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SubparGeekGirl96 Date (public)

I know I posted it on here months ago when I actually made the cartoon, but the second SubparGeekGirl96 short "Date" is now public (with a couple of imperceptible little tweaks from the previous ve...

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OIAF, TAC, BigCartel & lots of trips to the post office

I've been busy with lots of boring real-life crap I won't share on here, but I'm finally caught up with the initial wave of online orders for the Sublo zines. It's been an interesting...

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10th anniversary sketch

Ok I'm too busy to do a proper digital illustration, but here's a little watercolour sketch to celebrate! ten years wtf?! how did this happen? anyway I seriously appreciate every one of you ...

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Production Notes zine now available!

Tomorrow, August 29, is going to be the ten-year anniversary of Sublo and Tangy Mustard's first episode! Seems like a good time to make the Production Notes zine available online, ...

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Faux-watercolour music loop

Here's a little rough walk cycle of a figure trudging through snow I did a couple of weeks ago. I played around with giving it a watercolour look in Flash by colouring it with a few layers of trans...

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I just released three albums

Hey this isn't cartoon stuff but I have three albums of new music that I just released on Bandcamp and on 2025-08-11 21:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Sublo Catering Scene and Some Musings

Here's a little scene from the next Sublo episode, where the gang is driving up to Markham. The music is obviously temp (shh!) along with some other elements - the painted BGs aren't in yet, for in...

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Recent Sketchbook Stuff

Just felt like sharing some sketchbook scribbles from the last week or so. I'll have a more substantial Sublo update soon, hopefully tomorrow. I've been trucking away on the animation for it, prepp...

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Trusting the Animator

As I work on Sublo and Tangy Mustard, I'm reminded again and again that the more creative choices I leave for myself in the animation stage, the more engaged I am, and the better it goes. When ever...

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Sublo Update + Random Recap

Animation is progressing steadily! Tonight I'm in the middle of a long driving scene (the first image). The characters are just sitting and talking, so it's very simple in terms of movement, but th...

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A Snippet of New Sublo

Here's a quick WIP clip from the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode (s3 e5 Catering)! There are a lot of group shots I've been putting off, so much of the episode isn't contiguous yet, but here's...

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Sublo Zine Interview Trimmings

I've been scrambling to get the Sublo and Tangy Mustard Production Notes zine to printers in time for the June 5 event I'm tabling at, and putting together stuff for the indie production workshops ...

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Quick update on Sublo zine

I'll be out of town for a couple of days, so I wanted to squeeze a little update out before then. Recently I've mostly been focused on putting together the Sublo and Tangy Mustard Production Notes ...

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Katy's Birthday tidbits

Going through old storyboards to grab frames for the upcoming Sublo and Tangy Mustard production notes zine, I found a few tidbits I'd forgotten about from Katy's Birthday (season 1 episode 4), tha...

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Flash Talk - Vehicles & Backgrounds

I promised a video about animating cars, so here it is! Listen to me ramble as I poke around in my Flash files and show you some of the techniques and ideas I'm using for the driving scene in the n...

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UWM Interview

I'll have another art post soon about animating cars, but in the meantime here's a recent interview I did for UWM student Stavros Hatzopoulos.

Q: What got you to start pursuing anima...

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'Catering' colour keys

Some of the colour keys for the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode - this part is always really fun, it feels like digital finger painting. There's no expectation of making "a good drawing." In g...

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Animating cars again

Hey I'm still working on backgrounds... Lots of cars and dreary suburban office parks. Here's a couple of shots I've been working on - the car animation here is just mockups with the keys tweened a...

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Sublo 'Catering' WIP Backgrounds

As I've mentioned here before, the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode is about the Subpar gang driving out to the suburbs to do catering at a dreary office park. Most of the backgrounds aren't pa...

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Get a Load of These Doorknobs

Another Sublo and Tangy Mustard pic I drew last week, and finished off this morning! I'll have a bigger update with BGs from the next episode soon, there are a lot of them but I've been chipping aw...

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Danish Snack Review with Kevin

Random non-cartoon-related video, but I'm posting it here since it features Kevin (Tangy Mustard).

Our friend Anthony had a short layover in Toronto, so we met him at one of our favourite gre...

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Nightclub dance loops

When I made the Nightclub episode I did these little dance loops of Sublo, Tangy Mustard, Katy and Vanessica. I think maybe I used them for promo the day the episode was released, but they probably...

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2 Sublo illustrations and old doodles

New Sublo and Tangy Mustard art fresh out of the oven! I've been doing more of illustrations lately since I need covers for the soundtrack release and the production notes zine, and didn't want to ...

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Upcoming on here

I've got a few major projects I'm juggling right now. Doing them all at once has maybe not been the best approach because it means each individual thing takes longer to come out, but eventually: View Post

Beatles tribute to Sublo?!

Wow I don't know how they did it considering two of them are dead, but it sure was nice of these lads from Liverpool to sing a tune about Sublo and Tangy Mustard! They must be big fans, clearly the...

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Shopping & 2024 wrap-up (also Sirens)

I hope you all had good holidays! It's a little late to post here now, but here's the key art for Shopping and the Subpar Sirens calendar art from the episode.

I've mentioned i...

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Sublo and Tangy Mustard - Shopping

Here's the new episode! Sublo and Tangy Mustard bring you a heartwarming holiday tale of that most universal yuletide pastime, shopping for gifts. Maybe I'll edit this post to say something more in...

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Sublo Shopping - more WIP stills and update

This little Christmas episode is almost finished. I've only got 4 shots left to animate and they're all fairly simple. Hopefully by this time tomorrow they'll all be complete! I still haven't impor...

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Sublo Shopping progress

Okay, I'm deep enough now into making this Sublo and Tangy Mustard short, and still on schedule with it, that I can confirm you'll get it in time for Christmas! It's called "Shopping" and it's just...

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Sublo mini-episode "Shopping" coming

I'm working on a long-delayed very small Christmas episode of Sublo and Tangy Mustard! It's nothing big, just a couple of minutes of the boys talking shit while they shop for presents at the mall. ...

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