Evolution

Sean Malin’s continuous progression has overall made a somewhat historical timeline since he started his cartoon creations. Throughout the years he’s been gradually developing his animation media into production related media with short films, a web series, and more.

History
During Sean’s early childhood, he’s had the interest in doing art. He liked to draw things and watch cartoons. Sometimes he would even trace cartoon characters from coloring books to learn how to draw them just like their original artists drew them. He even tried to draw comic strips of his favorite characters and even draw people he knew in real life. By 2010 Sean Malin got his pet cat Sam who was found in the streets near his elementary school. He was taken in and Sean tried to draw him as well. He named his cat Sam because he once read a book in his first grade class that had a cartoonishly illustrated cat named Sam from a short story called “Sam and the Bag”. He even drew his cat very similar to the way the illustrator of the short story drew his Sam. Later in 2011 Sean’s uncle had a Youtube channel called BSR Entertainment where he got Sean to write 3 short tales of his cat Sam but in the short story’s universe. Sean also narrated his story (unscripted) behind a microphone in his uncle’s recording studio as the visual showed a slideshow with all of Sean’s drawings taken from a camera. They were put together with some jazz music along with Sean’s recorded voice narrating the stories. The first story was called “Sam The Cat” telling how Sean took Sam in. The second story was a retelling of Sam meeting two cats, Max and Hap, in the original illustrator’s universe (being the other Sam) with his uncle including music edited in for the very first time, and the third story is where Sam meets Sean’s new cat Maggie in 2012 where Sean gives his drawings color for the first time. In real life, Sam and Maggie were like a kitty couple which made Maggie Sam’s love interest in the third story.

A fourth story was made called “The Kool Kats” the same year where Sean would add new characters, but unfortunately his uncle’s equipment stopped working properly at the time and wasn’t able to record anymore. “Kool Kats” also appeared to be trademarked by a band and Sean was even warned about stealing other people’s work including the fact Sam the Cat was already something from an original story that he tried to recreate as a fan artist. Later on from 2013-2014, Sean tried making new stories of two cats called Miley and Andrew that act more like humans, but since he had no access to the right technology, he could not make anything good out of it. Sean’s cat Maggie also passed away around this time from a bladder infection. He however got a new cat Molly by mid-2014. By 2016, Sean Malin got a new sketch app on his phone where he could make art digitally for the first time. Meanwhile he also discovered an online game called My Singing Monsters on the same store. As he joined the MSM community he made a new YouTube channel for himself only calling it Guy Dude. Here he would normally post gameplay videos of MSM but also was drawing the monsters in the sketch app with a lot of coloring. By 2017 he moved to a new YouTube account calling it The Amazing Guy Dude since his first channel wasn’t doing too well in terms of ratings. His digital art was hardly ever featured on his channel however so he decided to make a Twitter later the following year (also because an original friend convinced him to make a Twitter page). It still was rare until June 2017 when he established his first semi-animation video. By 2017 he made a cartoon called Guy Dude vs the Ice Cream Machine showing himself as an MSM Ghazt monster in a more cartoonish look. Sean even included some cartoon sound effects and a little bit of noises from his voice. It also had an alternate title called Guy Dude and Rick Rod Minis where it would show his friend Rick Rod as an MSM Pixolotl in a more cartoonish look as well. However Sean found this idea to be far too stressful and decided not to continue it. Just a month later, Sean also felt fascinated by Matthew Edmund’s fan-made comic series of MSM called Life in the Monster World not only for the drawing style but for the voice acting. He heard a new character would appear in an episode called Bubbling Nightmares which was the monster Drumpler. He asked Matthew about being the voice of this character in the episode and was approved by him. This was then Sean’s first time performing in a cast as he then thought of the idea of becoming a voice actor. However he wasn’t quite sure of it still. Meanwhile he also got a new drawing app called Ibis Paint where his drawings started to grow immediately with tons of new features than the first app had. By late 2017, Sean also joined the Minecraft community as he downloaded Minecraft: Pocket Edition for the first time where he created his very own Minecraft skin from a site called Tynker. He wanted the skin to look just like him in real life with blond hair, a leather jacket, and jean pants. As him and his best friend from middle school, Jaylyn Dickens, both drew their Minecraft skins all the time together, Sean eventually drew his new cartoon character design of his real life self in the same outfit the skin had. He as well drew Jaylyn in this style in several concepts. Then by late 2017, Matthew Edmunds told Sean Malin about an animation app called FlipaClip where animation can be made traditionally. Sean Malin had gained interest in animation for months prior to this discovery but never had the appropriate app for his needs. Sean Malin experimented making a few test animations of random drawings in a few frames till November 5, 2017 when Sean Malin officially finished his very own cartoon character design along with Jaylyn who both appeared in a test animation uploaded to his channel. This test also included Sean Malin’s first time voice acting in his own animations with some dialogue. He even provided the voice of Jaylyn when he speaks in the test. In 2018, many more animation tests and concept drawings were made where Sean started updating character designs making his own character wear a blue shirt and brown shoes while giving Jaylyn a brown shirt and gray pants and eventually an orange jacket. Sean was also giving them more body appearances than just head drawings. By mid-2018 Sean Malin was not only improving character designs but also including new characters to his art collection which are noteably Weston, Shrill, Angelina, his cat Molly, and various members of the MSM community he talked to in their personas. Sooner or later Sean started taking interest in film since drawing and animation was becoming a dream job to him. He made an idea for a show called “The Guy Dude Show” but he realized he wouldn’t be able to write an entire series. He returned to the idea with something called “Guy Dude’s Grand Adventure” being an actual movie, this idea was still however too stressful and a traumatic incident happened during the time causing the production plans to be canceled. At the same time Sean Malin also opened a new YouTube channel called TAGD Productions where he could continue most of his videos there with gameplay videos and other media, and eventually more short animations. He also started editing his videos with an app called Kinemaster.

Sean Malin’s friend Weston Stapp started a series of scripted ethereal videos from MSM which was a sedies that included more than one voice actor as well. Sean Malin asked to join the cast for a character which Weston let him voice Yawstrich in a mini-series called The Elder Relics, a holiday special called Sox Saves Christmas, a 26 minute film called The Ethereal Movie 2: A Quest For Sox, and a short video called An Ethereal Easter. Sean’s interest in voice acting has gotten very high as he participated in this series of media. By the end of 2018, Sean felt ready to start his very own animated series calling it The TAGD Show (which TAGD had soon become Totally Animated Goofy Drama) which was in production in December. By January 2019, Sean released the series pilot on his new channel featuring completely drawn animation backgrounds, his friends he drew being Weston, Shrill, Angelina, and members of the MSM community along with his pet cat Molly. This is when Sean started making a voice cast of his very own for each real and fictional character included with a speaking role. However after the episode pilot released more were planned, but the series was canceled not only due to stress but from a second traumatic incident that made Sean abandon the channel.

Later on the following year, Sean Malin eventually stopped animating for a long time after some drama with WS that ruined a new planned production called TAGD’s Great Escape being a new short film with WS involved, this was canceled after some of his intolerable actions which was also when WS stopped his ethereal videos that Sean participated in. Molly also passed away in April 2019 as Sean didn’t want her to be seen in a continuing legacy. Sean didn’t return to animation until August 2019 where he tried again making a feature movie originally calling it Sean’s Epic Elusive Adventure and then Sean’s Elusive Movie: Lost in Florida. But it was eventually canceled as well since the production still hardly made any progress. He also decided to stop drawing any real characters off of their personas connected to other trademarked movie/TV/video game media and kept all his characters drawn as humans in the respected style. When Sean went to school during his sophomore year, he signed up for a high tech video production class called CNTV which was a school news program that posted educational updates every week about the school it was from. This class taught some of the basics towards directing, producing, editing, cinematography, and of course, writing. As Sean carefully learned about the following, he also met new people that had the interest in film who worked together for the school’s show. Since Sean was an experienced animator, he was given the option to animate the full news intro. Sean took the opportunity, and with the help of everyone else, made a full intro of all the CNTV members in cartoon form in live action backgrounds on school campus with a lot of shading to fit in the shots. This got a lot of people’s attention at the school wondering how this idea was even possible which revealed Sean’s credit as animator at the end of each weekly video. He was also promoted as the voiceover in the beginning of every video where the announcements are made since Sean had a talented enthusiasm in his voice. By the very end of 2019, the teacher/manager was announcing her retirement, a meeting was made giving CNTV a Christmas special. Sean had the heart to make the Christmas special fully animated for everyone which was approved in surprise calling it Sean’s Christmas. Everyone at CNTV helped make Sean Malin’s first ever animated short film which had Sean, the CNTV gang, the return of Sean’s actual cat Sam, and a few of Sean’s original friends, however the main rule was that Sean’s original companions cannot have any large roles. Since Sean had gotten ideas in writing scripts and a decent story, he began working on the production 1.5 months prior to its release also making storyboard panels for the animation process. When animating, Sean created the new cartoon universe designing his own house with a simple interior design seen from a comic strip. Once Sean stressfully finished the 5-6 minute special, it debuted on his original TAGD channel on Christmas Eve. Sadly the film could not release on the CNTV channel since it was during Sean’s Christmas break and post-retirement from the class’ instructor. All of Sean’s friends and subscribers loved the film, so once Sean returned to school by early 2020, his skills gave him a second semester in the class but with a new instructor and a new crew. Sadly there was no longer any time for Sean to animate anything for the school again, so he moved on to making a second short film called Sean’s Valentine Blowout near Valentines Day. This film ran for approximately 8 minutes but with a more semi-animated quality made in stop frames. This is because animation was very time consuming drawing out every single frame in a production. However since all the original CNTV crew members were replaced, Sean could not get any to reprise their roles, so he had decided to have his own characters take them over from now on. This is when the characters Illusion and the mean cheerleaders had their successful debut. When writing the film Sean also wanted to make the story a bit deeper than his last one from Sean’s Christmas with more emotion and things that happen to him in real life making the whole Valentine story a story about “single-awareness”.

As mentioned, Sean was still trying to work on his first ever movie also releasing an animated commercial soon after about the 2020 pandemic featuring a narrating voice-over by Tyson Randall spreading the word educating about the pandemic’s safety. The movie was officially canceled on May 2020 when Sean had a mental breakdown and left YouTube. After a few months of healing, Sean returned with a new YouTube channel and production called Remarkable Toons Inc. where Sean released a brand new short film called Sean’s Rapid Runaway with the return of old characters and introducing new ones in some higher production quality. Madison Meckert starred as the new character Sophie who is known for her performances in live action roles making this film the most popular of all three. Devin Bevil and Ian Gallegos also tagged along to write the film a bit. The film ran for over 16 minutes. Since everyone was happy in Sean’s return, Sean Malin announced a new animation series a month later called Sean’s Zany Sitcom as him along with Devin and Ian started production on it from the help in California. Sean however remembered his struggle making an animation series which is why he joined the bigger side of the film industry and had more writers involved when making Season 1 at times. Sean Malin included a new character Stampy being one of his later returning friends and created a series intro showing various scenes of future episodes in the series, and the episodes ran from 8-14 minutes depending on how long the scripts and story went on for. The animation had updated quality and editing quality as well that continued on. As of 2021, Sean’s Zany Sitcom is still in production to this day.

Meanwhile, Sean also participated in other productions in the community such as an animated mini-series called Shrill’s Thoughts by his friend Shrill Desjard who is also an animator. He starred in it as his own character in Shrill’s animation style also with Sean animating the new series intro too. He also participated in a birthday collab by Abby Howard (aka SunnyTheInklingCat) making an entry produced in the series quality. He also has reached 1,000 followers on Instagram in 2021 as his production has become a big success.