Hello everyone.

it's been a while since I did anything here, infact its been like 8 months since I posted anything big, and like 6 months since i posted a movie? I don't even know anymore I lost track.

I haven't been able to upload because, well, I just couldn't put words together, I felt really burnt out of ideas or stories after posting Norman's Birthday, so I chose to animate as little as possible for the year remainder, so i could focus on regaining all this lost idea stuff, personal issues within my life as well prohibited me from doing what i love, because mainly I didn't feel up to it.

But, its a new year, 2023 has started and I feel ready to animate again, and I'll be restarting projects that i wanted to get off the ground again, Episode 2 of a Cup and a Spoon is coming, trust me, I'll try my best to get it out as soon as i can, i won't be specifying on release dates, and I won't set myself up on deadlines, the last time i did, i had to rush everything and leave out much of what I wanted to make, so yeah, don't expect a deadline, damn deadlines should piss off.

But for now, i just wanna say, if you really wanted to see stuff from me, i'm gonna try and get something out, even if it isn't on this site, i'll try and make something, for now though, i wanna wish everyone here a Happy 2023, and the best of luck, regardless of who it is, you do you.

Don't give up on your dreams, Creativity is Immortal.

-- Macintoshashire

January 1st 2023 | 11:04am

Hello everyone!

I hope everybody has enjoyed the pilot for Normal World (especially Axolot4206974) this is a small behind the scenes news post to detail how it went.

The first stage was the Idea, what would it look like? what would it be about? I decided to go for a more birthday themed approach, not only did the idea fit extremely well with Axolot's birthday, but it was a good idea to start on, a basic idea to be a placeholder and mark for longer, character and group driven ones.

The original idea of Part 2 was that the party goes horribly wrong, in which Norman talks about his disappointments with Morris, who explain to Norman that a part doesn't have to be a good nor a bad one, it can just be a party, something to remember, the reason for the rewrite will be explained soon.

Next comes animation, music and voices.

For the music I decided to try and dabble into into making music once more using whatever was available via a free version of a powerful tool called Soundtrap, seriously if you love making music, you'll love Soundtrap.

next is animation, everything was done with Flash, first CS4, then later on I upgraded to CS5.5, and the files still worked after the upgrade so victory hooray

a funny hiccup made during the animation was when initially exporting Part 1, I forgot to delete the sketch layer used for the "We have to split up" scene, I use sketch layers so I can draw what the character is doing, and do both Key and In-between animation. so after coming back from the toilet, I realised, I forgot to delete it, so I quickly went into its .fla file, remove the layer, save. export a new .swf file, then convert, boom problem solved lol.

Finally, the voices, in Part 1, all the voices (except for the Grim Reapers lines which used Adobe's built in SFX) were done with text to speech to save time, and I regret that decision, I wish I didn't do that but too late I did.

In Part 2 half of the lines were recorded by me using my real voice and a GTrust mic, I plan to use real voice acting in the future (except for A Cup and a Spoon Show because the TTS makes it funny).

So why the rewrite? thank procrastination, my enemy, and something I don't wanna do ever again.

Anyways that's most of the BTS, I am considering livestreaming while animating, but that's up to me, that's all, and until next time, Gotta Go!

-- Macintoshashire

Hello everyone! The new upcoming Normal World episode is 75% done!

Part One is done and will be out very soon, possibly May 10th, I'm already starting work on Part 2.

What else is there? or right, me and 3 other friends have started up our own little group called Freezer Films!

go check us out!

Freezer Film's Official Site

thank you all so much for the kind responses I've been getting, and sorry if I haven't uploaded anything yet, A Cup and a Spoon Show episode 2 has finished the writing stage and will be done as soon as possible.

Thanks for reading, stay safe, stay cool, Normal Cool!

Macintoshashire

Today i just learnt that one of my animations, The Grand NFT Heist had over 140 views here on Newgrounds, and over 334 on YTMND.com, plus some like 20-30 on b3ta.

that's over 474 + the 20-30 on b3ta, thank you for watching such a stupid thing.

I'll make more animations, i'm currently working on one but i am a bit of a procrastinator and i'm busy, so wait.

thanks.

So I just got told today by Normal World co creator Axolot4207469 just got like 161 views.

Thank you for watching, if you wanna see more of my art check out my listed links, its pretty cool.

-- Macintoshashire.

before I start this off, I better explain what Normal World is so you can clearly understand what I mean.

the Normal World comics (the first in the Normal World series) started in September 2021 in a school that happens to be owned by a charity, and since then they have been funny, dumb, and surreal, just this month the comic edition has spread to the internet, on Youtube and Newgrounds.

If that doesn't explain it, I don't know what will.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnyways the first full length Normal World episode is coming in May, i won't tell you lot what it is about or when it will come out, that remains a secret until May.

So get ready to that I guess.