Hey folks! Been a while since the Ultimate Showdown…

I animated a 5 part series over the pandemic, a comedy and satire series about a Papa and Boy who go on adventures in a world entirely inhabited by papas and boys.

I hope you like it! 👇

I animated most of it when I was 14, but it came out when I had just turned 15.

I know there's lots of young people on this site. Young people usually aren't treated as seriously as they deserve.

If you're a young person, and you want to animate, there's lots of resources online for tutorials on YouTube on how to use Adobe Animate. You can get a free trial, or, if you're serious, a student subscription is $20/year. It took me about a month to make the Ultimate Showdown, but I had been practicing for a bit over a year at that point. I used a mouse to draw the Ultimate Showdown, but since then I've switched to tablets. You can get a budget wacom tablet for around $100~ USD.

There's also a free and open source programs called "Pencil2D" and "OpenToonz" which might be good to practice in. If you have an iPad, there are affordable options in the app store, and the iPad works as a tablet. (Edit: Someone in the comments said Pencil2D isn’t good. Just a warning!)

If you're serious about animation, and want a book that covers animation theory, the best I've read is "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams. Here's a PDF.

I just wanted to put this out there, because I think young people are under-appreciated and don't get the support they need. Looking back on myself, it's sad I didn't get more support at that young age. If you're a pretty good artist and you learn to animate now, you'll probably have those skills for life (and the same applies for anything you're passionate about- music, art, writing, you name it.) There's lots of things trying to get our attention, between video games, TV, and all the rest. But nothing has been so rewarding over my life as building the skills that bring drawings to life.

It's worth it to put the time in.

I believe in you,

Shawn

Hey Folks,

We've put up the Ultimate Showdown on YouTube officially for the first time.

The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny (HD) - YouTube

It's been 15 years since it was animated. Hope you're all doing well. I was 14 when I animated it. If you're a young person, you can animate too if you try. It's worth playing around with.

Have a wonderful 2021.

Shawn

www.srslywrong.com

Then listen to every episode. And tell everyone you've ever met.

http://srslywrong.com/ep-27-listen-and-live-forever-w-zoltan-istvan/

This episode features the US Transhumanist Presidential Candidate Zoltan Istvan

Hey friends,

I've been working on an exciting new podcast with my friend Aaron Moritz.

It's a comedy podcast for people with access to way too much information.

www.srslywrong.com

The themes are comedy, politics, religion, conflict resolution, and creativity.

Check it out if you like podcasts. We're on iTunes and Stitcher as well.

Bless your lil hearts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKUWcg XuzI

Hey, you know, I was on TV being serious.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
487746

It's a second volume to a series. Most people should like it. It's a mystery series, and an adventure series. And it's starring some bears.

Hey, I am going to bring you more episodes of time travelling bears, and by that I mean some actual episodes, pretty soon.

The reason the first was released in August and the second is probably going to be released in February is because I had microphone problems. The Blue Snowball USB microphone I had been using is not Vista compatible, and like a major chump I thought that I should probably get a really nice computer.

The first episode, "Time Bears" or "The Premiere", was originally intended to be a larger episode that explored the characters a little more and established an ongoing plot, that is, an ongoing battle with the evil MR. ZYPHER. But I lost a lot of animation due to flash crashing and my own inability to remember to fucking save, and I ended up making the cartoon that is now on newgrounds. I think it is better than the episode was anyways.

So. Now I have now gotten a new microphone, and we have recorded the second volume of this mighty tome, and animation is well underway.

It's called "The Gettysbear Address". You'll see it pretty soon, I hope.

Goodbye folks!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
457069

So here it is. It's basically the first episode. It's the premiere. We have started on number two. It's pretty good.

Check out this new flash I made, chaps.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
426611