WE'VE BEEN WORKING! Main channel upload THIS MONTH
🕑 Added 2023-09-20 13:44:23 +0000 UTCMy assistant Yap Chung Shing and I are working hard on STARBARIANS stuff - he's doing an amazing job animating and I am helping while grinding out comic pages...
Big comic announcement arriving on the main channel this month!

Here is a new shot from STARBARIANS 4 by Yap Chung Shing. He roughed, timed, animated and coloured the shot by himself, based on voice acting and a quick character design by me (below).

This new purple alien heckler's design lead to me redesigning another heckler that we've just started animating now -- because you can't have TWO purple alien hecklers!
Old (BUSTED) design on the right - not the same shade of purple but close enough.

Here's the updated heckler design and some other designs from this week...



And below are some rough animations I passed over to Yap to clean up/inbetween and colour.

MEANWHILE I am locking in a colourist to help on the comic. That's meant doing lots of these universal coloring guides in print-friendly CMYK colours.... I guess I had to decide that Hogstrong has ORANGE eyes -- who knew??




I am now focusing on black and white pages as I think I've found my colourist (more on that soon). 1 page per day if I can manage!
Rough pages from yesterday (below)

Yap and I are just two people and I need to be able to fund a lot more assistants to create the volume of work that I know viewers want (several good shorts per year, not one every twelve months!).
This is how a large scale animated series happen.
THANK YOU to all you great patrons and supporters that have been so patient and generous - your support will continue to fuel the steam engine, and I strongly believe the comic will help hypercharge that engine into something supersonic. Any excess profit the comic makes will go towards getting some more paid assistants and then we're really blasting off...

Comments
Harry Partridge
Haha, thanks Trevor!! :)
Trevor Bond
I'd say the old 'shut up and take my money' but I like seeing the updates and hearing the news so.... keep talking and take my money!
Harry Partridge
Thank you Sam!!
Harry Partridge
Thanks Paul!!
Harry Partridge
Thank you Lee! You are more than pleasant xxx
Samarama
this looks sick
Paul Pascalau
Looking forward to see what you come up with. Keep up the good work.
PleasantLee
Incredible, Boss.
Harry Partridge
Thanks Alan 77. I definitely think Episode 4 will be the best animation I've made and the comic....which is my first comic.....will be the best comic I've made so far?
Harry Partridge
Agreed! Thanks Gregor :)
Harry Partridge
Thanks Harry. I didn't realise you couldn't click and enlarge the images so I'll try to fix that next time. Will do more of this type of stuff for sure :)
Harry Partridge
You'll be able too soon, I hope!
Harry Partridge
No u
Harry Partridge
Thanks Fenrik!!
Harry Partridge
Thanks William! Yes, Yap is fantastic
Harry Partridge
Yes Yap is great, hoping to hire more soon! Thanks Trevor :)
Harry Partridge
Thanks for checking out my big dump
BrandyBuizel
Whoa massive dump!
Trevor Bond
Awesome! You've got an excellent assistant there Harry, and I can see the two of you are really plugging away at it. I hope this draws you a great deal of attention and profit! Just wish I could do more.
William Burns
Great to see this! Also, what skills Yap Chung Shing has!
Fenrikwulf
Amazing!!!
Zeurel
God speed, harry. Your stuff continues to be inspirational
AGSMA
aaaaaa those panels look gorgeous. I want to smear my face on them.
Harry Ashfield
This is the cool behind the scenes stuff I'm here for! Super interesting things here Harry, looking forward to seeing more!
Gregor Scott
really amazing progress! and Yap's animation is next level good. This is so exciting to see!
Getes
This all looks amazing! Hats off to you and your assistants! I’m very excited to see how it all looks when it’s done, and based on how it is right now, I only have great expectations!