Punk n' Gunk: Gregorio the Has-Been will finally premiere on the Newgrounds Movie Portal and YouTube on April 5th, 2025!

I would like to thank all of you that followed me, were patient in waiting for this (outside of some sound effects I got from the SoundBible website, I made everything by myself, even the background music), and gave me helpful feedback when I showed work-in-progress animation previews on YouTube and the BlenderArtists blog to ensure I would produce a passion project I would be proud of! This will be the first of many Punk n' Gunk animations I will make, as it has been a series I've been planning on making pretty much since my high school years, and I hope you enjoy when the pilot episode here finally comes out!

I would also like to thank the independent animation culture both here on Newgrounds and increasingly on YouTube for encouraging me to stop waiting for perfect conditions, like having literally anyone else to help me produce these shorts and especially waiting for validation from the disturbingly and increasingly risk-averse American animation industry, before even attempting to make my animated ambitions come true (though of course, building a bit of a following and working on the fundamentals, figuring out what works and what doesn't simply by sharing shorter, less-ambitious animations and getting feedback from the Movie Portal, is a good way to prepare).

I've held myself back for too long thinking the older methods to breaking into the industry that worked (initially) for childhood heroes, such as Genndy Tartakovsky and Stephen Hillenburg--the idea of going to an animation college, working your way up on other established directors' projects, and MAYBE getting to make something of your own as a director in my 50s or 60s--was the ONLY way to get my original ideas off the ground. However, seeing the likes of Vivienne Medrano (Hazbin Hotel), Zach Hadel (Smiling Friends) and Gooseworx (The Amazing Digital Circus, which simulcasts on Netflix, now) prove themselves to big companies simply by making cool, silly cartoons on the Internet, and building a following that ensures their stuff gets enough views to get noticed by the major studios, shows this way of thinking is so 1995. The world is constantly changing, so I must be willing to adapt, too!

I hope you're excited about this finally coming to fruition as I am, and I'll see you all again on April 5th!