A perk I offer on Patreon is to send an ink drawing to 25 ppl monthly, so these frames are those!
Loose freestyling on a lightbox is super fun and I'd like to do that, but these have a bunch of incredibly specific considerations since each frame is being sold to someone. These are my side hustle!
I don't! I rigorously plan these, and use a top-down camera rig connected to a computer with Dragonframe, a stop motion software. That way I can see a live-feed of my hands drawing on the screen, that I can overlay with the previous frame, or rulers, guides, rough animation etc.
Round the Block
(explaining the concept of singing but badly underselling it)
Imagine poetry, but if it was done by a trumpet
These are made by @ivandixon.bsky.social, who has been my boss on several cool projects, including the Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L animations and Childish Gambino's Feels Like Summer MV.
Doing the sound is considerably easier than animating however. Please keep hiring me to bark like a dog sir
Here is episode 2! I did the sound and music for both of these. I should also mention the "sound" largely consists of me barking like a little dog. If you would enjoy hearing me, impersonating a small dog, then hoo boy! This is for you
Correct! Also where did you see the rakali? I saw a dead one on the riverbank in that same area, but I would like to see an alive one
Yellow spoonbill
I saw this today also! My photos are on a phone and bad, but here is proof. Sometimes there are royal spoonbills there as well, but they are hard to spot because they match the ibises
It's not whether WE should be worried- it's Miyazaki's personal view, of a specific piece. Horror usually depicts suffering in some way- what it chooses to say about it varies. If the work is incurious about it, that's not a moral indictment on the artist, but it's a valid thing to critique!
Dirt Eclipse
My dear boy, this IS a Mac! Look again
Burnt CD-Rom in an external CD-Rom drive with "Flash" written on it
A virtual machine of Windows XP running on an iMac with Macromedia Studio 8 and the Macromedia Flash 8 InstallShield Wizard running
The Macromedia Flash 8 splashscreen on an iMac running a virtual machine of Windows XP
A Cintiq screen with Flash open on it. My hand is drawing a beautiful rat
A cunning ploy, Adobe, but you forgot one thing *slides jewel case out of my sleeve*
My highschool computing teacher was my friend's Dad
Album art for DONKS:OST
I extended all the music from my short film DONKS, now it's also an album
felixcolgrave.bandcamp.com/album/donks-...
Huge innovations in the cube space lately
Eating a vegetable:
This is sensible. This is how plants should taste. This is grass and wood at its most edible
Eating a fruit:
This is a delicately crafted lure. Flesh engorged with sugar to attract me like a bird, to fill me up with seeds. A sexual organ. This is the reverse of the Jumanji plant
Glass House/House Fly
There were no introduced crops either, until people planted them. I don't think it's that outlandish to say that settlers in Australia had a general lack of curiosity in native food sources
The native plants we DO have are all treated like novelties and (re)named after more familiar plants. This fruit is green, but long? "Finger Lime" (nothing like a lime). This fruit is round, but in Australia? "Kangaroo Apple" (nothing like an apple). Weird that none of them got the corn treatment!
Not advocating Australia grow a bunch of corn! I'm saying colonial Australia embraced next to no native crops. We have heaps of thirsty crops and terrible agricultural practices because none of our major crops evolved in this specific ecosystem
The USA does frightening alchemy to corn, makes it into battery acid or whatever, but at least they have corn. Australia is the USA with no corn. The British just rocked up and ignored every plant like "gee I hope we can make baked beans grow here or we're fucked"
Thank you (and your kid!)
I made it myself- Sorry it's not in any state to share, I only made the letters I needed specifically for the credits- so it's missing a lot of numbers, punctuation etc. It DOES have random letters in other alphabets, but only if they happened to be part of a patron's name!
We thought robot brains would be cold and calculating and laser focused, but no! When the machines come to take you away just stand in the shower with a scrubbing brush and say "Do you MIND?", and they will apologise and leave.
"users quickly bypassed the AI's safeguards by prompting it to roleplay as"- ok so what I'm hearing again and again, is they've built a dumb guy in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. You just gotta run back into frame in a wedding dress and now the AI thinks you're getting married. Robots are now all Elmer Fudd
Each time you post bird photos, I become increasingly convinced that I know where these were taken. And what a good bird hole it is!
Worm Deprivation
Too powerful!
I enjoyed reading the tar train-of-thought in reverse order
Ice Age 25, where the gang get resurrected and kept in a zoo where they can never die, just like real mammoths. Still starring the real Ray Romano who has undergone something very similar
"kids what do you want to watch on Future Netflix?"
"The movie about the prehistoric animals who speak in conversational 100-year old parlance, number 4. The one that pastiches even older pirate movies"
Saw 1 episode of the new Alien show, and whatever, not really for me, BUT it's set 100 years in the future and in one scene some kids watch Ice Age 4??
People watch old movies of course, but not MOST old movies- and that has to be the funniest prediction as to what will stand the test of time
