Hellooooo. Been a few months so let me catch you all up on everything.
The Sheriff Hayseed short known as "A Few Cards Short" or later "Swindling Simpletons" faced a big issue during production. I'm sorry to say I simply didn't like how it was turning out at all. I feel it was too long with too little happening, the art...
2023-04-07 14:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike & Zach go vertical in our first YouTube short, which could be a fantastic vehicle for more frequent uploads! This was ultimately testing the water but I'm excited at the prospect of making more for any amount of characters in my toolbox.
And now a little update on the goings on
2023-01-31 15:19:50 +0000 UTC
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Hop aboard the tram off to happy land with this song about how happy we are and how nice everything is!
2023-01-14 18:02:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Bit of a personal song I wrote during the pandemic but I'm particularly proud of it! No help on mixing this time either, it'll be the first song on the channel fully mixed by me.
Planning on releasing it in a couple more days, still needs Patron credits and a real thumbnail and such things like that but I figured I'd dr...
2023-01-12 15:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this! Our December video is here to take Sonic through the wonderful world of Frontiers and it's very fun bosses.
2022-12-10 18:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm animating the last sequence now, so here's some stuff!
sonic fucking dead
Eggman trapped in Cyberspace
2022-11-29 19:52:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Hope everyone's been good. We've been busy over here as you can imagine from the long lapse in posts. But I'm here now to share some of it!
We'll start with the big ticket item of course, our new Sheriff Hayseed video. We now have about 2 out of the 8 minutes of animation completed, so still a long ways to go b...
2022-11-15 18:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Animators Charlie and Crowne have been hard at work animation shots for Sheriff Hayseed: Swindling Simpletons! Above are two shots from Crowne, as Charlie is focusing on keys for multiple shots at once and will finish them all at once later. At the least, it's easy to say Crowne is killing it.
2022-10-07 19:25:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello again Patreon folk! Here with an update.
The storyboard for Sheriff Hayseed: Swindling Simpletons is complete. Background artists are on the job and animators will begin today! The storyboard came in around 8 minutes long, with 28 backgrounds to make, and a whopping 55 SHOTS to an...
2022-09-18 16:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post
A mini Mike & Zach! A little something while assets for Sheriff Hayseed were finalized. Animation should begin soon on that new short! But in the meantime, hope you enjoy :)
2022-09-03 16:41:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished up all the designs needed for the Halo 2 parody! Everything we'll need to build animation assets quick once the time comes. Now for some updates on sheriff fox guy!
Bisque continues building the final Hayseed rigs. I've been so happy with the work, I figured I should have him build all my puppets for now and ...
2022-07-26 02:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The rigs for Sheriff Hayseed have taken a small detour in direction as storyboarder and animator, Bisque, has offered his expertise on the Harmony puppets to make sure they're the best they can be. Bisque has real experience in the industry (of which i technically have none) so it should be interesting.
2022-07-17 15:12:15 +0000 UTC
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Routine Stop is done, so the next Sheriff Hayseed short is next! It will have the final art style to be used in multiple further shorts, so lots of time is being spent developing the puppets.
In the meantime, Gintoki has been spending a lot of time working on the storyboard. We renamed the short to "Swindling Simpletons...
2022-07-12 17:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Routine Stop! A short video about Officer Paul Ease engaging in a routine stop with a very normal civilian. This is the first video almost entirely animated by my team of animators, crowne, charlie, and bisque! I handled some revisions but some shots I didn't have to touch at all! We are continuing to work on streamlining the...
2022-07-09 14:10:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a preview of some of the shots the animators have been doing! Still not sure if I'm going to end up animating anything for this video, which is so cool i can't even describe it. Gonna try to get this out this month! Stay tuned...
2022-06-07 17:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Animators Crowne, Charlie, and Bisque continue animation work on Routine Stop as I dabble in a couple other things.
I whipped up a draft storyboard for the Halo parody which now moves to some asset prep work before making the final boards. Vanadium is working on character designs and Gintoki will flesh out th...
2022-06-01 19:49:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A little treat I made while the core of the team works on the next short, Routine Stop. More on that later
2022-05-21 13:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Rigs for Routine Stop have been made! Including refined and rebuilt officer Paul Ease.
Outside of that, Jess Thomas has been developing Sheriff Hayseed background references for all the shorts going forward! Troughwater has never looked so gooood
2022-05-01 01:29:07 +0000 UTC
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Our biggest team effort yet, and the beginning of a new era of Piemations. We hope you like it :)
2022-04-23 16:34:38 +0000 UTC View Post
As the music and sound on Printer Problems is finalized (release on the 23rd for sure), Some prep work on the next projects continues as well as some merch concepts.
Me and Ben worked on a Halo Infinite parody script
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Production on Printer Problems is drawing rapidly to a close! Here's a preview of zach fucking dying
with 31 out of 36 shots animated, Printer Problems is geared to go live sometime this month! We also now have at 2 additional animators working on shots. We're in the final stretch and working hard! We're very excited to get it out there
2022-04-02 19:20:28 +0000 UTC View Post
PREVIEW TIME. In this clip I did some "mouth music" to tell the composer generally what to do for the actual music. It's effective but downright silly
2022-03-14 21:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Our still-growing team is hard at work on Suction Cup Man 5! Massive headway on the script while visual development continues.
And all the while, the new Mike & Zach short reaches 23 out of 36 animated shots as in heads in for preliminary audio
2022-03-14 03:07:44 +0000 UTC
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Suction Cup Man 5 is being written! Here's some conceptual sketches done by Vanadium
The working title is Suction Cup Man 5: The Clown Underworld
2022-03-06 20:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you who enjoy the Production Blog, you should know that I will start posting the more basic progress updates on videos to the YouTube community tab instead of here as part of the rewards.
The plan is to allow more people to see how videos are coming along, thus less viewers left in the dark. As for the hole...
2022-02-20 23:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! The new video "Printer Problems" is nearing half animated!
The yellow blocks with names in them show who has been assigned what shot. Otherwise I've been handling them. Knocking out one shot every couple days or so...
2022-02-15 04:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Firstly, I'm calling the episode "Printer Problems" now. Second, here's the spreadsheet!
Vanadium has completed all the backgrounds! I'm moving on to asset layout but managed to animate a few scenes in between. It ain't much ye...
2022-01-09 21:08:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Screenshots and backgrounds! Animation has finally begun on a new short! Sheriff Hayseed's "A Few Cards Short" has moved to the backburner in the meantime as we're still developing some things.
This new short will be the beginning of "season 2" for Mike & Zach with some big design changes, extra artists, and tweaked...
2021-12-12 00:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
As slow as production has been lately, I'm just glad to put something up lol. There's a little something at the end however. Production Blog resumes soon
2021-12-04 15:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post
