I made a new blog.

http://fwobe.blogspot.com/

I'm working on something new, keeping it brief for now. Click that link above to follow along with my drawings and doodles because I'll be posting backgrounds and brain droppings all the time and it'll be fun fun FUN for every every ONE!

Hi!

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It's been a while hasn't it, I've been busy with schoolwork, which is what this video is. I'm working on a new project now which I'll start producing for real when I have some free time! BYYYYYYYYYYE!!!

Yeah that's kinda cool I guess

It's been a while since I did one of these cause there's little to write about

So anyway I didn't go to Comic Con this year and probably won't next year, partly from lack of interest but mostly from expense but ESPECIALLY because it's so far away it just sorta psyches me out you know

I haven't been doing much and haven't been very busy either and I guess I'm also not making anything really I've just been having alot of fun. Good times B)

For some reason I want to write a novel called Repeat and the main character is named Penn Station. Ten points to the house of whoever guesses what the plot is about

Oh and for all you stalkers looking for me on the twitterbird I'll save you some Googling

When I was a little kid, I used to watch cartoons on VHS tapes alot. Most of you probably remember VHS players, but it's so ancient and obsolete now that you younger guys might only remember seeing it as a big black dusty old box in their grandparents' basement. This strange device used to play videos.

Anyhow, there was a distribution company in the late 80s and early 90s called Celebrity Home Entertainment, that had a line of kids cartoons and movies called Just for Kids. Whenever you pushed the tape in and pressed play you got this.

Man, remember the tracking buttons?? Most later VCRs had auto tracking.

These videos, from this fairly small distribution company that subsequently went bankrupt in 1997, were cool because most of them were obscure kids' cartoons from all over the world- Germany, Japan, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Denmark, The Soviet Union, and more. I don't know if they're obscure in their home countries too, but it's hard to find info about most of them on the internet.

So from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic I dig up some old tapes and pop them in the VCR.
It's hard for me to say if I'd like these cartoons as much if they didn't have the nostalgic value, but I think they're kinda charming.

This one is called Gallavants and somebody uploaded the whole thing to Youtube. I've been looking for the VHS forever and couldn't find it so I shit my pants the other day when I saw this:

It's like a coming-of-age story about ants. This one ant can't grow a "kabump", which is a bump that grows out of an ant's butt when it gets old enough. I couldn't find a trailer or anything so I just posted part 1. You don't need to watch the whole thing, cause it's long and it's about ant butts.

The next one is super depressing, it's about whales D:

I think this one is Danish. A young white whale goes searching for the legendary Moby Dick so he can protect his herd from poachers. This movie is particularly dark (in color and mood) but it's got a really unique look to it, it looks like the color was done entirely in colored pencil.

This one's one of my favorites. It's a Dutch cartoon that's like the Smurfs but in space and kinda gay

The bad guy is a huge gluttonous pink blob that commands smaller green blobs to feed him and he's always antagonizing these pink yoshi-like people that are all based off of zodiac signs.

This one is Japanese, and it's just really cute

I like this one, it's about a bunch of animals who live on an island and the main character is a platypus. A PLATYPUS. How many cartoon platypuses are there? This one was Belgian/French Canadian, and this is the Swedish intro:

This show had a formula: the bad guy would see something on TV and get a sinister idea. Then the good guy would find out his plan by watching the same TV show and would come up with the solution.

This was an interesting find- I was looking for info on a movie called "Quark the Dragon Slayer", about a troll who slays dragons, but couldn't find anything on Youtube. Then, in a completely unrelated search I found this:

The fat little troll at 44 seconds, that's Quark! I have never heard of this before but I'm gonna watch it when I'm done typing this.

This last one wasn't even part of my childhood or on any of these tapes as far as I know but holy crap is the song catchy:

That's it for now, but I'm sure there's others I'm not thinking of. I feel like there's a million foreign cartoons I've never seen before and now I'm interested in finding what exists. The related videos on Youtube for alot of these has cool looking stuff I've never heard of. Some of these shows and movies you can actually find on Youtube, but for most you're on your own. I wish I could find Vicky the Viking in English but I'm not sure if it exists.

My next cartoon features a guy who has severed hands for eyes

Hi

So summer's just around the corner, school's over, I got a C- in a class I was sure I'd fail, and now.. NOW, it's time to get to work.

Sadly, as cool as the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP SUMMER COLLAB EXTRAVAGANZA will be, I don't think I'll be participating. I've got other things I've wanted to work on for forever, and have been waiting for summer for a chance to get started on Twelve Eyes.

So, start!

....starting :/

My main hangup is still on the story. I can't decide on how the beginning should be without it seeming silly and arbitrary, I kind of want it to make sense, perfectly. I'm so used to improvising with a simple main idea in my head, or storyboarding with little to no dialogue, that when it comes down to making up a story with an actual plot and many characters and heaps of dialogue while trying to make it as NOT STUPID as possible, I have trouble being satisfied with the outcome.

At any rate, I'm re-writing the script now, hopefully I'll come to terms and be able to say it's good enough reaaal soon.

I'm just too damn picky about the script when its a story I've been planning for a long time and actually care about. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?

Hey.

I want to say Happy Birthday Tom and happy Pico day.

My grandma died yesterday. She had lymphoma. She's been sick for about a year now.

It's actually pretty remarkable she lasted this long considering her age and condition. She'd been living with us for five years, after breaking her hip. A year ago she was in the hospital and was diagnosed. She had been fairly well until her legs began to weaken, she broke her arm and became completely disabled. She was very old, she turned 93 last August.

Anyway.. somehow through this I was able to bring myself to finishing my month-long project collaboration with Molkman. Please enjoy ACTIONPALS. Happy Pico Day.

I wish I could be more enthusiastic about the sheer amount of ACTION this game has in it, but I feel bad that I needed to take some cuts to finish it on time, and the things I might've been able to finish I just lacked the enthusiasm for.

Sorry about the depressing post. This might come as a surprise to alot of people, but I'm actually an enormous bummer in real life. I'm sad a lot more than I am silly, but I try to have a fun, stupid and entertaining presence on the internet. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve and especially not here on Newgrounds.

I hope I've been entertaining to a lot of people so far and hope I've made you laugh. It's a shitty ugly world, all I want to do is make it a little more fun.

Thanks for reading.

A school project I just finished. I don't know what it is about flying limbs that's so fun.

I've been busy as shit. All my procrastinating for schoolwork has come up and bit me, so most of my personal projects have to be on hold for a while. Twelve Eyes has been put aside and Gunjani, well, I'll probably get to that sooner. I'll say one thing though, that I hope to be releasing something by the end of the month. I dunno if I'm at liberty to say what, so I won't. It's more fun secret anyway :)

Over and over and over and over and OVER!!!!!

Yeah so I'm dead now

But I've still been pretty busy, the script for the first episode of Twelve Eyes is nearly done, and I'm almost ready to start production on it. I'm finally pretty happy with the story, the beginning at least, so I'm finally ready to get this show on the road. Hooray!

Still looking for a coder for GUNJANI! Let me know if you know a guy who knows a guy :O

Happy New Year! I haven't made a news post in several months and just wanted to let people know what I'm doin

Things aren't going so great with Twelve Eyes, I haven't been writing it for a while and I'm losing alot of the momentum I had from the beginning. I'm always dissatisfied with the overall plot, which I keep changing, but even moreso with the characters. They're all very two dimensional and I can't write them the way I want to.. I guess I'm really just not that skilled at writing.

I made a Valentine's Day cartoon ... yeah!

That's pretty much it except I also made this short stop motion film for a class and I'd like to share it.

And for your viewing pleasure, Charles Vs. Mini Charles Jr.

Happy Hannukkah! And, Merry Christmas! Though I don't celebrate it I spent the last 24 hours working on a short (very) Christmas cartoon all about coal and its many deceptive forms. By the way, it looks like Heat Miser struck this part of the world. Oh well... in any case the Yeti is still there.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Enjoy!

EDIT: Oh, and one more thing!
I've made a Campnorth account, so check back there often for artmakings from me. Toodles!

http://www.campnorth.tv/profile/ukinoj oe