After a long month and a quick single day move I am finally in my lovely new dream Yurt (Single room round cabin, loads of space.) on a beautiful nature preserve. It's a nice bit of heaven before I ship off with the AirForce in March.

So now... Aside from my daily outdoor work with various firewood and land duties I have finally the will and time to work on my next project. However, I can't decide which to do and they are piling up on me. Sooooo.... I am going to leave it up to the Newgrounds community since ultimately what ever project I get done will be posted up here for your viewing/gaming pleasure.

Without further aduligigles or what ever you will. Here is the list of goodies in order of conception.
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Shadow Legacy Episode 1, a beautiful intro to the Shadow Legacy series with photoshop painted backgrounds and frame by frame animation.

EmoPet: Rise of the Posers, a point and click adventure through the world of stereotypical cliches and the mysterious corporate enterprise bent of profiting from turning the world into a bunch of posers.

Shadow Legacy: Seeds of Power, a choose your own path through the first chapter of the shadow legacy saga based around the events taking place in the Corseca crater.

Omelas Revisited, A remake of one of my old animations which was filled with lots of ungly tweens and backgrounds that didn't quite blend based on the story "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin.

I finally did it! Finally a Art of Shadow Legacy compilation is finished and out for your viewing pleasure. If you have been watching my work for a while and been thinking "What the heck is this Shadow Legacy thing about?" Well now you can find out,... well at least a bit of the story for ya anyhow ^.^

Shadow Legacy is a... well very very long project I am working on. Since I am shipping out with the Air Force I want to make sure that people who follow my work have something to enjoy while I'm gone. This project is a creation of a massive universe of work containing various stories from the people on planet Gemini, a massive derelict Katinian Mothership that has since grown over into a planet. Future plans include finishing the novel I am working on, getting an animated series started, and getting some games out for Newgrounds.

Check it out!

My group image for Newgrounds is finished and up for your viewing pleasure ^.^

Click here for large view!

This image was created as a thank you to Newgrounds for my new Bamboo Fun Medium. I put in a call to artists with flash work that had won awards in the past and from their submissions created this.

Characters included:
LilOrphanBoy By TimFrommeyer
Edd By eddsworld
Carbon By carbonwater
DevilSlayer By YungJazz
Reporter By Nqkoi1
Psion Law By ColdReaver
Outlaw By BiffTheTimid
Cannoncrotch By I-smel
Hamish By sorbitol
Darkar By Darkar

I will probably end up creating a flash version of the image to show which character is which when you scroll over them.

As some of you know I was recently awarded a tablet by Tom.
Well anyhow I want to do something to say thank you to Tom and all of Newgrounds, so...

I am going to start concepting for a high quality piece sort of like some of the posters that newgrounds is doing, only in my style, with TONZ more characters from any artists on here who want in.

The only thing is, just to make my work load a tiny bit smaller I will only be putting characters in from work that has won an award Daily Feature, Review Crew Pick, 2-4th awards, anything like that. Which I know is quite a lot of characters but that is how much I want to give back.

First things first tho, in order to get in the image, I need you to post a comment here and a link to the work that has your character you want in ^.^

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I'm coming out with a new webcomic about artists for information check here http://lordjay.deviantart.com/art/Arti st-Lost-Issue-1-93732587

Thank you everyone for your support of my recently published Shadow Legacy flash.

For those of you who are looking forward to seeing more.
I'm currently nearing completion of the Storyboard for the first official chapter of Shadow Legacy.
I will have that put online as soon as its finished.

Woot I finally got my Artist Lost website up for my Freelance Illustration and Animation. www.artist-lost.com
For those of you looking forward to the newgrounds crew Lost Crew I will have that up soon.

The primary goal of The Lost Crew is to get into paying jobs.

The Lost Crew is going to be dedicated to the promotion of it's members talents. Primarily I will only be accepting Illustrators, Animators, and Programmers for now. The standards are going to be set high as I plan to create a page on the website when it launches that will showcase their best work. Now I'm not expecting everyone to be at a professional level, however I need to see that we can get you have the talent to get their with help from the crew.

Future plans include assembling an Illustrators Annual, to be published and released for sale which will include tutorials written up by each artist. An Annual Animators collaboration DVD for sale. Also one of the major goals is to get some more games crossing over like Alien Hominid.

Any profit from sales will be put back into production of more projects and advertisement for the crew members. Profits returning to each member if at all the first year would be very small, however if this goes well aside from having quite a bit of exposure you could expect a nice bit of cash flow from it all.

As for what is set up right now:
I have the business license under Artist Lost and will be adding "The Lost Crew" as a trade name if I get some promising responses.
The website is in progress and if anyone good at making flash based websites wants to help out that would speed up the process.
I have the domain name Artist-Lost, and will be looking to get The Lost Crew as well, however for now the site will just be branched off of the main Artist-Lost site.
I have a web host with 300gb storage and 3tb bandwidth so getting everyones pages up wont be a problem.

Also if you want to know a little bit about the quality of my work, perhapse to see if I am really into this sort of thing or not, then you can check out my current gallery at http://lordjay.deviantart.com/gallery

We have a lot of talent here on Newgrounds and I look forward to seeing the work of everyone who applies to join the crew.

Rules and Guidelines:

1)Doesn't matter if your in another crew, you can still join.

2)You will have to pass my inspection on your work so have samples ready, later I will get more people on the review board.

3)If I'm having trouble deciding on if your ready for the crew I will give you a assignment to test how good you are at getting things done.

4)Once your in there is a minimum of 1 high quality piece per year to stay in

5)I am the only one who will ever kick anyone out, I will appoint volunteers to help with disputes but the final call is mine alone.

6)I'm not going to make rules against what can be submitted, but if it's for mature audiences only it might have to be put in a separate project other then the annuals. However, I will be open minded and it may make it in if the work is tastefully done. I don't make mature work myself however we may branch into getting people jobs working on adult websites if they have the talent and interest.

7)There may be more rules and such later, however I will wait until we have enough dedicated members to vote on what needs to be instated. While I do have the final say in what happens in every situation, I will never go against a vote that is more then 60%

8)Yes there will be ranks and positions, positions will be assigned by me, however ranks will be determined based on the review boards view on your progress and dedication as well as how long you have been with the crew.

Keep a look out. My graduation materpeice "Dark Legacy: The Queen of Decay" will be in the portal this August 2nd.

Interested, Can't wait to see what its about?

Check it out in the NG Alphas
http://www.newgrounds.com/ngmag/alphas/alpha/2232

As for me, its back to work animating. I've been working hardcore for 3 months getting this little jewel ready for Newgrounds.