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Lackachat Saturday
Hey all,Times are rough and everything is on fire, so the Lackacrew has decided to lighten things up a bit, with a good old fashioned donnybrook.Several of the voice actors will be joining us Saturday, in character, for a game night! We'll answer audience questions along the way too. It looks li...
Been One of Those...Years
Just make a cot of poffee.
Rough Animation - Acts 1&2 (part 2)
Some longer segments featuring character acting/voice acting this time!Animators: Kaylan Peattie, Lauren Bednar, Jade Smania, Katie Winchester, Kayla Stith, Sagan Yee, Andy Bella, Aimee Uehara, Andrew Stadler Voices: Lisa Reimold (Ivy), Michael Kovach (Rocky), Belsheber Rusape (Freckle), Benni Latha...
Cat Cosplay - Mordecai
Some of you might have seen this already if you follow me on Twitter, but it seemed necessary to share this here too. Photos by Cat Cosplay, who did a Mordecai feature Saturday. XD
Shop Talk with Toniko Pantoja!
Tonika Pantoja (StringBing, Trolls, How to Train Your Dragon 3, Wish Dragon) will be joining Fable Siegel and I live to talk about animation education, making your own animated short films, and creating a pitch! We'll be answering questions from the audience too, of course.When: Saturday, Septem...
Arts
Some recent Patron pieces you may have seen me working on in streams of late.
Patron Livestream Schedule!
Hey all,I'll be streaming tomorrow, Saturday August 29th, starting at 5pm CT / 6pm ET at my Twitch Channel.I'll be working on various Patreon and Kickstarter and Film related projects, and some people from the animation team might stop by to chat! If you have questions, bring them!Hope I'...
Shots and Shots Fired
Just another progress update! - A peek at shot glass prototypes from the factory! It might be hard to tell from the images, but they're sort of a square with slightly rounded edges in shape. You can get a better look in this video.- Unending chaos for Freckle. A run animation by Kayla Stith, and...
Rough Animation - Acts 1&2
Some more previews of how the animation is shaping up this month!You can see some early examples of how 3D props are working their way into production as well as a bit of effects animation in the form of the passing train. Audio is still a work in progress at this point as well (sound effects aren&#...
Open Night Stream
Hey all,I'm going to be doing an open YouTube stream tonight starting at 10pm CT while I work on some Patron and Kickstarter related pieces. Feel free to hop in for a chat! Some of the film crew may pop in too.You can find the stream here!(Note: this isn't the private Patron stream - I'l...
Lackachat - UNO Edition
Hey everyone,We've got a live chat + UNO game scheduled tonight with the film crew! We'll be chatting and answering questions like usual, but as an added bonus - behold the slaughter! ...The very civil, sportsmanlike slaughter. >_>Where: The Lackadaisy Discord (Lackachat Radio / #lackachat c...
Lackadaisy Emoji Pack
Hey all,As part of that animated film Kickstarter, we promised an emoji pack and, well, here it is! Patrons get it first!Contained in the download (attached to this post), you'll find 50 emojis/emotes sized for Discord, Slack and Twitch, and 12 stickers sized for Telegram. Also included are high...
That Owl Looks Like Your Mom
Some progress of late. There's so much animation going on right now but I can't show it just yet. Errrg.- Not sure the animated GIF up front will work in the mobile app. Here's hoping. Roughs by Katie Winchester/FireNoggin!- Mitzi's character sheet. Final rendition by L. Frostad. Nex...
Act1 Rough Animation
Just a small sampling of the animation currently underway! (You might have caught a glimpse of some of these if you were at the last Lackachat.) These clips are in various stages of completion, to be later handed off to the clean-up team for, well, clean-up, color and lighting.Work by Syd, Mel Mroze...
Wilderness
Enjoying the outdoors in summer in Missouri is complicated (not pictured are the copious chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes).Still, it beats lockdown.Hope you're all hanging in there!Just trying to regain my footing with the comic art here. Been frazzled and working on less ideal hardware this month...
Patron Livestream Friday
Okay, stream starting for real this time (barring further incident). Sorry for the delay!-----------------------------Stream postponed - technical difficulties. Sorry about that!I should be up and running within the hour (if system restore/shrieking into the void resolve this).———————...
Upcoming Lackachat
Hey all,The next Live Chat has been scheduled!Where: Lackadaisy Discord Server - Lackachat Radio / #lackachatWhen: Sunday, July 26th beginning at 5pm Pacific Time / 8pm EasternThis time, we're spotlighting Storyboard Artists and Animators as guests, so if you're curious about the project, wh...
Marigolds and Stickers
- Mordecai, Serafine and Nico character sheets have recently been completed for animator reference, with final art by consummate cat-drawer, L. Frostad (notes and revisions by Fable and I).- A sampling of the emoji/sticker set that the amazing Kazoodle has been working on (check out her Patreon, by ...
Instructional (Recorded Session)
This is a discussion and Q&A Fable and I held with the animation team on the Lackadaisy short film in June (edited to cut out detritus). A few people have told me that they couldn't make it to the live event but still wanted to see the session, so I figured I'd share, in case it's of any...
Toil and Progress and Nico
Well, device problems persist. Nico is patron art, but also an attempt to reacclimate to my old tablet. It's hanging in there, but my laptop - henceforth known as The Crashtop - isn't having it with large comic files. (Some of you who attend my streams might recall that this is the reason I ...
Render Test
A short test as Ashley Nichols (the clean-up lead) works out the line brushes, textures and lighting approach we'll use to put final polish on the animation. Sample animation by Nick (you can see the full thing here) with background by Frog.(And Mordecai will eventually get his glasses back.)
Shop Talk Stream
Hey all,Worthikids will be joining Fable and I to talk about animation, being an independent creator and related topics in a live streaming chat this weekend!When: Sunday, July 5th, starting at 5pm CT (3pm Pacific)Where: The Lackadaisy YouTube ChannelI'm not sure Worthi needs an introduction! If...
Puppies and....Taxes
Patron art of late!I figured I'd open with the puppo to try to soften the other not so pleasant news. You all deserve to be informed, though:The Taxman ComethIt was just a matter of time, really. Patreon is required by law to start charging sales tax on some pledges beginning in July.Behind the ...
Rocky, Ivy and Things
I wanted to share Rocky and Ivy's character sheets, and thought I might as well include some other progress as well!The other images:- Layouts by Frog/the design team. This is preliminary background art. Another artist will later be tasked with painting over these to bring them in line with the ...
Instructional Stream
UPDATE: One Hour Delay! This will start at 9pm Central/7pm Pacific now!Twitch Channel----------------------------------------To assist the animation team as they work to familiarize themselves with drawing Lackadaisy characters, I'll be hosting a tutorial and answering their questions. For any P...
Livestreaming
Live now!----------------Hey there!The next Patron Livestream will be this Sunday, June 21st, starting at 7pm Central Time (5pm Pacific) at my Twitch Channel.I'll be working on some comic art and probably some reward art too. Feel free to come and chat or lurk about, as you see fit!As always, I ...
Lackadaisy Shop Talk
Hey all, Fable and I are going to spend a little time streaming tomorrow, discussing both the fun and the tribulation of making an independent animated short film with Ashley Nichols (Hell Puppy, HuniCast). Everyone is welcome to come and listen and throw some questions our way in the chat!We'll...
Thoughts and Character Sheets - Freckle and Viktor
If you've been keeping up with the dev log, you might've seen the Viktor sheet already. Freckle's had to be even more detailed for some scenario specific things.One of the big challenges for me in working with a team of artists is transcribing explanations and breakdowns for character in...
A Good Boy
The team has lately moved on to finalizing character designs and drawing up formal turnarounds and sheets for animators, so I thought I'd share some of what that looks like! Horatio's is actually one of the simpler sheets as his appearance in the film is brief and we only need to account for...
Conjuration
Illustration for the back cover of the Art Book. (The additional image here is a mock-up of the book jacket layout.)-------------------------------There's a raw recording of the last Lackachat up on YouTube as well. It's a loooong one, but the VAs ended up doing a lot of requests and improv....
