Wassup, it's me again.

I hope you all had a good December and New year.

I'll just get right into it:

What's happening in 2023?

Well I'm glad you asked, Charlie.

As it turns out, this year is actually going to be the ten year anniversary of my Newgrounds account!

Which by extension means that it's technically the ten year anniversary of me joining the Madness community too.

I have a few ideas for things I might post when the day rolls around, but the one that seems the most likely is a short animation featuring Zach (my blue OC guy) engaging in some classic madness action and progressing through each iteration of his sprites as the video goes on.

Projects???

Currently my main focus animation wise is getting some work done for Jsoull's "Madness Maxification 2".

It's ending up taking a lot longer than I expected due to the amount of characters I need to animate, real life events getting in the way and me trying to animate in a way that doesn't stand out too much from Jsoull's own style as it would make what I'm doing seem out-of-place in the final product.

But besides that I'm also working on Madness Rozpierdalation 8. People seem hyped for that one so I hope I don't disappoint you with a mid movie when it comes out lol

The premise of it is Roz hunting down Kokkare's OC and fighting through the city's Russian mob to reach him.

(Also the movie started production with the same premise before any stuff between Russia and Ukraine happened so please don't try to associate the movie's tones with politics or real wars at all)

Right now you can see the James Bond esque intro I whipped up for it on youtube if you want a quick teaser:

There's a few bits an pieces besides those two I'm working on, namely a part for the now revitalized Project Felony 1.5. (if it doesn't get cancelled again)

What a nice wall Zea is looking at, I sure hope nobody breaks through it as their theme song plays.

(ALSO PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BOMBARD THE COLLAB HOST WITH REQUESTS TO JOIN HE'S BEEN GETTING THEM NON-STOP)

And finally, there's the topic of Madness Liberation.

A lot has changed with this project as time as passed, namely the fact that the story is ENTIRELY different now, to the point where Abnormis: Departure doesn't really fit into it anymore. So depending on how things play out, that movie may (probably) be retconned story-wise.

But trust me, this new story I've been cooking up is way more interesting than the wibbly-wobbly dimensional bullshit I had going on before.

David is still going to be a somewhat pivotal character too, so if you liked him then don't worry I guess lol

Another important thing I should mention is that the name has changed too. Mainly due to another project called "Madness Liberation" showing up in Madness Day 2022.

So the new name of the project is:

CONTRACT OMNIPOTENCE

(I hope you like it)

I've built this up to a story I genuinely want to tell now.

None of that "Omg madness faction #1 fight faction #2" type stuff, I've tried to make something that even somebody who knows nothing about Madness could enjoy too.

Though I don't really have anything to show right now so have these new designs I guess:

(The 2nd one was done with help by Raff)

However I have adult responsibilities now that need to be my higher priorities.

THIS IS THE BORING PART WHERE I TALK ABOUT LIFE AND MY ONLINE EXPERIENCES FEEL FREE TO SKIP:

In all honesty I don't even know if I'll ever finish this project since life only seems to be getting more complicated as time goes on and my motivation for animation is pretty damn shaky right now.

I know I'll never "quit!!!" animation entirely since I do enjoy it and it only takes like 30 minutes to make a small test for fun but things are definitely going to slow down a bunch compared to say, 2018 Zapchon.

Right now me and RavenTheLemon are doing our best to make living together work, so that obviously requires a lot of my attention. The UK being in a financial disaster also doesn't help make things easier so there's that too.

It's interesting to think about how all of these people in the Madness community that I've followed for almost a decade now have either grown up before me or with me now. I dunno where people like Delamortes or Stagnate are now but I hope them and the rest of you are doing well.

Also, quick shoutout to my boy Anterdox for being the first person I ever spoke to on Newgrounds.

I've gotten some awesome opportunities to get to know people I look up to in this community and loads of people I want to thank and am glad to have met.

There's also people I'd want to apologize to if given the chance.

At this point I'm just done with any and all squabbles people have with each other in the community. (I shouldn't have cared before either lmao)

So I want to apologize to anybody who got caught in the crossfire of the weaponized autism myself and others threw at each other a few years ago.

Being isolated in real life can do some crazy things, caring way too much about online community politics is one of them.

I just hope everybody else in involved in it moved on like I have now. (You'd be surprised by how long some people can keep going with trivial shit like this)

Anyway, that's a whole can of worms and I want to keep this post as positive as possible so I'm gonna end this off by promoting some animators who I feel like deserve more attention for what they put out:

https://www.youtube.com/@aetic5408

https://twitter.com/Nekromanzer1

https://twitter.com/SameMax_

https://twitter.com/Oplegene17

There's no shortage of talent in the newer madness community. Most newcomers would be seen as madness-animation-jesus back in 2013. Keep up the good work, you lot!

Anyway that's all folks, have a good day.