Slowly chipping away! I wanted to give you guys an update once I finished cleanup on this shot, but I hated having to push it off--cleanup's almost done on this shot anyway haha. I ended up redoing the roughs because I felt this was more in character anyway. Soon, hopefully, I'll be able to finish up the roughs for the second half of the meme and share them with you guys. Right now I can only r...
2021-07-24 02:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, sorry for my absence! I was out of town visiting family last week and I'm starting to work more on mental wellbeing. Tough work but someone's gotta do it! Anyway it's been hard for me to focus on big picture stuff a lot lately and I've been getting boggled down by the idea of commissions so I'm taking things one step at a time.
Here's a work in progress of Arche's spot in ...
2021-07-13 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI currently don't have much to share right now as I've been struggling with burnout and mental health, but I'm hoping soon I'll be able to show you guys progress on Make Magic. Meanwhile all I've drawn in the past week was Twig dressed as a cat girl. Figured you guys would still like to see it
And here is Cimrai's loop! We had hoped it would be done before the 6th, but with the extension on the intro short there was no way. Though I'll admit it was way more fun to work without a deadline and I definitely think the quality is better as a result!
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Commissions are currently closed/on hold.
2021-06-18 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Had to break this one into 2 separate files and blend them together in After Effects. It was one of the more tedious shots and I would have loved to smooth over some of the animation and editing if I had more time, but I also feel it's important to showcase crunch-quality animation just as much as recreational stuff. For example, I didn't have time to make a background so I ended up using the b...
2021-06-13 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's the full thing! Sound and music done by White Bat Audio.
Goes Public tomorrow--sorry I couldn't give you guys longer!
2021-06-08 03:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies for the absence!! The crunch was real this week--fortunately I was able to get a deadline extension and my client was super understanding of some technical issues while rendering that added to the time as well. This shot was by far the longest to render at 3 1/2 hours--only after several hours of trouble shooting to reduce the render time from 11+ hours. 2021-06-05 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
//totally didn't get carried away animating this gal and forget to post
We are approaching the end of the month which means I have 6ish days to finish this project for my client. Fortunately I only have a few more shots left! Looking forward to sharing it with you guys! In the meantime Imma keep chippin away
And for those wondering how I tackle those thighs: mesh warp deformer i...
2021-05-26 06:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Cleaned up this shot yesterday! Consider it a preview of what's to come~
2021-05-19 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
One of two style frames for my client to give them a sense of what the final will look like. I have ~officially~ begun animation and I'm super hyped to be animating this character!
2021-05-10 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! As some of you may have noticed, I've been a bit less actively lately--posting once a week instead of my preferred twice a week. Well, recently I have been commissioned by a client to produce a minute long animation for their vtuber debut, and now that everything's in writing I can tell you guys! I feel that fans of my 2 Phut Hon meme will enjoy this one.
This, of course, m...
2021-05-03 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I loved the song and, frankly, I have so many casting/magic adjacent characters and I'm thrilled to finally showcase them! I haven't found anyone using this song in an animation meme before, but I'm gonna stick to my initial idea regardless.
Anyway, here's the motion blocking stage for the first 8 characters. FX animation is rusty, but it'll get smoothed over in the rough pass.
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I don't believe I shared a finished version of this shot yet, have I? It's been a while since I've touched this project but I'd love to work with this character again.
I also may or may not be planning something more original. Inspiration has been weird lately, so I'm going to shift my focus to work on what I can. Hopefully you guys can understand! Overall I'm excited--more on that ...
2021-04-20 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another preview of what I've been cooking up. Took a break from it this week to focus on pricing stuff, but I'm planning to get back on it this weekend!
2021-04-17 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I did two different versions of this meme, and I decided to publish the other version because every video I could find using the spiderman slap meme was age restricted. That just means you guys get to enjoy it instead!
2021-04-12 18:09:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been experimenting with tweening this week. Here's a small loop of one of the shots I've been working on! I'm new to this technique so this is a ride, but it's fun to see it come together.
And I love cuttlefish ability to hypnotize their prey, so you know I had to do the hypnotic meme!
The colors (aside from black+white) are stand-ins that will be keyed out. I've...
2021-04-10 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm playin around with this character design again! I know it's going to be tough to find some form of consistency, but I love the idea of having her markings change to match an outfit. It would be a lot of fun to animate them someday!
I mainly wanted to get the design and outfit down for an animation I'm working on where I plan on getting some trippy effects going on her skin. This...
2021-04-06 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I know I've shared this shot already, but I haven't shown you guys Pyrrho pre editing vs post editing--makes a big difference!
Also!!! Huge shoutout to my new patrons!! Your support means the world <33
2021-04-02 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI had an unusually high amount of scrapped content this time around, thanks to me ~once again~ starting on animation before finishing my thumbnails/animatic, oops! I figured you guys would be interested in seeing what didn't make the cut 👀
There were originally 2 more versions of the hip sway for variety that I ended up cutting because they were unnecessary:
2021-04-02 20:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's finally done!! Let me know what yall think of this one--it was a love-hate relationship the entire time but I really like how it turned out.
I'm also going to start adding a patron card at the end of each video from now on to show my appreciation for your guy's support <3
2021-03-31 04:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, bummer I had to cut this one! I'm going to see if I can squeeze it in at the end cause I want to start including a patreon shout-out card in my videos.
I'm going to have the video posted this week--I wont be able to give you guys a full week of early access though because I want to have this public before April. I aim to have it done tonight though, so fingers crossed!!
2021-03-29 20:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another shot of this gal. I'm going to be trying to use more stills in this one so I can try to get this out before April. Fingers crossed!!
Anyway, lately I've been tryin to figure out how to use stills in a way that doesnt lose viewer retention. A lot of trial and error needless to say. I'll definitely have a few poses that don't make it to the final so I'll probably share ...
2021-03-24 18:05:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies for the delay! Here is the reason for my inactivity. I love the markings but hoo boy
I'm cutting out some unnecessary loops so I can get this done faster--by the weekend if I'm lucky, but more realistically I'll have it done sometime next week!
2021-03-18 20:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Took a quick detour when I found out the HelluvaBoss team was hiring compositors, so I spent most of today making this. I have no idea if they'll be interested, but I have some good before/after shots so I felt it appropriate to share this here as well. Enjoy!
2021-03-14 05:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've decided not to share the animatic, and I came to this decision the night after my last update--I just wanted to wait to share some form of progress instead of giving the update in a text post.
The reason for this is primarily because, as you can see, ~I've begun rendering~. Rendering before I've finished my animatic happens sometimes (though I try to avoid it) and d...
2021-03-08 03:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
So, as you know, I've claimed my animatic would be shared by wednesday (yesterday), and yet it has still not been shared. Long story short, I hyperfixated on cleaning up my first loop instead of finalizing my animatic, and didn't realize how late it had gotten until the sun had set. Aaand I did the same today with coloring sldfkjds
So I don't have the animatic yet, but I have this instead...
2021-03-05 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostJust a heads up, I'm taking a break from Iroh at the moment. Now that I've finished what little character/hand drawn animation there is, I've significantly lost motivation to work on it. I don't have the same passion for scenery as I do for character animation, but I'm not giving up yet!
I started working on a different animation meme to help motivate me to produce. 2 phut hon seems prett...
2021-03-02 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I was in a rut for inspiration/motivation lately, so my friends and I designed mood boards, exchanged them, and designed characters based on them. Not gonna lie, I seriously love how this turned out and I might continue to play around with it in the future!
2021-02-27 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A still from shot 6--it's so exciting to see the visuals that I've had in my head for ages finally take shape!
2021-02-24 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm trying to pull myself away from this and focus on other shots--I don't need to polish it completely right now!
Zoe's still missing a seatbelt, and the shading on the seat and steering wheel is static, but other than that I'm DIGGING how this is turning out, especially with the relatively quick turn around.
Gonna try to do some composition blocking for some of my othe...
2021-02-20 04:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post