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Posted by TappyWara - January 15th, 2023
1 YEAR ON NEWGROUNDS
I have been on Newgrounds for one year now, I wanna recap this past year but before that, I wanna speak on how I even ended up here.
October - December 2021
(Prelude)
I had always been a fan of Newgrounds since I was a kid but I had never thought of joining the site til I met Tyro1301. I found him from his One Piece animations on youtube around late 2020, we followed each other on all social media after I commented on his Soldier, Poet, King One Piece animation. Around late 2021 I had been listening to a lot of Sleepcast, craving more Newgrounds-themed podcasts I found The Newgrounds Podcast. Being only lightly acquainted with some Newgrounders like Postboy and DojimaDog it was all very new to me, I didn't even know any of the host's names. On a rainy day, while studying in class and listening to the podcast, one of the hosts mentioned how it would be cool to have a Newgrounds-styled Warioware game. I started doodling ideas for microgames themed around NG characters.
January- February 2022
After receiving my computer, I quickly made a Newgrounds account. most of this month was posting older pieces of art from around the lockdown, while in the background Tyro and I were making more ideas for Microgames. I was meeting a lot of new people and discovered a lot of new favorites around this time. Tyro was also teaching me Krita, he wasn't great at it but we tried. For my birthday Tyro made me this beautifully animated drawing of my character, I still love it so much!
March - April 2022
These months were big ones for me. Tyro and I decided to slow progress on our Lil project. One night after finishing Snackers is Duncan & Jones series I wanted to draw them, I only got as far as drawing Duncan before I got tired so I asked Tyro if he was down to draw Jones, he sent the final piece back and I posted it before going to bed. When I woke up that morning I was flooded with notifications from Newgrounds and Discord, It had gotten on featured art landing me my first ever Frontpage with Snackers seeing it. That wasn't the end of my morning though, Musician Droid who I had met around February gifted me a month of Supporter and invited me to a Drawpile session in The Newgrounds Podcast server, I was super nervous because I hardly knew anyone but I met a lot of cool people there most important to me being Facu.
May - June 2022
In early May I started talking to MigMoog, Tiny, and Dry after meeting them on The Shoot Trip Die server. Mig had invited me to work on his game for Pico Day Profile Picture Party. We all had a fun time, although it didn't win any awards. Speaking of Pico Day... I kinda won Pico Day technically, while working on Mig's game me, Tyro, Facu, and Tiny were all let on RGPAnims massive Pico Day project Fulpware, and it won!
It's funny how a project with the same premise as the game me and Tyro were gonna make won us Pico Day, funny how that works out. Speaking more on RGPAnims, the dude was super cool for letting us on the project and I'm happy to call him a friend. he's a wiz at everything he does and a hard-ass worker. He has been helping me with a project currently but we'll get to that later. A fun Lil cherry on top of all this was we ended the month off with a dumb shitpost game called Porb Dressup, Between you and me it's the greatest thing on Newgrounds but Mig seems to disagree. Great time overall!
July - August 2022
I wanna start off this section and say I lost a family member in early July, it greatly affected me but I didn't stop working on projects, I had a lot of friends and family to comfort me during this hard time but it was hard. While this time was hard I still worked on a decent amount of stuff, for starters I properly joined Mig's game-making group TeamMaxHog and we made Sh*t Rainbows Piss Thunder for Plufmot's pride month game jam. it's not great but it was a fun time. Oh yeah and this happened [click here]... so yeah. We also made a game called Into The Web Of Swine for Stepford's mobile game jam. A nice way to top off this rocky time in my life Facu and I came out with Gorbido vs Woke Mob a fun Lil sequel to our last Gorbido video.
This was the most turbulent time of my life in a good while, it wasn't fun but I still got through it. Thank you so much to all my friends on Newgrounds and not for helping me through this time.
September - December 2022
I put these last 4 months together because really didn't do much during this time for reasons I will get into later. I helped out Facu with his Halloween video haunted ghost house. I made the thumbnail for my pal Taka's game Beck Gets Bitches. Not much this time but it's cool, I needed time to relax.
(rick ross)
January 2023
So I suppose it's time I talk about what's been keeping me busy these past few months, I am organizing a collab themed around Cartoon Network. It's gonna be a massive collab similar to ones such as The Dragonball Z Collab and The Smash Bros Collab. I have really high hopes for this project to do well, there are so many amazingly talented animators on this project that I just can't wait to show you but you'll have to wait. I want to have this behemoth of a project out by this summer, so look out for that.
(Logo by RGPAnims)
Final Thoughts
This past year has been the worst and best year of my life, so much happened but it all felt so fast. I have made so many new lifelong friends who I couldn't imagine living without now. Newgrounds greatly changed the trajectory of my life, art has always been a hobby for me but now more than ever I wanna pursue a career in art in any way possible, and it's all because of Newgrounds. I want to thank all my friends I've met over this past year.
I love all of you guys so much, wouldn't be here without you guys encouraging my dumb ideas!
Let's hope for another great year!
(Art by Tiny)
