Da dum da dum da dum da dum da dum da dum!
Been animatin' today and been makin' lot's of plans for all sorts of junk.
Surprizes comin'!
Screeny for ya'll too from me to you. :P
(Hey look guys! It's Jay! --- I love character comebacks.)
Wonder where Jay's been all this time? :3

Progress report Fri, Nov. 21st '08
Work period: July - November (5 months)
Average work done per week: 1-2 hours (10-30 mins every few days)

The Duders: Episode 2
Intro - Complete (Justin wants to redo/touch up opening theme though)
Scene 1 - Nearly Complete (Some lip sync still left)
Scene 2 - Complete
Scene 3 - Just started still (still awaiting Darryls voice acting)
Scene 4 - Nearly Complete (Some lip sync still left)
Scene 5 - Not yet started (Music for scene still in works)
Scene 6 - Complete
Scene 7 - Just started
Scene 8 - Not yet started
Scene 9 - Just started (still awaiting Darryls voice acting)
Credits - Completed then redone more professionally

Estimated percent complete: Roughly 25%

Notes: All voice acting is complete except Darryls. Also all the music is completely except for 2 short songs.

Problems: Lack of motivation, lack of voice acting from Darryl, University work taking up much time,
and partys taking up much time.

Solutions: More coffee, scheduled flash work days durring weekends, less partys till project full completion,
and journeys to find motivation.

Any advice anyone could offer on forcing your body to keep animating would be extremely helpful and I would be quite grateful.

DUDERS DON'T DIE!

Pineapple Express! I actually fuckin' smoked fuckin' the actual strain! I smoked pineapple express! Dude, it's so awesome. I saw the movie and loved it. Knew it was a real strain, but didn't know it was hidden around B.C.
Holy fuck... good fuckin' weed.
I'm way past pluto guys! Peace!

"I don't think your going home tonight Derek."

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- Just me screwin' around and seein' what effects I can use on the computer and how the cam handles.

I've already had a few good hours of insanity writing scripts and rough draft of ideas for short skitz, short films, possible films, and all sorts of junk. It's all very exciting.
See Newgrounds - I am a flash guy here, but in all reality I've always been more of a film guy. I love both a lot so it's all good though. In both feilds I have plenty of control over what I can create and I enjoy the abilitiy to create a fuck-ton.

Anyways if your looking for a Duder update - basically I'm planning to just slam back a bunch of cups of coffee one mornin' and just crank away long into the night 'til ep2 is done. It's actually finally started to look pretty good now that I've actually finished a fair amount of it.

Me and my friends have been spendin' hours playin' Fallout 3. Anyone else love this game and the things you can do in it? I very much enjoyed the lvl 12 cannibal perk and the lvl 6 bloody mess. The hunting rifle, power fist, and fat man are amazing weapons also. :3

My two month winter break from University is coming up along with some exams after November ends - I'm looking forward to it, I'll be able to get lots of work done over the break. Been doing a lot of writing and thinking 'bout all sorts of junk lately. Their's a lot of stories and scenes I want to rip out of my head and somehow slaughter them into existence through my wacom tablit or video cam.

Alright then - I got some mind wandering and a lot of work to do. Peace for now NG.

Just renewed the domain today. (Was a day behind it)
Any visitors out there to the site just bare with the stupid GoDaddy crap till all is back to normal.
Thanks for your patience. Have a good day.

Well I'm posting I guess I'll give a shout out to Tom.
Thanks for linkin'/mentioning The Duders a few news posts ago. Much appriatiated.
Also, thanks to those who vote, review, and/or continue to watch.

Sup? :3

DING - updated some of the site. Enjoy tryin' to get in my head.

So I've been havin' fun screwin' 'round lately. Sat there the other day and drew myself up this weird mess of trippy Duder-ness. It has all the characters plus one that hasn't been seen yet and if you can find him - Mr. Bad.

MTCaptain, Val, Elliot, Jay, Scotty, Wolf, Demenius, Johno, and Mr. Bad are the names for the 90% people out there who have no idea of some of which I am speaking to ya'll 'bout.

Exciting news for Duder Entertainment is Kyle Theissen and Jason Midtle are officially back. The original three members are all together with the new ones - pure awesomeness.

MTC has a message for you all.

Been doin' lots of writin' lately but, probably goin' to get bored of that soon.
Expect somethin' neat before the end of the year, unless someone can motivate me.

Love to The Flash 'Reg' Lounge and all the cool cats who visit it.

Neat Fact: Their are 21 Duder Shorts - ol'school ones to the new style.
How many have you seen?

Jokin' - though they'd be fun to play with and probably make good convorsation.

So I heard the Newgrounds War and thought it was pretty interesting. Made me jealouse as fuck I didn't get an invitation to it but, then again I can understand why I wasn't invited well enouph. Anyway I suggest you guys check it out cause a few of those crazy peeps made some dang good points and said some things as best as they can be said. Personally I think NG will be fine. As a great man once said - "It is darkest before the dawn." - meaning shits going to get shitty-er and hit the fan before it gets shiney and evolves into something wonderful for everyone.

As for my opinion on the artists here... they're all a great bunch and it's the variety of different values and norms each has which make 'em some a great group. Zekey and Rtil probably are my fav personalities I've seen here though. Ego seems like a goof but, I'd totally love to party with him cause he seems like fun. And if Hans really is gay I'm going to hug the bastard.

To be blunt... I haven't found anyone artist I don't like on NG. I'd love to smoke a joint with all of 'em! :D

Also my emails Derek_Vandenberg[at]hotmail.com
I need more peoples on MSN to talk too. The Chinese police fucked over my last e-buddy. :C

RANDOM NEWS: Got my webcam working, makin' game docs for new duder games, and found myself a beautiful girl.

This blog post totally had a point and was going somewhere I think, but I forgot and am just ramblin' and gotta run to catch my next uni class. Peace guys!

First things first... ya'll should totally check out Smoking Frog - one of my new favorite bands.
The bass player Michael is a cool dude and me and him smoked up just a few hours back and talked about Stoner Rock.

Secondly if you haven't I strongly suggest you check out DuderEntertainment.com. Their's quite a bit to read if your not busy and the forums are always an interesting place.

Thirdly I'm almost a minute and 45 secs into Duders Ep2. I'm goin' to probably buy and drink 5 or 6 rockstar energy drinks one night soon and nearly kill myself with a 12 hour animation marathon. I'm a stoner - I'm suppose to be lazy, why'd I have to be an animator: one of the most hardest working jobs in this world! Well... it's a good thing animations fun as fuck.

Don't forget about Cute Madness 2! I think I'll make one every madness day and see where they go.

Ya, so Tom get that Duders Series page ready because I think I'm going to rape the portal with Duder shorts and eventually an actual episode.

Open minded animation is great.

This may be stupid to plug but, Mindchambers art is orgasmic. I wish I could shade like him. :C

Alright... I'm dry which is bitch around bedtime. Here's a weird lil' pic a drew last summer on corel painter or some shit like that. Night NG.

The Duders may be shit without a story right now but, I'm going to bring my baby to life one day soon.

Update: Oh right... DING!
I was in one of my local papers. So does this make me a Marijuana Activist now?

DING!

Rather interesting...

It's neat.
CLICK ME! >:C ( I had absolutely no part in this - still a cool game though. )

Ya... I didn't have anything good really to post... ya...
Well I'm going to find something mind altering. Peace NG!

(Sorry guys. Hehe, couldn't resist.)

Ummmmm.......... Duders is goin' good. Here's a lame screeny from the intro in Ep2.
Yup. My names bigger then the title - I get to rub my small but lovely lil' ego too sometimes I guess.