WELCOME WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, TO THE THIRD ANNUAL NEWGROUNDS MOVIE THEATER COLLAB!

Grab your popcorn, drinks, candy packets, nacho cheese, hot dogs, pretzels, chicken tender baskets, zombie legs, AND toilet paper rolls from concessions cause we're about to sit down and watch yet another cinema classic at the Newgrounds Movie Theater tonight! No need to grab your safety pillows this time around however, because this year's theme is going to be a COMEDY movie!

Here's how this will work:

Things are going to work pretty similarly to how they did last time, however unlike last time there's no second brighter background to represent your OC's reactions. For those who are new to this collab, you will be making two drawings of your OC's. The first drawing will be of their casual mood; doing whatever your OC's typically do while watching a movie (sipping their drink, eating their popcorn, huddling close to their friend or watching the movie intently, etc), and then WHAP! Your OC will be hit with a Low-hanging fruit of a gag that they GOTTA admit was super funny!

(Your OC is not required to be laughing for the second drawing if it's not in their personality, maybe they find the joke lame, or maybe they're reacting to the audience, whatever you see fit for your OC's personality).

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How to submit your OC!:

To re-iterate, you will be making two drawings of your OC's. First art pre-punchline (casual), and second art post-punchline (laughing). When you post your drawings as a reply to this thread, you will be required to state which seat you'd like your OC's to be seated in. In the image below, you'll see the numbers for each individual seat!

Once you have submitted your OC drawings and seat request, they will be jotted down on the spreadsheet below. This spreadsheet is accessible to anyone who needs to know which seats have been taken and which are still available. You will not be able to edit this spreadsheet document.

There will be updates posted each week in this thread leading up to the deadline that'll display how the background currently looks with all of the attending OC's. This is to keep the thread for the collab fresh in the forum feed.

Here is the link to the Spreadsheet!

Additionally:

Just like last time you'll be able to submit a graffiti artwork to be placed on the back wall of the theater behind the seats. This is an optional submission that you can make for the collab. If you wish to submit a graffiti artwork, it must be within the same post as your OC drawing submission. You must also state where on the wall the graffiti should be and how big you want it to be as well.

Also, this time around, you're encouraged not to post your graffiti artwork with a white outline. If you submit a graffiti artwork with a white outline, the white outline will be removed. This is a personal choice in order to help the graffiti blend in with the background a little better, as I felt like last time graffiti's with white outlines look a bit more like stickers than graffiti. If you have any concerns regarding this decision please let me know, thank you!

The Deadline:

Just like the previous Movie Theater Collab, the deadline for this collab is 11:59 AM (EST), September 15th. On September 16th, the finished Newgrounds Movie Theater Collab artwork will be posted.

PLEASE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO SUBMIT YOUR OC. your submission will be less likely to get jotted down and added in if you wait until the last hour before the deadline is due. . . .

Here are the rules:

1 - You must be a scouted artist to join.

2 - This time you are allowed to take up to 4 seats if you have that many OC's you'd like to submit for the collab. Just please be mindful of other people who'd like to join the collab and are nervous about available seats.

Only take 4 spots if it's absolutely appropriate for your OC's to be in such a group together (SoapChuwa's AEGIS group submission from 2024's movie theater collab would be a good example).

3 - No matter the amount of OC's for your submission, please be sure that your drawings do not intrude upon the space of other seats.

As fun as it is to have your reaction drawing throwing popcorn up in the air and flailing their arms out, it would unfortunately cause trouble for people that are surrounding your OC that don't wanna be blocked by a flying popcorn bucket.

Be mindful of your OC's surroundings when making your art. Do not submit drawings with seperate OC's in different seats from one another unless you have specifically requested a seat for that individual OC.

4 - You may only submit one graffiti drawing. Depending on the position and size that you describe for your graffiti, it may be subject to having other people's graffiti overlayed on top of it. You may pick a spot for your graffiti that lays over top of someone else's graffiti so long as it doesn't obscure their graffiti too much. Please reach out to me if there's any issues regarding people's graffiti placement.

ATTENTION! TO SECURE A SPOT FOR THE COLLAB YOU MUST FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORKS FIRST.

Well, that just about covers everything you need to know for the collab! I'm super excited to see what drawings y'all are just eager to cook up for this collab! So keep an eye on the thread for updates, let me know if you have any questions, and remember, have fun!

Let's do this thing!!