Will be working on game developing this live on Twitch and maybe other sites if I get around to it:

Demo play: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1120530143

Playtest it yourself!: http://industrialzen.us/fleckoverse/ (must have PC controler)

My fellow Newgrounders, I once again ask for your support!

I release the comic on Imgur and it immediately gets taken down from public view, so here you go: https://imgur.com/gallery/cbdFFYF

Also merch: https://www.teespring.com/stores/emporium-zen-2

Thank you

-Trever

So I make this piece of work yesterday, and decide to post it on reddit's /art page. It does GREAT with 43 upvotes in an hour. Then some douchebag moderator had to spoil the fun cuz they felt it violated their holy rule #6:

Frustrated from being cockblocked, naturally, and inclined to my predisposition as an artist, I posted the above screenshot to their page to start raising awareness to the issue...

This resulted in a 2 week ban, but it also afforded me to plead my case to the moderators on a specific forum. I was firm in my convictions:

And that resulted poorly, with a 72 hour ban from messaging the mods.

The fallout from this gets even more fucked up, when I get banned from two other discord servers because of mods there deleting my conversations about this, and me getting pissed at them for deleting my shit.

They'll sit there and tell you that it isn't a big deal, that you're the one being immature, and they will downplay it as a private server privilege. Don't upset anyone, bro; just chill! It's censorship. It's oppression. There are no "public" platforms anymore, if there ever really was anything like that to even exist. When you create a baby-safe atmosphere everywhere, you're gonna end up with grown-ass adult babies (should be clear as day to see by now) and you're effectively dumbing-down your community. The evils that result from censorship are immeasurable. So, no, fuck these censorists; I'm not the one who decided to circumnavigate the rights that our ancestors died for with the click of a button, and a general disdain for people speaking their mind. I'm tired of this bullshit.

Oh yeah, and I won't kill myself either!

In honor of our nation, I'm putting my copy of the USA Today out on Ebay during this historic time! So far, a bid of $0.66 would get you the copy! It's a story-starter! http://ebay.us/jv1WmI?cmpnId=5338273189

Howdy, Newgrounds! Hope you've been holding up well!

Long ago, to combat the Demon of Boredom, I set out in vigorous pursuit of that panacea called Entertainment. Along the way of my travels, I became acquainted with a Lvl 10 Bard/Wizard class, Doug Atkinson, and with our abilities combined, together, we initiated the industrial Zen Guild, vowing to spend every spare moment we could on developing our own panacea for the world to use against this demon.

Carefully crafting, tirelessly, and without distraction, Doug and I have finally materialized the means to which we will no-doubt use to boost our ego, while systematically drowning out that vile demon's spell-like hold on the rest of the world. We call it: Vikings of the Interstate...

Today, we bring another soliloquy to give YOU another taste of this epic, slowly quenching that hidden thirst you didn't realize was evaporating your soul, and introducing a cosmically sweet nectar to your taste-bud pallet, the likes of which you won't find anywhere else.

Go forth, be fearless while we spiral towards our inevitable oblivion, and behold: The Elixir You Seek

Thanks go to Connor Grail for helping me with the sound FX, and to Oliver Koppert and Patrick Langner for wonderfully portraying their character roles, and thanks to all of you viewing for your continuous and generous support! I swear I'm not making it easy for you

Skol,

-Trever-

Howdy!

Doug has been working on the writing and I've been happy to work on the continuation of our pilot, Vikings of the Interstate, in comic format

If you haven't checked out the pilot, do so here: 

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/689559

The story continues here (Page 01):

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/fleckogold/vikings-of-the-interstate-ep-02-pg-01

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https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/fleckogold/vikings-of-the-interstate-ep-02-page-02-01

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https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/fleckogold/vikings-of-the-interstate-ep-02-page-02-02

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https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/fleckogold/vikings-of-the-interstate-ep-02-page-02-03

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https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/fleckogold/vikings-of-the-interstate-ep-02-page-02-04

If you're a fan of our work, and want to support our efforts with the hopes of making it possible for us to create content full-time, become a patron on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/industrialzen

You can also find me over at Twitch Creative doing what I do:

https://www.twitch.tv/fleckogold

Always more to come!

Thank you!

-Trever-

Howdy, everyone! I hope you get a chance to watch my newest feature, Vikings of the Interstate!

I know it's not perfect, and that we live in a world that consumes perfection on an every day basis, but I hope you can show it mercy for the sake of the concept, and that I did handle all of the artwork on my own. I am very proud of what I just achieved.

One of the difficulties I faced while creating this was that because the amount of time put into production, the style that I started with originally was marginally different from the style I ended with. I tried to minimize this by hopping from scene to scene day by day in random order (I used a d8).

I ended up resorting to 3-d for some of the backgrounds and solid mobile objects (cars). I had to brush up on my Blender knowledge over the summer. The scene in the kitchen went remarkably well, and you can hardly tell the difference between the shots that I hand drew, and the shots that I rendered from Blender. In other areas, like the huge zoom-out of the car rolling into town, I felt I had to settle and let some glaring differences slide, mostly due to my lack of experience on lighting. I was happy with how the buildings came out.

Sound is always much more important than we give it credit for, and I knew it was going to be a challenge here, especially with not having a mind geared towards audio art (not knowing much about it), and the sounds sounding different from one PC to the next. I had the oppurtunity to hear this with a semi-surround sound system, and it sounded spectacular.

A very grateful thank you going to Connor Grail for hooking me up with some rockin' music. Besides his obvious masterful job at syncing his music with the action at the end, he had blindly handed me a copy of the wardrums played within, and it just happened to match up wonderfully with the scout viking's intro. He's a very talented composor, and I encourage everyone to check out some of his other stuff. I still enjoy his metal cover of 'Dayman' up on Youtube, even downloaded it to my own PC's playlist.

Thank you to everyone who has shown the project interest and helped out, particularly through the Twitch community. Thank you to all the fans who I work dilligently to entertain; I hope I spread some sort of happiness.

Take care, everyone, and until next time: Keep creativity alive!

Howdy!

I'm coming to the final stretches with the art for the pilot episode of Vikings of the Interstate. PresidentZen and I are planning on having it complete within the next couple months, and it's looking to be almost 7 minutes long. It's been a hell of a journey.

We're currently searching for anyone who would like to showcase their audio talent in our cartoon. We need two tracks (one being 'tribal percussion', and the other non-vocal 'brutal heavy metal'), a heap of sound FX, and voice acting doctored.

*We cannot offer any payment for this, as we are more or less 9-to-5'ers and live just within our means, nor can we gaurantee that there will be any profit made, but as a cartoon-series premise, the inspiration is there.

You can check out the project yourself as it is being made while streaming on Twitch. I'm finishing up the final lineart & coloring phase for scene 7, which is the fight scene within a viking raid, where the heavy metal track will be played.

If there is interest in this project, or are any serious questions, please contact Doug at doug@industrialZen.us

Thank you!

-Trever

Greetings to all of you out there in Newgroundsland. I come bearing gifts!

I hope all of you are having a wonderful Forth of July, even if you aren't from the US. May your day be filled with glorious happenings and tasty sustenance, no matter who you are! To help with the patriotic spirit that today might bring, Doug and I have fought long and hard to produce a highly sought after piece of material, in light of the recent events that would be, Osama Bin Laden's death.

That's right folks, you saw it here first!
Osama Bin Laden's Death Photo

Also, in other news, we here at industrial Zen have recently set up a YouTube account. Feel free to stop by and say hello! YouTube Account

So I just got SicTV Channel 2 out, I recommend that you go watch it. If you're reading this, you might as well, right? It's not quite as long as the first channel, but I'm still just as pleased with it. Plenty more to come, in time!

Special thanks to my good friend, Matthew Perkins, for helping out on sound and voice track editing. I'm looking forward to working with you again!

Back to the drawing board! See ya next time!

-Trever-