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TPR - Suction Cup Man 5 and Getting SPOOKY

Report Summary:

• Suction Cup Man 5: Rise and Grind maybe a quarter animated (moving fast!) Harmony's node system will kill me

• Musical Scares! A Halloween Themed comedy album (6 to 7 songs) will release October 4th and feature songs about Ghosts, Zombies, Vampires and more. It will drop with a live action music video for "BOO!!!" the ghost song. Currently being filmed and including puppetry and a number of hand crafted props.

• A Minecraft Movie parody ...

  2025-08-14 20:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Rewards Mailed Out for July Patrons

Trading cards and stickers are headed out! Thank you everyone for the support and I hope your envelopes find you well. I'm particularly happy with how Tony's card turned out.

Mail usually takes 7-ish days domestic and 15-ish days international to arrive. As always, if there's problems message me here on Patreon (not commenting on posts please, I may not see them). Always happy to help!

TPR - Big Suction Cup Man Pre-Production Stuff

Report Summary:

• Suction Cup Man 5 boards are nearly complete, animation soon. Still looking for the right title! "Rise and Fall" is our working title

• Runtime is over 8 minutes

• Backgrounds are being made and for the first time some are fully 3D animated with dozens of moving objects

• Not mentioned in the video but the Minecraft short is still underway and voice acting for Suction Cup Man: Clowning Around is in progress too!

2025-07-15 20:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post

New Podcast Episode

We're up to 3 episodes of Shut Your Pie Holes now! Still yapping and answering your questions from the Discord and now featuring some fanart at the end.

We gather fanart through searching the tag #PiemationsFanart on both Bluesky and Twitter, so you can send it there if you like!

NEW SHORT - The little lizard wizard

a little one! This was a bit of a pipeline test where the whole video was "storyboarded" by immediately putting roughs down, designing the characters at the same time, doing backgrounds within Harmony, and voicing everything myself. It was created VERY fast and would be a good medium to create more one-off shorts like these. Ones that don't create or utilize reusable assets.

The only downside is, regarding the behind the scenes packs, there is absolutely nothing for that. Not even a scr...

Rewards Mailed Out For June Patrons

June's cards and stickers are headed out! The new cards feature some angry shapes and a refreshed version of the juiced up medic to stylistically match the rest of the TF2 cards

In the stickers, Shawn has stolen Todd's hat and is enjoying a nap while Carv grills above some just-okay wordplay.

Mail usually takes 7-ish days domestic and 15-ish days international to arrive. As always, if there's problems message me here on Patreon (not commenting on posts please, I may not see them)....

BTS PACK: HOW TO BE COOL 3

Check out the Behind the scenes Pack for HOW TO BE COOL 3. We have a FULL storyboard with alternate dialogue, rejected thumbnails, Tony's full character design development from his first sketch, script, backgrounds, and more!

NEW VIDEO: HOW TO B3 COOL - Tony Two Joints

Here it is. The third HOW TO BE COOL. Can't wait to see what you all think!

Next up, we'll be shifting our efforts to the next Suction Cup Man and some shorts. A HOW TO BE COOL 4 and 5 are CERTAINLY planned though.

TPR - Smaller Suction Cup Man While We Wait For Bigger Suction Cup Man

Report Summary:

• HOW TO BE COOL 3 out on the 21st! (I wanna make 4 and 5)

• A new smaller Suction Cup Man is being made before the big 35 minute one, which is moving but isn't ready for full production yet. The new smaller Suction Cup Man might take the name of "Suction Cup Man 5" as it continues off of Episode 4 directly and is still 7 minutes long. The 35 minute one is henceforth named "Suction Cup Man: Clowning Around" without the 5 as it's more of a standalone ad...

  2025-06-16 21:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post

NEW SHORT: Mike and Zach go to bed

duality of man

HOW TO BE COOL 3 NEXT WEEK

Also the first episode of our Podcast SHUT YOUR PIE HOLES, featuring questions from the Patreon Discord, is out on Youtube! https://youtu.be/EbwbN_GoDmA

'Shut Your Pie Holes' - test pilot (Previously PieChat, Previously AMA)

Another episode and iteration of the podcast! We're gearing up to have this thing go to YouTube publicly so we're ironing out some brandings and formatting. I think I want next episode to be fully public with a few more changes, including a dedicated fan art feature segment. Might also try weekly instead of monthly, if we can. Would love something to release super regularly.

Rewards Mailed Out For May Patrons

We got some fresh Mike & Zach related trading cards headin out with a nice variety of stickers! I like this set a lot with the Peeb, me in the pool, and the Minecraft slop, which is great cuz my sticker supplier seems to have accidentally like tripled my order? I have about 200 or more spares of Steve and Me in the pool so gotta figure out what to do with THAT.

But anyway, hope you like em and hope your envelopes find you all well!

Mail usually takes 7-ish days domestic and 15...

TPR - Just lots of updates

Report Summary:

• HOW TO BE COOL 3 is like "half" animated. One shot is currently lost to a hard drive failure. POSSIBLY recoverable. Production is on the grind otherwise and top priority.

• Mini Mike & Zach short on pause until some time is found to wrap it.

• Suction Cup Man 5 scratch audio is complete. Story is locked. Final run time is over 35 minutes long. Animation prep work has begun, some voice takes are being gathered. Production has official...

  2025-05-15 20:34:15 +0000 UTC View Post

PieChat #1 (Previously AMA)

Bit of a trial run here, playing with the AMA formula, turned into a more regular podcast. Patreon questions are still answered around the half way mark but it is a much more loose, shootin-the-shit podcast. Think I like it. I might like to see about sprucing things up visually and making this a real, publicly released Podcast. Would love to keep up the patreon questions and add more looking at fanart. Lemme know what you think!

Rewards Mailed Out For April Patrons!

The Paul and Buddy cards have had a nice refresh with some nice custom art instead of the previous screenshots (now they kiss). The stickers feature a Bill-ivery Pizza delivery man-triangle, for those elderly enough to remember that one.

This post comes a bit late cuz the printer I use for the envelopes had so many, indescribably frustrating issues. I mean you tell me what's going on here

Almos...

REANIMATED PROJECT - 5 AM at Freddy's: The Prequel

Announcing publicly soon, we are hosting a 5 AM at Freddy's: The Prequel Reanimated project in honor of its 10 year anniversary, its status within the FNaF fandom, and of course the FNaF 2 theatrical film coming out this very same year (I will be there opening night)

As a thanks to Patrons for the support through all these years, I'm dropping this here early so that you guys can get a head start on submitting for parts. As well I know there are many amazing animators in our community. 2025-04-30 19:18:28 +0000 UTC View Post

TPR - New COOL Character and Suction Cup Man 5 Update

Report Summary:

• HOW TO BE COOL 3 is being animated and adds a third character named Tony Two Joints

• Mini Mike & Zach short underway

• Suction Cup Man 5 script and storyboard thumbnails are complete with a whopping 1,500 panels to refine and prepare for animation. Scratch audio is needed for a closer to final runtime but it very well could be over 20 minutes long.

• Suction Cup Man 5 will include a new full length original song

  2025-04-15 19:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post

BTS PACK: Some Ants - That Antsy Feeling

Ant sized behind the scenes pack for Some Ants 2. Instead of the usual outtake reel, I've simply included the full raw voice take of about 7 minutes. Plus blank backgrounds and storyboard. ANTS!

NEW VIDEO: Some Ants - That Antsy Feeling

Say it ant so. The long awaited sequel to Some Ants arrives.

EARLY VIDEO: Some Ants 2

9 years in the making, here is Some Ants 2, releasing later this month. (original video for lore https://youtu.be/PWVzPlPnQHY )

Rewards Mailed Out For March Patrons

Spring is here! (Freezing temperatures outside) and some new stickers and cards are comin your way.

Mail usually takes 7-ish days domestic and 15-ish days international to arrive. As always, if there's problems message me here on Patreon (not commenting on posts please, I may not see them). Always happy to help!

Ask Us Anything #3

Voice actors, Blues (Suction Cup Man), Damien (Dax), and Breezy, (Peeb) assemble to answer the world's most important questions. Mixy gets eaten.

BTS PACK: HOW TO BE COOL 2

We got the Outtake Reel, rough animation for the punch, script, scrapped script, unused backgrounds and more, here in the HOW TO BE COOL 2 behind the scenes pack.

NEW VIDEO: HOW TO BE COOL 2

time 2 learn

TPR - Leaking Suction Cup Man 5

Report Summary:

• HOW TO BE COOL 2 done soon - releasing March 22

• HOW TO BE COOL 3 being storyboarded

• Some Ants (2015) gets a sequel

• The entire Suction Cup Man 5 storyboard as it currently is

BTS PACK: Sticker Man

A little behind the scenes pack for the little Patreon ad video. Wasn't originally planning a pack for this one because so little was made for it but I still put together a couple goodies. The raw footage from my real life hand gag, full animation time lapse from the end, and we still got that voice actor outtake reel.

You can also view the full folder of all previous behind the scenes packs here: 2025-03-10 20:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Rewards Mailed Out For February

feb roo ary

A nice HOW TO BE COOL set to come just before HOW TO BE COOL 2, and 2 new cards in the pool.

Another card from Printer Problems and the true final card of the Amazing TF2 set.

Hope your rewards find you all well and fast! Due to worldly reasons I've read that there may be delays going on in the postal service, but I believe it was only affecting larger packages. Still thought I'd make the note, in case things arrive later than the usual 7-ish days national, 15-...

Ask Us Anything #2

Zach (Voice actor) and Vanadium (Background and trading card artist) hop in to answer some big huge questions

TPR - Nodes, Laces, and BOO!!!!!

Report Summary:

• HOW TO BE COOL 2 gets some final shots (somewhere over half done)

• Peeb's laces are complicated

• Suction Cup Man 5's storyboard is LONG

• Some off time is being spent making a Halloween album for our band Fries on the Side.

NEW VIDEO: Sticker Man

Not quite a full video, more an elaborate Patreon ad, but tried to made it fun nonetheless!