I was honestly surprised. When I first released Russio I had prayed for its success and after a few weeks ended with up with around 3.66/5.00, which was fairly decent. It was nominated for the Treasure Hunt but the post mysteriously vanished.

But Then:
Despite the disappearance of the nomination post, Russio appeared on front page. Currently, it has a score around 3.95 and 70 people who have added him to his favorites list.

Special thanks to thecoolname for being a fan of Russio and nominating it before it was popular.

You can see it here. This version not only contains 10 Easter Eggs but also play controls useful in finding those Easter eggs. Easter eggs will activate even when the movie is stopped. See if you can find them all!

Hopefully, this is the end of the Russio project. All I have left to do is send it in to the Web Master at albinoblacksheep.com. However, I'm going to wait until Sunday in case I remember any changes that need to be made.

The Albino Blacksheep version will have (among other things) 10 easter eggs hidden throughout the 33 seconds. Here's a hint: Each scene will have one Easter egg, except for the TV scene which will have 2.

Russio has made it off the "Latest Submissions" page with a score of 3.54 (which is 0.07 behind Carrotoid which took much less effort and time to make) . Towards the beginning it had an "Awesome Score" of 3.62 but steadily declined to about 3.47 then rose to where it is now.

It's not over yet. I'll be working on the Easter Egg version for Albino Blacksheep which will have (of course) easter eggs among other things.

Russio: Epic Russian will hopefully be uploaded to Newgrounds tomorrow at around 4:00PM Eastern Atlantic Time. It will have tree-eating, electrified plasma-coffee, tetris punching, a fight with a flying robotic bear and (of course) explosions all in 33 seconds!

I've finished the two remaining scenes. In scene 8 Russio dances to a sensory overload of flashing lights and in Scene 9 the movie goes out with a bang (literally).

The next task is to "package" everything. This means adding the preloader, making a title and end screen, programming menu options etc. I should be sending this in by next Friday.

In this scene Russio fights the final boss (which is a large, flying mechanical bear) while speeding through the woods.

With the mechanical bear I attempted to make it resemble Soviet Russia's Vinni Puh. It ended up bearing too little resemblance but still looked pretty good (In Soviet Russia Vinni Puh Resembles YOU).

The next two scenes will require less work, and should be done before the weekend. Hopefully I'll have something for Newgrounds on October 17th.

Before I begin I should probably tell you what I'm doing.

In a nutshell I am making a 30 second sprite short. What's different from other sprite shorts is that I'm making everything myself and I'm not using any of the trademarked characters sprite flash fans know and adore (If you want to see a sample of my work see Carrotoid) . This will be introducing my character, Russio doing a number of off the wall actions in 9 scenes consisting of mostly 3 seconds each. Russio's appearance will not be revealed until the Newgrounds edition is complete.

This log was moved over from my blog since it didn't seem to be getting any traffic.

Onto this weeks log:
Scene 6 was finished quicker than I expected so I effectively put the rest of the project aside for the rest of the week. This scene consists of Russio being sent skyward riding a straight tetris block. He starts off with a skater-esque pose then launches himself off the block and lands in a wooded area.

Today (May 24th) I posted a flash I called "Eyesoap (0m18s). After it made its way through the "Latest Submissions" it ended with a score of 2.09 after I voted it up from 2.04. My personal standard is 2.50 or higher so I erased it.

Lessons learned:
- Make longer flashes
- Try to improve audio quality

Special thanks to those who reviewed it.

The Plot Against Mario Fandom was an animutation made to ReRicked by KgZ. This was the first thing I submitted to Newgrounds and It did quite poorly at somewhere below 2.00 before I voted it up while no one was paying attention (which ended around 2.19 which still isn't that good). Now I have decided not to keep any animation that falls below 2.50 on Newgrounds in hopes of making a good reputation for myself as an animator. The Plot Against Mario Fandom does not meet this requirement so it has been removed.

However you can still view it on the Animutation Portal here. While the Animutation Portal version has bonus features the window size is wrong.