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WIP Post 11-29-25

Sticking fingers in multiple pies as I try to get back on the art horse. (IE waking up and exercising and drawing before the day job vs sleeping in :p)

Also uh...I may be getting married next year????

NoMiMber???

In an ideal world...I would want to make it a thing.

WIP Post 10-24-25 - Tera x Puce

...We might be back into the swing of things folks.!

WIP Post 9-30-25

I wanted to post this one yesterday but one of my part time jobs called me in for what SHOULD have been a 6 hour affair...ended up being 11...

Anyway none of that matters because I have OFFICIALLY done my last animation for Cloudburst! These guys have been incredibly accommodating and amazing to work with these past few years and I'll always be grateful to them for helping me keep the lights on.

So now I am fully back to doing my own projects again with no side work slowing me down (other than the aforementioned IRL job(s). And my first order of business was adding/redoing controls for that delayed Tera Shadic commission. (see attached video). So THAT shot will hopefully get done sooner than later.

WIP Post 8-30-25

A Furry Beach Club centered post this month. I finished the scene with the lovely platypus lady here and am currently focusing on my FINAL project for Cloudburst.

And, as if preordained, it's a POV doggystyle scene, featuring an actual canine partner :p

WIP Post 7-31-25

The 2nd to last Furry Beach Club pic I'm animating for Cloudburst sure...

BUT ALSO...WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! SOMETHING I'M DRAWING AND ANIMATING FOR MYSELF FOR ONCE?!

After seeing "The Day The Earth Blew Up" again (which you should too it's great) it's my personal theory that Farmer Jim did this with the HOA lady on a regular basis to protect his "kids."

Orianna For Furry Beach Club

3rd to last of my obligations for Cloudburst, but I actually kinda dug this one when it was finished. Besides the x-ray shot, it's a composition/pose that I'm not sure I've done in the past?

Do any veterans remember if I've done a piledriver animation before????

Random WIP Post 5-23-25 - Dream Con 2025 Prize Art

So here's a nice change of pace!

My buddy CuzimCam (https://www.instagram.com/cuzimsenpai/) is scheduled to run his now famous "Anime Jeopardry: Melanin Edition" at Dreamcon next weekend. He and his team reached out to me to make a prize for the top 4 winners in the form of an art print/poster.

The concept was too fun to pass up ngl: a parody of Ernie Barnes' famous painting "The Sugar Shack", (the one that plays during the credits of Good Times) but with specific anime characters. If you're attending the con be sure to hit up his panel and maybe try your hand at playing and winning a copy!

Side note: The first comment from one of his friends when I sent in a progress pic:

"Why is Karui so THIIYAK?!"
I had no answer to give >_>...

Anywho here's a quick little timelapse from when I started as well as the original for comparison.

UPDATE 4-30-25 - Technical Difficulties

So I ran into a weird issue where the Tera and Puce backshot loop was rendering out funny and I couldn't figure out what the cause was. I figured it out and the root cause was in a corrupted PSD file :(

Thankfully I had a not that older version saved so I won't have too much work to redo. I'll drop that for y'all in a day or two, in the mean time here's a couple more of my soon to be last contributions to Furry Beach Club.

WIP Post 3-30-25 - Tera x Puce

Got back to this project. Things are moving slowly per usual but the end is in sight!

Update 2-28-25: Resignation from Cloudburst Media

For those of you that are newer subscribers, I can feel your confusion from across the internet tubes.

One of my consistent side gigs for the past few years has been working as one of (and until recently the only) animator(s) for the Cloudburst Media family of free-to-play browser based dating games. Since 2018, I worked for them part time on Hentai Diaries, Furry Beach Club and recently Galactic Monster Quest rigging and animating the drawings from their artist's roster. They were legitimately cool people who were very patient with me and never missed a payment once. But recently I had a personal come to (insert god here) moment and decided to step down from my position and pass it on to one of our other animators.

My life has changed a good bit in the last 2 years both personally and career wise, and it didn't make logistical sense to try to keep dividing my dwindling free time between personal art projects, backlogged commissions and them. Especially since they have their own schedule to keep for game updates, any tardiness on my part is objectively unfair to them. I will finish the remaining work I've been contracted to do for them between now and May 2025, at which point I'll be back to doing smut animation for me, myself and y'all.

All this is to say I should...SHOULD soon have more time to dedicate to my own original work. But to close out this month, I thought I'd share with you, in no particular order, some of the stuff I've animated over the years for them.

WIP 1-30-25

Just a couple gals out there making new pals.

WIP Post 1-29-25 - Tera x Puce

One shot finished and animated!

Wip Post 12-30-24

Was not nearly as productive this month as I would have like due to IRL work obligations and holiday stuff, but little things here and there got done.

I'm striving for more output in 2025!

WIP Post 12-30-24 - Tera & Puce/ Life Update

Full transparency, I had to make some hard choices this month and ended up taking on more IRL side hustles to cover bills and holiday stuff. Had next to nill time to draw/animate things.

THAT SAID... a few small things did get done. My hope is that as things stabilize in January this specific project will get done sooner than later.

I can't thank you all enough for your patience and continued support this year, it means way more than you will ever know. (prayer hands)

WIP Post 12-03-2024

All shots for my current project are ready to be animated! Stay tuned!

WIP Post 12-03-2024 - Tera x Puce

All shots are now rendered and ready for animation!

WIP Post 12-03-2024 - Tera x Puce Timelapse

Last two shots colored, ready for animating!!!

WIP POST 11-20-2024 - Tera x Puce

Posting this one on my way to another one off irl gig.

I did a quick and dirty photoshop warp job to give an idea of what the knobbin slobbin will look like, but once everything is rigged and animated I'll post a proper preview.

WIP Post 10-25-2024 - TeraxPuce Timelapse

Shot 1 rendered and ready for rigging!

WIP Post 10-25-2024 - Tera x Puce

Shot 1 of 3 fully colored!
Shot 2 of 3 flatted!

WIP Post 10-16-2024 - Tera x Puce

I'm trying something new and attempting to draw and color all the shots for this project in Clip Studio Paint as opposed to just inking and doing the coloring in photoshop.

So far it's behaving quite well!

URGENT PSA TO ALL MEMBERS!

So I went to pull a bit of money out from here when I got a message saying that I can't right now because Patreon's "Trust & Safety Team" is reviewing my account.

I'm not especially worried since my content is pretty tame/vanilla, but many of my peers in the NSFW art space have lost their accounts here and on other platforms in the past year. What's worse is that in a lot of cases the reasons for said terminations were very vague, assuming they were given at all.

So this is just a heads up to make sure you are following me on my twitter/X account. In the event that this page disappears for whatever reason, I will direct folks to other places to support me if they still wish to continue doing so.

(I'll have an actually content update later tonight :p) 

WIP Post 9-26-2024 - Puce x Tera Timelapse 1

For you creative types!

WIP Post 9-26-2024: Puce x Terra

Working on the next thing (yet another backlogged commission)

WIP Post 9-22-2024: Timelapse Test

I finally upgraded my copy of Clip Studio and tried out it's timelapse feature.

I think I can work with this!
 

RELEASE: Year of the Dragon Animated (Collab with ThiccwithaQ)

Took WAAAY longer than it should have to finish, but Ginger Lizard Mom is live for all to see!

Art done once again by my homie from up north ThiccwithaQ aka Nyancha
Music used created by Jian Lofi ft LIAR and 2ncooh
Vocal packs created by Oolay Tiger and Gia F. Simone
And plap FX's used were from That1LewdDude's Backshot Sound pack

And oh yeah I animated it I guess..

You can find this movie in the VIDEOS FOLDER OF THE ANIMATION ARCHIVE

IF YOU ARE A NEW PATRON (or you forgot how this works) FOLLOW THE STEPS HERE TO RETRIEVE YOUR REWARDS

WIP Post 7-31-2024 - Coco Intro

Car trouble, out of town work, the month has been super busy away from the computer but it at least means I'm still eating!

That said I did manage to squeeze out content for y'all in the last wee hours of July!

Much like Shadow Lady, I made a small introduction for what may be considered a more obscure subject of my next joint. (Check the video attachment) And incidentally, I'm just about done animating "the fun stuff" for this project too :p

WIP Post 6-25-2023: Coco etc

I'm traveling for an IRL gig right now so finding time to work on projects this month was tricky. But some progress HAS been made. Tinkered a bit on Coco's climax loop as well as laying down roughs for (another) long delayed commission I took.

Coco Progress 6-19-23

Traveling for IRL work and was afraid I couldn't effectively do After Effects projects on my tinier laptop. But then I thought... "WAIT...there's an hdmi port on this tv......"