Flash cartoon in the running for some money

Over at Newgrounds I have recently submitted a new cartoon in conjunction with their annual “Madness Day”.

A screenshot from the cartoon

For anyone not in the know, Madness Day is a tribute to the Madness flash series created by a dude called Krinkels. It basically features one weird looking dude beating the piss out of other weird looking dudes. It is good mindless fun and very deserving of a day of flash tributes.

My flash tribute is rather gaily entitled, “A Madness Mystery” (I really couldn’t think of another name). My cartoon moves away from the more mindless violence aspect and instead focuses almost solely on some strange story surrounding roofies and waking up in strange places.

As opposed to the majority of my other work on Newgrounds that goes largely unnoticed this one has gotten a bit of attention. Not front page attention no, but that Krinkels dude who created saw fit to review it and tell me he liked it, which was very positive to hear.

That’s not to toot my own horn but this is my blog so if I want to horn toot I fucking well will.

The top 10 submissions on Madness are each in the running to win a cash prize ranging from $1500 to $250. Which to me, is very very good money and I scraped ten I may just spray my shorts.

It’s highly unlikely that’s the case as my style of animation is somewhat different to the majority of artists out there (read: not as good). But it has the backing from the creator and another high profile artist so I am remaining optimistic.