Hello again NG, its been a long time.

Why no contact? Well, I've been promoted at work and my 20 hour work weeks have transformed into 30+ hour work weeks. Grade 12 is winding down and I'm busy as can be.

Homework and personal work is the bulk of my time.

I also have a wonderful girlfriend now, who I've been dating for almost 5 months, and I'm very happy with life as it is right now, but I sadly don't have time for Flash.

Next year I'll be heading into college and the workload will increase dramatically, and I've decided to focus my time and efforts on school, work, my friends and family, and my true passion in life: graphic design.

So it is with great sadness and great hope that I say that I am done animating and developing with Flash. I'll always be an NG user as this is where my talents we're created and where I first received a piece of criticism about my work that helped. The NG community has helped me develop my talents and greatly improve at so many things, from scripting, to drawing, to time management.

NG was the true birthplace of my digital artistic love and I will always be a member here, reviewing and watching the best videos I find.

I've got 1 game that was half complete and was meant to be for Hallowe'en 2008, but I've decided to give it a fresh paint job and re-do it sometime in the future, probably during exams in June. When its done I'll be finished submitting my work and I'll be moving on!

Its been great guys, thanks for all your support and feedback, and if you want to continue to stay up to date on my design work, you can check me out at any of the links below.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/DionRodrigues
Personal Website: http://dionrodrigues.phpnet.us
Blog: http://dionrodrigues.wordpress.com
DeviantART: http://gamesandgigs.deviantart.com

Bye guys! :)

So, as everyone has probably noticed, I've been very inactive as a NG user lately. Sadly, thanks to the miracles known as the 20 hour work week and grade 12 of high school, I've been very, VERY busy. The ridiculous schedule I'm currently working to balance scarcely leaves me any time to have fun on my computer, so much in fact that I've also been falling behind in updating my clients websites, and working on my own.

But, time constraints aside, I've been playing with Logic Studio lately, and I've decided to share my love of emotional trance and electronic music with the NG community. So starting today, I'll be uploading any decent loops/tracks to the Audio Portal!

I should be producing a Hallowe'en flash this year, or at least a Christmas one..... I haven't had fun in Flash for a holiday for a looong time, and my last Christmas flash was quite an epic steamroll FAIL :P Hopefully this one will be interesting :)

Until next time!

Hey guys! Despite the looooong ass delays on the 5th installment, its finally complete! Hope you guys are ready for another action packed installment - Enjoy!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
445847

So, the grade 12 animation I was working on for school is finally out and finished - well, at least, as much as it can be on NewGrounds.

Check it out : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
444884

The link above is for the edited NewGrounds version. It doesn't contain the 2nd scene (which was stop motion animated) or the original credits, due to large file sizes.

For those of you who are waiting for the full version, here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/123395182/
animation_original.swf

Make sure you download it lots so the Rapidshare link doesn't expire :)

Coming up next: MS: AoMU Part 5, and some more animated work!

I've been spending a lot of time thinking..... I miss this site and the community here, so I'd like to apologize for leaving for so long.

Well.... I never really left - I still watched movies, kicked back in the Audio Portal, and reviewed and rated movies like theres no tomorrow..... I just haven't used Flash for a long, long time.

Just so my fans know, I am working on MS: AoMU Part 5, see for yourself (see attached Picture!).

So, today, I make a promise to my fans: That promise is that, by the end of this month, they will see the final episode of MS: Adventures of M-Unit, and they will also see another class animation, this one a parody of Cloverfield done for my grade 12 final.

Those assisting me with my class animation are my dear friends James and Cameron - if I could credit them when the submission was released I would, but they don't have NG accounts, so consider this their official crediting. The film is funny, fast-paced and exciting - it'll have you guessing like the real movie as to what the hell is really going on, and laughing your ass off all the way to the explosive ending.

More to come, as usual!

Go check it out, the link is below in my recently submitted Flash content section.

ENJOY and please review fairly! :)

Happy Holidays!

Big Party today, and lots of work going on in school (I'm behind, wayyyyy behind).

So, no Christmas video. Damn.

MS: AoMU 4 coming this Friday - finally.

Well guys, my freelance web design work has gotten pretty big lately, currently I've got 3 new clients and 3 long term clients, I'm quite happy with how things are going, but its taken its toll on my school work and on my animation.

First, I've got a TON of stuff to get done this week - the only course I'm on track in is animation (doh!) and I've decided to finish it up and do my exam this week (woot, only 3 more to go - Math, English, Engineering >_<). I'm currently trying to finish reading the Life of Pi for English, then I'm done working on that until after the X-Mas Break. Math... well, I was just lazy in that course, I would've had the current unit done last week but I decided to screw around and go to the Mac Lab at my school all week >_< Gotta finish 2 Trig guides this week...

Soo... Tuesday, English will be done, Math will be done! Hopefully! Engineering... its a big project, and my group is kind of in the dark at the moment... so Wednesday I'll probably whip up a Christmas movie and submit it. In the meantime, check out my animation final - YOU GET TO SEE IT FIRST! Its the only animation I've done in close to a month... I'm probably very rusty right now :D I've got no subject matter and no idea what to do it on, and I don't want it to be ANYTHING like last years... :P That was horrible. It really was. Maybe a sprite movie? ... I dunno. It'll be funny though!

MS: AoMU 4 will be out soon... All Christmas break is ANIMATION & WEB DESIGN - PERIOD.

Also, my new website design is up, complete with ads to make me some moneh :P Check it out Here.

I've also done a nice redesign for Oceans Alive in Toronto, check that out here. It looks sick.

So... thats about it - don't expect too much from me this holiday season, I'm in grade 11 now - time to start WORKING! :P

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL IF I DON'T GET THE CHANCE TO POST!

P.S. Why is Dubfire so damn good? ROADKILL FTW!

Well, I was working on a game for Hallowe'en, but because my copy of Leopard didn't come until the 29th, that idea got scraped. Sooooo...... I'm gonna make a very nice Christmas video, much better than the one I did last year......

Also, MS: Adventures of M-Unit will soon be transferring over to Adventures of the 11 Guardians - Why? YOU'LL HAVE TO WATCH PARTS 3-5, COMING JANUARY 2008!

Nobody knows this, but I'm making a Hallowe'en animation, its going to be....well......gory, to say the least.

Thats what Hallowe'en is all about - the blood, the guts and the gore.

Video should be out on the 30th or 31st, thats assuming my upgrade from Mac OS X Tiger to Mac OS X Leopard goes well this Friday......