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Kerfuffle Crescendo news (tragic)

Posted by Jesse-Pinkman-420 - September 16th, 2024


the scope of Kerfuffle Crescendo will be truncated. I will no longer be aiming for the longest movie submitted to Newgrounds title. I estimate Kerfuffle Crescendo will now run for 2.5 hours as opposed to the previous aim of 5.5. Though there will be no minimum length goal.


At some point in the writing process, the aim changed, from "I want the longest cartoon on Newgrounds" to "I want to make a sitcom with a crazy number of plot threads that interact in unexpected and wacky ways." And the arbitrary length requirement was contrary to this new goal.


side note, but the kid with the longest 'movie' submitted to Newgrounds just stitched together a season's worth of episodes of his show, so it's not one continuous narrative like Kerfuffle Crescendo will be. Whether or not this is me coping is left as an exercise to the reader.


It seems like a lot of the obscenely long Newgrounds uploads are shitty in their own unique way, GoAnimate, animatics, visual novels, 2 hours of a black screen that was probably put there by accident, compilations of episodes making the "movie" more like a glorified playlist.


The longest submission on Newgrounds that seems to be of merit is Batman Rogues Gallery, at 2 hours 20 minutes.


Even if I can't "beat" that (as stated above, I'm not going specifically for any length records anymore), I should still secure "longest comedy cartoon that doesn't suck" as well as "longest cartoon based on an original property that doesn't suck."


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no idea what this is but best of luck pal

so true bestie

Tragic to hear that, but no worries. I'm sure you're gonna give a great cartoon. I'll be waiting.

so true bestie

hm... interesting, looking forward for it, when it will be out? 2026? 2027? 2030?

I'm not committing to a release window but 2027-2030 seems plausible

@MetalSlayer69 good luck

AFAIK, only 7 submissions exceed 2 hours in length, and only the Batman one you mentioned seems to be of any merit. Two of them are padded out with empty space, one's a visual novel, and the rest are compilations.

Even if you stay within the 90 minute range, there's 14 additional movies. There are two movies that are either "original property" or "doesn't suck"

COMMERCIAL BREAK (93m), released this year, though it's a major collab with dozens of contributors.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/938068

DrawBomb's 2 Dicks on the Beat (91m). This one was improv animated using PNGTuber software in a short timeframe.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/866945

The rest are either compilations, fall within the 3 star range (ie. SUCK), or are not based on original properties (including 2 sprite movies). One of them's a recorded tutorial.

Full list here:
https://www.newgrounds.com/search/conduct/movies?advanced=1&match=tdtu&min_length=01%3A30%3A00&max_length=02%3A00%3A00

Either way, it's refreshing you still want to make this animation feature-length, even if it takes you a few years to complete. A cool 96 minutes should be attainable (no prizes why I picked this number). No need to James Cameron the whole thing.

I've already surpassed 100 minutes* and need more time to resolve a few threads.

*assuming minutes=pages