I awaken from my eternal slumber to bring news

Nah, no news really, but I did upload a handful of small things & am about to start flinging shit at a NG mod because I feel like being a dick today. That sound good? We all cool? Alright, let's go.

Did another background for Scott's upcoming Mario toon.

This one has weird perspective and wacky going-ons all around, but it's all for a good reason. It's supposed to be a pan along with parallax scrolling going on. Should be good in action.

Then, did another battle arena for the one and only 53xy83457! This one might look simpler than the previous (city) one, but it was a lot harder to make due to the perspective and my limited experience. Plus, what I've realized is that if the BG is too cluttered (again, the city one I did previously) it can draw attention away from the actual things you should be looking at. On top of that, considering basically half of the image is the walkable arena thing, there can't be much stuff there, if any. Good exercise, and I learned some stuff doing this one.

And for reference, here's the city one I mentioned above:

Aaaaaand that's it. I did upload something I did a few months ago, though.

An animated TV background, can ya believe it!?

It was supposed to be in PokéGrounds but the segment got cut, unfortunately. Really like how it turned out, and it was hell to make it, so I uploaded it on its own. All done in Adobe Animate.

For the closer, I'll get to the shit flinging I mentioned earlier.

Some months ago, I made a news post & a thread in the voice acting forum looking for voice actors & actresses for an upcoming short, a sequel to Happy Family. Got a lot of responses, did auditions and tests, and ultimately I found people who fit the roles perfectly. Found people to collaborate with in the future, too. All in all, it was a success and I'm thankful to everyone who reached out!

Then all of a sudden, quite some time later, there was a quick surge of interest in the aforementioned forum thread. With it, came LuckyDee to lock the thread with the following message:

"This topic is now four months old and keeps getting people's hopes up, while the creator remains silent. Locking this to keep it from stealing sunshine from people who do actually need the help."

With that being the post that came with the locking of the thread, I couldn't reply, but honestly it's pissing me off, so I'm doing it here.

I'd like to make it clear that while LuckyDee has a decent point - I should've made an update post in the thread to say the roles have been filled and that's definitely a fuck up on my part - the way the message continues is implying that I don't need help, and that I'm stealing from the people who do.

That is ridiculous.

I have talked to dozens of people, responded to every single person who contacted me, be it before or after the roles have been filled, and have overall done everything to make it the most comfortable experience for everyone involved.

The fact that I didn't post in the thread does not mean I don't need help. This website has had a PM system for longer than some users have been alive, which might come as a surprise to Dee, I don't know.

Might seem pointless pointing all this out, but from my perspective this kind of talk can damage any sort of reputation or a chance for future connections, and all because a fucking mod of all people isn't aware of how the website they're a mod for even works. Simply ridiculous and unacceptable. Why the need to add a snarky lil comment? Why the need to bash someone while using your authority to make sure they can't respond?

Fuck you, mod.

ps. Happy Family 2 coming this month, get ready