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Amanda (•_•) @pollyanoid

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general life update + peeks at some stuff im workin on :]

Posted by pollyanoid - September 3rd, 2021

its been a while since ive posted an update like this

WHATS UP WITH ME?

im moving for college in just 2 days! that's crazy, right? i've moved plenty of times, but this is the first time i've ever really moved solo, so it's a biiiig big change for me. it's nerve-wracking, exciting, and everything inbetween. thankfully, i won't be surrounded by ENTIRELY new people, since some of my friends are also going to college around the same area, and i've luckily been in contact with a few other students at my school :D

WHAT AM I MAKING?

i'm making a few different things right now

i'm in the early stages of a madness cartoon for the upcoming madness day! i currently have a few character models, concepts, and about a minute's worth of storyboards. it's the only project here i'm not showing footage of yet, mainly because i haven't actually started animating it yet, lol!!!

i'm also about halfway done with a short animation of one of nelward's songs, cosmic relief! here's a look at a few clips from it. these are unfinished lol

https://streamable.com/lpdgkv

AND....... for the past 8-9 months, i've been slowly chipping away at the second episode of XETIS. there's a lot i can say about this. firstly, my life has changed a lot during the development of this, and i'm hoping the finished 13-minute long cartoon will be worth it, whenever it's finished. i kind of hope to put it out on the year anniversarry of the first episode, but no promises! basically, the team and i have been working pretty hard this past 8 months, and i feel selfish for not showing off anything of it yet, so HERE'S A SHORT LIL CLIP FROM NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE!!!! this doesn't really reveal any spoilers, and also editing's a bit unfinished.

https://youtu.be/ZPCjCcrLuqU

episode 2 is working to establish some things and polish up a lot of messy stuff from the first episode. we've got the whole series planned, it just might take a while to finish. we're ok with that though! follow the other people working on this: @rumblelurin @gooberthed @swagmaster756 @D-c-G

and aside from all that, i'm finishing up my last commission from over the summer, and working on a small game project that not much can be said about yet.

thanks so much for reading all this, and i hope the little sneak peeks i've shown off have gotten you excited!

(drawing by @gooberthed )

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Snackers 2021-09-03 06:03:39

good luck with everything! I actually hadn't seen the first Xetis but I checked it out after how cool that preview looked. I love the character designs and mix of styles, it's really damn cool, so I'm looking forward to the second one now!

pollyanoid 2021-09-03 06:03:39

love u snackers

EinMeister 2021-09-03 08:01:04

That's cool bro, what are you studying?
I moved solo at like 15 for highschool but surely college is harder, gonna see next year...

Also the cartoon shader on the madness beans looks great! I also made a little something...

jthrash 2021-09-03 11:58:57

How on Earth do you find the motivation to do all this?

pollyanoid 2021-09-03 11:58:57

monster energyt

EinMeister 2021-09-03 12:07:02

@jthrash Artists are usually doing art voluntarily and enjoy doing it, why wouldn't we have motivation?

jthrash 2021-09-03 12:14:30

@EinMeister Maybe there are different levels of motivation for different people. I’m personally a bit burned out after the previous project I worked on and can only really handle at most two projects (one big, one tiny) at once. I will say I had MUCH more motivation in high school, maybe it’s just youthful exuberance, too?

Vidyabatter 2021-09-03 14:22:02

HOLY shit it's the bull squid from half-life

POSTBOY 2021-09-03 14:43:39

God damn those madness models look sick

EinMeister 2021-09-03 14:51:20

@jthrash Maybe age does matter, idk, I'm just 18 but I can feel being less energic than when I was a kid.

jthrash 2021-09-03 16:16:02

@EinMeister I assure you that you are currently at the prime of your artistic life right now. Enjoy it while you still can. Unfortunately part of my problem has to do with...certain local political controversies that directly concern me and my family and many of my toxic neighbors won't allow me to ignore.

HOPEFULLY in October or so I can focus solely on art and getting a job in art and not feel solely responsible for the fate of the entire country (or better yet move to an area where people over the age of 25 are less depressed and can talk about ANYTHING more pleasant than divisive hot-button issues), but for now my attention is unfortunately split between art and more urgent matters.

pollyanoid 2021-09-03 16:16:02

newgrounds has a private messaging feature what are u guys doing lmao

jthrash 2021-09-03 17:19:05

@jthrash @ayekerik Sorry. To be fair, I don’t trust a public website to keep anything I post here private. But again I’m sorry, I’ll stop the conversation right here.

ritascounterattack 2021-09-03 23:06:56

XETIS EPISODE 2 HYPE

franklet 2021-09-08 20:49:34

Hi kai

franklet 2021-09-08 20:54:19

@franklet @ayekerik ARE YOU SRS RN..... ?????

Shal 2021-09-10 19:37:48

man

pollyanoid 2021-09-10 19:37:48

hi shallium omg omg its shal hi

general life update + peeks at some stuff im workin on :]

WHATS UP WITH ME?

WHAT AM I MAKING?

https://streamable.com/lpdgkv

https://youtu.be/ZPCjCcrLuqU

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