I promise, this is the last environmental campaign cartoon!

The fourth and last in the series features an addition to the animal team, my old goldfish, Goldie. This time she's imbued with the power of the phoenix, able to collect huge swathes of garbage in the sea.

Ocean cleanup was an area they wanted to focus on. So, they wanted something fun for it. I was kind of under the wire, so I went with my Goldie character model from the video.

"Goldie Fishwater" was my real fish, and the reason I built an internet-controlled fish tank a long time ago. I wanted to see her, feed her manually, and monitor the tank's stats. I loved that fish!

Check out the project below. However, I only want you to watch two parts—the beginning and ending animations (ending begins at 33:00). I had been drawing Goldie for a year, and desperately wanted to make an animation for the video. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to animate. So, I went with old-school cutouts and just made a choppy 8-frames-per-second stop-motion video. I used a friend's Apple Stop Motion Studio, if you're curious.

Because of the music I chose for the ending animation, Christopher Cross now monetizes my video! You know the song I used…

My remotely controlled fish tank worked great. But the feeder system I went with, made by another company, wasn't compatible with the fish food I was using. It dumped a TON of food in at a time. After a five-day trip, I returned home, and Goldie was twice the size she was when I left! The pellets were too small, and it poured in way too many at a time.

I thought something looked odd on the camera (when I was on that trip using it). But I just thought it was a camera fidelity issue for the stream. I even moved the camera around, too.

As for the campaign as a whole, it was dropped due to the lack of public interest. Despite that, I feel I drew some cool characters and images. Next Earth Day, I'll bring them back!

See the rest of the environmental campaign drawings and the rest of my cartoons in the Engineering on Friday comic gallery.