Happy belated Madness Day!

I may be one day overdue, but my Madness Day 2023 cartoon MADNESS: Operation X is finally finished, after an entire month in the pipeline. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I've worked myself to finish it.

I would like to thank

• @50Steaks for letting me use his track "Nevada"
• @RareKirby for stepping in at the last minute to do a couple of scenes (and also for giving me the opportunity to produce background art for two of his own animations)
• @Krinkels for creating the Madness Combat series and keeping a 20+ year fanbase going strong.
• Elon Musk, the richest Aspie in the world, for buying Twitter and taking me for a year-long ride, which in turn inspired this little short film.
• And to whoever put it up on the front page, (@TomFulp I presume). I think I've finally earned it this time.

Getting better at animation / Making bigger, better projects.

This is something I adressed a month ago, but I'd like to take the opportunity to explain further.

For the past year, aside from collabs, the only solo animations I've submitted to Newgrounds have been two dumb spam cartoons churned out in under a week, with Operation X serves as a turning point for me.

So what does the future hold for me?

- To start with, I'm going to continue getting better at animation, to be able to make stuff that's on par with some of my favourite artists and idols, notably ZekeySpaceyLizard ( Squaresville, Meat Grinder, etc.), Felix Colgrave (Double King, The Elephant's Garden, etc), and many others that I like that might clutter up this list.

(see my favourites and look at some of the better ones (See also: my animation watchlist)

-Expect a sparser upload schedule. Even my spammier cartoons should get a little bump in quality.

-I've gravitated towards making music videos, whether it be for other artists or my own A+B catalog. Operation X may technically count as one since I used the whole song, but I see the 50Steaks song more as a film score.

-Commercial work is a possibility, but unless I get better in the next few years, which might mean having to study in some boring classroom for 3 years, options are very limited. I'm mostly just building up experience at this point. Commissions may be possible in the near future, or maybe today if you complain hard enough and/or donate it to a random cause on my behalf.

- I'm still participating in collabs. I should be working on one for the Sega Saturn Collab.

-Revisiting old shit I made in previous years is unlikely, such as the 2020 Anonymous Frog series. If I ever do pick one up again, I'll let you know.

- No plans for Halloween, Christmas, or Valentine's Day.

- I'm working on two other major personal projects, after previously announcing three.

- Nothing left to say here, just a random shoutout. @dogmuth-behedog's stuff is great. When I get the chance, I'm totally stealing his artstyle to use in animation form.