► Ascentrium was a series I worked on non-stop for several months after quarantine began. "Now's my chance," I thought. And I was right - I had all the time in the world. But I didn't expect the entire project to have a runtime of over 2 hours long. Yikes.

I always knew I'd submit it all to Newgrounds, but how? I thought about making the submissions long and weekly, like I did with my YouTube Channel, but I thought I'd try something a little different: a short episode everyday. Here's what I've found.

1. I found I received my best scores when I submitted just after midnight. That said, I've been happy with all the scores I've received regardless of my time of submission. Newgrounds is generous and seems to be consistent giving each submission its fair shake regardless of the time it was submitted. Here's today's submission.
2. The submissions seemed to get quicker views when I posted one of my female characters in the screenshot. Hey, it works.
3. Though I only have 85 or so official fans, I found those fans to be extremely dedicated to seeing each episode. I may not have gained the numbers, but the viewers I did retain were very interested in the project. Quality reviews and feedback as opposed to quantity.
4. There are so many submissions on this site, that I didn't seem to annoy anyone with my large surge of new submissions. Newgrounds is so alive and active, that my daily animations were but a drop in the bucket.
5. The Portal is still a mystery to me. Sometimes the submissions fly through 'judgement' like nothing, other days the entire 'new submissions' column stays that oh-so-uncertain purple. I'm sure there's someone much smarter than me who could explain this phenomenon. Anyone up to the task?
6. I've been on Newgrounds since I was 10 (those awesome Pico days), started submtting when I was 12, and now that I'm older I've noticed that Newgrounds has matured while also retaining so much of the things I loved when I was a kid - we can indulge in animated violence, laugh at the absurd, or be transported to an entirely different world. That's the beauty of animation I suppose but I can't stress enough NG's ability to perpetuate the fun while also having a serious, more professional aspect to it all. This site is chock-full of talented artists.

► Fellow animators, I'm interested to hear what you think. Did you find submission times affected your scores? How do you like to utilize your preview screenshots? How have you found NG has changed over the years? Let me know.

I think that's all I can really ramble off the top of my mind at the moment. All of this said, my series is still ongoing. I have 10-13 more submissions of Ascentrium left before the story is told and my daily submission experiment is over. Hopefully by the end I'll have more findings for anyone who is interested.

► Now that I've somehow held your attention this long I wouldn't be doing myself any favours if I didn't ask you to please check out my series Ascentrium and tell me what you think! I only have a few more weeks left of uploads, now could be a good time to hop on board and theorize. The end is nigh.

► My Youtube page is above, and our Instagram page can be found here.

► Our Facebook page is here.

Cheers!

-Tom from Animatrium

►Since my return to Newgrounds after a long hiatus I can't help but notice the changes, with perhaps the biggest being the fact that new, great content is being churned out faster than ever before. In the earlier days it felt as though a truly great animation would only be released every once in a while. Now, it seems one is released every hour!

►Let me be an old man for a second and ramble a little through the years.

►My first real project was an animated music video of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" in 2007. Even after 13 years, my animation style has hardly changed.

For a real trip to the past, I had another Newgrounds account even before this one. I was 12 when I made Super GTA Bros.

Naturally, a combination of every 12 year olds two favourite things. I can't access this account anymore, can anyone smarter than me lend a suggestion on how to recover my old stuff?

►It's humbling to return and see just how much talent is out there, but it's great to still be a part of it and get back to my roots. Newgrounds inspired me when I was a kid to learn how to animate. In many ways, I still haven't! But I know that if it wasn't for this community I would've mustered the drive to create something for myself.

►My newest animated undertaking is "Ascentrium", an anime Sci-Fi series. I like to think of it as a culmination of all the great things I've admired about Newgrounds growing up. It's always been a dream of mine to create my own series like I used to watch on this website. Finally, with a whole lot of time on my hands thanks to a little pandemic, I've been able to create it. Had it not been for this community and website I never would've found the drive nor inspiration to create something of my own. And it's great to see NG continuing to thrive and inspire to this day.

You can check out the first of many (and I mean many) episodes of Ascentrium here : Ascentrium Episode One

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God, I hope so.

► Thanks for checking out my page! Be sure to check out episodes of 'Ascentrium'; a series I'll be submitting everyday for the next month or so. I'm eager for all of Newgrounds, the community that has inspired me since I was 10 years old, to finally see it. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST EPISODE

►ASCENTRIUM is an anime sci-fi series.

The story begins in the future, where a civilization known as the Ascentrians built their own paradise on the moon before the Earth was destroyed by reasons unknown. With the righteous in the Ascentrium, and the survivors living below the surface of the Earth in the Sankt, 'heaven' and 'hell' exist on a physical plane.

But supernatural entities are making themselves known, and soon the two split worlds realize that fate is bringing them together once again.

► Ascentrium was directed, animated, scored, and scripted by Tom Doughty and the Animatrium Studio.

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►Any feedback and criticism is welcomed and appreciated! Please stay tuned to the series and enjoy.

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