Thought of a clever use for Newgrownds' news/blog feature: sharing my ongoing projects!

I've been working on many things these past months, many of which I've unfortunately been unable to finish. I intend to someday, I'm slow and ambitious—even a bit perfectionistic—thus a lot of my works end up in a near permanent state of hiatus. Can't say they get silently cancelled though as I'm always thinking about the day I'll come back to them.

Most of my slowness comes from what I can only think of as poor time management and fleeting motivation. I mean, I do have a part time job and a family to assist (siblings, grandparent, and 2 pets) so my time is already handicapped as is. Yet even in my free time the act of sitting down, opening my laptop, logging in, deciding on what project to work on, opening the project's respective app... It really isn't that complicated but alas my mind overthinks as I allow it to rather than fighting it and simply "create for the sake of creating." Doing so I get more exhausted than I already was and there goes my opportunity to make anything.

Sappy life story aside, here's the cool stuff I've been meaning to show off:

Sketch for the Sonic 34th Anniversary Collab: Extra Life Mocking a Trapped Sonic (title pending, probably gonna stick to "Extra Life - Sonic 34th Anniversary Collab"). Currently working on this piece. Aside from the sketches, this has taken me nearly 4 hours so far. Shouldn't take much longer to finish.

Cycle 23: Outer Expanse. Had to convert (EDIT: and further compress) this into a GIF for the post. With over 200 frames of animation, this is my biggest animation yet! I commissioned the background from a friend, you can find them on Instagram, Twitter, and Blue sky as cursed.lay or cursedlay. This has taken me many weeks to do and will definitely take many more.

Axie Short: Bead, a Flipnote Studio 3D animation I've been working on and off since August 2025. Technically this is my longest animation at 300+ frames, though some frames repeat and Axie's animations are separated from the background as I continue to work on him.

Sketch for my own website. I still have to learn how to code in HTML. Don't know a lick of it, this one's for future me to set time aside for.

Laying it out like this, it doesn't appear even to me like I have many projects, rather it's the projects themselves that are big. I have other projects not shown here that I'm either working on or intend to sooner or later, such as:

• YouTube streams

• Art contest submission (in-person)

• Trading card themed business cards

• Commenter axolotls (context in YouTube)

• Favor for a friend

... 'kay yeah, now das a lotta stuff. Least writing it out somewhere helps, and doing so here I can show y'all that I've got lots to come! Only downside is I have no date for anything. Exception being that Sonic Collab piece. It'll be out way before the deadline, that's for sure!

Thank you for reading, I hope you're as excited for what I'm cookin' up as I am about making it!

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