CLOUD BUILDING
Hello! I've been building clouds (for the film, of course).
I could have painted clouds instead but I wanted more control over how they moved, so I built them out of raw cloud material: ORBS...
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Seedy pods
A perfectly normal botanical illustration of some banksia seed pods- or "Tree Furbies", if you prefer.
2020-09-22 06:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostMountains and branches
More scenery! Most of the work has been background-related lately, so backgrounds are what I have to show you. Hopefully soon I'll have some foregrounds for you as well! Here we have some layers of...
2020-09-17 00:08:15 +0000 UTC View PostPaper Animation: Behind-the-scenes timelapse!
Hello hello! Recently I posted a gif on here, which was a paper animation made from all the Pen Pal drawings I did last month. I also recorded all of me making it, so I could show you the process! ...
2020-09-09 06:50:25 +0000 UTC View PostParallax treetops
I know there's nothing "animated" in this gif but every layer of the background is a different length, so it can only exist inside a camera move.
Our story reaches its climax at the top of t...
Phases of Paper Faces
Hello all, and happy September! It's been an exciting start to the week here, with the trailer for the film going public. The frog is out of the bag! Now it's just a matter of making the rest of th...
2020-09-02 06:03:13 +0000 UTC View PostTRAILER!!!!!
There's still more work to be done on the film, but we're getting closer now! Close enough that I think it's time for a trailer!!!!
By which I mean, close enough that I can say "coming soon(ish)...
From the archives: piece of abandoned film, 2015
Hello all! This is NOT a scene from the film I'm making now, but the only finished shot from a film I started in 2015, before giving up and making Double King instead.
"Gnostrum" was going t...
Ink Animation, bit by bit
Hello computer friends! I've made another ink animation!
This time, rather than draw a completed frame and then moving on to the next one, I animated a character one body part at a time. I a...
Sleepy Froggers
The frogs in this cartoon look completely different in every shot. Today they've turned into beanbags
2020-07-30 07:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostGravitational Pull
I don't quite know how to explain what this thing is. It's in the film but it isn't quite anything, and isn't any more of an anything even when its in context. All the more reason to show it to you...
2020-07-21 05:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostERROR
In the film this guy is very small, in a corner, and not the main focus in the only shot he appears in. He seemed angry about it so I'm giving him his own gif where he can be the star of the show! ...
2020-07-17 02:55:40 +0000 UTC View PostKEEP IT DOWN UP THERE
Disgruntled thumps from your tree neighbour
2020-07-17 02:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostDigital Audio Workstation
Animating pretend software! What happens when you beep the keys?
2020-07-08 04:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostPaper+Ink Animation!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the middle of the year! We're halfway through!!! Thank you for being here and helping me make the things <3
Here are last month's ink drawings for Pen Pal p...
Entering "The Third D"
Hey so the film looks like this now??? I mean not really, but kind of- it's happening on a screen IN the film. Don't worry it's MEANT to look like a horrible melting nightmare! It will make sense i...
2020-06-19 02:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostSpider Animation Timelapse
What do you call it, speedpaint? Is there a word for speedpaint but with animating? Anyway here's a timelapse of me designing a character, building a puppet, and animating them walking! (You can al...
2020-06-05 04:06:49 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Dog
Hello everyone! The latest batch of ink drawings were shipped off to Pen Pal patrons yesterday- and I do mean shipped, literally! Due to many countries not currently allowing flights in or out as p...
2020-06-04 03:59:12 +0000 UTC View PostDouble King Caterpillar timelapse
Look what I found while deleting stuff of my computer!
I didn't document a whole lot of behind-the-scenes stuff like this for my films before starting Patreon. But I must have briefly entert...
Lumpy Tube
This one's a bit visceral, sorry. I want to say it will be less confronting in context, but I'm not sure how true that is.
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Duplicate post because I shared this in the wrong tier...
Finger Friend
Hello all!!! I hope everyone reading this is safe and well.
Last month's drawings for my Pen Pals were all shipped off yesterday- among them, the original lineart for this big human and thei...
Painting over procedural smoke
Here's some smoke from the shot I'm working on, as well as the rough animation I used as a guide!
It needed to be painterly to match some other things going on in the scene, so I thought rather ...
pumpiky seedlers
Hello everyone! I hope you're all safe and healthy wherever you are.
I sent out the Pen Pal drawings for March yesterday- amongst them was the original lineart for this delicious fruigetable...
An animal smokes a cigarette in the dark
Hello! Here's a little process gif of a shot I'm working on.
Animating in sillhouettes is fun! It feels like it should be less work because there's less detail, but without the internal info...
tree home
One of my favourite backgrounds so far in the film! A little home in a tree (with a hook to hang your oversized straw hat on).
I've always just made line drawings with pen, and never been ab...
Sick Baby!!!!!
Hey everyone,
I haven’t been at work for most of this week. Shortly after my last post on here, our one-year-old was admitted to hospital with pneumonia. He is still recovering, but ...
horizontal launch /// vertical scuttle
Realised the shot I'm working on has some parallels with this old shot. When tasked with making a character climb something, my default solution appears to be "throw them at a vertical surface at f...
2020-03-09 01:05:47 +0000 UTC View PostWiggly Ascension
Hello and happy March! Whether you are now entering either Autumn or Spring, I hope you will enjoy the impending medium-range weather.
The ink drawings from last month's Pen Pal patrons have...