Happy New Year, fam! I hope everyone is sleeping off that hangover. God, I know I am! I wont pretend our old problems are gone just because another day has passed; there's still a lot of work to be done to fix the outside-world. But I can only change what I can directly control. The best I can do is to push forward and be wis...
2021-01-01 18:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been the worst year for A LOT of people and while I've been blessed to have yall and my wife with me, there's plenty of people who have not been handling this year very well. I've been able to improve my chops a bit more and a lot of the artists working on this are starting to see their labor morph into something... ...
2020-12-31 05:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey fam! Consider this an early Christmas present for you all. About two years ago I asked Sarah Gavagan to drum up a Color-Script of the entire TWOM film to help me set the mood and range of visual emotion the characters and viewers will go throug...
2020-12-24 17:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This is looking pretty good, I'd say. My background designer, Sarah Gavagan and I went back and forth with a couple of takes to get this looking as solid as it is now. It was a challenge making a background 7000px+ to work in a 3D-space. Its still choppy in some parts so I'll need to add an inbetween or two to Pumpk's charact...
2020-12-22 17:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting there! Ill have a preview GIF in the next day or so! Lots of After-Effects work on this shot, especially when manipulating the 3D camera and the Lens Flares.
2020-12-21 22:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got a high-quality image of the webcomic I wrote with Scott Malin's drawings and colors. I really would like to do more of this little story one day and move this to TIER 3 but for now I may address this NON-canon story as it comes for ...
2020-12-10 23:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: I updated the poll a little and made it public to get more input! You can participate here!
Hey gang! Happy December. Hope you all are well! I wanna start ...
2020-12-07 20:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Last post of the month so I thought Id offer up a sneak-peek at a little webcomic idea I had! Its nothing huge and the story itself wont be canon but I wrote up a little story between the main three just to have fun. Twitter gets the textless version, but you guys get to see the whole exchange!
Here's t...
2020-11-30 16:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post
About a week ago I was invited by the fine folks at DC in Motion to host a talk about my journey making TWOM. I discussed things like developing a script, the importance of storyboards and how your project can evolve over time!
The recording isnt available quite yet but Im making the slide presentation...
EDIT: Saw some jerkiness in the legs so I spent a couple hours smoothing them out more *for you guys only*
I hope and pray everyone has been safe and comfortable this holiday. I know its hard if you havent been with family this year but I wanna let you all know that Im happy yall are around ...
2020-11-28 17:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Newcomer Casey McDonald has joined our ranks in finalizing the animatic and improving on some shots I had done previously! She's super talented and actually has a short film of her own on YouTube called WINGS. Give it a look when you have a chance. She's rea...
2020-11-10 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been crazy this week and Im so glad we have a nice bright spot in our world here in the west, finally. As a thank you for stickin with me, Im posting an early-access clip from the TWOM animatic that will also go up on Twitter tomorrow!
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I genuinely love it when people draw my silly child as a happy go-lucky anime-girl. Melwina17 is busy getting the colors and backgrounds down now but I wanted to share a sketch with yall before the finished piece goes public! Enjoy!
2020-10-28 02:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Twitter got a recycled summary of the Lorefolk, a class of races that populate the world of our film, BUT you guys are getting a sneak peek at two major characters that will not only make short appearances in the movie but also have large roles in a subsequent series if we can get that far!
Ignatius "Nautio" (pro...
Th next phase of my plan for this film is to work on a trailer that encompasses a full fight scene but I wanna also continue onward from the shot I last did of Pai. I typically express my concern of scale and pricing whenever I approach Background Designer, Sarah Gavagan. My previous experiences working in a studio lead me to...
2020-10-17 00:51:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished out the main roughs of this now so Ill move onto inks and inbetweens next week. I love shots like these! Its a good dose of character acting plus some silly anime-posing and camera movement! Its still a bit clunky at the end but tying it down should smoothen out those jerky bits. I feel like I couldnt do orga...
2020-10-11 01:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Its been awhile since I requested a commission but Ive been so impressed by LadyGValentine's fanart of the Hazbin Hotel series that I simply couldn't resist! There's a VERY charming quality about her design and I dig it loads! I couldn't resist asking her to do a drawing of Pai & Razz together!
Also, thanks t...
Thanks for sticking with me for a whole month gang. I truly appreciate the support! Here's a Mood-Board I whipped up since Autumn has arrived! Its my favorite time of year so I wanted to put together the things that inspire me most as well as the cool, soft and vibrant feelings this season gives me! Enjoy!
2020-10-01 02:17:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Been workin up this witch character for quite some time. Kuki Krumbles will make a blazing appearance in The Will of Monsters film too! Kallie King developed the striking design for this mischief-making tsundere and I cannot wait to show yall what she's capable of! ❤
I got a nice boost of followers on Twitter thanks to that process video but I really wanna WOW people and REALLY turn up the heat on the excitement for this project! Thats why Ill be focusing my time making a completely finished action sequence starring our favorite Scarecrow boys, Pumpk and Cham! I spent today laying down so...
2020-09-27 01:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Pai's on her way to find a new adventure and she's never looked so good!
This took a ton of work to put together and Im really proud of how it came out. Ive been working in Adobe Flash/Animate for so long that I didnt realize how many bad habits I picked up that needed ironing out. This animation was done in TVPaint, a...
This is a character that will make a small appearance in the film. Tobias is the owner of a highly popular wand-production company, using dubious methods (slave-labour, animal abuse, destruction of nature) to maintain the creation of overpriced yet highly effective Wands.
He comes off as kind and personable but that's u...
2020-09-19 21:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Since yall are my fabulous patrons, you of course get neat little sneak-peeks before ANYONE else. Ive been working pretty hard the past 4 years trying to find ways to improve my animation and I think Ive gotten good enough to where I can pump out complicated animations like this!
This is Pai's official entrance in the T...
2020-09-17 02:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I love our little Scarecrow boy so much so I decided to compile some storyboards I did of Cham in Adobe Flash/Animate a long time ago in addition to some rough animations. Cham's reaching for a stalk of corn since he hasnt exactly eaten for the day. He is easily scared. Someone help him!
The roughs were done in this...
This was one of my favorite things to build for my film, establishing the visual tone of the whole thing. Swiped from Scriptmag.com, "In filmmaking, a LOOKBOOK is a collection of photographs selected as visual references to express the director's vision for the look and feel of the film."
That las...
2020-09-03 01:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I wanna thank you all once more for supporting my film! This will be a place where you can find EXCLUSIVE ART not seen on social media such as the coveted Look-Book, some WIP's of the film, older designs and ideas for the old PCPAI series on YouTube, information on other races of people that exist in the film's w...
2020-09-01 03:05:25 +0000 UTC View Post
