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

Man, it's pretty funny seeing Twitter implode on itself. Granted a little worrying about the terminally online people festering to other corners of the online space, but hey is what it is.

In all seriousness tho, I do love using Newgrounds. Keeping a small-town vibe is a million times better than trying to appeal to everyone and then eventually no one.

As for why I haven't really posted much art or animation? Life my man, life. More stuff will be coming sooner rather than later... I hope that is.

I do have one question before I peace out, would anyone be interested in commissioning me for art and animations? Gotta admit, would be interesting to see if people would want that.

Rushed it and looks like shit but made it in time lol

Well since some of my friends are making end-of-the-year news posts, figured I might as well too, as a way to cap off this year.

SO, how did this year go? Well, one of my goals was to post more shit to my Newgrounds and looking at it compared to last year, yep I actually succeeded.

Not too bad I'd say. Hell I somehow got Frontpaged for the first time this year.

Have I gotten better at art? On one hand, I'd like to say maybe, but on the other, it wasn't any HUGE improvements or anything. I'd say it was pretty minimal overall, I'm still pretty lacking on fundamentals like anatomy and perspective. Still no where near anywhere I'd say I'm good.

I hosted a little collab with my good friend Tacopug in celebration for Godzilla vs Kong's release earlier this year.

Little collab involving animated entries from good friends like LobsterMango, Joe-Mega, and my special boyo TeaButt

And some music by Midgetsauasge for my part

Did some more collabs like the birthday collab for StaggerNight and the FINALLY released Christmas Collab hosted by RGPAnims

But was it really all I wanted? No not really. I wanted to release a lot more cartoons but life got in the way, and I'm still trying to improve my art fundamentals and finding animation jobs. Latter has been extremely difficult, and I feel it's directly related to the former.

Now that I've gotten advice from plenty of people, including Crashgen, think the thing to do is this: study anatomy but also actually do projects I want to do. I noticed from years past I had put off animating to focus on strengthening fundamentals, and I feel doing that has lessened my output.

I am a better animator than I am an illustrator, not saying I'm good there's a lot of flaws with my animations.

Realistically this ain't nowhere near the peak of my artistic endeavors, so I gotta stop stressing about it.

Next year I hope to release a Sonic short I've been developing since summer of this year.

As well as possible adaptations of Alice in Wonderland and A Christmas Carol, as I enjoy both stories.

Maybe even an adaptation of Batman Hush, be better than DC's shit movie of it.

And now we get to the sappy stuff.

To my friends, I thank you all so much for even wanting to be my friend to begin with. Because to be quite frank, I am a certified, home-made, all American annoying cunt. So for that I cherise the friendships and support I have recieved this year. Wendigo, Teabutt, Jatmoz, Crashgen, Midgetsausage, Smallphroge, 0chin, RedAndrew, Tacopug, PKToasty, Meulinex, LobsterMango, Kolani, Joe-Mega, Holden, Pyro, MKMaffo, and so many more cool people!

I wish us all a Happy New Year!

Also god bless Tom Fulp

Howdy doodly doo everyone. Currently storyboarding a project, and figure might as well actually use the news post feature here.

I usually post stuff in the Incremental Improvement Club in the Clubs n Crews section, but might as well interact more with people who enjoy my stuff for whatever reason here and now.

So with my projects n art n people enjoying it, I have a question: would anyone like to commission art from me? Genuinely, asking because I've wondered how successful it would be as well as actually wanting to make some money off me work, y'know?

I'll post more when I get that project more completed, but until then, I'll see you in the next vid, see you later bros. Baaaahaaaahhiiiiiiiiii

* Gives a brofisting *

Ayyyy I got 100 followers, usually don't pay attention to stuff like that, but still pretty cool. Thanks to ya following me for my amateur art n animations! Don't worry I'll finally get off my arse and post some more stuff here.