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Animation Reel + A Glance Back at 2024

Posted by Twisted4000 - 1 day ago


Now that we've stepped into 2025, let's take one last look back! 2024 was a year of work, practice and experiments. Much was learned.


At the very start of January that year, I breezed through a quick Ghost Adventures toon: Ghost Adventures! It was mostly an attempt to make something as fast as possible with more simplistic animation. It also was a while since I did any voice acting, so I threw my hat into the ring of that, as well.


The next month, I had another shot at a shorty, Medieval Meds, starring the iconic plague doctor with Jasmin Bartlett's pulchritudinous voice acting skills, with plenty of leeches to go around!


A Final Fantasy sandcastle building competition was held during the middle of Spring in Sandcastle Final Fantastical, a video that took much longer than it should've. I had a go at making a beachy audio track for it while I conscripted Jasmin and Stefanie Kat to voice Aerith and Tifa in Japanese; the results were impeccable!


After those animated cinches, when Summer rolled around, I decided to go back to my roots and put some more effort into the frame-by-frame and coloring with CHUN-ZO IS DUN-ZO, a Street Fighter cartoon starring the wonderful Chun-Li herself. Throughout the year, I was continuing to study anatomy as well as animation techniques, and I felt this video was a perfect excuse to put what I had learned to the test.


I've been dicking around with audio mixing for quite some time, and since a few years went by without me attempting a voice demo, I decided the moment was finally right: I officially released a voice reel for the first time in nearly a decade in early August. Even then, I've been making adjustments to all the post-pro (cool way to say post-production) since, but I've still been lending my vocals to other projects around, when they come.


I had another trip to Japan coming up, but something equally as pressing was on the horizon: Madness Day. I scrambled to get Madness Combat: Credit Carnage out before the journey to the Empire of the Sun, and, luckily, that mission was accomplished. Too much time had passed since I animated a fight sequence, and that one was loads of fun to do! I also had a kickass time voicing with my good homie Astro, who has also been sporadically lending his voice in my cartoons for like eleven fucking years.


Aside from personal projects, I've been doing loads of art, animation, storyboarding and voice commission work to sustain my existence. Been continuing to practice drawing techniques, and I've also been doing a lot of game development on top of it all. Feel free to drop a follow if you're interested in updates to any of this! Looking back, it's incredible to see where this has all taken me since I started all those years ago, and I'm very excited to see where it all winds up.


Check out my YouTube channel, art gallery, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and portfolio site, if you wish! I stream weekly on Twitch, and you're always welcome to support the cause on my Patreon; every drop is appreciated. Also, here's a Tumblr and Instagram, if those are what you prefer!


Lastly, I just want to give my good pal Hyenaedon another thanks and public bro fist for providing such lit audio for my nonsense for so long; we also may just have something else cookin' up for ya soon! ;) ;)


So much shit going on, so much shit to do, and I love every second of it. Stay the fuck away from toxic cocksuckers that try to bring you down. Keep your attention upward and onward. Surround yourself with support and friendship; if you don't have those things yet, focus working on yourself and your character until you do. Trust me, it'll happen. Stop pointing the finger outward and get your shit together, asshole.


Thanks for sticking around! See you soon, friends!



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This is a good accomplishment for the year buddy. You kept at it. This is something you should read over and over to keep that drive going. May 2025 be even better.

Good productive year. I wish you a great 2025