5-18-22

Hi, I know it’s been a good while since I posted anything online, really. Dunno if anyone’s going to read this through and through, but I think it’s time to break the silence.

The reason why I haven’t posted much here, has to do with life. There were several events that happened last year that kind of mentally strained me. I went through a very difficult college class that kinda destroyed my sanity for a while, I ended up getting appendicitis over last Summer’s break, and I had to go to the hospital for surgery on that area, I caught COVID-19 before Winter Break after finishing my Fall semester when my sister caught it from school, my old computer completely gave up, so we had to go out and get a new computer, and I had to manually take out the hard drive from my old computer to transfer the files through an external I bought to transfer over to the new computer. And now, currently there’s been a health emergency with my mom that we’ve been taking care of, hoping she pulls through.

And then, I’ve been kind of burnt out from social media and the internet as a whole, as it’s been getting harder and harder to keep up with everything and post consistently while balancing the work from college, and just life in general. Plus, the whole talk about NFTs and stuff online had been getting on my nerves, and it’s been stressing me out. I don't want to go any further on that topic though. So, I kinda decided to just take a lowkey break. I didn’t really announce it though, I didn’t want to be the guy that went, “hey im gonna take a break from social media byyyyyye” and then come back a week later to jump back into posting whatever small doodle I spat onto my sketchbook, not fully recovered. However, I probably should’ve said something first before I went blank for several months, probably a bit irresponsible on my part, and I apologize, I was just tired, and I just couldn’t bring myself to post a status update at that moment. Especially just hot off of making a new years’ post and being like "OOH HOPEFULLY I'LL DO SOMETHING THIS YEAR!!". 

In addition, I wasn't feeling as confident about my animation/art skills as I used to be, prior to taking the break, so I was kind of having a bit of an identity crisis.

Also, regarding Nutty, the squirrel cartoon I was working on for a long time? Not sure if anyone was still keeping up with that project, and I didn’t really want to say anything, but during the 2020’s, I had to quietly, indefinitely postpone the project, because I’ve been tied up with college, and I was a bit depressed during the first couple of years during lockdown. The movement towards online classes didn’t help either. Not to sound melodramatic or anything, but I felt trapped, isolated, almost no one to talk to with how distant classes are right now. I’m sure NOBODY planned for us all to completely move towards stay-at-home activities amidst the COVID-19 virus, but I think it affected me the most, personally, especially since I was just starting with my first couple of years at college, and kinda missed out on that social aspect of it, and then suddenly I have to adjust to this completely new format that I wasn't used to. I still want to work on it again, though. I just don’t want to make it overly public with premature trailers and announcements as I’ve done in the past, I just want to go at my own pace when working on it. So I assure you, it’s not totally canceled.

But anyways, that’s pretty much what’s been going on while I was away, just wanted to let off some steam and heavy baggage here.

Sorry if I got a bit personal there, these COVID times are pretty rough, but I’m okay.

I did just finish an animation class this semester for college, but I kinda want to polish them up before I post my work. I also finished this little Flipnote animation that I spent a few months working on as a small side thing, if you want, you can check it out here:

https://www.sudomemo.net/watch/BF6236_14ED2AEDD32B3_003

But yeah, that's about it for now. 'til next time, peace.

-JPiXeL

happy new year (hopefully!)

i just whipped up this art summary thingy really quick of some of the art from last year

sorry if it was a bit dry last year, life kinda got in the way and stuff, but hopefully i can put out some new stuff this year maybe

i know i don't post as often as i used to, with life happening and all the crazy stuff going on in the world, but i just wanna say thank you for sticking around and checking out my stuff, even if i don't post as often as i'd like to, i really appreciate it :)

its been another rough year, but let's hope for a hopefully better year for 2022!

-JPiXeL

Update 12-25-21

so here's what's been going on lately, my sister came down with COVID due to how overly packed her school was, so she had to stay in her room for 10 days. then I started to catch it, and i was diagnosed with it earlier this week

it wasn't a good feeling to have it, had headaches, sore throats, runny noses, fun stuff

but thankfully i'm making a good recovery, had some tea and medicine to help me out, i'm okay, feeling much better now than i was on wednesday, or the days before that

i did also have some time to make this while i recovered in my room:

i may be sick, and my main computer may still be broken, but still, i'd like to spread a little holiday cheer!

happy holidays everyone!

-JPiXeL

Update 12-05-21

Hello, sorry for not really posting much lately. (and kinda being slow with the updates and news, too)

I've been busy trying to balance school and working on an animated short I've been entirely focused on since Summer, the short about a kiwi and a wild stoat (which was about 75% done so far)

Unfortunately, I've got some bad news...

Last week my computer suddenly started to slow down to a crawl, almost barely usable, and it was getting frustrating. So I was trying to back everything up to an external hard drive I bought, so I can have everything backed up and completely wipe the computer.

Well... that was easier said than done.

I ran into a bunch of problems. The music folder took over two days to transfer over to the drive, there were four pop-ups telling me that Firefox crashed (even though firefox wasn't even open at all during the process) and then when I tried to remove the hard drive so I can reboot the computer and continue backing the rest of the files up, it gave me a message box that said "Unknown hard error".

After that, the laptop became unresponsive, so I went ahead and forced a shutdown on it. The external hard drive is still intact, but the laptop went into repair mode when I turned it on.

I sent it to my dad's friend who's pretty good with computers, so he can check it out.

It turns out that the OS became corrupted, which is hella scary ngl but hopefully he's able to find a bootable OS disc to regain access to the files and back the rest of them up.

fingers crossed...

meanwhile, if you want you could check out my instagram page if you want to see me post sketches and doodles and whatnot

-JPiXeL

tl;dr - my lappy turned crappy and i'm not happy :(

Made some new music last night, heavily inspired by Sonic Advance. Enjoy!

is my borthdae todae

Update 7-10-21

wow, did i seriously not post all month last month??

anyways, hi again!

basically i've been working on this one-off animated short about a kiwi and a wild stoat, to get back into the animation groove

that's pretty much what i've been working on all month last month, going into july

also my birthday's in five days, yippee

check it out here ;)

(also available on youtube)

https://youtu.be/NnAoTdKgbsY

3-24-21

WOW. its been a while since i posted anything here

hello, sorry for dying for a while, not posting on newgrounds, or anywhere else for that matter

when i started my fourth semester of college this year, i haven't had time to really do much in terms of art or animations, since the work was taking up a lot of my time, and last year seriously took a huge mental toll on me, and everyone else i'd imagine from this ongoing situation, and i didn't want to mentally strain myself more with social media, so i quietly took another break from it to put more focus on my schoolwork, as i haven't been in the right head space lately

it's been a rough several months

but i'm hoping to put out some new stuff this year and even finally get to work on one of my passion projects that i've been working on since 2018 (you know the one -> )

in other news,

i recently hit a milestone on youtube!

haven't really had much time to really talk about it outside of a small youtube post, but i just want to say thanks to those that are subbed, never thought i'd get that far but i appreciate it, thank you so much!

anyways, that's it for now, hopefully i'll be back on track later in the future, and i'm definitely going to start uploading on youtube again as well

-JPiXeL, still hanging in there, trying not to Die

TLDR; me 2 busy 2 draw funny aninals