Well it's that time of the year again, where Christmas celebrations pass and make way for the New Year parties that are starting up. It's also time for me to write a year-in-review post!

Starting the Year - The Animation Forum

The first few months were pretty quiet upload-wise. Most of the time, I was putzing around in the Animation forum responding to poasts and uploading WIP bits. (pssst! My WIP thread in the animation forum is here!)

I actually encourage a lot of the animators here to create similar threads in the animation forum. It's able to get your work out in some fashion, and it's a great way to talk with others for feedback and the art of the animation process in general! I even extend this to people just interested in animation, the animation forum can sometimes hold some interesting discussions... when it's not threads of people asking what software to use.

Daily Award and a Couple of Shorts

Around May I was able to upload two shorts which I had worked on throughout my just-finished sophomore year at Pratt. For sophomore-year work, they're pretty rough, and I let my flash animator sensibilities leak out haha!

After I uploaded Soda Cup Blues, I was able to snag Daily 4th place, my first of any kind of movie reward! That was a great feeling knowing some people got a kick out of something I made.

(P.S. The original name for Soda Cup Blues was actually Soda Shenanigans, I changed it because I thought too many of my works used alliteration!)

Getting Frontpaged!

Bar none, the biggest and most exciting accomplishment this year was getting frontpaged!

The animation is part of my series Hyper-Breakers, a kind of loveletter to this site and my upbringing on internet flash cartoons like Eddsworld and others. To see it get frontpaged was nothing short of amazing, and I'm so very thankful.

I even made a celebratory drawing of all the characters having a cook-out!

I'm using this winter break to churn out some more work on the finale to the Caffeinated Chaos story, here's a couple of panels from the storyboard:

I've always been a bit embarrassed by how long it's taking me to finish this one story. However, perhaps it's just discipline and confidence. My dad tells me for most folks it comes with age, but it's always something one can work on in the present. And, for someone just starting my twenties, it looks like I have a long way to go. But things certainly aren't bad now! In fact, I consider myself very fortunate!

Thanks a ton, guys.

Collabs

I took part in a few of the site's events this year, the Faces of 2022 Collab, Sketch Collab 2022, and the annual Secret Santa.

For the Faces collab I drew Foneycone's Spusky Gus, from the Dogs without Leashes series.

(This was also my first proper upload using an experimental fx-filter I made in Opentoonz to give an analog animation-cel appearance. The effect was lost in the game version, but I think is more prominent in this hi-res version!)

The sketch collab I had a lot of fun with. I animated a quick back-and-forth scuffle between my characters from my Flash Forward Jam game. My part starts at 2:34.

And to round it off, for the Secret Santa event I drew Crayonjackie's character Janet.

Forward to 2023!

I'm definitely looking forward to the new year! As for resolutions I guess I just wanna put out more stuff and get more organized, lol.