I was going to wait to make this news post until I had an update video put together, but eh. I'll just update this later when that video is actually made.
Anyways, to start things off, I finally got around to animating and Earthbound parody that I wrote back in November. I'm surprised it only took 2 weeks to animate, since imo it's the best quality thing I've animated so far. It must've been good too 'cause it got daily 2nd and was even on the front page for a few days. You can check that out here if you haven't already: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/641039
Now that that's done and out of the way, production of episode 6 of FrogMan the Series has started. I was storyboarding the first scene but some lines need to be re-recorded so that's been halted. I have, however, started animating the second scene. I've gotten about 12 of the 40ish seconds of it animated, and when it's done I will be releasing the scene as a teaser for the longer thing. The full episode should be around 11 minutes, so get ready for it! It's been 2 years since an episode, so I'm really hoping it does well.
I was going to try to do one really short short a month so I wouldn't become inactive while working on biggerr animations, but then I realized that I should be putting all of my time into the bigger projects so they can have a consistent quality and not take a million years to get finished.
...Also I'm working on something for Robot Day.
Jom
It's a shame you don't get more attention. I really like your work and it's crazy to see how much you've improved in such a short amount of time. Keep it up man!
artistunknown
Oh wow, thanks for the compliment, it really means a lot man! It is a shame, yeah, but I'm sure something of mine will catch on some day. I'm always surprised with seeing how much I've improved. Just yesterday I was working on something and thought to myself "wow, I'm really happy with this drawing. I'd watch something that looks like this!" It's interesting how I seem to improve with each thing I release. I'm just tired of working on older things that I started years ago, but I've only got a few old projects left that I'm finishing up, so soon I'll be able to get to some new stuff. I actually just finished a Christmas short that I started last year and there's definitely improvement from the animation I had when I started it and the animation I just finished it off with. I'm actually going to take a bit of a break from focusing on releasing stuff next year so I can improve my art and animation even further, plus I'm gonna study a bunch of directing techniques and camera angles so my stuff can look better.
Thanks again, it's very rare that I get any sort of feedback, and it really means a lot to me that you like my work and think I'm improving. This comment has really brightened my mood, and now I'm even more motivated to continue working on stuff :3