i was stuck without adderall for half the week which sucked but hey i still pulled through with a nice haul of work! about 99% of the rough animation is FINISHED!!! i got a bunch of the 'last tiny unfinished bits' done and ive started on backgrounds! weird to process i finally reached this point!
2022-10-30 17:12:16 +0000 UTC View Post
this is it, baby!!!! this coming week, all of the lineart/uncolored animation will be FINISHED!!! then its on to the stuff like coloring and backgrounds, about darn time!!
2022-10-23 19:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post
home run babey!!!! theres only 2 short shots and 1 tiny tiny shot left! the lineart's gonna be done within the next 2 weeks!!!!
( edit: previously said 'animation' instead of 'lineart', didnt mean to imply the whole thing would be finished in the next 2 weeks but that isn't far off from the realistic estimation! )
2022-10-16 17:45:29 +0000 UTC View Post
heya! ended up having a rough clash with schizophrenia this week so i was sort of out of commission for a good chunk of it, i dont even Remember most of it so im honestly not super sure what i even did this week, but i know i've been tying up a lot of the loose ends! basically finishing up scenes that were left unfinished to varying extents, as well as starting some of the smaller shots left that i've been putting off
something on the "todo" for sure is giving most of the exist...
2022-10-09 22:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
finished (almost) ALL of the lip sync this week! woohoo! im really close to the end now!
2022-10-02 17:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
this week ended up not being too bad! this shot's already been inked + inbetweened, i just haven't gotten around to digitizing the frames LOL but i swear theyre there, a fat stack of "to shoot" frames has built up while i figure out a more efficient way to digitize frames
right now i digitize it by putting frames on a separate peg bar, taking pictures on my ipad, then downloading the images from icloud to import to tvpaint but its a pain!! so either im gonna look into a proper "ipad to ...
2022-09-25 21:24:05 +0000 UTC View Post
schizophrenia's hittin me in the head like a brick lately so i sure have no idea what this next week will look like, happy with this week though! have no clue for a time estimation on the animation completion, i'm just chuggin along and i've found that more valuable than stressing over a deadline and getting less done than i would otherwise LOL
2022-09-18 17:33:18 +0000 UTC View Post
yeah animating paper on rocks im sticking with it LOL, i got some brush pens which i made use of in the second gif for line thickness variation like i had digitally, its really fun! even though this might Seem like it's a lot harder, doing animation on paper is actually way easier for me O_O which makes it more fun! at some point i'll probably share specifics on what my setup is like and how i shoot/organize frames and all that jazz some day soon since i think that stuff's neat
2022-09-11 18:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
good news!! i got prescribed an anti-psychotic which has been helping a lot since it's faster-working than others, it's weird feeling some of these symptoms i've had for a while just kinda Go away to my all-around total benefit!
also! probably the most immediately noticeable thing is i ended up switching to paper animation! :o i should mention this gif is not how the actual animation will look, in the end it's gonna be more properly "scanned" to where the lineart would ...
2022-09-04 17:11:45 +0000 UTC View Postso an unfortunate progression of my mention of psychosis last week: turns out i've been experiencing the onset of schizophrenia all year and i just hit the acute stage, so my ass was laid FLAT this week between terrible sleep and super intense waves of just complete lethargy where i'm stuck laying in bed almost all day feeling like i could fall asleep barely able to feed myself at the worst of it
thankfully i've been prescribed an anti-psychotic (abilify) and i've been showing improveme...
2022-08-28 19:06:38 +0000 UTC View Post
much slower week, it's been mostly plentiful though! i spent much of the week improving the ergonomics of my animation setup bit by bit, because the past few weeks of sudden consistent progress made it very clear that i'd end up with a serious RSI (Repeated Strain Injury) in my shoulder and hand if i didn't take measures against it as soon as possible.
the funny images above showcase some of the measures i've taken, like setting up keyboard macros (where some labels fell off, oops!) and...
2022-08-21 20:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post
going a bit Nutso .. Wacky if you will
2022-07-31 16:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
not the most exciting progress, but it helps a lot because it means i can Slam Out some of these scenes!
2022-07-24 19:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post
i think these past few 2 weeks have been going really well! i'm visiting my (non-abusive side of) my family out of state this whole week so i'm not super sure how that'll impact work, but i have a good means of animating portably!
2022-07-10 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Postunfortunately i wasnt able to get any animation done this week due to it being kind of a wild week in terms of my personal life, but i'd say it's still been a very good week progress-wise! in a literal sense i got a bunch of boarding done which is always really important (plus i was admittedly kinda stuck for a bit on ideas LOL), but more importantly i've recently been going through proper threapy, and i've finally been put on a working ADHD medication!
and thankfully this time, i don't...
2022-06-26 22:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
bit of a slow week .. enjoy 3d spinning lesbian
2022-06-19 20:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
progress is going really well!! i'm not going as fast as i could be, but i'm not gonna worry about that too much since the progress i've been making so far has felt way healthier than any progress i've made over the past 8 months, in some ways healthier than any animation i've done in the past 2.5 years, meaning i'd actually be finishing this animation!
i know it's been one heck of a while since an actual animation release because of all the stuff that's Gone Down in my life since then ...
2022-06-05 13:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
sparing most of the details, all of the stuff ive planned and set up this past week turned out to really work out because i started on a new animation, and i managed to bang out the storyboards for about half of the entire animation in one day! the most important part of that though is i did it because it was fun!
so yeah i ended up jumping ship to another new animation, but this time i'm sure it's something i can finish because i've Very learned from my mistakes this year the ...
2022-05-23 19:15:04 +0000 UTC View Postso i ended up not being able to get any work done this week, mostly because unfortunately another mental health crisis way worse than the last one set in over the past 2 weeks and this week was the breaking point. im fine, i think it's pretty much over now because i was able to take quicker action with a much more thorough Emergency Plan this time, but yeah that sure sucked !
i think by now with That happening and it now approaching a year since i last uploaded, i'm starting to pu...
2022-05-15 19:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post
turned all the keyframes into proper models! there's still a decent amount of work to be done on this scene like the background animation, the tail and face, some of the lighting, turning the model pieces into individual parts for animating inbetweens, but i got the hardest part done!
2022-05-08 18:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post
this is what the animation looks like before it's rendered, basically how i see it for most of its life in blender! ive been using the grease pencil 2d animation tool to keyframe out animation and i'm pretty happy with the results of that, it's a whole lot easier to do dynamic animation in this style when i can do some quick hand-drawn animation first to use as modeling reference!!
2022-05-01 17:10:21 +0000 UTC View Post
bit of a slow week, been brainstorming boards and such as part of me making an effort to get organized and back on track! gonna try and start using a weekly goal for "seconds of new animation created" again to help things out a bit, i'm pretty dang tired of working so slow!!!!
2022-04-24 17:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
good news, progress is starting to really pick up again!! i also figured out a neat technique in blender that involves doing 2d animated keyframes in the "grease pencil" tool and then using that as a reference for modeling which is handy for doing more complicated motion! you can see this in the third image, the bottom image being the camera view that i use to actually model the shapes!
this technique is cool to me in general since it helps with making more organic expressions, being a ...
2022-04-10 19:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
