yo.

pixel day. just a week away. can you believe it?

the thought of giving an update on my animation suddenly came to mind, and i was like "whos gonna care tho..? oh wait, i will." ive been told that all achievements should be celebrated, whether big or small. so, this post is more for me, saying to myself "look at what you can do!" although, i unfortunately cant say things are getting done as quickly or efficiently as i'd like. but this is the most i've worked on a single project in a (relatively) small amount of time (1 week). so, even if it's small, progress is still progress. and that's big enough for me to celebrate a little by posting this.

so, if you'll stay, here's a quick summary of how my animation'll go: (i also put this picture in my previous post)

basically, stickguy types this message in Fauna's (a vtuber, look her up) chat and his request is fulfilled.

very simple, but for what i'd consider to be my first "finished" animation, starting off small like this is better i'd say. especially cause i've never done pixel animation (or pixel art) before. im also just very inexperienced with animation in general, so bear with future me please. if i had to guess how long the finished product will be, i think it'll end up being almost 30 seconds. but it's still too early to say for sure imo.

on the left side of the image is a simple hair palette that i'll be using for the poster on the right side of the image.

just to give an idea of my inexperience, that gradient inside the poster took me an hour to entirely figure out. my issue was that i kept getting the pixels misaligned when trying to scale the gradient's color.

as for the meaning of the poster itself, it'll be a reference to another artist's work. his name is LimeBreaker, and i love his art and his style. so i when i saw his recent Fauna related works, i wanted to reference one of them (particularly, the only sfw one) by drawing it into stickguy's room. you can see said artwork here. hopefully he'll be cool with it; it's not like i dont plan on crediting him.

here's the only other poster ive got rn.

i intended on this looking like one of those inspirational plaque's you'd hang on your wall ironically, but figured it'd be too much detail that'd take me too long to add in for a project thats got a week left to complete. so i settled for a poster instead.

those outside of Fauna's community will look at this and likely be confused, which is entirely the point of this poster. i'll probably make another post after the animation's out that offers an explanation for each poster or smthn (cause i plan on adding one more poster anyways).

other than those additions, i've added more frames to stickguy movin' around and stuff, but that's far less interesting than the posters so i wont show any more. besides, the more you dont know, the more that'll be kept a surprise.

therefore, that'll be all. thanks for looking here, and i'll see you 'round... hopefully by january 23rd.

(p.s., im very satisfied with my first interaction on ng. tskr.)

hey there, this is my newgrounds account. i've been lurking around since mid 2017 and haven't had a reason to make an account until now. then the site was just pleading for me to make a news post and introduce myself, so thats what this post is for. as much as i procrastinate animating, im an animation lover. if i were a crack addict, some good ass sakuga (aka, damn good animation) would be my form of crack. like, my eyeballs orgasm at the sight of sakuga; i seriously cant help but understate how much i appreciate the good stuff. but my goal isn't just to appreciate sakuga. my goal here is to appreciate it so much that i literally animate myself and get so good at it that someday others will understand just how much animation means to me. that's the main goal of my online presence, though i also have a life goal. i want to see stories that i've kept in my tiny lil' noggin come to life; by that, i mean full-fledged productions.

many animators out there will recognize a man who goes by "Gildedguy". this life goal of mine, imo, has some overlaps with what he's been doing the past few years. witnessing his achievements is what even made me realize my life goal. huge respect to that (gilded) guy. (im not sorry.)

like i stated earlier, despite my passion, im a lazy bum and procrastinate actually doing the thing. my hope is that by setting up this account, as well as posting this, that'll better my ways and push me to actually do something worthwhile.

one last note. as great as twitter can be for some things, here on ng is probably where i'll be putting the majority of my work and prioritizing my attention, at least for the time being -- for reasons im sure one can imagine. ofc, if i change my mind, i'll make a post about it.

so yep. thats why im here. pleased to make your acquaintance.

in the meantime, as thanks for looking at this, here's a screenshot of an animation im working on:

had no clue pixelday was coming up, but im not complaining. for those curious, the animation's gonna be an interpretation of a chat message i saw during a particular stream.

well buried and watered this sapling will soon be.

see you 'round. hopefully by january 23rd.