Matt J. Wilson

no shade or disrespect to the original artist, it's just been stuck in my head forever. it's hero time

help

a child-sized Wolverine stands on a small rock with a grin on his face, as a "HELP!" speech balloon wafts in from off-panel. the comic is titled "HERO TIME"

i can't ever let this one specific comic from my extra life die. we have to preserve it, it needs to be in the library of congress

WIP version of the Next Fest video is up on the Patreon!

hell yeah

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i've got the footage/b-roll in but i need to record footage of DEG because it doesn't have a trailer for me to use

i guess some bsky mods unironically think social media without humans is the dream

okie doke, the plan is for the next fest vid to go up on Patreon by Friday night, then onto the Youtube on monday!

‘Chikn Nuggit’ creator Kyra Kupetsky announces her departure from the show after BuzzFeed made a requirement to feed the show to AI.

“I am very anti-Al and cannot support this. Thus I am leaving to boycott this. I am so upset it's come to this and I cannot apologize enough for this happening.”

Diana has never played FIREWATCH! So I'm gonna WATCH her... FIRE it up! (long pause, no other jokes) Here we go! twitch.tv/mattjwilson

goat girl is a cute cartoon. not really pushing the comedy envelope but i dig it

Hm, based on the low # of reviews I wonder if it was a financial decision to drop the third act. Hopefully it turns out alright!

We're back! A Streaming Story! Me and Diana are playing some NEXT FEST DEMOS! twitch.tv/mattjwilson

I return to streaming tonight at 8 PM central! gonna be playing a few Next Fest demos (as long as they're still active!)

Ow random ass back spasm. Anyway, gonna put out a Next Fest vid this week. Did I say that before? Well I’m doing that. It’s not a huge endeavor, it’ll probably just be 10 minutes in length.

it's nice to see the Switch 2 now has three games worth playing, that puts it neck and neck with the PS5

this is, to be clear, aimed at my American audience. obv iranian fans, lebanese fans, etc, they CAN'T just live their life right now. i'm sure that's assumed but i gotta say that, your proximity to it will play an impact.

anyway, keep informed on the news, look into direct action, find causes worth donating your money to, and then, PUT THE DANG PHONE DOWN and live your life! if you're two hours into an argument with someone over the 2024 election, you've already lost, bc it's taken your time and energy away from you

i see people online are once again playing the game of "people who didn't support Kamala bc of Palestine are simultaneously not important enough to cater to, but also the load bearing pillar preventing Trump's election" which is, as always, centering pointless global tragedy on their own grudges

less pilots that look like disney, more pilots that look like catopolis

i'm not sayin' don't make something badass if you really want to and you're capable, just don't think "once i've done this, the success will come!" for every hazbin there's dozens of pilots that you've probably never heard of or seen. and they're cool, but, like, the algo just didn't carry them

if you're an animator who wants to make a career of it and you want to do it on Youtube, you have to SERIOUSLY lower your ambitions for what it will look like, how long each episode will be, and how frequently it will release. even if you collab. viewers need to lower expectations too, to be fair.

(And the only people who are making $300k a video on Youtube are like. Mr Beast and probably one of the Paul brothers.)

Frederator sunk themselves deep trying to produce TV-quality shows for Youtube that did not even remotely make the money back. A million or so views? That's great for an individual artist, a disaster for a proper studio and korean outsourced traditional animation. That's like $300k an ep right there

to add to this, you have to ask yourself whether it's truly worth it for these indie studios to be putting so much time and money into really nice looking pilots that only get around 150k views, maybe $350 in Youtube revenue, and a small handful of patrons.

You don’t really need a budget to do indie animation, the problem is “indie animation” has been reduced to bigger budget/studio works with insane frame-by-frame animation, a big crew/voice cast and a merch line instead of scrappy shit you make in a week by yourself or with some friends in Flash.

took forever but i finally got that initial batch of capsule reviews for the GOTY video done. now i gotta do at least 15 more before and a couple of additional sections before i can wrap this up

on the one hand, it's nice to see some long wishlist-sitters finally near a release (Lost & Found Co, Clockwork Ambrosia, Before I Go, to name a few); on the other, the wishlist just keeps growing and growing and growing and growing...

p much no such thing as a down month anymore, the only time i see release lulls are during Steam Holiday/Summer Sale events

i still think Mighty Social Lion is one of the best indie pop-rock albums of all time