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Julius von Brunk @von-Brunk

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New York, NY

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Back in the Newgrounds Groove!

Posted by von-Brunk - April 16th, 2020

After taking a hiatus for over a decade, I'm back on Newgrounds!

Back in 2009 I took a break from making Flash animations in order to focus on a career in digital arts, and then moved from Lancaster, PA to New York City. Since then, I've become well-adept with photography and making elaborate LEGO creations, and in the recent years I've started making my own stop-motion LEGO brickfilms. I decided to start mirroring my LEGO videos on Newgrounds, so what you see here (moving forward) are videos that I've put on YouTube previously.

I've also removed some of my older Flash animations due to how poor the quality was, yet I've kept some of my other classic Flash videos due to popularity – namely the Sephiroth and SAW videos. I mean, in retrospect, they were poorly-made self-insert Mary Sue videos full of copyrighted material, but they serve as a time capsule of the old internet!

Since brickfilm animations take a long time to create, I can't guarantee I'll be uploading as frequently as when I made Flash. However, at the time of this post, I'm currently in the process of moving into a new apartment with a better housing situation than what I currently have now, which means I'll more comfortably be able to focus on making stop-motion animations.

-Baron von Brunk

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UltimateKingofEvil 2020-04-17 00:13:59

Welcome back

Wegra 2020-04-17 00:27:27

I still remember that fast and furious parody. Good to see you back in action

ScottJacob 2020-04-17 03:31:54

Good to have you back!

GabrielBarsch 2020-04-17 10:43:16

any plans for JSTMK? ya know that old sprite series you worked a long time ago?

von-Brunk 2020-04-17 10:43:16

Probably not, since that was essentially just a rushed, unorganized project I kind of threw together when I was really young and didn't have many skills with animation or writing. If I resurrect the idea in the future, it'll be a similar concept only much more refined.

The-T-C 2020-04-18 11:56:17

Wow I certainly didn't expect you to come back here.

You're like the third animator to come back and post is there some kinda newgrounds nostalgia that's happening now? Wiggy.

The-T-C 2020-04-18 12:01:39

While I still love Baron Von Brunk the character, I understand how self-insert is cringy to look back on.. and it makes me wonder if people like Christopher Titus or Will Smith look back on their sitcoms that were just... them with characters doing things and cringe.

von-Brunk 2020-04-18 12:01:39

In my defense, the main reason behind my usage of a self-insert Mary Sue was due to the fact that I'm absolutely terrible writer. Therefore, to make up for my lack of ability to write plots, I realized I could just have the main character be an exaggerated version of myself, and his adventures would be exaggerated stories based on my real life. For example, the whole SPEWOMorg thing was one big inside joke about my personal life: the members of that organization were based off my former high school teachers and former girlfriends. The gag was that in real life a lot of my enemies at the time were women with glasses (former teachers, girlfriends, coworkers), and that I joked that that there was an international conspiracy for women with glasses to follow me around and try to assassinate me. Other Baron von Brunk cartoons contained various elements of gags and inside jokes based on my personal life at the time as well.

The-T-C 2020-08-18 06:58:46

@The-T-C @von-Brunk That's interesting.

Tho that's like... most artists base things off their life and if they don't have a character that's just them but cooler, they have many characters that are basically parts of their personality. XD

At least if there's writers out there that DON'T do this... I've never heard of them.

Back in the Newgrounds Groove!

After taking a hiatus for over a decade, I'm back on Newgrounds!

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