A big thanks to Spicy, for giving such an interesting interview! It's always wonderful to bring the man behind the curtain out to certain stage, and get to know them a little better.

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Hello there forum! Who's our guest today? I know him, you know him and I'm pretty sure most of CO players know him. The second member of 91 Video Team, the creator of the dance video "Smooth Criminal" and other epic CO videos, Studio Nightbird.

Spicy: Hello Ricky, welcome to join us today. ^ ^
nightbird: Thanks for the welcome, glad to be here.

Spicy: You recently reappeared in CO spotlights (The first place in Legends Return S2 PVP Video Contest), how does it feel to be famous again?
Nightbird: Feels like free CPs, kidding. Well it's kinda great, I tend to get people whispering me or trying to talk to me a lot on Conquer. Even players who would own the living day lights out of me would sit and chat for once. Though this only happens on like Conquer or FaceBook or YouTube. Still waiting to be recognized at the local shopping center... don't think that's gonna happen in a hurry.

Spicy: Depends... who knows maybe the stores managers play CO *giggle*
Nightbird: True... hmm then I could ask for like a discount or something.

Spicy: Haha, good idea. Can you tell us more about who is behind Studio Nightbird so we can recognize and chase you ^.<
Nightbird: My Real name is Ricky Murray and I'm 21 years old. I'm currently studying Animation at Qantm College Brisbane; it's a very cheap course too. Only costing me $37,000 *crys* hmm... well I live down in Australia, born here with New Zealand parents. But I'm not the typical looking New Zealander; in fact I'm completely the opposite. I always have an Afro but try to jell it away. Well... always jell it away I should say.

Spicy: That sounds interesting! So you wanna make an animation career?
Nightbird: Something in that area, I'm not gonna lie and say I didn't want to work for Disney Pixar (I'd love to) but for now I'm aiming small and jump at any opportunity I get relating to animating, VFX, Film making, sound design, Music composing, etc.

Spicy: So Studio Nightbird is your signature everywhere not just in CO?
Nightbird: Yea... I started out at newgrounds.com, creating mini animations and doing animated series. This is where I was able to pick up most of my skills in animating and music composing, then slowly spreading to other sites like a plague or disease. I mostly did this cuz I loved the feed back I would get.

Spicy: Why Nightbird? A night bird can't fly very high you know. :P
Nightbird: Ahh... well, it's a rather stupid story but I first started off as BlackBird Entertainment. But at the time I noticed on the news people found the word black racist. I got scared and changed it to Nightbird Entertainment (I was like 13 at the time so leave me be:3) Then just before I released my first animation in 2006, I changed it to Studio Nightbird.

Spicy: And how did you find out about CO?
Nightbird: Ahh, yes... I remember the day so clearly... It was a lovely shinny day and the flowers... just kidding. My friend came to school one day and told me about CO. I said "that's stupid, I'll get sick of it and uninstall it in 1 hour!" But installed it anyway. 6 years later and I never did, I ended up installing it on all my computers.

Spicy: That feels so familiar *giggle* So you're one of the old players! How's gamming going? Your character? ^ ^
Nightbird: Not too bad. I'm the strongest fire on my server *shifty eyes*, seriously I'm not lying. I'm the strongest...in my dreams.

Spicy: Dreams are sweet!^-<
Nightbird: Yep... until you have one of those dreams where you are not wearing any cloths out in public. xD