My Projects Early 2009: Update!

1. Still waiting for news on 9volt's computer; it's broken, and he's still not sure if Operation Neptune 2 is still intact. He is currently the only user I'm collaborating with to-date, so far I've helped him with details, writing, eventually voice-acting, and real-time constructive criticism. Hang in there 9volt!

2. After consulting my good friend, Thomas Gardner, about animating a music video from one of his more popular songs, he volunteered to show me how he's brushed up the piece after submitting it to the Audio Portal. Currently I'm waiting for him to email the updated "Pure Hatred" track. The character designs for the music video flash are almost complete.

3. Dialogue and story-boarding for my next comedy short are also almost reaching finalization. I'm still trying to coordinate time with my older brother for the hook-up on a new microphone and interface. This is proving to be a little difficult, as we operate on completely different times of the day. Just as I came in from school today, he was out the door because he was needed at the studio for the Dallas Sound Lab. Go figure, right? I can't complain because he's much busier than I am...and this is hella busy for me!

4. The flash series that I've been working on is about to take a turn for a completely different direction; instead of running up and animating a series with a DVD movie at the end, I now have the intention to make the series into a three-part book trilogy. I will release NO details on it, as ideas are not copyrightable. I will begin writing the first novel soon. :P After the novels are completed, and I'm waiting on them being published, I will immediately begin designs for the animation, which I have the intention to make it perfectly clear this is something original that spawned from Newgrounds.

If there's one thing this site needs, desperately, is more originality. Less video-game parodies and less tributes...we need something new. I'm helping 9volt out with his Madness-themed flash because I see incredible potential in him. Once he's developed the confidence in himself after the success that ON2 will receive, I can pray he'll be motivated to press on with his own designs.

5. After considering the possibility of writing something in a novel form (active voice, pass-tense) I'm also motivated to animate the memoir that I wrote for English 1301 about myself, titled "The Doom Incident" It is my intention to begin work animating my memoir either before or after helping my other good friend,
Adam Holland, animate his poem, "The Black and Blue Room"

Busy. Busy. Busy. I neglected to study for my math test, due tomorrow, because I've been writing down details on this trilogy I've been working on. You'll receive more updates in a couple-of weeks!

I'm enthralled to start work on these projects right away. Also, that flash book that I've never gotten the chance to use to help earn a credit has been incredibly helpful. Hope you guys are as ready as I am! :D

Film at Eleven.

(Leo may never button-mash again. We'll see if by the time the Art Portal kicks up if I'll feel up to doing a "Zone of the Blenders" parody web-comic which would pick up right where "Zone of the Awesome" left off. That is a project that I'm only doing for the fans that liked ZOA. If it takes off, I'll keep on working on it. If it doesn't, I'll drop it completely, and never touch another "Zone of the Enders" parody ever again.)

My Projects Early 2009: Update!

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Akkere 2009-02-11 20:19:03

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.

Galneda 2009-02-11 20:19:03

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

EmmDubya 2009-02-13 13:01:39

*Sends some love across*

Galneda 2009-02-13 13:01:39

<3 Catch

Roland7749 2009-02-15 19:02:56

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?

Galneda 2009-02-15 19:02:56 (Updated 2009-02-16 00:44:21)

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)

9voltproductions 2009-02-16 15:29:44

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

Galneda 2009-02-16 15:29:44

Y'know, one was enough, but okay!

Akkere 2009-02-21 13:34:36

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.