2017.01.01 - New year, new installment

Greetings, everyone :D

It's 2017 now, and after the long months of development, I've finally got the project advanced by an installment.

Here it is - Dokuroshima Episode 2 Part One:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/686802

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMKIKAkkCA

It may seem underwhelmingly short, considering the duration of the development, but at least the graphics have been improved, so I still hope this installment will be even better received than the last one

2016.12.09: Another Animation Update

Greetings, everyone.

As the year comes to an end, there are a bit of news that I would like to share among anyone eading this blog.

Dokuroshima Episode 2 Part One is still under development, but most of the voices are done, most of the sound effects are found, and only a few music tracks are required for this project. In fact, I have decided to give it the final deadline, and since I would like it to be released this year, and since I have got this close to finishing it already, the new release date would be this Christmas.

Also, you may remember Harmony Revolt that I have worked on earlier this year. Why did I mention this? Because the second episode went into the animation stage of development, ad me and a few other animators were given a minute fragment that is also to be done by Christmas (or New Year, depends on how well it goes).

So, that's it for this blo post, see you next time.

2016.11.13: It's been a long time...

Greetings, everyone. I'm pretty sure it has been too long since the last update to expect anyone to keep following this blog; nonetheless, I might as well make an update.

First things first, I'm not dead or anything, nor have I abandoned anything. I was just kept distracted by the circumstances and was far too busy to keep the former pace. Fortunately, everything is getting better nowadays, as I got proper amount of time and will to keep working on my projects.

Speaking of which, Dokuroshima is finally getting a new episode started soon. I'm trying whatever I can to release the next installment before December, and the animation part is finally complete. I still need to add sound effects and music, and I probably need to polish the animation here and there, but the main part is done.

Unfortunately, though, it seems that there's no one to voice the characters, so I will be looking through Newgrounds for voice actors fairly soon...

Well, this doesn't seem like a lot, but at least I'm finally active once again.

That's it for this message, so see you all next time in this accursed blog...

Another piece of text.

Greetings, everyone.

It's been a week since I got back from the Tallinn trip, and it turned to be quite a waste of time. There won't be a blog about it, obviously, because of insufficient material and stuff. There wasn't much unique to show or talk about, and there wasn't much opportunity for that anyway.

As for the projects, Dokuroshima is still in need of a voice actor, as I haven't found one yet. Some of the scenes are already done, and next week (if not sooner), there will be a trailer for Episode 2 released on YouTube.

Another thing is, I've also started making Moon Madness, a short Madness animation featuring the pro-white rapper we know and love, Moon Man. I'm not sure if Madness Day 2016 would happen, but I'll try coming up with this one anyway.

I guess that's it for this post, so see you all next time in this accursed blog...

Dokuroshima update and a few other things

Greetings everyone.

Something tells me that a lot of my audience think that due to my work on Harmony Revolt, and lack of updates on Dokuroshima, the latter project has completely lost the focus and works on it have come to a complete halt. I'm here to assure everyone that this is not the case: the works are still ongoing, and after many scenario revisions, I've made the final form of the script for Episode 2, and based on it, I've completed the drafting of each and every single scene of the next installment of Dokuroshima.

In the picture below are only some of the rough drafts, with some of the parts cut off in order to avoid spoilers.

Also, I'd like to remind that Harmony Revolt features animation of much higher quality standards than in earlier Dokuroshima, and since I've learned something while working on the former project, I'm absolutely sure Episode 2 will have even better graphics than Episode 1 Part 3. After all, that's what Art Evolution trope is all about. Hell, even some of the shown drafts kinda look better than Episode 1 Part 1.

Unfortunately, the voice actor, Maltos, doesn't seem to reply for a long time now, and I still didn't find a voice actor which will be needed in a few months after the animation itself is done. Hopefully, I'll find someone by then...

Another thing I'd like to write about is that main works may be paused at the later days of May, due to some things that are needed to take care of back in Tallinn where I used to live. You may have noticed that I kept myself as much anonymous as I could, but now that I don't technically live there anymore, I don't see the point of keeping the former hometown a secret. I actually had ideas of taking videos of memorable places that hold some kind of personal significance to me, like an abandoned factory-turned-art studio where the anime club used to be. Even without it, the "Factory" looks unique.

The reason for that is, well, since I most likely won't be able to work in Flash back there, I'd at least create alternative content for my YouTube channel. So, if I got any crazy yandere fans that want to slay me, the mentioned city is where you may find me on the late May.

So, that's it for now, I guess. I've noticed that my blog posts are becoming more frequent again, and I hope I will go back to weekly format eventually.


So, see you all next time on this accursed blog...

Burnt brain matter

It's official: I fucking HATE OpenToonz.

Why?

Let me preface this rant I made to vent out my frustration.

OpenToonz is a newly released piece of animation software which is distributed for free. It's based on Toonz, which was supposedly used in Ghibli animation studios (yeah, right; probably used to make rough animatics, or by over 9,000 North Korean zombies to make one second of animation as far as I give a fuck at this point), amongst other famous studios.

Currently, Newgrounds is holding an OpenToonz Animation Jam, and I tried to participate. And guess what? I don't have jack shit. I had numerous ideas for it, but NOTHING was compatible with whatever functionality was available/discovered in the software. I had many ideas, but each and every single thing consisted of what was impossible to do with the known tools and tricks. If I would try frame-by-frame animation, either it would be unacceptably short, or the animation would be stiff and would run at 1 FPS or so, or the details would have to be compromised and it would look like fucking shit. Even without spending time on backgrounds. Not to mention I only got literally hours before the deadline.

What do I think of this program? Well, it's basically MS Paint cosplaying as BoomToon or some shit.

Results? My time was wasted, and my motivation to do anything went FUBAR.

And as a cherry on the top of this shit sundae, we STILL have Donald fucking Trump all over Newgrounds. I understand if Tom Fulp has a genuine crush on Don Trump and probably jerks off to his half-naked pictures, and decided to (not so) subtlely come out to the rest of Newgrounds, but wasn't it at least possible to pick something less obnoxious?

Voice from the ashes

Greetings once again.

It's been two months ever since I last wrote here.
Regardless, I still decided to make a bit of an update.

The Internet here is still crap, which kinda doesn't let me some of the things. Fortunately, it will be replaced by by something much better than Dial-Up tier web connection.

So, where have I been this whole time?
I've still been slightly working on my projects. I've made two parodic shorts, and in the meantime, I've been trying to work on the more important ones as well as dealing with other things around myself.

Here are the two shorts:

FluffleScape - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sB_4RIEejU
Final FUNtasy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nq4aPqwmYw

As for the other projects:

Mad Monitor - It's frozen once again, and it will be for quite some time until proper Internet connection is acquired. Which is relatively soon, but even then I'll be busy with other projects as well.

Dokuroshima - The writing for Episode Two is basically complete and the animation work is finally started. Still waiting for the voice actor's response, and either Maltos will act within the project once again, or I'll have to seek a voice actor again... Still, the project has gained focus once again.

Harmony Revolt - The OP is almost done. I was promised to be given another simple shot to make, and I'm still yet to get it.

So, that's what is going on as for now...