THE PAST

SO it's been a busy few weeks for me, that Watchmen thing did pretty good business, I'd love to say I'm working on a series to follow it up but I'm afraid that would be horseshit.

Thanks those of you who came out in support of Chuck's New Tux winning for best movie of 2008. I owe you both a beer.

...I know, I didn't deserve to win but I'm not going to look a gift tank down the barrel. Thanks to Tom, the voters and Mindchamber for his awesome video, it was a fantastic honour.

THE PRESENT

I just read a headline on msn news that said "Boy survives 15 inch rod through eye, huge sandstorm AND CHIMP ATTACK!!".

I was very disappointed to read that these were actually three separate stories...

BACK TO THE FUTURE

A while ago I talked about something called 'Killgar's Kwest' which was supposed to be an introductory episode to a potential series called 'Starbarians' but real life got in the way...

Well it's back on track... except now it's just called 'STARBARIANS' (see below). It's my final college project due for May/June so the NG release shouldn't be long after, that might sound like a good long while away but when I sit down and attempt to do an animation time effectively disappears and the next thing you know it's 2015 and Griff Tannen is tearing shit up on a hoverboard outside. . .Fuck you Griff Tannen.

I'm currently failing college due to the amount of time I took out to make Watchmen, so I need to pull my boots up and kick some ass with this new toon. Fingers crossed.

I have another toon finished which will definitely get a release on my youtube channel some time after April - not sure if I'll upload it to NG though as it isn't my best - I wouldn't want to WIN ANY MORE AWARDS LIKE A TOTAL JERK.

Also, I'll be attending the UK Web Comix Thing along with Eddsworld this Saturday, come along (even if you live in Sacramento) and buy a printed version of some shit you can view online for free.

Love to all

HappyHarry87...Oh hold up

HappyHarry

Well this one has been in the bag for some time now, it was created for as a piece of work to be sold off to a certain company but I wanted to keep the rights to it, and I have done. Sometimes you gotta go with your gut.

So I'm psyched as fuck for the movie, being both a huge fan of the source material and Zach Snyder's crazy ass filmmaking I really want to see how the two mesh together on an imax screen. When I was 16 I wanted to be the man to direct this film and am frankly a little jealous Snyder got there first (well..after like 4 others pulled out). I hope he does it justice.

Speaking of justice, it's in dark, formed rubber fitted times like these that we must strive to remember the simpler happier superheroes of yesteryear, before Alan Moore and Chris Nolan got their grubby hands on the genre and therefore I hope you enjoy looking at the Watchmen characters in a slightly different way.

In other news....oh fuck who am I kidding, there isn't any

More stuff soon, I've got goodies coming.

Happy Harry II

There is fucking snow fucking everywhere.

Literally everything is perfectly white. It's like living in Michael Richards' head.

Anyway...

Huge thanks to Tom and the staff for the omnomnomination, it's frankly ridiculous that something with not even 170k views and only one gag was even considered when there has been some really quality submissions this year, but I appreciate the nod big style.

So I'm about a week away from finally submitting some new toons, one of which takes the cake as being my personal favourite thing I've done yet, it's a parody, but not in the usual way, and I think those that get it will totally get it. :)

On top of commissions, college stuff, the street fighter collab and various voice acting bits and pieces I've never faced such a big pile of work. In fact you could say I'm.... SNOWED IN.

Or you could not.

Harry

P.S. Here is a vague screengrab from the up and coming.

URRNK!

The Good:

Returned yesterday from the my 3 day Newgrounds UK blowout, it was shambolic fun of the highest order, I made some sexy new friends and caught up with some sexy old ones too. The majority of people I dealt with were so staggeringly nice I didn't want to make any special mentions for fear of leaving someone out but...

Tom Fulp - Fuck me he's nice in person.

The Swain - I didn't think flash animators could be such pimps and also such sweethearts, I want to be this guy when I hit puberty.

Luis - My knight in a shining poncho.

Bob - After a day of knowing this guy he offers me a place to stay in the US, I figure after a week or so he might donate me bodily organs, what a class act.

Almightyhans - Still my number one.

Rest assured, there are some amazing people behind the scenes of this website, my apologies to those I didn't mention but this post could go on forever otherwise...

The Bad:

Am working overtime to complete the last of my commissions for now, some new toons have been finished so I promise them soon, unfortunately I've fallen behind as fuck in my studies and am failing hard @ life due to the insane workload, 10k word essay due in 9 days as well, love it...

In a months time when shit is back to normal I will throw some sort of party, you and your women are invited. Srsly.

The Fugly:

Me and Tom 'O face', I love this big.

What more exciting way is there to kick off the new year than with a wretched tech question?

So I'm currently trying to export an fla. as a quicktime movie from CS3, it's for a comission and i have to hand it over in the .mov format...

Here's the thing, the swf plays back fine at 25fps (more or less) despite the multiple effects being used, but the quicktime movie of that same file has massive frame rate drop in the graphics intense bits. I can't export to avi as movie clips refuse to play back in avi at all...

I imagine other people have encountered this problem and not just me, I'd love to know how you might have tackled it. The toon will end up on NG as a gloriously crisp swf so no worries there, but I can't hand over this choppy crapfest and expect to get payed!. Any ideas?

Also, here's a drawing to make shit less boring...

Harry New year

Love Happy

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

This is just a great big fat Christmas wish to absolutely everyone on NG, from the greatest of fulps, to the tiniest of forumers

This site is truly awesome and I've had an amazing year on it, the support and love I've gotten since I started getting serious and actually uploading more than once per aeon has been well and truly appreciated. The responses I've gotten have spurned me on to do much bigger and better things. I have at least 4 solo projects lined up for release over the next six months alone, 2009 will rock!

I'm still in commission hell doing my work for playboy, I can't believe I have to sit in my heated three story home working at my personal computer on Christmas Eve, it's totally like a Dickens novel.

Merry Easter Newgrounds, and a happy new birthday...

Hope you get cool shit, or at least fuck a drunk chick

Harry xxx

hi-res version of image below

Well I'm balls deep in a winter shit-storm of hard work and I only have myself to blame...

I'm one of the several Christmas turkeys that's been poached from the Newgrounds farm to produce animation for a new Playboy website (Doki and Rubberninja being a few of the others).

Three spanking new Happy Harry Toons made it to Heff's wishlist and I have to deliver the goods by Jan 5th or it's hot coals for me. I've made like three all year and now I need to do another three in a month, it's going to be one hell of a ride...

...and by ride I mean lots of slouching in front of my monitor painstakingly drawing things, but I consider that a ride.

Just wanted to remind you all that I'm still alive. A personal project I've mentioned before entitled 'Killgar's Kwest' has had to be shoved aside in favour of earning some of that Playboy green, I might just take the work I've done and smush it all into my next project called Starbarians, that's due May FYI.

In other news, The American Akira satire piece has become my most watched vid ever on youtube, ironic as I spent all of about 30 seconds on it, what can I say, the internet loves it's crudely animated anime-referencing tosh.

Below is a scene from one of the new Happy Harry Toons it's about porn ...and meat. Expect all 3 on NG early in the new year...

I'll post again before Christmas, now, back to work...

Harry

Fancied taking a break from my main project do some slapdash animation and be a cynic all at the same time, I don't think this is good enough to be immortalised with a place here on NG but maybe some of you can get a kick out of it...

Yes this IS actually happening, for all intensive purposes, it could turn out to be an awesome movie, a great story + great actors (DiCaprio is awesome, say what you want) is a good start, but until I'm proven wrong...

Love you all

Happy Harry

You know I'm hardly a quiet one, but try as I might, I can't find it in my heart to post just any old bullshit. So I thought I'd hold back until I had something new to show...

The art below is from my next film entitled 'Killgar's Kwest' which is a forerunner to something I'm plotting called Starbarians. I hit upon the fucktarded idea of doing super detailed backgrounds for the animation, they may take forever, but hey, at least they drastically lower your frame rate and raise your filesize amirite?

So I'm aiming for an early November release date but I'm doing as much preliminary stuff as I can before contacting some people I'd love to help out, I'm hoping beyond hope Egoraptor as well as some others will lend me their voices, they'll be hearing from me soonly.

Man, oh man, is this hard work, I really want to be good, I want to make movies for a living one day so I am committed to producing the best stuff I can now in hope it will one day enable me to do it with a budget. But I'm in my last year of college and there be corruptible first year vagina all over the shop, both of my other housemates are spending this evening with women, but me? What am I doing? I'm drawing fictional cartoon mountain ranges. FUCKING YES!

I love beer, I love video games, I love boobs, I'm going to have to find time for these interests soon or I'm going to go insane.

In other news, I'm deciding not to post "a very personal message to NG" regarding my sexual wackiness as I feel I've given way too much insight into my manchild brain as it is, but more power to the 8 miilion of you who did, and thanks to those who voted for getting that animation about pizza a monthly award. I love this site so so much.

xxx

Harry

B-BAM!

Just a quickie to let you all know I really appreciate all the positive responses to Chuck's New Tux 2, a few people have picked up on it's similarity to my previous work and I can't argue with the points raised, but the things I have coming up are way way different, so stay tuuuuuned.

I'm currently scripting something called Starbarians which I'm uber excited about, it will be one of the few times I've brought other voice actors into the fray besides myself and will (if all goes to plan) feature animation hotter than a thousand exploding suns*

*Backgrounds done on photoshop and slightly more shading

Also, here's something you won't be seeing on NG, not because I don't fucking love NG, but because I love it too much to go spamming it up with every bullshit thing I make. The misheard lyrics video is a cheap way to get a few chuckles I know, but fuck it, I just wanted to make one, honestly youtube and it's tempermental compression rates really get me mad but whatever....real stuff coming soon.

Harry Happy