Oop let me sneak in to the
#drawingwhileblack
tag 2 hours before black history month's over lmao
I'm Aaron, a 2D animator/storyboard artist based in the NY area! Action toons, OCs, fan art, Sonic-- that's what you'll get from me!
IG: Chakra_X_Cartoons
Nah I actually like Hop a lot. Personality flaws, legit understandable frustration when he loses constantly, lurking imposter syndrome and being in his brother's shadow? More relatable than Hau and far more interesting than X&Y's rival
Film students, professionals & historians will be forced to acknowledge that the most successful theatrical release of 2020 was the Sonic movie.
Just like the phrase "Pre-war" describes buildings' ages, "Post-Sonic" will describe American culture going forward, these are facts
I know I've mentioned it here and other places about the cancellation, but finally making a video about no longer animating on Wrath of Nazo feels like a huge weight lifted, even if the massive disappointment I know it's generating gave me huge anxiety haha
I know Sonic twitter been all about what Movie Sonic can bring to modern Sonic's design, or how inherently more expressive it is, but idk man Wreck it Ralph did it perfectly imo
yeah it just looks like lazy animation to me. Cartoons these days are so cheap, kids these days will never know the thrill of non SJW tainted quality content defining your childhood. Are animators even trying anymore? CalArts style is cancer lol anyway, do you watch rick and mor
Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon Update arrives on September 28th! Experience a brand new story and play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy in this climactic free update coming to Sonic Frontiers!
Just beat Sonic Frontiers, and even with my qualms near the end, this might be my favorite Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2.
No hyperbole, no hype drunkenness, even with the expected jank this thing came out better than I was ready for and I want to see them expand on this
Oh wow passed 200k subscribers on YouTube this past week! Even though Nazo isn't the only thing I make really, I know he's the one driving most of those numbers lol so here are some flashback stills I got to work on recently in Act 1
I know the actual reasoning is "we can't just have the player use this climatic form in the middle of the game, come on", but the fan-canon of Sonic being able to defeat Perfect Chaos in Generations without going Super Sonic, implying he's grown stronger, is the most shonen shit
ok so let me be clear haha.
After watching social justice protesters lose eyes to rubber bullets as white supremacists storm the capitol building to stop a process no one can prove is false
I can not stress, how little im fucking with u on where u stand on all this
I've seen takes like these before and one of the many downsides of social media + creator accessibility is that some fans grasp at straws, think they understand how the sausage is made & become incredibly cynical about why things are done the way they are
I’ve said it before but I hate 2D animation brute forced in to 60fps. To some eyes it looks great simply cuz it’s smoother, but hand drawn animation isn’t a video game lol. It muddies the movements because the drawings are purposefully timed apart to achieve the desired movement
I truly never expected my Sonic fan fic to span generations of online sonic fans but if Nazo’s the greatest mark I leave on the digi world I’m cool with that
I know Sonic Frontiers is an ambitious step for a Sonic game, but I also don't want to just play as Sonic again. "Get Sonic right first, then we can play the other characters in the sequel" don't sit right with me cuz that's been virtually all modern Sonic games post 06 lol
I’m not the most academic person with media I am inspired by. Remembering the names of artists, actors, etc never came easy.
But damn Akira Toriyama was a household name for me. One of my biggest action influences from an early age, he did so much for us. RIP to a juggernaut
God I’ve been drawing Sonic since I was 4 and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. My Nazo Unleashed stuff is what got me in to animation
#HedgehogArtist
I like the atmospheric tracks in Sonic Frontiers, but when I’m going fast, man tracks from older games really fill that missing factor and changes the vibe entirely
Lol ever since
@TeamYouTube
marked Nazo Unleashed as "for kids"this week, thereby disabling comments, reducing the variety of ads that play and limiting its scope in suggested videos, guess a --90%-- drop in views is the new norm
If you told me a well made 2D official animated modern sonic+chao garden short was being made in the year of our lord 2019 I'd say sure my uncle works at sega too
I think Sonic discourse is always gonna be spicy because Sonic's plot tone & writing is all over the place and everyone wants different things.
I personally think SA2 is the sweet spot but Unleashed was pretty nice too. I roll my eye at storybook Sonic and 06 is too much
Expectation: Reusing level layouts in cyberspace? Once again, Sonic Team taking the cheap route
Reality: [spots bits and pieces from SA2 level layouts]