Nathan Kuruna is looking to fund (via KickStarter) a documentary he's making about New grounds, the popular Flash-based gaming and entertainment web site. Karuna has been travelling the country interviewing a number of notable people that are proud supporters of Newgrounds.com including the site's founder and Castle Crashers co-creator Tom Fulp, Attack of the Show co-host Kevin Pereira, Simpsons writer Mike Reiss, Ren & Stimpy animator John Kricfalusi and more.
The film is called "Everything, By Everyone," a title that pretty much explains the eclectic nature of the Newgrounds.com community. Here's a sample of Karuna's pitch at Kickstarter.com:
A computer-savvy kid in a basement doing stuff for fun leads to a popular site with millions of visitors, which eventually leads to a successful business and an internet institution. Newgrounds predates YouTube, MySpace and Google. It has existed long enough to have been part of some historically critical years in evolution of a now ubiquitous internet and it’s still going strong. It is the rare example of a website that neither vanished in the dot-com implosion nor was swallowed up by a large corporate interest. Perhaps most importantly, Newgrounds was an early driving force behind the idea that regular people could use the Internet purely as a source of entertainment programming. This idea is now universal.
As of this writing Karuna has $3422 of $12,000 he needs to finish making the film. You can donate at the link above. You can also find a sample from the movie there.
Source: Kotaku
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Re: Funding Wanted: Everything By Everyone
If I had some more money on hand I would have donated. Seeing the evolution of newgrounds would have made a good documantry film.
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Re: Funding Wanted: Everything By Everyone
Newgrounds has greatly evolved over the years in terms of internet animation and games. When only the most vile and violent stuff imaginable was pretty much all you could come across on the internet in terms of web toons and games (see Stick Death and Frog in a Blender), Newgrounds has shown some extremely talented works over the years and people are being able to flex their muscle in terms of animation, music, and game making. I gotta admit a soft spot for Bitey of Brackenwood.
Will I donate? Nope. No extra cash, bro. Sorry. If I did have extra cash, you can bet the infernal snowball fight is an epic one.