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!