ALEXANDER PERFILYEV

WizardsOnly finished the Onn plaza matte

!!! https://x.com/Wizards0nly

'Onto Onn'

Just a cool shot of my Sareer set with the Royal cart. Not book accurate yet because no greeting party on the bridge.

Small things (BIG GIF, WAIT TO LOAD, curse the Patreon)

Because I wanted a super wide shot with all of the Idaho River Bridge attack happening in real time there gonna be tiniest animations imaginable for the four Freman waiting on the other side and for the Fishspeakers on the bridge. Because those are all in the book and I don't think that twitchy vague shapes are enough (I think it's cool that in 4K one would be able to pause, screenshot and zoom...

Restarting the frame-by-frame engines!

I started out with a regular no references walk cycle and quickly realized I am gonna need to perform for reference.

Las-ed cables melting and snapping

Those are gonna be doing the lasery pew-pew sound as they vibrate like in real life. How do you like the Chinese ink smoke fade animations?

I think I will aim to post more. There is always stuff that I would love to be experienced on the first viewing but with how long it all takes I feel like sharing more behind the scenes achievements. I want to support the small number of people who co...

FD design

FD design

Real knives!

Museum freman and a still suit redesign referencing the main fashion inspiration of this short.

Garun's face is not mine but my friend's Alp who is also voicing the guy and advised me on some historic desert stuff before.

for the turban I looked to Tuareg people for inspiration but with P-Model band black outfit like textures instead.

また今度

Shoma Kumamoto on DRUMS

I am finally working with a DRUMMER!

Well, a multi-instrumentalist (far more multi than yours truly) I discovered through a Susumu Hirasawa cover video and been meaning to reach out to and finally did so some weeks ago!

Not only is he be drumming and re-arranging, the man wants to mix the entire thing too because he is also a fellow sound engineer (I feel dominated!). The above mix ...

Hajj (how fast does the GIF load for you?)

Well Hajj is counter-clock wise but this is Rakis so... https://youtu.be/qUaejNKfTTU?si=9bEXyp0QGyVFBtvG

WizardsOnly helped me analyse some old Mecca footage to make it feel more like a circling sea of people (I settled on breaking the painted disk into 4 layers of different speeds, movement gets dens...

Update

Still there, still working.

THLMR finale Character Tier scene

Here it is, a scene from THLMR finale script featuring $30 character tier patrons that joined after EP6. Background is painted by WizardsOnly, Archeota's banjo is modelled by Uluncha and everything is upscaled and encoded by AtlasBloodfyre.

And here is a lossless video file upscaled and encoded by Atlas: 2024-09-04 08:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Doonmobile

The Royal Cart

Manadatory Uniform

Hehehe

Detail sketch

Once again, this is the year of multi-level sketching!

I base the level of detail on a mixture of a few different far away Gyros in the manga.

I feel more and more satisfied if I pre-plan what elements of design are dropped and which corners are rounded for a far away shot to be effective. I do not like unnecessary detail noise and I love the idea of simplifying designs creating t...

With actual scene camera

With sound (missing Nora atm): https://x.com/TwitsInTwits/status/1823354500293529891

I think it makes a better impression even in sketch compared to the one in the previous post.

A basic 'western=shaky zoom' approach. I like the combination of 'you are actually there' and more dreamy contro...

LESSON 5

I continue to pursue more life like, 'live action movie' like character animations. How immensely boring would it have been for Gyro's horse to just stand there like 🧍

Even blindfolded, even as a part of Zeppeli's own soul it ought to feel the OTHER presence, the roaring waves that always come but never crash.

So I studied a cowboy man having some trouble with a horse on YT... 2024-08-10 11:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Claymation!

After several different experiments presented in the second slide here is the Araki Sensei Wave!

I said that many times but I always need some sort of NEW spark when approaching a thing, an element of design or an idea that fascinates me by itself is required for me to start working on something. I can't just go in expecting to do everything exactly how I did it every time before. And hav...

عائلة

Family caught on drone camera in the wall reveal clip. It is very important that even something tiny is animated cleanly (stylized, simplified but clean). And you have to find a shape that is translatable enough but with minimum detail. And I really really wanted that golden flicker of the garments from afar!

Legs disappear during waving because at that point they are not visible in the s...

Characters

With THLMR finale on indefinite hold the easiest way to fulfill my character obligations this year would be to do a gif/scene of your guys and share it on here. Exclusive huh.

I did consider finding a place for background extras in the upcoming God Emperor of Dune with masks being an excuse for lizard people (cat people come in later books!). But there is not a scene in my storyboards whe...

Financial responsibility

[This is for new people. The amount of money I make is visible publicly and it holds on a few long timers who do understand what I do and why.]

The guy from a comment above unsubbed from the character tier leaving a following review: "I didn’t like the benefits/rewards that I received from AllINAll".

He joined after the last character tier update in Episode 6 and as you know for a...

THAT MOUNTAIN NO LONGER EXISTS

Leto's II Sareer Bareer wall reveal.

Dyalama

I was born in Altai region of Russia and I have some memories of seeing what is the ritualistic offerings to the spirits in a form of these hand-torn cloth ribbons tied to tree branches. As per Russian wiki the cloth has always had to be new and smoked in juniper prior.

Here are some dyalama tied to one of the Idaho River Bridge cables.

It is still very much sucks that there is n...

Update!

Continuing the work on my Idaho River Bridge 3D set and 3d animations within it (reached the cables!). It's a whole chunk of Leto's Sareer built around numerous storyboard camera angles and with enough detailing for close-ups. I will do two demonstrations and one joke in the coming days.

Always feel a little weird not posting pics or gifs but I like proper presentation.

This is what...

Royal Road Pillar

Still assembling my miniature set! Ceramic tile by ceramic tile...

Idaho River

Did I do the 'I am now obsessed with plastic garbage that looks as jarring as it does in our world but placed into fantasy settings' already?

Basically: in China I always wanted to shoot in old-looking locations and it was very hard to aim a camera and not capture something plastic. Then it occurred to me that I was motivated by expensive productions that paint these idealistic worlds wit...

This is what I was working on all this time

At this point it is rather safe to say that I will most likely end up working on Animated Despotism for the rest of the year (plus trying to make money to get the guitar of my dreams).

Which means THLMR finale is going to be moved to the next year.

Leto "Bust"

I've been modelling a few of my GEOD guys for reference when I draw them in the two dimensions and this is my proudest one! Really happy with how much more defined Leto's face now compared to that GIF from 2023(2?) which you can probably find going down the tag...

in other news I have been working on the closing music of Animated Despotism and it feels very refreshing not only to be final...

'I will go on ahead, my love'

Working!

Idaho River Bridge

If you would like to visit the actual Earth location I am Google Earth-ing for reference and these sketches here are the coordinates: 27°42'5.00"N 36°11'19.00"E

Safety Off

One of the sickest references I digged up in my Fish Speaker research. Continuously consulting our fellow patron Archeota on gun holding and pointing in terms of how 'not stupid but still cool'.

Siaynoq, it will be clean!

You doing alright?