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JANUARY DRAWING + February suggestions

HELLOOOO EVERYONE!

The results of the January poll were VERY CLOSE, so I ended up doing TWO!

"Captain Yajima showing Steve around her ship" and "Steve and Cesare in the Sonic Adventure 2 title screen poses"

Here's some work-in-progress screenshots:

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Please leave your suggesti...

JANUARY DRAWING POLL

Hello all! I know I said I would wait 1-2 weeks before doing the poll, but reading the comments it seems like the frontrunner suggestions are all pretty established...

So I'm doing the poll now!

Here's six suggestions I picked out that seemed to be favorites going off likes.

I'd be happy doing any of these though, loads of great suggestions!!

Thank you for voting, have a great week!

NEW YEAR (+DRAWING REQUESTS)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! 🎆🎆🎆

I'm using this New Year Momentum to make a change to my Patreon I've meant to do for a long time but have been too scatterbrained to actually do... 💀 (SORRY ABOUT THAT)

I'm changing the $5 tier to something more manageable, I'm doing MONTHLY DRAWING REQUESTS!

We're starting STRAIGHT AWAY! Submit suggestions below and I'll pick out the ones with the most likes and then I'll make a poll in a week or two where you can vote on the top s...

Another Wall, Another Gnome

My new animation "WALL GNOMES" just dropped and I thought I'd share this little behind-the-scenes snippet!!

Wall Gnomes began as one of several 1-minute one-off improv skits I recorded, intended to become YouTube Shorts like Wizard Beer. (You'll see more eventually... 😅)

Usually I just take one pass, layering the voices bit by bit until I reach a minute and if it's funny I keep it, if it's not I delete it LOL--but with Wall Gnomes I ended up doing SEVERAL attempts...

This...

PLAYING A SHOW IN DECEMBER

HELLO ALL! long time no see!! sorry I've been so busy, I've got one of the reasons here...

I have a VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE...!!

I will performing LIVE with BRIAN DAVID GILBERT and LOUIE ZONG (and more!!) this december at THE MOROCCAN LOUNGE (in los angeles)

Beam of Light (Coming July 20th)

Hello, everyone!!

My first full-length album in quite a long time is coming out NEXT WEEK on all streaming platforms.

It's called BEAM OF LIGHT and features 10 tracks, some old some new, covering a few genres but generally with the garagey midi rock sound I've been playing with.

I wanted to share one of the new tracks here, this is "Eye To Eye". It's sort of a yacht rock, Doobie Brothers homage I wrote last year...

A very different sound for me, but it was fun. 😅 2024-07-13 17:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Wall Gnomes (Boards) + Update

Hello, everyone!

Here are the boards for a new short I'm cooking up. It's about two electricians who find a gnome in the wall. 🧱

I'm finishing up my first proper "ALBUM" since... 2017. 💀 It should be done sometime next month.

It's not a concept album like Duloc, but I do have one of those in the working as well... (but very far from being finished)

There is also some EXTREMELY COOL new Bigtop merch coming soon. Topatoco went above and beyond I'm so excited for pe...

WIZARD BEER: Making-Of

HELLO, EVERYONE! I just finished editing this little Wizard Beer making-of.

The first 20 minutes are all about the visuals and the last 10 are about the sound.

I hope you enjoy and thank you for watching!!

WIZARD BEER OUT NOW!

My new short (very short lol) Wizard Beer is out everywhere, I hope people like it!

This short was a huge experiment for me in terms of the animation and the music, I will go into more detail when I make a behind-the-scenes video about it, but for now here's some tidbits.

Overall I would call the experiment a success, although there's several areas I want to work on.

Thank you so so much for watching. this is my first non-Bigtop short in almost 3 years which is very surreal ...

100% Hexed

I'm currently working on my next animation which is a very short skit about this FAKE BREW.

I thought I'd share the logo I designed, as I am likely scrapping it.

In the context of the animation it's on screen so briefly I was worried it looked TOO real and people would think this is a genuine ad, which RUINS the FUN.

So I'm drawing something simpler and more obviously fake.

Ironically this issue didn't even occur to me until well into making it, but there are so many R...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉 (and 1M Sub Q&A)

Hello, everyone!! Happy new year!! 🎉🥳🎊

I'm working on some new stuff but don't have much to show, in the meantime I am planning to make a live-action Q&A video to celebrate the channel passing 1M subs (It crossed over right on Christmas day which was WILD)

I will be posting about this on all my social media but I figured I'd give priority to Patreon and any questions here first, if you have a question you'd like to submit for the Q&A video please comment it below!...

BIGTOP BURGER: UP (Preview)

hello everyone! I wanted to share the first scene from this final episode

the rest of it is a bit unhinged and won't come across in boards, so I'll save it as a surprise when the whole episode is finished

this is cesare's last scene... as usual 70% of his dialogue is improvised by chris during the recording session

there will be more cesare in season three, as well as many other bizarre new characters that I am excited for everyone to meet

thank you all for hanging in ...

DOWN (making-of)

dust is explained in a bit more detail in old ELK making-of here:

https://youtu.be/ZT3ZVQXAu5s?t=989

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! ❄️🎄🥂🍻

UPDATE: (+possible credits issue)

HELLO EVERYONE! DOWN is finally online, I am so happy.

I am going to begin work on UP (the final episode of the season) shortly.

This past year has been a grinder for me I'm in a perpetual state of moving across country without really moving, lots of PODS unable to drop off and overall mayhem.

By January I should officially be moved and in my new place and I will finally be able to RELAX.

CREDITS ISSUE... I downloaded Patreon's spreadsheet of credits names like usual b...

BIGTOP BURGER: DOWN (Boards)

HELLO EVERYONE, LONG TIME NO SEE

I'm still STILL in moving hell, working has been very difficult but I'm ALMOST THERE (hopefully) one more month and I'll be settled into my new spot

I wanted to polish these boards up a bit before posting them, but I've sat on them so long I figured I should just post them as is

I'm very excited to finish animating this episode and show it to everyone, it's gonna be a doozy 💀⬇️

LIVESTREAM 🎇

starting in 15 minutes!! we're gonna draw and chat and hang out!

I may do some other stuff I'm not sure yet 😅

hope to see you there and HAPPY HOLIDAYS (it's my friend's birthday soon , which is like a holiday, in some ways)

END OF MONTH STREAM!!

Every month I mean to stream then FORGET or get hit by a huge thunder bolt or something crazy. But not THIS MONTH.

This Saturday, April 30th, at 3pm EST I shall stream some drawing and talking and stuff.

I hope to see you there and I hope things start getting better!! In GENERAL!

-Ian

IN YOUR HEART

I finally put the finishing touches on this... this is the very cheery song that plays in the background of the food truck convention

I wanted to make something that sounds sort of like a remix/mashup of a haim song with a katy perry song LOL aiming for the early 2010s

I hope everyone is doing well... the next episode is coming along it should be finished in the next week or two 🚚🍔

Captain Yajima (Behind-The-Scenes)

HERE is some behind-the-scenes about the modelling, rigging, etc. for CAPTAIN YAJIMA!

Captain Yajima (Music/SFX Behind-The-Scenes)

hello, everyone! I have been trapped in a horrible cave for the past 48 years. I was struck by lightning! (not really)

I have finally put together some behind-the-scenes for yajima! I will shoot something talking about the visuals and modelling soon.

I hope everyone is well!

CAPTAIN YAJIMA (Script Read)

I completely forgot I had this, after I'd sent the script to RASH A1M to be translated I included this file of me reading through the script myself, as a sort of reference for the voices and tone of the lines. 😅

It's very goofy and much shorter than the finished thing, I thought I'd share it here as some behind-the-scenes.

BIGTOP BURGER: PANEL (boards)

here's the boards for the next episode!! I did these a while ago but have been holding off on posting them until backpack was finished 😅

this one features a VERY SPECIAL GUEST from season one making a RETURN

stream doodles

thank you everyone who tuned in!!

LIVESTREAM STARTING IN 10 MINS

WHOA sorry for being late!! I had a doctor thing and had no idea I was gone so long D :

THIS IS GONNA BE FUN THO!! I'll try to go for at least an hour so people have time to tune in

STREAM TOMORROW

going to do a livestream tomorrow at 12pm PST/3pm EST!!

I will be chatting and taking doodle requests! I'll post a link an hour or two beforehand SEE U THERE

Pinned My Dreams On a Shooting Star

HELLO EVERYONE LONG TIME NO SEE!!

I've been in a rut trying to finish this second bigtop episode and it's been going QUITE BAD.. hopefully as fall rolls around and the weather cools down things will improve

here's a little song I've been sitting on. I'm hoping to film a simple music video in my room for it to post to my music channel LOL wish me luck... 😂😂

ALSO--for $5-tier, sorry I've been missing the livestreams! I'm hoping to do one this month maybe on the 25th. I'l...

LIVESTREAM (archive)

thank you everyone for attending the livestream!! here it is archived

Q&A STREAM THIS SATURDAY

HEYY everyone! Apologies for lateness with the stream.

I'm gonna try and do it this Saturday, around 4pm EST (1pm PST) I hope that works for people!

I'll likely do it on Youtube with a private link and maybe I'll have it available afterwards, or potentially recorded and edited down into a making-of sort of thing.

I plan on looking through some Blender files if anyone's curious and wants to see behind the scenes on Yajima or Bigtop, in additional to answering questions and ma...

BIGTOP BURGER: BACKPACK (Boards)

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BIGTOP BURGER: EXPO (Boards)

THE TIME HAS COME MY FRIENDS

WELCOME... TO FTX