Hello Miss Amber, I Have Something That I Think Should Be Brought To Your Attention.

Advice to aspiring 2D animators/storyboard artists/concept artists etc.:

Don't go to expensive art school

Don't work for low pay indie productions in hope of boosting your resume

Don't do cheap commissions

Don't post traced or AI art ever

Don't make animation your career

Stop telling yourself artistic skill = money

If you are in high school right now, do not go to college for animation. I'm so so serious. The animation industry is crumbling right now, and the last thing you should be doing is racking up college debt for a degree that will fail you.

Here are some things that you can do:

Use your creative skills for jobs outside of the entertainment industry

Work on personal projects

Do not feel like you have to spend your time marketing yourself on social media if you don't enjoy it

Collaborate with other artists on projects you actually want to work on

Widen your creative influences

Try new mediums

Keep private sketchbooks/journals

Allow yourself to flow through periods of creative highs and art block

Even if you 'make it' in the animation industry. It is highly likely you will get laid off, be overworked, or underpaid. Most likely all three.

I've been laid off by two studios, underpaid by all of my animation jobs with exception of two, and I'll name them so no one thinks I am accusing them. One was a small short film called Emaho where I got to set my own rates and pick my workload. And the other is Wild Card, which was commission based and priced by me. I have had three animation studio jobs, and all of them have either not paid me or paid me very little.

The last studio job made me finally quit the industry. It was the largest most prestigious studio I had ever worked for. And, with exception of the studio that paid me nothing as I was an intern, this studio paid me the worst wages of any job I've had. I had calculated my pay, and it was less than minimum wage in my state. The studio had hired me promising part time hours, but would often leave me without work for days. The managers were hard to reach. I had little to no contact with the other animators working at the studio. But it was my first and only credit in an animated show, so that's something.

This expierience has been echoed by my animator friends and coworkers. It is not a sustainable industry. It profits off of worker exploitation. Don't feed it with your time, money, and creativity.

My biggest concern about this chapter is how will Phos make out of it. Like, 10,000 years of suffering is going to be a hard turmoil for them, but will they spend most of their time having depressing thoughts and regrets? They did wish for happiness, so maybe new gems will emerge and treat Phos like their master or something. I don’t know anymore. I just hope something decent happens to Phos rather than seeing them suffer over and over again.

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it’ll be a hard, long, and insufferable period for phos, but i’m really curious how much their personality and mindset will change during this time, especially with the possibility of leading newborn gems. i think they’ll mellow out of the rage during this time and enter a more melancholy and somber… maybe apathetic attitude? being alone in their thoughts and potential feelings of regret, guilt, and loneliness will affect them severely in some way for sure….well, let’s join hands and just hope for that ichikawa will spare us (and phos) some mercy in hnk’s ending

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I saw the multiple concept arts for Uglyville and really liked the aesthetic each one had, so I wanted to combine the ones I liked into this piece. I'm planning to do the same for Perfection as I want to do a rewrite of Uglydolls and expand upon the world they live in.

This piece has Moxy arriving at Uglyville for the first time and being amazed at all the unique, weird buildings and structures. I have to where Uglyville takes place in the factory's old garbage pit and all the buildings are made from broken toys and trash. I'll probably make some more changes to it since this is just an idea I had, but I like what I did so far.

MORE CAMP CAMP LORE! The spooky Island Mansion's design was a direct reference to the Munster's House! One of my favorite TV families and one of the COOLEST creepy houses on the block. Weirdly enough the actual house exists in Waxahachie, Texas which is about a 2.5 hour drive away from where the Rooster Teeth studios used to be.

The Munster's was one of those formative shows for me AND a few members of the Team Team. My personal experience was watching marathons of it while home sick from school. It's one of THE MOST WHOLESOME goth family comedies right next to The Addam's Family

Practicing with poses and it looks pretty good. I’m going to try to be a little more active on this cite.

Dang. Phos looks completely human now thanks to the mercury. I guess they are still unaware that if Sensei prays, it will not only end the Lunarians, but the Gems and Admirabilis as well. We are definitely going to have a sad or at least a bittersweet ending.

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A Mario Maker-esque mode is arriving soon

And here comes a new legendary cookie challenger!

Longan tweaks out again and has this new sorta evolution to their dragon form!

Their plan had resulted in the timelines of the games coming together, CRK cookies are now set to appear from here on out. Was it really a coincidence that the dragons and TK are set to appear in CRK 2026?

New detective event coming soon in September, “the Mystery of the Escargot”.

Milky Way will also be a thing later in the year.

My first animated Solaris. It took all day to do it, but it was worth it.

I have something in the works. I should be done with it soon, so here's a sneak peak.