Hello everyone, and welcome to June! It's great to have you here, in this month that we are all in, and thanks so much for your support!
Be it new or ongoing or about to end, I'm really lucky to have your help.
As usual, here's one of my Pen Pal drawings from this month, which I've coloured in-- only THIS time I've ...
This is the third track I've extended for the Donks soundtrack, but the first track in the chronology of Donks.
This is a shorter one, built around a brief section of audio near the start, where the donks all travel through an ...
2023-05-24 06:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostLook, drawings!
All these recent 3D experiments have been fun, and will probably be VERY useful for my practice once I have a context for them- but so far none of the 3D stuff I've learnt has presented a starting point into a new project.
I'd like to make some actual "finished stuff" though, so I've just started d...
2023-05-19 06:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello to all cool friends!!!
Thanks so much to everyone for your support this month, or any other months in the past, and/or future!!
For Pen Pals- your drawings are done, but won't be sent off for a couple more days, because I am in Berlin for 2023-05-04 15:39:11 +0000 UTC
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Another animation test! Further exploring some of the "2D cutout in 3D space" stuff I did with the wobbly ball arms. But rather than using 3D to animate a flat picture to put back in a 2D scene, this time it's a fully 3D scene, mad...
2023-04-28 12:26:02 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you liked that two second loop that I made, because here's me talking about it for 7 and a half minutes.
Like with other recent test animations, I wanted to edit together a "making of" video, but I mistakenly thought i...
Can you escape the diabolical maze of Murphy? The answer is no, you cannot. The rules dictate that you have to stay in the maze, and constantly reassure Murphy that it's actually really difficult.
This is another 2D/3D hybrid experiment- and one that I think blends really naturally with my usual 2D work, and opens up a...
The singing shoe seems like a key musical moment in Donks, where everything falls silent as an oddly sincere solo vocalist changes the soundtrack to an intentional performance. But that only lasts for a few seconds as an introduction...
2023-04-06 07:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello beautiful friends! Thanks for your support this April, and for your support generally!
Here's an illustration of, um, I suppose a cyclist, with a star in his head. I'm not sure if the star is compelling him to ride somewhere, or if the star is a manifestation of his feelings about cycling. Either way, he's having ...
2023-04-04 07:33:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
So as you may know, every month I send of a bunch of ink drawings to "Pen Pals". They don't know what what they're getting until they get it, which is a lot less stressful than doing specific commissions. Some months I do a paper animation and give...
2023-03-29 02:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostI did another experiment with Keymesh! (First one here)
One of the possibilities that I was most excited about with this tool, is for patterned clothes! Clothes are floppy and change shape constantly, and in 2D animation that's...
Hello! As I mentioned before, I'm extending some of the musical fragments from Donks into full tracks. Here's the first finished one!
You can download the track below πππ
Hello hello and thank you to patrons new and old for your support this month!!!
To recap: February marked the release of DONKS, and since then I've been exploring other avenues of combining 3D with 2D animation in novel ways. On the side, I've also been extending the music from DONKS into a full soundtrack, like I did ...
Hello! Here's a little animation test, with a bit of behind-the-scenes footage for context. And here's me typing some words for even more context! Too much context maybe (sorry).
So- more 3D!
For those who might be wondering, my intention when learning 3D for Donks was never to pivot away from 2D animation- rather j...
Hello everyone!
I've been spinning around in a circle for the last several days working out what I should focus on now that Donks is finished.
A lot of people have expressed interest in a release of the Donks music, so I've been considering doing an extended soundtrack where I flesh out some of the little snippets o...
WELL!
Donks is now out on YouTube for the world to see, but YOU don't need to stream it, all squashed and compressed, because here is a link to the actual video file:
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2023-02-06 07:26:10 +0000 UTC
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HELLO EVERYONE!
Many of you will already know this, but to anyone who missed it, DONKS was released publicly a few days ago! ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gvSYEqOMn8
An enormous big huge THANK YOU to everyone's support...
DONKS!!! It's here, it's done, and you can watch it right now!
What is this film? How do I describe it?? I was thinking about ocean plastic, bottom feeders, and animals adapting to living with humans, even though they're as far away from humans as possible. So I guess it's about that- as a musical extravaganza!
Th...
2023-01-25 05:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostHere I am, hello and bye bye off I go right now to animate the LAST SHOT
2023-01-12 03:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostI'm in the last couple of shots now- in fact the one I'm working on right now is either the second last or the third last! Trying my best to avoid spoiling the ending with these last few WIP posts- so, here is an animated* background, of some metal falling apart like lasagna.
*I say "animated", but it's evidently only ...
Happy 2023 all you wonderful people!!! Thank you for your support, be it ongoing or if you just signed up!
I believe in December I said I was on track to finish animating DONKS either "this month or next month". It is now next month, so I better go keep animating and try to prove myself right!!!!
First though, h...
A little bit of redrawn animation, in amongst all this 3D/2D photo cutout nonsense!
It's only an amorphous, nondescript blob, BUT I thought I'd show you how it was put together.
This shot might look a little abstract out of context (also I've taken out some stuff to avoid spoilers), but never mind what it's meant to...
(The periscope is coming from the top of the frame because the submarine is upside down)
2022-12-09 00:08:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, and THANK YOU for your support this December and throughout 2022!!!
As many of you might know, my main focus on here this past year has been a new short film called DONKS. I haven't got a release date for you, but production is ALMOST finished- I would say either this month or next month!!!
I've been...
Not all configurations of donks result in a successful critter. This one is attempting forward motion, and it's not going great!
2022-11-18 06:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostI turned my back on my big drip for 2 seconds and when I looked back an entire submarine had nestled inside it, like a massive caterpillar in a wet cocoon
2022-11-15 05:20:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
So the thing about DONKS is, because all the characters are collaged together out of a limited library of little building blocks, I haven't had any concept art to post on here! There's been virtually no sketching or visual brainstorming- rather, all the creative decisions have been made while dragging little pie...
Hello you wonderfuls! Big thanks to patrons old and new for your support this month, and for any past and future months!
I'm pleased to report that DONKS is getting pretty close to being finished!!
In previous months, my paper illustrations for "Pen Pal" patrons have doubled as frames for little paper animations...
Hello! Here is a long critter. Different sections of the body occupy three different shots in the film, but you never see the whole thing. Nor does a continuous "whole thing" exist outside these three vignettes sewn together with Movie Magicβ’ (see: whip pan).
So! I thought it'd be fun to put the thr...
Hello! I have been animating someone spinning around.
So far "someone" is just legs though, because they are too long to fit on screen, and are subsequently tying themself in knots.
I also tied myself in knots animating these 2D images of 3D objects in 2D space, to fake the most basic 3D- but I like how it turned ou...
