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About Me Film & Animation / Hobbyist Member CurtisMale/United States Group group avatar #Letting-Go-Of-Hope
Sonic letting go of hope
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  • Listening to: Blackout by Breathe Carolina
  • Reading: Thief of Lives (Noble Dead)
  • Watching: MLP:FIM
  • Playing: League of Legends
I don't usually do "tagged" journals since I never have anything interesting to say, but for these 2 awesome friends, I'll make an exception.  I'm not taggin' anyone else though.  If you read this and wanna do it, then that works too! :3

Let's see:

Tagged by :iconloor101: :
Check out her awesome narration series, "Letting Go of Hope" : [link] .  It's an awesome narrated fan fiction with a different take on Sonic X.  I do the voice of Sonic. :D

5 Things About Me

1.  Though I use green a lot, my favorite color is actually orange.

2.  I don't really read fan fiction even though I mostly do fan animations.  I'm aware of my hypocrisy.  I guess that I have a short attention span and picture keep me interested.

3.  I never properly storyboard my animations (yeah, I'm bad).  I usually see it SO VIVIDLY in my head.  I draw several poses and pieces for each scene, scan the pictures, trace them in Adobe Flash CS5, and draw more keyframes as needed directly in Flash.

4.  My older cousin, Pikey is who inspired me to start drawing.  He is AMAZING and even has some art in a museum.  Seeing his art years ago gave me the epiphany that I could make ANYTHING DO ANYTHING.  If I wanted to see a Goomba dressed up as Gaara, BAM!  If I wanted Sonic to discover Shadow listening to questionable music, BOOM!

5.  My friend Daryl is how I got into animation.  Years ago, we both made sprite comics.  We used the Megaman sprites as a base and altered them to resemble ourselves.

My comic was God-awful.

He eventually found some free animation program that I can't remember and we began to make our first animated sprite comics!

My animations were God-awful.

In 2004, Daryl gave me Macromedia Flash 8 and it was eons beyond the other program.  I hit Newgrounds and did pretty much every tutorial that was there at the time.  My favorite tutorial that I'd recommend is "The Big Fat Tutorial" [link] .

Can you see my first sprite comics and animations? --> [link]

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And now for a MLP:FiM related tag!
<royalcanterlotvoice>THE TAGS HAVE BEEN DOUBLED!!</royalcanterlotvoice>

Tagged by :icondarkpengi: :
Check out his awesome "Ask Frigid" Tumblr! [link]

01. When did you become a Brony/or started to like MLP:FIM?
I got into this show because of League of Legends back in April 2011!  I had seen the funny captioned pictures of the shows for a while, but this thread made me investigate the show: [link]

I think I Googled it for about 3 minutes, saw that the show was MADE IN FLASH and had to watch some of it to see what I could learn.  I started the first episode... by the next day I had watched the whole series.

02. What's your favorite video game?
Tales of the Abyss

03. What's your favorite episode out of season 2 of MLP:FIM?
Arg.  Making me choose between Lesson Zero and Secret to my Excess!!!  I guess I'll roll with Lesson Zero.

04. What's your greatest fear?
Not being able to protect my loved ones...

05. What's your favorite food?
Eggs

06. The Red pill or Blue pill?
Red Pill.  Let's do this.

07. Do you know kungfu?
No, but I'm confident in my ability to kick face if needed.

08. What's your favorite movie?
Hide and Seek

09. Which pony is your MOST favorite out of the mane 6?
Twilight with Rarity as a close second.

10. If some how Pinkie Pie broke the 4th wall, and entered our world, what would you do?
Party?

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Curtis
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United States
Current Residence: TN & (GA sometimes)
Favourite genre of music: Rock and Metal
Favourite cartoon character: Marvin the Martian
Personal Quote: Never give up! Never give in!
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*Sonicspeed5 1 day ago  Hobbyist General Artist
I love the work you did with Letting Go of Hope. :) You were perfect as Sonic.
And you were quite hilarious in the blooper reel. XD

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My stories only end when I stop running.

Every world has its end. I know that's kinda sad, but... that's why we've gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have. At least, that's what I figure.

- Sonic the Hedgehog :heart:
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~Cacti 1 day ago  Hobbyist Filmographer
Hehe, thank you. Voicing Sonic in LGoH was a blast. I'm glad you liked it.

As for the bloopers, Loor will confirm when I say that I have the attention span of a kidney bean. I end up randomly singing or saying random stuff instead of just saying my lines! For some chapters, I managed to turn an hour job into a 3 hour recording session in my truck. XD

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A good pun is its own reword. :)
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*Sonicspeed5 23 hours ago  Hobbyist General Artist
XD You're welcome. :)
I loved it! :D
d me
XDDDD You did. You had me laughing my head off when you were singing at the end. XD
And it was funny, because when you screwed up you stayed in character. XD
XDDDDD Wow.

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My stories only end when I stop running.

Every world has its end. I know that's kinda sad, but... that's why we've gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have. At least, that's what I figure.

- Sonic the Hedgehog :heart:
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~hi2b2 May 6, 2012  New member Hobbyist General Artist
yo

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I really don't know what I'm doing.... :?,
sorry, don't mind the crazy guy right next to you.... he is harmless after all...
maybe... he isn't... you'll find out in a little bit. hehe, hahahahahah :O:O:O:O
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i lost cacti site.... [link]
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~TheChosenOne305 Apr 22, 2012  Student Filmographer
Hey Cacti. I just wanted to say how much I love your works and animations. I remember i was only 11 when I begun watching them and I thought to myself "Wow! He has talent!" And you do. :) My family was going to tough times and your funny flash animations made me smile throughout the trouble and hope for the best. I love flash animations and once I get into high school, I'm going to take an elective on them. I just want to say thanks for being such a great person/deviant and that you're an amazing animator and to keep up the great work. :)

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I march in the black parade. I partied after the funeral ended. I live the life on the murder scene. I roll with the killjoys. I'm ready for a firefight. I am a demolition lover. I am awake and unafraid.

I am a soldier of the MCRmy.
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~Cacti Apr 23, 2012  Hobbyist Filmographer
Hehe, I'm glad my cartoons were able to be of some assistance. You don't know how much it means to me to know that my random silliness actually has a benefit to others. I think you'd do great at animation. Browsing your pictures on your DA, you have a creative view of the world. Draw a lot and KEEP IT even when you think it's not great. I'm still struggling with this part. :D

Find tutorials and do them ALL. If you need help, lemme know. I'm not a master artist, but I love to help.

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A good pun is its own reword. :)
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~TheChosenOne305 Apr 24, 2012  Student Filmographer
Thank you! that means a lot to me! :hug: I wish you the best also! ^^ I doodle and stuff, mostly in my english notebooks, and i keep them in my art folder [Mickey Mouse]. Most of them are stick figures and random doodles, but I'll use them some day. :) Thanks for the tips, I appreciate them!

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I march in the black parade. I partied after the funeral ended. I live the life on the murder scene. I roll with the killjoys. I'm ready for a firefight. I am a demolition lover. I am awake and unafraid.

I am a soldier of the MCRmy.
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:iconmagnaliscous:
I must thank you for getting me into deviant art mate...Thanks

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"Come, I do not desire fame, or glory, all I desire.. IS VICTORY IN BATTLE! ~ Raoh
"SAY MY NAME!!" ~Jagi
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Mood: Adoration ~FIREREDAlbinoUmbreon Mar 8, 2012  Student General Artist
Haha xD Yer flashes are funny(<3 them), should make more TF2 and LoL ones. ;3

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:iconthewolfbunny:
I'd like to see a short flash with Sonic and Tails acting "natural" because they stole a balloon. But after a little moment, they start gibbering, pulling their tounges, and blabbering. Knuckles comes in and he's like, "WOW! Look at that! Sonic and Tails are Street Performers!" And other animals and flickies come in to watch them, but Sonic and Tails stop and they say, "IT'S NOT WORKING!!!" and they run off. That scene request is based off Life Of Crime from Spongebob.

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"Time to scramble some Eggmen, Super Sonic style!" - Sonic (Sonic Generations)
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~MissMisterious Apr 19, 2012  New member Hobbyist General Artist
Oh yeah, I saw that <3 actually one of my fave episodes!

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Naime Naime 2nd name Jane
Likes to fly on De Areoplane
She's kinda Insane
Bit of a pain
But you gotta love her choo-choo train!
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Repairing the Sonic fanbase since 2012
I LIKE SALLY. But keep this up & I'll lose my love for her
I support ALL forms of art!
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:iconthewolfbunny:
It's one of mine too! It's so silly! Do it, PLEASE!!!!

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"Time to scramble some Eggmen, Super Sonic style!" - Sonic (Sonic Generations)
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~LethargicGamer Jan 24, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
Love your stuff, keep up the awesome animations.
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:iconmarvinxserena900:
I LOVE your animations!! :D Do you think you can make an animation of Marvin the Martian and my Martian Serena Greenland appear in a flash animation? You could use "The Looney Tunes Show" Concept if you'd like :) If you can, please make it appropriate, like dancing if you may :) I'd love e to see them dancing :)

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MarvinxSerena :D
Join my group! MarvinxSerena! :D [link]
I need a group for my hedgehog Skyler!
Enter my Silvyler (Silver and Skyler) contest! :D [link]
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