Hey all,

Officially done with everything for this quarter... No, this YEAR. Jeez it was a lot... I was working my ASS OFF EVERY DAY on my classes. If you've had the SCAD ANIM/ITGM experience then you know.

With that out of the way, I made some awesome stuff while I was gone so here's me showing it off:

Highlights!!!!

First, Game Art!!! I made a lot of cool crap in that class

I made all the models in Maya and then laid it all out in Unreal Engine. To be honest I didn't expect to like it, but Unreal is alright I guess.

And here's a cool stylized landscape I made:

Again, everything was modeled by me in Maya and laid out in Unreal... But unlike the subway I actually handpainted every texture for this one. I really wanted to stand out and make something super stylized and I am super happy with how it turned out!

Overall I am really happy with how I did in the class. I was really scared because I used Maya and Unreal in a previous class but I was so bad with them. I grew a lot from then, and I'm super happy at how quickly I was able to improve.

Next, Survey of Animation. Now to start off, I'm a Game Development major, not Animation. I took this class since it counts as an elective but also mostly just so I could get used to Maya a lot better. And boy it really paid off. I learned how to animate in 3D while doing so too!

I'll upload what I made for my final in that class later, but for now here's a scene from it. I reanimated a part from the live action ATHF episode using some human designs for the Aqua Teens I made a while back.

It's cool stuff and it was my first time animating in 3D... I'm really happy with how it turned out :)

But yea, that's the cool stuff I made this quarter. College has been really tough trying to balance work and getting stuff done in a reasonable time while making it look good but I think I'm getting a lot better at it.

Hopefully I will be able to make cool stuff over the summer. I'm thinking about learning how to animate in Blender since I know how to do it in Maya and since almost everything you do in Maya is like 1000 times easier in Blender I'm down to try and figure it out. Hope you all liked the stuff I showed off. If you didn't, then sorry man.

Until Next Time, See Ya

Hey all,

I know I missed the last two monthly updates... But that was mostly because I literally had nothing to share. Winter quarter was like such a nothing quarter for me.

BUT!!!! Now that's not true because I am taking a game art and animation class... So I've been doing a lot of 3D modeling!!! Check it out heres a cool thing I did for class :)

Pretty cool stuff. I really like UV mapping and texturing, it's a fun process.

I've also been doing some modeling for fun and for practice. Mostly to hone my skills and applied what I learned. It turns out Maya really isn't as bad as I thought, though for these two I still did the outlines for the models in Blender LOL!

And yes... I did see the announcement for Low Poly Day! I'm super glad it's at a really convenient time and I will def try to do something for it now that I'm much more proficient at modeling :)

But erm yeah that was pretty much it. I just wanted to show off some cool modeling stuff I did. But you'll definitely see me post models on my acc since I really wanna show off the cool stuff I make in school. Stay tuned!!

Until Next Time, See Ya

Hi all,

Happy New Year! I hope you've all been enjoying it. As for me, I've been busy at school. That's why you don't see any art from me... I'm always so damn busy! That's also why I'm a little late with this post. But anyway, here's some of my thoughts for this month.

Collab.....?!?!?!?!

So if or if you don't remember I had some collab ideas brewing in my head in December... One of them was a TBOI reanimated collab, just a simple and small collab where we reanimate all the cutscenes. I also had an idea for an adult swim animated collab, but I think I mainly just wanted to do one where we do mock bumps. I don't know why but I am obsessed with adult swim's bumps... I was browsing bumpworthy.com a lot and there's just a lot of cool ones. But people were mostly interested in TBOI, so I guess I'll see if I have time to organize something like it in the future. Stay tuned!

Highlights

A quick heads up, but from now on I think I'll mainly use these posts as an excuse to share work I've been doing for school. Less personal stuff but at least you'll still be able to see my cool stuff! The reason why I won't make them posts themselves on NG unless otherwise stated is because a lot of them I don't really think goes with the stuff I do for fun really well. But it's still travsaus stuff and that's what you all follow me for(at least, I assume so), so you'll still get to see it here :)

Now with that out of the way, here is the said stuff I have been working on:

• First is all this stuff I made for a card game project me and my friend Luke worked on for our game dev class.

It's a card game about these food aliens called Flavorlings that're trying to battle to take over the solar system! I came up with a lot of the gameplay aspects with Luke and also designed the trainers and base Flavorlings. And did all the sweet art you see here. Luke did the card template design. It was a really grueling project because we both had a lot of work and had to print and cut all the cards on the last day but I'm happy with what we came up with. Making a card game is really really hard.

• Here's another thing I made. It's a comic based on the Dogma fight from TBOI for my sequential arts class.

Our prompt was to make a spooky comic with heavy use of black ink. The professor allows us to do fanart so I decided to base it off of one of my favorite sequences from TBOI! Now something you gotta know about me is that I actually don't like making comics. That's why you don't see them from me. It's something that takes a lot of thought and time... But my professor was really impressed with my work and when I told him that he said that he wouldn't be able to assume that about me if he saw this and even thought I was a sequential arts major(I'm a game dev major with a minor in concept art for games). I guess I was just really doubting my skills as a storyteller and comics artist but needless to say I was very happy with how this piece turned out. I might make that last page a print even because I cooked so hard on it.

• Lastly, I participated in a game jam with some friends. I didn't do much besides creature design + some modeling. Unfortunately because of scope creep, absolutely nothing I made made it into the final game.

also this cool scary jumpscare ahhhh

It was still at least fun. And I learned how to unwrap textures more easily in Blender. So yayyyyy

But anyways, that's pretty much it. Hopefully I'll find time to make some cool drawings to post on my account. And I hope you guys are satisfied with the work I posted here! I still try to have fun with all the assignments I do so there's still some of my charm in there.

Until Next Time, See Ya

hey all, trav here!

it's the end of the month and also the end of the year so i got a bunch of stuff to say but FIRST!!!

ANIMATORS, MUSICIANS, ARTISTS, WHATEVER- ANY OF YOU INTERESTED IN COLLABS????

I wanna say I've been having ideas for collabs stewing in my brain for a while and I wanna see if anybody is interested in joining or helping me organize them, because I don't really trust myself alone to organize a bunch of people doing something so uhhhh here it is

• A TBOI Reanimated Collab - basically a simple reanimate collab for all the cutscenes in The Binding of Isaac up to Repentance- the intro, all the endings, and even the little cutscene that precedes the beast fight! Each animator or a team of them could probably animate a scene and it'd just be a cute little tribute to one of my fav games ever.
• An [adult swim] animated Collab - now this one is WAY more big and ambitious, but I've been on my adult swim kick lately and realized that I don't think NG has done an [as] (animated) collab. We have the Toonami Collab from a few years back but I would really like to see one for [as] itself!!!! I was thinking of something like we'd have small animations based on various shows and in between them we'd have like small [as] styled mock bumpers/promos. Either that or something simpler would be we just make little mock bumpers/promos in the style of [as] ones. I think something like that would def take a lot of coordination and time but I would be SO down to do it!!

So, if any of you are up for any of these two ideas please do feel to comment or PM me! I'm really nervous about reaching out to people for these kinds of things but considering it's the new year I wanna try something new.

Now with all that out of the way, here's my boring little recap

Trav's 2024 summary!

No joke I think this is the one year of my whole life where I haven't really felt like absolute shit. Sure, college work has made me kind of want to bash my head against the wall a couple times but I do really feel like overall my life has brightened up. Being in college really made me realize that I have a shot at life. The future is unpredictable but for now I'm glad I have a moment where I can be happy.

That being said some nice highlights of this year:

• Art school stuff. Learned how to 3D model from my game classes and I feel like my art's also improved a lot from my drawing classes!
• I watched a lot of stuff and played a lot of stuff so here's like a quick lightning round review of everything I played and watched this year(mostly adult swim shit lol):

Aqua Teen: damn WHERE has this show been my whole life? I absolutely love the dumb humor of ATHF and it tickles my brain like dangling keys in front of a baby. Absolutely stupid show and that's why I love it so much. Easily my fav adult swim show.

The Boondocks: This show is just so damn funny the whole way through, and it has its touching moments here and there that I really love. Shame that revival never came to be.

Moral Orel: I get it. I get why you all loathe adult swim for canceling this show. Fun in the first two seasons but genuinely so heart wrenching at the end. Loved the nice moments that were sprinkled throughout season 3 like the closeface ep, it was a nice treat.

Venture Bros.: Straight up I think this is the best show adult swim ever freaking put out. This show literally had me HOOKED the whole way through and I could not stop watching episode after episode. Another sad victim of "adult swim canceling everything". Still need to watch the movie though

Ranma 1/2 Reboot: I never watched or read the og Ranma but I kept seeing clips of the reboot on Twitter so I gave in and gave it a watch. It's genuinely so cute and my genderfluid ass wishes I could just switch between being a guy and a girl like Ranma LOL

PVZ1 & PVZ2:RFL: I hadn't played PVZ since I was like 7 years old but it was so nice to go back and relive that moment. Such an amazing game that holds up to this day. I played PVZ2 RFL since my friend Azazel was the former lead balancer, but damn is it such a great mod. The content they add & reworks really make for a fun experience that I'm sure is 10 thousand times better than the war trenches people describe in vanilla PVZ2.

Insaniquarium: the fish are funny. i like them.

Antonblast: This game will absolutely test your tenacity and it's so satisfying once you've conquered it. I love it

• I was in this year's Tankmas event! I made a little Isaac sticker and a drawing for the twelfth day. It was so nice to see this event come back and I'm glad I could go all out on the piece I did for this year's event. I think it might straight up be the greatest piece I did in 2024
• Lastly, a huge thank you to everyone who have supported me over these years and this one. I know I haven't really been active much because of school but I thank you all so much for enjoying my art anyways. Here's to the next year and whatever comes next. Hopefully these monthly blog updates where I just dump my thoughts and feelings on here are enough to sustain you.

I hope you all had a great holiday season and happy new year!

Until Next Time, See Ya

Hello all,

Another month has passed, so here's another little update. This one's gonna be pretty short, though.

November Highlights:

• Made a Bluesky account, finally. You can find it here.
• I've been on winter break for a good while. Finals week was pretty hectic, but I managed to slip by. Me and my friends made a cool board game for our game dev final, here's some art I did for that :)

hell, here's some more school stuff. These are from my Drawing for SEQA class.

I barely share my school stuff because most of it is really boring lol. But this is some pretty cool stuff I did so I guess I can share it!

• Lastly, things have been pretty uneventful for me on this site, I know, but I will be in a few NG projects next month or so! One of them's been finished for a while and the other I'm still working on. The other one is gonna be really cool by the way. I am cooking very hard for it so look forward to it!

That's kind of it for this month, but I've been recovering from the hectic fall quarter and hopefully I'll start working on some more stuff in December. Take care everyone.

Until Next Time, See Ya

hi all,

I'm gonna try something really experimental(and really stupid), it's something I've wanted to try for a while. I just wanna try logging and reflecting on what I've been doing or how I've been every so often. I like to write about stuff like this, so I wanna give it a try. And what better place to try it than Newgrounds.com. There probably is a better place but oh well...

October Highlights!

• School: I've been doing a buttload of schoolwork, which is why you rarely see stuff from me nowadays. I don't really have time to do anything else and when I do I usually just use it to do random stuff, like go out. I think college has improved my mental health a lot, I feel like I'm having fun even while doing work. My art's improved a lot from the classes I've taken. Most recently, I tried doing my first ever game jam! But our team dropped out at the last minute because we couldn't finish it in time... Though we really liked what we had so far so we might continue working on it during winter break and upload it to NG! Here's a tiny sneak peek of what we had:

It's a game featuring a character me and my friend came up with, Gummy the Alien. He was originally featured in a HTML site homework assignment we had for our game dev class. We wanted to do a point and click adventure sort of thing but we just became too burnt out by the last day. Maybe one day you'll all see it come to fruition. Maybe.

• I've also been learning how to 3D model. It's something I've wanted to try but I've always been too scared, until I was forced to use Maya in my Digital Design Aesthetics class. And let me tell you: I HATE MAYA!!!!! IT SUCKS!!!!! TREMENDOUSLY!!!!!!!!!! In fact, Maya pissed me off SO BAD that I started learning Blender out of pure spite, because I did actually want to enjoy 3D modeling but Maya just prevented me from doing so with how stupid it is. I've been enjoying it a lot! I've mostly just been doing low poly stuff since it's really easy, but hopefully I can figure out how to do some more complex stuff.

• Oh yeah, I binged the entirety of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. All 12 seasons. And the two movies. I really liked it! It's easily cemented itself as one of my favorite shows. For a long time, it was a show I knew about but I just never got around to watching it. Mostly because when I still had cable I was really little and my parents would not let me stay up past like, 10 pm at best and ATHF always aired at like midnight. Whenever I watched adult swim it was mostly me catching clips of King of the Hill or me binging Rick and Morty when I was still a huge fan of it. But Aqua Teen always intrigued me, even as a kid. I remember thinking from the title that it was some sort of action show that took place underwater, and then when I actually saw it from the TV guide I was confused as hell. It still keeps me up to this day. Where did the "Aqua" in the name come from? They're not aquatic. I guess I'll never know. Unless one of you actually happens to know why, and in that case please do tell me because I even looked on wikipedia to try and figure it out but they only answered the "Teen Hunger Force" part of the name.

Now I'm currently watching The Boondocks and I'll probably try watching Moral Orel and Venture Bros. over winter break. I'm on that adult swim kick.

• Halloween was fun. I begged my mom to get me the 50 dollar Peashooter costume from Amazon and I had a blast. A lot of people asked to take pictures of me and everything. The head was funny but I could like, barely see anything through the mesh on the mouth. Haha.

• One last thing, I decided to take an extended break from posting on my main account on Twitter for the sake of my mental health + to try and give myself more focus on what's more important. I always wanted to take some sort of hiatus, but seeing recent changes causing a mass exodus from the site finally gave me an excuse to actually do it. I do still post on my side account where I post stupid doodles though(@/childeater442). But most of my actual art will just be exclusively posted here for now, because I'm too much of a lazy bastard to make a bluesky. When they drop video support though I'll probably do it. lmfaooo

But that's it for this month. Hopefully I do these frequent enough to make you all believe I'm not dead.

Until Next Time, See Ya

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hi guys i havent posted in a while and its not like because i forgot about this site or anything no its the complete opposite in fact

i usually reserve all my newgrounds post for art i actually see as, well, "actual art". recently i haven't made anything i consider "actual art". it's probably just cus im busy this summer working on getting into college and all that sweet stuff, and because i am suffering from art block. i feel lazy and unmotivated all the time and that's probably just all the burnout from school. i also think maybe i just set my expectations for myself too high... but i really don't like posting doodles and stuff on here because newgrounds themselves say that the art portal isnt really for that stuff. and so all my doodles go on my twitter and instagram just for that reason

so uhm yea thats all i wanted to say. i really wish i could post on this silly site again because i love it so much. but my posts here are getting more and more infrequent and it makes me sad. i love newgrounds. i want to show my support by actively contributing to it. but i'm sitting here complaining about how i can't instead. christ.

anyways thanks for reading if you didnt thats ok too i love you ok bai :3 and remember to stay epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello everyone,

I recently hit 5k followers!

Thank you so so much for that!! I hope you all look forward to the stuff I do ^_^

n e wayz,

A little update on me, recently I started my second semester of my junior year of high school. I don't know what I'll do when I graduate, so I've been thinking of that jazz lately.

Also, check this out:

See that lil white block with eyes that says "Aseprite"? Yeah.

Your boy trav is getting into the pixel art scene baby!!!!!!!

I've always sucked ass at pixel art, so I decided to try and hone my skills. So far, I've been having fun with it and I think I'm starting to find a style for it.

I have no idea if I'll have time to whip up something cool for pixel day, but we'll see about that.

But anyways, yea. Tysm again for 5k! I'm so overjoyed I managed to get that far in just a year. Seriously! Can you believe that?!

-luv,

trave