Update - October 2024

Hey all, just having a new update.

Firstly. I’m trying to see if I can balance recording the rest of the Dragon Ball video, and write the Giant Robot week video. Both of these should be out before the end of the year.  Potentially a PSP / PS Vita media device video? Again, in case anyone following me happens to know anything about Giant Robot Week or Toonami in general, feel free to let me know!

In the background I want to learn Storyboard Pro (if for nothing else, it’d be nice to learn). I think taking classes or doing more practice regarding storyboarding would help me be able to make things. I think the simplest thing I can do in the meantime is finish my Dynazenon storyboard studies. I need to find a way to scan them effectively, and maybe clean them up as well? Once everything’s drawn I can focus on throwing them into Premiere.

I have a discord server. It’s not too active but I tend to have some conversations there when I can, as well as keeping people posted about things I’m working on, or just general notes about animation stuff. I figure, as I learn, people interested should be able to learn as well. If you want another way to keep in contact with me, there’s that.

I’m sadly more busy than I realize, but eventually I want to have the time to do either a gaming event or an event where we watch some anime. We’ll see. I also may be at a panel before year's end which I will try to elaborate on once I get the clear on it.

I have reached out to people regarding their interest in either a podcast episode or to participate in this year’s INDIECember event with ArtieceTB. I’ll post more about it when the time comes.

There’s a lot of stuff I want to create, and I’ve been actively chipping away at Fragments with my partner Jay. So far there’s more examples of dialogue and I want to at least make these “non-canon” comic strips to warm up to things. A challenge of getting back into drawing is that I need to accept that not everything is going to look polished, and sadly being judged for my skill level with art is an inevitability. Since I can’t fight that, I might as well own up to it and create in spite of it, but it definitely explains why I’ve been more comfortable with video editing and writing since I believed those show off my potential as a creative much more.

Fragments isn’t even the final name of whatever this project is, but it’s stuck. I’ll say that I believe in this project, because it’s me trying to combine my interests and experiences into something unique. I thank people like my partner Jay, Marcy Bones, my friends Jera and Chris, and any other friends who I’ve shown people WIPs of this project. Recent events have made me want to be less ashamed of my experiences living in New York as well as cultural experiences as well (because of me being Haitian-American), I believe a story like this needs to exist to offer some sort of support while also showing that Haitian-American experiences aren’t under a broad umbrella and that any marginalized group can exist in any story. (While stories introducing the concept of a marginalized group’s existence have merit especially for younger children, not every story should feel the need to make the existence of a marginalized group palatable for a broad audience.)

To anyone curious about my experiences with the PSP, I’ll be writing a separate article about that. I’ll find a way to effectively post pictures to my wordpress so people can see my art in an easier way that doesn’t require access to my socials.

I’ve also miraculously found this on my hard drive:

The Toonami broadcast version of Cowboy Bebop, at least versions of their broadcast that was on Adult Swim’s website when they still had the license. It still has the shortened opening and ending on everything but the first episode. I no longer have the original filenames, and there are no captions either. I’ll see if I can find a way to post this on archive.org? They have VHS broadcasts on there as well and this is basically the same thing. It’s not super interesting from a “lost media” perspective but it’s still nice to have.

I’m going to catalogue my experience watching Bebop from front to back when I get the chance as well. Thanks for the support again, everyone.