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TylerBasham
I do an animation series called John and Loonof. Yeah.

Tyler @TylerBasham

Age 23, Male

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Oakland, CA

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Posted by TylerBasham - January 16th, 2023


I'm aware that this is very late, but I feel like I still wanted to talk about it all.


This year was even less productive than last year relating to animations I think, but that's honestly something I think I'm okay with this time around. Last year I felt like I had to justify the fact that I couldn't get much out, but I feel like this year I really don't need to (but I'm still gonna.)


I spent a lot of time this year being a normal teen: goofing off, hanging out with friends, and going pretty brainless, which is something I hadn't really done for the past couple of years. It was relieving to not impose any deadlines on myself and to just drop anything to spend time with my friends (and family too, for that matter) in a way I hadn't in the years before. This was a year where I definitely prioritized my non-artistic side of myself, and prioritized the social side of myself. It's not every day I can make memories with my high school friends, but I can ALWAYS sit down with a tablet and a pen whenever I want.


What I'm trying to say is that my year was a really good one. I met lots of new people, found new interests, and ultimately settled into a groove I really enjoyed seeing myself in. I expanded my horizons this year, tried new things, and ultimately made as many memories as I possibly could. As the idea of college creeps up on me (only a couple months away now...) I decided it was time to spend all my waking hours with those who meant the most to me. I didn't want to sit in my room as time flew by when I could be out and about doing things. Which is exactly what I did. I'm very thankful for all those moments I got to spend with all my favorite people. They won't see this, but I want them to know they mean the world to me and the memories I made this year are ones I'll keep forever.


I became a legal adult this year as well, an idea that had daunted me for years and still does to this day. I began seeing taxes calculated as part of my paycheck, and I was handed my first voting ballot for my local government elections. It was really weird, and it put a lot into perspective for me. Before I enter adulthood, I had to make sure I had enjoyed my childhood, which I guess I hadn't enjoyed as much when I was pushing myself to get videos done. Never again will I consider that my number one priority anymore. Time is fleeting and the Earth keeps on moving, so I can't continue to stay in my room doodling away at the same rate I used to. Life has to come first. And this year I let that happen.


This isn't me going,"I'm DONE animating because I have more important business" because that isn't the case. I have at least 3 new animated projects in the works along with the next installment of my graphic novel series, which I hope to get out within the next year or so. However, I'm trying to hold myself to a much more impressive standard for my works, and with my re-prioritization of time, I really don't think it'll be a speedy process. Quality over quantity, is what I'm going for.


It's not to say everything about this year was all perfect. I had my lows, but who doesn't? They weren't nearly as bad as 2020-2021's hellscape, and I feel so honored that I was able to enjoy this year to the fullest. 2022 really was where I felt like I defined myself outside of the artistic realm, and I think that's definitely something I want to prioritize as #1 into the future. Thanks for understanding, and I hope to see you around soon!


-Tyler


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Posted by TylerBasham - January 1st, 2022


I haven't really done a full year in review before... I've been close to doing something like this with the occasional "updates" every now and then, but I think it's time that to give it a full shot, in case people are interested. If you're not interested, that's cool too, but you should probably go do something else then because this might be a huge waste of your time.


As you may have noticed, the amount of animations released this year were few and far in between. Unless I totally blanked out and forgot, I think I only got around to two this year. And that is because of a compilation of many reasons.


But let me just start out by saying: 2021 was the definition of mid, at least for me. I can't really put a finger on it, but overall I would say nothing really "good" happened this year. Instead, a lot of "moderately okay" to "bad" things occurred. And if I delve into my own personal life, I'll end up over sharing, so you can use your imagination for this one... However, the culmination of all these events sort of led me to focusing on other things rather than animating or drawing. I had found new priorities to worry about before I could even begin to think about animating, I had to take care of stuff regarding my own personal problems before I could even register touching my tablet. But once again, if I talk about it too much in depth, I will end up oversharing and probably embarrassing myself in a year or so.


But it wasn't just crappy developments in my existence that brought my animation abilities to a halt. There was this w o r l d w i d e p a n d e m i c that had removed my motivation entirely. I didn't stop animating because the pandemic had me down in the dumps, however sometimes that could be the case, but instead I had halted animating because of online school. I would spend hours staring at my computer screen on zoom calls, totally rotting my brain out and developing consistent headaches. It was an absolute nightmare, and once I got off of online school for the day, my head would just be throbbing and I would genuinely feel dizzy. Afterwards, I would be unable to even sit at my desk without wanting to vomit. I couldn't handle using my computer for more time then I already was, and thus, any animation I was working on would only get an hour or two of work on the weekends.


But another problem actually stemmed from my distaste of screens in this time. I lost all the capacity I had to text my friends, and soon enough I stopped responding to them all together. It's not that I didn't care about them, it's just that I was so burnt out from everything that was going down that I didn't have any motivation to lift up my phone, let alone any device with a screen. The problem is, I still haven't been able to undo this habit because, even to this day, I just feel so wiped. Balancing school, socialization, and animation still proves to be a challenge, even when school became in-person again. (Sorry, Pete. I'm doing my best)


But in-person school created a whole slew of new challenges. Although I could now focus on animations without wanting to vomit and collapse, the school workload was dumped on me majorly. My schedule involved plenty of APs and advanced classes, and time management between the work and free time became increasingly difficult. There would be days in which I woke up, went to school, came home, worked, went to bed, repeat. Although much less straining on my eyes and head compared to online school, there was no denying that it brought my great challenges in how I balanced my free time. Weirdly enough, I'm saying this in the past tense, as if all of this is magically over, when in reality, I'm going to be diving straight back into it after winter break.


My last real reason for animation progress slowing down majorly was the 2020 christmas special... Yes, I know... I still can't believe it's biting me in the ass a whole year later. After the chaotic creation of that animation, I just couldn't stand animating anymore, at least for a couple months. The pain and exhaustion it had caused me wasn't worth repeating, at least not after I had warmed back up to the idea of animation itself. For the first few months of 2021, I barely even turned on my tablet at all. I had practically called it quits for a couple months, but soon I tried it again and decided it was worth the effort to continue animating.


BUT ENOUGH ABOUT HOW WIPED I WAS! Because, even during that time, I managed to at least publish the fourth installment of my graphic novel series AND I got them all published in paperback! You can view them all here on Amazon! If you buy them, you'll make my day and I will be so happy!!


https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ATyler+Basham&s=relevancerank&text=Tyler+Basham&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1


(I don't really like 1 and 2, but whatever. I'll remake them someday)


Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my long complaint essay. I hope these excuses provide good insight into the totally mid existence of 2021, and I hope that you all understand where I was and what I had to focus on before I could even think about animating.


To be totally truthful, my hopes for 2022 are even lower when it comes to animating. This year is gonna be the year of SATs, college applications, and all that fun shenanigans. However, I think when it comes to my actual state of being, I have much more motivation for the future and I have planned out a couple good episodes! I hope you'll stick around to watch them, and I hope to see you all soon too!


-Tyler



Posted by TylerBasham - December 24th, 2020


First off I just want to say: I released my christmas animation... ON TIME! You can watch it here! (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/775606)


However, I feel like I just need to talk about what a wildly AWFUL journey this animation was! To begin, I'll start at the very start of it's creation: August!


In early august I had written out the script for the christmas animation and was more than ready to get to work on it. I wanted to start animating the christmas animation early because I knew it was gonna be a long one (10 pages = 14 minutes!) and I didn't wanna be in the space that I've been in the last couple of years, rushing to finish it right before christmas, and then suffering from the worst burnout possible. I was super confident that if I started in August, I would be done before December even rolls around, allowing me to have a laid back month of spending time with family or working on my comic series! It was quite the dream, and I was fairly confident it was achievable!


However. September rolls around. It's a very busy month, and it's safe to say not much work got done there. I wanted ot hit a 3 page a moth quota at minimum, but I remember only completing one page in September. I thought to myself,"hey, I'll pick up the slack later. No worries!"


October happened, I was productive there. I had a good time. All was going well. School sorta sucked though, but I was getting used to balancing my animation and my schoolwork.


But then November happened, one of the most painful months of 2020 (For me personally.) At the start, I was very productive, banging out 3 pages in less than half a month. I was super proud. I was in a position to finish before December, as I had planned! Things were going smoothly, until my computer started acting up. My computer is definitely old, by todays standards, and it started to slow down and get buggy. It was worrying for me, but I did virus scans and I seemed to be in the clear. I have no clue where this random lag and glitchiness came from, but it wasn't fun to deal with. While animating, I'd receive error messages from parts of my computer that I didn't know existed. Apps would crash. Stuff would freeze. I was scared for the wellbeing of my animation!!

This fright was well justified, after one day, Adobe Animate crashed and corrupted all .fla files that were part of the John and Loonof folder. I was devastated. I couldn't find any past export that booted up properly. I had lost it all. It was safe to say I shed some tears over this loss. Not only was the loss of my files bad enough, school started ramping up, and some crazy social developments hit me really hard. I had no motivation to continue the Christmas animation. I just couldn't do it. My friends and family were telling me to give up. Everyone hated to see me in such a sad state over some drawings. I took a week break to think things over, maintaining a VERY pissy mood the entire time (Sorry mom and dad.)


And then... December happened.


Not ready to give up just yet, on December first, I decided to go hunting. I must have backed up the file somewhere. I couldn't believe that I would just keep saving to one location. After a solid hour and a half of searching, I found a file that opened. Unfortunately, it only had half of the work I did, but it was enough to keep me going. I booted it back up and got back to work. I was determined to kick Adobe's ASS. I worked pretty late nights and long hours to pick up the slack, and I was ready for it to be done by the 15th! I was stoked! Staying up late had finally paid off! I was almost done, only a page left, when my computer decided to corrupt everything all over again. I have no clue how it happened, but I couldn't open my file once again. Devastated, I repeated what I did in november. I cried.


But the deadline was too soon!! I couldn't just quit!


So instead of giving myself a week off, I picked up that one openable file that had half my work, and got back to work INSTANTLY. I spent full DAYS in my room just to finish this animation. I wasn't going to let it get me down. I was able to balance school, social life, and the rigorous animation schedule just barely, and it really showed. I was not a happy dude.


However. Around 20th, things started to look up. Remember that weird social development I was talking about earlier? It fixed itself over time. Remember school? It ended because of christmas break. I finally was able to dedicate all my last energy into completing this animation. I didn't have any more worries, I only had to think about work.


And I did just that.


I completed it, just barely.


The sense of completing the project that had become my sworn enemy was the best feeling in the world,


It was the best christmas gift I could have ever received.


I haven't touched my animation tablet since.


Posted by TylerBasham - December 15th, 2019


Alright yall! For like the three people that actually follow me and might care about what I post here, you're probably wondering where there was an absence of animations this year, and the answer is this!


I published my first graphic novel! you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0829THGPS?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=8Y7Z00VDKWGD1Z39PX5X


It's 3 bucks, 110 pages, and it's the start of a very long storyline I've been working on for years on my spare time. Only recently did I decide to digitize my long story, and so I decided to start from the beginning of the series. I intend to work on this series side by side with john and Loonof, so if you care about my animations, don't worry! They aren't going anywhere!


Okay now buy it please I want money


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Posted by TylerBasham - October 9th, 2019


You should go watch it!


Posted by TylerBasham - June 21st, 2019


I feel like I should explain why there have been no new video recently, but then I remembered that I only have 10 followers. If you do care, please read.


Why no new videos:

-School. January up until summer was kind of a kick in the butt. Things really piled on and I had project after project to do with incredible amounts of homework. One of the main projects was The Noah Simulator 2. However, with the poor reviews the other one got and the fact that flash games wont work after 2020, I might just stop working on it.

-Comics. I was more interested in comic drawing because some people at my school read them and complemented me so that made me feel good. The comics were just more inspiring

-Negativity. I feel like on Newgrounds, I've gotten a lot of crap for posting my stuff, and I get it. I'm not great but it doesn't feel rewarding to post here. I have a couple of videos on youtube but not here because I know it'll get bad reviews and will probably get taken down (which has happened one too many times before)

-Camps. i went to camps for learning animation, so when I got home I didn't want to animate. Simple.


However, now that most of that is pushed aside since I'm on summer, expect a video sometimes soon! Soon as in this summer, not this month or anything. I will be going onto a trip to Peru without internet, so there will be a halt there. But soon!


Upcoming videos planned

John and Loonof - Snowy Daze. (No more will be said. Coming summer)

John and Loonof - Artisanal Bags (This isn't actually being animated by me! No clue when it'll be done but if I have to give a deadline, I might. I just don't want to force it because the person animating it is a good friend)

Mother 3 test animation (I love Mother 3 and I wanted to test motion on it)

Bean test (Yes it's another test. It's to help with squash and stretch)

John and Loonof - Christmas Special 2019 (Not coming soon but I really want it to happen)


Possible videos planned (These could be stopped anytime if I feel that I don't want to do them.)

John and Loonof - Halloween 2019

John and Loonof (No name yet, but I have the plot ready)


Okay thanks for reading. I'll be back soon!


Posted by TylerBasham - December 24th, 2018


You should go watch it!


Posted by TylerBasham - August 16th, 2018


It's about time I changed my profile logo stuff... That old drawing was from 2015!!!!


Posted by TylerBasham - July 27th, 2018


I have finally finished the Unseen Dimension part 3, and I have compiled all of the episode into one episode! I'm just happy to get that over with lol.


Posted by TylerBasham - March 5th, 2018


Why don't I just get back to work right now? I'm watching vines and playing video games a lot. 
THE UNSEEN DIMENSION WILL HAPPEN THOUGH! I PROMISE