I'm drowning in projects again, it seems. I'm going to verbally vomit more information, so I'll start with the most interesting shit first, I guess.

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Basically, I started trying to make a new game a week or so ago. My past attempts in video game design would always be plagued with bugs I could never fix and were thusly abandoned, but I have high hopes for this new game due to it being a flash game. It's a Siblings game starring Johny. It'll be a typical side stroller akin to Castlevania in the sense that you primarily fight enemies and maybe a boring puzzle here or there. He uses a guitar axe as a weapon. Original, I know.
Anyway, I'm mentioning this because I'm hosting a gameplay demo of it at games.bobert-rob.com, so if you want to check it out, you may. I'll continually update it to fix stuff, so check it out once in awhile. I'll update it everytime I work on it at the end of the day. It's just a gameplay demo, so no story elements will be spoiled by trying it. Check it out and let me know what you think. I know it isn't much, but hopefully it'll become much better.
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Episode 6 of Siblings hasn't been touched in awhile (about two scenes have been started out of 9 or so), I've made no progress with The Heart and the Hand p2 besides putting audio together for it, and I'm practically done with the collab entree I've been working on. Of course, who knows when the collab will be released, but I'll keep you updated as I get information on it.

Oh, and the video games video I mentioned in the past post hasn't really been started yet, but it'll probably be a series of three or so videos, each focusing on different game making programs I've used. I have no idea when it'll be done, but it'll happen I'm sure.

Stick a fork in me, I'm done. HARDY HAR AHR.

Don't mind the subject title, it didn't get the memo.

I'm considering doing a video reel that would involve all my past video game endeavors. Reason being, I spent so much time on so many of them and pretty much all of them will never see the light of day. Once in awhile I'll go through them and replay them, and sometimes I enjoy it. If only for nostalgia's sake.

It would be a youtube only video since it'll just be screen recordings, but I ask you anyway. I get more responses here than anywhere else, so why not. Would any of you care to see it? All of the games kind of suck, but I'd try to show the best footage of each. Footage of the gameplay, cutscenes from the game, and hell, maybe even a voiceover explaining the history behind the footage. It depends on what you guys want since it's really all for you anyway.

On the Up side, you get to see something you'd otherwise never bear witness to. A possibly interesting history into my failed attempts at video game design. On the Down side, it would likely take me a week or more to put together, and it wouldn't be much more than a history lesson about my past.

So, do you? Pic below contains graphics from various games I'd created, most being unfinished. All the super old games, more recent examples, etc. DO YOU WANT IT OR NOT, ANSWER ME.

Hey, all. I released a preview of Siblings Episode 6 on deviantArt and figured I'd let you know about it. I'd release it on NG, but... well, I only release complete things here. You can see it on my website as well if you don't want to mess with dA. Link to Bobert-Rob.com's preview.

I've also released a few half assed animations on my youtube account. I don't know if you knew about that. Maybe, but who knows. In any case, those videos were made specifically for youtube, so if you wanna see em', that'd be the place to do so. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're desperate for more by me, and even then it's just odd. If you want to know WHY I decided to waste a few days doing them, read all about it at this Link.

And that's all... I think. I dunno, I might think of more later. Lets hope not though, eh? I'm tired.

Sorry bout that, guys. Really. I didn't mean to make you fans feel insignificant with that post, I just set my personal expectations of myself too high. I mean, look at "Half Beard" and "Not-The-FFXII". Those two did awesome and I miss that. I'm not at the level of recognition I wish I was and I'm frustrated every time I'm reminded of that fact.

Still, though, I shouldn't have taken it out on you guys. So again, my apologies. You guys are awesome and I want you to know that. I just suck sometimes. I hope to make it up to you guys soon with a fully animated preview of the scene I'm working on from episode 6. I'll probably do that next week so I can make a front page post about it. You know, one that isn't stupid. But for now, I gotta get back to updating my website.

Later.

*achoo*

I'm not in the best of moods at the moment, as flash decided to delete the character cells for episode 6 I was working on for the past two weeks, so I gotta redraw em'. Thankfully I had started animating one of the scenes, so the angles I'd already used were saved in another file, but there were a good 10 or so angles I completely lost and need to redraw from scratch. Not that any of you care, of course.

In other news, I've been working slowly on the website. Yep, work on that is going at a snail's pace. Why? Because I said so, shut up. It's got enough there at the moment. The animation section, the music section... I even threw together a store that no one will buy from. Many improvements were made and it's all looking mighty nice. Again, though, only like 10 people will even care to notice. Being recognized for my work sure is nice... (sarcasm)

Which, I guess, brings me to the foremost point in my mind: I'm fucking pissed. Pissed because I put months of work into Heinous Anus Zone, an original script full of awesome jokes and the best animating I'd ever done, and it was all wasted because I was over-eager and released it on a day something more popular was released. And then I watch as many flash animations make the front page, hardly any of them deserving the spotlight, and due to their exposure they end up being seen by hundreds of thousands. It's fucking frustrating when I put all this god damn work into something only for the joke stealing idiots of the flash community to fucking best me.

But yeah, excuse me for being a pessimistic little bitch. I'm honestly sorry about that, but life's shitty at the moment. Frustration in more areas than just this, though this doesn't help matters at all.

In any case, I got news for you: If this shit continues to spiral downhill, I'm going to stop making it. As in, if episode 6 doesn't receive anything near what episode 5 did, I'm just going to fucking stop the series altogether. I'm not just going to waste half a year on something that only a few thousand people are going to see, you know? I'm not a fucking charity, and I'm certainly not making money at it, so yeah. Fair warning.

PS: Since I don't want to completely disappoint my 10 fans, I offer a preview of episode 6 in the form of a cell I drew. This one was saved, thankfully. It's both a taste of what's to come and a display of how I feel right now. Tired of life. Enjoy while you can!
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Hey, all. I'm rushed, so I'll make this quick. Siblings mini-Episode 2, "Heinous Anus Zone", is finally done and released! Rob comes up with a ridiculous Sonic level idea and rants to Johny about it for awhile. Johny doesn't like it, but that's his problem.

Oh yeah, I forgot to put the link to the cartoon in here. It's here now. CLICK.

Also, bobert-rob.com is the new official site of all of my work. Yep, finally got that stuff set up. Right now it's just a placeholder that links to my main accounts on NG, dA, and youtube. Poor youtube, it has no cool acronym. Well, I assume it doesn't anyway. I've never seen one. Anyway, yeah, I'm working on improving the site and moving it over to the new server in the next week or so.

But who cares, you got a new cartoon. Episode 6 won't see the light of day for awhile, so you better enjoy it. OR ELSE!

NOTE: Due to a change in plans, this mini-episode will not be released until I have my new web address. This shouldn't take very long, but I figured I'd give you a heads up now.

Siblings mini-episode 2 is coming soon. Nearly a minute of hold-you-over-until-the-next-episode footage, with extras and another damn scrapbook. All that shit. SOON. As in I DON'T HAVE A PLANNED DATE, BUT DON'T BE SURPRISED IF YOU SEE IT ON HERE SOON.

Expect it in the next few weeks.

PS: The image below is a still image from the aforementioned mini-episode. Yep, Rob's left handed. Go fig.

Hi folks. I need to get a better webhost and a new address, but I'm not entirely sure what the address should be. I could be lazy and just do "myhead.com" or .net or whatever (which would be lazy because my current website uses the 'myhead' name), but that's a pretty vague address that doesn't hint much at what the website even is. Hell, it's downright suggestive.

Figured I'd throw ideas past you guys and you could, I don't know, tell me what one you like most. Might help me make a decision. I'm too indecisive at times. So here they are:

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"bobertrob.com / .net" ; The most simple and easy to remember site on this list. Refers to my typical account name on internet websites. Easy to remember if you're familiar with my work already.

"rawbert.com / .net" ; A mixture of my RAW initials and my name. It's somewhat vague, but I kind of like it. Kind of.

"robrobrobrob.com / .net" ; Obviously a dumb website address, but I find it funny because it's so stupid. Hints to the humor found at the site. Most likely won't use it though.

"rawnimation.com / .net" or "rawanimation.com / .net" ; RAW + animation. It could work, although the 'rawnimation' might be hard to remember spelling-wise. Also, 'rawanimation' might give people an impression that these cartoons were very... shoddy or incomplete in the visuals. Granted, certain aspects of my work is indeed shoddy, but a lot of people like how I do it so I don't know.

"rawsylum.com / .net" or "rawasylum.com / .net" ; RAW + asylum. I know, most of these just stick 'raw' into other words, but I kind of like that. The asylum reference only fits with Treeva, as most of my animations aren't creepy crazy, just crazy. Although it fits Siblings to a degree, I guess.
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And I can't decide which one I want. I'm leaning toward bobertrob.com/net/whatever, but I'm not sure. Tell me your thoughts on the subject, would ya? And if you know of a good webhost, I'm all ears. Help a brother out. A white brother.

Note: Yes, the drawing below has nothing to do with anything. I have this habit of wanting to post art with each news post, which thus makes everyone want to comment on the art instead of the actual post. If you comment on the artwork, please consider the actual question too, thanks.

I'm so tired of seeing that news post I got about my recent release... so tired that I'm writing a new one. I'm not sure what to write about, so I'll just update you on some projects. Because I know you ALL care so much about little ol' me.
And yes, that was sarcasm. Sarcasm in text form is idiotic because it's impossible without completely giving it away in description format, but I did it anyway. Cuz I'm dumb.

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Siblings News
This is what most of you care about. I'm roughly half way through animating the second mini-episode. It's looking damn awesome and I'm proud of the steps of progress I'm making in the style. Gone are the weird sunken eyes of shadow seen in episode 5, and here be more realistic eye shadows! Yippie! A link for those who want a taste to come (it's an old version, the actual cells look a little better)

The Heart and the Hand, Part 2
MUCH further along than the second Siblings Mini-episode, though still so incomplete... the reason it's taking to long is the fact that I'm really trying to make it the best animation I can make right now, and good animation takes time. With Siblings, I just bullshit and do things however I feel like, ditching ideas that don't work in the future and keeping good ones. With this, I want it to work from the beginning... and so far, it does. Part one worked really well. To make Part 2 flow even better, it'll take time. In the meantime, check out some artwork related to 'The Heart and The Hand'... if you want.

MYSTERY COLLAB THING!!!
WHY DO I DO SO MANY DAMN THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY?! DO I HAVE A DEATH WISH OR SOMETHING!?!?
Perhaps.
But that's besides the point. I am indeed participating in another collab... some of you may remember the first collab I contributed to, *cough*BLAMFORMERS*cough* but I haven't really been a part of another since. Why? Well, lets just say Rob typically doesn't play well with others. That and the idea of a collab really doesn't sit well with me... but the author contacted me about participating, and when he mentioned what he wanted to do, the ideas started flowing. I decided to go ahead and contribute after that. I won't say who contacted me or what it involves, but I'm hoping it'll be a good one. I like my contribution, at least... I think you guys will to. I've only got 5 seconds animated, but it's a good 5 seconds, and will be followed by a minute or two of more spiffy whatnots. That won't be done for awhile, though, as there's no deadline for it or anything. So I have no idea when it'll be released. It'll come, though.

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MOST PEOPLE HAVE STOPPED READING BY NOW, ROB, STOP WRITING
I like to write, and can't filter my words without leaving out nifty little Rob-isms. And we can't have Rob censoring himself, can we? I'd probably end up censoring the important stuff and just leave the stupid shit, heh. And THAT would just piss people off more.

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Oh, and I figured I'd mention that I have a job now. Like, an actual job. Don't get excited, it's not doing any animation stuff or even anything graphic design related. It's a factory job, if you wanna know the truth. I don't care what you think, I like it. Doesn't require too much thinking, and I'm good at it.

Due to the job, my releases will take longer to complete. I'm not going to stop animating altogether, but you must know that it'll slow the process down a bit. You'll get over it... I mean, shit, you have so much already. Anything I make beyond now is bonus points.

Regardless of the longer wait, I hope to have SOMETHING done by fall. Probably the mini-episode, if anything, but I make NO promises. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if I don't finish anything until winter. The future is uncertain, my friends... but shit will happen. Because we all have to shit sometimes, you know?

I usually try to end this differently... but right now, I can't seem to end it at all. I was going to finish it two paragraphs ago, but decided to tell you about my hoping for a fall release on the miniep. Now I keep writing in hopes that I write myself into a corner, but I keep finding ways to navigate through my ramblings... usually by observing myself in a cynical way. It's all just a bunch of bitching, but anyone who has read many of my ramblings knows I bitch a lot. Hell, a lot of the time I don't make sense and contradict myself... sometimes in mid-sentence. I apologize for nothing.

Damn, I only have 28,000 letters left before I'm out of room. Will I use them?

No.

PS: Don't comment telling me this is too long. I'm fully aware of that. If you don't read it, I don't care to hear your input.
Also, stop asking me the same questions, it's in this message or on the various FAQs on my website. I wrote them for curious fans to read, so if you're a curious fan, then READ EM'.
That's all.

For those of you who check my page often, you know I've been debating whether or not to release HOTM 1: Revised Edition on Newgrounds. Well, I did it. It's out now. You can watch it and tell me how the audio quality sucks or how I should've reanimated more of it... or even complain how the characters still don't have noses. I'm done with messing with it, so there you go. It is what it is, impurities included. Vote honestly. I'm working against a front page, just so you know... I even made sure to release it on a day when other higher scoring submissions are released, so I should succeed in my anti-success mission.

Hotrod Opened the Matrix 1: Revised Edition

In other news, I played a ridiculous game the other day... an amateur RPG entitled "Barkley's Shut up and Jam: Gaiden". It's great in a hilariously stupid way, I love it. All the references, the idiotically serious story about super basketball powers... Google it if you're interested. It's a .exe game you play off your harddrive, not a flash game, so keep that in mind if you actually want to play it. Also, it's like 60+ MB big, so the download'll take awhile... but is totally worth it. Yay for awesome amateur games.

Yay, only two paragraphs. Must be your lucky day.