LucasRPDJ

Howdy everyone! I hope you're all doing well.

I've got some ANNOUNCEMENTS to make :


---

First up, I want to announce my collaboration with *Earthcore Media LLC* for an upcoming Sonic animated film, in association with *Child's Play* charity.

This is a 3D animated film we've been working around a year in the silence, it's called Metal Mania, and there's a teaser trailer coming out TODAY.

Watch here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7pfs...


I animated several scenes along with other skilled animators, artists and VAs (you may know some of them).

plus one special guest you might all know :)


I'm going to tell more about this project later.


---

For Christmas, I wanted to go back in time as we're dangerously close to the 10th anniversary of the channel ! And invite you to re-watch my old content in a *ONE HOUR COMPILATION* video. There will be funny references and I'll tease something big in the end of it 👀

Be ready as it's coming the 20th of this month!


This period is quite tight for me so for now with all projects + personal life stuff. I'm preparing big things in background but that's the best I can give for now guys.

---
And finally....
huh, ẃ̴̧̥h̷͉̤̄a̶͈̗͋ṭ̶̤͊̃'̸̦̈́͊s̴̪̕ ̴̰̄̈́ṭ̴̄̽h̸̹͑̕͜ȃ̷͕̮t̵̗͉̅̅?̸̼͝

---

See you quick! and enjoy the holiday :)

Skip the Carousel

1 2 3 4

6 days ago | [YT] | 605

LucasRPDJ

Hi, long time no see heh?

I'm having a messy schedule at the moment, and I'm working on huge updates for the future of the channel so it's taking me a plenty of time (+restoring all my setup from my former laptop)

I'm on multiple projects at the moment, the first being a short animation for an upcoming event organised by Trinity in my discord server : an experimental Sonic Racing Crossworlds tournament that starts in 9 days. If I manage to release a little trailer/opening for a potential livesteam I'll do for this event.

-

I'm also preparing some big stuff around, I'm almost actively working on the 10th anniversary special video for the channel (I created in February 2016). a way to go back to my roots where it all started.
My team and I are also working on the next release of Team Sonic Adventures as we can, ACT 15 is quite complicated to do and we struggle finding free time to work efficiently, if possible we'll try to release it for Christmas (or at least something related to it)

-

I'm actively working on brand new assets, that I will soon share FOR FREE via a brand new Ko-Fi page that will replace my current YouTube Membership (the former members will receive exclusive content in return). I'm finding new ways to make my future videos. It will take some time before I come back to a regular video rhythm, but at least the quality of it should be very improved!

Skip the Carousel

1 2 3 4 5

1 month ago | [YT] | 413

LucasRPDJ

Howdy, I’m here again with the new setup.

I just posted a short demo video showing the new PC I received not long ago.

youtube.com/shorts/QM-Rljb-7z...


I’m slowly recovering my projects back but it’s taking some time because I have many files to transfer. And I have a poor connection for the past weeks so I’m struggling a bit to recover big projects like TSA.

So everything might be delayed again. I will need some time to prepare an update I’m working on for the channel. So there might not be any video for a little moment unfortunately.

2 months ago | [YT] | 379

LucasRPDJ

Little note to Sprite Animation fans who can’t afford Adobe Animate or a Computer to animate.
I can suggest you this new starting tutorial series by my good old friend Doujin Pixation (literally the one who inspired me with Patafoin at the time)
He’s using ToonSquid on iPad, which is quite accessible despite costing a little bit to download (I think it’s 10 bucks).

I’m also planning to make another Animation tutorial in the future (both sprites and 3D) to showcase more advanced stuff and my own techniques.

Take care people, I’ll get you updated when I’ll get my new computer ✌️

3 months ago | [YT] | 128

LucasRPDJ

Today marks the end of a journey with my trustful machine.

My laptop : Asus Rog Strix Scar 2 [GL504GS] has stopped working this morning. (While I was working on TSA lmao)

It cut off suddenly, and doesn’t respond. (Even without battery). A bit frustrated as I installed fresh new fans a few weeks earlier before going on vacation 🫠.

-

The good thing is : all my data is safe! (I took the precaution to put everything on external drives and so on). I’ll try getting back the data that is inside the computer in a few weeks, if they’re all safe. If not, I’ll just lose the last two weeks of work at the very worst.

I’ll invest on a new PC soon, I tried figuring out the problem and my entire setup is compromised. So repairing would cost too much for nothing. But for now I’m completely unable to work on my videos nor do anything related to it for weeks (as I was preparing something big for the end of the summer 😔)

I will upload the very last animation I did with that computer before it passes away. It’s a short I first put in instagram for a joke.
I will do another post soon to tell you informed of the updates. ✌️

Skip the Carousel

1 2

3 months ago | [YT] | 370

LucasRPDJ

Huh, cool. They added a Reddit on YouTube 😎


Time to introduce myself :

Skip the Carousel

1 2

5 months ago | [YT] | 582

LucasRPDJ

Hi, I'm now in summer vacation!

I may do an animation livestream this week-end, are you interested? I'll be animating this :

5 months ago | [YT] | 976

LucasRPDJ

HOLY CRAB !! 🦀 90k views in less than 2 Days?




I'm genuinely impressed... I didn't expect to see that this series would get this much attention again after these months :/
I knew there were hardcore fans, but 90k in 2 days I think that's the first time I ever get that on the channel.

------

first of all : THANK YOU SO MUCH ! This video was really hard to make it happen, we faced many issues to make this episode possible (especially on the 2nd half where there were big issues)

Big shout-out to ‪@Senator_Kujo‬ who contributed the most on this episode, actually there were meant to be more people involved such as ‪@jit_isdead‬ for the fighting scene, and ‪@AlbinoTheHedgehog‬ for more hand drawn scenes (who went inactive due to studies), and ‪@MaxwellTheCat123‬ who could only contribute to one scene of this episode.

But we faced many complications for this one, most of it is due to my fault, my planning was poor and disturbed a lot by my studies, I took a long time before coming through something that could fit well because I wanted to put a lot on that fighting part near the end, but not everything was executed pretty well (I'm going to explain in a bit)

I went a bit selfish for the scene ⁨‪@jit_isdead‬ (aka. Monk) was supposed to help me, I had very specific ideas but that was very complicated to translate and to split the work, because everything had to be in pace with the music, and I apologise for that.

I went through making a very epic scene, but at the cost that this scene has huge flaws story wise, and I received returns about that in the comments multiple times.


------

The scene when Shadows decides to betray Metal Sonic and later on Metal Sonic deciding to defend Neon was confusing. I tried my best to try making something that could be understandable, but it was almost impossible due to the fact that the build up of their character development was done way too late. And I couldn't spit everything in one single episode.

I noticed that issue during my big break after ACT 11, I knew it would be very difficult to come with something that could be logic in only a few episodes before the big fight.

------

TSA is my first big atempt in writing a story, so there are flaws for sure, It changed radically since season 1.
I hope it didn't annoyed that much, I see that you all enjoyed the quality of animation at least : )

I'll try to do better next time ^^




------------------------------------

Now about what's going next :



-We'll be working during this summer to produce ACT 15 and ACT 16, the remaining episodes before the end.
Stay tuned because we might upload it from September and the end of the year possibly.

-I'll be posting a few shorts and other animations during the summer too do fill the gap, I have things I wish to upload.

-I may announce something pretty big soon too.... 👀 (image 4)

Skip the Carousel

1 2 3 4

7 months ago | [YT] | 1,316

LucasRPDJ

Hey, one day left!


Tomorrow, I'm going to do a livestream before the episode drops out. Question, do you prefer Gaming or Animation Livestream?

for gaming I was thinking about a few games with some people on discord :

-SM64 Coop
-SRB2 Kart
-Lethal Company


Or maybe, I can simply animate the first animation of The Boys I announced months ago : The boys in Speed Highway if you're interested.

7 months ago | [YT] | 300