My name is Fernando Costas
I was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico thus proving that I am naturally Hispanic by default, however I speak in the English Language. I am not as fluent in Spanish as I would like. In my High-School days ,despite my own struggles as a person and the fact that I struggled a lot to make a Stop Motion short, that experience pretty much inspired me to work harder and push my ambitions further. As I have a passion for drawing, but personally I feel like I should be telling stories no matter how serious or absurd mine is regardless. At the end of Junior year, I decided to pursue the arts, especially drawing and animation.
I won't lie, I was diagnosed with autism and it's hard not to let it become a hindrance and try to take responsibility for most of my actions as best as I can. I have been practicing and then improving on my art skills lately, I even considered creating original properties inspired by many things I enjoy growing up. Its not easy to establish your fictional universes either, but it takes time and effort to do so as it requires consistency.
I have a passion for comic-books and I can tell you all about comic-book history, the social commentary they have engaged. Comic-Books have a history of social justice, entertaining us with various genres such as superhero, comedy and horror. I watched a lot of cartoons, and I myself wanted to make cartoons that are well... I used to use ToonBoom Harmony and Storyboard Pro for the animation (Storyboards, Animatics and Final Animation). Now that subscription software is expensive and implementing AI nonsense, I am now using Blender for 2D animation.
Currently since he nuked the Instagram account (second), Fern was afraid of the negative impacts bad tech bills like The Kids Online Safety Act and Gottheimer's Parents Decide Act will bring, but law enforcement is more complicated than people online make it out to be. Still you SHOULD oppose so-called "Age" verification bills that force operating system manufacturers to implement questionable and fourth amendment violating mechs like ID requirments to log in into your personal computer like Joshua Gottheimer's Parents Decide Act aka H.R.8250.
From Scrappy Beginnings
Back then, he had an idea of a Webcomic called Ode to the Dwights that was originally going to be an animated series independently. Fern Costas knew how much time does it take to animate and storyboard the whole story. Fern Costas, the stubborn mule he was ran into a snafu with his Mini-Mac which explains the halt of production til the Fourth of July when he both celebrating his grandmother's birthday and said holiday with the Dwight family.
Ode to the Dwights originally was gonna have Dash, but was not inserted as Fern didn't have any idea how to insert it at the time. Up when Fern nuked his Facebook account and went searching for himself to do, Fern had hit rock bottom a few times in life online, but managed to get up and find himself oppurtunities like working at The Kalamazoo Public Media Network, Rebooting his Webcomic as a Webtoon you see on WebToon Canvas featuring a new art-style and more serialized direction which will require Fern time to fill in the gaps of the story.
The Struggle with Projects
For Fern, It's easy to explain the animation process than to answer how much he got done and Fern knows this by heart because frame by frame animation takes over an estimate of 10,000+ frames and rigged animation requires drawing each and every part and drawing additional frames for parts for rotations, hand gestures and perspective shots of each part.
Fern's stubborn and yet ambitious at his best (or in some cases worse) as he always feels like needing and wanting to tell a big story with settings and characters he keeps changing til Late-2024 when Fern fessed up, but felt like focusing on characters he created himself. Right now Fern's getting himself together.
What's Next for Fern?
Not only Fern Costas has a load of projects, he is also going into advocacy standing against bills forcing operating systems to implement questionable and privacy envading "Age" verification mechanisms like The Parents Deicde Act, Online Censorship from Richard Blumenthal's Kids Online Safety Act, Fight for the existence of Linux Operating Systems doing whatever they want and freedom to refuse to implement "Age" verification mechanisms FTC Commissioners will be happy to force onto them.
Fern's also wanting to implement open-source software like Blender, KDE based software like Krita and KDenlive and consider the switch to Linux Operating Systems since they are open source while fighting for their right to refuse putting "Age" Verification mechs and securing People's privacy for a foreseeable future which involves modding systemd (which requires skill to remove government mandated age-verification mechs) and the embracing of OpenRC. Fern Costas is also aiming to be an executive producer of your next indie production
Imagine a fair society where we make it illegal for our politicians to even think about forcing such "Age" verification mechs that makes operating systems depend on thrid party ID verification companies like Persona Identities, Inc, Sam Altman's World (aka Worldcoin which is also planning a Digital ID System) and as a society teach children how Operating Systems like Windows work.
A Little Known Fact About Fern and his advice
Fern Costas is inspired by the works of Walt Disney, The Fleischer Brothers (Fleishcer Studios), E.C Segar, Kevin Smith and his View Askewinverse movies, Mike Judge, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Walter Lantz, Rudolf Ising, Hugh Harman, Tex Avery, E.C Segar, Dr. Seuss, Friz Freleng, Leon Schlesinger (the producer of many Looney Tunes from 1933-1944), Stephen Hillenburg, Joe Murray, Stan Lee (which explains his admiration of the superhero genre and what its capable of), Bryan Lee O'Malley (creator of Scott Pilgram), Jhonen Vasquez, Tim Burton and Phineas and Ferb creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh (which explains Fern's use of geometric shapes on his colorful diverse characters). Fern takes inspirations from SuperMarioLogan (Logan Thirtyacre in the creative process), SMG4, Thunderbirds101 and who else but the creator of EXTRA
Always read Content Warnings before proceeding, because Fern cares for your mental health.
Ode to the Dwights is available on WebToon Canvas