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current events! finally shelving 'nothing for nothing' for now, picking up 'foxhood' again!

after 2 years of toiling away trying to make it work on and off, i'm deciding to finally just shelf 'nothing for nothing' again for a good while, it'll probably be at least 2 years until i pick it up again because every time i try to do something with it, i spend years on it making hardly any progress.. 'nothing for nothing' is actually the same reason it took 1.5 years between uploads last time.

things aren't all gloom, however! this week i didn't get around to the parry gripp animatio...

probably stepping away from 'nothing for nothing' temporarily!

unfortunately i hadn't been able to get much done this week, i'm having a lot of trouble getting back into animating specifically for 'nothing for nothing' which concerns me given how much work i have cut out for myself animating episode 1.. i think pressure's getting to me in that regard, so i may temporarily step away from it to continue work on the parry gripp animation or something for now!

i think i'm realizing i really struggle to focus on something for a long period of time, espe...

good news!!! medicated at last!!

great news after this past week! my resting heart rate is totally normal again and i'm back on adderall! it already feels pretty crazy in how much better i operate compared to how i am off of it, though it'll still be a bit before i'm at where i was before due to that long period of A Whole Lotta Nothing + right now i'm on a low dose and need to build back up to my previous tolerance. baby steps but this has been a big win to have all that medical stuff out of the way!

so what this mean...

progress has been made! things are looking to be back in order soon!

the 2-3 months ive had to go without adderall are likely soon to be coming to a close and i'll be able to get back to business soon enough, as the doctor's appointment i need is happening this week! so here's the current plan!

the script for nfn episode 3 is underway, though i'm having trouble doing the animation practice currently, i think i'll have to wait until i'm medicated again for that one.. that said, i do still want to make something cool out of that practice for nfn, so i want...

1080p of the silly mini christmas "special" + current status of 'nothing for nothing' + more plans going forward!

things have been going pretty well! given that i'm soon likely to be back on adderall so i'll be able to really get back into the swing of things, i've been hard focused on 'nothing for nothing' after getting this little christmas animation out within the week! i believe the script for episode 2 is 100% done now and just needs slight tweaks as time passes, and the final animatic for episode 1 has had good progress!

unfortunately, it's pretty hard to work on the animatic in my current st...

more good news! plus a silly little WIP!

progress has been keeping steady! plus, my heart rate has returned to normal at least for the time being, so i may very well be good to go back on adderall following my doctor's appointment in early january! i'm not gonna keep my hopes up but it's good regardless! when all that medical stuff is said and done i plan to really sink my teeth into nothing for nothing's animatics with some rough voice acting and such so i can start showing it to people and getting their thoughts!

plus, just ...

good news! progress has been kept up!

at this point, the script for 'nothing for nothing' episode 1 is pretty much 100% complete and just needs an extra gloss-over which i'm doing while i make an extremely rough animatic for it! the script for episode 2 is very near completion as well! the reason i'm able to get these done so fast is that the general outline of each episode has been created and refined over the course of the past nearly 2 years now, so it's just been a matter of actually writing down the dialogue and the specific...

animation update! mixed news, but i'm getting somewhere!

so the bad news first, it is going to take at minimum 1 more month, likely 2 or more depending on the circumstances until i'm able to be on adderall again. the good news though! is that i found a good way to still be productive during this time, and it's for something meaningful: nothing for nothing! the one i've been working on since may of last year that takes place in the future, specifically.

i think i've come back around on animation in terms of what i actually want to do with it, ...

more general update! still pretty confused..

progress had been made on porting "boy arena" to the new networking scheme, a pretty decent amount thankfully, but i'm still feeling so uncertain when it comes to what i actually want to do and commit to right now.. i think the unfortunate answer is i don't think there is a solution, i'm likely just going to keep bouncing all over the place project the project rapidly like i have been these past few weeks off of my medication.

it's pretty frustrating, but the good news is i'll be seeing...

more general update! thinking of going game-y for the moment

after a good bit of trying this week, i think it's safe to say that i can't really animate under current circumstances, but that's ok! namely, i have ol reliable: game development, and something recently peaked my interest again, an old project called "boy arena"!

this is something i'd teased before a few times in and outside of the patreon, and it almost reached completion, but the major...

general update! things are getting a little rough

i've been sketching but ultimately not much was done this week again unmedicated.. bad news too, i won't be able to be medicated with adderall again until mid-december at the earliest, so there's an entire month ahead of me like that.

to be blunt, the reason i had to go off of the medication is because of some heart complications, my heart is beating abnormally fast, notably for my resting rate which ended up in me going to the ER earlier this month where they couldn't find anything wro...

sunday WIP stuff!! general update + forgotten showcase!

heya! predictably, i wasn't able to get too much done this week without adderall, some progress had been made towards "episode 1" but it's far too early for me to decide what i really want to focus on.. i may be without the adderall for a while because of health complications that the medication was a suspect for (but turned out not to be, thankfully) but i'm feeling a lot better now than i was earlier in the week now that withdrawals are over, so things should pick up more this week hopefull...

sunday general update! potentially returning to an old concept!

progress had been made this week on "fella kart" though i feel a bit bad about working on it at the moment because i feel it's not really what i want to do or showcase, especially for patreon, i want to do something more substantial! i'm not sure how well the "crazy weirdo" animation is working out because its ultimately being done in the same working style as my older animations which just doesn't work well with me nowadays, it takes far too long with the way i like to draw now and generally...

(late due to sickness) sunday WIP stuff! 2024 10-28

work continues on "fella kart"! this week i got networking set up so you can actually play with other people now, as well as some extra visual polish and experiments with the art style! there's a few things i could work on this week like items, being able to leave your vehicle and free roam, and multiple characters/vehicles, but i'll see which one i end up tackling first!

as for animation, i'm not entirely sure how to go about it right now.. my motivation for it comes and goes very spor...

(late) sunday WIP stuff!! 2024 10-21

i realize that for a while i've been caught up in the throes of hyperfixation, which unfortunately means it's very hard to stay entirely focused on animation when my body and mind basically refuse to do anything But something related to said hyperfixation.. that said, i've been hyperfixated on goofy karting and racing games, so here's a product of that: "fella kart"! (working title) the main shtick of it is that it's heavily inspired by kirby air ride in specific, with the main goal being to ...

sunday WIP GIF!! 2024 10-13

didn't get as much done this week as i would've liked since i ended up being busy with other stuff, but that's alright! gonna try to hunker down and focus on it this week..

sunday WIP GIF! 2024 10-6

went to work on the scene that i believe is the most complicated / would take the longest to complete, i should be finishing that scene this week! after that there's one more complicated scene since it also involves the two characters at once but after that it should be smooth sailing! i think by that point the majority of the animation side of things should be done, though there's still plenty ahead of me especially when it comes to doing the thick outlines + color!

happy to say! sunday WIP GIFs!

i thought i was pretty much sapped out of all of my animation energy, but out of nowhere i guess i really didn't want to give up, because the day after making last sunday's post i ended up doing the most animation i've done in weeks LOL.. it's still relatively slow-going and i can't do it for very long, but i'm getting back in the habit of animating consistently! it seems a lot of it comes down to mental mindgames, and really i just need to figure out a way to get into a better headspace with...

sunday update stuff! a return to Destination: The Planet and a likely long-term break from animation...

i think after almost 2 years of struggling and failing to work on or complete any major animated project, it's time for me to call it quits on animation as my main line of work, at least for now.. the more time goes on, the more i've struggled with it and the harder its become to make anything, especially anything i'm happy with. i'll go into it more later with a better explanation as to what and why, probably in some public form, but that's how i'm feeling at the moment.. i apologize for tha...

been a slow week, so why not some concept art for older animations?

this week i hadn't been able to get much of anything done between a relapse and hyperfixation taking hold, so i figured hey, it might be cool to show off some old concept art / thumbnailing for old animations that i don't think i've ever shown before! these sketches in specific are mostly for "stupid horse", which is soon to turn 4 years old now with me starting it in october 2020 O_O you can see just how rough my sketches always were LOL, that's something i recommend to anyone when it comes ...

sunday WIP stuff! gonna experiment a little more to see what feels the most right..

this week was a pretty slow one with me mostly doing paper thumbnailing for the animatic, the amount of stuff i'd need to do to make and complete episode 1 of nfn has dawned on me a bit and it's a little overwhelming when i'm still just getting back into animation.. i still want to make it! but this week i'm going to experiment just a little more on that music video i mentioned before to see if that feels more right at the moment, though i'll likely be having both nfn stuff and music video st...

experimenting with something! a potential return to "nothing for nothing"!

something i'm quickly realizing as i try to make progress on that music video i was working on is that i'm just not sure if i want to make music videos like that anymore, at least for the time being.. it just doesn't feel like "my thing" anymore, and i have rough associations when it comes to them and the process of making them. but something i've been very passionate about through all this time still had been "nothing for nothing", so i'm taking a crack at that third revision of episode 1! 2024-09-01 22:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post

sunday WIP stuff! animation's going slow, so here's a little something in the meantime!

unfortunately, not much in the way of animation has been done this week, i've certainly been trying and have made a little progress on cleaning up key-frames, but nothing really worth showing.. i'm having a bit of difficulty getting back into animating, because when i do it, i get stuck thinking about the external and internal reasons i had to stop doing it for a while and it makes me work extremely slowly. i apologize for that, it's a necessary hurdle to get over if i want to get back to mak...

sunday wip stuff!!! 2024 8-18

baby steps into the actual animation phase of this one as i'm getting back into the habit of animating regularly, but here's the animation so far! i've decided on an outline style similar to "Modify" where there'll be thick outlines surrounding all of the drawings, which is a little time consuming since i'm doing it by hand but it looks really nice so i think it's worth it!

there's also a peek at what the finished + colored character designs actually look like! the whole idea of the ani...

plans going forward as things settle down!

what you see above is a bunch of model sheet stuff for "nothing for nothing" i prepared around this time last year! they're a bit outdated since it was before a slight style overhaul, mostly maddie's because she in specific became a lot more angular, but i figured it'd be interesting to share regardless! these were for myself but mostly also for the other two people i'd be working with to bring "nothing for nothing" to life when the time comes to work on it as a team for episode 2-4!

so...

sunday WIP stuff: let's talk animation!

here's something i whipped up this week: a full animatic for a new animation! ideally i'd like to commit to this one and see it through, but we'll see how that turns out... it's meant to be a pretty low-pressure animation that's more of a "Hey! I'm Still Alive And Working!" given that its only about 22 seconds long, but it's a fun little one!

i did warn that i may be jumping a bit from project to project as i get back into working as usual, which is also why this animation is planned to...

more foxhood updates + some info on a new side-project with friends!

right now the focus with foxhood has been on refining the new movement and re-designing the levels to work and flow better with the new, speedier movement! there isn't much to show there, so i figured i'd show off something interesting i'm also working on at the moment: PaviOnline!

this is a game i'm working on the side with my friends all collaborating to make this goofy game that's supposed to be a fake abandoned MMO from the 90s, inspired by old, long-lasting, or abandoned virtual sp...

foxhood development: new movement stuff!

a focus of this week has been a re-work of the movement system to be more fun and fluid, as well as adding proper controller support! the results so far have been very promising! unfortunately this will require a re-design of pretty much all the level design made so far, but that's not a big deal because they were intentionally made very scrappy in the event they needed to be re-done later down the line.

what you see above is a little demo level i made for my friends to get feedback on ...

The Big One i've been working on: "Foxhood"!

i've teased this last year and have been working on it on and off since then, but i think i've settled on working on this as my current major project, with the plans to complete and finish a free publicly playable demo of the first area within the year! and that's my baby "Foxhood"!

some of you may recognize this either from being around a long time or just looking at my public playlists on youtube, but this used to be known as "Kitsunefudo" and had a ton of different iterations, being ...

week 2 of "what i worked on over the break": "Destination The Planet: Arena" PvE mode!

here's another one of the projects i worked on while i was away, a PvE mode for a multiplayer spin-off of "Destination The Planet", a game i made and released a demo for last summer! DTP: Arena has been in development since last year, it's only this year that i decided to start work on a silly little PvE mode for it!

it's heavily inspired by Salmon Run from Splatoon 3 so there are 2 types of enemies: zombies and Bosses. zombies are your fodder that spawn much more frequently than bosses...