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Josh @squeakytoad

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Posted by squeakytoad - September 8th, 2022


Coffee keeps me going as I enjoy the midnight songs of our newborn. Here are some coffee shorts.










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Posted by squeakytoad - July 20th, 2022


It's top of the front page, so it doesn't need my boosting. But I enjoyed this so, so much. Can't wait to see more from @WillardWorm.



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Posted by squeakytoad - October 22nd, 2021


Imagine how these guys feel:


Big thanks to voices of @Jacob & @knucklesamichva & @makestuff


Work with them if you can. Very talented. Very patient with a guy who’s got a kid now and can’t animate as fast as he used to.


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Posted by squeakytoad - January 17th, 2021


Check out this animator flying under the radar here (and on YouTube).


@kindclutter

https://kindclutter.newgrounds.com/movies/


I'm really digging his unique animation style:


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Posted by squeakytoad - December 30th, 2020


*spoilers?*


I knew it wouldn't happen, but with all the group assembling at the end of Mandalorian season 2 and with the Jedi cameo, this was what I was imagining (whipped up real quick over a few days):



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Posted by squeakytoad - October 8th, 2020


Where did all this talent come from? I was told NG was "dead" (by people who live on Twitter), but every week there are animations/games submitted that would've been top 5 of the year In the 2000-2010 "glory days."


This is officially my 15th year on Newgrounds dot com.



I somehow have

456 saves

&

456 blams? Whoah.


I have 10,436 XP, which I think means I've voted on ~5,000 videos/games? Avg 30 seconds each, I've spent at least 2,500 mins on videos here. That's 42 hours at least. And there are apparently 10,000 users who've watched more?

Joined at 13 years old in 2005 and submitted this really, really bad Star Wars cartoon that somehow has 250k views.


Newgrounds was so popular it propelled talentless hacks like 13-year-old me to e-fame.

Time is a flat circle, cause 15 years later, I'm still parodying the Star Wars prequels.


Star Wars was a global phenomenon, so it's how I, an American kid growing up in a remote Thai village with a 56k modem could relate to both my American friends over AOL Instant Messenger and with my Thai friends.

So of course it's the first thing I animated when I learned Flash.


Here's me in a Bangkok newspaper for an animation award intended to advance Thai kids' in arts and technology.

I don't think I was what the program creators envisioned...

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First taste of NG "relevance" was when my poorly tweened shape-tool (didn't have a tablet yet) cartoon "Dare" featuring Switchfoot's "Dare You to Move" somehow picked up a lot of views.

It's been removed here and YouTube a lot of times when the record companies came for the internet.


This was before thousands of Facebook and YouTube channels capitalized on the "wholesome content" craze, so I think it did well because people found the positivity refreshing among all the "edgy" content?


My mom and aunt went to watch it and accidentally clicked on a nearby submission under judgment and saw Strawberry Clock's head on some naked dude swinging schlong. Ah, Newgrounds.


If you were around then, you probably remember that I had a weird chip on my shoulder, which is a bummer cause I missed out on having a lot of the fun early on that I had in my later years here. @MindChamber rightfully called me out.


Thankfully, artists far more friendly and talented than me looked past that to collaborate and burn time on the old AOL messenger, cause I learned an insane amount from those folks, like @AlmightyHans, @RuberNinja, @Luis, Edd Gould, @RWappin, @FunyMony, @Gerkinman, @MiddleFingerRings, @Godlimations, @TommyVF and @MarcyVF and many others. Probably missing some. Thanks for the fun times, all. Trying to follow what you're all up to these days.


Since 2005, I've graduated high school, graduated college, gotten a few jobs, moved all over the US, gotten married, had a kid, and here I am.


I want to do something original soon. Tried an original series a while back, but it was pretty derivative.

At least I came back in 2013 and finished it.


While I was at it, I realized nobody ever finished their "To be continued" cartoons from the 2000-2007 timeframe. So I figured I'd do it a decade later.


I got active lately cause COVID's opened up weekday evenings and weekends.


But I'm really enjoying the connection with old and new content creators here and on twitter (https://twitter.com/joshwimble). I'll try to not go on such a long hiatus again, unless this whole having a kid thing gets to be a handful.


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Posted by squeakytoad - August 16th, 2020


And now I wait for my newborn son to grow into another kid who thinks my cartoons suck.


In the meantime, I'll try to figure out if I can stay productive adjusting to animating for short periods between crying sessions... not to mention there's the baby to take care of...


While I figure that out, hope you enjoy the latest in my monthly Star Wars parody series. If you're a Star Wars fan, you don't have to start at the beginning to follow:


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Posted by squeakytoad - June 30th, 2020


...in 2012. Spooky.


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Posted by squeakytoad - May 27th, 2020


Animating is the hobby where I get to be a teenager again. I loved Star Wars as a kid, and I've always liked Robot Chicken and other shows that send up the nostalgic classics. I feel like it's a great use of indie animation, since you can be more irreverent with other people's brands and franchises. So I jotted funny Star Wars scenes for years until I had a parody of basically the whole prequel trilogy.


And for no reason than that it's fun and I hope other Star Wars fans enjoy it, I'll be putting out a new episode every month or so until I've burned through those ideas.


The latest:


The second:


If you missed the first:


The trailer for the series:


It may not be most Newgrounds viewers' sense of humor, but I'm pumped to be making content for this site again.

Thanks to Newgrounds, I feel like I've gotten to come a long way with this hobby. For reference, here's my Star Wars parody from 2005, over a decade and a half ago:


Oh yeah, it's bad.


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Posted by squeakytoad - December 8th, 2013


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