Piemations

Production Blog 🎬: Landed on a project

well, after much exploring, experimenting, and depression naps, I've decided to finally see through this music video. 

(Not the one from before called "Don't Quit." I mean, yes also that but the person whose job it is to finalize the mix of the song is uhhh.... somewere?? But luckily they finalized another song some time back)

Also, if I may apologize, I'm sorry for being all over the place. You know how 2020 has been for everyone. Hopefully I'll have this cooked up quick bec...

Production Blog 🎬: Hopping around

hey yall! Just to leave an update, my path towards better mental health has been about as complicated and slow as ever. So uhhh in the meantime, I'm hopping around some different ideas.

I have found that working on music makes me quite happy right now! So I've written and completed a whole song, touched up some others and started a couple music videos. Positively BOUNCING the hell around, but it's making me feel good, so I'm gonna keep doing this for now :)

It's been a way for me ...

Production Blog 🎬: New song preview "Don't Quit"

got the music video started! zach and nick are on duty to finalize the song itself so I can just animate :)

Production Blog 🎬: anyway, we're makin music

Yeah! remember when we made Men Are Hot? Well me and boys got back together to finish up an old song idea. Should be an ideal project during my continued mental health treatment! It really just needs some final touches and a video.

NEW VIDEO 📺: Sauce Quest

Hey yall! Sorry about the radio silence, but I do have a little treat. I finished the stick figure thing! My health battle has been.... on going to say the least so it's the most I can do at the moment, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless! <3

Might have something next week + Health Update

hiya! Let me start by saying im doing better since my last post. I'm scheduled for therapy on the 27th, and until then i'm hopped up on meds.  I'm still not working in any real sense, but I've been enjoying the old comfort of stick figures. Both watching and animating a bit.

The thing i've been animating may be good enough for the main channel, so I might pop that up next week! It's something

Also if i may be soft for a moment, there was virtually no decrease in pledges after...

Unfortunate Mental Health Update

hey yall. As some of you may know, I've been taking some time off to see some doctors and focus on my mental health. Well, I'm making this post to let you know that not much has improved, and I've even had some troubling news.

Upon meeting with psychiatrists and discussing symptoms of what I suspected was ADHD, they decided it may be more fitting to have me screened for PTSD instead. I haven't been properly diagnosed with anything yet, but the point is that things may b...

Production Blog 🎬: Back to work! "Here in the Village" Storyboarding

WEEHOOO! I'm officially off vacation and back to work. For the moment I'm working on a Minecraft themed original song. (Song is done! Video will be fully animated)

Meanwhile here's some other updates

- Explored more style options for "Pretzel's Space Log"

- Began storyboard for Suction Cup Man 4

- Wrote down some basic Sheriff Hayseed ideas

- Finalized a Fries on the Side song (Needs a video)

I'm gonna take a week or so off of work

howdy, both new and old patrons! I'm just letting y'all know that I'm taking some time off of work (and therefore patreon posts) for maybe a week or more. It's for some time to find a doctor and begin working on some things I'm overdue for, especially my mental health.

I may still be occasionally active on our discord and upcoming minecraft server, which you can find here:  https://discord.gg/xsZPxGM 

But...

NEW VIDEO 📺: The Landlord

a new episode of Mike & Zach!!!! This was an absolule TREAT to animate during a national pandemic and borderline uprising against the government. So I hope you like it lol. And thanks for the support ^^ !!

Production Blog 🎬: looks GREAT

in all seriousness, this is a vegas error. (The actual animation just reached completion uwu)

Production Blog 🎬: high quality renders

this is fine

Production Blog 🎬: rats rats rats rats rats rats

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Production Blog 🎬: Ceiling rats

rats rats we are the rats

putting holes in your ceiling through the cracks

(got my toon boom license back, we going)

Patreon Tier changes have gone through

Howdy! Just a heads up for yall that the reward changes I'd mentioned previously have gone through.  ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/possible-tier-36758968  if you missed it)

Also, I'm sorry I haven't been posting! Among mental difficulty, computer migrating, and sleep issues, I also appear to be IP banned from Toon Boom's license servers????? I'm unable to animate at the moment, but I...

Production Blog 🎬: the god of multi-tasking

HI! i've been away for a sec, or rather not posting so let me catch yall up to speed. in the last week I worked on everything. I will explain by pic

1. worked on Formal Warning, the new Mike & Zach short. Additional animators worked too! Hopefully done real soon

2. Revised and standardized paper cut rigs off of improvements for formal warning

3. Began puppet building for a revised Minecraft parody

4. Composed a three and a half minute orig...

Possible Tier Reward Changes

Howdy all! I've been considering some minor rearrangements to our reward tiers to fix some rising problems. Please let me know what you think!

$1 - Currently, this tier would be removed in lieu of $2 changes

$2 - No longer listing names at the end of videos. The Patreon page has been growing at a fantastic rate! However this means I'm listing more and more names in the credits of videos and it's getting very long. However, the exclusive gif, audio (and ge...

Production Blog 🎬: Boys and their lego

scene 2 of 4 done. 3 is being worked on by others, and I'm working on 4. Hoping to have this out in two weeks?? stay tuned!

NEW VIDEO 📺: Jerma Plays Benny Hill and Gets Chased by the Cops

I made this for Jerma's community content night, but god dammit if it wasn't so terribly good it wouldn't be public.

Production Blog 🎬: ANIMATORS HIRED!

I've decided to finally get in contact with some help, seeing as I can't output the amount of content I want. I've tossed them into Formal Warning, taking the 3rd act to animate on their own to see how directing animators even works. 

(and yall know this was only possible because of patreon, so thank you all <3)

Production Blog 🎬: ENHANCE

who dat boi is

(Scene 2 of 4 done!!!)

Production Blog 🎬: Zach losing it in real time

Some screenies of a conversation piece. Zach angy. and I had a lot of fun doing the expressions!

Production Blog 🎬: Some screenies!

Work continues on Formal Warning. Scene 1 of 4 complete! 

(meanwhile, in a backyard tool shed, Fries on the Side begins final touches on a new song)

Production Blog 🎬 (GIF): Correctly Modeling a Lego pile

Blender simulation literally changed my life

Production Blog 🎬: 3D Background insight

Check out this shot! The background is nearly 99% Blender! What you see in the images there is an Eevee render (for colors, nearly instant, fog turned off in this instance but is usually automated too), then a Cycles render (For a shadow pass, layered over with Multiply) and finally, apply texture and touch up manually where needed. The whole process can take 10 minutes tops. 

Production Blog 🎬: animation and modeling progress

Some screenshots! A WIP mail truck model and some snaps of Zach. It's the first complete animation segment of the video! 

Production Blog 🎬: A Man and His Mower

the first complete composition for this new video. Getting the angle on zach was a little tricky because the rigs are so naturally flat, but I think it works

Production Blog 🎬: Mike & Zach update

These are some boards of a new video! You may wonder "What happened to the old Mike & Zach episode I was doing?" Well, for lack of better explanations it wasn't very funny. But recently my good friend robin (Recently the voice of Huck in sheriff hayseed) pitched me a script for a different episode and I'm much more excited about it.

I still like the idea of the other episode and would be down to revisit it, but it would need revising. Regardless I'm doing this episode now! It's call...

NEW VIDEO 📺: Joel's Spicy Streamer Tips

Here's a little thingy I did for fun. Hope you like it!

Early Video 📺: Joel's Big Tips for Streamers (Working title?)

Here's an early show! Still needs credits, a touch of sound work, and animation fixes, but it's quite viewable so I thought I'd toss it up

enjoy!