Little note to Sprite Animation fans who canāt afford Adobe Animate or a Computer to animate.
I can suggest you this new starting tutorial series by my good old friend Doujin Pixation (literally the one who inspired me with Patafoin at the time)
Heās using ToonSquid on iPad, which is quite accessible despite costing a little bit to download (I think itās 10 bucks).
Iām also planning to make another Animation tutorial in the future (both sprites and 3D) to showcase more advanced stuff and my own techniques.
Take care people, Iāll get you updated when Iāll get my new computer āļø
watch video on watch page
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Today marks the end of a journey with my trustful machine.
My laptop : Asus Rog Strix Scar 2 [GL504GS] has stopped working this morning. (While I was working on TSA lmao)
It cut off suddenly, and doesnāt respond. (Even without battery). A bit frustrated as I installed fresh new fans a few weeks earlier before going on vacation š« .
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The good thing is : all my data is safe! (I took the precaution to put everything on external drives and so on). Iāll try getting back the data that is inside the computer in a few weeks, if theyāre all safe. If not, Iāll just lose the last two weeks of work at the very worst.
Iāll invest on a new PC soon, I tried figuring out the problem and my entire setup is compromised. So repairing would cost too much for nothing. But for now Iām completely unable to work on my videos nor do anything related to it for weeks (as I was preparing something big for the end of the summer š)
I will upload the very last animation I did with that computer before it passes away. Itās a short I first put in instagram for a joke.
I will do another post soon to tell you informed of the updates. āļø
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Huh, cool. They added a Reddit on YouTube š
Time to introduce myself :
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Hi, I'm now in summer vacation!
I may do an animation livestream this week-end, are you interested? I'll be animating this :
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HOLY CRAB !! š¦ 90k views in less than 2 Days?
I'm genuinely impressed... I didn't expect to see that this series would get this much attention again after these months :/
I knew there were hardcore fans, but 90k in 2 days I think that's the first time I ever get that on the channel.
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first of all : THANK YOU SO MUCH ! This video was really hard to make it happen, we faced many issues to make this episode possible (especially on the 2nd half where there were big issues)
Big shout-out to āŖ@Senator_Kujoā¬ who contributed the most on this episode, actually there were meant to be more people involved such as āŖ@jit_isdeadā¬ for the fighting scene, and āŖ@AlbinoTheHedgehogā¬ for more hand drawn scenes (who went inactive due to studies), and āŖ@MaxwellTheCat123ā¬ who could only contribute to one scene of this episode.
But we faced many complications for this one, most of it is due to my fault, my planning was poor and disturbed a lot by my studies, I took a long time before coming through something that could fit well because I wanted to put a lot on that fighting part near the end, but not everything was executed pretty well (I'm going to explain in a bit)
I went a bit selfish for the scene āØāŖ@jit_isdeadā¬ (aka. Monk) was supposed to help me, I had very specific ideas but that was very complicated to translate and to split the work, because everything had to be in pace with the music, and I apologise for that.
I went through making a very epic scene, but at the cost that this scene has huge flaws story wise, and I received returns about that in the comments multiple times.
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The scene when Shadows decides to betray Metal Sonic and later on Metal Sonic deciding to defend Neon was confusing. I tried my best to try making something that could be understandable, but it was almost impossible due to the fact that the build up of their character development was done way too late. And I couldn't spit everything in one single episode.
I noticed that issue during my big break after ACT 11, I knew it would be very difficult to come with something that could be logic in only a few episodes before the big fight.
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TSA is my first big atempt in writing a story, so there are flaws for sure, It changed radically since season 1.
I hope it didn't annoyed that much, I see that you all enjoyed the quality of animation at least : )
I'll try to do better next time ^^
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Now about what's going next :
-We'll be working during this summer to produce ACT 15 and ACT 16, the remaining episodes before the end.
Stay tuned because we might upload it from September and the end of the year possibly.
-I'll be posting a few shorts and other animations during the summer too do fill the gap, I have things I wish to upload.
-I may announce something pretty big soon too.... š (image 4)
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Hey, one day left!
Tomorrow, I'm going to do a livestream before the episode drops out. Question, do you prefer Gaming or Animation Livestream?
for gaming I was thinking about a few games with some people on discord :
-SM64 Coop
-SRB2 Kart
-Lethal Company
Or maybe, I can simply animate the first animation of The Boys I announced months ago : The boys in Speed Highway if you're interested.
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Howdy! Are you ready for this week-end?
I will do another post tomorrow or friday about the potential Livestream before the episode drops out, but first I've got to tell a few things here :
-The first one is : After ACT 14 drops out, I'll be quite busy with school work for a bit, so the video rate will be a bit slow unfortunately, but to compensate I'll upload a few Shorts of previous TSA episodes or some past content, plus additional short animations I've been working around.
-The second one is about the Membership system, I might not be the only one to think it but there are things that are not great about it, especially about the formula that says "Become the first to watch my videos" and "Get a chance to appear in a video".
It's been a moment since I wanted to change things up about this, first due to the fact that I post less often than before and second due to the fact that I don't really like how limited I am with Youtube's Membership tools.
@Trinity is the one who was subscribed the longest and I discuss with him often on Discord, and we put on the table about the fact that there's something wrong about the current Membership and it's quite unfair.
I'm going to remove the membership soon (or change everything about it), and replace it with a Kofi or Patreon, I'm currently exploring what this has to offer and I think it should be a bit better to give actual stuff to the fans from here, have a better follow-up of who is actually subscribed (because on youtube I can't find back people who are unsubscribed, and it's problematic). I wish to give exclusive content as well as free stuff like my own 3D models and resources from here.
I'm sorry for those who have paid the subscription and got nothing in return, I felt bad about it and I'm trying to find solutions to change that. I'm currently setting up a collab/cameo video that will be announced soon so I'm keeping the names I saved from previous months so they can have a priority if they want to participate.
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ACT 14 DROPS THIS WEEK.
After months, the episode is finally done.
The video should show up soon after the export finishes, Be ready for the epic battle on May 3rd!
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It's close to the end š
Howdy, sorry for not giving news for a little while, this month has been tough for me and I was kept busy almost all time.
I'm now soon to be done with that big school project, and I'll soon be able to clear TSA ACT 14 once and for all.
@littleneonstar756 also told me that last week it was the 4th anniversary of TSA (the new version).
Happy anniversary to TSA (it took that long haha).
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Hi, My nameās Lucas Launay, a french dude who likes doing animations. RPDJ means nothing except sounding cool hehe.
I love Sonic, But my content is not fully based on it, I love retro gaming, 80-90s "Synthwave/Cities" aesthetic and racing cars, and a bunch of other stuff.
I post what I like to do here, from Sonic animations, to crazy stuff coming straight from my head. I make concepts, and most of all I DO HAVE FUN! ^^
I'm very thankful of the community that grew up with me, working alone for over 9 years, I will soon contribute to future great projects for the channel, for others or just for the fun of creating :)
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CONTACT :
Discord: @lucasrpdj [The NEON Crew]
Instagram: @lucasrpdj
Twitter: @launay_lucas [Not using it anymore]