Hey all,
We'll be hosting another soirée at the tail end of this month!
Where: Lackadaisy Discord (#lackachat)
When: Sunday, May 31st, starting at 5:00pm Central Time (6pm ET/3pm PT)
Right now, it appears we'll have many guests joining us. The list tentatively includes Fable, Newt, Kat (artist who produced the work above + the emoji...
The past month has been a pretty intense ramp-up on production and on team size overall. A lot of the moving parts (script, character design, board notes, dev log web site, voice acting hiring and direction, and a million meetings about sundry other items) have required my attention. I simply want to make sure everything looks as good as possible and feels authentically like Lackadaisy. As we move onto the final storyboard and animatic phase, followed by the animation phase, though, where oth...
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Hello all,
I'll be streaming tomorrow, Sunday, May 24th, beginning at 6:00pm CT (7:00pm ET) at my Twitch Channel.
I plan on working on an illustration I need to complete for the art book, among other things. Please feel free to join the chat, ask questions, or lurk about if you like! There's a chance some guests from the animation project may drop in ...
A peek at what's been going on behind the scenes - there's a lot of it! (If Patreon is behaving, you should see multiple images in this post.)
- Nico and Zib character designs in progress. Usually we start with Tai's exploratory drawings, then whittle things down from there, along with some of my notes (Zib's eyebrow mechanics needed some explaining). From that point, Tai does some refining...
UPDATE: I have passed these results along to the team so we can plan accordingly. Thank you so much for your input, everyone!
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As some of you might know, we hit our Mini-comics Dubs stretch goal in the recent Kickstarter for the animated film. Now that we've got just about every character cast (pending some final paperwork), the comic dubs seemed like a great way to introduce them and provide a preview of their work while...
Hey all,
The film crew is going to hold little game night to wind down after a long week. For that purpose, we'll be playing Skribblio! It looks like we may have some new team members joining in too!
If you'd like to come to chat or to just watch us being inane, the stream beings tonight, Saturday the 9th, at 7pm CT (8pm ET) at Fable's Twitch Channel.
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Can I offer you a nice corgi in these trying times?
(Some recent entries in the Patron art catalog. Some pet portraits and Mitzi/Zib art, for which the prompt was 'drama')
Hey all,
We've set up a dev log site to chronicle the progress of the Lackadaisy animated film! I will continue to post extras and early-looks at things here for Patrons (more soon), but this blog will encompass the director's thoughts, things they'd like to share, and sundry Kickstarter related updates too. The next article will be up shortly, along with the cast list!
(For KS backers, you will receive important updates via Kickstarter notifications as well, so follo...
2020-05-08 01:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
I'll be livestreaming tomorrow, Thursday, April 30th, starting at 5pm CT (6pm ET) at my Twitch Channel!
I'll be playing some music, working on Patron reward art and some art book related things. Feel free to drop in to ask questions, chat or lurk!
I hope I'll see you there!
Starting shortly on the Lackadaisy Discord!
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Hey everyone,
This month is the 4th anniversary of the Lackadaisy Discord! To celebrate, we're holding a live chat on Tuesday, April 28th, starting at 7pm CT (8pm ET).
Right now, it l...
Some recent Patron art!
Also, I'll have Live Chat and Live Streaming scheduling come up shortly...
I was hoping to be able to finish a longer version of this page, but just how much chaos a Kickstarter involves took me a bit by surprise. I'm grateful for the support (to the point of near shock), but I'm also looking forward to a return to some degree of normalcy.
Thanks so for bearing with me, everyone! Sorry if I spammed your Twitter feed.
On that r...
Hey all,
The 24 hour livestream has begun! We'll be going until this time tomorrow when the Kickstarter ends!
Stop by anytime, pop in and out! Chat with us, Drawpile with us, or just lurk as you please!
It's gonna be fun...and exhausting...but mostly fun!
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If you've been following me on Twitter, you might have seen some of this already. It's been so scattered about in articles and such, though, I figured I should consolidate some of this material into a single post here.
- Compiled character designs for Freckle, Ivy, Rocky and Mordecai (more to come)
- Some in-progress 3D models by Zachary Nall (aka Non Newtonian). This will be a traditional, 2D animated film, bu...
Burning the midnight oil, streaming some comic art for the next while on this Sunday night, Feel free to join me!
Twitch Channel
So, uh, Google Translate corrected Rocky's poem in our original teaser for the Lackadaisy Animated Film. We had to make some hasty but important revisions to the animatic...
Translation done by DarkJ33 : https://youtu.be/i8kEbjlyNIE
Original animatic and poem: https://youtu.be/WkvBN71JW5g
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Hope you're all safe and in good health! It seemed like a good time to share some downloadable stuff and to re-up some older things. Maybe it'll help curb a little bit of the need for listless quarantine circumambulations.
The large PDF for the Drawing Wrinkles tutorial is now available to all Patrons, and I've added the new art book cover, Essentials, to the wallpaper collection. Links below!
Maybe more of a lowjink...
Just some nonsense from the April 1st live chat. Thought I'd clean it up a bit and share!
Some patron art - most of it painted during the last livestream. Seemed like a good time for something a bit cheerful. Hope you all are hanging in there.
The Kickstarter chaos has died down a bit now - I'll have a comic update for you soon!
Also, if you can make it, there's a chat tomorrow, starting at 6PM CT on the Lackadaisy Discord. We'll have some guests from the animation project.
2020-03-31 20:38:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
During my last livestream, some of you indicated you were feeling a bit blue, isolated and anxious in these Quarantimes, so I thought perhaps some extra socializing might be in order.
For that reason, I've scheduled another Discord Chat session for Wednesday, April 1st, starting at 6pm CT (7pm ET). So far, Fable Siegel (director) and Newt (3d ar...
A collaborative effort between Fable, Tai, Ashley Green and I to hammer out Rocky's design for the an...
2020-03-27 01:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Live now!
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Hi all,
What a chaotic month it's been so far - in a good way! There's a lot going on, but I'm looking forward to hosting something a little more low-key on the social side, for Patrons only.
To that end, the next art stream will be Saturday, March 28th, starting at 5pm Central Time (6pm ET) at my Twitch Chann...
First, uh, wow! The Kickstarter was funded within 6 hours of launch! And it continues to outpace our expectations. I think we're really going to be able to do something special with this - it is mandated by your generosity that we must, in fact!
Thank you all so much, whether you've pledged on Patreon or Kickstarter or whether you had some wor...
The Kickstarter for the Lackadaisy animated short film has just launched!
The main backer reward for this campaign is the Lackadaisy Essentials mini-comic, art and tutorial collection in hardcover.
Also, if you watch the KS video all the way through, you'll see an animatic of a scene-in-progress.
I'm sorry for the lack of forewarning. ...
Some of the steps in working out the speakeasy design for the animation project.
For story/clarity purposes, the layout needed to be revisited. We decided it was also a good opportunity to give the place a bit of a face-lift, with some added emphasis on cave formations, lighting, and an elevation change to lend the stage more grandeur.
2020-03-15 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A glimpse at some of the steps involved in arriving at Mordecai's look for the animation project (contributions from Fable, Tai and I).
Each of the characters appearing in the short film are going through this process of trying to distill them down to their quintessential parts, finding the rhythm of their sh...
Just re-upping this as a reminder that this takes place tonight!
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Hey everyone,
Next Saturday, March 14th, stating at 7pm CT (8pm ET), the Lackadaisy Discord will be hosting another live chat session.
It'll be a special one, as the director on the animation project and some of the voice cast will be...
(You should see a couple of images on this post)
One of the far less pretty parts of the animation process. Before any animation actually happens, the storyboards have to be solidly fleshed out, and before they're solidly fleshed out....they look like hot garbage. (It's important hot garbage, though!)
For this part of the story, Fable was drawing some very rough boards to establish what the characters are doing, what the camera angles are, where one scene cuts to another (on the...
Here's how that art book cover is shaping up.
I've been a bit short on time (deadlines everywhere) and haven't been as responsive as I'd like to be, but I did read every single one of the comments left on the thumbnails for this. Thank you for your valuable feedback! It means a lot!
Hey all,
There's been a lot going on behind the scenes here. The consolidated version: there's an animated short film currently in production! This is a first look at some of what's underway. Over the course of development, I'll be sharing more previews and exclusive looks at the nuts and bolts with Patrons. I hope you'll enjoy watching it come together!
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The longer version:
As the 20s have dawned on us yet again,...