2016 UPDATE and BIGGEST BOTSALE EVER! (UPDATE: BOTsale’s OVER)

by shootzee on February 8, 2016 at 11:11 am
Posted In: JEFblog

BIGGEST BOTSALE EVER 2016(UPDATE: BOTSALE’s OVER! Thanks to those that used the discount!)

Hey all! First off, yep, I’m still alive and kicking! Sorry for taking such a loOOoooong break from the site. I know it’s been almost a year since my last update and that just sucks. As a mea culpa for the absence, I’m having the BIGGEST BOTSALE EVER over at The BOTshop. You’ll get 50% off of everything there as long as the total’s over $10. And you won’t even have to put in a code or anything; the discount will be applied automatically at checkout, so if you’ve ever wanted a JEFbot book or JEFbot tee (reminder: Valentine’s Day is right around the corner!) but were waiting for the right time to pick one up: now’s the time! You’ll also be helping me clear out some inventory to make way for some new merch in the future, so it’s win-win!

So as for what I’ve been up to the past year: longtime readers will know that I’ve been working to get into the animation industry since losing my office job a couple years back. Well, sometime around September of last year, I made my first steps into doing just that. I was contracted to do 7 cartoon shorts for an Internet variety show called Rooster Teeth Entertainment System. It was an exciting, stressful, hectic and fun experience all rolled into one, big, crazy learning experience. It was hosted by a funny, talented guy named Colton Dunn, who you can see all over the place these days (NBC’s Superstore, Lazer Team, Steven Universe and more) and had great guests, including IGN’s Naomi Kyle, Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller and Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns, among others. The show allowed me to produce and animate cartoons, go to live shows and watch a bunch of amazing actors, musicians and artists do their thing. It was all super cool and I totally miss working on the show. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to work with all those people again in the near future.

In addition to the animated stuff, I was working as a storyboard artist and doing motion graphics for a variety of companies, most notably at CollegeHumor, which was another exciting and fun place to work. Not sure if I can post any of that stuff – I’ll look into it and see if it’s cool. I had a job where I literally drew hundreds of kittens for a couple weeks and I’d love to show some of that to you.

As for the present and future, I’ll be looking to get more gigs drawing and animating, and working my way into a place where I can pitch some cartoons, including one based on JEFbot (!), eventually. I should also have some time to finally finish up the latest Christmas Bat and hopefully get back to the forever-paused adventure Musashi and jefbot are still on! I hate to make promises as I’m currently working on pitches and also don’t know when the next paying gig will pop up and consume my life but I will try to be more active here as I miss the comic and talking with you all. I’d love to get back to that, and I’ll do my best to make it happen, especially since I’m not doing many conventions these days (although I’m still scheduled for the San Diego Comic-Con this July, so hope to see some of you there!) due to my random schedule.

To wrap this long blog post up, let me give a BIG THANK YOU AND HUG to all of you BOTpeeps who continue to check out this site, even when things seem stagnant and dire. You guys are the ones who make me want to keep writing and drawing more JEFbot adventures and I can’t thank you enough. Hopefully I’ll have a new strip up in the next week or two, but in the meantime, enjoy the BOTSALE and I’ll be talking to you soon!

LINKS:
• BIGGEST BOTSALE EVER!
• Rooster Teeth

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