Hello you lovely friends!!!!
First off, thank you all so much for your patience!
It's been a slow start to the year in terms of updates because firstly, we've been moving home, and secondly, my current film project requires me to make a bunch of random 3D objects (donks)- and I reached an impasse in the film whe...
Hello! Here is the title card, and I guess logo(?), for my upcoming film. Not that I had much doubt, but the working title, "Donks", is now definitely the title of the film, because I have made the letters now.
A word doesn't feel like much of a post by itself, but all this 3D stuff is new to me and I was pretty happy w...
2022-01-09 10:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Year 22202222222 everybody! Many twos for all of yous.
Here is a snail who has just remembered something crazy that happened the other day. His line art was one of this month's Pen Pal drawings, so he's in an envelope and about to be sent to one of you (that's not the anecdote).
Thanks everyone for your su...
(direct link---> https://vimeo.com/661329686/5305526b75)
Hello!
So, for those who don't know, I've been making a hybrid 2D/3D film over the past few months where I make rudimentary 3D objects called "DONKS", which I then assemble i...
Hello! Here's a very tall image from the film. The film is not as tall as this image of course, so only a bit of it will be on the screen at once in the final thing. But if your TV was very tall, I guess it would look something like this!
This scene is meant to be the bottom of the ocean, which ends in a big drip! I do...
Direct link----> https://vimeo.com/656818461/b96c1a1524
Hello hello! Here's an animation of a chambered nautilus that I spent too much time on (for the film, of course).
This is probably the most faithful and accurate portrayal of an ...
Most of the things in this film I'm making are quite cartoonish and silly (surprising I know), but it seemed very important to me that these fish passing by in the background were comparatively realistic. I haven't really questioned why until right now. Something to do with "fish dignity" I guess??? They aren't even a real fi...
2021-12-08 05:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to December!
The Pen Pal ink drawings are all ready to be shipped off on Monday, and this is a coloured-in version of one of them. I usually give the picture a title or a description in this post but I don't know what this is a drawing of. The filename is spop.psd, so we can assume that the image and ...
Boing! Donk delivery, come get yer donks!
Each of these pieces was animated by hand, which took a dumb amount of time.
This wasn't because of any sort of animation purism- I definitely would have done this as a physics simulation if I was experienced in that sort of thing, but I'm not, so if I tried that and it didn...
Is this how cargo ships work? Doing, there's your stuff!
I had to illustrate this boat twice- not for a sympathetic reason like a computer crash or a corrupted file, but the much sillier reason of not saving my work once for several days, accidentally merging all my layers in Photoshop without realising and then using ...
Hello hello lovely friends! Thanks so much for all the support and hope you've had a lovely October! Here is a snail, wearing a shoe. Regrettably this is not concept art for my new fashion label, but the line-art for this snail IS one of the ink drawings being sent to Pen Pals, which will be shipped off in the next day or two...
2021-11-02 09:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! Just a cheeky little background for the film I'm working on, of an electrical socket.
This new project has 3D characters, but still has 2D backgrounds- so for the sake of cohesion I've tried to paint a background that doesn't have line art, which is pretty new for me. I don't think like a painter at all, the way they d...
Hello, here's a little animated background for the THING I'm working on. The background will be animated in the final thing also, but not quite like this, or with this audio- I just wanted to arrange the assets I'd made into a little standalone loop for you!
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2021-10-18 04:27:18 +0000 UTC
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Build your buddy! Make your mate! Encase your entity!
edit: seems to be something weird happening with the video embed on the mobile app, so here's a direct link----> https://vimeo.com/629564769/4f5ebe067c
Hello you cheeky fish! A big thanks to patrons old and new for your support this fine October.
For this month's Pen Pal drawings I decided to do some architecture studies around Melbourne! And by "around Melbourne" I mean around G©©g™ Street View because we're still in the world's longest lockdown- which might be w...
Hello! Here is a dog!!!
Some dog context:
I posted that echidna on here earlier, and was planning on expanding that into it's own bigger project with some other related ideas. But, some of those other ideas involve knowing 3...
I revisited that echidna from earlier, and something terrible now appears to be happening to it.
I think it's pretty clear now that all this echidna stuff is expanding into some sort of bigger project. The nature of the project is st...
Hello hello!!!! As I mentioned yesterday, this month's Pen Pal drawings, when put together, double as a comic!
I'm not sure how this mass image dump is going to display across Patreon's app, webpage and emails, and whether it'll ...
Hello all you fine people! You lovely lot!!! Thank you for being here, and reading this, and for all your incredible support.
It is now September, and there is a rat in a spooky underground passage.
The original line art for this illustration is one of the ink drawings being sent to Pen Pals this month- if you'r...
These round little waddlers are the champions of my heart. I can't believe I haven't animated one before now (save for a near-static one in the background of Throat Notes).
The ripply effect traveling down its back would nor...
2021-08-30 07:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! If you missed it, I put out my new little animation a week ago. What have I been doing since then? Why, animating a fern frond unfurling!
You could say I've spent an entire week animating one leaf. Or you could say I've spent a week ...
Hello! My little film NYLONS is now on YouTube, so you can freely share it with your friends, uncles, grandmothers, dogs, landlords, etc. But I also have a treat that is just for you!
Here, in my little ...
Hello! I did a little cartoon. It's called Nylons, and it's about some cheeky nylon-based lifeforms. I hope you like it!!!!! It's very short, but it was a good opportunity to try out a bunch of new techniques!
I don't want to pick apart the concept too much because it's a little light fun piece, but I'll just say that ...
Hello everyone, and happy August! Here is a drawing of a spy and his inconspicuous animal companion. The line art for this drawing is one of the Pen Pal sketches from last month, all of which I'll shipping out in the next few days.
But what does he spy with his little eye??? If he's looking through MY window, then prob...
Hi! Here is a floaty cloudy background from the most recent shot, at various stages of completion so you can see how it came together.
The second step here, labelled "ball nightmare" is a pretty drastic change from the first step, and that's because my MODULAR CLOUD SYSTEM is being reused from Throat Notes, so I alread...
Hello! I did a music. It's not in any way related to the film that I'm making, it is just a music.
This is one of several little musical sketches that I've been very slowly tinkering with in my free time. And by free time, I mostly mean when we're watching a movie and it gets to a scary bit and Zoë pauses it and asks ...
Hello hello hello everyone! Thanks for your support once again, or for the first time! You rock!!!
For those wondering about my next film project: well over half of it is now finished, and the finished parts also include most of the difficult parts. It's also very very short, so I reckon it could be finished in the not ...
2021-07-05 10:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Here is a balloon moving around. It's not particularly clear what it's doing because I haven't animated the rest of the scene that it's interacting with, and the balloon still needs to do more stuff, in response to its surroundings which aren't there yet.
It's going to take a little bit longer to do all the othe...
Hello hello hello and thank you to patrons old and new!!! Here is a drawing of a big comfy bed, and a monster under it who doesn't look quite as comfy. Maybe pass down one of those pillows, comfy jerk up there!
The original line art for this picture is one of last month's Pen Pal drawings, which I'll be sending out in ...
