PoundToundHound

Moa Olssonhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm14854599/ (born: October 18, 1999 [age 24]), nicknamed Baphomet the Clown but known online as PoundToundHound, is a Swedish YouTuber, animator, musician and cartoonist. She is most known for her indie-animated movie called Sinking Roadhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt27751771/, which, as of December 2023, is still in the works.
==History and Content==
Baphomet gained her current acclaim following the release of her Halloween Short Wayward's House on YouTube and Newgrounds in 2020, which is still her most-viewed video on both platforms. Other short animated works on her channel include A VILLAIN'S NIGHT, ÖJVIND'S MANSION VISIT, [Tree of Sefs Animation] - Look at the Buns on that guy!, etc. Her current work tends to span from animations lasting some seconds to short films.
Baphomet is also known for composing her own music for her works, having released videos with her music to showcase them, typically in the form of medleys. A lot of her music relates to her various characters she has created for her world over the years.
Her style is cartoony and zany, being inspired by works like Cuphead and Disney. Her most notorious feature is her emphasis on clown-like characters and designs, with their standout noses, and her emphasis on goofiness and craziness. She began this trend back in 2015, when she created her own world known as Dwurm, with her own species of inhabitants named Dumblotraightshttps://toyhou.se/5764101.dumblotraights-info-sheet, which are said to be cartoony, humanoid aliens and descendants of giant slug-like extraterrestrials, simply known as Dumblos.
She uses Toon Boom Harmony Essentials for her animations, Mixcraft 8 for her music, and FireAlpaca for her artwork.https://poundtoundhound.neocities.org/about
Other than works on Animation and Music, she also works on making games on her spare time, most of which has been Visual Novels such as The Seven Living Sins, submitted for the Itch.io Game-jam sunofes22https://itch.io/jam/sunofes22/rate/1689012. She is working on a game called Cheery Cherry, which is a 2d-Platformer, but work on that is undetermined.
On August 16th, 2023, she was featured on an episode of the Post Modern Art Podcast where she explained more about her works and personal life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFAzcM5Rco
===Sinking Road===
Sinking Road is a animated full-length movie currently in the works, said to be released in 2025 to YouTube and possibly Newgrounds. The movie will follow the main lead Dotty Duette, who, after forgetting the tomatoes for her tomato soup, gets pushed into the waters to drown by an unknown assailant, where she then mysteriously gets attached to a magical golden road that drags her down to the underwater "Sinking Road Village." Once there, she meets the embodiments of the 8 Buddhist Precepts, some welcoming her and making her feel right at home until the road comes back down for her, and some, like the infamous 1st Precept, who's out for her blood.
Baphomet began solo-work on this movie back in April of 2020, doing everything with the exception of the majority of the voicework, all on her own. On January 14, 2023, she was featured on a livestream for pitching and showcasing indie-animated works called Indie Animation Pitch Night 2023, hosted by the YouTube Channel Animation Appreciation Hub, where multiple indie-animated works and creators got features, such as ToonrificTariq, cirqueobree and starteas to name a few.
Baphomet shares work-in-progress of the film typically on her Twitter/X under the hashtag #SinkingRoad, but she has also shared teasers on YouTube such as her Sinking Road's Meet The Characters teaser created for the #IndieAnimationDay hashtag trend on Twitter/X.
==Trivia== 
*Moa is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
* Moa has a little sisterhttps://twitter.com/HoundTound/status/1685663727763206144 who's diagnosed with a very rare disorder called Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD), which gave Moa inspiration for a lot of her physically disabled characters such as Boris Cholmondeley.
*As she had to be in hospital a lot growing up due to her little sisters conditions, she gained her love for clowns not only from films but also from the hospital clowns that'd come and visit to cheer kids on. The frequent hospital visits also got mirrored into her work, portraying a lot of sterilized settings such as hospitals and laboratories.
*Moa is bisexual and engaged. https://twitter.com/HoundTound/status/1676011457790582788
==References==
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