I did the same thing last year and I think this is going to be some kind of annual thing in December now. I started this trying to make a 3D model to try it out as I wanted to try 3D animation, and ending with me being about 3/4 away from finishing my first album with vocals. I tried doing a crap ton this year which is why I haven't really done much as turns out that leads to something called "burnout" which I'm running for my life to avoid but I keep slowing down because "oooooo cool collab on the NGAP discord server!".

A list of every collab/jam that I did this year:

• Pixel Day (did last year)
• Sketch Collab (done since 2022)
• Secret Santa (done since 2021)
• Itch Godot Game Jam
• Itch Pixel Game Jam
• Itch Lospec Jam
• Wii Art Collab
• Halloween competition
• The Nemgrounds Brainrot Scam Ad Collab that's still not out
• Battle Of The Bands
• NGAP Megacollab
• Radio Collab
• Art Inspired Music Competition
• Pride Month Collab
• Black And Orange Collab that's not out yet
• Sandwich Collab
• Voice Acting thing for UnculteredMutt from the NGP Discord Server that's not out yet
• Voice Acting thing for BoiledMilkz
• Voice Acting thing for a fanganronpa I found on Discord (not sure if I got a role yet though)
• Voice Acting thing that I'm doing later today
• The NGAP Cinematic Collab that I haven't started yet
• The NGAP Terraria Collab that I haven't started yet but I'm doing the windy one

...Y'know...I'm starting to see why I think I'm on the edge of getting burnt out because on top of that I was doing my GCSEs (very important British exams), the album that I stated earlier and work on the DDLC fangame I mentioned in the 2023 post that I haven't worked on properly for a few months now as I got sidetracked. I was also trying to make stuff earlier this year for Redbubble and I kinda forgot about that.

The most notable thing I did online this year was probably changing my username from "PearlHikara" to "RosieUV" as I made that name when I was 13 and it's a version based of a name of my old YouTube channel I made when I was 12 and it's cringe so I came up with the much cooler "Rosie Ultraviolett" that people at my college call me in real life because that was my name on Snapchat :'). I also changed my icon and logo and basically did a whole changing thing to look cooler.

In terms of improvement stuff: I finally moved onto Godot 4 and figured out how Dialogic 2 works (it's so much better than 1) and I made my first 3D game (that wasn't a Roblox game), I found out what EQ and automation tracks are, figured out the power of line widths, moved onto OpenToonz, uhhhhh other stuff. I want to go pirate FL Studio once I finish my album as LMMS is starting to feel limiting, especially in comparison to Logic Pro, which is what I've been using in my music tech BTEC class.

I also started uploading all my old art onto Cara, moved my website from carrd.co to neocities.org so I could make it from scratch with HTML and not have to rely on boring templates. I'm currently re-making the website from scratch to look all cool and stuff and that's my main focus currently as I want to make a 2025 channel trailer for my YouTube and I mentioned it in the script. I've been trying to take YouTube more seriously, especially now a bunch of people from my college have subscribed and I'm at 86 or something ridiculous like that. I have plans to put dev logs and other not really animation stuff on there. I made a Bluesky earlier this year after I heard about all the Newgrounds people migrating from Twitter to that website.

So yeah that's basically it. I suspect I'll spend 2025 making that DDLC fangame and releasing my album, and then 2026 will be that fanganronpa I came up with earlier this year but still don't have all the details for each chapter sorted out (mainly because I don't write anything down and I really should). I'm trying to do less collab stuff for a while so I have more time to focus on personal projects, but I know that's bullshit and the 2025 recap post is going to be twice as long as this with a sarcastic introduction.

At least I pretty much have reached endgame with my setup. Almost 5 years ago I was drawing on an iPhone 5C with crappy earphones mics and now I have this cool new desk from my bedroom redesign that can fit this 5:4 monitor I got off Ebay for 30 quid (it's some Dell monitor from 2008 that works great as a secondary screen), and these cool Audio-Technica wired headphones I got for Christmas. He doesn't know my socials so he probably won't see this, but thanks dad!