I've been letting my Newgrounds account sit for quite a while now, and, yes, I did say some time in December that I would get back to it. Which, yes, I DID get a video up, and a couple news articles. But since then, I've done nothing to improve my page. So, no, I'm not ACTUALLY coming from a grave, and no, I'm not a zombie, but I will be catching up with everything I haven't uploaded yet. Some of it could end up on the front page, if I was lucky.

Unfortunetely, the A.R.O. format will not work for some of my videos, only because the entire thing uses unoriginal content, and for me to own the rights, I would have to remake the entire video. (A.R.O. is an acronym invented my me, and it stands for All Rights Owned). Just a heads up, my next video will be an animation called Mario V.S. Sonic. I finished Mario's ending quite a while back, but I only have one scene done in Sonic's ending.

I'm also going to re-upload everything I have up so far, and it's going to include my "SpiceDawg Video Player". The first thing it's going to have, and probably the most useful for slow computers, is a pre-loader. You can actually skip to the video while it's pre-loading, but that usually causes quite a bit of lag on some videos, so I don't recommend it (unless you're running a fast computer). You will also be able to stop the video and play it, and there is also a progress indicator. Unfortunetely, it would've been a little bit too difficult to program it to be able to be moved to certain parts of the video, only because I'm completely unexperienced with ActionScript. Maybe I'll include that in later versions.

The only reason I'm not uploading as much animations on Newgrounds is because it's a harder process. You would think it would be easier to upload original, uncompressed SWFs (especially considering the fact that I was having trouble with video conversions at first), but, not exactly. First of all, I do use video editing software to edit my videos, and I can't exactly do that when they're SWFs. My intro is usually a different resolution than the video, the credits are composed separately, and it's much easier to handle that stuff by editing the video. Not to mention, the file sizes go up when you add on all kinds of extra crap to an SWF. But, I'll just cope with it. I'll try to upload stuff to Newgrounds more often then I have been, and, as I've said, my next one will be Mario V.S. Sonic.