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Scene7 shot1 (inked)

Hello!

A bit of a rough one here, but hopefully it should be interesting, process-wise! The audio cuts off at the end because it runs directly into the next scene that I'm working on.
This...

Autumn Drawing Poll

It is time to pick which print will conquer your mailbox!

And since it's a time for all the things pumpkin spice, we figured to let the notorious pumpkin man (you may recognize the tune from...

Scene6 shot11 to Scene7 shot1 (rough)

Some very rough work in progress here. A number of timing and anatomy fixes need to be implemented, and Maki is working hard on those at the moment, but here's something to look at in the meantime!...

Scene 6 run closeup

Following on from the last post, here's the next shot in the sequence. This one's 24 fps, or "on ones" as fancy animation studio people say.

If you happen to find yourself on a spacecraft, pl...

Scene6 Wide Run Process

Hello! The king of oats here.

Here's a shot I'm working on. 121 frames at 20fps! Runs and walks are the absolute bane of my existence so this one came out OK in my book. This one is a very lo...

VHS VFX walkthrough

A quick addendum to last week's post, in case you'd like to see how I go about getting the VHS monitor screen effects in my films.

Here are the exact settings I used, if you have Sony Vegas a...

Scene7 shot5 compositing

Good day to you all!

A pretty simple shot here, just showing the elements that go into compositing a scene. Much of the time on this one was taken up messing with the VHS filter settings in S...

Scene5 Shot8 to Scene6 Shot2

Hello all!

Here's a work in progress of scene 5_8 to 6_2.  I'm just getting the lines right and then will add shading and colouring.

I'm keeping any scenes featuring the friendly ...

Prints - Dispatched

Finally ALL the materials have arrived!   

Soon the glossy, premium cardstock items will be beamed to your residence. Or stare at the postman with a deadly gaze each evening until ...

Scene9 Shot1 to Scene9 Shot2

Hello!

We saw the ship coming to a stop earlier. Here it is starting to move again.
I might add more detail to the engine glow effects and smooth out the movement, but here's what the scen...

Scene 5 Shot 2 (inked + inbetweened)

Good day to you all, friendos!

Here's the fully inbetweened inks for Scene 5, Shot 2. Maki and I will be going through to tighten up the timing, but with some dark atmospheric lighting, backg...

Project Monday - Scene8_29 to Scene8_30

Voice-controlled magnetic docking clamps?
In MY anime???

There is more material to the scene (which has been omitted along with the audio to avoid spoilers!), but you can check out how it'...

Scene 5 Shot 2

Afternoon, folks!

Here's our intrepid heroine walking through a dark cargo bay with a torch.
As you can see, the key poses alone are 21 frames, which then ballooned to 84 frames once inbet...

Summer Poll Result

Well, ya guessed it!
Likely cuz you voted for it...

The TIE Bomber image had a resounding win so we'll be firing up the printing press soon. USPS has had a lot of delays (understandably) ...

Scene 8 shot 28 background

Good afternoon, everyone!

Just a quick background from scene 8 for you.
I used to play a lot of Space Engineers (a very complicated building game which soon sucks all your life away) and s...

Scene5 Shot3-7 (Gore Warning)

Hello everyone!

Here's some progress on Monday, the name of this sci-fi project. Warning: there's gore in it! We're hitting our stride in the production phase, post-production will introduce ...

2020 Summer Print Poll

Hello, hello! How are you all doing? 

It's getting hot over here so I hope you're not melting, wherever you are. Here a quick preliminary poll for the next postcard!

Would you like...

Hello All New People

So very happy to meet you and thanks for joining us~
If you follow the instructions on the image above, new $10 tier ppl - Spring 2020 Decepticon prints will be shipped to you as a special thank...

3D background trick for 2D animation.

A rare public post!

This is something I do with backgrounds all the time, but never thought to mention it because it just seemed like second nature to me. But maybe it'll come in handy for so...

Wild Stream II

Tapped that YT notification bell yet?
It's starting...

Hand Shaded Hands

In this addition of wild streams, Otaking shades a bit from a scene much later on in Project Monday.

Sometimes we don't plan streams and sometimes we don't want to spam the Patreon feed, so...

Scene 8 shot 47 (process)

Hello, you people, you.

Here's a literally "blink and you'll miss it" shot from near the end of the film. A space mining vehicle turning around via maneuvering jets, and all the various steps...

Scene 4 colours.

Hello, hello!

I'm just experimenting with colours to get a nice finalised palette that matches the backgrounds and lighting for various shots. Like Akira, I want a separate colour palette for...

TIE Bomber poster (finished!)

Well well well!

Good day to you all. Here's a full res poster image of that girl from the TIE Fighter animation. Feel free to print it out and put it on your grandma's wall. Or stick it to th...

Scene 3, shot 13 to Scene 5, shot 1 (inbetweened and flat coloured)

Good day to you all!

I've added the inbetweens in, coloured the backgrounds and added flat colour to these here shots seen in my last post. Feel free to compare and contrast! I Still need to ...

May The 4th

Greetings!

Otaking stayed up way past his bedtime trying to finish this drawing! (It's 10:23pm for him at this very moment in the UK.) He says "Still, I hope to color it soon. People sometim...

Scene 3, shot 13 to Scene 5, shot 1 (keyframes)

Good evening, everyone!

Here's some more shots I've been working on. I just finalized the keyframes and I'll be adding inbetweens to make it all nice and consistently smooth. Also, we're stil...

Decepti-mail, attack!

All the postal ingredients have arrived so now begins the shipping.
This print goes out to all the $10+ participants of February and March 2020.
$7 tier is getting the extras.

Newer pa...

Scene 3, shot 13 (inbetweened).

Well well!

Here's the shot from my last post, but now with inbetweens. It was running at 24fps but it just looked a bit "floaty" so we've slowed it slightly to 22fps.

I hope you're all ...

Scene 3, shot 13 keyframes.

I've always loved shots in old anime where not just the characters are drawn and fully animated, but the backgrounds too. Shots like this one:
2020-04-15 00:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post