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Posted by TheSilleGuy - October 19th, 2020


Hello, it sure has been a while.


I've had a lot of stuff going on in real life which has gotten in the way of producing animations (mental health, school stuff) Good news however is because I went to animation school I now have had the opportunity of producing an animated short film! I've been working on it for almost a year now, it is called "After The End". I just finished editing it today, and I will release it Friday October 23 on Youtube and here on Newgrounds!


Sorry for all the wait, hope it will be worth it :)


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Posted by TheSilleGuy - June 13th, 2018


So if anyone is wondering where I've been, I ain't gonna beat around the bush.

I've had depression and anxiety which has made work a lot worse for me. 

I announced a comic a year ago, as well as a short film, both projects proved too much for me and I recently had a breakdown. I am feeling better but the guilt of not being able to deliver anything to my audience lingers. It hasn't helped either that I've had school and personal stuff to deal with as well.

I'm gonna produce smaller animations and comics in the future to see if that can help me back on my feet. I still want to work on my longer comic and short film but they will have to wait until I figure things out for myself.

I'm sorry for promising things I wasn't able to deliver on. I'm trying my best to fix that in the future. Animations will likely come out but I can't promise on when.

Take care.


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Posted by TheSilleGuy - April 17th, 2017


Yo dudes, been away for a bit cause I've been working on my webcomic "Gunter: The Story of Gunter"!

Click here to read!

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In other news, my short film is on its way, so look for that in 17 years.

 

bye


Posted by TheSilleGuy - July 26th, 2016


Woah. It's been a while.

So... yeah, what have I been up to? Well, I've experienced quite the writers block during the summer which has hindered me from doing stuff but right now I finally have a video in mind and I've already started developing it. I hope to finish it sometime during fall. I have just started to use TVpaint too so it might take longer than usual.

The comic I announced last time did not come through mostly because the idea didn't work, and right now, the only video I know for sure that will come out this year is the video I mentioned above. However: as I mentioned last time, I am going to start work on a short film (10-15 minutes) but that will have to wait until my first video is done.

So yeah, that's how things look on my front. I wanted to participate in the jams this year but I was busy with other stuff. I might join some other short animation contest if I have the time. Other than that, just look forward to my next animation. I will also occationally put up art and stuff if I like it.

Until then, have a nice day!


Posted by TheSilleGuy - January 24th, 2016


Oh hey there. Haven't been able to make any cartoons for a while because I've been working on improving my art style, as well as trying to get a portfolio done for The Animation Workshop school in Denmark, which I'm gonna try to apply to this year. There are however some things that will most likely be made this year:

*A comic by me and some of my friends (Gonna announce when it's up and going)

*A couple short animations

*A short film (about 10-15 min)

The last one is quite a big project that I am still figuring out. I have not yet written a script but I do have most of the idea in my head. I hope to get it going sometime this year (though it might take a long time to finish) and I'll announce when that happens. Of course if I do get into The Animation Workshop I will have far less time to do any of these projects, but we'll see what the future brings.

~Victor Karlsson, TheSilleGuy


Posted by TheSilleGuy - October 5th, 2015


Hello, I'm TheSilleGuy. I won NATA this year.


To be honest I don't really know how to start this. This still feels very strange to me. I want to try to sound as down-to-earth and humble as I possibly can, since it can be very easy to sound douchey when you have won something. I just want to say that @Dylan, my opponent for the final round, did a fantastic job with his animation, and I don't think it is weird at all that we came so close. I wouldn't have been surprised if he won.

This has truly been a contest filled with surprises, at least for me. To really understand how strange this whole experience has been for me, I want to tell this whole journey from beginning to end. (Beware of the huge wall of text ahead of you.)

I knew since the year began that I was going to participate in NATA. I really wanted to try it out. I was joined by my good friend @MCakeri who joined separately. We both gave each other advice and we supported each other. If it werent for him I would have not felt as motivated as I have. So, May rolls around, and the contest begins.

=Open round: "10 Amazing Facts"=

Telling the Truth

My first entry was "Telling the Truth." if you've watched all of my entries you might notice this one sticks out like a sore thumb. This is because I was originally going to go in a completely different direction in the beginning. I wanted very dialouge filled videos with semi-deep messages and with plenty of metaphors and the like. This was territory I was very unfamiliar with and not surprisingly, it didn't turn out that well.

The animation was also limited. In the open round I didn't know what kind of direction I could go with my animation and what was acceptable. There were plenty of times when I was like: "I could have a walk cycle buuuuut.... naaahhh". Out of the 32 people that came in from the open round, I was at 26th place. This made me change my whole attitude towards the contest. It also made me think that I wasn't going to come very far.

=Novice round: "How I survived _____"=

Surviving the Future

During the novice round I made sure of two things: 1. Always try to animate things I haven't animated yet. 2. No dialouge. The latter was due to the fact that I hate lipsyncing and I also wanted to do a completely dialouge-less video, something I had not tried yet.

I maxed out on things I hadn't animated before. Walk cycles, run cycles, paper flying in the air, slime, more run cycles. It might not look so good now in comparison to my latest videos but this was the first time I really really tried my hardest to animate as good as possible. It was also nice to not do any lipsyncing.

I did however not think I was going to come very far. My last video did not turn out so well and I was paired with three great animators (@LazyModeComics, @DocJoshimitsu and @jlorp), all of whom I considered far better than me. Then I, completely surprised, got into the pro round.

=Pro round: "A tragic misunderstanding"=

Up in the Sky

This time I was paired with @Perrobang. Again, I thought I was going to lose. Perrobang's novice entry was incredible (far better than mine), and this was also at the point when Rasmus got out of the contest. He was in Perrobangs spot. Now I was on my own.

I really liked the theme of the pro round. For whatever reason when I was brainstorming ideas I thought about S. A. Andrée's arctic balloon expedition of 1897. I had read about it a couple months before, and I found it interesting. In as short of a time as I can explain, S. A. Andrée was a Swedish man who wanted to, with the help of a hydrogen balloon, travel to the arctic, to establish Sweden as a great power in the arctic. He got a lot of support from the Swedish people. The balloon was made, and Andrée and his crew traveled to the arctic, but they all tragically died in the cold. (So no, @mindchamber, it was not inspired by 'Up'.)

If you want more detailed information, read this article.

There was something very interesting in that story that I wanted to use. I changed the motives, as Andrées motives were nationalistic, to something more simple and likable. Just going on an adventure. I wanted this to be my first ever completely-serious-no-jokes kind of video. There were however plenty of obstacles. The major one being that it was long. Almost twice as long as my previous video. I had to really work hardcore on this one to get it finished. During the previous rounds I didn't have to work that hard every day. I could almost go an entire day without doing any work at all. Not this time.

I had to sit at my computer only taking minimal breaks to get this finished. I was stressed almost every day. I also slept very little. I did the animatic in one week and animated everything else during the last two weeks. What didn't help was that my summer vacation also started to end. I was still animating when the first day of school started. I slept for about 1,5 hours that previous night.

I was very VERY surprised when I found out that Perrobang did not have time to make an entry. I knew at this point that I had a chance of getting to the finals at least. When I was finishing the video I did not have much time left and I posted it one minute after the deadline. I thought I was going to get a penalty but thankfully the judges were kind and didn't give me one, since it was just one minute late.

=Final round: "Against impossible odds"=

Little Snails

School had just began. I didn't know how I was going to balance the animating and school work at the same time, but I was sure that I could somehow make it work. For my last entry I wanted to do something in a fantasy style. My previous entry was about humans, so I wanted to try making up my own creatures. I also wanted to test out my character designing skills.

Since I was extremely stressed out from my last video I wanted to do something much shorter for my final entry... yeah that kind of backfired. This was my only entry that for a while had a completely different story originally. I scrapped it however because I thought it was too unoriginal. When I came up with this final story I was worried it wasn't very original either. I could have made it shorter but two days had already passed and I did not want to waste more time developing the story so I just went with it.

I slept for an average of 3 hours every night trying to get the animation done. Mostly thanks to nice teachers and just pure luck (my town was flooded so my school had to close for a day) I managed to actually get work done. My immune system, however, was not doing too good. During the second week, I got a pretty bad cold. This could not hold back my motivation however. The sickness did give me an excuse to stay home.

During the last day of animating I sat on my computer for 18 hours straight. I colored three fourths of the video, did effects and editing in that sitting. However, a problem occured. I only had 1 hour to edit the video until the deadline. I was very worried. This was mostly because I did not have a lot of sound effects. I had to get as many sound effects as possible during that short hour. I made sure to include the most important ones, but sadly I had to leave some out, just because I simply didn't have the time to edit them in.

Then: I was going to upload it. I had two minutes to do it. When I was uploading it I noticed that there was no processing being done at all. If i was worried before, I was in complete panic now. I tried in vain to upload it. I really thought that I was going to get a bad penalty now. I wrote about it on the NATA final topic and I found out that this was because of an error on newgrounds part, and because of that I couldn't upload anything. I was relieved when I found out that I didn't get a penalty, since I couldn't do anything about the situation. But for those couple minutes I was really afraid that I was going to lose the contest just because of an error.

Now, if I thought I did not have much of a chance against Perrobang, I was VERY sure I was going to lose to Dylan. Ever since the beginning I knew he posed the biggest threat. I considered him pretty much unbeatable. During last week, I mentally prepared myself to lose. I was 99% sure I was going to. It didn't help that Ricepirate was the first person to review my video, and his review was far more critical of mine than of Dylan's. (Which I of course can understand.)  Then, at around six in the afternoon today, I looked at the tournament page and saw my video had 1,5 more points than Dylans video. Needless to say, I was ecstatic. 

=In conclusion=

This is the maybe lame part of the post where I give out my thank you's.

First, a HUGE thank you to @MCakeri and @MartinLarsson who supported me throughout the contest. You guys are awesome!

Then I would like to thank my family, especially my mom and step-dad, who both allowed me to sleep for three hours every night and greatly supported my efforts.

I would like to thank all of my YouTube fans, who also gave me encuragement to continue. All of you are awesome.

And finally of course thank you to all of the judges (@StejkRobot, @mindchamber, @redminus, @RicePirate and @TomFulp) who made me find out what I could improve in my animations, Adam (@NATA) who helped with my uploading problems, and once again, @Dylan, who was a great opponent and made some great videos. You're awesome, dude!

This has been a gigantic brick wall of text that has taken me several hours to write, but I hope you all got a different perspective on how this contest was for me. It was a fun ride but I'm also kind of glad it's over (I need to mainly focus on school now.) 

Don't have much else to say, so have a very nice day, all of you. I really mean it.

:) <3

-Victor Karlsson (TheSilleGuy)