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2012 in review

Posted by MistyE - December 27th, 2012


I started the year off with, "Adrellia Village #38." I had spent almost the entire year of 2011 working on it on and off. I spent most of 2011 procrastinating, so it probably would've taken me two months to complete at most if I didn't procrastinate. It's a little sloppy and unpolished by my current standards, but at the time, it was my best work and it marked a massive shift in the quality of the flash cartoons I was animating.

My next project was the "Strawberry's Break" series, featuring characters from the Clock Crew. The focus wasn't so much on the characters as it was on the fact that the amount of submissions and animators who frequent Newgrounds has been declining. I eventually compiled all four episodes into a movie.

"Adrellia Village: School" was a compilation of three Adrellia Village shorts I produced as school projects. "China in the Middle Ages" was my educational quarter project for history; "Almandines n' Stuff" was my project for science; "Veteran's Day" was for a school event honoring veterans.

"How to be funny" is currently my most popular cartoon of 2012. I made it initially as kind of a rant. In retrospect, I don't think it lives up to my current standards, but I can't say I regret making it, because I don't. I will admit though, that I think a lot of it is pretty immature.

I continued my 2010 Flash tutorial series with "Flash 8: Importing Videos," which is pretty self-explanatory. It also gave me a chance to use some of that gorgeous waterfall stock footage I found on YouTube. Yes, I had permission to use it.

"Neverending Enigma" was a 30-second entry to the now-shelved Odd Collab. At the time I was heavily influenced by ZekeySpaceyLizard.

"Wacky Astronomy ADVENTURE" was quite possibly the best school project I have ever animated, and the students thought so too. No, that's not the Star Syndicate, those are just stars.

"Adrellia Village #39" is quite possibly one of my most memorable projects to date. I started the project in January and finally finished it in June. It was a collaboration, though I did a lot of the work. 50secondsaway provided beautiful backgrounds for it that really improved the episode. I was trying to give my old, "Adrellia Village" series a re-vamp. Episode 39 did not stay true to its roots at all, though I still enjoy it because it felt more like an actual cartoon show. I learned a lot while making this and have a lot of good memories during its production. It was front paged for about a day, and although it only got about a thousand views on the front page, I'm still very thankful to Tom for putting there in the first place and glad that I made it on the front page in the first place.

"Cookin' with Mama" was my attempt at making a video game parody. It didn't have actual dialogue, unless you count the "Wundafoo!" line I took directly from the game. It was basically just two music videos put together.

"R.I.P. Neil Armstrong" was my tribute to Neil Armstrong. It had about a 3.64, but then it was taken off by a moderator because "it was just a few drawings and a video." Due to a bug, even though it was unpublished from Newgrounds, it still won daily 4th place. This caused confusion among the people who saw P-Bot's post. It was eventually restored because the video of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon might be public domain.

"Night at the Casino" is one of my better movies. It was inspired by my summer trip to Las Vegas. I bought a souvenir DVD that had about 45 minutes of Las Vegas scenery with the intention of using it as reference material for my cartoon. When I got back, "Night at the Casino" was born.

When "Adrellia Village #40: SE" was made, I didn't want to make a big deal about it like I did with episode 39, I just wanted to advance the plotline. It featured a bunch of "dialogue boxes," but I still think it was okay.

"Dexter's Leaving Home" was my tribute to WillieD891, an aspiring flash animator. I heard there was gonna be something like Willie D Day, so I made something in a few hours and submitted it ten minutes before the actual Willie D Day.

"Kingdom Farts" is my second best work to date, right behind episode 39 in my opinion. It's a parody of Kingdom Hearts (I bet you never could've guessed), a game that I personally love. Some of the jokes poke fun at parts of the game, though I actually played it at least four times. The script was written in April and I did the first fifteen seconds of it in April, when I abandoned it by the end of April. I came back to it eventually by the end of July and worked pretty hard on it until it was finally finished on September 19. One of my biggest regrets is that I submitted it right before Madness Day, so it got overshadowed.

"iPhone 5 Ad Parody" was me jumping on the iPhone 5 parody bandwagon. It was put together in a few hours, and the script was written in a few minutes. The voice actor, Jonathan Cooke, saved this cartoon. His voice acting is really good.

I don't even know what inspired "The Bird." It just came out of nowhere, really. I don't have anything else to say about it.

"Give Me a Sign" was my attempt at animating a full music video. I never actually finished a music video. I used to stop halfway through the song and just upload it to Newgrounds. I misheard one of the lyrics as "stars" instead of "scars," so that had a heavy impact on the music video's direction. I don't care if I misheard it though. It's a thousand times better with the cartoon stars.

"Pacman's Last Stand," like "Kingdom Farts," and, "Cookin' with Mama," was an attempt at a video game parody. It wasn't anything like what I imagined it to be, but I'm still proud of it because of the painted backgrounds I implemented into it and the artwork on the judge.

"Song of Storms" was my homage to Legend of Zelda. It was not inspired by the Nyan Cat Genre Hopping video - its similarity to that is a coincidence. I was shocked to find out this was submitted to the Zelda collection. It's the first cartoon of mine to make it into a collection, ever.

The rest is a bunch of Flash Library episodes that I won't go into detail about. They're basically just themed daily collaborations.


Comments

Looks like you got a lotta stuff done this year! I'll have to make my own year-in-review, but in video form!

i'll be looking forward to seeing that!