hey all. trav here.

Happy late new year to you all. 2021 was pretty eventful. In fact, I made my very debut at the start of the year!

So uh yea, happy late anniversary to the beginning of a legend.

Plans for this year?

Uhhh I don't really know but I'd like to focus more on original content. I feel like I make way too much fanart, and the whole point of Newgrounds is to promote originality and creativity. You may have noticed that towards the end of 2021 I started making more OC content. I was kinda just experimenting a little and I'm glad you all like my creations. I plan to make more so stay tuned!!!!

2021 Recap (AKA my stupid super long origin story none of you are going to fukcing read)

2021 was the year I decided to man up and throw myself on stage. Originally, I made this account in April of 2020. This was just a few months before FNF came out, so why was I on Newgrounds? Well the truth is, I heard a lot of shit about this site from Twitter and a lot of people were trashing on this site. I decided for myself to see if this site was really as bad as everyone said. I've known about this site ever since I was around 10 years old-- my older brother literally introduced me to this site. All I know is that he played Mario Flash games on this site, but that was about all I knew about NG. So when I first landed here, I was kinda scared actually. It was at a time where I was really unconfident about my art, so I never posted anything. And eventually I kinda just left.

Cut to around November of 2020. The time when FNF got the week 2 update. That was when I first heard about this game. I checked it out, and I loved it. A lot. And so I started browsing Newgrounds. Slowly, but surely, I was finding content I liked and enjoying my time. But it wasn't until the very first day of the new year when I would finally step out and put myself out there. I made my first step. It was kinda scary, and I didn't know what people would think. But I posted more until one day my fate was sealed in stone: ninjamuffin99 himself scouted me and followed me on Newgrounds. I think I genuinely freaked out at that moment, it was so fucking surreal. And most of all, it inspired me to post more to Newgrounds, and get more involved. So, I decided to plunge myself into Newgrounds culture. I played Pico's School. I watched the Tankmen series. I played Alien Hominid, as well as Castle Crashers and BattleBlock(with some friends who played those games as kids and loved them to bits). I watched Madness Combat. I watched animations I watched as a child on Youtube, and went "holy shit it's on newgrounds???". And as I learned more and more about this site, I grew to love it more, too.

In February, I got my very first frontpage. It made me so happy I think I almost peed myself. Well not really, but you get the idea. But what made me even happier was that Tom Fulp himself noticed me! It made me really happy.

In April, FNF crashed the site. A day that will live in infamy. During that crisis, I made a funny little doodle that got 15,000 views and gave me 80+ notifications the day after:

This doodle is literally my most viewed art on Newgrounds. WHY.

Anyways, you see that little Tankman with the megaphone? What I would never anticipate was that Tom himself would ask if he could use it to advertise the supporter status:

(sorry tom if you dont like me using our dms i'll take it down if you want)

I was freaking the hell out. Holy SHIT.

But I felt like using a rushed as hell doodle would be kinda meh, so I redrew it:

And, THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the legend of the megaphone Tankman.

For a few months, he was on every single page on Newgrounds-- the frontpage, the portals, on every art, game, audio, and movie post, EVERYWHERE(unless you had supporter lol). And it made me feel like I was in this really crazy dream, but nah. It was REAL.

In May, nothing much happened, except I made my very first movie post on NG:

It managed to land not only a daily first, but a frontpage and a weekly fourth! I was extremely proud of how it turned out. I dedicated my first animation to Castle Crashers, because it's my favorite Newgrounds game ever. It just expels so much NG energy. You may all think Binding of Isaac is my favorite NG game, but nah. CC will always hold a special ass place in my heart. Shoutouts to Fulp and Paladin for blessing the world with a straight masterpiece.

In June, I made the artwork for 2021's Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch!:

HUGE thanks to @/SplatterDash for hitting me up for this. I'm so happy I got to make a banner for an NG event.

Skip forward to October, when it was revealed that I did the designs for the NGSAJ shirts!:

Another big thanks to @/BrandyBuizel for hmu for this! It made me so happy that I got to make official merch for NG. And thank you to everyone who bought a shirt-- it gave us more than enough to kickstart the next jam! Please look forward to it!

I myself got a hominid shirt:

Because I love hominid. He is my son.

And that's pretty much all the big stuff that happened to me this year.

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Thank you to everyone who's viewed, voted, and faved my stuff, and thank you to everyone who followed me. 2021 was a great year for me and I hope 2022 has more to offer!

Huge thanks to Tom for such an amazing site, and huge thanks to all the friends I made on here. I love ya.

So that's all. Until next time, seeya.

-trav <3

(i would put a nice image here but ng only lets me put 10 images. damn)

The winners of the Summer Animation Jams were announced and as you all may or may not know, I was the lucky guy who got to design the shirts for the winners!

Four designs were produced, and three would go to the winners while the last would be sold to the public and all funds would go to kickstarting the next jam! That design would be none other than Hank. J Wimbleton!

Look at him, in summer gear, riding a hot dog floatie, and enjoying a nice Steve ice cream bar. Isn't it cute---er, badass?

YOU CAN BUY THE SHIRT HERE!!! GET YOURSELF SOME OFFICIALLY LICENSED NEWGROUNDS DRIP:

https://store.brandondriesse.com/listing/newgrounds-summer-jams-2021

THESE SHIRTS ARE A LIMITED RUN ONLY, SO BUY THEM WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

thanks for everything, seeya!

luv, trav :)

remember when i posted this

well GUESS WHAT!!!!!

megaphone tankman is BACK BABEY!!!!!!!!

tom made the shoutout smaller though so rip i guess lmao

sanfo

i wonder what this next animation could be

maybe the real megaphone tankman was the friends we made along the way.

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i just wanted to post some of my fav frames from my animation, which you can check out here:

if you look closely, pink and blacksmith are holding hands. :D

there's more, but I already posted them, hehe.

Just wanted to make this dump so you can enjoy these frames in all their framey glory

:D

btw thank you all SO much for the love, I was honestly nervous people wouldn't like it ;~;

but again, thank you <3

still workin on that animation idea i had :)

Just wanted to make a quick post about how things are going with me. If I'm gonna be honest... They're not so great. I've been really stressed and frustrated because of school and how it's affecting my mental health, and my parents don't make things any better by constantly talking about my grades whenever they can. Don't worry about it though, it's just asian parent things.

But things have been pretty good, too! Ever since my megaphone tankman got plastered all over Newgrounds, I've went from 700 followers to a whopping 1.7k. And I thought that would take months to reach, but you all decided to shorten it to 6 days. Really happy about that. It's kind of hard to impress people since I barely make any original art and I just draw the things I like. I've been really, really, really, reaaaaalllllyyyy been wanting to make some more original art, but I guess I'm just shy.

Speaking of art, I made something for Pico Day. I probably won't post it until the day hits, though. But trust me, it'll be cool! It took me a whole month, because I kept redrawing things and also because school. Haha.

Here's a sneak peek:

Just a tiny Tom Fulp and a diminished Dan Paladin. I think the Behemoth might just be my favorite Newgrounds thing ever, so why wouldn't I put these two in?

Anyways, that's about it. Again, thank you all for so many followers! I didn't expect so many. People have been saying things like "I became a supporter because of your megaphone tankman" and that honestly makes me happy. I hope you all know that none of that supporter money goes to me. But I genuinely don't care, because this site needs more money than me. This site has been important to me ever since I was a wee little lass, and I want nothing but good things for it. ng for life!!!!!