Since the sprites have already been seen, there's been fan recreations, Matt n I were planning to release it all once part 2 dropped, and he is likely going to redo them himself anyways, here's the official Hank Redux Sprites.

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/22aecd4c764d84a55e832e975934dd3a

Gun sprites, including ones that haven't been used or seen yet.

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/605ad14cf14c5d3b410c4662795494d3

and my own grunt sprites, not official MadCom sprites.

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/a620df383beed6870a7d31c050c4b70b

These were going to release eventually anyways so whatever, do what you want with them.

Also despite on-going rumor, no, I am not back and do not have plans to return.

It is important I let you all know about my horrific history from years past.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CwzAPRvSgstqoSgcp8_nlW5r-aZr1oXrXdMJbcP7JNk/edit?usp=sharing

it has very serious stuff in it, read with caution. It is also not the best written, as it was done in a tizzy trying to fetch old old documents and fess up to what was done. It’s not a great response, theres a lot of fumbling and rambling, but it is what it is.

Going forward? I don’t think there is one, a lot of stuff is fresh, hurt, angry, and all of it rightfully so.

I know a lot of you looked up to me and I’m sorry it has to go down this way, but it cannot be avoided.

EDIT:

I made a follow up document that addresses stuff I had forgotten to talk about, and re-clarifies some stuff. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BkAYN7MDNoBfIsl9C5dhPDoitTV5G2KygGjvSR166W0/edit?usp=sharing

The troublesome thing about abandoned cities is that they are almost never completely abandoned.

Weapons and boobs, you can all freak out now.

Bababooey Fafafooey.

Who really knows? Anything could be out there.

Hank is cool.

Show me your cartoons, I will hold Matt at gun point and force him to watch your cartoons then respond with a quote from him about your animation.

So it's obviously been quite the year for me! I apologize for putting REALITY.fla on such a delay, but as most of you already know I kinda lost my apartment back in May and was couch jumping for a while, on top of a huge commission pile!

It's left me strained for time to work on it, but that's also given me time to think.

Personally? I'm considering binning the project. Though it's pretty close to completion, it just feels like it doesn't have its own voice y'know? I did so much work to make sure everything within the cartoon was canonically correct I limited myself in the scope of what I could do with my artistic vision.

Meanwhile, something I DO wish to pursue would be a cyberpunk/Blade Runner inspired cartoon, something I can flex my art muscles with. That and Miami madness, which I've actually been considering making a complete frame by frame cartoon. No sprites baby!

But who knows, all I know is that REALITY.fla feels like it doesn't have its own voice, it has qualities and concepts that make it unique but at the end of the day I'm still using the AAHW and still using a lot of ideas from Matt. I feel like it's limiting the scope of my creative potential and that using madness as a vessel for a story, rather than trying to tell a "madness" story, would be much more interesting to work on.

But hey, that's what this post is for! Discussion, let's talk. I want to hear your thoughts.

Don't have much to show other than that Jeb art really. I had planned to do a short where Jeb rises from the ground to kick some ass, which was the general concept behind the rough art piece I uploaded.

The only real madness animation I've done THIS year however was a frame by frame scene for MAXIFICATION 2.

Which you can watch here!

It was originally supposed to be in the trailer, but unfortunately it got removed. So I'll just share it with you all here!

Click here for dumping grounds.

Click here for YouTube.

That's all I can show, but expect big things in the future!

Merry madness day, I'll make sure to check out everyone's submissions.

I see this big stigma about how test collabs are shit and pointless and boring and blah blah blah.

They're oversatured and unoriginal sure, that much is true. But they're also good for scouting animators to participate in something bigger. I know when I reccomended people to participate in Paradig 2 it was based on a pointless test collab, but it still showcased the skill these animators had.

It brought unseen talent to my eyes, a lot of it. If anything test collabs are still an important part of this community, they help showcase new animators and what they can bring to the table for bigger projects.

A lot of unnecessary shit gets thrown their way, but like I said they're important for showcasing a bunch of individual talent in one spot.

If you want to make a test collab, do it. Gather new animators, bring all of you together in one spot so we can all see what you're capable of.

Just something that's been on my mind while Matt and I have been working on some cool stuff lately.

Expect some cool shit dudes.

Small 30 minute podcast where I, alongside Kelzad and Cymbourine, talk about Madness projects and how my art fuels my cartoons!