Hello! I needed to design a bunch of kites for the film, and ended up doing a faux-replacement-animation with their silhouettes.
In the actual film these will change in time with the music, so they won't go by quite this fast or be evenly space...
Everything is about as spherical as expected.
2021-05-12 06:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This new film has a lot of string in it (attached to kites), and I'm quickly realising that a string blowing in the wind is quite a lot of precise drawing for what, in the end, is a featureless squiggly line. A line is one step removed from nothin...
2021-05-10 02:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch out little apple, here comes that rascal Apple Getter!
This WAS one of the Pen Pal ink drawings from April, but then I scanned it and coloured it in on the computer and now it's this instead. The original linework for this, along with eve...
Hello! This method of animating a sheep is turning out to be less practical than I anticipated. Hopefully it's fun to look at though! This, as you might have guessed, is for that film I said I'm making. There will be more soon, but for now please ...
2021-04-27 07:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Ding ding ding! A NEW FILM project has COMMENCED!!! And here is how the film itself will commence: presenting the completed first 5 seconds!
This was a little too soft and subtle to squash into a gif so this Vimeo embed is MEANT to loop. Bu...
Hello! Following up my last plasticine experiment, I started this follow-up plasticine experiment! An experiment is whatever it is, however it comes out, ...
2021-04-07 03:14:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! Remember all these paper animations I did last year? I originally posted them as gifs, which is fine but a little lossy squishy squashy. It's not the clearest way to see them- that would of course be a video. So here is one, in 4k! Videos can ...
2021-04-06 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello, patrons old and new! As always, a big THANKS for all your support and for joining me here this month, which is April.
To Pen Pal patrons, your ink drawings will be shipped off in the next day or two. Here is ONE of the drawings bei...
Hello! Maybe you saw a gif I posted here a few days ago of a plasticine flower. Here it is again, but in a video, with music and sound and a background and compositing and stuff.
This isn't a shot for a film project, but after making that f...
Hello internet family!!! I've been experimenting with some good old plasticine..
Having a top-down camera already set up to shoot paper animation, I've been excited to use it for this particular style of stop-motion, where everything is fla...
Hello all! Thank you for joining me here this month, be it again or for the first time!
The Pen Pal drawings for this month have been shipped off to their respective new homes.
Part way through last year, I started using these Pen Pa...
Hey! Here is a clown!!!!!
You may remember me mentioning a SHED a while ago, and making things in it using physical mediums. Here's one such thing I've been...
Hi! So!
I don't leave a whole lot of evidence when I make a film. There are no formal storyboards or animatics, no rough versions of anything- I usually keep working each shot, from conception to completed animation, inside the one digital ...
well HELLO! Here is me and there are you!
So last time we spoke, I just made a film, and then I went to lie down for a little bit.
Since then, I have gotten back up, and my partner and I turned our shed into a STUDIO TYPE THING!
Durin...
Hello everyone!!!!
It’s been a pretty overwhelming couple of days since THROAT NOTES dropped- and whether you’re one of the patrons who supported me through making it, or a new patron here to help me make whatever the next thing i...
Well, THROAT NOTES is now on YouTube for the world to see! Now you can share it with friends and see it again without the pesky watermarks.
IN ADDITION, you can also downl...
This is the film! This video right here!!!! You can watch it right now, if you like!!!!!!!!!
First of all: THANK YOU!!!!!!!! There is no way this film could have been made if it wasn't for your financial support.
This film started with <...
I don't know what this is! A witch? Some sort of magical madam hopping towards you in any case- or floating! Not sure if her feet are reaching the ground but those trees look a long way down.
Anyway, THIS is the monthly paper animation, a...
3!!! SHOTS!!! LEFT!!! 3!!! SHOTS!!! LEFT!!!
Here is a normal human face, making some sort of normal human facial expression to clearly communicate a familiar and relatable human emotion. I'm sure we all understand and no further explanation...
Remember that wobbling frog from a couple of days ago? Now it looks like THIS! No it's not transforming into anything, it's just the same old wobbling from the last shot but now seen from a distance, so I had to draw it smaller and simpler and it ...
2020-11-23 03:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been kind of avoiding doing too much complicated redrawn animation of these frogs that are throughout the film, with their fiddly spotty confusing character designs, and then right near the end one of them just DECIDED to start wriggling arou...
2020-11-19 22:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello disregard that last post, I realised I published it to the wrong tier!!! It was regarding the names in credits benefit, but it was meant to be directed to the Secret Council and Pen Pal tiers and I accidentally sent it to everyone. I'm reall...
2020-11-18 23:21:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a background! A background for the film, to go behind things. Here it is without things in front of it!
2020-11-05 22:13:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy- Halloween!!! Here's the paper animation I made during October, which I hope has a certain Halloweenish quality to it. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this new-fangled """"paper"""".
The original frames will be sent off to Pen...
Making cat kill bird (in the film, not in real life). Yes I know there's way too much animal death in everything I make I'm SORRY.
This particular variety of parrot is also very endangered, which made this an extra weird thing to draw and I...
I've been working on a shot that involves a large crowd of animals. In the film, they're all on screen at once, not for all that long, and each one is quite small- so you won't get the best look at them. It seems like a shame but the film is NOT A...
2020-10-22 00:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello here are a lot of pictures! There is context! I will tell it to you!
As you probably know, the top tier of this Patreon is one where I send you a physical drawing each month! It has finite spaces because I can obviously only do ...
This little brushtail is the closest this film has to a main character, but I don't think she has many appearances left! I thought I'd take the chance to show a quick breakdown of how I've been animating her, for most of her shots.
I start ...
Hello all, and welcome to October! I have another little paper animation for you, from the World of Worms! (Wormld?)
The frames of this animation are also the ink drawings for my Pen Pal patrons this month! I'll be sending you your worms in the...