Super busy due to the popularity of my film in the Film Festival Circuit! It keeps winning awards!

So, I'm often busy with stuff connected to it.

I NEVER actually thought my film would blow up like this internationally. So, I had to learn all this stuff about marketing, distribution, and contract stuff. I also had to learn how to use IMDb.

My Film is now listed on IMDb HERE.

You can also see my official Film Page on FilmFreeway

I think my film has something like 10 awards already. I can't keep up with counting them all. I'm still booked up until 2023 also.

This has been UNBELIEVABLY SURREAL!

Currently Selected for "Best Experimental Short Film" at The Hollywood Blvd. Film Festival & The Medusa Film Festival both on April 30th.

The Official Listing for my Film

When I 1st started working on this film in 2019, I did get a lot of attention for my concept art, and lots of buzz on Twitter, so it was strange that when I'd originally premiered it, I was ghosted by everyone.

This film was almost totally destroyed & lost forever due to hacker terrorists & a deadly pandemic. YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE THIS STUFF UP! The computer I made this film on IS TOTALLY DEAD.

I noticed an email, since I get news letter emails from various filmmaker related things, and I ALMOST had a chance to submit this to a film in 2020 since I had the film on my thumb-drive, and was borrowing a laptop. But, then the pandemic struck, and after that, most Film Festivals INSISTED that films had to be completed WITHIN 2020-2021ish, which has seriously disheartened me. Well, this certain email caught my eye, so on a whim I opened it.

That's what started ALL OF THIS!

I looked at the email, and it was a Festival of THE TYPE I wanted to submit to, but WAY OFF IN THE FUTURE. I checked the rules, and there weren't any that rejected a film older than this year or last year. So, I thought: I SHOULD JUST DO IT! GO FOR IT!

So, I did!

I got to work on my official poster, cut my official trailer, submitted my Director's Headshot, typed up my Bio, and Cover letters.

So, after about 3 film festival submissions, I got scouted!

And, the scouted has been going on for 3 days! Its OVERWHELMING!

They were literally inviting ME to their Festivals! WHAT???

DOES THIS HAPPEN???

I got invited to festivals I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD EVEN TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!

I just wanted to be in some niche little brazenly "weird" or "cult" festivals with Artsy & Experimental film weirdos, and those Sci-Fi/Fantasy Indie outfits. But, once I started getting scouted by SOME BIG ONES, I was like WHAT????

I am just SO GOBSMACKED! I never thought SO MANY venues would want my film!

Well, YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL & UNLESS YOU TRY!

You can find my Film in my Gallery:

Anyways, I've had to update ALL of my portfolios, resumes, etc.

Let's just say that pretty much ALL of my Negaren projects got SCREWED. My computer was hacked so bad last year in Late October so by November it didn't work AT ALL. I sent it out for repairs & data recovery, and it took until AUGUST to get whatever was salvageable back. I basically lost pretty much EVERYTHING. And, not all of my back-ups even saved. So, I was without a computer from early November 2019 until August 2020, and stuck indoors during a pandemic quarantine lock down. IT SUCKED!

Anyways, I had a lot to think about, and refine old concepts. I also shot B-Roll footage outside. So, I came up with 2 new Brand Channels. But, ALL OF NEW GROUNDS WILL HATE IT because its non-narrative media. 1 is ASMR relaxation content, and the other is LoFi Chillout relaxation music content.

On "Oppressed By Purple" it will be mostly ASMR & Nature Sounds/Meditation (secular) content. I plan to work more on THIS content when the weather is colder, because I still plan on going outside and playing Pokemon Go for a while.

The other channel is "Oppressed By Violet" whihc is LoFi Chill-out Music with Motion Graphics Animation videos. At the moment, since the channel is new, I can ONLY make 10 min videos. ALL of the videos are totally FREE to watch, and most of them have links to FREE DOWNLOADS of the music. It's COMPLETELY NOT FOR PROFIT at the moment.

Anyways, I used several software programs for these including Adobe Creative Cloud's Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. But I also used Clip Studio Paint, and Krita.

I have a few more animation pieces up on my LoFi channel (Oppressed By Violet) which includes REDUX versions of older work I made back in 2017-2018 including "Fallen" featureing my 2 OCs: Lively & Ao Xingtao:

I have another REDUX Project which I will also be publishing as soon as its done (hopefully soon because its taking FOREVER to render).

Altho' PURPLE has ALWAYS been my favorite color for most of my life (except for when i was little and I loved red) I was tempted to do this piece in purple back when I made the original illustration in the GW Bush Era. But, since I LOST the original footage of this project, it meant I had to START OVER AGAIN... but, when I approached it, I thought it might be interesting to add to it, and sort of upgrade it... and, I literally NEVER KNEW that Photoshop had "Patterns" in the Fill options... WHO KNEW??? (apparently EVERYONE ELSE BUT ME)

Since I'd added the window to the "Fallen" piece, which was also a REDUX and improved it, I added an old fashioned Arabic/Damascus/Damask window. So, I was searching for "patterns" that were either Arabic, Persian, Islamic, or even Diwali, and not only did I find "patterns" I kept finding awesome Photoshop Brushes! I also did some refreshers with After effects, so I didn't know I could "interpolate frames" in the Puppet Tool, but I also used OLD SCHOOL layered Wave Warps.

So, I have beautiful Arabic & Islamic geometry on the walls, and the carpeting. But, the Pillow also has a beautiful silk brocade pattern that I also used "Liquefy" on. I didn't know that Photoshop had Liquefy; I thought it was only an After Effects thing...

And, since the brand is called "Oppressed By Violet", I also opted for a PURPLE version!:

Hopefully, both of these projects will be up this week, or whenever it gets done, because the rendering takes forever.

Other than that, I'm not pushing much for anything the rest of the year. Haveing said that, I do actually have a list of things I want to create. Hopefully, I'll be able to do a full #ArtVsArtist & #AnimationVsAnimator by next year. I also want to get more practice in so I can do my Qilin project.

So, something pretty devastating went down. I pushed to get my Film "Succor Forlorn" done, and many updates for Windows 10 & Adobe's many updates screwed up my computer frequently this year. But the Windows 10 Update in October was DEVASTATING to my computer, and many of my drives, and drive-reading ability was screwed. I had pushed through the Edits to my TV Show that I was producing at WCA9 TV in Weymouth Mass, and I managed to get the first 2 episodes rendered out, then planned on letting my computer rest for about 2 days, then planned to spend the entire October AFTER THAT which was about October 2nd, just editing my footage I, and my local friend, Roland, shot all over New England since last year. I also had several ANIMATED works as well.

But, the morning I planned to start my editing binge, Windows 10 made a VERY AGGRESSIVE UPDATE WITHOUT MY CONSENT, which caused my computer to not be able to read the drive with my B-Roll, my content, and ALL of my work. It also prevented my computer from reading my back-up external drive, and its gotten worse since that. It was incredibly devastating to me, and I felt like my engine just stopped working. I kept hoping it might start working. It might be the processor. I have no idea. I also keep having vicious hacking problems.

My computer is SO SLOW that doing ANYTHING AT ALL like trying to look at a photo, or load a web browser can take a long time before I can get it to do ANYTHING. So, even just using Adobe After Effects CC is a SLOW tedious matter. Also, people have not been very nice to me online about anything animated or creative since September. It's funny how so many strangers are so quick to judge, and pass judgement upon me, and never bother to get to know me, talk to me, or have no care whatsoever about me as a person, let alone as an artist. And, they seem quite self satisfied in their ignorance, preconceived ideas, and conclusion-jumping.

I think also part of the negativity I have been getting from people is due to there being no audio. Audio can greatly change & effect/affect how a video piece feels. (An example of this is the 3 versions of my "Mighty Huntress" Films which have different audio, and different editing.) I omitted the audio because I was unclear about the legality of copyright laws, and I didn't want to break any laws, even if its fan art, or memes.

I personally know the artist Pasteloween, and interact with this artist daily. (We are blood relatives.) She had created some marker drawings in her sketchbook and we are both TECHNO FANS, and we also like FURRIES and ANTHRO Art. We're not wierdoes that do perverted things, despite the stigma of Furries. We just like Anthro Animals, Cartoons, and we are at heart #Raver4Ever. As much as we can be very different, we also have many similar interests in THE ARTS such as music, Visual Arts, Media, and Cultural things. Anyways, when I saw her drawings I thought it would be fun to make some Motion Graphics Puppet Animations using Camera Tracking in After Effects, so I went with my friend Roland to Negus Park, which is near my house, and he was trying to learn how to use the recently purchased DSLR camera he bought used online.

The Drawings she made were of NegaRen which is a unique Artist whom makes a lot of Techno & Electronic music in a variety of Styles which we are also fans of. We are all HUGE fans of '90s techno, Hi-NRG Eurodance, Free Style Techno, Tribal Techno, Happy Hardcore, House, 303 Acid, as well as various music from Y2K, and the 2000s like Bounce House, Jump Style, Hard Style, Garage House/Music, Dub, and even Trance Techno. Not just the typical 4/4 beats, but even the 2-Step ones, I'm not as big of a fan of Drum N Bass myslf, but I listen to a few odd tracks from back in the day. Both of us are sort of nerd-ish consumers of all content from those periods, and even today replicating those styles, and we can seriously talk some of the lingo for hours, like modulating transistors like the 303, 808, Korg Kaos, Pioneer, Chicago, Detroit, Piano Riffs, Synth Pop, audio design... and that's just the bits we currently know, but we don't even know it all.... and are always learning more, and digging up lost or forgotten media from the time period. Techno & Electronic music was suppressed a lot in my country (USA) so I have always been scouring the internet to find those things which I love. It is only NOW that Electronic music has become more widely accepted due to the internet. We are also open minded to listen to music in ANY LANGUAGE, and not just English. We also both speak multiple languages moderately and consume media in their original languages. I personally don't like English dubbed media, but prefer subtitles.

So, I thought it might be interesting to make a fan art animated video of some simple footage. It's sort of like a pun in a way...NegaRen in Negus Park. Negus Park is a small park in my town not too far from my house, but still a long walk, which has a memorial to a young boy whom passed away at the age of 13. (I hope, in the future, to turn all of those things in that park int a PokeStop in Pokemon Go.) I was hoping to have it all finished within 1-7 days... but, it took way too long. I put it off for all of September, and when my computer stopped working I had to pull the B-Roll footage from my SD Cards. I also shot footage in a local New England Colonial Cemetery.

It was excruciating to get ANYTHING to happen in After Effects AT ALL!

I had ALSO wanted to finish my #Inktober Butterflies Projects... and THAT was ALL ON MY DRIVE. The drive seems invisible on my computer, but sometimes the system can read that there's a FAN on it if I run SpeedFan. But, even that doesn't work right. By this point, many of the other local hard drives have also gone invisible... so I need to have my computer dropped off for repairs this week.

I went to the TV Station, today, which also SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE LAST MONTH, but even they had issues, and miscommunications as well. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The Recent Episode We FINALLY FINISHED TODAY:

My Show "As Spirit To Be Free" still hasn;t aired on TV yet, but we FINALLY got the 1st 2 episodes SUBMITTED to the Station.

Intro Graphics:

I'm NOT LAZY... I work so HARD to get stuff done, that I'm often exhausted.... and it feels like I often have NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT... I also had to part ways with a company I was contracted to do video work for due to abuse, and I also had surgery in September which was SO SCARY. But, it went well, and I'm OK. But, I legally wan;t allowed to work ALL OF OCTOBER by order of my surgeon. I only have 1 ovary, and I was so worried I would loose it due to 2 giant Cysts on it that were larger than softballs. I was terrified of being castrated and loosing my last ovary, because then I would no longer be a woman, but a eunuch. It's the equivalent of a man loosing his testicles. I would NEVER be able to to various things, and I also had a pre pre-cancer Polyp in my uterus that caused me to bleed excessively, and I got anemic from in. All of these things are connected to the endocrine system, so I worried about going directly into osteoporosis, and menopause, then dying too early. I just turned 40. I also can't take birth control hormones n steroids because they make me maddeningly suicidal. AND IT IS SO SCARY. The hormones also cause cancer. The world we live in is terrible frequently, but I still want to cling onto the rest of the time I have left in this misbegotten life, still.... even if it's kind of the end of the world anyway.

I did mange to make some clips of the NegaRen animated stuff... I need to edit it, but I constantly have setbacks, and things popping up, like every day... and whien I finally have a free day... I'm tired, and I rest.

I wish I had the umph I had when I was 18.... but, I'm 40.

i hope my computer can be fixed....

I might have to eventually get a new computer, but I need the data on this one. I can;t even get to my back-up data either. *long reluctant sigh*

But, my brother suggested that I get an Apple Mac Pro. That's a nice idea. I also need a Cintiq. But, I NEED the stuff on these local drives.

I seem to go through this cycle EVERY YEAR.

Anyways, due to my computer troubles being so sudden, and abrupt, it stunned me, and stalled me, that I didn't know how to process it... I was on a trajectory of goals, and plans, and when I couldn;t do anything, I was stunned. I didn;t know what to do with myself. I just couldn't even process it.

So, I still have no idea what to do with myself, until/unless my computer gets fixed. It just took all the winds out of my sails, and I lost ALL of my enthusiasm for the Fall/Autumn, and even Halloween. It was like my art dropped dead. It was similar to how my medical problems screwed my summer plans, and my spring plans.

So, I've been contemplating my situation...

I don;t know what I will be doing at all. The Future is totally blind to me.

I have a new film coming up. I finally got the cleanup animation DONE for the traditional animation part.

I will be posting a LOOP version.

The other pieces/parts are mostly done. I might tweak some things tho', for the final film.

All of this ACTUALLY started out as some tests for VFX & B-Roll footage as a Filmmaker/Director's Demo Reel in the winter. Then ALL OF THIS stuff happened, and now I have even MORE After Effects Plugins!

Here's the Audio files:

You're welcome to use them FOR FREE.

I was studying a lot of Particle Systems, VFX, and even masks & vectors stuff...

Part of this incorporates a kind of "brand" from a TV Series I'm producing locally on a local TV channel "A Spirit To Be Free", which interestingly is a bit of a different vibe than most of the content on it, which adds to the contrast.

You can see various version of the hand-drawn logo/symbol for "A Spirit To Be Free":

The symbolism within the logo comes from prehistoric (pre-ancient times) like geometric shapes. The "spiral" is an ancient symbol used in many prehistoric caveman paintings, and in many tribal cultures represented the unwinding path of life, or unraveling mysterics in ancient Mystery Cults, among other meanings. I also used triangles, and curves, which mash together like wings. The lines represent beams of light, like the metaphor of "enlightenment" which means to gain knowledge & experience. There's another line on the bottom that bends on the sides which represents the ground or the Earth, and a line to the spiral. Many people will look at this and see a lolly pop. ^_^

So, "succor" and "sucker" and various puns which can means to soothe a baby, fussy person, or to gain nurtition, is ironincally a lollypop which can rot your teeth, but so can milk if you don't brush them. It can also mean to pacify, or to humor someone. Anyone could quite easily find multiple aspects of meaning and symboilic menaings, including puns, within the logo.

Another bit of irony comes form the fact that I started these studies FOR THIS FILM, and ended up re-purposing MUCH of it for several other projects, including a TV show I did with my friend "Streaming To The Stars" which mostly was about talking about Specific, but ended up being about Star Trek. I did manage to tweak the graphics multiple times, but due to the heat, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and software updates as well as car breakdowns, videography gigs, and other setbacks, I'm shocked I even pulled it off at all, and in such little time.

Angel REDUX:

I've also been toying with the idea of another "brand" of sorts called "Oppressed By Purple" TM and/or "Oppressed By Violet" TM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

I just REALLY liked the how the brand almost has a slogan feel, and I felt very amused by it. Purple is my favorite color, and its arguable that the color doesn't even exist even tho ultra violet does, which we can't see. That's fine with me. It reminds me of Goethe whom stated you don't actually SEE colors but experience them, and had MUCH better and more comprehensive color theory that Sir Isaac Newton.

Also, something I had often wondered was whether people see colors differently, because I personally often felt like most people couldn't perceive as many colors as I could. Purple ESPECIALLY. To me, there a certain area which I would consider purple, and beyond that its NOT purple. I mean REAL purple. NOT red purple, not maroon, not magenta, not pink purple, not blue purple, and not periwinkle. But other people would fetch items for me which were OBVIOUSLY NOT PURPLE. I never understood why people couldn't tell that something WASN'T purple but some OTHER hue.

Anyways, I felt like making a brand called "Oppressed By Purple" had that kind of "Urban Decay" kind of naughty vibe, like: I SHOULDN'T LIKE THIS! ITS SO NAUGHTY! Or, even weird Perfume commercials. Like, something decadent, or forbidden fruits. The original purple dye called "Tyrian" was excessively expensive since ancient times, and was even mentioned in the Bible as "purple cloth". Purple was often associated with royalty, wealth, and "spirituality". In modern times it's often associated with "Passion" (Purple Passion) which can have multiple meanings, such as desire, or even suffering for a cause, and is even decorative elements for villains, Halloween, and people with 2 sides of good & bad, or hidden values or virtues with secrets.

I actually have zero intention of ACTUALLY ever selling anything under that brand (so far) but more of an experimental design or series of works extension of art.

I'd been tossing it around in my head for months.... without being able to make up my mind on it... I most especially would indulge the ideas & concepts in the shower...

-so, when I mentioned it to my daughter she was like: Oh, MOM! You gotta do that! It's SO YOU!

I also feel that it could be FUNNY, humorous, and even a parody of brands...

I've ALSO been reworking & re-purposing A NUMBER of projects I shot, Directed, or worked on as a DP, and VFX ANimator & Video Editor. I did A NUMBER of projects and a SIZABLE amount of work which I NEVER WAS PAID FOR< and also NEVER signed it over to those producers/directors, and THEREFORE I actually STILL OWN.

That's actually ALMOST done, but I wrote some dialogue/poetry for that. I know that NewGrounds has an anti-photography bias most of the time, so I might NOT EVER post those here. But it DEFINITLY is QUITE the art project on several levels. Each shot was about 1/2 a day or more of work for something like 2 weeks. If I were to calculate JUST the shooting days, including prep work, by JUST minimum wage, you can probably do the math.... its a A LOT.

I might publish the audio here tho'.

I'm FINALLY done with the Jackalope puppet animation stuff!

That was SO MUCH WORK! The final edit took a LONG TIME! I finished it 2 weeks ago, but I was waiting to publish it this week.

Now, it's up.

I will be redoing my 2016 film from UMASS Boston "Smattering Thoughts Also Flow" for my Television Show on WCA9 TV. The Redux version of that film will have some reshoots, and I will FINALLY get to put the puppet animation I REALLY wanted in my ORIGINAL VISION!

I'll also be editing the B-Roll footage I shot from Spring-Fall.

Once I'm done with the Butterflies, whcih I made durring #Inktober, I will move on from Puppet animation and return to my true love which is Traditional Animation. I'll be doing several practice peices, and really work on the baiscs & fundamentals with reppitition.

I also have another film i'm working on, and a few opther side projects that are film or television related.

My 2 favorite programs are: ToonBoom Harmony & Adobe After Effects CC.

I'd RECENTLY aquired Trapcode which was EVERYTHING to me! And, also Cinema 4D, and Video Copilot plugins. So, I'm continuing to play, learn, and explore VFX, and 3D elements.

I have new camera equiptment as well.

Hi Kids! ^_^

Thanks for watching my animated short films. I've actually been an animator since the 1990s back when I was a kid. I will be turning 40 next year.

I got back into animation, after a very long depression ince the end of the GW Bush Era, in 2016. So, I had to start all over agian. The Jackalope experimental films were started as a pitch that I was snookered into doing, and actually got, at UMASS Boston when I went to University to further my education and ended up back in animation and art again.

In my original concept art for my pitch to teh Boston Convention Center it was all 4 seasons for the Jackalope character, named Wacky Jackie, but the curator cut that part out when I was forming and reforming my pitch for them. I had noticed that many people actually had no idea how to fully use Adoeb After effects even tho' it had been a very good program, and well knonw since I'd graduated from AIPH in Computer Animation in 2001. So, it was a very arduous and lonely journey trying to figure it all out on my own because different video production, filmmakers, and animators use Adobe After Effects for different things.

I have learned many many things since 2016, and even indulged in academic learning of the actual history of film & cinema, which actually was NOT narative based. I learned, and earned a new respect for experimental films.

I am always still learning animation programs, software, and meeting more and more people within that broad field of fields.

I had decided to revisit the Jackalope Project, and use it as a specific thing to practice the software, and learn more about particles and "tweening" puppet animation.

I personally am NOT really a puppet animator, and my true background is in traditional animation, which I wish to get back to by 2019.

Since 2017 I've gotten Adobe Creative Cloud, Toon Boom Harmony, and NOW I even have Trapcode! ^,^

I wish to make and remake a number of project and films I did while at UMASS Boston from 2016-2017 because I lacked mentors & persons with full knowlege of these softwares to do what I knew COULD be done with them but was ignorant of HOW to do them, and NO ONE could, nor WOULD, help me.

I DID make a summer verison of my jackalope animation, but I was not fully 100% satisfied with it, and wasn;t sure, yet, how to cut that film, whereas my Winter version I had a more clear concept in mind, altho' more elaborate.

In truth, I WOULD like to maybe have a tiny little film for it, but not one that's a really big deal. the real thing I wanted it for, however is a recut with ALL 4 seasons, and ALSO a Purple version.

I am considdering have a video-game-ish format to the film look as well.

I WILL be including this into episodes for my TV Show I am producing at my local TV chanel.

I also will be making butterfly puppets as well for another piece that I will be doing a re-make & a re-cut of, wihc was a film a I made in 2016 at UMASS Boston.

Once i am TOTALLY finished with these puppet & tweening motion graphics animation films I will COMPLETELY move back into Traditional Animtion, and return to fundamentals & basics practices of Traditional animations including thorough studies of bouncing balls (PLURAL), flour sacks, focusing on timing & spacing AND THEN really focued applied practices at LOTS & LOTS of walk cycles.

Cycle animations and lips syncs to me are NOTHING, and far too easy. But, I ALSO feel I could do WAY BETTER.

I KNOW a lot of u folks are kids, and that's cool with me. BUt, many animators and art students in my own age group & peer group were DESTROYED be the outsourcing, terrorism, and economic crashes that occured this centruy. If any of you folks want to get back into animation, ur welcome to hang out with me also. I also know there are many seasoned veternas of animation out there as well. I invite u to put yourself out there and help PRESERVE traditional animation, because it's gonona be LOST forever if we DON'T do something about it. corporation DO NOT OWN animation. It belongs to EVERYONE, like poetry, music, design, and visual design.

I invite you to come hang out with me on my Twitch Stream FOR FREE.

One of the special lectures I sat in out at UMASS Boston while doing Cinema Studies was by another professor at the University whom was mostly known for his visual art, but he also did documentary films. Why do I bring this up? Well, he made an INTERESTING statement. He stated that no one should ever try to persue art just because they enjoy being creative, but RATHER, because it was SOMETHING you couldn;t LIVE without doing. You have to really WANT it and FEEL it inside. If you DO feel that way, then you WILL LIVE that way, because being art artist IS NOT something one does because they wnat money, but BECAUSE it is WHO YOU ARE.

Filmmaking is the same way, and acting, and photography, and creative writing. BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ARTIST.

But, it SHOULD be that same way FOR ANIMATION.

DO IT BECAUSE YOU LOVE IT! Do it becasue you live it, your are it, and NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT FROM YOU.

A journey of a1000 miles begins with but a single step.

Just because you made a crappy animation today, doesn't that a year's worth of making animtion will also be crappy. NO, you could grow & develope as a an artist, an animator, and build some skills.

I am NOT claiming to be any sort of expert at all. But many fakers WILL.

However, I WILL say I'm on the jouerny- The Odyssey, or the animator.

I don't KNOW whether I will EVER reach my zenith, but I ONLY have THE REST OF MY LIFE LEFT TO TRY, and that is all I have left. So, at least I can try.

The ONLY thing you truly own are your mistakes, but those can also be your only teachers where there are none.

OMG! I'm so annoyed & frustrated because I spent over an hour typing & formatting a blog post here, and New Grounds ate it up! }:(

Anyways, this summer was a lot of learning, exploring, filming, drama, and even custom made 3D particles in Adobe After Effects CC. We had so many heat waves that I often could't use my computer because the heat could destroy the video card, and I couldn't even open anything graphics related.

We finally finished our little animated film "Maple Bacon" which took forever due to a umber of computer or heat issues, including hackers, dead hard drives, filming other projects, and videography gigs working for HockeyTV, as well was way too much film cast dramas in which several actors and crew got fired on another major film that is bogged down by some bad elements and dishonest folks.

The version of "Maple Bacon" here on NewGrounds is the parametric stereo audio version, but the version on YouTube is the surround sound 5.1 version that even used a 4 track audio in the sound design.

I'm also on Twitch frequently and participating as much as I can in #Inktober & #drawtober this year.

I'm making butterflies that will be made into animation puppets in Adobe After Effects CC. I'm re-cutting and expanding my 2016 film "Smattering Thoughts Also Flow" to fit the actual vision & concept the way I'd actually wanted it to be, and intented it to be, as well as expanding upon it. I will very likely be including this film ito my TV Show which I am producing for WCA9 TV in my town.

I will also be getting back to the basics & fundamentals of Traditional Animation in 2019 so I can continue my work on my animated short film project "Ying Qilin".

And you can find me on Twitch:

Watch Highlight: New England Tea N Sketching #Inktober #Drawtober Outdoors from blackunigryphon on www.twitch.tv

I've definately had an uptick in video & animation stuff since 2016. Gonna post a bunch of it here. It's already on YouTube & Vimeo.

Hope You're all doing well.

Here's a still form 1 of my films:

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I was off doing Cosplay, Photography and many other things in the past several years.

I've been in kind of an artist block for a while... meh...