Well friends, this may be a bit silly and gay as hell but fuck it, might as well do a year end retrospection... That is if there's anything to actually go over.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm both disappointed and proud of myself at the same time for my output of work on here this year. It's contradicting. I'm disappointed in the lack of output I've had this year, but the stuff I have posted out here on the web I am kind of proud with.

The big one I'm proud of is a whole ass documentary. Yeah, dead serious. I spent 2 and a half years on this thing. What's it about? Song of the South.

https://youtu.be/1XC16QNUjxs?si=juEv4ZazJi4N88jj

I normally don't wanna link stuff from other sites on NG, but think this one is an exception. It's funny, I went into this thinking I'd find a clear cut example of Walt Disney being a racist, but no I did not. I came out with a lot more nuance than I expected, I made this purely to give people the facts and let them decide as to whether or not it is offensive.

I feel pretty proud tbh, tho making that was hell. I mean to give reference on time, in the time I made that documentary I moved into my first apartment and got a new job. It's gonna be a while before I make something like that again.

That was the big example of the "main" thing I made for this year. I did make some more animations, experimenting with holding more on frames and more animating on threes and fours for certain actions on that.

I gotta seriously thank Crashgen for that, dude is a lifesaver and I hope whereever the guy is, he's doing fantastic. I damn well know his cartoons this year made me laugh.

But yeah I'm not exactly happy with how slow my output has been in regards to this year. Compared to last year, feels like the train just derailed. That's mainly due to more personal stuff, which I don't wanna disclose online, but regardless I do know I need to make more art out there, art that I'm proud of. I keep coming up with ideas for projects but not going through with them, that changes now. 2024, I will definitely be making more stuff than I did this year.

But I will say one thing I'm glad I did this year was this little comic

It's nothing huge or extravagent, hell made it in like 2 days or so, but I was more proud of the idea and execution of it. It was kind of a test to see if I got the chops for when it comes to writing things, especially things that have an actual meaning to them. Funny enough, was kind of meant to be critical of myself.

But yeah, I appreciate the people that look at and enjoy my stuff. Genuinely it is really nice to know that there's people out there that love my stuff. It really is appreciated. To my friends and family, I thank you for all the support you've given me this year, lord knows I've definitely been a pain in the ass to deal with at times. I appreciate the pateince you guys have. And I'm sorry for not being that active with keeping up with some friends, that's on me. Life gets in the way sometimes, and I've been pretty shit in regards to communication/keeping up.

That will change this year.

I got a lot of high hopes for 2024. Hopes for myself and the people around me. Bit early but hey, better to do it now than never.

Happy New Years to us all! God bless you all, Tom Fulp and Newgrounds as a whole! Life wouldn't be the same without you guys