Return From the Dead

For the sake of not beating a dead horse, let's just say that I remembered I had a blog. There's currently a pandemic going on and this quarantine is driving me closer to madness. So, as anyone would do in my situation, they'd go for a walk down memory lane. You know, to happier times.

In all seriousness, if this quarantine has had any benefit at all, it's that I've had more time to finish my endless archive of WIPs. I've started so many projects since I've started college and so many of them haven't seen the light of day. My creative drive has been completely dead as of late. If you've been following my YouTube channel (congrats the 1% of you reading this who do), then you'll notice I haven't put up really anything for awhile now. Not to say I haven't made anything for like a year, just that I haven't felt like putting things up on my channel (fight me).

But everything aside, the point of making this update is that I'm starting to finish up my endless archive of stuff I've been meaning to put out for the past 2 years.  What are these things you ask? Well, what better way to explain what I'm talking about than with a list!

First up is a special Johnny Backseed short. Miraculously in this time of social distancing and hand washing, I still manage to catch a head cold. Not sure how that happened but it did. I actually did finish this one and you can hear it in my voice. This was just made out of pure boredom. Click here to watch it.

Second up is a vlog I made for my character Crafty. Just a test to try out some compositing stuff ya know? Nothing too serious. I did this last summer I believe and hadn't gotten around to posting it until now. Click here to watch that one.

Thirdly is a little audio clip I used in the background of a film project. In the film, it's really obscured,  so I thought just to have it uploaded as its own thing. Click here to watch it.

Lastly for now is the audio from a stage show I did featuring Johnny and Marky. I don't have any of the live footage, so I just have the rehearsal track I used to practice. That one can be found here.

So what's coming up next? Well I've been cryptic for 2 years about this stuff so might as well get it out. Quite frankly so I can remember what the hell I'm even supposed to be working on.

-A skit with Greg and Faubio from Crabapple News from 2017ish.

-Another Johnny and Marky skit from early 2018ish.

-A skit with Crafty rambling on about something from last year.

-A full Dead Air FM episode that I started in 2018.

-A stop motion film that I started last month.

-If I feel up to it, there's a halloween animatic I started back in 2017 that I might finish up.

-A parody commercial of the Amazon Echo.

Use this list to keep me accountable. That said, if I don't die from this virus.

Thank you very much for reading. That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, (and my sideblog too) and Instagram accounts. Check out my comic That Fruity Business here, here, and here. I also make music, check it out here. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!

End of 2018

Fortunately, life sucked a little bit less this year so more stuff came out than the last one. That said, this will be a quick wittle bitty update - cuz I said all that needs to be said already!

This year was great a bunch of stuff came out and I got all that I was hoping to get out of this year. Moving into this next year will be even better. I'll have more stuff that will hopefully be even better than my previous stuff (can't get much worse right?). Ya know, there's a bunch of stuff I have sitting around that's wrapping up. It takes awhile to do these things cuz haha life!

So yeah, this next year will have a bunch of new stuff. Big tings are on the way. Big tings.

So here's to another new year. Can't believe it's here already. Ya know. Not sure how many I'll have left!

With that, see y'all next year.

Thank you very much for reading. That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, (and my sideblog too) and Instagram accounts. Check out my comic That Fruity Business here, here, and here. I also make music, check it out here. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!

Wow New Stuff!

A lot of that new stuff I've been harping about is finally out!

First off is an animated film. Click here to watch it. It's a 16mm film called Mental. Essentially myself along with another person drew and painted on top of 16mm, ran it through a projector and synced it to music. All editing (cuts and animation and all that jazz) were done analog with a splicer and tape. This is the result. Fun fact: this project was plan B after what we had originally filmed came out blank after processing. Most of what you see is found footage with our drawings on top, but here and there you can see faint images from our original project.

Second is another 16mm film (which actually turned out after processing). Click here to watch it. Gone Bananas has likely been the most difficult project I've worked on. Shot with a Bolex camera, then edited digitally. This film won Best Screenwriting at a local juried exhibition so that's awesome! It was also my first time creating film score so that's cool as well!

Lastly, there's another big project that's been in the works for a long time now. Click here to read it. I just released it yesterday, but it's my webcomic. The first episode is up. It's a bit old so my drawing skills and writing skills and all that jazz aren't the greatest, but I feel it does a good job at kicking off the series. The first episode is in color to get a feel at what the characters look like and that, but the future episodes will be black and white to save me the pain of having to do all that coloring.

With that, there's a lot more on the way. There's several projects I've started that I'm now wrapping up so I'll post updates whenever those come out.

Thank you very much for reading. That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, (and my sideblog too) and Instagram accounts. Check out my comic That Fruity Business here, here, and here. I also make music, check it out here. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!

10 Years!

Welp. Today my channel has hit its tenth year of existence. That's over half my life up to this point. Normally I have something planned each year for this day, but not this time! It's cool though because there's a bunch of new stuff on the way (I keep saying that but where is it?). Just know that by the end of next month, there'll be a lot of stuff coming out. I won't reveal everything, but I will say that two new short films are coming out in the next week. That's for certain. So here's to ten years on the internet. Boy, it felt like an eternity to get to this point.

Thank you very much for reading. That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, (and my sideblog too) and Instagram accounts. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!

SUMMER!!! [Update]

It's finally summer! (Well has been for awhile now, but I haven't actually posted anything at all this entire season).

I've created a new Tumblr that I've been pretty active on. YouTube has kinda been put on the backburner, but I've got some stuff out there this summer and there's something HUGE I have up my sleeve coming in the near future.

So yeah! This has been a pretty productive summer. I finally got a new tablet so I can make digital art again (the other one was so old that I couldn't find a driver for it, so I was on hiatus from that for like 5 years). In other news I also got some new programs to play around with. So I've got SOMETHING to make animation with finally. I also got some 3D modeling software and some other artsy related stuff. I've pretty much moved from YouTube as my primary platform to Tumblr (and somewhat Instagram). So the best way to keep up with my stuff is through those.

Some other news is that I'm moving back to school in a week. This will open up a lot of opportunities for collaboration this fall (as the stuff I've been doing recently is more individual work). There'll be tons of new art, and at least 3 more short films on the way. Besides that, I do have a couple of huge projects that I've been doing throughout the summer that will see the light of day really soon. So stay tuned for those, I've kept a low profile on them but they're close to finished.

So stay tuned! I'll post updates when I can along the way. Some big innovations will be taking place from now through the end of the year that will kick things up a notch.

Thank you very much for reading. That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, (and my sideblog too) and Instagram accounts. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!

Some Jazzy New Content

Yo yo yo.

So, summer has arrived (for me at least) which was a great opportunity to crack at some stuff that I had laying around.

I mentioned before that I could have won an award for my "Life of Dirt" film... and I did! Best Mixed media in the entire exhibtion. Woot!

But, to get back to why I made this post in the first place, I got new stuff! The first is a music video that I made. I haven't done one these (or at least one of any sort of quality before) so I decided "why not?" I found a song off the Free Music Archive and made some animations and ran around filming stuff for it. I used it to experiment a bit with chroma key (since all the animation in it is done traditionally) and to also practice going handheld (I almost always use a tripod which gets boring after awhile). Click here to see it. I'm not affiliated with the band or anything, I just had an idea for the song and went with it.

The second thing I posted was one of those experimental films I harped about a couple months ago. Ya know, the one I said would come out in a couple weeks? Yeah, that one. The nature one to be specific (I haven't touched the other one in awhile so it's on my queue). It's experimental so it looks a bit weird, but it was for fun. Click here to watch that one.

As far as other stuff goes, I do have a few things in the works. Probably not for this channel however, but there's stuff I am working on. Probably that other experimental film is the only thing that you'll be seeing (if that turns out decently enough). Otherwise, no need to fret because I am planning on making some stuff specifically for this channel (animated too). So don't leave me yet.

Thank you very much for reading.That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook,Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr and Instagram accounts. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!

Wow! Another New Thing!

Wazzup y'all!

End of the school year. Woot! Been a long, long, year. As promised however, I have the third film I've been preaching about. Click here to watch it. It is my final project for my video production class.

A few posts ago I mentioned how my tree film was nominated for an award; something my college does. All three of my projects for the class reached eligibility for that whole juried screening process. Being that I could only choose one, I went with my final project (Life of Dirt). After four hours of films, my video was selected to be in the end of the semester exhibition (rad). Sooooo, that means that it could win an award for something, but I won't find out until the exhibition. Cool.

Thank you very much for reading.That just about concludes this post. Be sure to visit and subscribe to my Youtube channel click here to go to my Youtube channel. Check out my  Facebook,Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr and Instagram accounts. Also be sure to check out the rest of my blog click here to go to the rest of my blog. Also be sure to come back often as I usually make a blog post after every video or if I have any news. Buh bye!