Here's a quick and easy link to previous Lowdowns!

I've started teaching myself how to video edit with more intent and passion to learn and make mistakes.

The first ever test was with a free software called Shotcut three years ago, which clunkily assembled one of my video voice demo reels. There's some really poor transitions and tiny mistakes here and there, but it wasn't bad for a very first video edit.

The second one was a much more recent endeavor. I fell for a bait-and-switch download as I tried to get DaVinci Resolve, where the top result was for something called Movavi, they used "Davinci Resolve" as it's name, pulling it away from their competitor. I didn't really understand how badly I messed up until I got done assembling an entire inside-joke concept and was ready to export. Hours of work and figuring out this software, only to realize later that it wasn't the software I was trying to use. It was a scam, hiding basic exporting functionality behind a paywall. Still, I did manage to realize the vision of the joke I wanted to tell after watching Quest For Fire with some Explosm friends on Discord...even if my mouse does make a cameo appearance in the screen capture.

In my recent experiment, I've found the most success so far with the real free version of DaVinci Resolve.

Between the triple-tap of losing Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen, the latter affected me the most. He was a legendary voice actor, like my father, and he was even at a similar age to him when he passed. I realized that I had recorded a skit parodying the Toonami promotional ads that they would do using his dramatic voice, and I wound up throwing together a tribute in 6 hours of learning DaVinci Resolve for the first time.

It was a good, successful experiment on multiple fronts. For speed, for learning more about video editing, for practice as a voice actor, it was hitting all the marks I was going for. And hey! My mouse cursor didn't ruin the capture this time.

This will invariably lead to more videos in the future. But for now, Rest In Peace to Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen. He had the drama voice that my Dad made a living on. I'm going to practice even more to regain what the world lost.

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Robot Day 2026 came and I finally locked in on the Transformers short that I wanted to release several years ago. Progress has been made, but I was too slow to make it in time for Robot Day. However, I did dedicate an entire day to getting a Spawn concept off the ground, and submitted Solar Spawn to the Art Portal with hours to spare to still consider it a Robot Day submission. You can view it here!

I'm still full steam ahead on the Transformers short in my free time. The only context I'll give y'all is it's based on the Nightbird episode of the original G1 cartoon, embedded here:

I hope to complete it within a month. I think that's a spacious deadline for what I have in mind.

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My reel for Number Lore 6 is complete! I made it to commemorate my channel getting 6,000 subscribers.

At the moment, as I type this, my channel is sitting at 5,914 Subscribers. I'm very close! But I'm not asking for a charity act; I want to earn it through my content.

If Newgrounds and YouTube metrics are anything to take into consideration, that means every Newgrounds follower I have is worth 6 times the amount of YouTube Subscribers. Nice!

So when I hit 6K subscribers, I'll have a video ready to rock immediately, but until then, here's a preview to keep you occupied.

I dug around older files and included some prototype past forms for each Rune character. Only a couple of them had a design nailed down on the first try, so this is a more unique peak behind the curtain in the pre-production process than past reels. I hope y'all like it!

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Explosm officially announced their next animated project, "America's Next Top Cryptid!"

I play a disgusting pile of goo named "Crud!" It'll be exclusive to Tubi for now, but once it comes out, I want y'all to watch it! Let's jack those numbers up so there's some renewed wind in the sails for indie animation. My friends can make more cartoons, and I can voice more Crud! That would be swell! So expect me to make another news post when the first episode is out, so you can hear my Goo Voice.

Geoff Gooneda

...no wait, that looks like "Goon"...never mind.

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As for my personal life, I've been delivering packages to people in the mountains of Colorado every week to make a little extra money. It's a position in the US Post Office known as an Assistant Rural Carrier, or ARC, and I've been trained to use the scanners letter carriers use and driver the right-hand-side vehicles they use like the LLV, FFV, Metrus and Promaster, and it's been a fun means for me to get out of the house and maintain the momentum of activity that lasts me throughout the week.

I finally snapped out of a drifting heaviness that I feel like has been looming over me for years, if not decades. Like I finally realized how blessed I am with the capabilities I've been equipped with. The opportunities before me, experience behind me, and I caught myself here in the moment, in the present, with a clear vision of what needs to be done now, next, and later on. I've compartmentalized the tasks of what doesn't need to be done at all, and I've been experiencing a kind of mobility where things have been getting knocked out in quick succession and I don't want that momentum to stop.

So I ain't gonna overpromise and underdeliver. I should get another Lowdown rollin' out in the Fall, when I'll have something to report.

Stay tuned!

-GG-