(Clapping)
Okay...
Hello there, it's me Tom. That guy who hasn't been around for a while.
This is what I look like 90% of the time when I don't put any effort into my appearance.
Hey!
So, yeah. You've probably noticed I haven't made anything in a while and I wanted to say...
"Hi! I'm still alive." And explain what's been going on and what I am doing and stuff.
There is links right here to skip to parts of the video that interest you if you don't
want to listen to me ramble unscripted for the next however long this video is.
I'm really bad at doing videos that aren't scripted. I can ramble in real life, but not to a camera.
I'm actually a vlogger. I'm just an experienced script reader.
Stop doing crime!
So, for about a year now I have had writers block. Where basically I'm just really bad at writing things.
For most people if they went to the doctor and said...
"Doctor! I can't hear the voices in my head anymore!"
They'd be like "GOOD!", but for me it's a problem because all the characters that I
create and stuff used to just chat away in my head and essentially tell me what they
wanted to say, but these days no ones talking up there and so it's really difficult to write anything.
I talk with my hands a lot apparently.
So, i've realised that I needed some help and I started working with my buddy Eddie
Who is there.
And we have been coming up with loads of really awesome things. We've been writing scripts,
brainstoming. Here is just some of the pile of ideas that we've been having.
This is the next episode of Eddsworld. Holy Shit Cats Two.
Whole loads of craziness. Crash Zoom Episode 1. Crash Zoom Episode 2.
Some sketch involving blood. I don't know.
So, there's a lot of ideas coming about now and that's good and i'm finally starting to
have the ability to make things again.
One of the videos i'm working on requires me to play my bass guitar pretty well.
(Music)
So, i've been learning to play my bass again, which has been quite fun.
(Bass playing Toms Dog)
Also in my life there have been a few personal things getting me down and that's been clogging
up my brain. I don't want to that right now. I'm sure I will in the future, but yes. That's also a bit of a thing. Bleh.
So, my body has been going through a few... Shut up...
Physically my body has been going through a lot of ups and downs.
These past few months my weight has gone up and down and my fitness has just been a bit
crazy, but I have gotten on top of my diet lately. I stopped drinking, which was becoming
a bit of a problem if i'm being honest.
And yes my exercising is starting to actually work.
I can do this now. Urghhh! I couldn't do that before. I've never had muscles before.
I am too proud of this. I am too proud of this right now.
So, yes I am still working with my trainer Danny and we are doing good things to my body.
His twitter is there: @thedannyosborne
Manly. That's what I am.
I realised when I was struggling to say a sentence without mumbling I close this eye.
So, if I say something that's gonna be a bit of a tongue twister for me I will close this
eye, which is really weird.
So, in regards to Eddsworld, which in case you didn't know is a series that I was working
on with my buddy Edd for about 8-9 years until he passed away and I kinda took over the show.
That is going slowly, which i'm sure a lot of people noticed.
Basically my reason for this is I am Eddsworld as a kind of labour of love and a testament
to Edd and the thing we created together.
I decided that I didn't actually want to make any money off of it. So, yeah I kind of just
do it for fun and with my friends, but it kind of just got to this point where I felt
like no one else involved in it really wanted to do it anymore and so my motivation to just
y'know crack the whip and work for a thing I didn't want to be work just kind of dwindled
and so things slowed down, but hopefully they're picking up now. I'm trying to write with Eddie
all the rest of the episodes of the season or whatever so that we can just start really
picking up production and getting everything ready.
Yeah, Edd was always the one cracking the whip with Eddsworld and now he's gone so it's difficult.
I'm just like a horse...
What the fu?
That metaphor didn't make any sense.
In regards to the Eddsworld legacy perks, we have now shipped off nearly all of the
posters and the wristbands. I'm sorry if yours haven't arrived yet. We ordered a few too
little and we have to order in some more. And i'm going to try and get the soundtrack
out to all of the donators as soon as possible. I just need to compile that and email that
over. The little documentary thingy will be coming out shortly after Fun Dead, the next
episode is finished and that is now going to be a big vloggy talky thingy where I talk
about making it and show you all the things that go into making it.
The book is pretty much finished. It just needs printing now. We've got to print a lot
of them and package them up and ship them and that's very time... Lots... And expensive.
If you donated to us to get a portrait and you haven't sent us a picture yet we can't
draw your portrait so please send that in if you haven't. So, please send that in if you haven't.
I'll put an email to do that there.
And finally we are beginning production on the DVD, but i'm not going to release it until
maybe a year from now because I want every episode that Paul is going to make for this
season to be on there as well and it wouldn't make sense to release an Eddsworld DVD that
had all but about two episodes on it. That would be stupid. So, standby.
(Madness)
Right now i'm wearing my Pony Lords T-shirt, which is not a My Little Pony thing it is
a thing from Bravest Warriors, which is an amazing series and if you haven't watched
that you are dumb and you should do that now. Click somewhere. I don't know.
In case you don't know I've been wanting to release my own web series called Crash Zoom
for a very long time. Like nearly 3 years now.
(Screaming)
CrunchKitty Cat Food. It's Purrrlishious.
But every step of the way something has gone wrong. Animators have dropped out, or i've
just wanted to change something, but we have character designs, we have a new animator
and we have a script that I'm pretty happy with.
So, yes. That's hopefully happening now.
So, i'm very exciting... I'm very excited.
So, yaaaaaay for that.
A lot of people want to know when the next ASDF Movie is.
So, all I really can say is that they seem to come about every 9 months, which is just
when I have come up with enough ideas and i'm happy with them.
I can say that one of my favourite characters in the next one is going to be a suicidal muffin...
Because!
A lot of people always ask me when an ASDF Movie comes out if this is the last ASDF Movie?
And my answer to them is "No" I have no plan on not making more ASDF Movie.
I make them essentially for my inner 14 year old and my plan is to aim for 10, but if I
still find them funny by then I see no reason to stop going.
I enjoy making them, I enjoy people watching them and as long as people want to see more
I will keep making more.
My last video on this channel was "Touch a TomSka!", which was places and conventions
i'm going to goto and your opportunities to say hello to me in person. I'll be it very
briefly, but to reiterate the places I will be going to the most soon will be...
The MCM Expo in May, which is now called VidFest. For the YouTubey part of it.
VidFest is hopefully going to be a lot of fun. There is going to be a lot of us coming
and we're hopefully going to have panels and stage time on the Saturday and the Sunday.
And we will be premiering videos is the plan.
So, yes. Do come to that and buy my shirts. Cuz I need a boat.
Summer in the City in the UK if I can get in. I think tickets have sold out and I don't
actually know if I can go... I don't know how it works...
The Lincoln Gathering, which is actually only in a few days so come to Lincoln. Come to
The Lincoln Gathering. All the links to these things are in the description so check them out.
And then if you want to know more then just go watch the last video.
So, yes. Thank you for watching this very chaotic update video. I can guarantee you
that it wasn't shot in the order it was edited in because I was just saying things when they came to my mind.
But that's what's going on right now and hopefully some more polished and nice and glasses off,
hair up content coming soon.
TomSka out!