Vero said:
Slightly off topic, but you.. BongResiN, should change your avatar. A 300kb animated gif is just retarded, and a slap in the face for those unfortunate enough to be on regular dialup and/or pay for their bandwidth.
Thanks.
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karm100fists said:
BONG! how come ninjai hasn't made more episodes! Its driving me crazy!
Edit Wait I just watched episode 10... I could have sworn I had allready watched episode 10. I guess I didn't though. That shit was pretty cool. Frustrating though, I want them to finish!
I found this on one of their website links regarding to the rest of the episodes that were unfinised: Dear Ninjai Fans,
Many of you have been waiting patiently for Chapters 11-14 and we greatly appreciate that. You’ve been asking when these new chapters are going to come out, but to be honest we don’t know exactly when they’re going to come out because we don’t know how long it will take us to finish them. We are doing our best.
If you’ve been coming here you’ve probably noticed that we used to have a notice on our front page seeking animators which said that we could even pay them a little bit of money. But unfortunately that ended up just being a waste of time because we had to spend time going through all these different flash animators, none of which ended up being suitable for Ninjai. We realized it would have taken us more time to try to re-train some of these animators in the Ninjai style than it would be to keep plugging away at it ourselves. We even tried going to traditional animators and went through tons of countless traditional animators’ work, many of which were very good, but the main problem with that is that they were all so expensive—way beyond what we’ve got. We even looked into hiring independent animation studios to help us get these chapters created as quickly as possible, but they charge between $8,000 a minute (some unknown studio in Argentina) to $30,000 a minute.
For those of you who emailed us or posted on the forums that you think we don’t care about our fans and that we’re just letting people hang, etc. that’s as far from the truth as you can get. The fact is, we feel very badly that it has taken us this long. But feeling bad doesn’t make us work any faster; it just gives us more stress and makes life for us more of a bummer. And being on a bummer doesn’t make you work any better or any harder.
Those of you who said that Chapter 11 must be finished by now, actually, Chapter 11 is almost finished, but we don’t want to release Chapter 11 and then have two more months pass before we can put Chapter 12 up, etc. We want to be able to release the four chapters we’re working on with hopefully no more than a 30 day separation between each one. Maybe you’ll disagree with our strategy, but this is how we feel the most comfortable doing it, so that’s what we’re going to do.
If you feel you’re wasting your time having to check to see if we have a new chapter up, sign up for our newsletter so we can notify you when they’re up, that way you won’t need to come here unnecessarily.
As far as some of the people who’ve been bitching about it and getting on our case, we can only respond, if you’re serious about seeing the chapters come out more quickly, then why don’t you help instead of just bitching. Help us find flash animators who we don’t need to waste our time training and who don’t charge us way more money then we can afford.