Interview No. 181

Interview By: @The-Great-One

Patreon Post Date: Mar 23, 2022

Today's guest is one of Newgrounds biggest collaborators on the site. With his contributions to Everybody Loves Raymond!, Pico Day Cartoon, and recently the Evangelion Collab. I am pleased to welcome, @Wandaboy.

Q: How did you find Newgrounds and why did you join?

A: Honestly I forget, I think it was because of OneyNG, Spazkid, Psychicpebbles,and sleepycabin mostly back in 2015. I joined cause i wanted friends to animate with or just talk to while i animated.

Q: When and how did you become interested in animation?

A: Probably around the same time, 2015. Just growing up on youtube and seeing alot of newgrounds animators and videos reuploaded there made me want to animate! It helped to be around talented and amazing people on newgrounds also. without the push from my friends to keep animating i don't think i would have continued or came this far.

Q: You started off on Newgrounds in a number of collaborations. Do you decide to join a collab or are you sought after? What draws you to a collab?

A: When I first joined the site in hopes of making friends, My good pal @HenryEYES introduced me to many of my friends! Everyone was having fun and I got invited to join their little collabs!

Q: When did you become interested in voice acting? What can you tell us about your work on ShoeNan?

A: I don't consider myself to be a voice actor lol but my friend @carmet just asked me and @henryEYES to voice for his cartoon. and of course we had to! his cartoons are amazingly animated and super funny!

Q: How did you become a part of Duncan & Jones? What can you tell us about working on this series?

A: Well when Henry introduced me to everyone when I first got involved on the site, I met snackers. He is an amazing and talented animator and artist. I just offered to clean up or animate any shots he needed! then one day he asked me to voice the bad guy in one of the episodes! I was really happy, getting to work on the cartoon is one thing, but being a character in that show really made me happy.

Q: One of my favorite collaborations that you have participated in is Everybody Loves Raymond!. @heyopc and @Droid were the collab organizers. How did you become part of the collab? What was it like to work on it?

A: Oh man that collab was really cool, I dont remember how I got invited but there were a shit ton of people apart of it! The voice chat was super full of people screaming and animating. It was a chaotic server haha but man the vibe of everyone working on it together was fucking awesome!! Everybody went crazy when this youtuber/twitter meme guy Ricky Berwick joined the server for a part lmao. It was a super cool collab.

Q: You and multiple other Newgrounds members would work on a movie for Pico Day 2021 entitled Pico Day Cartoon. Who organized this collaboration? How did it come together?

A: I got everyone together with the help from @Ninjamuffin99, We just make pico day cartoons every year with our friends! so it doesn't take alot to get everyone together to work on it haha. Picoday is a great time for everyone but especially for all my friends cause it means we get to make a cartoon together and make something funny or badass! i can't wait to see what we make this year!

Q: What happened with the Evangelion Collab? How did the collab start and what were the delays that lead to its now recent release?

A: heheheheh...Well I SWEAR to god it's almost finished. we are just waiting on one more piece of art then we are gonna upload the cartoon!!! The delays were mostly just people needing more time, everybody was going at their own pace and it was very chill I think. Also i had pc issues that couldn't be resolved for half a year so it took me awhile to finish my part, i almost didn't make a cartoon for it cause i was just super depressed and felt like i had every problem hitting me. but luckily my friends snackers and phantomarcade helped me finish the cartoon. i appreciate them a lot for helping me with the animation. This collab has a lot of love put into it, my pal Magibuable made sure it was edited perfectly!! and Ninjamuffin made sure we have nice ass music for the credits. I know im rambling but all the animators,artist,editor, and people who contributated and helped are fucking amazing and i love them all!!

well i made the release window about 2 months lol. and nobody finished that early so we just decided fuck it who gonna wait for this collab. and we all took it at our own pace, alot of people are working jobs or take longer (like me) so we didnt mind. we just released and im so happy. the site looks awesome and everyone did amazing submissions for it. @arkoisangel made a amazing background which pulls it all together, im so thankful for everyone help with the collab!!! thank you magi, ninjamuffin, arko, phantomarcade,snackers and tom you guys helped make this the greatest collab ever!!!!

Q: What lessons can you give to those looking to start a collaboration or join one? What pitfalls should they look out for?

A: if your gonna make one just let anyone in, for your first collabs and if they are shitposts like alot of mine are lol just let anyone in! its fun to meet the community and mingle! And joining collabs... just join the ones you think you will enjoy! it never hurts to try right? honestly just look out for troublemakers! and try to meet your deadlines lol unless you all are taking it slow and relaxing hehe

Q: What can we expect from Wandaboy in the future?

A: i hope to show some better animations and funnier cartoons! music and 3d stuff also (i've been learning a tiny bit recently) Newgrounds is the best place on the internet, the people i've met here and will continue to meet have all been so amazing. without this site i definitely wouldn't have been an animator or maybe even alive! I can not explain enough how much this website has changed my life for the better! there isn't a day that goes by where i'm not thinking of newgrounds and the amazing friend group i've met here. Also sorry if this sounds preachy or sappy im just very happy that im around a community where everyone is so talented and cool, i hope anyone who is reading this will go around and collab and meet people and post awesome stuff! im not always free but if you hit me up to collab or whatever feel free to! Thanks again for listening to me ramble and for the Interviewer for Asking me these questions!

Wandaboy is one of those collaborators that came together with HenryEYES and ninjamuffin99 to make some of the funniest and creative animations on the site. If Wandaboy's name is attached to a project, you better believe it will be something to jump into. For the notoriety, the chance to work with some of the site's best, and most important, for the fun.

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