We're almost three months into 2024, and as you may, or may not notice (I mean, why would anyone notice?), I haven't been nearly as active on Newgrounds as I was last year. And actually, I think I'm better off that way. I got to focus on my personal life a lot more than on my online presence. Something I didn't do as much last year. My art motivation is currently low, but I also got into stuff I've been ditching for a long time now, so art isn't my top priority as of now.

What's the point of this post? For the one person who really does care about the anonymous internet user that is me: don't expect much from me this year. I'll maybe publish movie projects, but even that I doubt.

New year had just started!

Well, it already started 7 hours ago where I live, but it just started in America.

I hope your new year didn't start like it did in my country.

2023, my first full year here comes to an end, so here's an overview of it. (spoiler: a lot happened)

My first submission of the year was this one, featuring all of my characters (at the time):

..Okay, it wasn't my first submission of the year. The true first one was a reference sheet of Ben, but it's been since deleted, so this is my earliest submission from this year still up.

This year also saw my first cartoon, The Apple.

A little fun fact about it: When I made it, I didn't make the scenes separately, I did it all in a big mush of layers. Was pretty hard to work with.

This year I also discovered one of my favorite threads in the forums: the OC Plaza!

I drew tens of characters on that thread. So much so, that I have a collection of them!

I also did a handful of art trades, received some, or just drew requests.

This year also saw the creation of many characters, most notably Daklil.

I don't know about you, but the thing I remember this year for the most is the lots of experimentation I did.

This year I experimented with lots of stuff, from using Flash for art, to thick outlines, to plush toys, to cel animation, to watercolor paintings, to full on claymation cartoon.

I also participated in collabs, like the Friendly Frog Collab, the Creature Collab, the 1-Bit Artapalooza - Spooky Edition, the Snowman Collab, and the yet to be released NGTV Christmas collab and The 2023 Sketch Collab.

I also started a comic book series featuring Naomi and Ben, but discontinued after a while. I now work on a renewed version.

I created 9 movies this year; 6 of them being standalone movies (not collabs/part of collabs) + two scrapped ones.

This year I published 160 art submissions. Even more if you count all the deleted ones.

Despite all of this stuff happening this year, I never got a standalone frontpage or anything, but I don't really care about it.

This year had a lot going on to it. If I had to choose a highlight from this year, I would've struggled to choose only one.

I hope you enjoyed this unorganized pile of words.

While I was picking clips from my cartoons for a compilation (you'll see in the coming days), I remembered that one time I tried to make an action music video using Waterflame's Glorious Morning...

And with Ronald's old design, too.

Pretty interesting. (To me, at least)

...I guess my life is now back to normal. This is a follow-up to my last post, and I'm glad to say this week has been much better than the last (if anyone even cares), but boy, was this week a busy one. I have plans for a (big) project. It's in a very early state, though, and I hope I can actually make it happen.

I... guess I reached a ""milestone"" (using that word loosely).

Now, this is usually the part where I'm supposed to say how grateful I am to be here and how this site has made me better, but, I'm going to be honest, my life has actually gotten kind of worse. Newgrounds, of course, isn't the only thing responsible to my deterioration, but I feel like it had a part in it. I miss not constantly thinking of stuff that has no effect on my real life.

I should step down in site engagement. It's now the perfect time to do so, with 8 days off school.

Not blaming anyone in particular, by the way. I just wanted to point that up.

Tomorrow it happens...

I made a short animation using this gross-up painting I made.

Hanukkah Man has finished production!

Yes, I'm finally done working on it! It took me 21 days and 3270 frames. The SWF file weights a heavy 2.5 Megabytes!

Although it's complete, do not expect to see it until December 7th, the first day of hanukkah.

Unrelated, but it's thanksgiving today. Not being American, I don't celebrate it, but for those who do, happy thanksgiving!

He's angry.