Hey guys 'n gals,

First of all, check out my new animation final for this semester:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/630045

It's a short about a tree, or maybe more than a tree. Ambiguity alert!

I worked on this piece for the past week(ish). I'm pretty proud of how it turned out with how little time I was able to put in. I think it was about half a week of planning and then a week of furious, passionate animating. I'm not entirely happy with the dialogue I wrote, but the voice actors (PiperAnn and SirUndead) did a stellar job with what I gave them, go follow them now!

I should also mention that credit for the snow effect goes to Jake Armstrong, who worked on "Mountain Ash" for Late Night Work Club. He posted a little how-he-did-it blurb on tumblr, which was incredibly helpful in making the snow. The entire LNWC project was very stylistically inspirational.

Things I need to work on:

• backgrounds
• stylistic consistency
• dialogue writing

Here's a gif from the project:

So on the next point, I don't think I'll be uploading anything to my YouTube page for some time now. I've never been too keen on uploading my stuff to YouTube, and all the new YT revamps have pushed me over the edge. The constant stream of awesome NG updates are factoring into this decision as well. 

Not only that, but even my pieces that don't do that well here end up with way more exposure than their YouTube counterparts. I also feel that it's a good idea to keep my work condensed into as few places as possible. I might open a Vimeo account for more professional things like portfolio building and a reel, but my main posting site will be NG. So, I'm a Newgrounds guy for 2014.

If you're itching to follow me somewhere else, check out my Tumblr. It's got WIPs, short gifs, and other projects. I'll probably be posting links back to my NG pieces as they come out, so it's a good way to keep up with my work if you don't check your NG feed everyday.

Finally, VOICE ACTORS NEEDED: 

I'm going to be needing a ton of voice actors pretty soon. Like a whole bunch. Like 20, at the absolute least, and I definitely don't want to have to go through a whole casting session out in the real world to fill the parts. So read-on if you're a voice actor!

It's going to be a weird, experimental, semi-documentary, semi-mockumentary short. I'm planning on doing a lot of things I've never done before like motion tracking and photoshop character-animation, so it's gonna be super experimental. I don't want to get into too much detail on what lines I'll need from people here, but, if you're interested, send me a PM. 

For the documentary half, I'll be sending those interested a single question. You can respond however you see fit. Your response might be serious, comedic, or just weird, it's all good. Voice acting experience isn't necessary for this part, I just need a bunch of people, hopefully with a decent sound setup.

For the scripted half, I'll first contact the people that I've worked with in the past over the next week or so, but that's not that many people overall. I'll definitely need a few more people to fill in some of the roles. For these parts, I'd like whoever is interested to have some previous VA experience, as this will be the meat of the project.

So, if you're interested, send me a PM. Put "EXPERIMENTAL VA" in the title so I can make sure to check & respond asap. 

things to include in the message:

• age
• sex
• name
• preference (documentary section vs scripted section)
• optional, but prefered: demo reel link

I'll try to respond with scripts/lines/questions within the week. These are mostly going to be first-come-first-serve, so get on it!

Age, sex, accents, etc. are all things I want to be varied in the project, so don't be shy if you're not a native English speaker or anything like that. I'm not sure what the VA gender breakdown on NG is, but the parts as of right now are equally split among men and women.

Thanks for reading, Dylan

P.S. Did I mention that I've got a new short out?