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Slice of dogfighting.
No dogs are fighting in this video, however.I'm trying out a bold new technique here: instead of using my weird framerates of anywhere between 15-20 fps, I'm doing what the animation industry has done forever in this one and using a mix of 1s (24fps) and 2s (12fps).I think that's why a l...
Shiny TIE Interceptor
Well well!I do really like doing animated shadow and lighting effects on top of still shots, you know? Sometimes that's just what you have to do.It's quick, but effective!Also I'm gathering some options for the next postcard poll. I'm not sure what everyone's familiarity with ret...
Ships on fire!
Well well!OK, so we finally blew the rebel station up. I drew all the individual background pieces of debris and then added all of the scorch marks and airbrushed the wrecked bits.Here's the background itself:I then animated the ships and flames and explosions on top.As always, Vader's fleet...
X-Wing emergency takeoff!
Hello there and a happy Halloween!This sequence will receive a few touch-ups: the pilot at 0:02 needs some lines drawing on his vest thing and we need MORE FIRE at 0:11, but it should give you an idea of how things are progressing! I also want to add a quick cut of the pilot flipping some switches a...
Rebel explosion & Mech note
Hello there!Well, we had to blow it up eventually. This six seconds is 92 frames long and took quite a while to do due to having to animate all those explosions! I might add more detail to the platform itself - tiny bits of debris flying, etc.It was fun tracking down various large space stations blo...
Hangar Scene Background
Hello!I'm working on a couple of shots at the moment and thought to show you the backgrounds for them. The one above actually has a bunch of animated elements on top of it in the finished scene - there are walkways falling down, debris raining down, explosions outside, a pilot running up the yel...
Rotating explosion shot
Another scene in the bag!I think that once you've got TIE bombers this close and shooting at your station with their little pew pew laser cannons, you've probably really screwed up somewhere.As an interesting(?) aside, I was debating with the TFTC game team about where exactly the laser cann...
Monday Print BTS
Oh, hello!I thought you might enjoy a behind the scenes look into what went into making the finished artwork.The process typically looks like: 1. I draft a sketch 2. Maki checks and revises 3. I send Maki a colours draft4. Maki checks and revises 5. I apply changes, go back in and polish off all the...
Flash explosions!
Hello there!Fistly, if you're reading this on the East coast of America when it's published, I hope you're keeping safe from Hurricane Helene! I'm actually in Atlanta at the moment and it's really coming down outside. It's pretty exciting and apparently it hasn't even rea...
Gunboats and ion cannons!
Hello!A quick sequence for this week of everybody's favourite Xg-1 Star Wing Assault Gunboats disabling the rebel platform. As anyone who's played TIE Fighter will know, those ion cannons come in really handy! Electricity is also very fun to animate, it turns out.I did this in the same way t...
Summer '24 print- Alien: MONDAY!
Here's a typical day on the mining vessel Thanatos. Let's hope nothing bad happens to them!As always, layout by me and Maki, anatomy fixups and colour grading by Maki, final illustration by me. This print will be flying out to all of you in the Elite tier soon, so please make sure your addre...
The Next Project
We thought it might help to show what projects are on the roster! As you may remember, a mech project was proposed before Alien: Monday. You can view it here: https://youtu.be/pJKnZCSNqeY?si=7bacH928sAM3vaS-It doesn't have an official title yet, and we've been brainstorming the story and vis...
Missiles II
Well, RIP to those X-Wings, I guess.This is a really quick shot, but took quite a while to do because so many individual elements had to be animated. The X-Wing is 3D but everything else is hand animated and there are a few smoke trails going in and out of explosions, debris flying about etc etc...A...
Missile Impacts
Hello, everyone!And welcome to any new people joining after the Alien film!Between next stage planning and the postcard, I'm back to finishing off scenes for TIE Fighter Total Conversion Reimagined (see this video if you don't know what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/oEVrdwZ9bEk?si=...
Summer Art Poll - Winner!
Well well!The results are in, and it seems that most of you want an original piece of MONDAY art! So I shall get right on that!On an unrelated note, I'm actually in the US at the moment and good lord, the heat! How do you survive it?? The sun's finally going down though, so Producer Maki and...
Summer Art Poll!
An original piece of art comes your way, what should it be?
1 Million Views
Hello! Thank you for the 1.2 million views! Alien: Monday has been translated into 5 languages (7 if you count reuploads) and pretty cool that many viewers found it valid to be tagged as "horror". I thought to share some art Producer Maki made in the book and the explosion section. It was on...
MONDAY: Elite Swag
To all glorious member of the Elite tier:Thank you very much again for all your support, and please find a nice 4k resolution edition of the film, along with the 100 page art book, screenplay, movie ticket and poster here:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AYvfiHgoCKFi_eVUx8e93Izp64_7oWMH?usp=s...
Save the date!
Film, check.Artbook, check. Music, check.Premiere date, check..! Watch and chat with us live onYoutube July 22, 2024!Premieres 6pm ET / 11pm BST / 8AM AEST !!We'll send a reminder the same day along with tier swag. Elite tier :• 4K non Youtube-compressed film • Monday Designworks (big 100+ p...
Streaming Frames
As things wrap up, we're planning on starting regular streams again. I've been working on a little opening animation for the streams, and thought I'd show you a few quick screenshots of how it's going. Hopefully it'll actually be pretty amusing when you see it all in motion!-Paul
Missile Launch
Here's some more TIE bomber stuff. The fun part is going to be animating all the destruction when the missiles hit. I always liked how you could target enemy subsytems in the TIE Fighter game (I would always missile a space stations laser turrets first) so I wanted to get that in there too.Also ...
Pilot!
How are you all?Every update we get from our mysterious sound engineer is super exciting, as he's layered and mixed in more sounds and it's really bringing Monday to life.In the meantime, here are some pilot shots for the TIE bomber. It even has the big elongated interior with some seats for...
Monday Update
Here's a sneak peek (in 4k resolution no less)! This isn't going public for another couple of days so please keep it to yourselves though...First off is a short transformation sequence to celebrate the launch of TVPaint 12. I was inspired by transformations like Tekkaman Blade, The Guyver et...
Bombing run!
I do like animating explosions. And here's how I do it! It's amazing what a difference some impact frames make.Project A-Ko is a really great reference for 1980s anime explosions:https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/176686https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/176714-Paul
Some deep space action
As sound work continues apace for the Monday film, animation likewise continues for the TFTC opening cinematic! Here's the latest few seconds.I'll post some really big explosions next time. Maybe a "how it's made" style video showing the whole process of animating explosions if y...
TIE animation clip
Well well!Here's another few scenes that I just finished for TF Total Conversion. There are a couple of bits I need to fix up (the TIE cockpit POV shot wobbles too much and actually scrolls off the top of the screen at 1:19 ) but this should give you a feel for how things are flowing along. Next...
TIE Original Cockpit
Hello all!I finished a bunch of animation for the TIE Fighter intro this week which I'll share when it's further along, and here are some background shots from it that I designed.Official canon is constantly changing what the interiors of TIE Fighters look like, as well as the various videog...
Thrawn contemplates this season's anime
Well, hello there!As we await sound design and music on the Monday film, I'm back to animating the intro cinematic to TIE Fighter Total Conversion. Here's a couple of shots of Vice Admiral Thrawn in his snazzy olive coloured uniform, wondering aloud to himself which currently airing anime is...
The Artbook preview 3.
I dare say this artbook is about 90% done visually and it's exciting how these chapters are shaping up. I'm settling on a publisher so anyone that wants one can get a nice hard cover version, and prints are arriving soon to be shipped to all of you in Elite tier! Stay tuned, Producer Maki
Print: Every ship everywhere all at the same time!
Welcome to Galaxicon 2263!I read a variety of opinions and results on the last poll so I fit in as many sci-fi series as I could first think of! Hopefully you like it and can recognise at least half of the ships on display. F in chat for Maki's composition. She had all these sports presenter-sty...
