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Rewards Mailed Out for January!

Rewards are headed out for January's Patrons!

Featuring a Sheriff Hayseed sticker collection and 2 new cards in the pool. The Barbershop Quartet is here to start a new card category "PU" as in "Paper Universe." Videos in the paper style but not specifically Mike & Zach or Suction Cup Man. The Amazing Spy card finishes the core collection of TF2 cards, one for each class, and well as being a card that represents the very first video on the channel. Still need an Amazing Merasmus card...

The First Ask Us Anything!

Four Piemations team members answer pressing questions ranging anywhere from what is Suction Cup Man's legal name to why do they call it 'oven' when you 'oven' the cold food of hot out eat the food?

More to come as long as questions in the Discord keep coming!

Let us know what you think!

TPR - More Cool and More Suction Cups

Report Summary:

• HOW TO BE COOL 2 making progress with animation (still needs cool title)

• Character design created for Tony 2 Joints (For a probable HOW TO BE COOL 3)

• The background for HTBC 2 has been extruded into 3D for a fancy camera moving shot

• Suction Cup Man 5 finally resumes writing a year and a half after the original draft. Storyboard driven writing, doing just 1 hour of writing a day to start to avoid burnout, plans to speed...

  2025-01-15 20:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Rewards Mailed Out for December!

Get bugged ya freakin idiot. It's a set of bug stickers and a bug trading card in the spirit of "i'm a bug"s release, as well as a couple more Meet the Amazing cards, making the full set of designs more than half complete.

FYI, we're a day late to shipping because New Years had the post offices closed.

Hope you like em and may your trading card pulls be legendary. We're getting underway animating HOW TO BE COOL 2, with script ideas floating around for 3. Got an idea for a new Mik...

BTS Pack: Suction Cup Man Fights a Bird

MANY goodies in here. Full storyboard, voice outtake reel, the full musical score, some full res backgrounds, ref sheets, sketches, the works.

TPR - Getting Cool Again

Report Summary:

- The isolated fight scene music from SCM Fights a Bird

- HOW TO BE COOL 2 (HOW 2 BE COOL?) is underway following SCM Fights a Bird. Script written, 1/2 recorded.

- I think it'd be cool to do HOW TO BE COOL 3 immediately after.

- Dax and Peeb got a real ref sheet for production

NEW VIDEO: Suction Cup Man Fights a Bird!

Hope you like! I put a lot of my old Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes influence into this one. Lavender, someone brand new to working with me, KILLED it on the music. Absolutely took it to the next level.

And that concludes our 4 month video streak. Now through January and February we will be preparing the next stuff, probably returning to uploads in March. I'm thinking How To Be Cool 2

Rewards Mailed Out for November!

Some stickers inspired by the new Suction Cup Man, and a Carv mall santa are headed out. Continuing the creation of the Meet the Amazing Team card set we've added Pyro and Demoman. (We're going in order of the class selection window in TF2) and now we're up to 50 total cards in the pool! Next month I'll remember to add some stuff from "I'm a bug" too.

Good luck on your card pulls and hope your envelopes find you well! As always you can DM me here if there's any problems.

BTS Pack: I'm a bug

Here's the behind the scenes pack for the I'm a bug song and music video! We've got development art for the bug, a rough draft video, the final video and song, and all the stems.

NEW VIDEO: I'm a bug. A song about bugs

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Suction Cup Man Fights a Bird next

I'm a bug (Early for Main Course+)

This was a little song made in my free time that I ended up commissioning a music video for from Crowne Prince. Hope you like!

bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs

TPR - Sinning In 3D

Bugs, 3D sims, mouth sounds and more on today's The Piemations Report tm

Here's our new Bluesky!

https://bsky.app/profile/piemationsofficial.bsky.social

Report Summary:

- Suction Cup Man Fights a Bird is like 2/3rds done. (Animation wise)

- I'm a bug music video coming out November 23rd

BTS PACK: Kitchen Bad Dreams

Another video, another behind the scenes pack featuring an animatic where I voiced everyone, an outtake reel, designs and more!

NEW VIDEO: Mike & Zach's Kitchen Nightmare

The video itself is supposed to titled like one of the Kitchen Nightmare channel's own videos. Hope you like! I love Kitchen Nightmares and I LOVED making this. Gotta work a bit on the behind the scenes pack before that can release but that'll be soon enough.

Rewards Mailed Out for October!

Some RADICAL Dax and Peeb stickers are headed out along with a pleasant ratatouille type fella (from tomorrow's new video??). This month, 2 Meet the Amazing trading cards have been added to the pool and we will be adding one for each episode to complete a set over the coming months.

📝 A Note About Delivery Time ✉️

People have been asking about when they can expect their envelopes to arrive so let me reiterate some stuff here.

• US ma...

  2024-11-01 18:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post

TPR - A Big Suction Cup Man One

Report Summary:

• Suction Cup Man Fights A Bird production is in full swing. 14-ish complete shots of 53-ish

• I'm A Bug music video approaching completion (Song very much still needs a better mix)

• Mike & Zach's Kitchen Nightmare slated for October 26th

BTS Pack: HOW TO BE COOL

The behind the scenes pack for How To Be Cool is here! An outtake reel, the song and instrumental, concept art and more. One interesting thing is this video was made without a storyboard, since the framing didn't really change, layout was done at the same time as keyposing essentially. So there's no storyboard in the BTS pack but there is a rough render when a lot still hadn't been inbetweened.

Rewards Mailed Out for September!

Hope everyone likes their trading card pulls and increasingly halloween-themed stickers. They're on the way!

NEW VIDEO: HOW TO BE COOL

Its out and we're very happy with it and hope you are too! Next up is the Mike & Zach.

HOW TO BE COOL: Early Release

Here's this, slightly ahead of Saturday! I won't spoil it but we suddenly (and somewhat unexpectedly) got to have a HOW TO BE COOL theme song made for the credits by someone I've watched for a very long time.

NAME THIS BIRD: PART 1

This is the bird from "Suction Cup Man Fights A Bird"

Internally, we need to call it something other than "the bird"

Please observe the bird's vibe and comment suggestions or like other peoples suggestions. We'll take the most liked suggestions and poll them against each other. 🕊️

NEW SHORT: Mr. Mall Manager

The 7th Pretzel's short is here! This is also likely the last "short" as we plan to transition Pretzel's into widescreen, longer form videos going forward! Shorts just don't do much on YouTube, but they were good for introducing all the characters so we can jump right into long form without introductions. (long form for us means like 2 to 3 minutes lol)

Speaking of longer form videos, How To Be Cool comes out next weekend!!!

TPR - Projects Ending, Projects Starting!

Report Summary:

• Pretzel's Pretzels 7 "Mr. Mall Manager" is colored and just needs sound.

• How To Be Cool is also ready for sound, just waiting for time to get it done.

• Kitchen Nightmares thing is getting one scene added to the end, then sound also (pray for the editor)

• New projects are beginning as this bunch come to a close. "I'm A Bug" is an original song coming with a simplistic music video hopefully in November. 2024-09-16 21:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post

TPR - New Schedule, More Frames, More Gordon Ramsay

Report Summary:

• The Piemations Report is now once per month (On or around the 15th of every month) because mailing physical rewards needs my time on the 1st of each month. Added benefit of more to show per report and generally more time to focus on animations.

• More frames down on an overly animated Pretzel's Pretzels short, color soon.

• How To Be Cool editing and music soon

• Kitchen Nightmares has Gintoki on board to he...

  2024-09-03 19:57:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Rewards Mailed Out for August!

Trading cards and stickers, heading your way!

This month we added 4 card designs to the pool, bringing us up to 42 total to pull from. The main 4 characters of Sheriff Hayseed now all have cards as well as the main 3 of Pretzel's Pretzels.

3 sticker designs from Suction Cup Man, Mike & Zach, and Sheriff Hayseed.

2024-09-02 14:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post

BTS Pack: Gator Wife

Rough renders, outtakes, different wives, and more. It's the behind the scenes pack for the last Pretzel's Pretzels short!

NEW SHORT: Gator Wife (Pretzel's Pretzels)

Carv. What a catch.

TPR and Trading Card Signature updates

Report Summary:

• Carv's Wife this weekend, next PP short underway

• How To Be Cool animation very nearly completed

• Kitchen Nightmares thing like 2/3rds animated

✨✨ 2 TRADING CARD UPDATES ✨✨

First, I am establishing August 22nd as the last day you can send a request to get a re-signatured card if your signature rubbed off. After that, the trading cards will be mailed, unsigned, at ...

Signature rubbed off your trading card?

As people get their trading cards, I've become aware that a number of my signatures got scratched or nearly rubbed off entirely in transit.

I seem to have misjudged how much time the ink needed to dry on the glossy surface of the cards, and it's my bad.

If your signature got rubbed down, and you're not pleased with it, message me here on Patreon! I will mail you a new card, signed or unsigned, a card of your choosing, or a redo of the one you have. If you got two cards with bad si...

A Public Piemations Report! - Gator Wives and Gordon Ramsays

Report Summary:

• This Report is free for anyone to watch!

• Mike & Zach's Kitchen Nightmare has voice acting and around 2 minutes of animation.

• Carv's wife has a final image for the "Carv's Wife" short. Just needs audio now. The animator for "Mr. Mall Manager" wasn't around to hand the file back so I couldn't preview it this week.

• A little more animation for How To Be Cool has been finished