Last summer I got extremely into animating a handful of Neat Hobby! comics. It was the perfect distraction for someone like me: art, animation, video, music, and voice acting! I did the animation on my iPad using Clip Studio, the same program I use to draw comics and I wrote and recorded the music and all the voice acting in Garageband.
If you follow this site you've probably already seen one of these: I released "Yurēi-mazing" last Halloween. I had big plans to do about ten videos, but ran out of steam halfway through. I think once I figured it all out it just didn't hold my attention. Which is ridiculous because twelve-year-old me would've sold his Huffy bike and Micronauts collection for the chance make his own animated cartoons, something I can now do on a tablet while watching TV. It's not too late for twelve-year-old me to jump in a time machine and come kick my ass.
Here's the first animated Neat Hobby! from last summer: "Continuity." By the way, Neat Hobby! Newsletter subscribers not only saw this last summer, but also got to see behind-the-scenes stuff like animatics and proof-of-concept videos. You can too! If you join us!