Here are some paper drawings that will be animated soon!
Yes, before drawing the animatic digitally, I’ve been sketching out the storyboards on paper! It’s just a more immediate, direct way of drawing for me that I tend to prefer, especially when getting down quick impressions like this.
These are from the latter half of the third part of Sonic’s First Life. Spoiler warning I ...
2025-11-17 08:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostMy THIRD animation for Nat19 is complete!
Hurrah! I was actually able to get this one out within the window I was aiming for. I've really started getting comfortable with how I draw these characters. Now I gotta finish Sonic's First Life Part 3's animatic before the month's end.
2025-11-07 21:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostMore progress on the animation I'm making for the Nat19 Youtube channel!
Not much to say, right? It's been coming along. I'm closing in on the final few shots of this animation! I'm going to be sort of busy soon, so I'm hoping to get this done by the end of the week. No promises...
I also like how this shot came out. I'm wanting to get these out in a timely manner, so the...
2025-11-06 04:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostSonic's First Life just hit A MILLION VIEWS on the Mashed channel!! To celebrate I've released the first minute of part 2, in animatic form!
This carries directly off the heels of the cliffhanger in Part 1, wherein First Life reasons there must be a way to contact the living world. This sequence is mostly silly gags.
I can't say for sure when this part will be finished. It's going t...
2025-11-03 06:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Voila! It's all the requested sketches I recieved for the month of October!
If you made a request that you don't see fulfilled here, please message me so I may correct the error.
This is the first batch that which I streamed live on my YouTube channel. It went pretty well! I might try to do that once a month going forward, in addition to the weekly Discord animating hangouts.
2025-11-03 01:53:15 +0000 UTC View PostI've got an EARLY DRAFT of Sonic's First Life here, which was just released on Mashed. Mainly, this version had a longer opening sequence that had to be truncated for pacing.
The reception to the full video has been very positive. And people are watching it! Wonderful!
I've actually really enjoyed reading all of the speculation and theories in the comments about where the plot could...
2025-10-31 06:22:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working on storyboards and animation live on my Discord server! If you're a paying Paintron, COME WATCH! https://discord.gg/qJx5ZtXR?event=1420976777815130132
2025-10-27 18:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostA few shots from the Nat19 short I've been animating.
Apologies for this gap in posting! I've been out of town for a while. I have been getting work done here and there, however. Today's clip has a few fun bits that I liked drawing. They came out pretty well!
Still being very rigorous with my time management on this project. I really want to make sure I can produce these within a se...
2025-10-24 19:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostFirst shot of the next Nat19 animation is finished!
I'm liking how thiso ne looks so far. I don't traditionally think of myself as confident when it comes to coloring, but the more I work on these animations the more I like the palette style I went with. I'm always trying to implement textures and colors that make my art look less "digital"---ideally that's coming across here.
2025-10-16 05:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Discord drawing session will be hosted a day from now, Wednesday, October 15th!
I'll be working on storyboards for Sonic's First Life, and probably some other things as well.
If you want to watch the stream and use the text chat, it's only $1! DX-tier Paintrons will even be able to talk on voice! 😱
It'll be a laid-back hangout. What better way to spend your Wednesda...
2025-10-14 20:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Storyboards from SONIC'S FIRST LIFE, the Mashed video I'm currently working on!
In this sequence, Sonic is rushing down a treacherous corridor, and has to choose between two paths. The dilemma here is that he keeps choosing the path that leads to his demise, over and over, so the Extra Lives have to find a way to steer him to safety. How do they accomplish this? I'll keep it a mystery for...
2025-10-14 20:01:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Result of today's WATCH ME DRAW stream: Animating Kirby spinning around on his twinkle star
This animation is very close to its completion. For reasons that might be self-evident, animating the Kirby portion of this has actually been a lot easier than animating the Sonic portion. I might only have a day or two left of work on this one before it's all done. I think I will add sound to it. ...
2025-10-11 00:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Tomorrow I'm going to be on Discord with another WATCH ME DRAW livestream! We'll be doing more Sonic's First Life storyboards, as well as some of that Sonic and Kirby animation I've been chipping away at.
I'll be live from noon-5pm pacific! Hope to see you there!
2025-10-09 18:58:19 +0000 UTC View PostWorking on a third short for Nat19. Here's about half of the animatic!
This one entails the group bullying Pepper. From what I can gather, she wants to use incense for some sort of magic task, but has lost track of whether she's still carrying some. So everyone's piling on her for her reluctance to use it even though the DM is allowing it. At some point while putting it to visuals, I star...
2025-10-09 17:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Small bit I animated on the WATCH ME DRAW livestream from today.
This part took maybe a couple hours. I've started animating Kirby here.
This particular project is just something I decided to work on for fun in between the more contractual work I've been doing recently. I haven't been doing a ton of "for the sake of it" animating in the last few years, but it's something I want to g...
2025-10-05 07:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Discord drawing stream is hitting the waves tomorrow, at 12 pm pacific!
I'll be drawing more storyboards from the upcoming Mashed video, for about 5 hours. Feel free to drop by! I'm going to make these a regular thing for the foreseeable future.
You can join the broadcast by pledging just a dollar here (the Generous Peabrains tier). Make sure you've linked your Patreon accou...
2025-10-03 19:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for submitting your requests over the last month! As always, if I failed to address your submission, please inform me so that I may correct my error!
For this batch, I decided to stream the process over on my Discord server. I'm going to be more active on that server moving forward, with weekly Paintron-exclusiv...
2025-10-01 21:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostMy latest short for the Nat19 channel is here! It's finished! WATCH IT EARLY ON PAINTREON!!!
This one is probably going live in October, which begins tomorrow. I hope it performs as well as the previous short, as everyone on the channel was really happy with the work I did here!
2025-09-30 22:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier today, I hosted my first WATCH SEAP DRAW livestream on Discord! Here's some of the work I did during that. The next stream will be a week from now.
The "trial run" went well, so I'm going to make the livestreams a part of my routine here. Please, feel free to show up sometime! I don't often have much of a chance to speak about what I'm working on, so it was a fun chance to show fo...
2025-09-28 02:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy PAINTRONS!!
I'm wanting to experiment with an idea to make your patronage more worthwhile.
Back when I made this account in 2019, one of the ideas I floated that never quite materialized was the Paintreon-exclusive Animation Livestream. Recently, I've thought of something in that vein that might be feasible:
Some quick snippets of animation I've rendered for my upcoming animation for the Nat19 group!
I'm hoping to have this short finished within the week. THIS week. Right now I have a list of the remaining tasks I need to get done before then. There's about 16 things left to do. I'm trying to put a time limit on it as well, so I don't work more than I'm getting paid. It's coming down to the w...
2025-09-23 19:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Brandon, the animator animating my upcoming video from Mashed, is starting his work this week. And so, I've begun creating models and guides for maintaining my drawing style!
Whenever I'm not the one doing the animation (Which has been the case for both parts of Sonic's La...
2025-09-23 00:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostA bit of character animation from the next animation I'm making for the Nat19 YouTube channel!
This one has been a lot of fun to animate. The source audio just has a really wild energy to it with a bunch of characters so I got creative with a lot of the acting and angles and posing. For this clip, I largely focused on Pepper. I'm not sure what species you'd call this, I'm a novice when it...
2025-09-19 03:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post48 seconds from the recently completed SONIC'S FIRST LIFE animatic! I'll talk about where production is at now.
This is the first interaction between the First and Second Lives. It's actually very reminiscent of Sonic Clone Chaos, isn't it? Reverent callback or derivative tripe? Ah, I think it's pretty different, but there are some elements in common for sure.
I think my favorite li...
2025-09-13 07:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Progress on the Sonic and Kirby animation. I'm onto colors now.
This animation is one I've been working on very sporadically, in between my contractual obligations. It's become a good warmup piece, just coloring a few frames before working on storyboards.
The next big challenge on this, once it's all colored, is figuring out how I want to handle the background. I want a slow scroll ...
2025-09-07 18:47:18 +0000 UTC View PostI've started working on a new animation for Nat19! It's a lot of fun. Here's part of the animatic!
I've recently posted the first of these animations I got commissioned to make, and now here...
2025-09-06 00:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This should be all of them. All the requests for sketches I received in the month of August!
If you made a request that wasn't fulfilled here, please inform me and I'll be sure to correct it.
Otherwise, KEEP MAKING REQUESTS! The next batch will be posted in a month!
2025-09-01 22:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostFinished the animation I was commissioned to make by the Nat 19 group!
I'm not sure when it's going up on their channels, but I thought I might as well share it here. The animation here is pretty barebones (HAH!!) but the group was really happy with it. So happy, in fact, that I've been asked to make another. Isn't that swell? It is swell, because it's good work I'm getting to do! FOR MON...
2025-08-29 06:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Storyboards from the Mashed video I've been working on!
For this part, Mashed wanted a little comical montage sequence. I actually noticed these montages became a trend in my Mashed videos (Last Life and Floweratouille might be the only ones with zero montages) so I've been trying to steer away from relying on them. I couldn't avoid it this time, it seems.
Progress continues on the...
2025-08-28 00:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I've finished the roughs on that Kirby and Sonic animation. Here's the last bit of it before it loops!
I'm really liking how this one is shaping out. I spent maybe a couple hours on figuring out this bit, and it looks so fun. I can't wait to have it all colored. Well, I can wait. I'm going to have to wait, I've got a lot of other things lined up right now.
2025-08-25 06:52:13 +0000 UTC View Post