Well, summer vacation for me is ending and soon I’ll be returning to college. Summer was certainly busier than I imagined, but I was still able to make some new animations and submit some of my charcoal drawings to newgrounds. Definitely more successful than the last summer where I only submitted 2 cartoons (most of the footage was actually made before summer even began).
Got to experiment with more human proportions in the Outside the Silver Fight toon and on my youtube page, the video has reached over 2,000 view! Definitely a big step up from my previous animations. While it took longer than I had anticipated, I’m still satisfied with it and will likely make a few more in the future. The video also got a nice comment on the video from somecallmejohnny who was in the audio commentary and does his own well written game reviews. Check him out here!- http://www.youtube.com/user/SomecallmeJohnny. Actually, I forgot to mention before, when I submitted the video, it didn’t show up on newgrounds. Left me concerned, but I was able to submit it again and it showed up (heard of this problem before, and thankfully over came it).
For the pokemon animation I did some more experimentation with including more backgrounds and try out some new sound effects. My friend, who’s internet alias sectoryummy, helped make the backgrounds and surprised me with how much detail he was able to put in the main 4 I used (the space/vortex background in the title is different from the one in the end). I’ll admit it wasn’t my strongest animation and I feel the middle dragged out too long, I feel the ending was definitely one of the funnier moments I made with many of the comments for the video and my friends has stated they liked the end.
Since I’m returning to college, I’ll be holding of on animation. Luckily, this upcoming semester won’t be as busy and hopefully I can practice in my breaks. I can’t guarantee I’ll complete an animated video in college however, since I’ll be dealing with college work and cross-country. I’ll definitely experiment with animating in college and might even try and get one second of animation done each day, but the college work, internship preparations and cross country will come first. Admittedly I wish I had done more animations this summer, but considering how busy it was, I’m luckily that I was able to get 2 animated videos done. For future animations I’ll be taking a quality over quantity approach and not worry on how many I can come out with on every occasion. I’m planning on doing a 30sec animation and then another pokemon parody. I feel I can make a good pokemon parody, but just want one more chance to pull it off. I do plan on watching more tutorials on the moments I can’t animate (hope to experiment with shading). I really want to make these animations worth while in the end and I don't want to stress myself out be giving them constant personal deadlines.
Also, since I’m returning to college, I can create more drawings that I can submit to the newgrounds art portal! I still have a lot of drawings left that I haven’t submitted yet since my house doesn’t have a suitable area to photograph drawings. Expect more art submissions soon! Might make these news updates every few weeks if something significant comes up.