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EDIT: The title was supposed to be "Saunich der Hejhaug" upside-down, but the flipped text screwed up. I'm leaving the title the way it is, though, for the =3s.

Yes, so it's now out on Newgrounds. It came in Daily 3rd with a 3.96, which certainly isn't bad for something I finished in only four days. The Newgrounds scores continue to feel ridiculously arbitrary to me, though... especially since today's Daily Feature, a stick figure battle collection, has a 4.08, whereas yesterday's stick figure battle (which wasn't nearly as well done in my opinion) is currently the highest scoring submission at a whopping 4.61 out of 5. The fact that something very similar and twice as good can be submitted the very next day and get a much lower score shows how flawed the whole system is... not that there's any way around that, of course.

Anyway, when I finished Saunich, I felt it was the best looking Flash I had ever made, even though I spent way less time working on it than any of my other Newgrounds submissions. I decided to do it frame-by-frame without worrying about keeping the proportions exactly consistent, which, as it turns out, results in a rather compelling style. I kept work time down by only redrawing moving parts, using the "flapping hamburger buns" style of lip flap, and reusing frames whenever it worked to do so.

As it is now, I'm satisfied with it, but feel I can do way better if I spend more time working.

I'm not going to talking about Enthalpy right now.

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30 Comments

May. 10, 2009 | 12:19 AM max15946 says:

any new games coming up?

May. 10, 2009 | 12:23 AM NAveryW responds:

I'm currently working on something for the Xbox 360, but I don't know if it'll ever reach completion.

May. 10, 2009 | 12:24 AM RubberNinja says:

I loved the cartoon, seriously. Added it to my favorites. Had me laughing pretty damn hard from the nipples comment.

Great work mate!

May. 10, 2009 | 12:24 AM Kilgorn says:

I throughly enjoyed Saunich and laughed but it also creeped me out a little the style it was drawn in, sorta like salad fingers

May. 10, 2009 | 1:35 AM xXxAlecxXx says:

i want your body

May. 10, 2009 | 4:12 AM peanutfoot932 says:

The flash was hilarious in a slightly-disturbing-kind-of-way.

May. 10, 2009 | 11:21 AM T3hShotgunK1ng says:

lol. i thought your screen name looked familiar.

Saunich der Hejhaug was amazing, to say the least. it was like a slightly more straightforward than usual Salad Fingers. but with Saunich.

out of curiosity, what happened to his arm?

May. 10, 2009 | 1:25 PM sorbitol says:

Why is the score dropping? Wasn't it around 3.90 at one point?
What is wrong with these inbred shit-bags?

May. 10, 2009 | 6:17 PM sontuk says:

how about now

May. 10, 2009 | 8:20 PM manwith10toes says:

Holy christ that was amazing.

May. 10, 2009 | 11:49 PM nuhvok01 says:

Saunich was hilarious. Stop looking at my nipples. I look forward to your next submission, I found this one cuz its on Egoraptors favorites list.

I HATE stick figure movies cuz its just stick people fight Dragon Ball style.

May. 11, 2009 | 12:39 AM blackduckie says:

I loved how when you couldn't be bothered animating his face, you just had his nose come down and eat the chili dogs. It was like he was paralyzed in the more complexly drawn parts of his body. XD

As a few reviewers have pointed out, it would have been hilarious to see how he saved the city, but I suppose that might have taken a while.

I also loved when he said he had to go QUICKLY, and then in the next scene, instead of running, he just went in the car.

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May. 11, 2009 | 12:12 PM Emanhattan says:

I like how a lot of the negative reviews in your sonic the hedghehog movie have something to do with sonic being all disgusting and they get offended because you destroy the integrity or the game or whatever

May. 11, 2009 | 2:07 PM Lucster says:

Hey Nicholas why not you develop something on the Playstation 3?

May. 12, 2009 | 8:35 PM NAveryW responds:

When XNA Creators Studio comes out for the PS3 I will gladly make a game for it.

May. 11, 2009 | 4:04 PM Chewanater says:

Did you do the voice?

May. 11, 2009 | 8:55 PM cantflyman says:

I also forgot to mention in my review that your voice acting has gotten a lot better. It's definitely proved since McDarnold's

May. 13, 2009 | 12:54 AM nintendork1 says:

i actually squirted milk out my nose when saunich was driving.

May. 13, 2009 | 11:09 AM InvertedScrotum says:

Your title is my favorite NG flaw. It's trying to disallow unicode symbols while still processing the htmlentities code for it.

May. 13, 2009 | 5:30 PM PolishMatt says:

Good work on the recent Flash. You managed to piss off every 12 year old kid on Newgrounds with it, haha.

May. 13, 2009 | 6:00 PM jessethehedgehog1 says:

I have to agree with you on how biased the Newgrounds community is. This was one of the smoothest frame-by-frame animations I've seen in quite some time, yet people just blam it because they either think that there is no plot, or they're just trolling about. That Flash made front page because it showed quality artwork and smooth animation. Fuck what the other users have to say.

May. 13, 2009 | 6:03 PM CelestOrion says:

That last user was me, I forgot to log out of my alt account. But seriously, most of the reviews on Newgrounds are either biased, or trolled. Just keep up the great work with your animation, that's all that matters.

May. 13, 2009 | 7:41 PM Chewanater says:

Are you gonna maek an iphone game?

May. 13, 2009 | 7:46 PM Chewanater says:

Are you gonna maek an iphone game?

May. 13, 2009 | 7:55 PM Judzfell says:

Egoraptor is gay, so stfu with your saunich flash.. i liked your sonic flash though

May. 14, 2009 | 11:33 PM xXxAlecxXx says:

Can i have some Chili Drink?

May. 17, 2009 | 2:19 PM starfoth says:

make a sequel to sanich der hejaug, and how much money did you earn from it?

May. 24, 2009 | 1:58 AM GaryPotter says:

Hey WalrusGuy, why did you close your YouTube account?