I FINALLY FINISHED IT!!!

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, ARTISTS AND TOONS OF ALL AGES…START! YOUR! ENGINES!!!

Almost time!!!

VROOOOOM

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(software shown is OpenToonz https://opentoonz.github.io/e/index.html )

(I’m trying out posting image related updates in my blog section, because I don’t wanna clog up my video/gif/image section with too many WIP and teasers and stuff. Unless I feel something I’ve made, teaser or not, needs/deserves to be published in that section. But even then, I’m not gonna go overboard with it!)

I did a quick but thorough edit of both the video and audio, and I think I got it! I still need to tweak some things and add a VERY IMPORTANT SOUND EFFECT (hint: 🏎️) , but otherwise, I think I got it down!!!

Hopefully I can have it ready sometime in mid-February or early March!

I’M REALLY STOKED!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩

Gonna need some more time to finalize my video! I need to download a few different recordings of Beethoven’s 9th symphony “Ode to Joy” from Musopen to figure out which one syncs best with the video as it currently is! Regardless of that though, I’ll also need to make some edits to get it to sync up more cleanly! Hopefully it won’t be too many edits, and I can just swap out the old music with the new one. But if I have to make some more significant edits, it’s no big deal.

Sorry for the longer wait. I’m gonna try to have my video finished and published ASAP!

Thank you for your patience, guys!

Love you all!

-Drew O.

So, I think I understand the copyright/public domain situation with Ode to Joy:

the sheet music is public domain, and I think the words are too. But I need to be careful about which recording I use!

thankfully, the Newgrounds audio resource links helped me find a few recordings that are in the public domain!

the version I currently have in my video was from a YouTube video, (I screen recorded the video and separated the audio in iMovie) and while the description on the original YouTube vid seems to imply it is in the public domain, I still want to be extra safe. So I’ll swap out the current version of Ode to Joy with one from the public domain website! (Musopen)

However, I’m still gonna do my best to get all my ducks in a row before I officially share my animation!

Anyway, That’s all!

Stay Tewned!!!

I’m just making this post to remind myself that Newgrounds will be the main place I post/upload stuff, and will coexist alongside my website once it’s up and running!

Also, I finally have a finished video ready to upload! (Expect it sometime by the end of this month!)

I just need to know if Ode to Joy is ok to use in the video and upload onto Newgrounds!

hey. I’ve been seeing a lot of big YouTubers begin to retire, in one way or another. While they all were shocking, but understandable, I never really wanted to look into it as not all of them were people I watch regularly. When MeatCanyon made his video, that’s when I began getting concerned. And while his situation is less of a full retirement and more of an extended break from one channel to focus on his second one, it still caught me off guard a bit. (And it seems something similar is going on with other creators like Tom Scott. It’s less of a full goodbye, and more of an extended break from pushing out videos constantly. Which I completely respect. Both are still bittersweet and don’t diminish their goodbye vids in any way!) And while it’s kind of the same for this next guy, this one really struck a chord with me…

MatPat is also retiring from hosting and voicing theory videos on the theory channels. Even though he also is more just taking a back seat and will still pop up every now and then…his goodbye video just…it was the one that hit me hardest because I actually watch his channels a lot! I discovered his channels around the mid 2010s, and after watching a couple videos, I began watching Game and Film Theory regularly, and eventually, GTLive as well. I may not watch every vid on the channels, but I always loved watching his theories on stuff I grew up with, as well as introduce me to new things as well! Food and Style Theory both compounded on that and now I’m proud to call myself a Theorist!

Again, MatPat isn’t like, completely going away. He explains that he’ll still be involved in approving scripts, video ideas, and also hop back on every so often! He’ll still be there…he just won’t really be the face of the channel anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see all the things he’ll be working on, and I’ll continue watching all the channels and I love all the new hosts they have chosen! But it will never be quite the same.

And now, here is something I wanted to add to all this: I feel, personally, that with what feels like all the legends passing the torch, and making room for the next generation, it’s finally time I start doing my part and help be part of the next generation. I don’t know if I’m either a millennial or gen z, but I feel since I was born in the late 90s, and grew up in the 2000s, and a bit of the early 2010s, I think I might have a foot in both generations. But regardless of all that, I just want to be a part of the next wave of creators! (I actually think I might be around the age of the new Theory hosts…theoretically of course (pun intended)) I make cartoons and comics, and mainly want to join the indie animation scene! But regardless of what I do, (as long as it’s something I love, and it’s not at the expense of my or anyone’s health and safety) I feel it’s time for me to finally put my dreams into reality. Even if the first dedicated video I make is a simple frame by frame, low fps, slideshow-style intro vid that’s only a minute or something, it’ll be something to finally get me started!

I made a resolution that 2024 would be the year of Drew’s Cartewns (as in, the year I finally start, finish, and upload animations semi-regularly to Newgrounds and other places!) and while seeing a bunch of legends retire, even if they may still be there in the background, isn’t what I’d want to be the sign for me to start, and I’m most certainly making this even more intense than it already is, I think it’s time for me to take what I learned from watching creators like MatPat, as well as my favorite shows and life and stuff, and begin my own personal creative journey, or more accurately, the next important chapter in my creative journey!

I don’t know what I will make, or when I will release it. But I do know it will be on Newgrounds, and it will be very soon!

Thank you to everyone who helped shaped my childhood, on screen, off screen, online, and offline!

I’m ready to finally, take the leap!

See you all soon!💖💖💖

Just letting ya’ll know I’m still here! :)👍

also, hope ya’ll are having a wonderful day! If you aren’t however, hang in there! I believe in you! You got this!💖💖💖

Hewwo!!!

ok, so… Quick Update:

• I have a schedule for myself that I’ve been trying to stick to lately, and it’s mostly for my first two projects.
• the first project, (the fan made Kre-O Bumblebee Stop Motion compilation) is scheduled to be finished and uploaded by mid to late March!
• The second video… hopefully, HOPEFULLY can be done by July, although that is subject to change, as A. It’s my first storytime video, and B. It is my first collab video with a few animator friends! (I did do a music video cover of a popular Muppets song with them, but by its nature, I can’t upload it really anywhere public (not just NG) without walking on a tightrope. And I just can’t nor want to deal with that right now!)

Anyway, I have a goal for myself, and I will try to reach that goal before the end of March!👍👍👍

Just need to stick to that goal!!!

I’ll see ya’ll in March!

-Drew O.