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It's that time again: time to talk about all the animatin', illustratin' and video editin' I've done over the last twelve months! There was basically nothing to report between January-April on account of er...buying a house and all, so this time I've put multiple entries for the busier months! I also skipped doing this in 2024 as it was an even quieter year.
Full nitter-natter about each month with links to stuff after the break!
January-March:
Just before Christmas in 2024, the biggest news me and CherryT have had in our entire lives up to this point dropped: We had an agreed price on a house we really wanted!
Our landlord in our rental was planning to kick us out to "sell up" many months prior, so we had already started to pack and by the start of 2025 almost everything except essentials were boxed up.
These three months were the most tense I've ever experienced, waiting for the solicitors who were deafly silent right up until the last minute when all the paperwork flooded in.
☝ Me for three months straight.
We finally got the keys in March, but didn't move all our stuff in until about a week later as we got a bunch of decorating done: mostly upstairs painting the walls and re-carpeting. I now have my dream Sega-blue game room!!
The game room when it officially had it's first game in it.
Oh and the landlord lied. They immediately rented it back out again days after we handed the keys in. Good riddance, eat a bag of dicks.
So yeah I wasn't really in the mood to do much of anything else, but there was a couple little things:
I edited a long-overdue speedpaint video showing me animating a scene from the Rubbish Rumours series of films I made in late '23-early '24.
I also started having a go at building a new website on Neocities. Mostly faffing about with CSS. I still haven't got back to it since, whoops!
April:
There was still quite a bit going on regarding the house at this point, so things were still pretty slow on the creative front, but I did get started on my first freelance animation of the year.
While tending to our garden we found a gargoyle sticking his tounge out hiding in a bush! We named him Fronk and I started making doodles of him! The image above is technically the final render of the art I did in September.
I also doodled Princess Daisy in one of her Mario Kart World get ups.
May:
A majority of this month was dedicated to the freelance gig, another Stop Loan Sharks film which was released in October. Oh, and finally getting the game room/office all set up!
The dream is real! :O
June:
With the Loan Shark film completed and most of the house gubbins sorted (for now..), I finally had some free time to draw...for fun! These illustrations included another Mario Kart World Daisy, a Pride Month AAF, and a friends OC. I also did an illustration commission for Pcwzrd based on the Worms games, which ended up on a T-shirt you can buy!
I wanted to treat my YouTube channel to some new stuff too, so I started a '20+ Years of being Animated AF!' season looking back at my animation past, starting with a brand new 2025 showreel followed by a HD remaster of my first showreel from 2005! I then made a video about my history of editing showreels!
Speaking of remasters, I started working on 4K remasters of all of my old short films from 2004-2008, which I plan to release as a compilation video! This project ended up getting put on hold and hasn't been completed yet, but I plan to get back to it early next year.
July:
I was almost exclusively focused on my YouTube channel in this month, fuelled by hitting the 2500 subscriber milestone! I launched a membership program on there called AAFicionadoes, and beavered away at a video chronicling the inception and long-arse history of my OC/logo AAF! This video was my biggest hit on the channel in over a year!
August:
Another month of mostly focusing on for the 20+ year season of videos, this time with a video looking back at my portfolio website from 2005; Tea N' Crumpets!
These YouTube vids were mammoth edits!
My partner in crime CherryT was really getting back into drawing at this time, working on her OC 'CeeTee' that is also a sloop-doop-da-floop-doop like AAF! I had a go at drawing her in the style of my PNGTuber! I also livestreamed a Salt or Hype.
September:
As promised when I hit 2500 subscribers, I put together a Q&A video for commenters on the channel! For some bizarre reason I decided to make the intro a parody of Uncle Duck! It was the first time I've used the default Flash brushes in...maybe 15 years?? This video also had a crude animation of EAT PANT Bart Simpson, inspired by one of the questions asked!
I also illustrated another friend's OC and fully rendered that Fronk sketch from earlier in the year.
I also did a livestream where I unpacked all my Sonic the Hedgehog figures to place them in a new display cabinet I got. I also did four livestreams for SAGExpo. Oh and another Salt or Hype.
House wise we had a small leak that led to us deciding to have our entire roof replaced! Seven blokes shaking the entire house for a day!
October:
The animation I made in May finally released, and I made a couple more illustrations of friend's OCs. I livestreamed during the Sonic Hacking Contest as well.
November:
Now that the roof was replaced we also had the loft sorted out: new, much thicker insulation and some proper flooring and shelves installed to store away a tons of stuff! I'm sure you find all this house talk riveting!
A big freelance animation gig landed on my lap during this month, one that's still in progress and is a second season of a series of films I did a couple of years ago!
I did get up to quite a bit of fun drawing too! I caught up with the latest season of Star Wars: Visions and ended up creating fan art of a Twi'lek called Gura from one of the shorts.
I also drew AAF trying to hide his impending age! I put the feelers out for a 'draw this in your style' of AAF and was treated to FIVE pieces of fan art around my birthday! Aww yisss! Thanks go out to Euan, TrashNerdJen, LuketheFox, JustinDalebout and Pineapplegrenader for these!
Finally, I worked on a commission for the Dreamcast Junkyard to celebrate the blog's 20th anniversary! This released in December alongside a podcast I took part in!
Oh and I er...got into drawing....erm..."alternative" stuff. Most of this wasn't published anywhere but a couple were if you know where to look. Heheee.
December:
Still beavering away on this animation project, as of writing the first of four film is complete and the second one is in development. The image is a sneak peek! Still got a ways to go~
Previous years: 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019
2018 - 2017 - 2016
Another 12 months of animatin', illustratin' and video creatin' in the can! This was another pretty stacked year for freelance work and building up my YouTube channel. Read on for more details on each month!
January:
The year kicked off with the release of What a Waste, which I animated at the end of last year. I created a poster to celebrate it's launch.
I also had some artwork in print via an article in LeftLion magazine!
I also illustrated my OC Drillbot ReV for the year of the rabbit and put out a new animation showreel.
February:
I did a valentines card for CherryT of the pair of us in Mario & Luigi style. I was also commissioned to do an edit of the van animation I did last year, this time with a car and some other minor tweaks.
March:
At the start of this month I hit over 1000 subscribers on YouTube, only took 17 years! To celebrate I put together a quick video talking about the past, present and future of the channel, using it as a test to see how I could start making more fully-edited, scripted videos using my PNGTuber.
The first of these was an almost hour long video exploring my DVD/Blu-Ray collection.
April:
This was the month that I really pushed to get a load different videos out on my channel, with full illustrated thumbnails for each! This mostly consisted of a six-part let's play of the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, cut down from an April fools day livestream.
I also did an impressions video about the Super Mario Bros movie and a scripted video about Easter eggs I snuck into my animations, just in time for Easter! I also made a speedpaint video for one of the video thumbnails and made a new logo for the speedpaint videos.
There was also a birthday card illustration for CherryT inspired by the Mario movie!
May:
May was a pretty quiet month, mainly consisting of two illustrations: a quick one of an OC for mermay and a piece of fan art of vTuber Asha the Game Genie. Both of these were captured off-stream and turned into speedpaint videos.
I also made a supercut of a Netherlands travel vlog from 2018 with a bunch of additional footage that I never got around to editing before, in time for the 5th anniversary of our friends wedding that we attended that year!
June:
My first big freelance project finally arrived between May and June, an informational film about Credit Unions, done in a similar style to several films I did last year, but with more colour in the mix.
I also did a couple of livestreams this month, namely a reaction stream to a Nintendo Direct and a Sonic anniversary stream, a part of which was edited into a video of me drawing obscure Sonic characters from memory.
July:
With that freelance project done and dusted I dedicated most of this month to some personal animating stuff: mainly giving my PNGTuber a fresh coat of paint by improving all the animations with more frames. I made a scripted video about the process.
I also made big progress on a re-animated collab shot that I finally finished in November.
August:
Browsing my pages you'd think I did absolutely nothing this month, but I was in fact deep in researching for a video series I plan to make for YouTube in the near future when I have more spare time for it. What started as a single short video idea deep-dived into a rabbit hole of fascinating stuff that I can't wait to share with you all!
I also started animating an intro for this video series, which is currently sitting in sketch form and will be returned to next year when I can!
September:
My YouTube planning had to be stuck on hold as another big freelance project landed on my lap: an informational film about community lenders. There is some pretty fun scenes in this, and yet another loan shark character! This took up all of September and was released at the end of October.
October:
Just as I wrapped up the previous project another even bigger one was being cooked up: a sequel to What a Waste! Once the filming of the puppetry and the recording of the voice talent was ready I could get to work on once again animating faces for the returning apple character and the five new characters!
What a Waste was a pretty experimental film but this time around I had a working system in place to jump straight in and assumed I would be able to get this one done in less time. I technically did get it done in less time because the deadline for it was much tighter, but it was a crunch to do so, consisting in total of over 2000 assets!
In the short space between these projects I illustrated Rouge the Bat based on a Twitter trend.
November:
November was mostly taken up by wrapping up production on Apple-y Ever After. In total it took about five weeks, about a week longer than I planned, not helped by me choking on a slice of potato that rendered shallowing anything difficult for weeks! It was a good thing CherryT was around at the time to perform a Heimlich maneuver on me! Absolute life saver!
A teaser trailer was released mid way through the month.
Once that was done with I went back and finally finished this shot for the Wario Ware GOLD re-Animated collab that I had been chipping away at on-and-off for around three years! It's done pretty nicely on both Newgrounds and YouTube. The full collab should be out sometime next year! Speaking of which, I have another shot reserved that I need to crack on with when I'm less busy with freelance work!
December:
I've started another big animation project that will run until the end of January and hopefully be released in Feb. This was the third project in a row with hardly a break in between and that, on top of the film work, left me feeling pretty burnt out, hence this quick doodle.
Digital Eclipse summed up the birthday cake CherryT made for me best!
I spent the spare time I had at the start of the month to make a video about the latest birthday cake CherryT made me. I also took this opportunity to edit remasters of previous cake videos, including one that was never finished. Here's the playlist for all six of them.
Apple-y Ever After finally released near Xmas, which meant I could publish this poster I made for it. Next month there will be a making of video published by Deadline and so far the film has been quite the hit, currently sitting at around 40K views!
Finally, I published an old Xmas animation from 2010 on YouTube, but because the original video had copyrighted music baked into the sound effects, I remade the soundtrack from scratch!
Previous years: 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019
2018 - 2017 - 2016
It’s that time of year again, time to look over the last twelve months of creative productivity! This was my busiest year for freelance animation EVER, with six projects all pretty much one after the other, some of which lasted several months! For the first time in over ten years animation actually felt like my main job! Read on for full details on each month (with links to things in bold)!
January:
I kickstarted the year with an attempt to keep myself busy (haha) by coming up with weekly personal illustrations to work on while livestreaming. This included a couple based on childhood toys, followed by fan art of games I was playing at the time.
I also started my first freelance gig of the year about visiting a recycling center for Love Essex, which was finished and released in early Feb.
February:
I continued the weekly art streams (though I did skip one week while I was wrapping up the animation work) that included more Balan Wonderworld fan art and another nostalgia trip based around old TV game show Fun House which was seen and approved by Pat Sharp himself!
I also made some Valentine’s day silliness for CherryT and with her help also created this ridiculous Art Data-Blast video featuring all of my art over the years with a 90′s TV inspired intro.
March:
A big turning point for my livestreams arrived here when I decided to create a PNGTuber using Veadotube Mini! I livestreamed the majority of my experimentation and process and the cutdown videos about it became some of my biggest hits on YouTube yet! Going forward I would now use this animated avatar instead of a webcam, though this would actually end up being the last month of the year that I’d have any time to livestream because...
April:
..April would be the start of one of the biggest projects: six one-minute animated shorts for the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit about the dangers of loan sharks. This month was spent mostly storyboarding most of the films and completing the first one.
At the same time concepts were being developed for another six-minute piece of animation that I would need to juggle alongside the above project over the coming months!
I should also mention here life-wise I changed my daily job from working in a cinema to...working in a smaller, closer to home cinema!
May:
This month was mostly spent storyboarding for the second big project and waiting around for approval while the Loan Shark project was put on hold, so while I had a bit of spare time I gave my website a new lick of paint (including some new art of old characters) and made several illustrations including my favorite Eurovision 2022 act (now my most popular Tumblr post ever for some reason!), joining in on the Catoon Network CMYK art fad, and fan art of a fellow PNGTuber. I was also commissioned by Jadypie to create some cute animal Twitch emotes!
June:
After two pieces of quick art including another obscure game character and another excuse to draw Amy Rose, me and CherryT took a couple days away to visit the theme park Alton Towers, which I made a travel vlog about!
The 2nd film for the Stop Loan Sharks series was completed this month and this was when the 2nd big project was given the official go ahead! The six-and a half minute long film has yet to be released and might end up staying in the private sector but it was a pre-birth social work training video for Essex County Council with a similar subject matter and art style to the Annabelle’s Journey film I made last year. Clips of it can be seen in my latest showreel.
I also drew these guys for some reason.
July:
This month was almost exclusively knuckling down to get the un-released film fully animated. Much like the Annabelle film this was a massive amount of hand-drawn animation squeezed into just over one month! I also made time to do this commission for PCWzrd.
August:
With that long, time-consuming project out of the way it was time to jump back into the Loan Shark films. Two were completed in April and June but I still had four to go, so this month and most of September was day-to-day animating again!
September:
I was getting these Loan Shark films done at a rate of roughly 10 days per film, though the last one took a little longer as it was yet to be storyboarded until now. This project was finally complete midway through the month and released near the end!
Somewhere in the middle of all this I managed to fit in some livestreams of the Sonic Fan Games Expo and some reactions to some gaming events.
In the last week of the month I worked on a pretty exciting commission that I need to stay tight-lipped about for now!
October:
This month was started by wrapping up the above commission and jumping into another, thankfully much shorter 1 minute animation for the English Stop Loan Sharks company that has also not yet seen the light of day, but you can see a short clip of it in my latest showreel. As soon as that was done another big project approached!
November:
This freelance gig started at the end of October and lasted all through November and up until the middle of December! This one has released in January 2023, a short film called What a Waste!
There was a break at the end of November when me and CherryT went to Birmingham for a few days to finally go to a concert we booked back in early 2020 that kept getting delayed!
Mid-month I also quickly doodled up my OC a couple times.
Above: the moment I finished an 8-week long non-stop project on a to do list!
December:
What a Waste ended up taking longer than I anticipated at around seven or eight weeks total, most likely because it’s quite unlike anything I have done before. After what felt like roughly nine months of almost non-stop animating the last half-month of the year was spent last-minute Christmas shopping and finally chilling out a bit, including going to a local video games expo for the weekend! The last piece of art I did this year was for the Newgrounds Secret Santa.
That was an intense year! I can’t wait till you get to see the stuff that’s not out there yet and in terms of 2023 I do already have a couple things queued up for January so we’ll see how it goes I guess!
Previous years: 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016
It’s that time of year again, time to look over the last twelve months of creative productivity! This year was a very on-and-off one, with many months of next to nothing and a few months where I was super busy with animation work! Read on for full details on each month (with links to things in bold)!
January:
Started the year mainly keeping myself busy with gaming livestreams on my Twitch channel. Near the end of the month me and the rest of the Lucky Hit crew made the tough decision to retire the YouTube channel so we could focus on our individual Twitch channels. We did come back to the channel for the odd podcast and salt or hype stream throughout the year, along with some backups of gaming streams from Twitch. Lucky Hit was a massive part of my life for the last nine years but we all agreed it was time to move on.
Art wise I was commissioned by PCwrzd to make a set of emotes for his Dreamcastic Channel (7 made in Jan, with an extra 8th in Feb), one of which can even be bought on a t-shirt! I also started on a Dreamcast related experiment...
February:
Most of this month was gobbled up by a fan translation project for the game Bokomu no Tatsujin on the Dreamcast that I on a whim made a start on despite no real knowledge of Japanese! I mostly used translation sites and software to roughly figure how the text then put my own spin on the games quirky script.
The game also has a lot of big cartoon font work so I decided to re-do these hand drawn! The first (and so far only) release on the project came out in March. This release has pretty much all the in-game text translated, only thing missing is subtitles for the cut scenes which tbh is a task far too big for lil’ ol’ me. Check out his article I wrote on the Dreamcast Junkyard about the process and I also talked about it on a YouTube video in October!
There were also more gaming streams throughout this month, with help from my newly acquired OSSC and GDEMU!
March:
I really got trapped in an artist block for most of this year up to this point. So after another month of mostly streaming games I decided to finally do another art stream and out popped this quick art based on early Fantasy Zone concept art! Soon after I finally did a full-colour illustration of Drillbot ViVi’s little sister ReV, an emote for my Spelunky streams and a Phantasy Star Online commission for PCwzrd!
April:
Despite that rebound into making art in the last week of March I almost immediately fell into another art block for most of this month! I made birthday card art for CherryT, doodled a new OC and did more game streams. That’s about it! Wheels were turning at the end of the month for something BIG, however!
May:
So May and June were quite possibly two of the busiest months in my working life! To start with I worked on an animated project called ‘Annabelle’s Journey’, with characters based on a child’s drawings with a simple scribbly style on top of photos of note paper. While only one out of eight chapters are available to watch publicly, this was the longest piece of animation I have ever worked on, clocking in at 7 minutes and 20 seconds, with only one month to work on it!
To make matters worse at the very same time lockdown ended and I returned to my cinema job with half of our staff quit, meaning I had to somehow juggle the animation and lots of shifts! It was a rough time with very little sleep, but the animated short was really fun and one of my proudest projects!
June:
Previously unseen concept art for the ‘Not on your telly’ intro.
With the money from the Annabelle project I finally upgraded from my old Wacom Intuos 4 to a XP-Pen 15.6″ Pro....a tablet with a screen on it! I was expecting a steep learning curve but I was surprised how quickly I got used to it, which is just as well as another animation project with a short deadline landed on my lap: an intro to a online variety show called Not On Your Telly! This was a mix of doodly drawn bodies and photo based heads lip synced to lyrics. It’s only 28 seconds but I also had about a week to make it!
I also made a new animation showreel, because...well *points at the above two months*
July:
Boy did I need a break from drawing after all that! So outside of a Worms commission for PCwzrd I did exactly that and just did game livestreams throughout July!
August:
This month was very, very busy at work so most of my spare time was spent resting off. I made time for a couple game livestreams including a seven hour one about SAGExpo 2021.
September:
A pretty active month when it comes to drawing...for myself for a change! This included five character pieces celebrating the release of the new Wario Ware, a fan art of Amy Rose (been yonks!) and an illustration of ViVi and Rev together. I also spent an absurd amount of time making this page of my website organized. I managed to hit 500 followers on Twitter, so I did an OC art raffle to celebrate! The winner was revealed in...
October:
Twas a good end of the year for YouTube stuff!
The result of the Twitter OC art raffle was this illustration of Farnoggin’s character Drex Apex. This was livestreamed and it gave me the idea to do a sped-up timelapse of the whole process, something I haven’t done for years! This made me wanna start uploading semi-regular videos on my AnimatedAF YouTube channel again, using moments from my art livestreams as a basis.
I celebrated my 1 year anniversary on Twitch with a silly doodle, cut together videos about me talking about the times I did work for SEGA and the BBC, and reuploaded some videos/streams from Lucky Hit that were not strictly gaming related. Speaking of Lucky Hit, more gaming streams were backed up there including this years Sonic Hacking Contest and 30 Years of Toejam and Earl.
Finally I did another commission for PCwzrd, this time for a parody trading card of Ryo Ha’nuk’i.
November:
A very quiet month for art, with only one fad-chasing illustration to speak of. I also did a bunch of doodling in the game ART SQOOL on stream which I then cut down into a let’s play for my Youtube channel.
December:
Literally the first day of December I came down with the you-know-what and was shut in for ten days. Once I started to recover from that I got back to work on more time-lapse videos of art streams from last year and a couple more reuploads from Lucky Hit, one of which I illustrated a new thumbnail for.
I also made birthday card art for my mum of her Wurlitzer jukebox and a new Christmas illustration featuring my OCs and an elf and toys. It hasn’t been released just yet as of writing but I also made an OC secret santa over on Newgrounds. Oh, and one of those Art vs Artist things if that counts for something.
Previous years: 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016
2020 was utter hot stinking garbage for everyone, but on the bright side for me all that lockdown time led to this becoming one of my most productive years for art, animation and livestreams in ages! Let’s deep dive into what I got up to this year! (All the bold text will link you to what I’m talking about)
January
I was pretty lax in the art department for the last few months of 2019 so late into Jan I focused on getting back into the swing of things with pretty simple illustrations of my OCs ViVi and BomOink and some pretty speedy game fan arts. I also did two livestreams on Lucky Hit.
It’s always nice when a fan art is seen and loved by the characters creators!
February
To keep my arty farty juices flowing I had a go at a couple of re-draws of old art which came out rather nice! I managed to keep the momentum going with fan art of Marza’s ghostly mascots which did rather well on Twitter when they shared it! I did CherryT a Valentines card and this toonme thing, but no livestreams this month.
March
My illustrating ramped up as soon as the UK lockdown hit including a re-draw of art from my childhood, a Twinbee fan art that was shared by the creator of the characters, some 80′s yogurt nostalgia and a DTIYS reminding everyone to Wash their drills hands! I also did 4 livestreams on Lucky Hit.
Lucky Hit was the most active it has EVER been this year!
April
With lockdown in full force we decided to finally do Lucky Hit Podcasts via discord which was such a fun way to keep in contact with each other we did one almost every week of the rest of the year! I also started some new livestream shows on there including eShop Car Booty and Spelunky: To Hell with it!
Artwork slowed down a bit, mainly joining in on the #SixFanArts trend with two sets of characters, a birthday card for CherryT, a quick vector job for Dreamcastic channel and I started working on a Spelunky sprite of myself for the livestreams.
May
Another slew of illustrations this month including one for Mermay, another childhood redraw, taking part is a very popular DTIYS, and the first of many touch ups of older art. May was also our busiest month on Lucky Hit ever with new shows like Make It Double!
June
June kicked off with two illustration commissions in a row, followed by ViVi for an art style challenge, some more fan art and a couple more touch ups of old art. There was also plenty more livestreams and podcasts.
I think it was this tweet that caught the attention of a certain community manager!
July
This month was mostly spent on two animation projects: one freelance for a client and the other a shot for Frontier Psychiatrist Reanimated! Outside of yet more livestreams and podcasts, I also got an email about what would become my biggest illustration commission ever...
August
...a massive 11-character group pic for SEGA Forever! This was what I was working on most of this month, along with finishing off the animations I started in July. I returned to work after the lockdown but also continued with weekly podcasts and livestreams including a new series focused on Amiga games.
September
Mostly spent still beavering away on the SEGA illustration between work. I also put out a re-draw of some art from my teen years and kept the livestream train chugging along including one for the Sonic Fan Game Expo.
October
I re-designed my logo from what was always just a head and hands to a full bodied character called Gaga Kun followed by a short animated loop of him for the credits sequence of FP reanimated, which was steamed on my newly opened Twitch channel!
November
I finally finished a ViVi in another art style piece, did two more commissions and started another freelance animation. Frontier Psychiatrist Reanimated launched on my Birthday! Oh and Mr.Chips.
December
Non stop month! The first half of this month was spent finishing off a Christmas animation for a client, followed by Birthday art for my friend Murry Curry, an OC Illustration for a Newgrounds Secret Santa and a ViVi Christmas artwork. I also hit affiliate on Twitch, did a Lucky Hit podcast that aired on Radio Sega and the Sega Forever commission finally released! A redraw of some Puyo Tetris art also did super well on Twitter!
Previous years: 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016
Each month of creating things of 2019. A few months where I did a lot, and many months where I did next to nothing at all! A lot of time and motivation was gobbled up for chunks of this year so a few of the images are just from livestream thumbnails I made using old art as I’m clutching at straws here!
January:
Starting the year on a high note I coloured up a couple old inktober drawings of Sushi Striker and Mighty. I also drew some new pieces of three original characters: Bomoink, Zakk and Owen as well as Peacock from Skullgirls.
During this I was struck with the news that Murry Curry was quitting Lucky Hit, leaving me in sole charge of the channel. I made a vlog called ‘Lucky Hit is Not Dead’ to let people know how I was planning to keep the show going, followed by a couple of short EAG videos and a livestream about WiiWare, which was ending that night.
February:
Started up commissions using Ko-fi, and completed one for my friend Ace Spark. I also remade an old bit of art of me with a Nintendo Wii for a livestream series about the console, of which I did two in the month. A short film I provided animation for the previous year was also released and I coloured up another Inktober.
March:
Rebranded this website as ‘Animated AF’ (previously ‘The Gagaman’) complete with new font work design for the logo and a new animation showreel. Illustrated a tribute to Keith Flint, Princess Daisy and Toejam and Earl (and also livestreamed that game).
April:
Did two commissions: creating a mascot for DreamcasticChannel, and a poster for a children’s book shop! Also made some Birthday art for Stacey, a silly little animation about work and several commissions for Youtube channel Blandco (released the following month).
May:
A silly comic about the movie version of Sonic, a Mermay illustration of ViVi, another inktober colour up and a travel vlog of a trip to the Netherlands last year.
June:
There was two Sega Saturn themed livestreams and a bunch of livestreams during E3 and...that's it. *shrugs*
July:
Illustrations of Forky from Toy Story 4, Nina from Super Mario Maker 2 and a draw in your style challenge of AE Doubles character Violet. I also re-joined Newgrounds with a new account.
August:
After drawing two more draw this in your style challenges I decided to see if anyone wanted to try it out with my character ViVi, which required me to touch up an image of her from last year. To my surprise I received eight! I was so happy with the amazing art sent my way I made this to celebrate!
I also illustrated the Taiko no Tatsujin drums based on an old doodle, coloured up two more Inktobers and made a big illustration of a redesign of Bomoink. Nothing happened on Lucky Hit this month.
September:
One livestream about the Mega Drive...yep, that’s your lot. The image is from an Inktober recolour I did in August.
October:
Didn’t have time to even start inktober this year unfortunately, what with work being the busiest it has been all year (Thanks Joker). All that I can say I did this month was three livestreams: one for SAGE 2019, a Dreamcast Anniversary one and another Mega Drive focused one. The image is a super quick doodle over Sonic Adventure art I did for the Dreamcast stream.
November:
I vectored over a illustration in an old Sega magazine for a Sega Saturn livestream. There was also another Mega Drive stream and a Spelunky stream on my birthday. I also edited some yet to be released videos.
December:
A pretty busy month on Lucky Hit with an Arcade Perfect video about Neon Knights (which I did an illustration for) and the launch of the Lucky Hit Archive series where I edit together incomplete videos of the past including this behind the scenes of a charity livestream and a Games of the year 2017 video. There was also five livstreams: three parts of playing River City Girls, another Mega Drive stream and a Robocod Christmas special (complete with an illustration).
Previous years: 2018 - 2017 - 2016
Summary of art, animation and video work throughout 2018. To be honest this year was a bit of a hot mess as a lot of BIG things came up that either got in the way of creating anything or ran me into the ground with exhaustion! I tried to squeeze in what I could when I could, but sadly there was about three months of nothing at all! A more detailed explanation of each month (with links to relevant art/videos) after the jump!
January:
EAG International was once again covered for Lucky Hit but this time I didn't want the videos to take months to show up like last year so got right into editing them, with the first three arriving in February. I also put together a quick animation for me and Stacey’s 8th Anniversary together and edited a new animation showreel. A film I did a bit of animation work for in 2017 released in this month too
February:
Continued to edit EAG videos, and also did some art for Valentines Day and a cleaned up, full colour version of an inktober from 2017 that I was working on on and off for months.
March:
Finished off the EAG videos, one of which included a small bit of animation of me puking in reaction to a very bad VR headset we tried at the event! It might not look like it but videos like these take a long time to edit together! At least they didn’t drag on until May this time!
April:
In this month I started on the biggest project of my freelance animator career: my first TV gig for the BBC! I was given tons of creative freedom and despite the tight deadline (see next month for details) it was probably the most fun animation I have ever produced for money! Also worked on another commissioned bit of animation work for a friends short film (Trailer here) that has yet to be seen publicly but will be when the film is released to the public eventually! There was also an illustration for Stacey’s Birthday in there and a podcast.
May:
May was bonkers as the deadline for the Embarrassing Bodies animation clashed with a holiday to the Netherlands we planned ages ago! I tried my hardest to get it completed before the holiday, to the point where I almost completely wore myself out, yet I needed to extend the deadline by just over a week which meant I had to work on it when I could during the holiday! Luckily it was a pretty chill one! I finally completed it a couple days after we got back.
June:
The Embarrassing Bodies animation aired on BBC Knowledge in New Zealand over a weekend and was shared on their social media. I was completely burnt out from the last two months so did next to nothing this month...except for livestreaming during the entirely of E3, if that counts??
July:
...which led to another crazy month of searching for a house to rent in Nottingham! Safe to say nothing happened creatively this month either due to a lot of travelling back and forth and stress.
August:
We moved into our new home on the 8th of this month, so the whole of it was spent getting used to being fully independent for the first time, so nothing this month on the art front either, though I did have a go at a livestream for the first time in our new house.
September:
Did a few more livestreams, one of which I did some artwork for that was Dr.Mario themed. I also went back to an unfinished Summer of Sonic 2016 video and...finally finished it...two years later.
October:
Did Inktober for the second year running, so a super busy month of hand inked art, including one I gave a full clean up and colour treatment. Easily the most creative month of the year, read all about it here: I created a few new original characters, improved on old characters, and started to use Instagram to promote my art more.
November:
A handful of illustrations, one for a Dreamcast anniversary livestream, one for an Instagram art contest, one for Mickey Mouse's 90th anniversary, a thank you drawing of my new character ViVi and another Inktober clean and colour up. Also popped another long overdue video out for Lucky Hit and another livestream.
December:
This month was mostly eaten up by an Xmas temp night shift job, but I just about squeezed in time to edit two videos for Lucky Hit, one about the Birthday cake Stacey made for me and another about an event in Nottingham city.
Compare to previous years! 2017 2016
