NOTE!!!
You WILL need a
Flash plugin to play these movies.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way...
uring
the Internet's antiquity, a company, not known as Macromedia at
the time, released a web animation program, not known as Flash
at the time, which essentially opened up the portal for the WorldWide's
next IRC-derivativesque subculture. I can go into the detail on that,
but I won't.
Anyway,
one day, as Flash became more powerful and user-friendly (?), and after
Bloodlust Software made the WorldWide a better place, some guys
got the brilliant idea to animate videogame graphics using Flash.
Thousands of years later, someone decided to make a CastleVania Flash movie, and so FlashyVania was born. It of course wasn't called that back then; FlashyVania's yet another one of those words I coined, this one in October of 2001.
One day in 2000, I once again met with Kurt Kalata to tour the Japanese book stores in Manhattan, and we discussed how we could make some dangerous music with Flash as our deadly weapon. He agreed, though his thoughts on the program weren't very positive.
"There aren't any CV Flash movies...maybe I can start that trend, just like I did with Humor!" "There are," he said, and went on to explain movies about Simon leaving CastleVania because the gate was locked and Simon splatting from the fall between the games 3rd and 4th stage.
Alright, so there were CV Flash movies, and I was not needed to set them off. It would've been hecka sweet if I did, though. While CastleVania finally had its place amongst the Flash community, I eventually discovered that the sparse offerings weren't as powerful as I knew I could make them, and as I stood by, witnessing sprites (taken from my site) as they tweened across peppery GIF backgrounds, a storm of ideas began to brew.
"...I got crazy visions..."
Autumn, 2001. There had been a terrorish attack in my homecity, and a deluge of both well and horribly done Flash tributes hit the WorldWide's most popular Flash outlet, which I don't need to name. One excellent movie involved Vampire Savior's BBHood going after the main man from The Tailobang. That movie was just so drop-dead awesome, I took heart of the cue decided to go back into Flash. I had some experience in Flash, prior to this time, but the results weren't quite impressive.
Anyway, I head over to the most popular site in town for videogame Flash movies, and introduced myself to its board with my numerous proposals for "FlashleVania".
At
first, they were deleted from the forum in which they belonged, so I re-posted
them. As I got better in Flash that week, I posted some demos of "Trevor
vs. Skull Knight", which were met with great questioning; "...how
did this get to become over 650k?! Where did you get the font?"
When Randy Solem, the author of the site asked me where I found the CVIII font, I could not answer him for two reasons.
The second reason was because I got no feedback regarding the latest demo. Thus, because I could not reveal where I got the font, I was banned from his message board.
He banned me with these parting words, referring to what I had said in the thread earlier, which was something to the effect of "...it looks like I'm gonna hafta carry out the first good CV Flash movies..." His cracked adieu, and I quote, "you won't be carrying s hit out because you're gone. bye bye"
End quote.
A long-term revenge was plotted as I trudged back to DCTP without a voice to retort on his Forum, populated with underlings who will never have an oppurtunity to be as good in Flash as their leader.
One random day, the prick stopped by DCTMB just to remind me that, and these are his exact lines, "you are still a f ucking pus sy and no one will ever beat me in vg flash" His curses were broken to 'bypass' EZBoard's curse filter... My reply; "...hush, child... you can't even come though without breaking your thoughts...I don't even need those words and I still come through sharp as ice..."
Since, for 5 years, I've been able to absorb such comments and spit back harsher, more effective acid, I haven't banned him yet from DCTMB...; we're still waiting on his next ingenious crescendo.
After that, I remained in the lab for months on end, perfecting and relearning my ways around Flash...the ultimate result was a movie called ParoVadius, which was completely effective in nullifying the charm of Solem's VGDC Productions in terms of presentation, production, originality, technique, and execution.
At some point during the production of ParoVadius, Randy releases another movie of Dancing Mario...
...and so, let us begin this journey through The Catacombs of FlashyVania...
Open-casket
Viewing!
Check out the finished FlashyVania!
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CastleVania
III Dracula's Curse: The Aroused Vampire I enjoyed it so much when I found it last year, and I still do, that while building this new section, I asked the creator himself, Teflan_Dan, if he could bless me by allowing DCTP to host it here, and so it's been arranged! This extremely fun movie, rated DCTP-MA for cursing and machoore theemz, chronicles an almost message-boardesque argument between Sypha and Trevor, and the ensuing fling the Mystic Warlord of Warakyia gets into with Dracula! You MUST see this to know where I'm coming from, as it is without a doubt, one of my greatest inspirations for FlashyVania. |
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CastleVania
III: Trevor's @*@$()^%! I wonder who was tossing them... |
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If Gaibon
is Gay...then Richter is a NOT Wuss! Randy Solem's opinion when this premiered
at The Texas Mafia
( "wow...3 and a half seconds of sh-t." |
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Blow
up SLOGGY!!! Or can you...? |
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ParoVadius:
The Trailer!!! This teaser parody follows the explosive introduction to Contra III: The Alien Wars nearly to the frame. |
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ROAD
TRIP!!! I figured out a way in Flash to mimic some of that stretchy road perspective effect seen in stage 2-B of Contra Hard Corps. It was 2 days before I would release ParoVadius, so I threw in Slogaibon and a recently reconstructed Galamoth into the mix, grabbed the nearest available Guilty Gear X tune, and away we go! BASE! |
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Superobsure
Shooting Game Parody ParoVadius: THE MOVIE!!! I mean, take Rand's Dancing Mario Part 2, size it up to ParoVadius for technique, foulness and originality, and you'll see what I'm getting at. As for the other goal, ...no, you
didn't hear about a "...horrible, disrespectful 9|11 parody" on
the news, and no, DCTP got not much more notice, and neither did
I get any work oppurtunities out of ParoVadius' release... But in regards to the movie itself: This, Superobscure Shooting Game Parody ParoVadius, is my Flash masterpiece, exhibiting everything I knew how to do at the time (of course I'm still getting better at this). It's also a very audience-specific ultraparody, combining CastleVania, Gradius, and Parodius (& Thunderforce V and Contra Hard Corps.) for the 6-minute long opening sequence of what may turn out to be, one day in history, a nice saga of Stage Episodes about Slogra and Gaibon's quest to destroy the terrible STAC... Whether or not I will continue with ParoVadius cannot be determined at the time of this writing (7-24-2002), but it's comic prequel is already in the making, thanks to the one true ParoVadius junkie, Lecacy Boy. Check out his comics in the 2002 section of Humor Me. A wiseacre once said, "you are still a f ucking pus sy and no one will ever beat me in vg flash" I did nail him for all time on this one, though... |
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Flash
intro for ICVD Using my severely limited knowledge
of Japanese, I added a small message in case Konami of Japan ever
found out about us. It intends to say: Twinbee's Princess Meloura will give you a billion dollars if you can understand why I included that last line in English... >:D ... since I'd rather not make any changes to tailor the movie as just a presentation for DCTP, daring to click on any of the links presented will warp you to the ICVD forums and site. Be wary. Be very vewy wary. |
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CastleVania
III DCTP!!!, Osama's Curse (2001 no Chi Hakyoku)
My first piece of Flash in the aftermath of the WTC tribute deluge on that popular Flash site was a parody of the opening story to CastleVania III: Dracula's Curse, only with a current events twist. The first thing I actually attempted to do when I got back into Flash was a story scroll, and now that I had all the MADD SKILLZ behind me as a result of working on these other treasures, I could sand down the corners of Osama's Curse, no problem. Here it is. The Akumajou Densetsu version of Prelude plays in the background. |
After
ParoVania grew beyond being just a simple demo of
Anapan's Rocketslogra drifting around Master Librarian's animated
mountainscape eventually starring Galamoth (see above), I set out
to make huge changes within the realm of CV (&VG?) Flash and
earn great notoriety…alas, the dual ambitions of ParoVadius were
only fulfilled 50%. 
a closed casket...
...filled with FlashyVania either under production, or
to never see the light of this FlashyVania catacomb.
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Trevor VS Skull Knight In the grandest scheme of all, after the two meet and speak with each other, the Skull Knight and Trevor would be slugging it out, and then, just as Trevor is about to deliver the final blow, a shot is heard...a fireball blasts Trevor's arm off, and Slogra intervenes to save his friend. Trevor escapes, and Skull Knight confesses to Slogra, "I will never be as strong as you..." Yes, there are shadows of a Megaman X parody here, folks. >:D Unfortunately, as far as the work on these files go, I've either gotten to the point either where Trevor uppercuts and trips the Skull Knight, or the Skull Knight slices up Trevor, Ukyo Tachibana style, in a seperate movie. |
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The Run Find out why Alucard is on the run through Slogra's room at the end of this pretty direct FlashyVania demo, as early as TvsSK. |
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The END of PEANUTBUTTERJELLYTIME Inspired by Josh "FunkDOC" Ballard and ripping up a certain Flash movie called Peanut Butter Jelly Time, this is my response to the really horrible use of electricity accompanied by a VERY catchy background tune. PBJT was originally found outside of its original home sit, by the way. ...and since learning of the movie's true origin and learning that the author actually HAS a soul, a life, and lotsa friends (unlike me), I've reconsidered my aim; I'll go with more of a saluting/tribute angle on this, rather than just an outright bashing. But don't worry, Slogra and Gaibon will not be doing any dancing. As soon as I've animated the fruit's assassination, we'll call this movie finished and ready for Open-casket... |
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Fwoopy! I then went back to work on ParoVadius. See TO's original here. |
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ParoVadius Trailer There was something, though, that this never-finished trailer made well on... "COMMENCE TAKEOFF . . . I
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Thank you very much for
playing...FLASHYVANIA!!!
Now head back!
  
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FlashyVania....Breaking new ground...without newgrounds. >:D |
..also, did I mention that you
should
check out The Texas
Mafia (
)
as well ?
