Happy third birthday to my online name, Pelemus McSoy...three years ago today I created a NG account, finished and submitted an (amazingly shitty) animation on submarines for a history project, and watched it get blammed. God, what a shitty week that was...

About a year or so later, I teamed up with Funny-Man and submitted Chad Weathers the Weather. Looking back on it, my character design was so primitive compared to my comics today...sure, they haven't changed a lot, but small details on the characters are more noticeable and fine tuned and stuff...I even changed the way I do lip syncing which (in my humble opinion) looks smoother and much easier to work with.

Later that year, I created my first solo project and official game: Chad's Quest...a small game I created for my town library...but I don't think it ever got the recognition on the website that I had hoped for. Oh well. It still taught me a few things about game design, increased my art skills some, learned some awesome special effects and coding tricks, and I learned the importance of concept sketches.

DeRoze Picross came next...a (what I thought was gonna be a) side project to Bill's Quest (still in the works, but the beta tests had been completed). With Goat-Man's help, it became a lot prettier and even made it to Daily 7th...and is probably my highest ranking submission to date. What a bitch it was to make...and there were still glitches even after I submitted it...

You know that something went horribly wrong when you work on three side projects to get away from a side project...Clock Crew Shorts (which was actually accepted by the Clock Crew), Clocks in the Rye (an English project parodying the craptastic Catcher in the Rye that actually got a 90), and Stickman Game (an animated version of a game I enjoy that Goat-Man and I made up as we went along...hopefully it could become the start of a new collab genre: interacting animations. It was really fun to make). Then finally, DeRoze Picross made it to the light of day.

For Christmas I wanted to make something different and increase my animation skills a little more, so I made DeRoze Christmas 2008 for Newgrounds...over all people thought it was funny and original, but it wasn't good enough to really see much light after it left the Portal...in fact, it's my lowest scoring project to date. It was still fun to make. =3

And then of course, I have all sorts of music I've submitted. =3

I must say, a lot has happened over the three years I've been on Newgrounds...looking back at my reviews of my early days, I looked somewhat noobish and immature, whereas now I leave well thought out reviews and submit stuff that people enjoy. I feel like I've become an official Newgrounder because I've reviewed Flash stuffs and music, submitted audio and Flash stuffs, and have posted on here and in the forums.

It's been great. =3

~Pelo

P.S. Bill's Quest is still in the works, but it's a little more than halfway done. =3

P.P.S. A huge thanks to Goat-Man for the new icons and banner! =D