I'm making this news post to talk about my 2021 experience.

For me, I thought 2021 was so much better than last year!

This year gave me a lot of joy. More joy than I thought it would. There were some pretty bad things to come out of this year. I won't deny that. Some parts of my 2021 were not good... I had lows, but I think for me, the good parts outweighed the bad. Like I said this year gave me a lot of happiness. I won't go into too many details, but I will say this year gave me a lot of blessings.

Like the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Remakes, Jojo Part 6 Stone Ocean anime :>

2021 was also the year where I decided to make a short animated project...AND I DID IT!!

I animated, scripted, storyboarded, and edited a 3 minute One Piece animation and titled it Luffy's Big Adventure! East Blue. A shorted version of the East Blue arc in One Piece with cartoony versions of the characters, and (somewhat) fluid animation! While it's not perfect, it still means a lot to me, and the cartoon taught me more about long term projects, and also more about animation. It's still hard to believe that I actually made and finished a project like that! I'm still happy with it... :> Speaking of which, I should probably mention that I am considering making a sequel on the cartoon. Focusing on the Alabasta arc ;) I don't know how long it will take, and it might take quite a while, but I do feel a little more confident in making a sequel.

The cartoon did relatively well (especially on instagram) and it even got shared on reddit!!

If you want to watch it, the link is below!

This year also introduced me to a lot a really nice people. :>

After finishing Luffy's Big Adventure, I decided to get Discord so I could talk to my friend, 8BitAnt. I joined the NGP Server and met a lot of nice people there, but it was PKToasty that dm'd me and wanted to collab, and we made the Zoro VS Hody OP Battles animation, with PKToasty voicing Hody.

(link to the animation below)

After that, I made friends and met more kind, talented, and fun-loving people like Toasty. I can't possibly be more thankful to him.

Toasty gave me a chance and now I'm friends with him, and many more lovely people too.

@PKToastyVA Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You really made my year :'>

I could probably talk more about stuff like collabs I did with other people or other things, but I think I've already rambled enough lol...

In conclusion of this post, 2021 was not perfect. Not at all.

but dang did I have fun!!

I am going to miss this year. I truly hope that 2022 will be good as well, but if it's not for whatever reason, then I think that'll be okay. I think I'm starting to learn to accept that things don't always go the way I want. I just have to be alright with that...

Anyways, I hope you all have a wonderful 2022. I love you.

-Tyro1301 <3