SexuaLobster

Great Destiny Man update

The youtube link is a small test render.  The first two GDM cartoons drove many people to assume that Great Destiny Man was intended to be Steven Seagal.  I can't deny there's a resemblance to 1990s Seagal but it is not intentional.  So in the new series, as well as re-designing GDM to take him slightly further away from Steven Seagal, there is a famous actor named Steven Seagull who people constantly confuse Great Destiny Man for.  This bothers GDM a lot because he's on his ...

Patreon of Destiny

I'd like to share some finished shots from GDM episode 1 but I've only got a bunch of half finished ones at this time.  The client (an american company called Octopie) liked the animatic of the first episode so that is the first hurdle navigated.

I've been thinking for a while now about whether to treat the four GDM episodes as patreon projects and I've decided not to.  My reason for considering it is that the fee that I will be paid for making the series isn't very high for what I'd...

Post of Great Destiny

Full steam ahead on episode 1, Great Destiny Man and the Shadow of Treachery.

The above track is an early version of the GDM theme with a more restrained selection of instruments than the original theme.  I have rarely bothered with stringed instrument sample packs but I think I've been treating them like pads and with more careful arrangement they can sound good.

I'm maybe 3/4 through the animatic for ep 1, I've got most of the lines in and I think it has a good energy. &n...

Grapefruit Black Market and kids show promo.

If you'd like to see a little bit of the show I've been working on, check this promo out.   I thought I was going to finish in 3 weeks, but turns out its 6.  Grrk, i'll get there.  I've started storyboarding the first Great Destiny Man episode, but I won't have anything to show from that for a while.

But anyway I finally finished the comic!  It took just a little bi...

New series of great destiny?

I've been talking with a fellow I've worked for in the past about making a web series for his company.  My first idea was "Climate Cops", which was a legally different version of my fat old Captain Planet character starring in a reality tv show where he busts polluters.  I wrote some pretty good material for it and I'd like to return to it, but the scripts came out too long.

Then I went over my Great Destiny Man scripts.  I've tightened up the two good ones and written two new o...

Big Pumps

Here's another little art update.

Randy's bringing the booze.  (her lips dont move yet but she's speaking here)

She has a nice rhino hat, similar to Gooseman's walrus hat in the comic.

I've started painting backgrounds and drawing background characters so hopefully in my next post I'll have s...

Falcon Hat Animation test

I want to have more character animation in Falcon Hat, so I'm experimenting with the idea of dropping the amount of shading on the characters, drawing with dark grey instead of coloured lines (the way I used to up until around 2010), and using simpler mouth shapes with no jaw movement. Here's a shot I animated today in three stages.  

Super rough - this includes the second part which I haven't animated yet where he crushes a crazy bean into the punch.  I've roughed out over half of t...

Mammal Juice v1

This is the very first version of Fernando's track from Falcon Hat.  He's going to perform this at Gooseman's networking costume party until he is interrupted by a rambunctious guest (it might sound like what happens in Moancore but it's different).

I'm going to re-record half of the end part, the energy is off in the first bit and the last bit, but also the words dark and darkest are too close together so I'll replace darkest with fiercest.  

I've roughed out...

Diss Rap + Falcon Hat

The above rap is intended to be Fernando's freestyling diss rap to Big Plums (the villain in the collab comic).  It loses energy in the middle a bit, I think I might re-write or edit it down somehow for the final version.

I was waiting for Smosh to release the cartoon I animated a scene for before I made my next post but they appear to be sitting on it so....

I've started Falcon Hat!

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Name shame

So after ruminating about it for 2 weeks I decided to change my youtube display name back to SexuaLobster (If you didn't read my last post, I changed it to "Nice Man" to see how that felt).

Only I'm not allowed to.  When I try it says "this does not seem to meet our names policy".  I'm guessing it's because it has sex in the title.  If I try to learn more about the names policy I am taken to a page with precious little of interest on it.

So basically I'm an idiot and shot ...

May's over already, name change.

I don't have any images to enhance this post with, this month I've been working on a commission for Smosh in the time I usually spend on my projects, and I'm not allowed to post anything from it.

I took it on because Smosh are a big employer I've never worked for before, and also I thought it might be cool to spend part of the budget on animation assistance and get some directing experience.  I'm almost finished it and I'll be able to get back to the Fernando comic and Horse cartoon this ...

Horse cartoon update

The lyrics here are "Get out of the way" and it is the second time the verse occurs.  The first time is a more straight representation but for this one I thought I'd go with dancing animals.

This took a long time but was worth it I think.  I've pulled the background straight out of My Mother in Law ...

Space Horse

From humble beginnings...

2 days of work later...

I'm not yet satisfied with the way the keys move, they wobble a bit and they pop into 3d. I'm prepared to give myself some slack because this is one of the tougher things I've attempted but I think I can still make this one smoother.  But for now I'...

WIPping my steed

I've got a few big shots not quite done at the moment, nothing here is entirely finished.

There's a guitar solo, (which I've achieved by recording the solo at slower speed and then speeding it up because I'm not good enough to play it at the tempo of the song), and I thought it would be cool to simulate a camera spinning around the horse and the horse's hooves split into fingers.

2018-04-15 05:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post

More Horse!

Today is the first day I feel like I'm totally over whatever darned virus I've had this past week.  Here's some work in progresses:

This was my first idea to illustrate the incredibly witty line "My dick's really loooooooong".  

But, although respectfully long, it was not quite long enough...

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More Horse WIPs

The title gif is the line "mums, dads, tiny children", followed by...

"I'll crush them all", as he powers down the beach.  

Next line is "Ladies ladies ladies ladies!"

Don't worry he doesn't crush them.  The action in all the gifs I post is too fast by the way, something about the way I export them, I...

Some more WIPs and follow-up to last post

Thanks everyone who responded to my last post about hiring an animator to animate a music video.  Overwhelmingly you were fine with it.

But!  Thinking it over since, I've realised that it would make more sense for the animator to work on the cartoon I'm making at the moment, I'm a Horse.  There's really no reason to ask him to animate something new, I'm not sure why that didn't occur to me first.  So now I'm a Horse will move along at more than a snail's p...

Question regarding commissioning a music video or two.

I asked an animator I like for a quote to make a 1:00-1:30 music video for me.  Example tracks would be Pool Man or Express the Quest.   (I haven't decided, or we could even vote on it).

Since I'm a Horse is going to take quite a while, my id...

Express the Quest

Here is a nice new song I have been working on over the weekend.

Some of you will recognise the very first verse as the song stub from the last podcast episode.  

I played around with it a few months back and couldn't make it work.  Then I looked at it again yesterday and for some reason the juices flowed thick and fast.  I should start another collab song, I forgot how much fun they can be.

I think it's a fun song and could be worth animating, probably more than any...

Cartoon MP4s

Here's new links for all of the patreon MP4s if anyone wants them!Piccolo: Attorney at Law Sweet Sweet Goo Pleasure Island 5 Raw Latex 3Let'

Here's new links for all of the patreon MP4s if anyone wants them!

Piccolo: Attorney at Law 

2018-02-25 09:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Horse wip

I'd like to share a couple of Horse work in progresses.  The above is where the titular horse is in an alternate realm and is on fire for some reason.  Don't worry, he's happy about it.  The colours are too dark at the moment, also i'm going to add a glow to the flame so it looks less cheap.  Generally I want to do some more full animation stuff with this, and I'm starting to get better at drawing horses.  My first few efforts were a bit random mammal.

2018-02-24 04:36:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Next project + comic + Pleasure Island Zombidle game

I've got a collaboration with Berzerk Studio out at the moment.  You can read about it here. 

I'm making a new Pointless Show video that will have some more info.   The Zombidle game is on steam and its free.  You can access the Pleasure Island level after a few minutes of gameplay, go to th...

Music Pack & Disk of Chaos MP4

I outlined in the other post what's going on with my hosting.

Here's an updated version of the music pack.

And here's a super high quality version of the Disk of Chaos.

I'll just warn you it's over 900mb in size, but if you want the file and you have the intern...

New links for updated music packs

My website hosting expired yesterday, and I'm trying to negotiate continuing with them at a more basic hosting level since I no longer need the more powerful plan.  

In the 4 years since I last renewed it I've pretty much abandoned having a website and I use it for hosting files for patreon and also an e-mail account.  They haven't gotten back to me so here's new versions of the Music packs.  They have been updated with most of my 2017 output as well.

2018-01-31 09:09:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Show I'm working on + Weird stats

If you're curious about the show I've been storyboarding for, here's an article that was written about it.

You can see a clip of the pilot in the article.  The show looks quite similar to that but better, with slightly different character designs and also nicer backgrounds.

Apologies for not posting it sooner, but I didn't actually find out a...

Captain Planet - Climate Cops (Storyboard)

So I almost started animating Bush Friends, but then I decided to try roughly storyboarding this idea out first.

Now I know the art is garbage, it was done super fast.  I hope it's reasonably clear what is happening!

For those of you who haven't seen it, this is intended to take place before my cartoon Captain Planet Rampage. 

I'm after two things:

1) Is this worth ...

Bingsoo Dreams

I would like to share with you a comic I drew that will closely echo the Bush Friends comic I posted a month or so ago.

Since Bush Friends was...let's say excessively sexy, and I observed that my natural inclination was to go straight "there", I thought I'd try placing a restriction on this one: no sexual content.

Not to talk it down, but I don't like it as much. &nbs...

Fernando and the Disk of Chaos full & uncut

Hey, here's Disk of Chaos as one glorious film.   

The only thing I've ever made that's longer than this is World's Greatest Manwhore, which I never put together in one film, it was always 2 parts even if it was one story, so this is longer in a way.

I spent another day going back and adding stuff to the first two parts.  The biggest things are I added...

Disk of Chaos Episode 3 HD mp4

Hey!  Here's an mp4 of episode 3 for anyone who wants it.  Thanks!

Disk of Chaos Music

Ferno Song Greasy Schlong - This is the music from the first half.  It's a good proto version of a possible new Manwhore song in the mould of Dance, Quest and Passion of the Manwhore.  I don't have enough material for a whole song sadly (I didn't even write the lyrics in this, they're by the wonderful contributors to the original comic), maybe that's something I sho...