per day till December 10th.
I really appreciate all the support so far, and I will keep everyone updated on the results!

Thanks
Chris Gianelloni

Hey everyone.

I just posted another new contest entry onto Myspace for a contest involving Kraft Singles.

I recommend the flash community to enter this contest and put some very high quality entries in there.
Also. I'd love every who reads this to go vote BOOYAH! (yes) for my video. I hope you enjoy it.

The video can be found at this link:

Kraft Singles Contest entry from me! Please vote!

WEB 2.0

Hey everyone. Been putting off flash videos for a while to work on a contest entry that we entered on myspace.com. The contest entails the creation of a new pilot for fox to pick from. The video could only by 7 minutes long at most.

In this episode, Martin and Vince get their first gig that may be more than what they can handle. It also doesn't help that Vince smells unpleasant to their new clients.

I'd really like some comments on the clip of the pilot. All input is good :)

-C. Gianelloni

Attention all web designers,

I'm looking for a new look to my page Bgroupproductions.com right now it is all flash, but I was hoping someone out there would be willing to help to make it a HTML/CSS site. I'll be able to do ll the images/graphics.

Now, you may be saying: What is in it for me? Well, I was thinking I could link you up on the pages and have it so your site gets even more hits or I could help out with graphics on some project you are working on.

If you are interested in this project, then contact me on AIM at BgroupProduction, E-mail me at lilg@bgroupproductions.com, or PM me on here.

-C. Gianelloni

Well, in case anyone is interested, my friend Casper just posted a long thing about the new game that we are working on. Since i'm lazy, I'm just going to repost what he has already put so wonderfully.

Hey people!

Yes I am aware that Lilg and I have been talking about this sequel for a loooooong time, but now were serious. Griswold the Goblin 2 has begun full on production and we've made a lot of progress on the game so far and the whole storyline has been written up. So far we can't give any information on a release date since the game is still very incomplete, but were hoping to get it done some time this year, we can't make any promises just yet.

This time around Griswold will be traveling to many more different places, taking on whole new challenges and the game is going to be packed full of action sequences and awesome mini games. The game concept we had put together was so big that we have been forced to split the game up into 6 different chapters, each being in a totally different location in Griswold's world.

Lilg's graphics are truly inspirational in this one. His talents never cease to amaze me and this time the graphics will blow your socks off. Each scene is entirely different with no re-used elements such as trees and shrubs. If you remember from the old game each scene pretty much had the same graphics copied into each scene. Griswold 2 will be very different with every detail in the game drawn from scratch. A few characters from the old game will be making appearances in this game and have been re-drawn in much greater detail.

The interface in Griswold 2 is much more appealing for the user, with everything entirely point and click, so no more trying to control movement with the keys and interacting with the mouse. Everything is done with the mouse, and moving about is as simple as clicking on the screen and Griswold will do the rest. I've spent a lot of time working on the path finding system so Griswold will make his way around all the obstacles on screen. Also there are tonnes of other new and nifty features.

If you're interested in possibly checking out a demo version, please feel free to email me at phantasmagor@gmail.com. Also I'd love it if you could leave some suggestions for the game, or tell me what you think of this new project of ours.

Hopefully you're as excited as we are about seeing this project finished and up on good old newgrounds for everyone to enjoy.

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