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VictorVonVice
Animation is the illusion of movement. It doesn't matter how you pull it off just as long as you have a way of doing it in order to bring your characters to life.

Myles @VictorVonVice

Age 35, Male

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University of Abertay Dundee

Fife, Scotland

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Posted by VictorVonVice - April 30th, 2023


It’s crazy to think that Newgrounds has been part of my life for this long, haven't always been the most active, granted but it’s been the one place to showcase my art skills over most creative driven sites that have come and went. Sheezyart, DeviantArt and even that fancy Artgrounds are “mid” compared to this place in all honesty. Which is partly why I’m still around.


Early Years


Back when I was known as MentalMyles, I discovered this site when (rudely) looking over someone's shoulder watching Mario VS. Sonic (VGDC). That led me to an obsession of watching many other stuff that Newgrounds had to offer such as other videogame parodies, Retarded Animal Babies and pretty much anything by LegendaryFrog. It was then that I decided that I wanted to be an animator. Some kids were busy trying to get laid or score some drugs before getting kicked out of highschool. But not me, my passion was in moving little people around a screen and trying to be funny in the process and that pretty much became my whole personality in highschool, for better and for worse.

 

Friend: That bastard broke up with me…it just really hurts inside, you know?
Me: …So my Metal Gear parody got 3rd place on newgrounds the other day.

 

My first batch of creations were crap I threw together over several weekends, some lost to time (thank God.) but the one thing I became well known for was a little animation called Sonic's Halloween Costume. In retrospect, I kind of hate this cartoon. Really hard to watch and in some ways a bit of a precursor to everything I personally don’t like about the sonic fanbase today (Sonic EXE, out of character bs, those creepy animations on youtube that trick kids into watching). Speaking of, this and along with many other animations at the time fell victim to a trend I like to call "stealing other people's animations and posting it on youtube as their own".


Getting Super Serial


I eventually moved away from sprite animations as I wanted to practice more with drawing stuff with a mouse and the cool thing to do on art sites at the time was to follow toxic trends like hating on sprite animations. By the time I was in college, I got the interest of a couple of guys who were planning on making a small Sunday segment on Britain’s Channel 4 (which was a big deal at the time). Working on this project helped build my self-taught skills up as an animator but inflated my ego which didn’t really help when it came to my schoolwork. Around that time, I put together Can I Play with Madness for 2008’s Madness Day. This I felt was where I sort of peaked in terms of popularity because it somewhat went downhill for me for my career.


So around 2010, there was a lot of studying 3D animation and being broke as fuck. Despite being accepted into university, I really didn’t want to go. My plan was to take a year off and get a job. However, with family pressuring me to go, I grudgingly went. University didn’t go well.


University Saga


If I were to give any form of wisdom to anyone reading is this. If you feel that you need to take a year off, fucking TAKE IT and tell people who suggest otherwise to fuck off and mind their own business.


I had little money as is and there was an hour and a half travelling time (to AND from). I was a year ahead of almost all my classmates, so I wasn’t sharing any classes with them. The one guy that was on the same level with me mysteriously vanished halfway through the first term(even his roommate asked if I knew where he went). On the plus side, I did manage to shift my energy to where my strength lied which was in 2D animation (which in retrospect, goes against on why I went to university in the first place). This led to a couple of animations I made for my classes, Rabbit Exterminatin’ and Coffee Teim! Both heavily inspired by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones’ style.


Despite these breakthroughs in my skills, I was heavily burnt out and it seriously affected my relationships and schoolwork. Halfway through the final year, I pretty much dropped out and failed my final year. I still got the bachelors but not the honours.


So, for funsies I made a couple of parodies like how I used to before I took this whole animation thing too seriously.


Not that university mattered. Having the qualifications meant diddly-dick. I still never got accepted into any companies or studios because despite the grades, they were expecting you to have had slept with several big names and what have you.


Life after University...


This killed my interest in animation for a while. I took a full-time job at amazon where I would surprisingly sometimes work on some stuff with human resources, health and safety and minor promotional stuff. This was due to managers taking note of what I do for fun and have me hide in corners of the office, paid to make little doodles. Unless Amazon magically goes bust beyond repair, I can sadly never show these to anyone outside my closest friends.


Nowadays I pretty much just stick to art and animation as a hobby. Right now, I recently signed up to an online business school for Computing and IT and have even less time for being creative.


I do sometimes get DMs and comments from people that told me how they used to watch my old stuff all the time. I'm touched until they tell me they watched my stuff at an age they shouldnt. Fuckin Youtube, man.


Here and Now...


Nice story Myles, but what does this have to do with Newgrounds? Not much to be honest, just some background stuff that went on behind some of the animations I posted here. I guess what I’m trying to say is that Newgrounds has always been that one place I can go to when things get too much. A familiar bar to take the edge off, enjoy some fun stuff people made.


As I pointed out at the start, other art sites come and go but Newgrounds has always been something more honest with itself with an edge that other places don’t dare have in fear of losing money or something. I’m just hoping that it’ll still be around for another 20 years.


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Posted by VictorVonVice - April 21st, 2018


Decided to get back into animation after doing some short gif animations for work (which I can't show, unfortunately). Probably wont mean I'll be doing  full on animations like before but we'll see how it'll work out with a series of animation gifs I have in mind.

 

 


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Posted by VictorVonVice - September 9th, 2017


So I'll be doing Inktober again this year and since last year was such a great success for me (actually led to a good few things that happened to me involving a new job, so I call that a win.), I would like to know what would you like to see from me next month.

The stuff I did last year is on my tumblr if your interested in looking


Posted by VictorVonVice - May 13th, 2017


https://www.twitch.tv/turbotuesdays

I'm currently running a livestream with some friends to raise money for Special Effect. I charity that specialises in helping disabled people play videogames. If you got a quiet night to yourself, may as well come check us out :)


Posted by VictorVonVice - July 19th, 2016


On a quest to get my lazy ass back into animation, I thought I'd start an animation series where I talk about whatever I feel like. I'd post this on newgrounds but since the show will mainly be in an animatic form (For time and such) I really dont like the idea of posting "crap" and half assed stuff on this site. What do you guys think I should do?


Posted by VictorVonVice - January 3rd, 2016


Happy to announce that I'm starting a new weekly comic starring that ferret from that one university animation I made a few years back, Fritz The Ferret! I'm aiming for it to last the whole of 2016 and if it catches on, I'll continue with it :)

Catch the first strip here and hopefully it'll be part of your sunday;
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/mylesanimated/fritz-the-ferret-1


Posted by VictorVonVice - March 15th, 2015


So I decided to create a twitter account recently as a way of trying to motivate myself but when setting it up, I noticed that MentalMyles has already been taken. After I settled with the username "MylesAnimated", I felt that it was high time I thought about changing my name.

The Origin

MentalMyles originated as a breif nickname at primary school where the kids in my class would play a pretend game where we were all serial killers working at a hospital, we would give ourselves a title which matched with our first initial such as "Doctor Darren" or "Janitor Jake" and I went for "Mental Myles". We only every played that game once because if I can remember correctly, the girls told the teacher who warned us never to play that game again (yeah, we were banned from playing a pretend game, the same teacher that tried to ban us from watching South Park...). Later in life when online gaming was only relevent to PC gaming, I would go for the name MentalMyles when playing games like Counter Strike and Team Fortress. Me and some people would play game regularly on at the Internet cafe/ Corner shop until I eventually got bored and noticed a guy watching Mario Vs. Sonic on this mystical site called newgrounds. I became a member in 2003 and....thats pretty much it in terms of where I got my nickname from.

The biggest problem I keep coming across with the nickname was always the fact that it wasn't ever apropriate for professional use. It looked really bad on a business card and it would leave people thinking that I may be a pshycopath.....which isn't completely wrong. Also theres the surprisingly common use of the name I discovered. the name "Myles" may be rare but I would be lucky if I come across a site where it hasnt already been taken.

 

Original and Best

So yeh, with the exception of Newgrounds I would be using the new name MylesAnimated on other sites. Why? Mainly because people around here refer to me as such and since this was my place of origin, I would rather keep MentalMyles as is on Newgrounds where it all began.

And yes, I am aware the Sam T. recently changed his name from Ebolaworld to Saminations which was why I decided to explain why I'm changing my name to save a bunch of misunderstood people accusing me of being a copycat.

Stay sexy newgrounds ~<3


Posted by VictorVonVice - January 31st, 2015


January was a Bit of a Slow Start

Thought I'd give a little update on what I've been up to and give myself a way of keeping track in terms of productivity which hasn't been great in itself...a bit of a slow start to say the least.

First off, I bought a new laptop recently and had to set things up such as installing programs and getting used to new tools that comes with picking up most recent versions of adobe and Autodesk stuff.

Another reason I havent done much of anything this month is due to changing shifts at my job in order to work more hours which means less free time to myself let alone time to sit down and work on animations. The joys of being an adult indeed. I also want to work on other stuff outside of animation such as improving on my 3D skills, going back to comics, improving on my artstyle and so on.

I feel that once I've gotten into the swing of things I will be able to manage work on some small stuff. Taking a page from what some people suggested, it would be better to work on smaller time killers for funsies rather than focus on a project that would almost never get done.


Posted by VictorVonVice - January 1st, 2015


2014

2014 was in short, a year with it's share of ups and downs but with the worst possible outcomes outnumbering the good things that happened this year. While graduating university and finally being able to create whatever the hell I want again is great,  it hardly makes up for all the crap that has happened as well as the crap I allowed to happen this year. 

I terms of my social life, I felt that it was on the brink of disaster until I had to cut a couple of turds loose but at the same time, managed to catch up with some old friends which was a good feeling and tought me something important regarding my group of friends. Regardless of how much we have to drift away from each other in order to get on with our own lives, we can always catch up as if we have havent seen each other since yesterday. Something that some people tend to regretably forget about. Unfortunately as easy as it was to rekindle my friendship with people, my love life took a drastic turn due to my stupid mistakes and negligence. Despite what happened, I learned alot about myself. Things I need to work on.

2015 is going to have to be the year of change. Its time for me to stop dreaming and actually do shit instead of simply thinking about it. To finally grow up and acheive rather than simply try.

Also the games were mostly shit than good.

 

The Future

So what have I got down the pipeline, well I have a short animation that I'll be working on which will hopefully test out a few things. I've already written the script and will be working on the character designs as soon as I finish writing this post.

That aside, I still have a few other projects in the backburner so hopefully they'll see the light of day soon enough. Only time well tell.


Posted by VictorVonVice - October 20th, 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFG6AGx8us4

Long story short, its a kickstarter video to fund a feature length animation parody based on the Legend of Zelda (assumingly Ocarina of Time) with comedy stylings of fans that watch family guy.....Jesus fucking christ....

What I personally find hilarious about the whole thing is that they're doing it with a straight face and acting as this sort of thing has never been done before except that it totaly has been done before by more talented people on newgrounds and youtube combined that didnt get paid outside of monitization. Hell, put together all of the short parodies and compile a collection and you can make at least 10 feature length movies.

Remember when people made flash movies for fun? Those were good times.