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Galneda
-This is Phobotech!-
I've done animatics for Cyanide & Happiness, Purgatony, and WWE Storytime! I'm also a voice actor that's performed roles in One Piece, Gundam: Witch from Mercury, & Smite!
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Geoff Galneda @Galneda

Age 36, Male

Voice Actor/Animator

Collin College

Dallas, TX

Joined on 9/22/03

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Well the projects certainly appear to be promising. I hope that they turn out great and also great job on the Zone of the Awesome. Good luck on all the projects and hope to see more of your work.

Thanks very much, and I'm glad you liked ZOA! I'll keep ya posted.

*Sends some love across*

<3 Catch

NOOOOOOOO! SAY IT AINT SO! Man Im gonna miss ZOA Iv watched it like 100 times and its still funny, I mean I liked memorized the lines (yes I have a life;() but I hope the comics good if you release it. Just one question why did you give up ZOA it seemed it did good (frount page sweeeeet) and its probroply my favorite none egorapter awesome vid sooooooooo.............. WTF?

I'm really, really incredibly flattered that you love ZOA to that extent, but it's a project that serves as a bridge to me.

I needed something to serve as a bridge between my shitty flash test and the projects that I had in mind for the future. Some kind of practice ground that didn't have a high demand of animation skill, and sort-of a wall to practice graffiti on.

The success that ZOA raked in, I cannot emphasize enough, was completely, totally unexpected. I had the goal in mind (And such lack of faith in the flash itself, I half-expected to fail) to simply get a higher score than my flash test. Daily 3rd award? Blew my mind. Frontpage? Shat my pants. Working on the thing months ago, I would've never seen that coming.

But I can't be proud of it. I'm proud with the fact that I finished it, and I'm very proud that it's scored so well, it's received such great feedback, and even won an award...but the flash itself? I can't be proud of it. A little bit of that is because I'm still kind-of kicking myself for making it an "Awesome parody" instead of my own parody on ZOE. Another bit is because I sacrificed demonstrating my potential by making cuts after cuts after cuts after CUTS trying to reach the deadline before college started. It instilled a good habit to MEET deadlines if I'm to do this professionally, but it also planted a bad habit to essentially justify laziness.

I watch it with friends and I cringe every time I see it. Every mistake, every dip in pace and quality...sometimes I find myself apologizing for it while they watch. There are two or three people I know personally who have ever even heard of ZOE. The one's that have loved it, and I hoped they would because they'd get the jokes. But everybody else? They stare placidly, chuckle at a few parts, and say "Ehhhh, it's pretty good. Keep it up."

I need to make something amazing. Laughing until they cry funny, or eye-popping epic. Something that when I walk around Dallas and I meet a big mover and shaker, I can proudly hand them a card and tell them to watch my flash.

As frustrating as the learning process is, and as difficult as animation has turned out to be, this is something that I love doing to the extent that I want to get paid to do it. I would love to make this my job. But in order to audition against the other guys out there who have been doing it for years? I gotta rise above and beyond them with something new.

I can't do that with video game parodies. I can't do that if I'm doing something everybody else has been doing for years. So far it's established, on this profile, that I can make a choppy pink mannequin rip his own head off, and I can make an obscure parody of someone else's obscure parody on an even more obscure video game...obscurely.

Once again, I'm flabberghasted and honored that you love ZOA; it's stuff like that which keeps me going, because it tells me that I'm apparently doing something right.

But I gotta move forward. Y'know, "tread new grounds." (lol)

Hey buddy... 1,000,000 thanks for vouching for me

Y'know, one was enough, but okay!

Well you could always make a parody series similar to the awesome series. Like how im planning on making a flash series called paradized. All you need is a catchy name to go with it. I have a few you can use if you want and im sure that if your going to make flashes like ZOA it'll turn out great.