i'm not really sure if i should continue these until phiftysixty is close to release, but just not to waste people's time, yes!! a LOT of progress has been done in terms of writing, character designs, themes, and other such stuff, so much so that if i want to tell the complete story i have in mind it will take years!!

on another note, i recently watched and finished KILL la KILL, i started watching it not because of the fan service like most people, but because it reminded me of phiftysixty, and let me tell you 24 episodes and 1 ova later i have to say that that must have been the best anime i've ever seen!! the animation, even when limited at times was very good and i thought the characters and story were pretty nuanced considering what the anime's known for, i have a very personal appreciation for it considering i felt like it really helped me deal with my own insecurities as an artist, but who Cares this is a phiftysixty blog post not a vent post

i'm hoping to start working on more storyboards soon enough, i already have a little bit done of a certain scene, but it will be more efficient if i just started from the opening, and maybe start writing lines already

anyway, very short one this time! no concept art or sneak peeks this time, i ran out of non-spoilery things to say or show, if there isn't a blog post next month i'm very sorry!!

one whole year of these!! already!! wow

this month i have been working exclusively on finishing up the script with some final touches and really perfecting the designs, so i think it's time..

it's a cartoon (series?) i have been brewing since around last year, starring all my little ocs, with the two main characters phifty (#50 but cool) and sixty (#60)

one very special day, phifty and sixty, two former minions, get fed up with having to live in a trashy back allie with no food no money and no future, the two go on a heist of a life-time to steal whatever's the shiniest thing they can find inside the biggest hotel ever built (probably), which belongs to the world's biggest multi-billion dollar company, spear headed by the beloved national treasure Sunspark,

WHY AM I MAKING THIS

ever since i knew how to use the internet, i was always in awe of the idea of having little cartoons in my little screen, and i knew that it was something i had to do for myself

i've made six cartoons, and all of them were just kind of meh, all having around 3-4 star ratings on newgrounds, i really liked making them but i knew that if i wanted to show what i truly got i would need to take a step back and make something with meat on it's bones, something that is more then a glorified animation test, something with.. Character!!

so to make the cartoon, i revived 2 old OCs of mine, redesigned them, gave them personalities, backstories, motivations,

the cartoon will be made in flash CS6 pro, animated by me, featuring voices by ronycommitment, and some other, not important guy,

the two main characters won't have "voices" per say, but i do want to somehow incorporate little animal crossing type noises, i hope you're able to read!

the script for the cartoon is basically done, it's missing a few scenes i want but generally the plot is finished from start to end the way i want it to be, the tone itself won't be anything Too dark or Too light, it's somewhere in the middle i guess

i don't know when it will actually be done, cartoons take a lot of time especially if they don't have much of a budget, so don't expect it to be done anytime soon, especially since the version i was teasing in my older blog posts is scrapped,

although.. i do want to show a little animation test, so that you can see how the cartoon will look like!

take a look

(background was rushed, sorry i have school tomorrow)

this is just just a few frames, but i hope it's enough for you to really get what i am going for,

the artstyle is heavily inspired by action anime like Panty & Stocking with garterbelt, or FLCL (which you should absolutely watch!!!)

i hope this blog post is enough to convince you that i am passionate about what i'm doing, and that i haven't just been hyping up something that will never be delievered on for the past year, i mostly hope that if anyone who thinks they can help with the production of phiftysixty, either it be musician or a VA or even a coder for a potential costume interactive UI similer to the Dreamcast collab,

but in the meantime, i hope the wait will be worth it, and i hope i will get to finish it before i finish high school

see you next month! maybe! i'm not sure if i should continue these, but as long as i have news to share i will

okay byee

oh and one last thing, thank you for 80 followers!

GOOD NEWS!!!

okay maybe only kind of good it really depends how you look at it

the final draft of writing has officially begun! (the opening scene is fully written)

i am really happy with what i am working with right now, usually i don't update blog posts after i post them unless it's to correct some grammer mistake, but i will update this one when the entire thing is written

update: it's done!!!

in other, less exciting news, biggering 72 might need to be completely redone, due to it taking longer then i thought, my artsyle and the way i animate have evolved too much for it to be unnoticable if i were to continue off what i started with, sorry all to all two people who were excited for it :'(

while working on phiftysixty, i actually did something i have never officially done before, i joined a reanimated collab!

have you ever heard of azumanga daioh? really niche anime but still it was very influential, i animated a scene for community collab, with the goal of reanimating each scene of the first episode of the anime, i got scene number 38! because i was the last to get in, which meant i got to do the one scene nobody else wanted to do, i'm not going to show it because i would rather it be a surprise for when the collab comes out, but here's the first frame

back to phiftysixty, i am very sorry for flip flopping between topics here

BREAKING news.. i got a composer!!! for the OST!!! it's my good friend RADMYST, you might remember them from my abonrmal worm animation a while back,

since you're reading this, i just wanted to tell you all that i am very thankful that you keep up with my messy incohernet blog posts about my weird edgy oc animation that is taking forever, i know not a lot of people even read these but i mostly do it for myself and the few people who care, next month will be the 12th blog post, an entire year of these already! i hope i will have exciting news by then, but for now, peace out to all residents of planet shoko29

what? you still want something? okayy

have some crude piece of concept art

okay so i know last month i said to cut me some slack for not doing anything, but this month it's more justified,

0 progress has been made!!! i am so sorry, irl i've been going through many wacky adventures, like getting sick for the entire month, and whenever i was able to draw, i wasn't animating anything for my cartoons, which sucks because i really want to already, i guess i have been working on concept art and stuff but i don't know if to count that as production or not, can you tell all this cartoon making business is hard? as much as i would like to go back to my low effort ways of making a cartoon in a single afternoon, i know that quality takes time (and brain power!) so i am not doing that

(cool little doodle thing)

my artstyle has changed a little bit as you could tell from my previous blog post back in january, this thin line brush is really tactical

next month i hope to have something to show, would be pretty cool, anywayy my fingers don't feel like typing anymore, it's late and i've got school tomorrow, goodnight newgrounds dot com, happy late valentines day

no progress, it's januray! cut me some slack

but here's a 2024 -> 2025 redraw of a frame from my upcoming cartoon phiftysixty

congarulations!!! all 6 of you stuck around to read my monthly blogs

my plans for 2025 are to release 2 big projects i am currently working on, phiftysixty and the biggering amv, i have some ideas for other original cartoons that i might do, an idea i had circling around my head for a few days is a cartoon about 3 collage dropouts in mid 2000s trying to make a newgrounds cartoon, with their online reputation and 5k dollars on the line, the cartoon would probably be in some kind of mockumantry style, but will i make it? probably not

sometimes i write notes privately for cartoon ideas, one of them is just "fortnite cartoon", i think i know what i meant when i wrote that but i am not going to share because it's an idea i actually really like

PHIFTYSIXTY NEWS YEAH!!!!!

i haven't shared this here yet but i have a voice actor for one of the main characters phifty, sixty won't have a voice for budgetary reasons and also because i thought it would be a funny pair

the final draft of the script is nearly done, at least in my brain, i already know everything i want to do and more i just need to write it all down, the plot will be a tiny big different then what i have shown before would tell you but it's fine, trust the process, also, i began using a different brush!

pretty cool right? does it look good? i think it does!!!

as for the biggering amv, it's way harder then i thought it would be! i have been really stepping up my game in trying to bring as much detail as i can, i have been taking a lot of inspiration from many fan-animatics and storyboards over at youtube dot com, aswell as doing my own ideas, overall it's a very interesting challenge, if you want to get better at animating i recommend making an amv for a song you like from a movie or something, really brings out the imagination!

okay so for some personal life updates, i am STILL in highschool, so i can't just work on my cartoons 24/7, but i try to squeeze it in between my free time, alongside watching youtube and hanging out with my irl friends, as i am writing this it's one of the last days of hannukah vacation, and i have overslept so many times that it barely even feels like time is passing! very unhealthy on my part probably, is that enough personal life talk? yeah i think it is,

but yeah, overall pretty decent year to properly start my newgrounds journey, as i've said in my first ever blog post here, i always wanted to be a newgrounds creator, and it's been a pretty interesting ride so far! and i wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, i wonder where i would be if i never started posting my projects here, probably really sad and bored, i don't know if any of my big projects will ever be admired for the hard work and passion i put into them, as much as i tell myself i do them for myself, deep down any artist can agree that having your art seen is an amazing feeling, so i hope when they're done everyone can see them and enjoy what i have to offer, all 6 of my cartoons so far have been pretty lazy, made each in a single afternoon, they all have around 3-4 stars ratings which is fair considering their quality, but i believe i can do much more, so in 2025 my main goal is to show what i can really do!!

sorry if this blog post is all over the place, i just wanted to say everything i want to say before the year ends, even though i started in 2023 i really think 2024 is when i got my gears going

thanks for checking up on my every once in a while, i appreciate it a lot, i'd like to thank my regulars who always comment on my blog posts no matter how boring they are, you guys really help me keep going on with these

okay bye!!!

see you in january :-)

happy holidays! a little early i know but it is december, a lot has been going on behind the scenes here at shoko29 studios, the phiftysixty cartoon is being completely redone! yup, 6+ months of animation just to be thrown out, i know it sounds dissapointing but it's for the better, i was not satisfied with what i had completed up until now, and i knew if i want to start over i had to do it early, so i did! as a little treat for waiting so long

(opening shot for phiftysixty) (probably) (depends)

and for my other cartoon project? going pretty well! about 20% of it's storyboards are complete, it's really fun to sit down and conceptualise what i want each shot to look like

(opening shot for BIGGERING)

trying to draw in a semi-seuss artstyle is a very fun challenge, not an easy one but i still try to keep the essence of it

if you've noticed, i finally found out how to add gifs to blog posts! yay! going to be really useful for sneak peeks

(shot for a scene i can't describe yet)

anyway, back to phiftysixty, not everything is being scrapped, i am still going to use the same general plot and even reuse some assets that still hold up, doing this as to not literally go back to square one, doing that would really suck! and not be really that worth it,

okay i don't really have much else to add soo.. see you next month!

this one is a little different then the previous update blogs, because i am taking a break from phiftysixty! mostly to figure out what i even want to do with it, the story i want to tell is getting a little too ambitious for my own two hands so i decided on taking a little detour for a while,

for the next month or two i am going to be working on a little side project, an animated adaptation of the 2012 illumination the lorax cut song "Biggering" (aka the original how bad can i be)

i have only seen animatics of the song but never a full animation, so i am taking up the task to do it myself

going to try and make it mostly faithful to the original book/animated short but with some elements from the movie that i like, if you're interested in listening to the song i recommend looking it up it's like actually probably like top 10 animated villain songs of all time

until now every animation i posted here i made in a single afternoon on a whim, with not much care for worldbuidling or actually telling a story, but with phiftysixty i am putting my wiritng skills to the test to create an exciting fun little world, which is very hard! and takes time to think everything through, which is why i am taking a small break from phiftysixty to work on something less brain consuming

but just so i won't leave you all starving, here is a little teaser of arguably the most ambitious piece of animation i have ever put myself through

wow, half a year of production already?? i still remember first designing these characters, thinking "wow, these are the sickest character designs i've made since like, 10 year old me's roblox character" time goes forward and so do my skills, i am very proud of the progress i have been making, this month i have taken a small step back and decided to focus more on what i want to do with the world building rather then the cartoon by itself, and stuff that probably won't be relevent for a long long time from now, but do you care about that? assuming you're not from the far future, probably not!

i am getting the hang of this whole animation thing, and i am getting the hang of it very fast! just a few months ago i had issues with just having a character turn their head to the side, making the early scenes of the cartoon look a bit weird, like some sort of season 1 of a show vibe weird where everything is a little weird and unrefined

i am now getting into the "plot actually starts" part of the cartoon, so expect update blogs to get more and more vague as to not spoil anything up until release,

see you next month shoko nation

edit: it turns out that i have been using the 525 x 400 format instead of the 550 x 400 format this whole time, so i am going to go back and fix every shot, this might take a while but it is neccesery to make sure the finale thing looks better

tomorrow, i will be 16 years of age! wow! so mature, really weird to know that i've been on this site since i was 11 but only recently made an account to post my projects, speaking of, phiftysixty is still being worked on!!! i got a lot of motivation thanks to the support i've been getting, since the last blog post i also started high school and had less time to work on it though, very sorry for that

since the last blog post i also animated a third of a full scene, and started storyboarding the first scene of the second act!

(storyboard, i don't really stick to the storyboards when animating so don't expect it to look anything like this)

speaking of animation, i feel like i am starting to get better at movement and posing, which sounds like a good thing (i mean, it is) but it makes the animation in the earlier scenes feel like an early first season of a cartoon show where everything looks slightly off, so i might go back and reanimate some stuff? i don't know, i don't have the time to do that i think

also i don't know if i ever said why it's called phiftysixty huh, well it's because the two main characters are called phifty and sixty, really should have mentioned that beforehand