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Player-exe
VFX artist by day and fan animator by night.

Alexandre Bellefeuille @Player-exe

Age 31, Male

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Québec, Canada

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A couple of updates on Dinky's Destiny

Posted by Player-exe - September 29th, 2014


So, while I left Newgrounds for good some people might be wondering what I am working on right now, and clarify why it could never be released here anyway.

Here's the thing, Dinky's Destiny is a collaborative project of much much higher scale than Project Thundercloud, and this involves working with a team. Most of the members of the team are from YouTube, and none of them wants to be involved with Newgrounds, I'm on their side as well, I don't want to be involved with this website anymore.

Let's say this, I no longer care about the things that brought me here, I stopped watching Naruto, I play a lot less video games than I did before, and I no longer care about sprite movies.

Dinky's Destiny is a 2D animated project focussing on Dinky Doo, a unicorn born with a clockwise horn living in a world where unicorns have a counter-clockwise horn and practice counter-clockwise magic. The style is inspired by the style of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, so it's all done in Flash and After Effects. It's done in 21:9, 24fps, 2560x1080. I rely on camera tricks as I always do, but it's all done without the use of 3D animation software. (Expect for a little help on the staging itself.) It's a YouTube-only release this time, I'm sorry about this, but I just can't upload it here this time.

Oh, and I changed my username to Minty Root, the name of my OC. Not that I want to avoid getting associated with my past, it's just that Playerdotexe just sounds like an edgy hacker and I'm not one.

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Comments

I guess this sort of thing is for the better, and I wish you good luck on the project. Also, are you going to keep updating your Newgrounds News pertaining to this, or is this a One-fer McDone-fer, because it seems a bit... troublesome since you aren't exactly on good terms with the site.

Well, it's not exactly a "I'm done" as I already said it two months ago, my problem with the site isn't really the community, it's more the way the site works. I'm mostly just tired of the voting and the reviewing system that is in place here. I only continue to post because some people asked me to.
Since it's a-vote-a-day based rather than a true one vote per person you don't get to see if they truly enjoyed your project or they just kept voting the same thing over and over to get more voting power.
The review system also doesn't really allow for non-review comment, like publicly asking the creator how he did a SFX or just thanking him for his work.
The site itself is quite outdated with the style and the upload limits, like the .swf limit that finally increased to 20MB after the 6 years I've been here. Following Moore's law it should have hit 40MB or 80MB by now. However I can understand it's to prevent the servers to be filled with junk and I could always work around it with the web video player.

are you a bronie now?

I watch the show since summer 2012 and I finally confirmed to myself I was a brony at BronyCon 2013.

Oh, okay. Thanks for the clarification, and I do agree that the voting system is kind of cheap, since it can be abused (I know that through personal experience, guilty as charged, though it was mainly for continuously playing long games like Epic Battle Fantasy 4 :/ ). As well, the co- ... *review* section is faulty. If anything, it could be more streamlined and vague, like Youtube's comments section (though I guess that would nullify this site's uniqueness), or it could be more organized and specific, like, say Khan Academy's (though picking which type of comment to make may be too clunky and too much of a hassle, and people probably won't even bother). But, looking at these options, I don't really know how it could be improved.

Awwww so cute design :3