It's great to see Dogg's stuff again... brought back some memories.
I participated in the early 2000s scene and made a brief return making a few animations in the late 2000s. It's amazing the effect a few years of maturity has. I was born in '88 so I was 14 or so when were we all at Overshadow's board. When I popped back in here in 2008 (?) to make a few more I would've been 20 or so. My latter animations were so much better simply because I was more patient. In my younger years I'd get great big ideas but was too impatient to perfect them. I remember my biggest idea was to animate an entire Royal Rumble but I got bored a couple entrants into it.
It's a shame but most of my stuff was lost to photobucket/imageshack/geocities/angelfire/whatever else we used. My animations folder was on a hard drive that failed. I never had any money so I built a computer out of the corpses of the computers I found in my friends' families' basements so hard drive failure was a regular thing I dealt with as a result. I vaguely recall being included in the original "SFP Legends" video but my choice of song ("The Mob Rules" by Black Sabbath) triggered an automatic copyright strike so it had to be removed.
(I found this, shame none of the links work:
www.angelfire.com/wrestling3/newbies/inkane.html )
Anyway, I recently had a SFP-related dream that brought me back here as well as doing a few Google searches. Looking at the birthdays of some people on the user list here it seems that many of us are in our 30s now. It's amazing how time fucking flies. My teens were a shitty time due in part to the emergence of a chronic illness that I've only just recently figured out how to deal with, but coming home to my computer to work on SFP animations was a nice distraction.
While typing this up I've stirred up a memory of trying to animate a Vertebreaker to no avail - on 9/11. I came home from school in 8th grade and my dad was freaking out, nobody knew what the hell was going on... so I went up to the computer room and started animating.
I never moved on from Paint Shop Pro 7, it's been my image editor of choice to this day.
Does anyone know what became of Dogglife? Someone like him should be working as a graphic artist of some sort. I dated a crazy artist for 5+ years and living with her helped me further appreciate Dogg's stuff. He was so above and beyond the rest of us.
Edit: Has anyone heard from kLoQwYzE? He was my closest friend in the scene... we had a lot of good laughs. Here are some scattered memories:
We started talking and realized that we both liked to make up words, so we shared our words with each other and doubled our made-up vocabulary. His main word was HENG. Another good one was hobon-lingus. He had a friend that was obsessed with robots, to an unhealthy degree. We had a lot of fun at the expense of noobs: One time, a nob appeared on the board and made a thread asking for the SCRAM. From that point on, we always referred to the SRAM as the SCRAM. We enjoyed the way that noob animators tended to overdo it when it came to tables/weapons, so we would make animations of powerbombs through 500 tables and things equally ridiculous. Somebody named "Ne|V|esis" showed up and made a brief attempt to become an animator before our mockery ran him off. kLoQ read his name as "Melvis" so from that point on, that guy was Melvis and there was nothing he could do to change that. I love the fact that when I Google "super fire pro wrestling animations" to find this board, one of the first results is a noob thread: "How do i make animations." kLoQ and I would talk on AIM, and we had creative ways of saying goodbye. If you remember back in the day, when you were talking to someone in AIM and they disconnected, it would say "kLoQwYzE has disconnected" (or "logged off," I forget the verbage). Well, the exit conversation would go something like this:
Basically, we'd just take the verb from the previous sentence and use it in a creative way. Another example would be "Play with THIS! *thrusts hips*" It works with any verb that was in the prior sentence. I still use this to this day in chats, and often.
I also remember Noog/Grentastical Noogman being funny as fuck. I stole some of his material and still use it. In my animation heyday it was about freshman year and we had an assignment in history class where we had a bunch of vocabulary words we had to use in sentences. A friend of mine used them all in one to form an absurd sentence: "I smuggled delegates from the tar pit." I wrote that on a random post on the board and Noog replied "SO IT WAS YOU!" I use that whenever I can fit it in. Another bit I stole from Noog happened when we were all discussing weapons that wrestlers could be slammed into like tables, barbed wire, etc. Noog suggested one of us should animate a wrestler slamming another into "a swirling pool of enlightenment."
I guess this scene really helped me develop my sense of humor, or at the very least it gave me an opportunity to express it. After having friends tell me to do stand-up comedy for my entire life, I finally did a routine a few months ago and it went well.
A lot of random memories have been coming back to me this past week. Maybe I'll edit this post with more memories later as they come to me.