DD HISTORY
DarkDemon (DD) has been around since 2004, it has a solid history of people and events and such. I've been a member since only July 2012 so im probably not best qualified to make a history thread, but if anyone wants to correct me/add anything, feel free.
Important people:
AdamSpoiler:Made a forum in 2004 with the username of DarkDemon, which is the name which was given to the forum in the end. probably the most important DD member. OG top dog. went afk in 2008 ish (i think), and sold the site about 2010 to a guy called mollila.
BertSpoiler:Old guy, important to the making of DD. Made the bert stks and such like. Iconic to DD History
JonSpoiler:Like bert. made the wu stks. Iconic to DD history
Peter BoneSpoiler:Creator of all official versions of pivot.
Chimaera (AKA Elliott)Spoiler:2006 oldfag. the main mod while mollila owned the site. important guy. fucked up the site by accident in March 2013, which caused mollila to sell us to DarkApple (DA). we love you tho <3
MolillaSpoiler:bought the site off adam for profit. adam made a sweet $5K. molilla didnt visit us at all. eventually he sold the site to DA because Chimaera fucked up some code while fiddling with the ACP, which meant that the only person who could fix the site was molilla (Chimaera had only limited power).
DarkApple (DA)Spoiler:moved us to Animator.net, left us with default and broken VBulletin layout. refused to give any of the admins any power, so nothing happened for about a year until Juke made this site in April 2014. When that happened, DA got really angry and banned anyone who linked this website on Animator.net. demoted all the admins. there was a theory that DA was infact some korean dude from Shuniu or WTFTeam trying to fuck up our forum but idk about that.
Bahumut (Darren)Spoiler:Used to be considered one of the best pivot animators, before he disappeared. Major player in bringing animation standards up, with his and animations and the BIGASS tutorial he wrote, linked here. this tutorial is now a minefield of broken img links and outdated animation tips but for many years, it was very relevant and is by far the biggest pivot tutorial there is.
Juke:Spoiler:The guy who too the initiative to decide to create a new site after becoming fed up with DA. Originally started this site by re-coloring and re-shaping the we_clearblue theme that we currently use in phpBB. He also re-colored the CometChat system so that it matched our site's colors.
Tenks:Spoiler:Created the VIP Panel where people can customize their rank and upload their own rank bars.
Minifrij:Spoiler:Created MyFiles and MyFiles+.
Mitch:Spoiler:Created the Forum Icons and Buttons that you see when viewing the forum or replying to threads/private messages. He also made the new big tutorial which he needs to finish but its still good, linked here
Nice Pants:Spoiler:Helped clean up the coding of the site so everything looked in place and aligned. He also created the smilies and default rank bars for the forum.
Donators:Spoiler:Maintaining a website costs a lot of money, money we wouldn't have without the help of those who donated. Special shoutout to The Spectre and Mat.
Bladez:Spoiler:Found an awesome deal on a hosting plan for us. Setup the server on which our site is being hosted multiple times. Also integrated CometChat into the site and worked on removing all the bugs it had. He also made the Youtube module for CometChat. And generally has just been the guy who does all the behind the scenes work that people are unaware of.
Collabs/Animations of note
The DDC series.Spoiler:A collab where the best animators pull out all the stops to each create their best animation. there is no theme, though it is normally fighting and such. The DDC series is the main collab of DarkDemon, and is pretty much the reason that DD got lots of attention.
DDC1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgP74v9L810
DDC2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSqvo3JcFY
DDC3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z309JNHQ-BU
DDC4:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5hW5XNSgcg
DDC5:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRhYCYzf28
DDC6:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA8jay7hD8U DDC6 Part 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYCzHgWxuM
DDC7:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXaF2ZhJ5Vo DDC7 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1UEETblyE
DDC7 (B side):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMHnPZOJ_E
DDC8:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6IOiGc2XX4
DDC9:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHYHreFYUs
DDC9 (B side):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WskFY95MP84
DDC10:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyxHfBKM0w
DDC11:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seze1WDyfG4
DDC12:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkqDoAYKG4A
DDC12 (B side):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h-KG0nNxZs
The Blood Collab series:Spoiler:All about animating blood. Lots of blood. :o
Blood Collab 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHXwz9xk2CY
Blood Collab 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn0m19P_veg
Blood Collab 3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OoMjblkzG0
Other large scale collabsSpoiler:The Darkbert collab: a collab about trying to stop Bert's signature character, Darkbert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj56AMa_m7E
The Vets Joint: animated by the veterans of DarkDemon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SbnmXdBw9A
The Toast Collab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVPYxuUqC8
The Inters Joint: Animated by the intermediates of darkdemon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WslHTI02YGE
The Shadow Lith Collab: A collab about trying to defeat Lithium's character, ShadowLith. The final part is animated by Lithium himself, defeating all the participants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-0J-Hy6c2c
2013 Staff vs Regulars: The entire forum was split into teams. On the staff's side, there was the Admin team, the Mod team and the Rank team. on the Regulars side, there were teams who fought the Admins, Mods, or Rank Teams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXSnPO2FaU
Important/Revered Solo animationsSpoiler:These animations were so good, that everyone remembers them and they became classics of DD animation.
Tyrants Wrath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IQfEl ... e=youtu.be Animated by Jon
Dance With The Devil: pt1 pt2pt3 Animated by Sharpshooter
Olix Flix DDC11: PIV GIF
Senzo's DDC12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUFmRJSN6w0 PIV
Websites
TO BE ADDED
Im sure there's lots that i missed, so please feel free to add and suggest improvements and all that jazz.