Hello!
Is it me or is it getting hotter? It's 29° (84c) in my room today!
Anyway, here's a process shot, from rough to inked to coloured & shaded, of Ashlin getting her ass out of bed...
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I've only tried black coffee once and it was too powerful for me. I need milk in it! Or cream if I'm feeling like the decadent Earl of Hedonisticshire.
Oh, anyway, here's another coloured sho...
2022-04-06 17:18:07 +0000 UTC View Post
More colouring completed! With sound effects and an ambient soundtrack, I forsee this coming together quite nicely, hopefully.
Anyway, it's getting cold again (it was actually snowing on my s...
2022-04-02 07:21:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Well well! Here's that shot from last week coloured, with a couple more bits for context either end.
Cracking on with another one now... this time it's a 440-frame long shot! @______@
I h...
2022-03-25 03:48:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, you!
I'm crunching away on this shot at the moment. It's 240 frames so it's taking a while but another day and it should be done so I'll post it up here next week. Sometimes I curse my...
2022-03-18 19:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Otaking journeys through Megadrive nostalgia to see if these games still kick ass in 10min.
Do you have a beloved Sega title?
Sound out below which retro game he should try next to reset ...
Well, I've coloured this one! Just starting to shade the rest now (see last post for just the lines of this bunch of shots together).
Thanks to Maki for checking over and adjusting some of th...
2022-03-03 00:03:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, you lot!
Well, these shots are inked so I'm just starting to colour them. The rotating background animation sequence at 21 seconds in is going to be a bit of a monster to shade, I can ...
2022-02-25 18:26:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Join Otaking for a let's play of the horror game Carrion!
What makes entertainment effectively scary?
Does thriller and horror translate well into animation vs real life?
Let's find ou...
Good evening!
All of these shots are now coloured and shaded. Hopefully with sound effects and breathing sounds, this sequence should turn out quite nice. Oh, and there's a bonus rough sequen...
2022-02-09 04:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the new, wonderful supporters that recently joined!
And thank you to our superb, top tier, retro anime patricians that have been so understanding with supply chain logistics and such...
New and improved - a dedicated channel just for the streams and extra memes!
Be alerted to Otaking's every shading move! Be privy to his ham sandwich journeys!
BEHOLD! ALL SHADING, ALL THE ...
More shots from the second half of the film. We're getting there!
-Paul
2022-01-24 21:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, everyone.
Since JoJo won the postcard poll, here's Dio bowling with Freeza.
This will be going out in postcard form along with the Fall Star Wars print to everyone i...
2022-01-11 16:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, hello! Merry Christmas, one and all!
I've returned from the US and just got back from the family home for Christmas. Back at my place with my PC and graphics tablet and hard at work on...
2021-12-30 00:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there! It's me, Paul Johnson, posting on the eve of my return to the UK!
Need to get up early tomorrow to catch that flight.
We're into the scene 9 shots now as you can see from the ...
2021-12-16 08:43:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs the weather turns chillier, may these print options warm the cockles of one's heart!
Greetings all, Producer Maki here. The Autumn prints still go out to all Elite supporters from Novembe...
Hello everyone!
I'm in the US at the moment visiting Producer Maki for the strange and mystical American holiday known as "Thanksgiving". I think it has something to do with being thankful fo...
2021-11-26 06:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings all!
It is I, Producer Maki, and Paul OtaKing is currently visiting the US of A. I might take him to his first Waffle House tomorrow! Anyway, you all voted and now glorious postcar...
Sometimes you just need to catch your breath after doing zero-g space maneuvers. This comes after an important scene so we're going to have some atmospheric long shots of the two ships floating in ...
2021-11-10 23:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy November, everyone! I hope you watched some decent horror films over Halloween. I'm going to convince Maki to watch Fright Night (1985) with me in the next day or so.
Here's another dec...
2021-11-02 03:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostHello, hello!
I was just thinking... a couple of the shots I've been working on are actually so high-res and detailed that they'd work as poster/postcard images. Would any of these make a nic...
2021-10-25 23:03:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there!
A deceptively quick shot that took a long time to do! There's a surprising amount of detail on that space suit, it turns out...
Maki and myself have been looking at this one a...
Well well!
Here's a fairly lengthy shot I've been working on (298 frames). A lot of different layers on this particular one (ships, cockpit interior, glass, etc etc) in addition to laser effe...
2021-10-07 01:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, you!
Here's some behind the scenes stuff for the TIE Fighter opening movie I'm doing. I couldn't just use 3D ships from the game because they don't render out as black and white lines ...
2021-10-01 06:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Well well!
Another (inked but uncoloured/unshaded) shot from the Monday film. This one took quite a bit of reworking, so big thanks to Maki for all the face, keyframe redraws and timing adjus...
2021-09-23 21:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, hello there!
Here's another few shots I finished literally minutes ago. As before, the sound is just a placeholder, literally just the audio from the old TIE Fighter opening cutscene. I...
2021-09-18 06:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some improved shots plus a few new ones I've been working on for the re-animation of the TIE Fighter opening scene of the Reimagined game mod. I'll be adding in more detail as I go... maybe ...
2021-09-08 23:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you manage to access the animations?
Here's a reupload incase you run out of things to watch this weekend: 2021-09-03 23:28:52 +0000 UTC
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