I'm working on a smaller project in between music videos! It's another Black Dresses thing but unofficial, I'm practising lip syncing here. Should I tell you the song it's for, or keep it a surprise?
2020-03-26 22:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Lineart + full illustrations are attached below!
I've been working hard! The design on the left is for a comic being drawn and written by the artist Gutterbunny on twitter - I really liked the character designs. The character on the right is from a series called Beastars, the anime was released on netflix recently.
<... 2020-03-21 00:58:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been warming up with some painting work, attached is my full work process, all the different stages of coloring, and the full res picture.
thank you for supporting me! I really appreciate it. I'm always here.
2020-03-19 00:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This is probably the most work I've ever put into a single update! I've been using a game engine called Godot with a tool called Escoria to make a click and point game. Attached is a big folder of the non-placeholder graphics, and also screenshots of the code, and some concept art.
Some more information:
I have be...
2020-02-29 05:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for supporting me. It's been a quiet kind of work, but I spent a lot of time researching and working on my painting this month. I want to challenge myself as much as possible.
If you have any requests, I'll try my best to do them before the end of the month. Thank you
2020-02-22 09:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post
If you have animate / flash, feel free to download the file and have a look inside. I also included a screenshot separately if you don't have the software, so you can see how the moving face is assembled from layers.
Until 920 is released in stores on April 20th, I'm going to be taking a brief comics hiatus. I'll still ...
2020-02-21 00:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for being patient as I finished my very first animation. The official premier / release date will be Blackdresses' decision, but I'll let you know as soon as it's decided.
Apologies for the audio quality, this was rendered on a little laptop and doesn't represent how the sound will be in the final one....
2020-02-19 03:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope this all made sense! At the end of the process, I had to take a bunch of pet portrait commissions to pay a friend for their time to help me fix the timings and stuff on a decent computer.
I really hope we're able to finish it soon.
2020-01-30 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I really hope you like this;; I tried my best to explain from start to finish! If you have any questions, please ask me!
2020-01-29 10:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It's nearly done.. I'm working with another animator [who has a more powerful computer] to fix timings and add some more details. Here's a few of the first shots while you're waiting <3
2020-01-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The last 4 chapters are:
5 - MEAN GREENS , 6 - FULL COLONISATION, 7 - PINNING, 8 - HARVEST.
2020-01-25 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So .. the editor for this book recommended I change the chapter breaks over for the book .. it was hard work but I agree they look cooler now. Attached are the super high res files for these!
Chapters of 920 are:
1 - LEGALISE IT , 2 - INOCULATION, 3 - MYCELIUM, 4 - BLUE HONEY
In april when the book comes out...
2020-01-24 23:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm really proud of the trauma flow chart diagram. It's from other writings about attachment styles, explanations of Complex PTSD, and just miscellaneous thoughts. I can't explain it well further than that.
Coming up next: nervana has been neglected. time for more breakup content.
2019-12-23 01:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
A little bit of Aubrey Beardsley inspired imagery, as well as moody stuff I found by looking at Black Dresses twitter retweets. I'm kind of proud of my cell shading.
This whole project has been the first time I ever used flash. Have you used it before?
2019-12-21 21:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It's going really well. Most of it is done, but I've been able to informally bring a friend onto the project to make sure the timing is perfect (my sense of timing is a little off, haha.)
These shots are inspired by the fast character shots in the EVA opening. I think I like anime openings more than most episodes themse...
2019-12-20 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I have exciting news: the advance copies have finally gone to print! I'll let you know when I see the first print copy. (These are for reviews, and the company I'm working with is going to be distributing them..)
It's been a lot of careful work finishing bonus pages and making sure the work is as good as it can be. In s...
2019-12-20 00:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I had to add a little bit more 'end of the world' stuff to the book. I was working so hard this month. All the 'bonus' page stuff I posted I already had kinda sketched out, but sudden deadline!!
I felt like I was scrambling to make posts, but it turned out I did so much work in a haze, so I'm only scrambling to upload i...
2019-11-30 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I worked SO HARD on making this stuff period accurate. . I am so proud of it .. . this book is coming out april 20th !!
2019-11-29 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're getting so close ... here are some more flash panels.. Every time I need ideas I check out what the blackdresses twitter is retweeting, haha.
2019-11-29 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month I had to clean up the entire book and do the panic last minute edits! Just kidding it was very fun and good.
Top left: a bonus page I cut due to page number requirements. Top right: beautiful work donated by Lottie aka swollenbabyfat on social media. Bottom: A collab with SFJR, I did the background...
2019-11-28 00:38:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's so nearly done!! I'm going to show you before anyone else, but I kind of want it to be a surprise when you see everything in motion. These are some extra last minute shots, kind of like the still character images that flash on screen quickly in the evangelion opening?
An animation friend has been helping me with th...
2019-11-27 22:57:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, the best stuff! This is the fun part where I build back into the music video to make in more interesting. I'm also about to start borrowing a computer with a better graphics card.
It's pretty slideshow-looking in some respects, but that's pretty much the limit of what my laptop will run. But no longer! Soon I g...
2019-10-29 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
At this stage the whole music video is boarded/filled out with shots. The pink and purple ink drawings that come up are all based on medieval etchings which seemed cool and pretty messed up sometimes.
Nervana is in the music video since it makes a good set of 3 characters, and also I honestly wanted to keep up motivatio...
2019-10-28 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting into my first character animation! By breaking down the character into parts that can move at different rates, I can kind of understand how I'd personally animate. This scene with the perfume.. it's a reference to the short film 'possibly in Michigan', which I care about a lot.
Devi's character is also wearing m...
2019-10-27 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspiration! The first and second shots are part of the industrial dance kind of section. I was borrowing (read: cannibalising) a whole ton of Ed Edd and Eddy backgrounds for these, sometimes recombining a lot of different parts.
The red rock passages have a fair bit referenced from Moebius' work. I can't really remembe...
2019-10-26 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Process! I blocked out the structure of the video by composing static 'shots', mostly panning over background. In my research phase I was watching a lot of anime intros: because of the feeling of storytelling potential they have, balanced with clever work distributing effort across the shots.
Since I'm a one person team...
2019-10-25 17:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a preview of how it's going! I'm really proud of how it looks so far. I'll keep working hard. It's been crazy working in a new medium, and I'm getting lots of advice and researching as I try character animation so those parts will hopefully look a little less rough.
Thank you so much for your support. Song is NAU...
2019-09-30 06:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys!! I found a great life drawing place that is really cheap nearby. One of my big interests is practising techniques and realism - I dont think it's better than anything else, it just gives me joy to try and do it.
If you're an artist, or want to learn at any stage, you can talk to me any time. If you have a speci...
2019-09-27 18:57:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Important! In order to make a good music video.. I have been teaching myself how to animate. I've been using guides online, anime dancing gifs.. and it's going pretty well honestly! It's way harder to keep it consistent when it's inked, but I figure I can keep it pretty loose for the first video.
I always felt like anim...
2019-09-19 06:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Since it's killer hard to do a music video as one person, I've been looking at a lot of anime openings to work out what the options are. My favourite so far is when the camera pans over a landscape, so I've been doing a lot of those to start with. I am having a go at the actual animation part, I promise!
Can you guess w...
2019-09-16 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
