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EPISODE 19 is HERE! This one is just plain delightful. You’ve got to hear Goy’s hilarious and heartbreaking space station story. 

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Probably bad luck to post this the day before I road trip back to Boston, but I thought you’d want to see those designs I posted recently brought to life, with great animation work by @uberrobocorn! I love when a project comes together.

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I don’t think this flying unicorn pooping data storage arrays is going to make it into the boards we show the client but needless to say @liatcamille and I had a good brainstorming sesh today

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NEW MUSIC VIDEO! Link in my bio. ... Completed for a client who make Spanish educational materials. @roblynch animated a bunch of it, Joe Andrade did backgrounds and @botti_alexandra provided dance reference for the creepy-dance part!

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New explainer project...like infomercials before them, explainers always seem to start with a dude having just a real bad time

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When you go on a manta ray snorkel the crew seems slightly annoyed to have to keep repeating that manta rays are not what killed Steve Irwin and if I were his ghost I’d be indignant #doodle (at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii)

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#tbt to this delightful weirdness from last year’s @gilmoreguysshow toon!

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Spotted the rare Hawaiian Worry Whale this morning (at Magic Sands Beach)

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Lots of you said nice things about my rough animation for these weird tooth scenes, so you should get to see the final result! @roblynch did the animation for the wide shot of the kids in the bathroom, and Joe Andrade did that cool background

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Good morning!☀️

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Good morning!☀️

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Good morning!

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One of the weirdest and coolest music videos I’ve ever gotten to make is almost done! Can’t wait to share even more from it. This scene boarded/designed by me> animated by @roblynch > cleaned up by me

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hey, do you remember the bathroom cartoon you made almost a billion years ago now? i unearthed an old favorite video of mine riffing on it and other newgrounds stuff and decided to check out some of your new stuff. if you're the same alex salsborg that has to stand in the toilet to close the stall door, then i wanna tell you that you've improved a ton since those early days. you must get that a lot but you're actually really awesome. your recent stuff is great, & im i'm glad you made a career!

Hi Anonymous,

I do remember that cartoon! It was called “A Men’s Room Monologue” and I made it when I was learning how to write and animate as a freshman in college.

Thank you for your compliment about my current work and career. It is a textbook example of a “backhanded compliment,” but I accept it and give you the benefit of the doubt that you do mean it.

I’m making the assumption that the video you made didn’t so much “riff on” my cartoon as it did another more scatological term. I don’t know if I saw yours, but I saw others and at the time they made me feel kind of…riffy.

I have improved a ton since those early days and I have managed to make a career as an animator. But I want to make it clear that none of this success is due to mean videos, posts or comments about my work. These things did not make me want to impress the self-styled internet cool kids or “prove the haters wrong.” They were negative and made me feel uninspired.

I improved a ton and made a career as an animator for the exact opposite reason: kind, helpful and supportive words about my work. I worked hard to impress all the people who encouraged me and make them proud.

So again, I do accept your compliment. But it means very little to me that you decided I improved enough since your “riffing” to earn it. The most meaningful compliments about an artist’s work and success will ALWAYS come from the people who have been rooting for artists to succeed the whole time.

Love,

—Alex Salsblorrg

PS - I no longer stand in the toilet, as I have trained myself to acrobatically backflip directly into the stall, while simultaneously unbuttoning my jeans, and land perfectly on the toilet seat. As you said, I’m actually really awesome. 

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Working on a scene with some really good teeth

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Mens bathroom monologue revisited... Updated, upgraded... 🅱️Lease I'm dying

Haha what?

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One final holiday throwback for you - the cute Peanuts-inspired ad I made last year for @kampgroundsofamerica (boarded by @roblynch)