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Posted by Luis - October 20th, 2021


I have no idea what to title my posts anymore. Also I'm kind of a mix of drunk and on medicine cause i was sick as a dog for a lil bit, (not the covid or rabid kind).


ANYWAYS, i was just kind of impressed by how many EPIC things have released this year! I ain't gonna link to them cause if you want that sort of attention to detail, go read a Tom post.


DEAD ESTATE!! released yesterday i think? Pretty cool. I admit i was like oh okay, whatever when i first saw it last year, but it has alot of heart and also Jack is awesome so check it out. Link can be found errr not here... but probably the front page until tom changes that thingie.


PROJECT NEXUS!! again, can't find the link here, but you can find it if u look elsewhere. Another game long time in the making, good to see it happen.


FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN FULL ASS nevermind that's still goin.


I did finish making my lil skateboarding thingie that i last posted about as a work in progress. Helped me get out of my artist bloque as they say in french.


SUMMER JAM THINGIE, finally over, man its so impressive people can make something for all summer that are amazing and i struggle with a loop gif. But whatev i have bars to visit.


I think life-wise, as private as i strive to be in such matters. I moved from my high rise overpriced 440sqf studio to more humble 300 square feet surroundings down the street. It was an inspiring view for sure, but kinda sucked during covid lockdown, no point in spending so much money on a view you can't share with people (cant bring guests up and also people like pulling the fire alarm for some reason). Cest la vie!


Also DearKruno, stop making pixel art, thats my art style!


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I'll probably get back to making games soon, i've spoken to BoMToons about it, that i'm ready, so we'll see what happen. Also happy halloween soon.


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Posted by Luis - September 16th, 2021


Just kidding, but what if i wasnt.


In other news, managed to shake off my burn out from a few weeks ago, I debated deleting my last post but i'll just let it be for time capsule purposes. ANYWAYS, started working on a little thing this week, finished the rough of it earlier this morning so its fresh out of the oven for you! (below) Also have some notes on it.


In the meantime, my past roommates are on the verge of releasing their Madness: Project Nexus project, yea i had never hearded of it either until yesterday. LOOKS PRETTY COOL!


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I was looking for something beefy with frames to do, and you usually can't go wrong with skateboard clips.


So I wandered over to my pal Loachie's retwit and he had a highlight of some Aussie phenom so i thought that might be fun to work on.


So now I am. It's kind of weird working from footage because live action has so many frames to it and animation is about frames sure, but also trickery so you have to pick and choose stuff to cut and suggest visually rather than frame by frame. So like in the gif above, there is no easing or blurs or squashes. So when he finally comes down, he doesn't feel heavy or like gravity brought his crazy spins to a stop. I think the thing i enjoy most about animation is those tricks, but also just being like: i feel like making moving stuff and then after a few hours an empty canvas now is a breathing moving thing. WIZARDRY.


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Posted by Luis - September 8th, 2021


Ominous title compared to my other posts, and honestly it didn't occur to me to write about it, but my friend (not newgrounds related) told me that I should, that if anything someone out there might find some comfort and resolution in knowing that everyone struggles then it's a win. To be clear i wasn't embarrassed, i am just a private person and i try to filter my online personality with my offline one. Still haven't totally fine-tuned it, maybe i never will, BUT i do agree that her advice is sound in that sharing is caring and especially in these weird times. SO on with the show.


Creative burnout

it happens to everyone, hell it's happened to me plenty of times before; but i'll admit, never this hard and never this bad. I think the important thing is, and trust me it doesn't just come to you overnight; it's to realize that's what happened and more importantly, that it's OKAY. Rome wasn't built in a day, and some days it faced famine, or tragedy, or war or whatever. That's just how it is.


So i think what happened to me was, I was using art as an excuse to not confront or let myself be sad. I think June - Julyish and some of August was particularly tough. I mean, I live in america and we are begging people to get vaccinated and not take homemade horse medicine or whatever, and i mean BEGGING, and elsewhere in the world, like where I am from (Bolivia) there's still parts that don't have access to stuff. Full disclosure, i had family die once every week for like two months; not because they were going to a house party, or Kid Rock concert or whatever, but just because access is limited. To date, i think Bolivia still has access to mostly the Chinese and Russian vaccine or whatever, and all the people with money and government officials are hoarding the more effective american ones that get sent over(might have changed somewhat now, i've not been keeping up.). Anyways the point isn't to make you get vaccinated, the point is to go back and review and see what contributed to my burn out. So with like family overseas dying every week, and trust me, there was like weeks in July and August i just blocked all my calls, family, friends, nothing, because it was just so draining, and so like i wrapped myself up in making art, and making art, being part of art, taking commissions, and making art again.


I think you can make art until your arm falls off, and its a good fix for a bit, but eventually even that buzz goes, and that's kind of what happened a few weeks ago. I made really negative posts, and made people worried, and just not really in a good space.


So i pulled the plug on art, and surprisingly, i feel better. I quit twitter (i'm kinda back sorta), I deleted social apps on my phone, etc etc. I think I got to a point where i felt like i HAD TO make art to keep going, to keep my mind off stuff and it worked until it didnt. I wasn't making stuff because i WANTED to.


TLDR

It's okay to take a break from art, its ok to not let art become a crutch, or a fix, no youre not gonna become a worst-er artist, your artistic abilities are not draining like the life bar on a video game. It's okay to take a break from online hysteria and online art, and whatever and just settle yourself out. I think I'm not QUITE ready to resume making art, but i will soon and i feel itll be on my terms when i do and that's okay.


I have zero projects planned, i have zero things i am working on, i fully regret canceling on stuff and letting people down, or suddenly disappearing, but i just needed (and still need) to sort it out.


I'm still in touch the art community, i still enjoy seeing peoples stuff, or reviewing entries i see on my feed on newgrounds. BUT for the moment anyways, i aint making shit. :)


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Posted by Luis - June 22nd, 2021


I don't know what to title my posts anymore, its not even close to midsummer.


Anyways, here's a few updates for you!


Newgrounds Summer Festival 2021 June 25 - 27

Kind of a fun virtual hang-out thingie to get you through the summer. It's organized by @stanpai I'll be popping in here and there, I can't guarantee my level of sobriety but I should be around for the community panel on Friday (9pm est).


The Bike Slide Collab

I've teamed up with @snackers to throw together a short lil collab to explore the famous Akira bike slide. It's been referenced countless times in cartoons and other famous things so it seems like a fun easy going project to take a stab at it here on Newgrounds. There's a lively discord for it also, it's rare i share stuff I'm working on while I'm fixing it up, so I'm trying to get myself to get in the habit of doing that.


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I'll probably get back into a game of some sort next month and get more serious about stuff.


Ciao


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Posted by Luis - May 20th, 2021


Hi,

I hadn't made an update in awhile and I've been running kinda hot right now in terms of productivity so I figured I'd update you.


Post mortem Castle Crashing the Beard

This game was so well received! I thought maybe it was lame that we spent so long re-doing a game and that people would be like meh. But it captures the nostalgia and also adds some fun new elements and art into the game. It's been pretty rewarding to read and see the feedback, i can probably speak for Nick, and Asha for that also.


Pico Day!

I worked on a lil gif for it, decided to take a break from pixel and go back to my roots. I used an unusual frame rate, and I quite like how it turned out. i think when i look back at the darnell breakdancing gif i did in early 2020, i can start to appreciate the evolution of my understanding of momentum and when to use alot of frames and when to not. It's still a work in progress but its fun to kick around.


Other stuff

I started doing some freelance stuff in addition to my job. Mostly web design stuff, I'm still working on a few but its kind of a fun break from animation, and also my real work stuff. I briefly thought of getting a part time job as a bartender, on top of my freelance and my full time job but i think i'd completely burn out if I did that.


Community stuff

Kudos to ninjamuffin for making it to the top guy on the website! I know his game completely blew up both figuratively and literally on this website, and it feels good when something like that happens to someone so interested in the community and concept of this website. I still snap him stupid shit and vice versa, so i'd like to think no matter what happens he's still annoying ass Cam to me.


That's it, I'm working on a new gif thingie, I started it just 30 mins ago actually. Probably won't be done for a few weeks. Probably going back to pixels. We'll see.


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Posted by Luis - April 14th, 2021


It's a rare thing when something goes out ahead of schedule, but that's what happened yesterday!


We were supposed to release on friday but now i look like an idiot because we released the game early. I've been so swamped with work and a ton of other stuff that I haven't quite processed everything going on in the last 15 hours or whatever but it's such a weird thing that no matter how many years or success you've had in the past, it's still so nerve-wrecking uploading a game or animation to this website. It's a good nervous though.


I'll make a proper write-up at some point, but as with any project that's taken multiple years and a few I quits, it's finally freakin dunnnn.


I have a long list of thank you's to all sorts of people that helped get the game and myself to this point, I have an immense support system both here on newgrounds, instagram, and the boot rot boys on discord. I feel fortunate and oh holy shit i just realized there's a new site background skin and the pink links are gone. FINALLY!!


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Posted by Luis - March 27th, 2021


Took about 3 years to totally redo this game but its finally coming out soon! pls play it. its free!


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Posted by Luis - January 1st, 2021


Hola,

I was partly inspired by some of my art friends to make a general overview of current and look ahead type of thing.


I think it's been kind of interesting to see peoples year round-ups for 2020 because while we were all bound by the C-word, it was a year of unique creativity. I kind of compare it to music movements like punk and rock where there is a particular amount of creativity reacting to really large social and human issues in the world.


i think like most of my colleagues, i find that 2020 was a bit of a homecoming in coming back to art and the art community. To some extent, what choice did i have? Once March rolled around, i had the rug pulled under me(as did everyone else really), where my lifestyle of flying around and being a socialite at bars was kind of over. I think in hindsight, and looking ahead, i will fine-tune that part of my lifestyle to not be so dependent on that. Looking back at my portfolio of work, i find it kind of cool to see that the themes and pieces i've made kind of reflect what was going on around me, more so than more whimsical pieces i made in 2019. I think Tom and the guys at the newgrounds HQ played a key role in keeping people motivating and shifting the gloom to an opportunity to make cool things. Read @psychogoldfish write up for the full scope of what that means.


Through lockdown, i was able to meet newer generation of artists, the @snackers @ninjamuffin99 and @wandaboy of the newgrounds scene. I was welcomed with open arms to all sorts of discord servers and got introduced to and work with new people. I'd eventually get drunk and storm out of said discords but i eventually wander back.


I think throughout my career at newgrounds for years i felt a personal responsibility to be someone that had to come up with stuff and be the ring leader of large projects and it was kind of nice to switch roles last year and be a participant in other peoples visions.


This was a good thing, i hadnt returned to the animation portal in years and i forgot what a different beast it is from the game portal. Where you are making stuff designed to be interacted with and as a result, can go back and fine tune and add stuff in. In the animation portal, you got one shot boo boo, so it definitely felt more 'scary' for me, and it brought me back to the old days of submitting here where there is that uncertainty of someone totally hating something you spent a long time on.


While nobody knows what this next year will bring, i do think that even having the 'calendar' change brings with it a new sense of optimism and with all thats going on, its kind of hard to come by at times.


Working on a new thingie, hopefully releasing later this month.

CIAO.


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Posted by Luis - August 13th, 2020


Hola,

Not a whole lot going on, America has been very bad at Corona, so the world hates us so i cant travel anymore! It's fine though, I've been making a ton of progress on my game and I'm still looking to be done by Autumn and back on the road in 2021.

If you feel nosy, or just want to know what we've been up to, wander over to Nick's discord channel thingie.


Other stuff I've been working on, i haven't gotten back to it but I've been designing a site background for this website. Been kind of sidetracked but it's on my queue. On the non-digital side, I'm moving later this autumn. Probably still in philadelphia, but in midtown village or something around there. Looking to shorten my commute to work and also be able to wander back from bars easier. Maybe i'll invite u to a housewarming party, if u wear ur damn mask.


Speaking of quarantine, https://potatoman.newgrounds.com/ suprised Krinkels and i with some little figurines he designed. I'm still kind of blown away looking at it on my desk. He just needs a little server to spill his beer on.


I have some more newgrounds stuff i want to give back to the wild, but i'll wait for a good spot to do so.


Ciao.


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Posted by Luis - July 7th, 2020


UPDATE: Congrats to @damnedbyfate you came up on the random username generator thingie. You r win.


Thanks to everyone for sharing their anecdotes. I read all of them and it was quite uplifting and motivating to read and more important than ever to preserve this community. I'll give away more stuff soon.




Apparently NG is a quarter century old now! Time to give away some NG stuff from my vault.


Here's how to win:

You have to be a NG supporter to win this one.


This aint for bustahs who don't support keep the lights on.


  1. Comment with a memory of your interaction with this site (try and be positive).
  2. That's it.


One rando comment below will win this newgrounds flag, it's been around the world at newgrounds meet ups and stuff. There are a few of them floating around but this one is my personal one. Also, in this care package is a yellow / orange castle crasher and some stickers. I'll pick someone out later this month and do another post about it.


See ya


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here it is in Australia

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I found this in my closet, into the package it goes:

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