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Here's most of my backgrounds for the lovely short film Garage Sale!

You can watch the film here:

I've spent almost all of my animation career being brought on to help with either animation or storyboarding, so when @ragtagstuff reached out and asked if I could instead help lead the charge with establishing the backgrounds, it was too cool to pass up!

The idea that I remember proposing (this was a couple years ago now so I could be wrong here lol) was to take a color thumb that I think @deadlycomics drew earlier for the project and make its color choices run through the entire film, and I later set up a style guide to help make it easier for others to match the look.

I still love the end results that everyone turned in, and how well it comes together to capture its idea of a dreamy, hazy summer/early autumn's evening. Most of the backgrounds I made were focused on the all-important garage sale itself, there was more than enough junk valuable trinkets to draw for it that kept me busy at the time. xP

Anyway this is all a long-winded way to say that I'm so absolutely pumped that someone who was making an animated film wanted my help in backgrounds instead of animation/storyboards. I love being thrown curveballs like that, it means the world to me. 💖

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a yummy Orbinaut snack

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this Sonic guy, he's very wild

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car fart

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okay here's one more for today, I couldn't help myself 💖

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aaaand a Breezie 💖

quick late-night Honey marker sketch

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quick late-night Honey marker sketch

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choose your fighter

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This game's a bunch of fun if you're the creative type, check it out if you can!! I had a lot of fun making all sorts of stuff, including blue hedgehog on wall

Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise Available Now!

Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise is a game I made by myself where you can paint on anything! 8 Levels to paint and explore, a wide selection of paint tools, and plenty of things to paint on!

You can buy or wishlist the game on Steam here!

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Been working on a few animation tests for some of the series concepts I've quietly built up over the years, including this one featuring characters from a project I was making back in 2014-15. it's nice to finally see Izzy and Ergo moving after a decade.

Might also explore making more stuff in this crunchy style, it was fun booting up my old copy of Flash CS5.5 to make these lol

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who could forget this classic Rayman moment where he says a bunch of words that I would never say??

(voice provided by the amazing saltydkdan)

I wanted a new piece for my demo reel that wasn't tied up in NDAs, was a little different from my usual output and would continue to help me feel more comfortable drawing roughs in Toon Boom Harmony, so I made this over a couple weekends. I also really loved the suits made for Captain Laserhawk that were scrapped and I wanted to see at least one of them in action really really badly cuz it looked so cool, I mean just look at these suits:

beautiful, perfect

My one regret with this is that I couldn't find a good moment to have him comb his hair back to match the model better, but since this is already pretty packed with acting I think the omission is fine.

anyway Rayman is still lots of fun to animate even years later. he truly is timeless. <3

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just Eclipsa

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made a Diana rig in Flash for fun yesterday! Wanted to try building something a little out of my usual element.

Still plenty more work to be done for it if time permits, but the foundation's there at least.

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my drawing of the iconic Star Fox Adventures level where Fox and Tricky explore a Home Depot

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this unlikely crew of characters will go on a quest, learn the meaning of friendship and Sonic Superstars their way into your heart~💖

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February 1st!

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it's been a while!

playing with some new brushes.