Hey, happy holidays, everyone. Whether you're celebrating something or not, I hope this season is a little softer and kinder to you all than the rest of 2020 has been.
A lot of things have been happening lately (mostly good), and I can barely keep up, so I'm just going to master-post some of it here.
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That Picture!
Well, it's the entire Lackadaisy film crew, as depicted by art-marvel ...
2020-12-24 01:35:05 +0000 UTC
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Elsa and the War.
2020-12-20 04:42:15 +0000 UTC
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Reference models for the Lackadaisy and some of the ensuing (painted) background art.
The prevailing art direction has been; lots of red, extra dank.
Art courtesy of the illustrious Swamp Team Six - 3d models by Newt, vis dev + textures by Frog, and painting by Adder (Addison Bell).
At the bottom, some concept art previews of other t...
2020-12-19 05:00:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey, so we have a thing coming up in early 2021 that involves pancakes (because of course it does) and the amazing team at St. Louis' own Dancakes.
More details on that later.
Meanwhile, hypothetically, which of the Lackadaisy characters would you say is most pancakable? Who deserves to be battered up and chomped? Who would you most like to pour syrup on? Uh, well, it's getting weird now so I'll just get ...
2020-12-17 01:12:05 +0000 UTC
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Just a little tidbit of animation (compositing with bg not complete yet).
animation - Syd Yang
cleanup/lighting fx - Zebirdbrain
director - Fable Siegel
Rocky - Michael Kovach
2020-12-16 05:26:59 +0000 UTC
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Rose and Mordecai - an art board drawing I polished up a bit.
2020-12-11 08:40:58 +0000 UTC
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Welp. It's going to be quite the weekend. Exhausted as the Lackacrew is, we're determined to have some fun this holiday season. Here's what's going on:
Friday, December 11th - Lackachat Weeb-Stream
Starting at 4pm EST /1pm PST
Lackadaisy YouTube and
2020-12-09 12:15:38 +0000 UTC
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Birthday art took on a life of its own.
Happy birthday to Kazoodle!
(I'm sorry your day was marred with all that software trouble.)
2020-12-01 03:50:04 +0000 UTC
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Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful to you, my Patrons, for a multitude of reasons. One of the big ones, of course, is that none of this would be possible without your support. I dearly hope it's been worthwhile for you in turn. ❤
Whether you're celebrating or not, in quarantine or gathering in a small group, I hope you're keeping safe and I hope you manage to have as much fun as Nico and Serafine here.
Rough animation by the absolutely amazing 2020-11-26 21:57:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
I'll be doing a Patron stream this Saturday, November 28th, starting at 6pm CST / 4pm PST at my Twitch Channel.
It's been a while since I've done a request stream, so let's make it a request stream, shall we? If you have ideas or a drawing topic you want me to discuss, bring it along and chuck it at my head! ..or type it in my general directi...
2020-11-25 22:48:43 +0000 UTC
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There have been many birthdays within the past month among the Lackacrew (with more yet to come)! Keeping up with gift art has turned into a project all its own, but at the same time, in myriad ways, it feels it has been an important year for letting people know you appreciate them.
1) Lisa and Bel - Ivy and Freckle's voice actors - just had co...
2020-11-20 21:53:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
We've finished up work on the character design sheets for the animated short film, so I've gathered them all up into a downloadable file for anyone interested in having the full set. This will be available on Gumroad soon, but I wanted to make sure Patrons got it first!
Included in the download:
- PDF containing all of the character sheets + character height chart
- Separate, large JPG versions of each character sheet
- A PNG spread of all of the color characte...
2020-11-18 15:29:31 +0000 UTC
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A peek at how actual clean-up is looking! The next step for this scene will be compositing it with the background and nighttime color keys.
Animation here is by Jaddy, clean- up by Zebirdbrain, and FX animation (dirt!) by Fa...
2020-11-16 00:47:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
There sure is a lot of stress and infectious disease and such going around these days , but the Lackacrew is determined to lighten the mood this weekend....
So, we're holding a (slightly boozy) Live Draw + Q&A with special guests from the animated film team, including animators, voice actors and others.
I hope you'll pick your poison - whether its a nice, soothing, innocent cup of tea or something with enough edge to take the edge off - and join ...
2020-11-13 21:34:47 +0000 UTC
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The character sheets are complete! (by L. Frostad, Fable and I)
I'll be packaging them up into a downloadable set and sharing them here shortly, along with a full lineup/height chart, for anyone who wants to have all of the sheets in high resolution.
2020-11-13 04:11:50 +0000 UTC
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I apologize for it being late. I was partially skeletonized.
However rough this year has been, at least there's cats.
Hope you all are doing okay. Remember to take care of yourselves and snuggle your critter friends...if they're snugglable, I mean. I guess aquarium fish wouldn't really appreciate that.
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I am desperate to get back to actual for real comic making. Thankfully, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel with the book editing. ...
2020-11-02 02:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Tomorrow - Friday, October 30th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET - we're premiering a Halloween double feature on the Lackadaisy YouTube Channel. I hope you'll come watch with us!
But....
For Patrons, I've made a secret early preview of the entire thing here for you
2020-10-30 03:29:22 +0000 UTC
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Some rough animation for the short film by the exceedingly talented Briana Ren (Staraptures)!
This scene is a bit more complex than it probably looks at first glance. Also, in its final form, it will include a camera pan down as Mordecai's head motions that direction.
2020-10-26 21:27:18 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
Shop Talk will be live tonight! Fable Siegel and Ashley Nichols will be talking with Spike Trotman (artist, author and entrepreneur behind Iron Circus Comics) about launching and funding your indie project!
A...
2020-10-24 20:49:14 +0000 UTC
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Something terribly stupid that emerged from the last livestream, based on a tweet (you can see the screen capture among the images).
Also a Patron request for Werewolf Ivy, and a Rocky head turntable that Fable (the director on the animated film) made for reference!
More Halloween stuff coming up shortly!
2020-10-22 20:42:05 +0000 UTC
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**NOTE - Starting soon, but with a slight delay while I sort out a technical issue.
Should begin within the hour.
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Hey all,
I hope October's been treating you well...or that it has at least refrained from poking you in the eye repeatedly with a sharp stick. Diminished incidence of violent, unprovoked eye-stabs may be the best we can aspire to this year.
The next Patron stream will be this coming Tuesda...
2020-10-18 20:28:09 +0000 UTC
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This is a work in progress, but there are so many moving parts and complicating factors (multiple characters, a lot of motion and acting, perspective angle, a lot of lip syncing) and animator Sagan Yee has put an incredible amount of work into it. I'm piecing together a new rough animation compilation video now, but I wanted to give this one a bit of its own spotlight!
2020-10-14 19:57:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
So you might remember the Nick Nocturne art I shared a little while ago. This is what it was for!
Premiering at 2pm CT/3pm ET tomorrow, Friday the 9th, on the Lackadaisy YouTube Channel is the first of the comic dubs promised in the animated film Kickstarter. There will be more to follow, but since it October, we figured we'd kick off with someth...
2020-10-08 20:06:30 +0000 UTC
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Polished and spiffed up (and only very slightly ossified) for the occasion, by the inimitable L. Frostad!
Zib is next on deck.
Once we've got the character sheets wrapped up, would you like to be able to download all of them as a set (either as individual images or compiled into a PDF). Is that something anyone would be interested in?
2020-10-06 22:26:11 +0000 UTC
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The car is like a Mary Poppins magic bag...except everything inside is useless. Also, it's probably got ants.
Some rough animation by Katie Winchester (FireNoggin)!
2020-10-04 21:18:49 +0000 UTC
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....finally gets a character card for the gallery. I needed to get this artwork done for inclusion in the art book. I'll get it up on the web site Character page as soon as I'm able.
Also included:
- Art book reformatting has been pretty intensive. This spread of faces from the old Expressions tutorial nearly sent me over the edge. I made good progress this month, though. Now I have a crap-ton of copy to write for the book.
- Some Patron art.
More things very short...
2020-09-30 20:01:35 +0000 UTC
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Just some fun stuff from yesterday's livestream (which I think went for a record 8 hours). The chat put in a request for Freckle as a werewolf.
Thanks for joining me, those who were there! Had a blast...hope you did too!
2020-09-28 14:11:44 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
The next Patron livestream will be this Sunday, September 27th, starting at 4pm CT/ 5pm ET at my Twitch Channel.
I'll be working on some comic art and patron art and enjoying some seasonal music. (Is it too early for the Halloween stuff?)
Bring questions if you have them! ...Or just creep about in the shadows.
Either way, I hope I'l...
2020-09-25 13:35:28 +0000 UTC
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Something spoopy this way comes...
We've been collaborating on a little project for the October season. Still a work in progress at the moment, but it'll be ready to share soon.
If you're a fan of the macabre, of horror fiction, unfiction and ARGs and you aren't familiar with Night Mind, you're missing out! You can find the channel here!
2020-09-24 09:05:30 +0000 UTC
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The summer was ending. The scream bugs were screaming. Tracy was book editing and losing her mind.
2020-09-18 16:07:30 +0000 UTC
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