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Now that my ears are better. I can now get back to making my animations.
I'm going to make two very short animations for my birthday and Easter.
Here's a hint about the easter one. A new guy name Soak has come to visit Skylands and brings easter eggs to the Skylanders. There is something fishy about Soak, his name sounds very familiar.
I'm going to make two very short animations for my birthday and Easter.
Here's a hint about the easter one. A new guy name Soak has come to visit Skylands and brings easter eggs to the Skylanders. There is something fishy about Soak, his name sounds very familiar.
Broken computer again + Bad cough
Here's a bit of bad news. One day after I finished my animation for my birthday, me and my folks went on a two day vacation to meet some old friends. When I came back, suddenly, my computer won't turn on, and this was a fairly new computer. Just 3 months old. It's currently in a repair shop to see if anything can be recovered. But worst come to worse, I also came with a very bad cough. It hurts when I talk or swallow. I should be okay by tomorrow or the day after and hopefully, my computer is fully repaired within a week and I can start doing the March-April commissions I promised my folks. If not, I'm going to have to suffer another monthly hiatus of no computer, animation or digital drawings. Just stuff I can do on paper and take photos using my ipad or phone. I am so sorry for this inconvenience. In the meantime, here’s a video of a rhino beetle
My Patreon is open to simple again until May/June
I am open once again for Patreon, and the Super Thanks system is open again. BUT I have a few temporary rules until sometime in May or June. (https://www.patreon.com/blackrhinoranger/membership ) Within the next few months, the commissions will have to be simple again, due to life changing events which I cannot reveal until later and I'm also preparing as much work as possible before my birthday arrives. If you're going to give me some commissions, keep it simple, keep it short and quick, and don't ask for too many characters, maybe about 1-5 characters max. I need to spend as much time as I can for other projects as well as my family. I don't know if I have enough time to do another livestream or request challenge after my Save the Spider challenge. But I'll see what I can do. Once that's over, I may reveal what's happening to me in the past few months but also allow more complex commissions again.
New Laptop + What I'm doing now
So since my old laptop is completely busted after 8 years of its lifetime, me and my dad went out to get myself a brand new laptop. And it's funny that I have transitioned from Alienware to Predator (cause, you know, Alien vs Predator). Now before you say that things seem like they are back to normal, not quite. I'm still trying to login back into as many of my accounts as possible and I am still testing which old softwares are compatible with Windows 11 and which ones need an upgrade. Thankfully, my old Macromedia Flash 8 still works (and good thing too, because when I tried loading my old flash files onto the latest Adobe Animate, they kept crashing). And since I just got a new version of Adobe Photoshop and several other latest versions of my old apps, it will take me some time to get use to them. And keep in mind, I haven't gotten everything out from the old computer yet. The old computer's hard drive is with me but it needs a casing or needs to be transfered to another hard
Computer update
Bad news. Just got a call from the guy saying my old Alienware laptop is completely broken beyond repair. So I have to get my hands on a new laptop and face some incompatibilities for some of my old softwares, including Macromedia Flash 8, the software I've been using for all my animations since 2006, and Sony Vegas Platinum, the software I used for other videos since 2010. Good news is that I still got some stuff saved on an external hard drive. But the ones within my old computer will have to be extracted into a new one. But if I have no choice but to upgrade to the latest Adobe Animate, as I'm not sure if any of my previous Flash files will be compatible with the latest software, I might have to start things over from scratch. If I am unable to reuse old materials, I might have to cancel my Skylanders animation series and just focus on new material, like Rhino and Dile. Even cancelling Skylanders University, the Skylanders Christmas redux and the rest of the Sky Wars series.
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i get da gist of Soak