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Kirbopher
Animation Artist, creator of over 100 pieces of Flash animation on and offline. Graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Class of 2011.

Chris Niosi @Kirbopher

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School of Visual Arts

New York

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TOME Episode 03 + Marching On

Posted by Kirbopher - March 8th, 2012


Phew, finally I can take a second to write one of these.

February was absolutely NUTS for me, but totally worth it. I kept saying I was gonna write a blog post every week but I kept getting so busy I couldn't take the time to sit down and do one. Lotta things to catch up on!

First and foremost, TOME Episode 03 is finally out! I apologize for it taking so long, as I originally wanted it to be released by Valentine's Day and it ended up taking WAY longer than I expected it, but I think the final product was worth it. I wanna thank everyone who left feedback and spoke to me personally about the last two episodes, which pushed me into redesigning a lot of the graphics starting from Episode 03 and on. It took up the majority of January, but hopefully it'll make a big difference from here on out. I was very shaky on the script, since this was written way back in August of last year and it's not my strongest in terms of story, but it was definitely fun to see it all come together. I got a whole slew of great voice performances from the big assortment of guests I pulled together for this episode, as well some beautifully-designed backgrounds by my art team of ;Mechcity, so major props to them all for pulling through.

Additionally, we're selling the ending credits song, "Battle On!" on bandcamp! So if you wanna own a copy of all the cheesy 90's Anime sound you can eat, do us a solid and pick it up from the site. :]

Sort of tangentially-related, HUGE congratulations to the Newgrounds crew for their amazing new redesign! So many of the new features have made my life so easy. I tested them out a bit when I submitted that Valentine's Day commission last month and it really is a gigantic step up. I hope everyone else is enjoying and making good use of it!

March is gonna be super busy for me as well. Last month I was in talks for two big freelance gigs, one of which is set to go and I'm starting on the illustrations for it this weekend. I'll have a little something special planned for April Fools Day, but otherwise I won't have anything big to show on the animation front for a little while. I DO plan on doing Episode 04 of TOME before the Summer starts at the very latest. I've got lots of new assets to make and I still need to finalize the script, but I think Episode 04 will be the best (and definitely the funniest) yet. Look forward to it!


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Episode 3 was definitely an awesome episode, especially with the introduction of the new characters and updated talking sprites. How does the virtual reality work for tome. do the characters just wear some sort of headset/body suit to move their in game characters or do their bodies materialize into tome fully and become their character? ever think of having any characters from your past videos such as parody rangers make a cameo in Tome?

@ supaSphoje: It was described in the TTA sprite series that the players wear headsets and play the game on controllers similar to the SNES and other consoles. It was also referenced by Kirbopher15 (in TTA) that he was pushing his joystick as far as it would go.
Hope that clears things up for you.

As for Episode 3, I said what I wanted to about it in the review. Can't wait for episode 4 and whatever you have up your sleeve for April Fools.

Kirbopher you're becoming one of those big blips on the Newgrounds radar, you were already pretty big with you Nintendo collabs, but now TOME is taking it to a new level!

I'm hoping that further into the series the story takes it out of the game some how, since Alpha forbidden power is able to physically hurt other opponents, should be interesting. Of course the entire digital thing reminds one of Digimon aha.

Keen for the next episode, whenever that may be released! You're an inspiration to us all Kirb!

Man, TOME should be an actual online MMORPG, i know i would pay to play it

Loved TOME 3 and I can't wait for more stuff from you. :D

ClichedCrusader that's the joke, Nylocke is meant to be annoying at times by using his catchphrase of dialogue over and over again. It's what makes his character HIS. He IS a role player after all. Your TOME series is looking pretty well Kirbopher and I hope you aren't having as much trouble with the everchanging weather in New York like I am.

Great work on TOME 3, really enjoyed it. Good luck with any future projects of yours.

I was a little disappointed that you weren't in episode 3 of TOME but it was still good.

You do seem to have alot going on and I look forward to your future flash movies.

why did you change the names of some characters? Like BlingBling from the original TTA is now named Doubling.

Ahoy Kirbopher!

Great work, good luck on TOME Episode 04!

hi kirbopher! i have a question and i think its a good question.
what inspired you to create TOME?

hi kribopher! i have a question i think its a good question.
what inspired you to create TOME?

but

The way the reboot is playing out is awesome. Can't wait to see more, and I'll be damned if the voice talents of all the VA's isn't impressive.

hey kirb, just want to tell that TOME is a fantastic series; one the best ive seen. just keep up the good work and the hilarity.

Can't wait for episode 4!
Nylocke is such a boss. XD

I wanted to ask a favor. Would you possibly put a character that I made in TOME? If do consider it, please tell me.