Episode 15 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

A ghostly princess / sociopath, enlists a downtroden farmhand into dangerous quests by telling her that they’re “the chosen one”. Surprising everyone though, she starts to grow attached as they adventure, fight, and learn humility and confidence from one another. Made in Blender but tries it’s best to look like stop motion because I like how they look but I don’t have room for a studio… or patience or talent or whatever Music By: Tony Gee<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/</a> Voice Actresses: Jo Taylor &amp; Steph Phos<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/</a>

"Liv & Di" Episode 15: First Things Last

4koma Girls- Humidity Humility

Episode 14 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

A ghostly princess / sociopath, enlists a downtroden farmhand into dangerous quests by telling her that they’re “the chosen one”. Surprising everyone though, she starts to grow attached as they adventure, fight, and learn humility and confidence from one another. Made in Blender but tries it’s best to look like stop motion because I like how they look but I don’t have room for a studio… or patience or talent or whatever Music By: Tony Gee<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/</a> Voice Actresses: Jo Taylor &amp; Steph Phos<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/</a>

"Liv & Di" Episode 14: Perpetual Motivation

Episode 13 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

A ghostly princess / sociopath, enlists a downtroden farmhand into dangerous quests by telling her that they’re “the chosen one”. Surprising everyone though, she starts to grow attached as they adventure, fight, and learn humility and confidence from one another. Made in Blender but tries it’s best to look like stop motion because I like how they look but I don’t have room for a studio… or patience or talent or whatever Music By: Tony Gee<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/</a> Voice Actresses: Jo Taylor &amp; Steph Phos<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/</a>

Liv & Di Episode 13: There're A Lot Of "L" Words

Episode 12 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 12: Solid Puzzle Design

Episode 11 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 11: That's Okay Then

Episode 10 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 10: You Could've Just Done That?!

Episode 9 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 9: A Load of B.S. (Back Story)

Episode 8 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 8: Just-A-Foible"

Episode 7 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

A ghostly princess / sociopath, enlists a downtrodden farmhand into dangerous quests by telling her that they’re “the chosen one”. Surprising everyone though, she starts to grow attached as they adventure, fight, and learn humility and confidence from one another. Made in Blender but tries it’s best to look like stop motion because I like how they look but I don’t have room for a studio… or patience or talent or whatever Music By: Tony Gee<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/</a> Voice Actresses: Jo Taylor &amp; Steph Phos<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/</a>

"Liv & Di" Episode 7: Village People

Episode 6 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 6: Home Wreckers

First episode of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 5: "Ones" Plural?

Episode 4 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 4: Sticks And Stones And Broken Bones

Episode 3 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 3: Major Major Will See You Now

Episode 2 of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv & Di

"Liv & Di" Episode 2: Back Breaking Labor

“Chosen Ones” Plural? First episode of my vertical, dark fantasy comedy, animated web series: Liv &amp; Di A ghostly princess / sociopath, enlists a downtrodedn farmhand into dangerous quests by telling her that they’re “the chosen one”. Surprising everyone though, she starts to grow attached as they adventure, fight, and learn humility and confidence from one another. Made in Blender but tries it’s best to look like stop motion because I like how they look but I don’t have room for a studio… or patience or talent or whatever Music By: Tony Gee<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648476/</a> Voice Actresses: Jo Taylor &amp; Steph Phos<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648474/</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16648470/</a>

"Liv & Di" episode 1: "Chosen One" Plural

When you're walking on a dark foggy street and get that scary gut feeling.

When you're walking down a dark foggy street and just get that scary gut feeling. I'd hoped to have this finished by Halloween, but here's some fun post-Halloween horror for everyone!There's some profound violence, so viewers beware. And I hope it subverts any expectation or prediction you might have while watching. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9FqUQMR3_UhRZ1_zjnXaQA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Freak Street on YouTube</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/people/Freak-Street/100080016356745/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Freak Street on Facebook</a>

That Scary Gut Feeling

The villainous Dr. Robotnik confronts Sonic about his frustrations.

v1.0 — Initial release. Used chroma key to separate animation from backgrounds.v.1.1 — Used alpha channel instead of chroma key. Green line art artifacts removed.v1.2 — Added SWF version. Fixed minor color mistakes for SWF version only. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eZM3_aK-9eM#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649" width="1154" height="649" data-smart-scale="1154,649"></iframe> COMMENTARYI started this project thinking, “Oh, yeah, I know exactly how to draw AoStH Robotnik; I don’t need to use reference!” And then every frame looked like shit. So, I went online and referred to the show itself and these two pieces of concept art by character designer Milton Knight. A good lesson in humility. <img src="https://uploads.ungrounded.net/tmp/img/397000/iu_397394_4226168.webp" width="764" height="317" alt="iu_397394_4226168.webp" data-smart-scale="764,317"> I accomplished a good chunk of animation on a livestream, but the stream was struck down because I played episodes of Adventures of Sonic for my friends to watch thinking nothing would come of it. Maybe I should stream on Twitch or Picarto, accounts where I don’t really care whether they live or die. It’s a darn shame because that stream was a lot of fun! DoodleDemon and I started calling each other “blithering buckets of bolts” and watched Robotnik do a Nazi salute and that was absolutely hilarious. <img src="https://uploads.ungrounded.net/tmp/img/397000/iu_397346_4226168.png" width="446" height="708" alt="iu_397346_4226168.png" data-smart-scale="446,708"> The show itself is a lot of fun. It’s stupid fun. Every moment Robotnik is on screen is a good time. Scratch and Grounder are great, as well. The team that worked on it—including Milton Knight, the voice actor Long John Baldry (1940–2005 R.I.P.), and the storyboard artists (including Scott Shaw! From the early Archie Sonic comics)—did a fantastic job given the limitations they worked with. Overall, I definitely prefer SatAM over AoStH, but they are both very different genres of animation. While I was working on this project, Milton Knight leaked on Facebook that Diskotech would be doing an Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog complete series release on Blu-ray and that it would contain new interviews with him. I had hoped that the release would be in HD given that it is Blu-ray and not DVD, but it was very unlikely whoever owned the rights to the show kept the film masters and only kept the master tapes, which inherently have a lower resolution. Later that year, Diskotech officially announced the complete series on Twitter. I am absolutely going to pre-order it. It comes out February 2022. If they ever release the SatAM complete series on Blu-ray (in full HD, knock on wood), I will die a happy man. Now that I think about it, I’m known by all my friends for being a huge Sonic fan, so it’s weird that it took until now for me to make a proper Sonic cartoon. This project started as a gift for MatterBoar. I felt bad that <a href="https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/771051">the previous animation I made for him</a> was released in November 2020, 13 months ago, and I hadn’t made any new ones in that time. So I secretly started this one and originally intended to give it to him for free. He asked me if I was available for new animation work and I told him about this side project and he said he’d buy it! The deadline was Christmas Day. The night before, I promised myself I would work on this cartoon until it is 100% ready to release. I thought it would take maybe three hours. It ended up taking 22 hours straight. I only took three hour-long breaks to rest my hands and get a half-hour of sleep. A single cup of hot chocolate coffee got me through it! The thing that took the longest in this particular long stretch was the shot of Robotnik running in place. That took forever! I probably could have done this quicker, but I wanted to make sure each and every frame was cleaned up. I do not envy the animators of the original show. Despite how simple Robotnik’s character design looks, animating him takes a long time, especially compared to Sonic. Robotnik’s mustache and yellow jumpsuit straps in particular were very troublesome, as well as layering the different body parts. The most frustrating thing with Sonic was doing his baby blue highlights. Thankfully, Sonic hardly moves in this cartoon. (That’s kinda uncharacteristic of Sonic, but hey I’m not complaining!) I wanted to add some traditional paint-like motion blur to some of the snappier movements, but due to the deadline—and me just wanting to move on to something new—I could not do it in time. The tight shot of Robotnik’s face at the end was also supposed to be painterly, similar to the gross-out shots in SpongeBob and Ren and Stimpy, but after I took a crack at it in Clip Studio Paint, I couldn’t do it. Also, I felt that a rendered painting of a character wouldn’t fit a parody that tried to match the art style of the original show. Pre-production began in August 2021 and post-production ended on Saturday, December 25th. Normally, a 26-second-long cartoon wouldn’t take that long, but due to a myriad of continuous financial problems and setbacks, it took four months to complete. It probably would have had a better start if I had started by making storyboards. I run-and-gunned this whole cartoon and I definitely regret it. I ended up making last-minute changes to the character poses, facial expressions, etc., which isn’t something you really want to be doing a lot with deadlines involved. You want to make confident decisions in the beginning so that the changes later on will hopefully be few in number. Ordinarily, I would not do this slapdash approach with a commission. But this started out as a gift and turned into a commission later. Regardless, even quick, shoddy storyboards would have gone a long way! Lesson learned. Originally, I was going to commission my friend Dyoudi Mitimasa (<a href="https://epicfunnyhahajokelol.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@epicfunnyhahajokelol</a>) do the background art. He is a natural at this kind of sharp, abstract art style. However, I did not have the money to commission an artist, especially at the time. So instead, I leave you with a huge recommendation to go check out Dyoudi’s art! He’s a wonderful artist and a wonderful person! Additionally, Milton Knight is still an active artist and has a Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/miltonknight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Go support him, too!</a> I made this background art by referencing two screenshots from the show, shown in the timelapse video. At first, I was very happy with this art, especially since it was my first real attempt at abstract art. The reference really helped! But once I put it in the cartoon, something was wrong. Robotnik’s design is mostly warm colors. The background is mostly warm colors. I feel this leads to a lot of Robotnik’s movements being less readable than they should. Sonic is fine since he’s blue, orange’s complement. If I had to do the background art again, I would divide the composition into two sections: a cool section for Robotnik and a warm section for Sonic. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgFCB4l9Vv8#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649" width="865" height="649" data-smart-scale="865,649"></iframe> CLIENT<a href="https://youtube.com/c/matterboar" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">MatterBoar</a> ANIMATION / BACKGROUND ART / EDITINGAlexander Emenheiser <a href="https://ade-syndicate.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@ade-syndicate</a> BACKGROUND MUSICDr. Robotnik's ThemeComposed by Reed Robbins and Mark SimonCover by <a href="https://youtu.be/j9GpekZhhkI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Turret 3471</a> Main Title ThemeComposed by Clark GassmanIncludes motifs fromSonic 2 Title Theme and Emerald Hill Zone composed by Masato Nakamura,In the Hall of the Mountain King composed by Edvard Grieg,and Flight of the Bumblebee composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov AUDIO TAKEN FROM<a href="https://youtu.be/1kCWA4gwOT0?t=1391" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OneyPlays Sonic Robo Blast 2 - FINALE</a>with <a href="https://oney.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@Oney</a>, <a href="https://patreon.com/wanwangames" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ding Dong, and Julian</a>Edited by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/DexTheSwede" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dex the Swede</a> FONTSPedro SPECIAL THANKS AND PATREON SUPPORTERSAnimation stream viewers,including <a href="https://twitter.com/doodledemon_art" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DoodleDemon</a>, for keeping me company<a href="https://www.patreon.com/miltonknight" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Milton Knight</a> for being nice when I talked to him :)<a href="https://suprdee2.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@SuprDee2</a> for being supportiveand giving me a new version of Toon BoomDyoudi Mitimasa <a href="https://epicfunnyhahajokelol.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@epicfunnyhahajokelol</a> PATREON &amp; KO-FI SUPPORTERSAleahAshleyFroggyDuwudeViktor Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog © SEGA, DIC Entertainment 1993 P.S. — I’m working on a new project right now! Consider becoming a member on Ko-fi and you’ll get access to previews, WIPs, shoutouts, and more AND support my work! There are options for one-off donations and memberships. Thank you! OH, and Merry Christmas! <a href="https://ko-fi.com/adesyndicate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><img src="https://uploads.ungrounded.net/tmp/img/506000/iu_506236_4226168.gif" width="427" height="240" alt="iu_506236_4226168.gif" data-smart-scale="427,240"></a>

OneyPlays Animated: Sassy Sonic

Her Royal Highness the Princess Laucherella here, bringing you double the Cyberen fun! First off I would like to apologize to all of you. Shortly after I submitted this month's Horsebitch (<a href="http://www.newgrounds.co" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://www.newgrounds.co</a> m/portal/view/485439), I found Pokemon Silver Version which I had replaced the internal battery of some time ago, and I sort of got addicted to completing as much of the pokedex as I could with only one cart. Meanwhile, two weeks had gone by with no Cyberen Sillies for my loyal fans. Because I love you guys so much, as a way of apologizing, from now until April 1st, the debut of HbH #04, every night you get to see not one, but 2 Cyberen Sillies! Oh boy! After Cyberen, with the help of the mysterious Hosebitch, heroically rescued the drowning Mexican babies from the terrible flood that swept through Santa Fe in HbH #03, Cyberen becomes the toast of the town! He even makes the front page of the local newspaper! How about that! Before long, however, the fame seems to go to Cyberen's head, and he begins ordering around the denizens of Santa Fe, particularly the Mexicans. At first they are happy to appease him, but soon his demands go from simple favors to sexual ones! It looks like Cyberen needs to be taught a lesson in humility. You'll be surprised who is in on this HILARIOUS prank! Look out for the special cameo appearance of Al Roker! Love, Laucherella

Local Cyberen Makes Good

A while ago I animated myself an intro but I never used it, so here it is! :D ENJOY. Music: Battle without honour or humidity. EDIT: Fixed preloader and added replay button, sorry about that..