felixcolgrave

Large Cephalopod

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...

DONKS Soundtrack: Pipes and Wires

This is the third track I've extended for the Donks soundtrack, but the first track in the chronology o...

Little Dancing Man (work in progress)

Look, 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...

Fish Ride

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...

Flower & Friends (who are flowers)

Another animation test! Further exploring some of the "2D cutout in 3D space" stuff I did with the wobbly...

Wobbly Ball Arms: an accidental video essay

I hope you liked that two second loop that I made, because here's me talking about it for 7 and a half...

Mechanical Murphy's Frustrating Maze

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.<...

Shoe's Lament (Donk Music)

The singing shoe seems like a key musical moment in Donks, where everything falls silent as an oddly si...

Gold Star

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 s...

100 More Drawings

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 spec...

Another Keymesh thing: 3D patterns on 2D fabric

I did another experiment with Keymesh! (First one here)

One of the possibilities that I was most ...

Barkimboldo (Extended Donks Music)

Hello! As I mentioned before, I'm extending some of the musical fragments from Donks into full tracks. ...

Crab catching some little guys

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 ...

2D to 3D (experimenting with Keymesh)

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...

Donk Music (so far)

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...

DONKS DOWNLOAD LONKS

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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Bubble Bug

HELLO EVERYONE!

Many of you will already know this, but to anyone who missed it, DONKS was released publicly a few days ago! ---> 2023-02-06 07:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post

DONKS

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 wit...

Frantic Scuttling

Here I am, hello and bye bye off I go right now to animate the LAST SHOT

Metal Melter

I'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-...

what if I cry you TWO rivers?

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 ...

making a wobbling blob

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...

Unimpressed Submarine

(The periscope is coming from the top of the frame because the submarine is upside down)

Out for a drive to clear his head

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 ...

Pain Face

Not all configurations of donks result in a successful critter. This one is attempting forward motion, and it's not going great!

Waiter, there's a submarine in my big drip

I 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

Concept Sketches!!! Submarine

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'...

Paint Roller

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 fin...

Exquisite Corpse

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 th...

Curly Stomper

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 als...