Hello again! You're probably reading this to see what I've done this year. Nothing much to see here, but for anyone who's interested, I'm pretty much at the same point as I was in September.

January:

Not very proud of this one. In 2022, I joined a revival of the spam group called the Kitty Krew, originally ran by old member 321, who later creeped out some minors and got permanently ousted from the group. Over time, I worked my way to a sort-of leadership role, and made a few submissions and collabs of my own. I wanted to set a new standard for the group and try to fix their failing reputation, this included trying to make higher quality spam.

This month, I tried to kick out a returning member under the assumption they were 321, which got me kicked out. He looked a bit creepy, and published a not-so kid friendly submission on the Portal, so I didn't want to take any chances.

I had a backup server which I intended to fork out as a spinoff group, but I quickly abandoned the idea.

I have no plans to take part in any similar groups. I'll stick to the good ol' fashioned Clock Crew and maybe Star Syndicate, if they were both more active and open to new members.

I also indefinitely delayed a Pixel Day submission. It may come out next year, but who knows?

February:

I took a few days to make a scene for the Friendly Frog Collab by @midgetsausage around this time. (may have been in late January, but I'm trying to fill time.)

See the 4:30 ish mark somewhere.

Even that was there to fill time. Nothing else to see here:

I was also brought on by @RareKirby to create a set of backgrounds for his cartoon (see May)

March:

I released a shitpost centered around Ukinojoe's Frumplequest character, as he was at the time making shitpost Rick and Morty parodies. It did ok on YouTube too.

March 10th, aka Mario Day, was the day Power Star Reanimated debuted with its first part. I slaved away at one of the scenes the months prior after several delays. I also took over as one of the hosts earlier this year. Since then, the collab's Discord is now the central hub for the entire fandom, as well as other official Power Star projects

April:

April 1st was Clock Day, but I wasn't aware of it until the last minute, so I wasn't able to submit anything.

I started the group A+B with the talented @BeepBoxClock. We conceived and released our first album Dipthong in about a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFq_kmjrYsw

May:

RareKirby's Mega Man An Asshole released. I finished my work in April

I did art for a Lock Day game. Didn't like how it turned out, no offense @greateday.

Assisted on a Clock movie, coincidentally also released on Lock Day.

I also overheard @Emrox winning the Flash Forward Jam (movie category) with Artifacts, and started work on a similar demo. I hope to finish it for next year's jam.

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1524609

June-July

Most of my time was spent conceiving a large-scale short film, as well as the odd art piece here and there.

Also got accustomed to Adobe Animate (the new version) and a stylus (partial use) to make this motion graphic loop.

As both one and two halves of A+B, we started work on a second album.

Drew one extra background.

August:

Clock Day #2 was August 15th. That meant game time. I wish I had fleshed this out more, but I left it to the last minute. Better luck next year I guess!

iShowSpeed showed his meat, iSpammedAnotherFlash.

The rest of the month was drafting and animating a large Madness Day project.

But not before a few detours.

September:

Madness: Operation X released, using music by @50Steaks, an underrated composer whom I desperately tried to promote.

This movie follows Captain Yellowstone, a lone soldier sent by a "mysterious" helicopter pilot to defeat Elon Musk and destroy his eponymous initiative. THIS is how you do a NG vs Twitter movie.

This is by far my biggest movie this year. The only others to top this aren't finished yet.

Also broshipped Yellowstone with @GabrielBarsch, the only other Madness character to share a primary colour.

October:

Tried a new Inktober-esque daily art challenge. Gave up after 3 days.

I completed most of the songs on the second A+B album, Phantom of the High School Puppet Theater, but wasn't able to finish two of them before Halloween came.

Also moar backgroundz.

November

Phantom of the High School Puppet Theater finally released, and on Newgrounds as well!

@RedMongoose, a musician who greatly inspired the Dipthong series, agreed to perform one of the tracks.

December

December's a work in progress. I'm still working on a few Christmas stuff, joining a few collabs, all that. This will be updated as 2024 starts, but by this point it's effectively wrapped up.

But in the meantime, I'm also working on Dipthong 3 and an EP under A+B. A lot of songs are already completed by this time, here's one of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-DXngrWfyQ

Some sad news. I also found out that The Juke Bottle Casino, a musician best known for their/her music in the 4 Madness shorts by Krinkels, reportedly died this year, according to someone in a private Discord server. They may have had a NG account somewhere. This was amidst a long streak of NG deaths starting in 2022.

I've made a tribute song/remix and it will be submitted it to the Break it Up Collab around January 15th. It'll incorporate all 4 songs used in the shorts.

UPDATES:

1- I did a quick snowman for the Snowman Collab

2- I rushed out parts for two Star Syndicate Christmas Collabs.

3- Participated in this year's Art Secret Santa event.

The Future:

What's next? I don't really know. But I do know what I haven't done this year.

First, there are two short films that I've sat on for an entire year. I may finish one of them this year

Next, I still have Dipthong 3 and an EP to finish. More news will come later.

Next, I have a few ideas for A+B music videos, mainly those from Dipthongs 2 or 3, which I might also be doing for 2024 or 2025.

However, I might not have enough time to do all that right now as I continue to study animation with the aim of finding work in that field (hopefully before the 2030s arrive and the Great Depression returns after 100 years). Until then, I wish a week ahead of time, a merry Christmas!