Hey everyone.

Yeah, the title says it all and I'm going to say this, NO, I will NOT be quiting Newgrounds, however Bluesky, Facebook, Twitter (Or whatever hot garbage it's called now) I'm completely removed myself from..

I'm done emotionally and physically to the point I want to cry, but I will soldier on and make Newgrounds my new home.

Here I can focus on Art and ART alone rather than having to worry about Politics or Karens.

You have been so kind to me here and I honestly appericate that.

Soooo.... yeah I ended up having to scrap my project completely and I'm currently working in a team working on a completely different project so sadly no more weekly updates.

But I hope once I help finish up this Major Project with my team, I'll work on a much LONGER version of my idea and make it EXCLUSIVE to Newgrounds only.

Anyways, I will still be posting up regularly showing off some independant work, but nothing much else I'm afraid.

Week 3 - Pre Production Beings!

So I haven't posted much yet as I'm still working on my animation project, but I will say that I'm really glad so far as to what I've done for my Concepts!

Though they are still early phase, they are close to final designs and I just need to fix them up tonight.

Here are some of the my concepts for my characters:

Carl - Main Protagonist

This is actually my first time in years making a Male character as I usually speciallize in Female characters and he didn't turn out so bad. I was inspired a lot by Aaron Mitchell from Mitchells Vs the Machines and it's also inspired how I'll be designing my textures for the Animation.

Carl's Mom - Alma - 2nd Character

Alma is the Mother to Carl, and her design is complete as of yet but I did want to aim for that motherly look from Pixar and other Cartoon's design with the wider hips and her hair I wanted to be different from the usual Mom hair.

Red the Rat - Carl's Undead Pet - 3rd Character

I was kind of struggling with how I'd design this lil guy and then I remembered the basic rat designs they had in Invader Zim and many older Newgrounds Animations and decided to base him off of those ideas whilst giving him some realistic anatomy.

I will be updating this later with Background Concepts as well as Finalized Designs which I might post online as a main post.

While I was originally supposed to go into my University to do some studying, the weather decided for me and well the rain came and decided to stay at home.

So really, did barely any work, though saying that, I did actually have some brain blast moment when it came to my animation idea which is still a Comedy Horror, but instead of two locations, it's one location and inspired by a lot of Tom & Jerry, as well as reducing the character count down to 3 as originally there was supposed to be more characters, but with the time frame and the overall abilities I have when it comes to Animation in 3D, I feel like focusing on 3 characters would help a lot.

When I upload the short film on YouTube, the Newgrounds version will actually be extended by a minute or so as an exclusive to this account.

By the end of the week, expect some concept art, storyboards and even first draft of Previs which I hope you guys will like!

Anyways, I'll update you guys next week as that'll be the week I pitch the idea to my tutors, so wish me luck for next week!

So University has officially started for me and I'm super excited to get started on my project, so I will be outlining what will happen on this account and actually bring you guys along for all the highs and lows of my project (Hopefully more highs than lows).

Currently, I'm in the Pitch Stage of the Project, so I have up until the 3rd Week to come up with my Pitch which I have already started work on and should have a full clear vision for my idea by Friday with hopefully some people joining in to help me as the project I want to do will be simple, but it's going to be stylized.

The idea itself is inspired by a lot of classic Spum Co Animations (Ren & Stimpy, etc,) and Mitchells Vs the Machines as I'm going to have a lot of baked in lighting and details into the characters, I also got inspired by the Peanut's Movie because I like that sort of Comic Book in 3D look it had.

After I finish the Pitch, I'll be moving on to the Pre-Production Stage which will mean I'll have less time to post but will keep posting up on here on my Progress and I'll even do a Percentage to how much the Project is going in each stage.

So yeah, going to focus on the Pitch Stage of the Project!

Percentage: 5%

Major Project -

So I just went to the induction day and got started on building the pitch idea of my final animated short film which I'm hoping to make it around 3 minutes long and I will be releasing the short on YouTube first, then here second but after I fully left College which means it might not release on here until June 2025, but it will feature a scene that won't be in the YouTube release!

It's going to be a Horror Comedy and I hope to release it in May 2025, with the Newgrounds release on June 1st, 2025.

Been testing out ZBrush for iPad on my iPad Pro (M4) and I've been having a lot of fun with it!

Went out for the day to get away from the house and distractions to work on it and this is what I came up with;

Took a bit of getting used to on iPad, but once I got into it I really enjoyed myself!

Also, I like making monsters so I always default into making monsters

Short Film Projects -

I've been trying to figure out what I want to do after University whether it be creating pilots for a few show ideas or working on other projects, but after watching Wallace & Gromit which sparked my interest into becoming an animator, I'm going to consider on making Short Films. I will be uploading them here first for a 1 Month Exclusivity, whilst a YouTube release later on, with the hopes of one day forming my own Studio.

I've always wanted to make my own Animation Studio Company like Aardman, Pixar, Dreamworks and Studio Ghibli (And Studio Trigger), so making short films instead of just adding onto the mountain of Independantly made shows on YouTube, I felt as though we need more Short Films.

30 Minute Film -

I want to make one long film that last for 30 Minutes as a way of showing off the skills I learnt whilst making the short films (which will last around 15 - 20 Minutes) and if the 30 Minute film does well, I might continue to make 1 Half Hour long film a year followed by a few short films, they don't even need to be connected.

My University Project will fit in with my short film project plan, so again expect that to pop up on here sometime next year in 2025.

I've been away from this site for a while now and I feel like I need to come back more often, so here's the plan;

• I will be finishing University soon in 2025, so get ready to see some behind the scenes stuff after I'm done
• I'm currently working on a Pilot Project that won't release until May or August 2026, seeing how it'll overlap with my finals project.
• I will be learning how to 2D Animate as a part time gig
• Posting more art I make over the next couple of months
• Bi-daily Posts about what's going on

So yeah nothing much but I'm making this site my permanet home for my animation work and art in general.

My plans moving forward is to go as an indepandant Animator, so expect me to open a Patreon soon and I will be focusing on SFW content in the meantime (But I'm not against also doing NSFW, just need to brush up on that).

So I just wanted to show you guys the stages of my character model as I was developing her for my University Project:

• Blockout Stage

This was when I started creating a basic blockout of the character using basic shapes and no features yet (that comes much later), and this block out I made in Blender to help me get an understand of her anatomy which would then lead me to the next stage of the development, sculpting.

• Sculpting in ZBrush

Whilst I was adding the details to the model, I also worked on the head and chest regions the most as I really wanted to make sure the anatomy was perfeect before I decided on pushing further on into the development of the character. The face gave me a lot of bother when sculpting due to the eyes and lips, but as I studied the human face more, specifically the Female face, I finally blocked out the facial structure and got the face I wanted.

These later pictures are when I imported the model over to Blender to Retopologize the model, which was relaxing, if a bit boring at times.

• Retypology

With the model fully retopo'd, I was actually able to use the chest retopo to make her shirt, which helped the UV unwrap for that go a LOT easier, which I will show you next with the Textured Model which I used Substance Painter for. I don't wanna bore you guys about my retopo process but it was basically the same as many artists, just going from the face downwards.

• Textured Model

You might be wondering why she keeps having hair in one render, and none in the other, it's mainly because I put the hair and even the tail fin in later on before I exported the model to Unreal Engine 5 for the final Render.

The shirt is actually a reused Japanese 7/11 bag as the character is from Japan as she's based on the Asian Sea Snake, wanted to give her some cool background lore like she wants to mimmick humans because her species never wore clothes.

The final Render was done mainly in Unreal Engine 5 and I do have a full portfolio on my ArtStation account if anyone is interested in that as well ^^

Anyways, this was just going to be a pretty brief talk about my process and I hope you guys likeed it!