It's still going, gents.

The direction of focus has realigned.

For those of you who haven't been on the Official Discord for Madness: Project Nexus, I have been spending a great deal of effort expanding the game's modding power through the Not Enough Madness Sandbox mod; our progress has come so far that you can remix the story campaign into a new experience, and modding tools are now being actively constructed by Swain himself for their next big game update.

What does this mean, you may wonder? Well I have pretty much done everything I wanted to do with MPN that is currently possible, and I've been working closely with Swain to allow fully custom content (e.g new models for armor/weapons/characters). I believe now that others can take the reign on modding, it's time to resume where I left off.

The completion of Cinemadness Subjugation will now be my new focus for the remainder of the year. I can't promise completion by this Madness Day (thanks to a physically painful summer), only that I will finish this story as I intended. All modding related ventures are now a secondary concern until it's done.

Listen here gents, my current supporting artist can no longer fulfill the role of prettying backgrounds as far as Cinemadness: Subjugation is concerned, so I'm making the call for someone to come fill the gap.

While the main linework and color choices for backgrounds are my doing, it makes scene animation go smoother if I can delegate the detailing to someone who has a better eye for it than I do. That being said, your job would be specifically to add onto existing backgrounds to match up with the cinemadness style while I proceed with the corresponding scene.

It is important for applicants to know that I work in CS6, which means that any work done in Animate CC will likely be incompatible. Leave a comment or message if thoust shall heed the call.

Well this is a shocker isn't it? Yes, you read that right, my official N51 Sprite sheet for the default kit is now available! Find the CS6 template here.

Curious as to why? Well a suspiciously sudden number of you have been asking me for them, and the more people asked, the more I asked myself:

• Why am I selectively withholding access to assets that I'm never going to use? (Now that I have Cinemadness, there's just no going back)
• What other alternative spritesheets are available to the community that are complete and up to date?
• How many solo projects are being denied fruition because of their lack of availability?
• Why do people keep suggesting Cheshyre fursuits as merch?

When it dawned on me that I didn't have a good answer for any of these, I deduced that there's no good reason to selectively with-hold access; therefore, I am releasing a retrofitted sprite sheet complete with all angles, and added some fix-er ups and pointers.

The template is created using Flash CS6; if you're stuck with Flash 8, you'll have to improvise.

Credit where it's due gents; I'll know.

Evening gents,

It's been almost a year since I've posted something here, because for the past few months, the Project Nexus scene has been booming. Let's break down what I've been doing:

Project Nexus Sandbox Mod

With the drought of a Project Nexus Update for most of this year, an MPN beta tester by the name of XDefault had started making a sandbox mod for Project Nexus, now being called "Not Enough Madness" [NEM]. I jumped in on that and fleshed out the power to introduce your own fully customizable characters into Project Nexus. If you have an MPN pass on the official Madness Discord, you can download and play it there.

The Project Nexus Dossier

Before I took part in the NEM mod's development, I was working on a separate program that is essentially a database for all characters in Project Nexus. This program will tell you everything you need to know about any given unit/character, and details everything that they are capable of. While the program is handy for things like animation choreography and roleplay, it finds its natural use in using the NEM mod's character creator and automatically comes packaged with it. Those who just want the program itself can download it here.

Project Reclamation

The development of the NEM mod and the knowledge acquired from the Dossier is slowly but surely building the foundation for a planned campaign expansion mod for Project Nexus. Full details of that can be found here.

So while all this took time away from working on Cinemadness: Subjugation, I can safely say that alot of that reallocated time went to a good cause. Now that all of this is out the door, I can resume working on that again.

As you probably noticed, I've decided that I won't be posting an insubstantial teaser for my Cinemadness:Subjugation this year. Earlier this month I already started working on the next part, so I figured that's energy better spent. A real trailer shall come out once Part 3 is done, which should be around next summer, Until then, I'll just keep turning the wrench.

Evening lads. The first act of an upcoming solo, officially titled "Cinemadness Subjugation" is now complete. It was finished at the end of August, so more time was spent on it than I wanted to. A small fraction of it is attributed to tedious foundation work that had to be laid for this new style. Fortunately, that will carry over into the next act, so that will shave off some of the production time. My current projection for Act II's deadline is towards the end of the year.

While that is being worked on, there's still some time to spare before Madness Day, and I've been getting suggestions to release a trailer (or the entirety of act one, what?) from at least one other person. While I planned to do a trailer further down the road, what I have now is insubstantial, so it'd be a short teaser at most. As for the idea of releasing what I have now and releasing the rest of it later, that's a terrible idea because I don't want to release things incomplete; it'd be Deliverance all over again.

So because I'm not decided on this, I'll put it to a vote: Should I release a teaser, or just keep working on the movie? maybe the following teaser images will help you decide.

I am hereby resigning from Green Pepper Studios, and will be returning to animating on an independent basis as of 04/17/2019. I would like to thank the GP team for their collaboration in the past, and bid them good will on all their future endeavors. This was a hard choice to make, so I entrust the members of Green Pepper Studios to respect both my decision, and the works that I have shared with them in the past. Their feedback has been a major factor in my improvement as an animator, and I hope that mine was for theirs as well. I apologize to the members of GP that I chose not to stay, and my decision is final. I wish GP luck in the future.

The movie will continue as planned.

For 2019, I have resolved to do many things, one of them was "Make something damn cool as a tribute to Project Nexus". With Cinemadness ready to go, I have chosen one of two scenarios to finally be brought into motion this year. Of course I also resolved to "open up a little more to people", so I'll be doing things a little differently this time.

This upcoming feature presentation is divided into four acts, and with the completion of each act I'll make another post about it with some glimpses into the future. Perhaps that way I'll have a reason to soldier through it considering this will be the longest feature I've made thus far.

Don't wish me luck gents, because that would imply I'd need it.

With the last 6 months being spent on tailoring a new style of Madness, today marks the day of its trial run. Cinemadness returns in the form of a prologue within a prologue, and holds promise for great things in the future. So with that, Happy Madness Day gents.