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

by the end of 2024 i will have to move out because the landlords are going to get us evicted, and i just started high school, but in the meantime i will update you all on phiftysixty (my cartoon)

animation progress is going very well, over 45 seconds of animation have been finished since the last blog post here!!! the character in the screenshot right here is the main antagonist of the cartoon, voiced by me, because i don't have a budget to get voice actors

at this rate, i will get the entire thing done before 2025! that's exciting right?

also, how could i forget to mention but my birthday is this month!!! the big sixteen is right around the corner for me, it is on the 29/9, and it's just 26 days away!! how exciting

should i make these update blog posts like a monthly thing? right now it is, might as well make it an intentional thing

soo.. see you next month!

the first scene is finished animation wise, i've asked a friend to help with the background music but they're busy so they won't be able to do that for at least a while, on the good news though, i have started to work on the second scene!!! i don't want to say what happens in it because i haven't even storyboarded all of it yet, but here's a little sun from it's first shot, cool right? i wasn't sure on if to keep the face or not, but i went with as to make sure the world feels goofy and a little childish & over the top, very short update i know but since i already have the vision for it finalized i don't really have much to update you all on other then "i am doing it"

although i can say i am not sure if i will finish it before summer vacation ends, very low chance of that being complete in that time frame

anyway yeah remember to check it out when i finish it ok bye