ocarinaplayaDecided to upload all 3 videos of Doctor Whooves and the Assistant in HD for you guys to watch. I'll be deleting the lower-quality duplicates on my account to help de-clutter my videos.
Currently working on a little music video that I think you guys are gonna like. It's fun and educational.
As you watch from the first episode to the second to third you notice that I got better at animating as I went. It's my goal to do better with each animation project.
Doctor Whooves animated (ep. 1-3)ocarinaplaya2012-12-23 | Decided to upload all 3 videos of Doctor Whooves and the Assistant in HD for you guys to watch. I'll be deleting the lower-quality duplicates on my account to help de-clutter my videos.
Currently working on a little music video that I think you guys are gonna like. It's fun and educational.
As you watch from the first episode to the second to third you notice that I got better at animating as I went. It's my goal to do better with each animation project.Memphis Polar Bear Getting Down With the Sicknessocarinaplaya2022-04-22 | My wife and I took a trip to the zoo in Memphis, Tn and I captured a polar bear doing a little dance.I Cant Paint in VRocarinaplaya2021-11-25 | Something different. I wanted to record the whole thing but after 30 minutes I didn't realize my phone stopped recording the cast. Got most of it, at least.
I've never painted on a real canvas in my life, but after watching an episode of Bob Ross I decided to give it a try using whatever I could remember of Ross' techniques and color theory I learned in middle school. I think it came out pretty okay. It's a real testiment to Bob Ross' ability to teach complete noobs like me how to make halfway competent landscape paintings. I'm sure semi-pro painters that may watch this will cringe at some of the happy little mistakes I made.
I've got animation projects on the backburner but have been too busy being a husband and pest technician to dedicate the kind of time I did to make videos. I've been brainstorming a new way to do ocarina videos by making it more like guitar hero to make it easier to follow along and up the quality of the videos.
My wife got me an oculus quest 2 for my birthday which I've been greatly enjoying. I find it particularly rewarding when I can make groups of people laugh in VRchat.Randy Dandy: Foamy Sea Shantyocarinaplaya2021-03-14 | Well here's another brainfart of a video. And, hey, it isn't ponies this time! Easily one of my more spur-of-the-moment projects that I've been diddling around with until I got around to finishing it. Aside from those couple of DML type vids this was the most low effort I gave in terms of animation.
J.I.M has been an animation staple of mine since 2005 when I was in high school. It's been amazing to re-introduce myself to his works and the obscene amounts of style changes he's done. Much like Scott Ramsoomair and his VG Cats, Johnathan Mathers is one of those guys who was super big in my social circles and was the sole topic of discussion at lunch when he dropped a new video on newgrounds or his website IllWillPress(.)com. I still haven't watched all his newer videos from 2010 onward so I've got that to look forward to. I wasn't going to put as many characters in at first, but then I got into a groove when things froze over for a week so I used that free time to be productive instead of bored.
Also Foamy has an infinity tub that warps reality. Don't think about it too much.
Notice me J.I.M! :D
sea shanty, Randy Dandy Oh, Foamy the Squirrel, The Hatta, Pillsy, Beagly, funny, sexy, nude, safe, bathMLP Dexter Labretto comparisonocarinaplaya2020-09-25 | Little comparison video I decided to make to see just how close I got to making it look like the original Dexter's Lab version. Not too bad, I think.
Update: This was uploaded shortly after I released the original Labretto vid. I hid the link to this video in the description as a little extra secret for those that read my ramblings. I figured now is as good a time as any to just make it public.Purged Princess (Animated Music Video)ocarinaplaya2019-10-11 | Song artist: HANIA htpp://www.Patreon.com/Hania htpp://www.youtube.com/TheHaniaShow
This was a long time coming after sitting on this idea for a year. Now with the My little Pony series coming to a close it only seemed appropriate to make this around its end. A nice little bookmark I think. It's been a fun little ride, even if the show itself lost track of the initial vision along the way and had episodes that were exactly what Lauren Faust wanted to avoid in the first place.
To be honest, the brony community has been one of (of not THE) best online communities with a lot of creative, talented people contributing and helping newer talented people hone their skills and passions. Something that can't really be said of most modern online communities based around a show (looking at you Steven Universe). The cringe parts of the fandom are not any worse than the Sonic fandom. The adult art is nothing new to the internet, though I agree that it was gratuitous for the short time the fandom has existed and the flurry of unsolicited pony content in forums and discussions that had nothing to do with the show rightfully stirred up scorn from people who had no interest in the show. Despite that, the amount of content created by bronies is a marvel and has helped make people aware of exceptional content creators on YouTube like TheLivingTombstone, SaberSpark, AntonyC, DWK, PrinceWhatever, NRGPony, ToxicThunderCloud, Balddumborat and many many more.
I don't think I'm quite done animating ponies just yet (I've been sitting on remastering episode 17 of the Mentally Advanced Series). But I really do think I should branch out. I've got my eye on a few sea shanty type songs like "This Ship's going Down" and "The Mariner's Revenge". Heck, I've got one project that's 1/3 done that's a tribute to Foamy the Squirrel that uses my own voice track singing Randy Dandy Oh.
As always, thank you for visiting my channel and supporting me. This is a hobby I very much enjoy even if I can be a butt when commenting on current news.
This channel is pretty much going to be more dead until I get settled and assigned my own truck and able to set my own hours.
Hopefully in the next few months I'll have the time to finish that animation project I started last summer.Pony Phonics 2 - Homonymble Gameocarinaplaya2016-07-28 | This is probably the fastest I've ever made a cartoon. 28 hours in the span of 5 days.
This song is from an old game I used to play in elementary school called Kid Phonics 2. I think it was made back in 1993 or so and since then the term "homonym" has been repurposed. What this song refers to as homonyms are now called "homophones" and homonyms now are "words that are spelled the same but mean different things". Words like fine, check, pole, etc.
My current goal is to make a similar music video covering compound words. Most of the groundwork is already done so it shouldn't take as much time to do. I think after that I'll remaster my second favorite Mentally Advanced Series episode and have FimFlamFilosophy upload it on his channel. I figure that's fair.
I got rid of my internet since AT&T was screwing me over on my bills so now I'm uploading on my brother-in-laws macbook. Gotta say, getting rid of my internet got rid of most of my distractions. I'm working more on animation and going outside and other crazy things like that.MLP - Babiesocarinaplaya2016-07-12 | Twilight and Applejack explain where babies come from.
This project took about 34 hours to do. I loved the writing done by NoreastaProductions back when I was in high school. Their animation in general was pretty minimalist but the writing is what kept me rewatching their work. If you do feel like watching the original video this vid is based on, please do not spam their comment section with pony stuff. Let's be non-cringey on non pony channels.
When I finished this I had one of those "did I forget to do something" moments. Sure enough, I forgot to give Twilight wings. I was gonna shrug it off as pre-alicorn Twilight but I had used Flurry Heart which is definitely season 6 stuff so the wings had to be done. The things I do for continuity. I'm sure I forgot something else, feel free to point it out in the comments.
Update: I forgot to put wings on Fluttershy at the very end. It's odd that I don't ever see to put wings on pegasi when they're folded and blended into the color of their coat. This is why I need to have fresh eyes checking my work like I used to.
Fluttershy played by Nowhacking via "Ninjabridge" by LittleKuriboh Credit music: Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod
Spotted on EqD: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/07/animation-babies.htmlMLP - Mentally Advanced Series ep. 12 (remastered)ocarinaplaya2016-04-03 | Well this was a fun little project. I intended to make it as much like an episode of MAS as I could, right down to the beginning disclaimer and ending text.
For those who don't know, the youtube channel FimFlamFilosophy has made a lot of MLP abridged videos that I really enjoy. Not just abridged episodes from the FiM show but abridging popular fanfics as well with the Rainbow Dash Presents series as well as a fun spin on Lets Plays where monkey girls play and discuss games (Soul Reaver and Legacy of Kain being my personal favs). Unfortunately they've made a lot more videos that were ultimately removed due to copyright claims. I don't remember if the claims were from Hasbro or not. Sucks either way since most of those videos had some pretty stellar writing that holds up well today. This video is a re-imagining of episode 12 of the lost Mentally Advanced Series in the style of Rainbow Dash Presents using flash puppets I made (because I have no patience for drawing). Kudos to Petirep for drawing a buttload of pictures to make videos several minutes long.
In case those of you who are much better at the filming thing, my Hoity Toity cutout is supposed to look bad. That's the excuse I've given myself, anyway. My next project will be another educational-based music video based on (you guessed it) ponies. Some of you may get hit hard with nostalgia when you hear the song, so be on the look out for that.
Huge thanks to you guys for supporting my channel. You guys are awesome. If you can, go show some love at http://www.youtube.com/user/fimflamfilosophy. I hope Greg and Petirep see this video. Hopefully they'll like it. NOTICE ME SENPAI!!!Chinese Knockoff Explosionsocarinaplaya2016-01-05 | So my buddy (who goes by Crab Soul on youtube) and I decided to blow up some knockoff toys that Crab Soul found around and film it. Funny thing is that CS is pretty well known to the Achievement Hunter/Rooster Teeth guys for making fun custom maps and game types on GTA V (like Chopper vs Chopper) and even made a Gmod custom map that was a scale replica of the RT office (youtube.com/watch?v=_0X5sXtv5i8).
This is pretty much the first video I've made that was done primarily in Adobe Premiere. I got a chance to learn some of the tools and tricks to editing in Premiere that I think may come in handy for later videos.
One of those toys that got destroyed actually fragmented and hit my lip and nearly got Crab Soul in the eye. So when doing stupidly dangerous small scale demolitions, be sure to wear eye protection and carry some hello kitty bandages.
After I was done filming the carnage, I went out to see my sister and brother-in-law with which I had fun shooting roman candles at RC drones and setting up Saturn Missiles. Word of advice: never get Piccolo Petes unless you want to lose your hearing. Those fuckers are loud.
How were your New Year plans?Sparity Labrettoocarinaplaya2015-12-22 | (Update: not sure why comments were disabled, finally got internet access back to my desktop to fix some things)
Hey guys! I actually made another animation before the end of the year! Huzzah!
As you can guess this is a little tribute to all you Spike and Rarity shippers out there. Siansaar and Kilala97 being the biggest shippers I follow. You may have noticed that there are two Sparity OC offspring dragon-pony hybrid... things in there. Those OCs belong to the ever-talented Kilala97 and were used with her permission. I would have loved to have used Siansaar's OC Lavender but his OC is a girl and would be weird for a doctor to sing about having a son when it's a girl. Incidently I had my 5 year old nephew do his first ever bit of voice acting as the bite sound from Turquoise. I totally wanted to involve him in this and it definitely wasn't because I couldn't find a decent "chomp" sound effect on flashkit or anything...
This whole project took about 67 episodes of Game Grumps playing Wind Waker to do. Those guys are nice to listen to whenever my focus is somewhere else. Dan is best Grump.
This is basically a pony version of one scene from an episode of Dexter's Laboratory (episode is called "Labretto") that is a musical detailing the early years of Dexter's life as well as his sister Dee Dee. I would do another scene where Claire plays as Dee Dee but then she'd be acting out of character and I don't think Kilala would fly with that.
So what are your Christmas plans this year? My family has a little tradition where we eat homemade pizza for lunch and lasagna for dinner. It may seem a tad nontraditional according to the media, but screw it. The homemade spaghetti meat sauce we use in the lasagna kicks Olive Garden's sauces in the taint and then promptly curb stomps it with flavor. The only downside to our amazing sauce is the fact that it takes two hours to make.
This video is also the first time I got to use my updated pony body animation rigs in legit motion. I built the rigs to use for the Petirep-style adaptation for the Mentally Advanced Series of MLP but after working with them for a while I noticed that they are much more user-friendly than what I've been working with before. I also built the adult Spike from scratch and I think he came out pretty okay (though the knobby elbows and knees may be too pronounced). You may have even noticed I recycled my stallion head and recolored it to suit Spike. Lazy ways are the best ways. I may put the .fla files in my dropbox and post download links on my deviantart for anyone that wants to tinker around with my rigs. Depends if anyone cares enough about ponies nowadays to try to make their own cartoon.
Welp. I'm out of ideas for things to talk about.
Merry Christmas you filthy animal. (Dakadakadakadakadakadaka!)
And a happy New Year... (blam!)
For those of you who like reading descriptions, have a private video showing this video and the original in a side by side comparison. youtube.com/watch?v=csctAEDLB8MMurr Crustmus :Docarinaplaya2015-12-22 | Thanks for watching my stuff.
Shout out to NRGPony, DavidWMedia, ToxicThunderCloud, Lil Miss Jay, Kilala97, Animefanic1, Balddumborat, Jestre, Mr. Kupcake, FluffyMixer, BronyDanceParty, and all the other creative madmen who have kept up the pony momentum over the years.
Shout out to my cat Sheldon for always being there to drool on me while I work.
RC drones are fun to fly. I strongly recommend getting a cheap one to fly around the house or outside. I see no point in getting a $200 drone with a camera mount unless you really wanna see what your neighborhood looks like to birds (or you're part of a professional studio and want those helicopter establishing shots without coughing up $1,200 for a helicopter ride).VG Cats animated 7ocarinaplaya2015-10-30 | Check out the comic this is originally based on: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=72
I forget if I specially requested Omahdon to mix the audio for this comic or if he did it on his own, but either way this video would be completely lackluster without his audio engineering and voice acting as well as help from Autumn. You may have noticed that the cartoon looks different than the original comic. That's because Mr. Ramsoomair revamped some of his earlier comics to fit his more modern style in his volume 1 vgcats book.
I now have a new computer, custom built by one of my best buddies and this thing is a beast. I was able to render a 1080p video in 4 minutes compared to waiting 20 minutes to render a 720p video of the same length. With new hardware came a new desire to make an animation. I kinda went back to basics by doing a VGCats cartoon (been burnt out from doing ponies), and now I'm looking at my options for my next project. Doctor Whooves may not be finished at all at this point since the last one I uploaded hasn't been all that well recieved so it's not rewarding to the viewers and it certainly has me burnt out. This channel is basically for me to upload cartoons and other things I feel like sharing, granted the ability to make money from those videos has been a huge boon for my drive to make videos as I'm sure it has been for tons of other youtubers. I'm thinking of going onto Fivrr or Elance to get some experience and connections for animation jobs.
I'm currently 1/4 done with remastering episode 12 of MLP Mentally Advanced series. Gotta say, it's looking pretty good. You can find a preview of my work on that on my deviantart account (ocarinaplaya.deviantart.com)
How is everyone's Halloween plans going? What are you guys dressing up as? I'm dressing up as femnazi (shaved head, dark makeup, waterballoons in a bra, shitposting signs that make zero logical sense). That shit is probably the scariest costume you hope to never run into. :D Are you guys as excited as I am for another episode of Team Four Stars annual Halloween special "Hellsing Ultimate Abridged?" So hype!
I don't know about you guys, but I"ve always been a fan of long descriptions on youtube videos. Particularly when the author gets personal and imparts words of wisdom. Pity I don't have any words of wisdom beyond "If you are what you eat, then call me Twinkie McSnickerton cuz it's fuggin' Halloween, baby!" I also wanted to upload this video on my birthday as a little gift for myself. Sad thing is I have AT&T who I constantly suffer outages from, making connection to the internet a real pain in the patoot. On the flip side: by not being able to connect to the interent, I was able to focus long enough to get this animation done. Either way, if AT&T doesn't fix their shit I'll just have to save $40/month and cancel. No point paying an ISP for a service they're unable/unwilling to provide.
Well I've run out of things to write about for now. Just remember to visit my devianatart account if you want to see what I'm working on. I would say go to my tumblr account except that I only ever use it for porn and to follow fan blogs(as it should be used).Doctor Whooves and Assistant 4 animated (pt.1)ocarinaplaya2015-06-13 | Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=-7v-6TrdbUA
Created, voiced and directed by Balddumborat/PierceSmoulder Derpy voiced by Piercesmoulder The Doctor voiced by KeikoandGilly Backgrounds done by David W Media (deftwise-zero) Animated by Ocarinaplaya
Holy balls, this took too long to do! It’s still 2013, right?
The last episode of Doctor Whooves animated totally made me a liar. I lost motivation to animate for a while, focusing on other things and my second job. With the death of my primary laptop I had even less motivation to do things on an inferior laptop I had laying around; however that changed when I was finally able to install Adobe Flash CS6 to it and production went just as smoothly as I could have hoped for. Even though this dinky bit of animation took 2 years to upload, the total work I put into it runs at around 15 days. Lots of procrastination.
Some of you Eagle Eyes may have noticed some details in the video that are off compared to the Winter Wrap Up song in the actual show. Truth be told I only watched the episode twice 3 years ago and based the musical bit from memory. I wanted to put Rarity and Fluttershy next to the Doctor as he was trotting along, but I wanted this thing done by the time the 100th episode of MLP was released so I cut them out. Come to think of it, I did the rake wrong as well since it had a different handle in the show. Eh, too late to fix it now. Heads up: I’m not planning to do any more Doctor Whooves animated bits for a good while longer. Instead I’m going to focus on smaller projects to help keep me from getting bored of animating. I know some of you want to see more of the Doctor, but I also know most of you will understand and wait patiently and be entertained by some of the things I plan to make.
The things I plan to do are:
-Remaster episode 12 of the Mentally Advanced Series by FimFlamFilosophy in Petirep’s style (possibly more if all goes well).
-More pony reenactments of “Home Movies” scenes with Coach McGuirk.
-VG Cats short that Omahdon was kind enough to engineer the audio for 3 years ago
-Two pony versions of songs from Kid Phonics 2 (Compound words and Homonyms)
-A music video with Tom Neighrer (or whatever his pony name is) explaining photosynthesis with a Brittany Spears song.
-I might dabble with a Fluffle Puff short.
That’s my plan for the immediate future. If the whim strikes me to continue work on Doctor Whooves, I’ll strike while the iron is hot. I still don’t plan to make a patreon to help with the expenses, too much hassle on my end. On top of working at a bakery I now work part-time at a tennis center which gives me ample time to brainstorm ideas. A buddy of mine is going to build a custom PC for me so that’ll greatly help with video production.
If you’re wondering about the OCs walking around the background, those belong to me, David W Media, ToxicThunderCloud and NRGPony.
If you like my stuff feel free to subscribe if the mood takes you.Doctor Whooves/Channel Update 2014ocarinaplaya2014-12-24 | Click some links:
Sorry if I got a little bipolar in the video. I had ideas after I finished recording.
This video is just a channel update to let you guys know why I haven't been active for a while and why Doctor Whooves and Assistant 4 animated hasn't been released yet. I'm kicking myself for not getting it done sooner before my good laptop died on me. At least no work was lost and I've been able to slowly grind away at this project with my less-powerful laptop. Thanks to the Christmas season, I'm getting some extra hours so I'll be able to get my new computer started in no time. If anyone knows the average cost of replacing a 17in laptop screen or a simple diagnostic, if you could post in the comments that would be helpful to me.
So, how are you guys? Good? Still hanging in there for me? I'd give you a belly rub if I could.
So NRGPony has asked me if I wanna go to BronyCon next August. To be honest, I had a lot of fun at Metrocon a while back, and I wouldn't mind saving some money to go there. But to do so, I will need to work work work to earn the money needed. I don't do patreon or donations so it's all on me to get the job done. The best way to get a jump on saving money would be to finish Doctor Whooves 4, but that's a can of worms I'm still trying to open. Would be cool to meet other content creators like MrPoniator and JakeWhyman.
In other news, I've recently been having to pick up a coworker of mine to take to work since his car is on the fritz. All fine and dandy except that he lives in the hood. One morning I'm sitting in my truck waiting for him to get his ass out of the house so we can go to work and these two black women popped out of the shadows. I saw two figures in my rear-view mirror and figured they were passing by.
Nope.
One of them just stands outside my driver window and smiles creepily. She tried saying hello, but I'm in no mood to talk to sketchy people at 3am. When my silence didn't give her a hint that I want nothing to do with her I my mace out of my pocket and had my phone in my other hand. She figured i was calling the cops and she and her friend moved on. Shortly after her friend can running back to me and asked, "you lookin' for some sk8?"
Thanks to Craigslist I figured out that Sk8 meant meth.
Long story short: two ghetto women tried to sell me meth.
Don't do drugs kids. You'll look like a douche.Ponies Marching In (40k subscribers!)ocarinaplaya2014-08-02 | I saw recently that I had somehow managed to get 40,000 subscribers on this channel that has been otherwise dead for the better part of a year and a half. Thank you to everyone who was here from the beginning and those of you who liked my videos enough to hit the subscribe button.
I've noticed that plenty of youtubers, animators and artists that I follow are using Patreon to help make money. I've thought about doing it as well, but then I said "nah." Having a worthwhile patreon account sounds like too much trouble for my lazy butt. Making exclusive stuff for patreon followers, releasing videos on a somewhat regular basis (some of you guys know how I am with deadlines), and just dedicating a lot of my free time for a hobby-turned-job. If you guys wanna support me and not have to throw any money my way, just watch my videos with adblock off, maybe click an ad or two (it helps, but don't click shady ads. Google kinda sucks at filtering spam ads) it's an easy way to say "good jerb, Ocarinaplaya." I wouldn't want to make a Patreon and have people pledge money to an erratically inactive account. I do occasionally take on commissions for local studios, so that helps too.
Do excuse more of my singing. I was having fun. This cartoon took a total of 10 hours to do. Those of you who follow my deviantart, I got a little impatient cuz I managed to finish the animation that I didn't wait to let those of you who also wanted to sing submit your voice. You can still offer your voice and I'll try to upload it on deviantart.
Also excuse the sparse number of background ponies in the backdrop, I was rushing and was feeling lazy towards the end. :P
It's still a work in progress, but at least it's getting done. I really want to have the first part done before the end of this year and I've been kicking it into high gear lately.
Thanks again for 40,000 subscribers!
(might dabble with a couple of Game Grumps animations and continue VG Cats once Doctor Whooves is done)
Equestria Daily: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2014/08/animationish-ponies-marching-in.htmlSolrac Eats Ice Creamocarinaplaya2014-06-12 | Threw this together in about 6 hours. Had the idea about 8 months ago and only now putting it up. I had fun positioning Solrac between enjoying a treat and rage mode. Got permission from Yaplap to use his OC but I'm fuzzy on manners regarding OC use over long stretches of time. :3
Yaplap is an interesting guy. He's the kind of entertainer that's really good in small doses. Too much of the screaming and it hurts the ears, but while you're listening you can't help but smile at how off-beat his humor is. :D
Anyone notice how Laffy Taffy and Starburst have way too many undesirable flavors in their bags? There's too many banana taffies and way too many lemon starbursts. Is the yellow dye so cheap that half the bag has to be dominated by the worst (to me) flavors? I bought a bag of starbursts the other day and sorted them by flavors and stacked them into pyramids (I don't have a problem! :P). The pink strawberry is the best flavor in my opinion, so when I was sorting the candy I noticed that there were only 4 strawberries.
...dafuq?
Best flavor they have and there's nary a pence! Luckily I discovered that Starburst has a bag that's just the red flavors so at least I've got that going for me.
Banana has to be one of the worst flavors of taffy. Granted it's nowhere near as horrid as buttered popcorn, but it's not something I choose over the others. I'm just glad that Laffy Taffy tends to balance out the banana with 3 other flavors that fill the other half of the bag. :P
What's your favorite sweet thing to eat?
Backgrounds by Deftwise-Zero and Hellswolfeh on deviantart. Audio from: -That black kid who tried to become a super saiyan -Ginyu's transformation by Bruce Faulconer. -Flashkit sfxDraw My Life: Stupid kidocarinaplaya2014-05-30 | A small, quick thing I did while taking a break from Doctor Whooves.
I decided to brush the dust off on my Wacom Bamboo pad and drew up a true story about school. It was pretty fun to do despite it not being the cleanest drawings or the most pleasing to look at. I'm currently alternating between Doctor Whooves, a parody of "the ants go marching" and a Caramelldansen video. This was just for fun.
If you wanna hear/see more, I may make another whenever I need a break from my projects.MY EYESocarinaplaya2014-03-02 | I get the impression that the animators and writers aren't even trying to hide the Doctor Who and R34 references.
Also, this joke is so over-done you just had to have seen it coming. Unless you looked directly at Rarity's underwear.
In other news, I appear to be having a series of bad luck with cops. I blame Mardi Gras season. Not to mention I'm seeing way more kitty roadkills than I'd like (mostly in progress, ugh).Raritys a Racistocarinaplaya2014-02-09 | I'm really liking these one-off episodes.
Before some of you jump the gun, I know that there isn't any real correlation to Trenderhoofs applause and the sexual term "clopping." My mind made the connection and I went with it.
For the longest time I considered Tiarawhy my animation rival. However, he/she has pretty much surpassed me to the point that I don't think I can catch up. As a result I'm kinda latching onto JakeWhyman as a pseudo-rival in the hopes to improve myself in video editing and comedy. So far so good, right?
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Right?
Oh! I have a fun little story for some of you guys who enjoy descriptions and such.
I was called into work on my day off and the place was a wreck due to my coworkers going in so early (and being lazy on the final stretch) to make king cakes. Once I finished cleaning the shop I started driving home. It's night, wet and cold on a semi-busy street. One overzealous cunt damn near caused an accident that would have surely sent me to the hospital! There are 5 lanes on this street (2 travel lanes on each side and a turning lane in the middle). This unbelievable bitch was in the left oncoming travel lane and felt the need to turn left despite not being in the turning lane. There was someone in left turning lane on my side blocking my view of this bitch and vice versa. The light was green with no turning arrows lit when she made her turn and I nearly slammed into her. The only way I was able to avoid a bad accident was to swerve hard into oncoming traffic (thankfully empty). This cumdumpster, instead of stopping when she saw me, floored it and nearly assured our injuries.
Needless to say, I was super pissed off at her.
Squealing brakes and revving engines for a split second and it was over. I was so pissed I made a quick (legal) u-turn and followed her home. She pulled up her driveway and got out. I parked on the street, got out and screamed:
"WHAT THE EVER-LIVING FUCK?!!!"
She knew she was in the wrong, she tried to apologize. I'm usually a sucker for 20-something girls who admit their wrong-doing but this harpy was getting no mercy from me. I went on a tirade of yelling and insults and would have still been there to this day had her (I assume) father not come out and start yelling at me. Dude was likely a veteran, which figures since most of my auto accidents involve some privileged army brat. I yelled at him about what happened, screamed one last "fuck you" to the bitch, and went home.
I'm a pretty passive guy. I believe in "no harm, no foul." But that kind of recklessness is unacceptable to me. The only other time I was ever pissed enough to follow someone, was when some black chick cut me off so sharply that my engine stalled when I slammed my brakes. What pissed me off was that my sister and 2 month-old nephew were in the car with me.
Drive safely kids, or crazy guys will follow you home.Pinkies a jerkocarinaplaya2014-02-01 | I liked this episode.
Since my channel pretty much died for several months, I think I'll try to do short projects like this every so often. Either small animations or video editing. Not quite good at the video editing yet.The Itchocarinaplaya2014-01-11 | I'm finally back on track with Doctor Whooves 4! However I was distracted with an itch to end all itches. You have no idea how much this itch itched my itchy spot. And this particular itch peaked at work! (lots of hot water and soap for my hands) Ever had an itch so bad that it practically hurt just by itself? This one did. I honestly think I may have had a flea bite on my asshole. Not sure how that happened since I have a voluptuous and supple butt.
Anyway.
Spent a couple hours making this and ended up making a 3Q body pose for my OC. Now that I made one, I recolored it so I can use it for the Doctor and Derpy. Now I'm not just limited to front and profile body positions. Huzzah!
Speaking of assholes, I was randomly called an asshole while dropping off egg drop soup to a coworker of mine. Some chick walking her dog with her bf (I guess) on a road that leads to the back of the shopping center I work at. I move my truck over a bit to give herself and her dog room to be pedestrians. I pass by and hear a loud, yet muffled, shout of "asshole!"
What did I do? Why did she say that? Why didn't I just stop right there and call her out on it?
Decided to deliver the egg drop soup and dash back into my truck to find this lady. I spot her smoking on the corner of a sidewalk next to the pet store. I roll down my window and yell "cunt!" and drove off. Yeah. Drive-by insults with no takebacks. Am I a stud or what?
If you read the description while listening to the video, kudos to you and your mastery of multitasking. I'm willing to bet this video will be stuck in some of your heads :3
Anyhoo. Back to Doctor Whooves. May finish that marching pony video I started and nearly finished a while ago. I'm likely gonna ask for some feedback on my deviantart about it since I'm having issues with the background and how I should handle it.Nostalgia Critic - Equestria Girls Reviewocarinaplaya2013-06-19 | I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THE MOVIE SO I AUTOMATICALLY DON'T LIKE IT
Now for those of you who actually read descriptions and realize this is a joke: congratulations.
Equestria girls has no listings in Louisiana and I'm not driving to Houston just to see a movie. So enjoy this spoof using audio from the Nostalgia Critics review of Garbage Pail Kids. I've read good things about the movie and can't wait for it to be available online so I can watch it. The romance in the movie seems to have absolutely no value and could/should be deleted altogether.
Check out Balddumborat drawing the segment that I used as a background on her channel http://www.youtube.com/balddumboratCarnival Cat Karaoke Sing Alongocarinaplaya2013-05-28 | I may go on an ocarina binge later. Who knows?
Doctor Whooves is on hold for now to make way for smaller projects.
So after my failed attempt to organize Carnival Cat for animation, Sandjosieph took the audio I gathered from the vocal volunteers and he and a friend mixed it into an awesome song. I wanted to do this video back when he first uploaded his finished, vocalized Carnival Cat song. I gave him a buzz on skype asking for the audio file without PKEmi singing (which I love her singing in that song). He didn't have one, but he did give me the stem files for me to paste together.
I'll be honest: I'm not too crazy about most of the songs produced by the brony fandom. There's just too much dubstep and electronic based songs in there. If Earth represented brony songs, the water would be dubstep and the land would be everything else. There are a few great songs out there that aren't dubstep and Sandjosieph is the only musician I found to make consistently decent songs. MictheMicrophone is a good singer and I love his rendition of Pinkie's Brew. I don't know much about Eurobeatbrony, though I've been meaning to give him a listen. I'll probably get some hate for this, but I think TheLivingTombstone is overrated. From what I gather, he's half dubstep and half remix. It's not my bag of tea, but he has fans who like his stuff and that's all that matters.
Hope you guys have fun singing along with the words and bringing your own rendition of Carnival Cat to the scene. If you do make a video with your singing, feel free to post it as a video response. Sand and I will definitely watch it.Puritan Broniesocarinaplaya2013-04-13 | Inspired from all the hate I still see coming from both haters and bronies against the Rule 34 Pony community. This was basically made to point out the hypocrisy of the more fanatical bronies (not bronies in general). Artists like Jitterbug Jive, Jay Van Esbroek, Smitty G, Kloudmutt and all the other big name clop artists have every right to draw what they want. There are retards out there that will spam non-pony boards with MLP pictures (general and clop), but a lot of users will bash the clop artists for even thinking of drawing pony porn; once they've tracked down the origin of the picture they found offensive. Anthro or otherwise. Almost all the clop artists I've seen have been responsible enough to keep their NSFW work on appropriate websites and provided blatant warnings about their content. They can't be held accountable for the douche-baggetry some random anon who posts their content on a SFW or non-pony site.
My philosophy on stuff like this is: If it doesn't harm you or anyone else physically or economically, then it's not worth throwing up about. Just ignore it. If your feelings are hurt, get over it. Cry in a corner, write on your live journal, vent to a friend, but do NOT needlessly flag content when they aren't in the wrong and hamper an artists ability to make money. THAT'S harmful. Religion and morals are great things to follow for the individual, but don't ever force your own beliefs onto others thinking you're in the right.
I chose to turn the guy into a Dalek simply because Daleks "are the purest form of hatred and malice".
To you clop artists: Keep doing what you love.
Before you flag this for nudity or some shit, I made damn sure to blot out any naughty parts in the pictures used.
Artists of pictures used (according to watermark/filename):
-Kloudmutt -JayvanEsbroek (lilmissjay) -SmittyG -Skoon -JohnJoscoe -Doxy -Tyelle -Skykain -Super Sheela -WhiteMaverick -SidenPony Insomniaocarinaplaya2013-04-05 | This honestly should've been finished a month ago but I got lazy. Wasn't until I woke up with a massive toothache and an upset stomach that I decided to finish. This is the first cartoon that ToxicThunderCloud helped out with. He wants to help with doctor whooves episode 4 and this was more or less a way to see what he can do. He handled Melissa.
This cartoon was more of an exercise of body language and animation. I tried out using the forelegs more often and based on the rigs made by Zach Rich and Dileak.
For some reason Google is being a butt and as of April 1st, I haven't earned a cent in Adsense. I don't know what's going on, nothing has changed on my profile or settings and the number of views and such haven't really slowed down. Perhaps it's because youtube keeps updating and certain components aren't compatible. Who knows?
Vectors courtesy of MLP-VectorClub and the mentioned artists.
UPDATE: From what I have been able to gather, the day-to-day progress of my adsense performance will not be shown on the adsense website (only the finalized total will). The day-to-day stuff will be handled by youtube in the analytic section of your profile. I don't know how this will affect net earnings each month since youtube itself doesn't pay much compared to Adsense content host. Still sucks since I was able to earn about 500+ a month but when the new year started it dropped to 230 or so.
Audio is an excerpt from an awesome show called "Home Movies"
I think I'm getting the hang of this animation stuff, don'tcha think?
Background was made by Deftwise-Zero
Original audio is "New Math" by Tom Lehrer
I've had this on my mind since October and with the third Doctor Whooves finished I decided to go ahead and get a smattering of small projects out of the way. The more I think of doing episode 4 of Doctor Whooves the more I'm thinking " I really don't want to animate this..." however I do intend to make a video for it, though whether or not it'll be fully animated will be entirely up in the air depending on my level of procrastination and laziness. Alternative being that I just use still images to illustrate the story. (and I'll use a LOT of images if I do it)
Adobe Premiere derped on the credits and only showed "animated by" instead of everything like "background by Deftwise-Zero" and "original audio by Tom Lehrer"
I tried to get NRGPony involved with this project by having him move the marker and eraser around but things looked pretty stiff. (They kinda still do even though I did them).
But yeah, first animation of the new year! Come to think of it, I'm about due for a 20,000 subscriber video. I'll need to outdo the old one, so keep an eye out for that. Shouldn't take too long I think.
Anyone else thinking Tom Lehrer's "Irish Ballad" featuring Pinkie?Doctor Whooves and the Assistant 3 (animated)ocarinaplaya2012-12-07 | Check out the original audio series at http://www.youtube.com/piercesmoulder
OMG you guys...
Took a few months to do. Most of it spent goofing off. The last few weeks have been a lot of work. Been spending the whole day for 2 weeks working on the character animation, held an OC art contest on deviantart (which is why there are OCs in the background instead of canon BG ponies), and watched a lot of House.
Now that I'm done, I'm taking a small break for the rest of the year. I plan on coming back in January with some small projects and tidbits. I want to start an ask blog on tumblr and stuff. Lots of stuff to do.
(the reason I'm not going to release the 4th episode until next year is because it's freaking 20 minutes long for 2 or 3 guys to do. It took us 4+ months to do 10 minutes.)
Uploaded from my boss' internet because my internet is exponentially crappy.Christmas Shopping 101ocarinaplaya2012-12-04 | I got bored, so I made another thing.
Turns out Jay needed time to cool off and with the support of myself and his other supporters, he has decided not to quit the fandom (entirely) and will continue Lil Miss Rarity on the 4th.
Jay has learned from his mistakes pertaining to haters and how best to deal with them. Whenever he makes his mod blog on tumblr, he will not post things about his life, just stream info and other blog-related news. I loved reading his blog. He is so much like myself at times and he does have some fun stories. Not to mention he has a funny way of spelling things at times. But since the haters kept flooding into his blog he has decided not to fuel their fire with his own personal stuff.
Speaking of haters: did you guys know Jay has gotten death threats? Seriously... death threats over a cartoon? What's more is that Jay no longer accepts anonymous questions, so all those who went so far as to IP trace him and send pics of his own house with accompanying threat were pretty stupid since they needed to have an account to send messages. If I heard right, there have been a few arrests of these haters since Jay reported them to both Tumblr and police. Just desserts.
Lesson to you kids out there hating without a reason:
Even if you think you're anonymous, what you say can have consequences. Death threats are extremely serious and can lead up to a HEAVY fine and jail time.
Jay told me about Rarity's eventual return when I showed him my first Memorial for him. He was the first to see this and he flipped out for joy.
((copied from my deviantart))Jays Memorialocarinaplaya2012-09-30 | Just to let you know, Jay isn't actually dead, but he has seemed to quit the fandom. If my assumptions are correct he will no longer be making pony art (porn or otherwise).
It makes me incredibly sad and furious that such an awesome artist and overall cool dude could be shut down by haters. He had a good deal of hate come in on his tumblr until he decided to disallow anonymous comments. I honestly don't understand kids these days who feel the need to hate online. I fucking hate hip hop but you wouldn't see me purposefully going onto hip hop websites or videos to vent my hate. I just ignore it. The more attention you give something, the more power it controls. Justin Bieber had just as many haters as fans and he blew way the fuck up in popularity. Haters were basically giving him money simply by visiting a youtube page with one of his videos with ads.
But I digress...
Jay is a cool dude. He reminds me of me. He doesn't like idiots, he can't take any critique seriously unless the one critiquing actually knows what he's talking about and offers advice after identifying the problem much like myself.
His Lil Miss Rarity ask blog was highly entertaining to me. I found him when I was just starting to actually watch the show and his blog gave Rarity a much bigger appeal to me than the show could. I wasn't fond of how the blog got sidetracked with a long story arc, but I was sure that it would end soon and the blog would return to normal ask-answer order.
It upsets me when haters win...
((copied from my deviantart))Animation block...ocarinaplaya2012-07-30 | This is what happens when I hit an animation slump.
So I was pandering Rina-chan to voice Carnival Cat but since things were becoming iffy on whether or not we'd be able to actually do the project, Rina was unsure if she wanted to participate in a possibly dead project. She's actually a nice gal, and I'm a big fan of her work.
She asked me to make 2 cartoons featuring her voice. This one being the first. The second features Vinyl Scratch and Dinky Hooves, but you'll have to wait to see what antics Rina and I have planned for them.
This took about an hour to do, start to finish. It's not as flashy as BlackGryph0n's but I think I made a decent attempt. I may do another if Rina wants.
I forgot to mention that the background was done by boneswolbach via MLP-Vector Club on deviantart.
EqD page: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/07/animation-and-flash-colgatelicious.htmlNom Cat (100 video milestone)ocarinaplaya2012-06-30 | Started as a doodle on the dry erase board at work (I work at a doughnut shop) and shortly became a small animation project I decided to do after organizing the first scene for Doctor Whooves 3. I also noticed that this is my 100th video upload. This month is a month for milestones, it seems.
Anyway, special thanks to Stephanie and Leanna who thought of the doughnut design and made the sprinkles. And thanks to you subscribers who are here to see this 100th video.Doctor Whooves and the Assistant 2 (No subtitles)ocarinaplaya2012-06-30 | I figured I'd poke David into exporting a version of the second episode without the subtitles for two reasons:
1) Not everyone likes subtitles. 2) Some people may be able to make awesome videos using the clips and the subs would just be in the way.
So enjoy and show DavidWMedia some love.Movie Etiquette 101ocarinaplaya2012-06-28 | Inspired after having to hear a 3 year old girl whine about the loud noises during the movie "Brave."
I'm also planning on making a "Driving Etiquette 101" video, but that won't be until I get bored of Doctor Whooves 3 and need a break. Feel free to post this video on parenting forums or websites that house a lot of these inconsiderate people.
Check out my deviantart for other stuff.
ocarinaplaya.deviantart.com10,000 subscriber videoocarinaplaya2012-06-22 | This took about 20 minutes to animate, and about an hour to figure out how to export it into a decent format. Gotta say, some of the precursors were downright horrible. That's what I get for trying to do it myself instead of bothering David :P
Anyway, thanks you guys for all the attention! /)^3^(\
say "hi" to the other guys of the team:
youtube.com/DavidWMedia youtube.com/NRGponyDoctor Whooves and the Assistant episode 2ocarinaplaya2012-06-18 | Huge thanks to Deftwise-zero (known as DavidWMedia here on youtube) for getting this video exported. We weren't able to get it to 720p without stretching the movie, but we have a plan to fix that for future cartoons.
Animated by myself, deftwise-zero, and nrgpony. Written by Piercesmoulder and KeikoandGilly.
I kept a microsoft word copy of requested songs that I called my "to-do list" and I put it on a flash drive to print it out (foolishly hitting "cut" instead of "copy") and I lost the flash drive at college before I could get to the library to print it. So I need you guys to re-submit your requests so I can remake my to-do list. I have a few songs already on there from what I could remember.
CaptainAlliance is a video stealing fag.Doctor Whooves and Assistant ep.1 (High Quality)ocarinaplaya2012-03-22 | So I can't use either intro I wanted to use for this episode due to the content ID from BBC blaring all the alarms on youtube. So here's the higher quality version for your enjoyment courtesy of David (deftwise-zero).
If you want something to occupy yourselves with while I get the second episode started (month of May or so), you can always make a custom intro to be used in that episode. Be sure to post it as a video response to either version of this video (though I'd prefer this video for simplicity's sake).
Backtrack: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3063215/requiem%20of%20spirit%20backtrack.mp3Doctor Whooves And the Assistant Trailerocarinaplaya2012-02-04 | This is actually another animation test I'm using as a trailer. It's also the first 30 seconds of the actual project. I can still make changes, but I like what I see so if you guys see any mistakes feel free to point them out.
Didn't I do this with cupcakes? We all know how that turned out. ;PVG Cats Animated 6ocarinaplaya2012-01-15 | This is easily my most ambitious attempt at animating VG Cats. Two comics for one episode? Yup!
Also: Omahdon informed me that I forgot to mention that D-Mac-Double was the narrator in this. All three words of it :P
Now that I was able to get in contact with Autumn (major help from Edwyn) there may be a chance that we can collaborate on some comics outside the VGC adapation with no name parameters. (though it may only feature comics with leo and aeris exclusively depending on the comic.) fingers crossed. I've got VGC7 already in mind and will get started working on that after the first episode of Doctor Whooves and the Assistant. Hopefully I'll be able to keep my new years resolution: finish all 6 of my animation projects this year.
Please don't mind the off notes, for some reason my ocarina was being weird (either that or i was having an off day when i recorded it). so the F# may sound off, but it's correct as far as notation goes.