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Last day of Hanukkah, first day of the year. 2025 is here.

The movie I want to work on the most this year is the big Daklil movie that's been lying around for the past half a year. I didn't get to work on it a lot because of things like Artfight and the last two movies I've been working on.

The other reason is because I want to massively improve my art knowledge and skills, and so far, I really do feel like I improved since I started to work on it. I learned to draw skeletons, and even learned a little bit of perspective.

This is me taking the things I learned about skeletons, and attempting to stylize one.

Now enough talking about what I did the last year, I already did it last post, now I'm talking about what I'm gonna do this year.

I'll keep making movies themed around holidays. I already have some ideas waiting from last year.

That means that there would also be another Hanukkah Man movie, but until next Hanukkah, there's a lot of time.

Something I'm not sure if I'll actually make, but I have a vague idea for a Megadog movie. About Megadog fighting against Mechadog.

I also have two ideas which have been lying around since 2023. I remember I even made a post about one of them. It's about two characters. One is madly in love with the female villain in his video game, and the other thinks it's ridiculous and tells him to ''get real''. This gives the other character the idea to make a machine that can teleport people into his video game, thus making the villain he's in love with ''real''. When teleporting, he accidentally teleports the other character into the video game with him.

I'm not quite sure if I'll make it yet.

This drawing is kind of outdated.

The other idea I don't think I'll post in here, if I do make it.

Lastly, I'm making a comic book. Working on it made for a pretty good perspective practice. Though, I'll most likely not post it.

The cool thing about this comic, is that unlike everything else in this post, I'm actually working on this one consistently.

It sounds like I'm optimistic for this year, but I'm honestly being careful not to get too excited. I now see AI being used everywhere. Even in real life. Just this last year we saw AI beginning to make convincingly realistic videos (or at least, realistic for an untrained eye). Heck, these past few months, I began seeing AI video making it to TV! Only in commercials, that is, but it does make me worried for the future. And also the fact we are now closer to 2030 than we are to 2019. It's a very trivial thing, but it still makes me a little worried.

Summary of 2024.

Janruary-May

These months have been lackluster in terms of content. And that's because these months have mostly been negative for me. My minds was poisoned from social media consumption. I already had it bad in 2023, but this year was when it took a much more toxic, destructive turn. It got so bad, that even when I was in social events, I would still get stuck in my own toxic thoughts.

During this time I made Megadog, who's one of the only two characters by me that people recognize.

I also participated in the first few days of the OC arena.

During this time I began working on a comic book, for which I had the goal in mind of being my deepest, most well written work of fiction I ever made. I worked on it somewhat consistently until about August.

Movies that came out during that time include: The 10 plagues of Egypt Flash adaptation, and some other ones I didin't post

June

I kind of returned. I still had the problem from the first few months, but I got a little more control of myself. I posted only a little frequetly.

In this month, I began working on my big Daklil movie, which I put on hold, because I want to get better at drawing, so I get better animation.

Movies that came out during that time include: A movie celebrating Jerusalem day, A dairy party for Shavuot, and the part I made for the NGTV sunner bash, which I was too embarrassed to post individually.

July-August

My return.

I got better. The toxic thoughts no longer occupy me the majority of the time.

I participated in Artfight for the first time, and it was pretty fun. Because it was summer vacation, I posted like crazy. I revived the OC arena, which lasted for about a month or two.

During this time I made Catbat, who peaked during the OC arena revival.

I also expiramanted with Blender, but that didn't go anywhere.

I haven't made, or posted any movies during that time, as I was working on the big Daklil movie (which had to be put on hold because of Artfight).

September-October

Back to school. ᵧₐᵧ...

September hasn't been very eventful. The only thing worth mentioning is the big OC plaza drawing I made, being my first solo frontpage.

I began storyboarding the Hanukkah Man sequel late into this month.

October, however, is when the interesting stuff happened.

Tishrei came, and so did its holidays. Having two weeks of free time, I participated in the OCtober event, giving Daklil spotlight for a month. I also did some animation tests and practices for my Daklil movie, which didn't go anywhere.

I began rough animation for Hanukkah Man 2, as well as the NGTV Billy and Willy movie, which meant I had to put the Daklil movie on hold yet again.

Towards the end of the month, I have come to the decision of finally starting to learn how to draw humans, and so, I drew skulls.

Then skeletons.

So far, I actually learned some things from these studies, like a better understanding of hands.

I also revived the OC arena yet again, but that was short-lived.

During this time I made the pumpkin witch character.

I would like to draw more of her, regardless of season.

November-December

Not much has happened during November. I was mostly working on my two movies, and improving my art.

December the same thing, except now the movies are out.

Thoughts on the year

This year was pretty mixed. was it better than 2023? Eh. Probably not.

In terms of art and animation, I definitely improved, and not just improved from 2023. The improvements are visible within this year.

Highlight of the year was, to me, the 10 plagues movie. Even more so than the recent NGTV marathon. And that's because the 10 plagues movie was my first (and so far only) time I got a solo daily pick on a movie.

Goals for 2025

Get better at art

Have better health

Be more social

Merry Chirstmas/ happy Hanukkah!

Hanukkah Man 2 is now out!

The NGTV collab is also out!

Why am I mentioning it? Because I participated in it, and it features the other movie I've been talking about!

But regardless of my part, this collab is great.

I am now officially done with movies for the year. I already have ideas for next year, but I gotta take a break first.

Tomorrow, first night of Hanukkah, Hanukkah Man's next adventure will come out!

I finished working on my collab movie!

I finished it 2 days ago, to be exact. I'm gonna publish it sometime soon.

I'm also done with the Hanukkah Man rough animation! It's almost 6 minutes long. (jeez)

I got to the final animation of my collab movie! In fact, I'm done with most of it already!

I only have about one minute of animation left!

I'm almost done with Hanukkah Man's rough animation, and It's gonna be a whopping 5 minutes long!

December is here!

I've been working on backgrounds for my collab movie.

I also made a painting. It will also appear in the movie.

As for Hanukkah Man, I have done 4 minutes of rough animation so far. It's gonna be a long one!

Hopefully I can finish it by the first night of Hanukkah, Dec 25. If not, then Jan 2; the last night.

Production on my movies is going pretty well so far. I completed the rough animation of my movie for the NGTV collab. It's 3 minutes long.

Hanukkah Man is only half way there, also completed 3 minutes of rough animation so far.

Nothing is certain about the big Daklil movie yet. Unlike the other two, that one has no deadline.

I don't think I'm gonna post much for now, because I've been up to several things:

I'm making a Hanukkah Man sequel!

I've been working on it since September. I realized I could use some time this year to make a sequel, because Hanukkah comes late this year.

Now, this one's gonna be pretty long. So far I've done 2 minutes of rough animation, and it's not even half the movie's length!

Hopefully I'll get done with the movie by the first day of Hanukkah: December 25th.

The original if you don't know what I'm talking about:

Unfortunately,

The big Daklil movie I'm working on has to be delayed yet again.

Because I'm working on another, smaller movie. But that one's for a collab, so it's not as important.

I've also been trying to actually improve in art, so I drew skulls for this past week.

I think I did pretty well.

I want to eventually be able to draw an entire skeleton.

Smaller things:

I've been thinking of an idea for a backstory for Megadog. It's in progress.

I rarely bring up Naomi and Ben these days, but I've had the idea for a big change to them for a months now:

Ben will no longer be a main character.

I want to make Ben an character who's mentioned from time to time, but almost never shows up physically. I'm making new characters to take his spot.

That's all!