Hey NG it's been a while!

I've not been as active as I usually am these past couple months and it figured I'd make a post talking about why/what I've been up to these past couple months!

Firstly, the less interesting bits. Big part of why I've been less active is we've had to move and all the home buying stuff and moving took a lot of my time and enrgy. On top of that work was also keeping me very busy the last month or so... also Zelda and StreetFighter6 lately are partially to blame haha.

Now for the more interesting stuff. I've never been one to do a lot of commission work. But I got a couple of real fun opportunities lately that I couldn't pass up and I can finally talk about most of them.

First up, got to design a T-Shirt for my favorite Acadian musician, P'tit Belliveau.

Was a real fun project that checked a bunch of boxes for me. Pixel art, for one of my favorite artist and being Acadian it's also culturally relevant to me so that was a blast to get to do this. The reason for the Wizard design is that he actually frequently wears a robe and wizard had on stage, it's true!

Side note, not sure I mentioned it here but earlier this year I also turned my t-shirt design into a hoodie. That was a cool experience. We did a bit of a pre-orded and printed some extras alongside that. It was a fairly small batch but last I heard we managed to sell all of them!

I also got to design the poster for a local festival which was super cool. I think posters will be going up for this around town later this summer and I'm really looking forward to see art I made plastered all over town!

And I also did some pixel art for some trippy art exhibit in Montreal called Sweet Folie. Not sure I can post the individual elements yet but if you're around Montreal anytime between now and October you can go check it out. If you see any pixelated animals riding on various vehicles that was me!

And lastly I also did some pixel art for a TV show pitch. Sadly I can't talk much about it since as far as I know it hasn't been picked up. Maybe some time in the future I'll be able to post what I did on here....

OH! And I forget, I also did a bunch of art for a project I put on hold. Without revealing too much it involved creating mockups of game ideas I had when I was a kid. I would up posting a few of these here but there's quite a few I've not posted yet. Might post these at some point if I don't wind up picking the project back up.

(Here's one of the pieces I did for that project that I posted on NG previously!)

Anyways, these are the various reasons why I've not posted here in a while. I'm hoping to get back into a more regular routine of working on art soon. But after all the craziness of the last 3-4 months it's been kinda nice to get to enjoy some time playing videogames, enjoying the warmer weather and traveling a bit so, don't expect frequent posts from me again just yet. But I do plan on getting back into doing some personal art again soon.

Til next time!

One of the items at the top of my art bucket list was to make an album cover, and this year I got to do just that!

One of my favorite local bands reached out to me and asked me to do a pixel art cover for their upcoming cover songs EP.

The EP just came out today and I'm super pumped to finally share the artwork with everyone!

The title roughly translates to "Quilted blankets". The EP has Acadian french covers of Kiss, Taylor Swift, Outtacontroller(another local band from Halifax NS everyone should check out!!) and a cover of Acadian music legend Eric Surette.

https://sluicehfx.bandcamp.com/album/couvertes-pick-es-vol-1

https://open.spotify.com/album/7EEREvapnoh0a1LamIi4x9?si=0KtspSWeShuYrCE0fL8rtA

On top of the album cover I got to create a visualizer for their Kiss cover using some art I had made based inspired by a song from Sluice's debut album. Had a lot of fun creating a CRT look for it and messing around with after effects for the first time in years.

For those curious the word "Frippe" can be used in a bunch of context, like to rumple, fumble, or waste amongst others. :P

Anyways that's all, I wasn't asked to share this or anything I'm just really excited to have been able to work on this. As a huge fan of music who isn't very skilled in making it it was awesome to get to apply my skills to the visual side of things and to collaborate with one of my favorite bands.

Hello friends!

I am proud to announce my first venture in the creative world of NFT, Bored No-Man!

I'm asking for 10k Zoink Coin(ZCN) for this bad boy, or I am willing to trade with Tom Fulp for a DankMen NFT!

Also announcing an incredible business opportunity, Zoink Coin! As CEO of Zoink Coin I am please to offer you guys a special early bird only for Newgrounds special price of 1000$ per Zoink Coin! Newrounds has always been an artistically and technologically so I know you guys will be supportive of this endeavor!

Get your Zoinks HERE

While you wait for your Zoink Coin payments to process check out the Bored No-Man animated series right here on Newgrounds. It's pre-redesign but don't worry I'il have his design matching his wonderfull new NFT look by episode 12!

PS: Anyone got a couch I can crash on, my wife @cecameron does not understand the benefits of Zoink Coin and has kicked me out of our house and home. Looking for a fellow Zigma Male Grintset entrepreneur preferably thx bye!

Hey Newgrounds, it's been a while since I made a post so thought now would be a good time!

Yesterday I reached 1200k fans.

This might seem like a weird milestone to celebrate, but at the start of this year I had about 600 followers, so in this one year alone I've made as many followers as I did in my entire 8 year on Newgrounds. A big thanks to everyone who rates and comments and watches my stuff, I really appreciate all of your support! Newgounds is a big reason why I'm an artist and an animator today and seeing all the awesome art that happens here every day is just so constantly inspiring!

This year has been a bit of a rollercoster on a personal level, but one thing that's been a net positive is how excited I've been about making art. Since I've been working from home for over a year and a half I've been able to find a semblance of a work/life balance which has been nice and it's allowed me a lot more free time to work on art. The only one of my new year's resolution I've actually kept up with actually is to draw every day. In the past I use to spend time thinking about what kinds of animation or art I should make, worrying about all the mistakes and flaws and getting upset when things didn't turn out the way I wanted. On thing I've been living by this year is to only make things I feel like doing and to allow myself to not worry too much if things didn't turn out perfect or didn't get a reaction. And in doing that I've wound up making way more art than I would normally do and I think better art too. Heck I went into this year planning on not starting any animated projects and I've made more of em this year than I did the past few years. Anyways I'm kinda just rambling to myself here, just feels good to be at a spot where I can make stuff and enjoy making stuff again and I hope this keeps up for a long time to come.

I guess in closing I'll just point you guys to this animated shitpost @cecameron and I did recently!

Well folk, at least 2 of you asked for it, and received you have!

Over a week ago I made some aquatic Tankmen for fun and they wound up being my most liked/retweeted tweet on Twitter by a long shot. So I figured the next logical step was to actually go ahead and animate an episode. So exactly a week ago today I wrote down a quick script and contacted Saminat to ask him to do voices with the goal of finishing an entire animation within a week's time. I think this is my fastest turnaround on an animation ever since the 2016 NG animation summer fest where we had two weeks to make an animation.

Not gonna lie as much as I absolutely love it, the Tankmen style of humour isn't something I'm used to writing so I was pretty nervous it was going to be complete garbage, but I've been pleasantly surprised to see so much positive reactions to it. It was honestly pretty cathartic getting to get an animation from idea to finish so quickly. Working on NoMan Redux and Episode 5 was so sporadic and took so long that at times I wasn't enjoying working on them in the moment anymore. But with this project it was fun for me from start to finish.

Anyways, thank you all for the positive reception to the Seamen!

IT'S BEEN A WEEK!

Thank you all who followed this past week. It probably took me a year to go from 600 to 700 fans, so to go to from 700-800 in a week is wild. I got lots of art ideas and an animation in the works so hope you all stick around. I probably won't do another one of these until I hit 1000 which is my next goal.

<3

Oh heck I've not got 700 followers! Thanks to everyone who's clicked that follow button.

I don't have a big following anywhere online but its wild to think I might actually hit 1k on Newgrounds eventually.

This year's been a super creative year for me, a few days ago I officially doubled the amount of art I did last year in less than half a year. My new goal is to make at least double what I've already made by the end of the year. I dont know if its because I'm home all the time due to the pandemic or what but this year I've been wanting to make stuff non stop. Id usually go weeks between making any art but I just have a constant itch lately and I hope I can keep it up.

Not sure if I'il make any more animated projects for a bit. Id like to make something at some point this year, but my strategy so far has just been to create what I feel like and it's been great. Hopefully, eventually I'll have an idea for an animation that gives me an itch to create. In the meantime expect loads of illustrations and pixel art!

It's Pico Day!

I realized I hadn't done anything for Pico Day in the past few years so this year I made a bunch of stuff.

I was gonna make some pixel art, but that led to making some box art and finally this fake magazine add

for a Newgrounds line of Gameboy stuff.

Had a lot of fun making these and imagining some alternate reality where Newgrounds was made a decade earlier and could be experienced on a gameboy. It also got me to combine a bunch of the things I like to do in one piece, pixel art, making fake videogame box art and graphic design. If I knew how to code it would have been fun to make a little interactive newgrounds Gameboy experience where you get to browse the GB version of NG.

Incidentally ScepterDPinoy also made a cool Newgrounds95 piece of pixel art! check out!

Asside from that I also made a little Pico Day loop anim. I initially just roughed out a lil Pico walk to get back into flash, but wound up fleshing it out into a little Pico Day thing.

cecameron also made this cool Pico Day wedding episode of NoMan! I got to voice cardboard Tom Fulp which was tons of fun!

Anyways, that's all in Pico Day news for me!

There's so much cool stuff being made this year, gonna go watch me some PicoDay movies and binge some art!

Hey Newgrounds, No-Man Turns 10 today!

Ten years ago I published the first ever No-Man comic on blogspot.

It looked pretty terrible but for some reason I've stuck with this character the longest out of everything I ever created.

I first had the idea for the character wile bored during perspective class. Judging by the look of this comic I should have absolutely been paying more attention : P

The comic run ended almost exactly a month later with a Comic by No-Man's voice actor Brian Lemmey.

This comic became the basis for the story of No-Man Episode2. Brian was the person who was the most excited about the whole NoMan thing so when I started animating No-Man I immediately thought of him. Honestly NoMan might have not continued past Feb23 2010 if Brian hadn't kept asking if I was doing more No-Man comics. He's actually voiced the character in animation school projects as far back as 2012 so his VA role as No-Man precedes the actual series.

I don't have any big plans for the next episode yet but I'm excited to make something even better than Ep5 in the future. Before then I wat to get the french versions of No-Man written & recorded and maybe animate something not No-Man related.

Anyhow I'm rambling at this point. It's just really nice to think about how far I've progressed as an artist in the last 10 years and the fact that I've manage to stick with the character for so long. I'm super grateful that anybody would even watch or read my dumb animations and toons. A huge thanks to everybody who's voiced characters or helped with production of episodes in any way and an extra special thanks for Newgrounds for featuring NoMan on the front page throughout the years. Judging by my YouTube numbers if it were not for Newgrounds nobody would be watching my dumb toons. : P

Anyhoo to celebrate NoMan turning double digits here's a remake of the first ever comic and a mega cut of every No-Man episodes with some extra enhancements. I also plan on putting out a video with bunch of animatic/unused/scraps, but it probably won't be out for a few days.

Thanks for Watching!

-Phil

It's taken a while but No-Man episode 5 is finally out!

This episode was intended to come out much, much earlier. As a matter of fact I had about 1/3 of it done by summer 2018, however a mix of heavy work and some personal life stuff made me drop the whole thing for almost half a year.

Taking so long to finish this episode had actually become a serious point of frustration for the last several months, but In the end I think it was for the best because It let me think of new bits to add and gave me time to iron out scenes I wasn't completely happy with before.

I initially was going to animate this in Toon Boom, that scene with sour grapes was actually initially roughed out in the basic cheep version of TB. As it turns out however, all but the most expensive version of TB actually have the features that make TB easier to use. It doesn`t even feature pressure sensitivity for the brush strokes which is such a crazy basic feature! Because of that I ended up switching back to Flash.

It was great to finally get to finally add Pomme de Terreur from my old comic series into the animated one! He initially had a gang of thugs all dressed in pear suits, however when writing this episode I decided to diversify the variety of his fruit crew and so only one pear remains. Designing the Fruit Bowl Bandits was probably the most fun I've had designing characters for animation and hopefully I can bring them back for something else in the future!

This episode also had the biggest variety of voice actors of any NoMan episode, I think even of any of my animated projects! @saminat especially did a fantastic job with Nightshade and Banana Brute, If i didin't know he recorded both voices I wouldn't be able to tell it's essentially him having a conversation with himself!

As a last note of the episode, I'm super gratefull Vinny vinesauce allowed me to use the RedVox song for the beach scene. I almost didn't bother asking since I didn't figure I wouldn't get a response considering how many e-mails he gets. I was about to put some generic beach music to play on YesWoman`s phone when I got a response, so that was a really nice surprise!

In terms of what I`ve got lined up yet, I do have some ideas for No-Man episode 6 but I don`t think I`Il be getting to that for a while. Next for No-Man will be some french translations/dubbing. Since a good chunk of the voice actors can speak french It will be nice to get to have the characters keep the same voice in a different language!

In terms of orriginal anim, I`m thinking of doing something shorter next, maybe a new Under the Couch episode. I`ve had some ideas written down for new episodes and they`re not too involved anim wise so that could be a nice break from the more involved anim in No-Man. Plus I need to get a new computer since my windows 7 machine is getting up there in age and I don`t want to start anything too big until I upgrade.

Anyhoo, these were my thoughts and ramblings on No-Man episode 5!

A big thanks to everybody who was a part of it and hope you guys enjoy the episode!