Hi everyone, hope you had a happy 4th of July! Time for some extra news:

• Barely forgotten Operation Overcast. I'm working on an art that I wanted to finish by today, but it seems unlikely. Nonetheless I'll hope to reveal some more information by posting a few artworks prior to publishing the comic.
• Been taking a pretty big break from Newgrounds, barely anything getting done and just going on a break. Hopefully I put out something for you guys to enjoy.
• No cause for concern in regards to my wellbeing. By my own words, I am fine.

Hopefully this clears some things up.

Have a great day of liberty.

• Goodlands

Today I just tweaked up my PFP from years ago to look a bit less ugly. The background image you see will be changed sometime soon.

On another note, beginning to work more into the script for the prologue comic for Operation Overcast!

Hi Newgrounds, been slowly forgetting about my account and minding on random past times that aren't that productive.

I failed to deliver the prologue comic I was supposed to release by late April as it will be postponed to a late May/early June release. Again, no strict guarantees.

I've also started designing one of the characters who will appear on that comic, who is an Iraqi helicopter pilot. I don't really have reference images to accurate portray them, so it will be a bit different. It's kind of the same with the USAF Pilots, where I use fictional helmet designs rather than real ones. Accuracy and realism is not my goal here of course.

And from the title, yes I forgot about Pico Day. I have not even drew anything relating to it. It's nothing scary, it's probably better for my health because I am a procrastinator and tend sometimes lose sleep over publishing my NG arts. So sorry, no Pico art from me. But you can check my older Pico art right here.

Have a good one.

• Goodlands

Hi. April fools is over. And I procrastinated just to release a low-effort artwork for that day and writing some gag for it.

Now, onto my personal project of mine: Operation Overcast (OpOvc)

Originally this project was gonna begin with an animated pilot episode but the pilot episode may be put on hold as animation is demanding and casting also costs money. So, I'm going to be releasing a prologue comic of some sorts that will chronologically be before the potential pilot episode and if I want to, make more comics that will be set before the pilot.

So, I have my ambitions for the project but I am going to start small and hopefully grow enough to reach said ambitions.

I'm hoping that the prologue comic will release later this month or in early May. But please, don't take these as guarantees as things can change as always for any reason.

That's all, see you soon and hope you have a happy Sunday.

-Goodlands

Yeah. I got not too much to say, but I am drawing stuff for OpOvc and changing up the general direction for the pilot episode. It's gonna take a while for it to happen.

Anyways, here's a quick drawing. I more or less drew this to practice changing up from pure-black eyes to actual plausible cartoonish eyes. Yes, it is rough-looking and that's why i won't put this on the art portal.

Have a happy valentine's day 2023, folks!

Hello, currently it is still Dec 31st at my timezone (Central European Time) as of posting this for the few people who managed to get to new years before we europeans and americans do. Have a happy 2023 towards any of those people by the way.

So, my 2022 has been fairly decent. I think it was better than the other years because I witnessed many good things and explored new opportunities. I've submitted around 16 art portal submissions, more than my 4 art portal submissions in 2021. I think the early year was when I felt the most productive, while the later parts was stagnant.

My project got a rebrand (Operation Overcast) and I am going to change the direction it's heading towards.

As far as progress, little has been made. But I am planning to give you something instead of nothing.

I am going to soon release a prequel comic somewhere around next year early on to give some extra lore and to have build-up. Other than that, it's gonna get rewritten and I gotta decide on the voice acting and that stuff.

For the personal side of things, I got to witness some cool stuff. Played Fallout 1 at the end of the year (planning to play fallout 2 after i finish the game), watched Breaking Bad more than in 2021 where I'm at the 5th season at around the end of the year, watched Sonic Prime the day it released, watched around 3 movies (I think I only watched one in 2021), went to two different countries that I think I have never been to before (Turkey and Bulgaria) and other stuff I could mention but either I am not in the mood of putting it in or refuse to for personal reasons.

Overall, a pretty decent year. I hope you enjoyed this year, too.

Have a happy new year.

-Goodlands

Hello guys, I have now decided to do some changes for my currently unfinished project of releasing a pilot episode for an animated web series which will formally be known as Air Ops: Gray Sky.

It will now be known after this as OPERATION OVERCAST.

It's shorter, but if you want initials just say OpOvc (ohp-ohv-see or ohp-ohvkh).

Why? Well Air Ops is... a little too misleading because the series will have ground operations. Gray Sky is directly derived from the project name.

I think Overcast is already kind of sets up what I am aiming for: grayness representing gray morality and the moody, depressing feel of being in a zone of conflict. Overcasts are a condition occurring within the sky, and since this series puts an emphasis on aerial military presence, it also makes sense to consider. I added an extra operation to signify that this is a military-themed series and to avoid using one-letter words which might result in trademark disputes. Apparently there exists a mobile app called Overcast, so I ain't gonna get sued by a podcast app.

Now for the project itself, the first episode will be structured differently. It will still retain the training bits and introduction to characters, but also setting up some action which will have an ending that will imply a continuation may happen. There are some less significant changes like me changing Elliot's middle and last name to Dean Conley instead of Daniel Colt. Changed his middle name because wasn't satisfied with him inheriting the name "daniel" and colt was swapped out because of my strange concern of copyright by the colt manufacturing company. Eh, last one was a wonky excuse but why you care so much about a character's name as I did making that decision?

Voice Actors will be recast and to all of the VAs reading this, you are dismissed. If they don't see this (likely will), I'll try to reach out via PMs dismissing them from the project as I will strive to recast the characters. This is is because of lack of communication and the complicated idea of asking random dudes on the internet to voice over for your web series pilot without owing them any money for their work. I cannot voice on my own, barely can make distinct voice and awful bg. I have money in my pockets but I can't be certain if I will ever convince my parents by giving them my physical money that I own and them paying the amount I want and making sure they are not at a loss of money. Still, I am a kid with big dreams and I want those big dreams to happen sooner than later.

Ambitions are kind of through the roof, I wanted this to be an actual series but it feels too ambitious to do so. I wanted there to be different seasons, with each having different main themes. And I actually was thinking about an ending and how that ending would line up to the video game which will be a direct sequel to the series. The video game however, still remains just an idea with other ideas mashed in. I am also already writing future episodes that haven't been released yet.

Thanks for reading this absolute unit of a news post, with separate paragraphs with a mouthful of words over a project that should've been out sooner but some things just don't go as planned. And that I am still a kid who got other responsibilities and lessons to be taught.

So, I haven't been interacting too much in Newgrounds over the past few months cause there's not really too much of a drive to do so. So, AO:GS as at a typical cycle where I want to do some more progress but I'm strangely stubborn and don't get to finish things when I want to. 2023 it is, though there's also the issue of me rewriting the script from the ground up again as I need the actors to record new lines. I hate to replace actors but if I barely receive a response, I just won't include their work and use another actor instead to stop delays. I am trying to turn the progress around by thinking about illustrating the backgrounds of scenes, which shouldn't be too much work and can save up some time. But who knows?

As for personal life, I mostly keep stuff relatively unknown but I'm doing a fine job at school. Some grades are improved, some are grades are a little downgraded. Hope I'll get better by the next quarter.

That's all. Have a wonderful day.

Hello, hope you're having a good Tuesday. Let's talk about how it's going out here with Newgrounds and other stuff:

I have been kind of taking a break from Newgrounds, not because of something but burnout and me not having enough time to scroll through everything. Two days will be Madness Day and I have just completed conceptualizing my MD2022 Art piece. I do not know if it will look better or worse than the conceptual art because I can't just simply trace them over and expect people to not notice.

As far as AO:GS, it's still in it's hibernation stage though I'm looking forward to do some production work at October and at least wrap it up in November. Though I am now going to re-do every storyboard scene from the ground up, where instead I am to use two lines that give me wide enough space which would be fitting for the series format being in 1920x1080 resolution, may result in less per page but would definitely make it more easier to draw what I want. I've also been considering to add some combat scenes for the pilot as flashbacks, they'll be short and will replace some scenes that would feel... unusual. So, I'm gonna do a partial rewrite of the story. I say that because the plot of the pilot being an introduction to our cast of character and them having their hijinks ensue remains mostly unchanged.

That's all I have to say for today. Here's a sneak peak of my MD2022 submission conceptual art.

That's all. До гледање.

-Goodlands

I decided for now on, I will use calendar date as a title instead of something original. I don't know, to make this sound like a journal or some stuff.

So like a few weeks ago, i've listed in the Collab with Peers list to ask for some voice actors as only two of them provided their voices. I've had to shuffle through two voice actors for three characters, one simply phased out and another hasn't reached to me in a while. So due to that being a failure, it's delisted. It's not really going that smooth. Additionally I am working on other projects and summer's bouta close. But one thing to note, I'm also going to Greece for a 4 day vacation tomorrow. Development is too little and I keep on sweeping it under the rug.

But, this is not me saying: "I give up on this passion project and that my ambition of having an animated series about goofy little military servants operating in the skies witnessing some hijinks". I have not given up on this project, just keeping it under the rug... for now.

Also I'm gonna prepare myself for producing some Madness stuff in September. Possibly wanting to at least involve myself into a collaboration, before Madness Day in September 22nd. I also hope that I actually finish my art in time and not procrastinate like I always do.

And in general, am wanting to have some other things that aren't Air Ops: Gray Sky. I'm planning to also publish like a novel series in which the concept is that a kid is basically on house arrest by some paranormal creatures after his parents were cursed by them, forcing him to live on his house for a long time.

Anyways, thanks for tuning in. Here, have a concept drawing I did.