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smaug animation part 3

I totally forgot that I had a part 3 of the smaug audio saved in my files. I'm so glad I found this, but this is gonna end up being a reaaaally long animation, so I'm gonna have to break up my progress. This is the keyframes edit of the animation~ It looks kind of funny so far, but hopefully once I finish all of the keyframes and add the in-betweens, it will look like what I envisioned in my mi...

Chapter 2 END

I told y'all that there were only a couple pages left lol, but I'm so glad to finally conclude chapter 2! Chapter 3, the meeting, will pick right up with Walker and our little ragtag gang coming together to discuss what Adam might have found in the bowels of the Dollhouse. 

The fact that intel of the operation relies on the precarious mind of Adam is... well, good luck to ...

Agents and Kings Chapter 2 pages 40 - 45

I wanted to get these out as soon as possible, although there's like... two pages left in chapter 2.

Walker's personal assistant comes to get the three boys, ushering them to the office where Walker is waiting to hear about Adam's discoveries in the Dollhouse. I hope to get these last two pages done here soon because we've passed the halfway mark for my patreon goal and I'm so excited. It...

Breathe animation keyframes

I've been working on this animation all week and I've had to redo it several times. I really want to animate a fight scene with Walker, but the audio that I have saved for that hasn't been working out. idk, hopefully I can find some audio that I can animate a proper fight scene with. 

Agents and Kings Chapter 2 pages 37, 38, 39

Nearing the end of chapter two, which would make us halfway to our chapter goal. Getting to put these side characters into play is nice because it gives me a chance to start playing with the concept of children born from cosmic horrors. Like having a mouth on the side of your neck... 

If there's anyone who can't tell just by the illustration, Levi has diamond skin, made visible with ...

Agents and Kings chapter 2 pages 31-36

I hope everyone had a happy halloween~ here is a new batch of updates to kick off the month of November. We get to briefly meet Levi, my friend's character and owner of the Wrath 20. Some might say that he is being a little heavy handed but... I mean... I probably would be just as volatile if I got to meet someone who had broken into my property. 

Luckily he's not about to get in the...

Alolan Ninetails animation linework

To be honest I've been sitting on this design for years, but I just wanted to animate it so badly. This particular animation has taken me a good week so far, but I think that's just because the movement is so slow and precise. I also plan to add some lighting effects at the end too. 

Ninetails might not be my favorite pokemon, but this is by far the design that I'm most proud of that...

Agents and Kings chapter 2 pages 17-31 (plus announcement!)

Hi! sorry I didn't upload yesterday, I was trying to put all of this together as well as organize my google drive folder. But basically the big announcement is that both myself and my friend mutually decided to separate Agents and Kings from his Kaos universe. Don't worry, it wasn't because of a fight or anything! I just wanted to build the world of Agents and Kings from the ground up. I've had...

Flareon concept page

I think I had more fun drawing the Pokemon Flareon than I have with any other Pokemon so far. I think it's just cause I got to draw Flareon as a small fluffy girl. Now to animate her!

Although I'm currently working on an Alolan Ninetails animation... I'll hopefully be able to post an update on that soon, since I chose to animate a pokemon with inherently flowing hair and a tail lol... wit...

1/3 milestone celebration!

Hi guys! We've finally reached our 1/3 milestone toward Agent's and Kings going public! Thank you all so much, your support means the world~ 

As a fun celebration, I would like to do a sort of questionnaire where any character or creator questions will be illustrated in a mini-comic and put up on Instagram. For those who are active on the discord server, you might have already asked ...

Agents and Kings chapter 2 pages 21 - 26

I'm uploading a couple more pages in this one than I have been, mostly because there are two pages that are either taken up by text or only have a single panel (although that single panel took me like two hours to complete lol) just so I can pack as much content as I can with each post. 

But I'm so excited to be moving on! In the next room is going to be Levi, Calloway's rival and (i...

Webcomic archive

Thanks to Kittycatkimmi on the discord server, who suggested google drives to archive the web series, we now have a simpler way to read through all of the created pages with ease. So from here on out I will be updating patreon as  well as the google drive folder. 

Cast Walk Animation Lineart

I really like animating little quirks in my characters and this walk cycle reel is something I've been working on for a while. The last thing I need to finish up is a little break dancing finisher by Adam and then I can fill them all with color! 

There are a couple more characters that are in development, however, and is therefore not in this reel. So I might have to make a second on...

Agents and Kings chapter 2 pages (edited)

I didn't realise that I hadn't updated the dialogue in these posts, that's my bad. I'm sure it was confusing to have the world building concepts contrast like that lol

Check in number two!

Some people haven't gotten a discord link, so I wanted to post one here just in case: https://discord.gg/tgUZbpW5 

Also I wanted to apologize for my lack of activity in this last month. I've been rearranging my schedule since school started up again, and I think I've got it down to allow me to continue posting regula...

Hisuian Growlithe

I've been sitting on these designs for a while now, and I just can't decide what to do with them. I figured I could at least throw them up here so it doesn't sit in my files forever. I'll probably have to restart the animation that I planned as well, because I wasn't happy with how that first bit turned out. I just don't know what sound to use for them. 

Agents and Kings chapter 2 pages 13 - 16

gotta get through some quick exposition before we can move on to finally meet with Calloway. I'm trying to make this exposition so it doesn't feel dragged out, I just need to get through some basic information with which to build on in future chapters. In past comics I've rushed through the first few chapters, which probably led to a lot of confusion on the reader's part, and I want to avoid th...

Who's the attractive sibling?

I've been meaning to do this animation for a while, and I'm glad to have finally finished it! I think I've got one or two more soundtracks from tiktok that I have plans for regarding these guys. If any of y'all have suggestions, feel free to post them and I'll add them to my roster of sounds~ 

My Process of Animation

So you guys have already seen my first post on the importance of keyframing, here you can see the process in which I keyframe my animations, add lineart, and then created the in-between animations. By no means is this the absolute only way you can animate, I have just found this process to be the quickest and most efficient. Sometimes I don't even sketch the keyframes, I just did it here becaus...

Agents and Kings Chapter 2: pages 10-12

How do you explain the mechanics of emotions to someone who is totally brand new to the concept? Much less someone who wanted nothing to do with the concept in the first place. 

Probably not by telling them that some of the most painful kinds of emotions are also very common. 

But Locke has more to talk to Deleon about,  like who in the world Walker Calloway is and wh...

Webcomic Cover Art + pages 7, 8 + 9

Thank you to everyone who voted for the titles, it seemed like everyone enjoyed Agents and Kings so I proudly present the coverart for the webcomic!

I can't believe we are 20% toward the goal already, thank you all so much for the support as I work to finish the second chapter and have it posted up~ 

I know some people are having trouble viewing the images for some reason, so i...

Keyframing in animation

I know I've talked about it with some people, but I wanted to make a short post here regarding the importance of keyframing in my animation process. I'm currently working with a game developer to animate something special for them, but in the process I realized that this would be a great opportunity to showcase my thought process when animating.

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Sylveon animation

This isn't my breakdown/tutorial project, just a small thing that I wanted to do after watching Alice in Wonderland after like... 9 years. 

I had a hard time deciding whether to use this Cheshire Cat's voice, or the one from the animated movie. Honestly I feel like either one could fit the Sylveon character that's in my head. 

Chapter 2 pages 4, 5, and 6 + Discord link

https://discord.gg/q7V4uaKg please, join us on Discord~ I'd love for you all to meet the people responsible for the Kaos Universe that this story takes place in 

This is when I switched to Clip Studio Paint to create these comic pages, so there's a noticeable difference in art style and composition as I readjust myse...

Adam and Locke concept art

Age: both are 20, born minutes apart (Adam is technically older) 

height: Adam (5'8"), Locke (5'8"... 5'10" if he's standing up straight)

Sex: both male 

Adam and Locke are half brothers who share a father, born within minutes of one another and both given to foster care around the same time. Despite their lack of knowledge to their relation, both boys gre...

A check in!

Thank you all so much for your support, this means the absolute world to me because when I made this account I didn't think it would garner the attention that it has. 

That being said, I want to make sure that all of the sneak peak content that I release is something that you all want to see. If there is something that you guys would like to see that I might not post enough of, pleas...

Chapter 2 pages 1 through 4 + vote for title

Finally, Adam shows his precious baby face~

I need to come up with a title for this series if I plan to get serious with it. After all, the setting of the plot is in the world of Kaos, which is a universe my friends rigorously created so I want to keep the name of their universe separate from a story that simply takes place within in. 

I would greatly appreciate any and all fee...

Webcomic pilot pages 9 through 12

I can't decide if this should be the conclusion of the pilot chapter or not. I have more pages done beyond this point and it would make sense to divide them up into chapters 1 and 2, I just want to make sure that I can establish as much background as possible before the story really takes off. 

What do y'all think? I'm interested in your feedback and I'd like to know if you think lea...

Growlithe lineart

I wanted to celebrate the new Pokemon Legends game  trailer drop by doing an animation of the Hisuian growlithe I'm so excited about this game because it looks like a true open world that's full of pokemon and places to explore! I'm so looking forward to January of next year! what about y'all? 

Thief part 2

hoo boy does lip syncing take a lot of patience. 

Of course, there's a lot of background noise going on in the soundtrack too so like... why not have him push over a piece of wall, you know? 

If y'all want any pointers for animation, I'm more than happy to chat. I'm trash at building lesson plans, but I can give little tips and tricks all day