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New Years 2024 Update - getting back into it!
Hey guys! Hope everyone had a good holiday and new years!So here's an update for ya'. The industry job I'm at gave everyone the nice Christmas surprise that they're letting our team go at the beginning of January! Which is fine by me... without going into the juicy details, I've ...
a leeel update... (industry stuff!)
Hey guys! I recently took an industry job, so I'll be pausing the billing this upcoming month. I did this a year or so ago when I took my last industry job, and it feels like the right thing to do. I'll actually be continuing to pause the billing while I'm employed at this job... for any...
SC03 video!!!
Hey guys! Here's something we haven't had in awhile... a whole ass video! With sound! Timing is subject to change, and it's still missing some stuff like foley/sound effects, but this is approximately what the scene would look like.Since deciding to just finish up what I can on W2H2, I&#...
W2H2 Animation
Hey guys! This month I've got another animation gif for ya!This shot was kind of difficult, it's in a weird perspective, and there's a camera movement, which I animated in the animation program rather than doing it in After Effects like a healthy person. Sometimes I think when it comes t...
Spinning shot!
HOPE YOU GUYS like seeing the same shot over and over again! I've been noodling with this one a lot 'cause it's one of the only shots in the film that's going to be colored AND it has special lighting. I mean, ideally, this entire scene would be colored, but realistically it wont be,...
teeny tiny update on that indie studio interested in W2H...
... Absolutely not gonna' happen.I wont go into the deets, but since I've been hinting at it in past posts, I thought I should give you guys that update. There was some shady financial shit going on with the person running the company, so I'ma just avoid any association all together. For...
spinning shot color + camera test!
Hey guys!!! Sorry for the dry spell of work these last couple months. I moved in the middle of January and I've been trying to get my stuff all set up in the new place and settle in to the workspace. It's kind of hard to focus when you're whole living set-up is in shambles! Anyway, this ...
Maikoh / Kolotl illustration process!
Since I'm short on animation this month I thought maybe I'd share the process for a drawing I did earlier this month. They're all in order, so hopefully it makes enough sense, but here's the gist of it:1. initial sketch/idea. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like.2. finding the flo...
Demon Tactility Physics diagram
This is kind of a weird one! Haha... so there's an insert-shot in W2H2 of an illustrated diagram, and in my boards it was just stick figures 'cause I hadn't designed what it should look like yet!So I decided to go for a 70s vibe? Like Schoolhouse Rock, or those indie animated segments on...
Jonathan + Mephistopheles head tilt
Heyyyyy! It's another animation-less post, guys! Traveling for the holidays and all that junk kinda got in the way, as it does.But! I got these nifty head-tilts for the characters done! (Sock head tilt is here!) I think I mentioned on a previous post that I've been working on these for a pot...
UPDATE! On posting W2H2.
Hey guys! So I don't think I've made a proper post about this yet, but I had an epiphany recently that I just need to post W2H2 once I feel like I've gotten to that "good enough" point. What the film will be:That means it won't be fully cleaned, colored, and composited -- som...
Sock and Jonathan Head Tilts!
Unfortunately I don't really have any animation this month because I've spent most of my time doing these head tilts! They've been really hard and they're still not quite right, but they're close enough. I think I've mentioned in a stream before that there's a chance I...
W2H2 Animation
Hey guys! So you'll probably recognize a lot of these from previous posts, but I assure you they are updated or refined and therefore different! Got some added lip sync, got some pose fixes (Meph's arm was supposed to be leaning back on his chair, from a previous shot... they didn't hook...
Meph Mouth Chart and Tom!
So this month I had to decide on colors for Tom, and I also sketched him out real quick into the size comp, so... here you go! Full body, full-colors Tom! For the hardcore fans.Also some mouth charts for Meph! I had to finally cave and do these because I ~may or may not~ be working with someone else...
W2H2 Animation
Okay so this month I've got this big-ass bonkers spining shot, and it's still definitely a work in progress... I went ahead and left some animatic-y stuff in that's not timed out properly, just to give you guys something extra, but mostly I wanted to share the part that's been roughe...
Sketchbook dump
Sorry it's mostly furries???? I was helping my friend come up with a design for a dog lady for something he's working on (she's a daschund!), and then I was like "I wonder what kind of dog I would be", and took, like, 2 or 3 different online quizzes, and I shit you not, every sin...
little update!
hey guys! I feel like my post was a little sparse this month, and I'm worried it will be a little sparse next month too (I'll be out of town for a chonk of it)... so I thought I'd switch it up a little!All patrons are getting the animation gifs this month! And the $5 tier folks are getti...
Better Off Alone_WIP
This is a song I've been working on that I'd like to use in W2H2! It's still FAR from being finished, but I thought I'd share it since this month's animation is pretty sparse.I guess you could consider this a demo? Pretty much all of it is going to be re-recorded eventually, but ...
Sketchbook dump
not much this time around... but I found a pink pen in the bottom of my pen case that I really like!
W2H2 Animation
Had to go in and refine some of this Meph acting... adding in-betweens, fixing arm positions, doing lip-sync. Not much to say, but Meph's lip sync has been a little more involved, 'cause I do one pass for his mouth, and another pass for his stupid goatee. I'm gonna have to start combinin...
Monthly sketchbook
sketchbook is kind of light this month, but I wanted to revisit an old idea for a story my girlfriend and I would like to develop. It's about 2 teenagers in 1999 who are obsessed with ~Fuzzmigos~ and strike up a friendship in an online chatroom... right before the Y2K BUG hits and destroys all c...
W2H2 Animation
Most of these shots will probably look familiar, if you've been a patron for awhile. Most of them were still in pretty early roughs, so I dug back in and filled them out some more. But the first one in this batch is interesting, 'cause it's actually the first shot I ever animated on W2H2...
Standard pose Turnaround - Meph
had to updated Meph's turnaround to go with the new ones I did for Sock + Jon a while back. It was about time!I think I might have an update for Debbie pretty soon too, haha.
W2H2 - keyframe animation
Hey guys! This month I've got some guest animation work from my buddy Wen Qui! You might recognize the scene, she had previously animated a shot from it awhile back, and she had some extra time to revisit it, so she keyframed the rest of it for me! The blue lines are draw-overs from me - just li...
Sketchbook dump
Hey guys! It's been awhile since I did one of these, so hopefully you get a kick out of it. This round was mostly me trying to figure out character designs. There's some stuff from my girlfriend's projects, stuff from my roommate's projects... Fraiser and Niles. Plus some attempts to...
Standard pose turnarounds!
I knew I'd have to do these eventually... Less goofy turnarounds for Sock and Jonathan. Plus a height comparison. Enjoy!
UPDATE!
Oh my god, this is the 2nd time I had to type this, I got logged out and the draft never saved... UGHHK!!!Okay, so just a general update!I'm currently doing storyboards on Tuca & Bertie! That gig should last for about 4 to 5 months, and if you've followed me since this past summer, when I wa...
Streaming with Neil!
Hey guys! Doin' a stream, check it out!
Streaming Tomorrow w/ Special Guest: Neil (Meph's VA)
Hey guys! I'm gonna stream tomorrow around 7pm PST / 10pm EST! It might end up being closer to 7:30/10:30, but I wanted to give you guys a heads up. I'll probably be animating, and Neil will be hanging out and doing whatever! Chattin', chillin', maybe saying incriminating stuff in Me...
"I Will Never (Be Your Friend)" - Cover Song from W2H2 Trailer
I've got a couple requests for this so I figured I'd upload it here! My crappy coffeehouse acoustic cover of Irish Stew's "I Will Never (Be Your Friend)" for the W2H2 teaser trailer.Unfortunately, there is no full version of the song, I just recorded the pieces I wanted to use fo...
