Ho ho hooooooooooooooooooooooooo Merrryyyyyyyy Xmassssssssss! :D

Hey Newgrounds, Nano here. As this year comes to a close, I'd like to reflect a little on it. In the beginning of the year, I unfortunately lost my job, landing me without a job. The bright side to it was that I got out of a job I didn't like much, so it was a painful but good step in hindsight. Also this year, on the creative side, I finally concluded the first Season of Megaman X vs. Zombies with the 7th episode! That was a milestone 11+ years in the making, so I'm glad to have finished that series...for now at least...on a conclusive note! Will I return to it in the future? We will see :] Speaking of sprite animations I also branched out into other properties for sprite animating like Bionicle for example. I hope you enjoyed this weird recap of my 2022 and what will next year hold in store for me? We will find out in time. Happy Holidays and New Year Newgrounds!

-Nano

My next project will be a love letter for those who enjoyed my previous sprite animations XD

Hey NG, just wanted to let y'all know I'm back! I uploaded the RE Claire and Ada sprite animation just now, and it was very recent that I uploaded another sprite animation, the 2nd Bionicle sprite animation I made! I probably won't maintain this lightning pace, but I do have other projects in the works...maybe they'll see the light of day like these projects did! ;] Until then...take care

-Nano

Haha...how about it...honestly, I'm not really sure what direction to go with my sprite animation. I'm tempted to make something that could become popular. But deep down I want to continue the Megaman X vs. Zombies series haha. I have in mind a Season 2 of sorts, Zero vs. Zombies perhaps...I don't care if it won't become popular even though that's why I originally created the Megaman X vs. Zombies series. It didn't take off in a big way, yet I became attached to the characters and world of it. I'm on a kind of break from it but maybe....I'll make that Season 2

Hey Newgrounds, since today is the 11th year anniversary of the Megaman X vs. Zombies crossover series of Megaman X and Plants vs. Zombies to discuss it a bit. Originally I was gonna publish the 7th final episode today, but since it was nearly finished a few weeks ago I couldn't wait to publish it then so I published it sooner once it was completed. The initial idea for the series, a crossover of Megaman X and Plants vs. Zombies, arose when I thought about what made SMBZ click with their audience, it being a crossover, so I thought what if I make my own crossover too? I picked two games I liked at the time, Megaman X4 and Plants vs. Zombies, to try to crossover and thought it could work well since the comedic aspects of PvZ could "balance out" the seriousness of the Megaman X stuff. That was my thinking for the whole series while it was being made. Something I'd like to note is that while the series is meant to be watched back to back, each episode is like it's own animation too, like how each song on an album is it's own thing while being part of a larger whole. While I love the entire series, the third episode is my favorite one overall. I love the music track I picked for it, I love the combat sequences in it, there's a section later in the episode in which X uses many of his Maverick acquired powers against the zombies, thought it would amaze X fans in particular. It amazed me at least. It's been such a journey working on the series for as long as I did, each time I neared completion of an episode, I'd get more ideas on what to do next for the series, new possibilities and ideas which encouraged my creativity to continue for future episodes. That's a big reason why I made as many episodes as I did without a large following from fans...part of me wishes I had a fan base that wanted more episodes, but this smaller approach might have actually benefitted me since I could get away with alot of things that a fanbase might have not wanted, I could experiement more freely with ideas in the series and follow up on them rather than having a fanbase that has different ideas of what they wanted out of the series. Anyway, it's been a real journey working on the series for as long as I have been working on it, 11 years 2011-2022, I met some really interesting people along the way such as one of my sprite animator influences! That put a smile on my face for like two weeks straight lol. But yea..now that this series concluded, here's to more creative works in the future hopefully!

Hey NG, just an update that the conclusion to the Megaman X vs. Zombies series, episode 7, published! I hope you watch it and enjoy it! I tried my best with it, and hope its a worthy send off to the long running crossover series of Megaman X and Plants vs. Zombies...hope to see you in its comments section!

-Nano

Megaman X vs. Zombies 7 final episode is basically complete! Despite that though, I'm not in a rush to publish it yet, thinking to publish it on August 19, 2022 because I published Megaman X vs. Zombies the original episode on August 19 2011

...I'm a Newgrounds fan. Like sure I have Youtube and stuff, but it's Newgrounds I want to continue focusing on. It's the platform I prefer and have in mind when making my sprite animations. I love it here, love that it fostered my love for Flash many years ago, love the sprite animation series that were birthed on here. I want to continue my Flash journey on this site if possible by expanding into other categories like making drawn animations and even interactive content that works within Ruffle! Of course, I won't ditch sprite animation :3 These are possibilities that are uniquely possible thanks to the Newgrounds environment inspiring me to dream up such ambitions! If you read this far, thanks a ton. I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July, and till next time!

-Nano

I'm back to my sprite animation roots! Working more on Megaman X vs. Zombies 7 final ep rn. Last time I worked on it was June 3rd so it's nice to resume that project after a while