#shou tuzi

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I am notoriously poor at posting up here and need to desperately update the shit out of my blog and make a tallyho one.

Anyways, here’s some of the slides from the pitch presentation!

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a commission I did for @skullharestudios -- their OC, Tuzi, an eldritch cartoon character!

a couple more pics below the "read more"

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You need to know this has literally just become part of my fuckin lineup of images I consistently send people when I'm mad at some BS lol

i originally made this to be a silly joke to put on a gift for my friend but now it's one of my favorite tallyho things i've made please enjoy live atom reaction

[historyhermann]

An Alternative to the Studio System?: Indie Animation Forges Ahead [Part 2]

continued from part 1. Split because Tumblr claimed there was an error in the post.

Otherwise, Shannon Mowatt's 16-minute animatic of Revamped, has been released in advance of the full animated pilot. It is an upcoming short queer film about four high school sophomores who deal with school life, vampires, and the supernatural world.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs, my History Hermann blog, and Wayback Machine. This was the eleventh article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on July 15, 2022.

There's the Lackadaisy film about 1920s gangster cats, based on Tracy J. Butler's webcomic. Another series, Outcasts, has cats as characters. Shou Tuzi's Tallyho! series continues to develop. It is inspired by steampunk, fantastique, and other media. Tuzi's studio, Skull Hare Studio, is also working on Arthur: The Timeless Knight.

Daniel is continuing to pursue his action adventure series, Lumeon Lands, which has begin production. These series are important to highlight when Hollywood continues to end projects and sack animators. Some have put hope in indie animation, noting it has the promise to allow creators to have "creative control" unlike working under major studios.

While there are many indie animations I could mention. [6] However, I'd like to focus on a few series in development. One of those is Sam Sawyer's SALEM, also known as Salem or S.A.L.E.M.: The Secret Archive of Legends, Enchantments, and Monsters. In May, SpectroliteAAA, the lead storyboard artist said that she could talk about it soon, but not yet. In January, Sawyer, when asked by a fan, said the same thing.

The series has been fully funded. The now-fulfilled Kickstarter defines the series as an animated story about "a cryptid with a big heart and even bigger questions, on a quest to discover their true origins".

Apart from having high-profile voice actors like Laura Bailey, Rob Paulsen, and Adam McAarthur, a tweet from the show's account confirmed Petra as asexual, Salem (who is also non-binary) as pansexual, and Oliver as gay. The series has Randy Abrams as executive producer. It is being animated with help from Surfer Jack Productions, a company said to specialize in "ingenious storytelling". The company was founded by animation industry veterans Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, Lance LeCompte, and Bernie Petterson.

There are other series in development. This includes Georden Whitman's pilot named Port by the Sea on two kids who are "sailing the seas to fix a now broken moon", Matt Acuña's fantastical adventure The Garden Age, and the Far-Fetched Show, an animated series "about a rock band of misfits" by Ashley Nichols and Dave Capdevielle.

In addition, there's a demon/vampire themed series in the process entitled Bloodgore, the psychological horror dramedy named Please Stay Tuned, the ghost-themed Ghost Hunt, a sci-fi themed SpaceAges, and many more. These are a small sampling of the indie animated series out there. [7] These persist despite the problem of distribution and funding to "make original stuff", and possible iffiness of crowdsourcing, as writer Chris Hill pointed out.

Port by the Sea's pilot will likely come out sometime later this year. The Far-Fetched Show is also moving ahead, with comics to go with the series like Wild Card. The Nichols' Patreon notes that a lyrics video for the series band, Sesemoid, is coming out later this year. This also noted they are still working on the pilot. Currently, there is wonderful fan art of the show's characters, including putting them in a Steven Universe setting, and much more.

The fact that Port by the Sea has over 1400 followers and Far-Fetched Show has over 67,600 followers, along with 406 Patreons of Nichols, proves what animator LanceArts pointed out: that the indie animation scene is "exploding with greater popularity now more than ever."

More episodes of Alpha Betas are currently in production, with recording for new episodes. Four episodes are set to be released in Fall/Winter 2022. Additionally, Lucha Vandross is fundraising for various indie animated series. This includes those inspired by 1980s Hong Kong films (Project Icarus and Project Icarus X) and a modern take on Robin Hood. The latter is about friends "robbing the rich and giving it to the poor" (Samson). [8] Animator 9Hammer is actively releasing series in Newgrounds, of all places. This includes series such as Chaotic Heart and Solace, with new episodes in production.

Others, like Warlord-of-Noodles, have ongoing series as well, which is also posted on YouTube and has a Patreon. Series like Deep States, by Molly, are on YouTube. There is the exciting 2d indie anime in development entitled Broken Beat, made by animators of prominent anime series, like Creative Theory. The series is about a protagonist, Sin, tasked with stopping the reign of the creator god, and challenged by an "endless conflict between humans and manifestors". Sin masters his form along the way.

Newgrounds is a weird place. There's a lot of terrible (and amateurish content) there, mixed with sexual content. It is more than what would YouTube would permit, and includes pornographic material. Apart from the series on hiatus by 9Hammer, Beyond the Fog, there's The Looter, and Zack and Alex. The latter, by Jayevin Abad, had its pilot posted on YouTube as well. Otherwise, there are various other series, films, and more, which have aired on the site. [9] Some shows I've noted before in this post, and elsewhere, like Ollie and Scoops, Eddsworld, Tales of Alethrion, and Satina all have pages on the site.

Apart from Newgrounds, are further series in development. This includes The Art Of Murder, produced by an Australian indie 2D animation studio named Choc Chip. It is produced by Anokhi Somaia and directed by Nirali Somaia. Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli are the series composers.

The Art of Murder is a murder mystery, musical, and pop culture parody where "sketchbook characters come to life" when the clock strikes midnight. It features voice actors like Lizzie Freeman, who also voices a character in Gods' School, Lauren Lopez, who founded a popular online musical theatre company named Team Starkid. There's also Joey Richter (part of the same theatre company), Joey Bizinger, a well-known Japanese-Australian voice actor, YouTuber, and more, and Megan Lee, a Korean-American singer-songwriter. 

There's further projects of note. This includes various series by LGBTQ creators. [10] For instance, there's an animated series such as Scrappers, Swift Spark and the Defense Five, Birdboys, and Novas. Scrappers and Birdboys are by trans women, Charlie Gultiano-Wyton and Danielle Maxine specifically. Swift Spark and the Defense Five is by a trans man, Pan. Novas is by a queer and trans artist, Jesse. Scrappers is being produced by Gultiano-Wyton's animation studio, Variation Media.

Swift Spark and the Defense Five is by artist and animator, Pan, who loves Phineas & Ferb, and is based on a comic of the same name. Birdboys is by artist and animator, Danielle, with some teasers posted on her YouTube channel. Novas is the personal project of Jesse, a SCAD student, who posted a casting call for the animation on Tik Tok. What Avara, mentioned earlier in this article, stated is relevant here: support for indie creators is necessary if you "want to see diversity in animation". Part of that is LGBTQ representation.

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[skullharestudios]

Birth.

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It’s out!!! It’s out!!! Not only has the trailer been completed AND premiered, but in the first DAY of launch we’ve managed to hit $11k at the time of writing this!

We’ve still got a ways to go, but here’s hoping we can reach out goal— and maybe even blow it out of the water!

And of course, special thanks to the folks who made it all possible!

COMPOSITING: Shou Tuzi, (@skullharestudios) Fawx

MUSIC: Tommy Tots (@fetusmeme)

LEAD ANIMATOR: Kaili Myers (@lilmisskiwi-art )

ROUGH ANIMATION: Annie Bearden @starr-ani), Andy Ortiz, Kaili Myers, Peyton Monroe (@partyhorn), eggsillyfun (@eggpriest) , Aron Pellegrino,

CLEANUP: starteas, Kaili Myers, Chloe McChesney, Abby Davenport, Annie Bearden, Sarah Carmichael

BACKGROUNDS: @splendidcitrus, Kelsey Claybrook

Premiering September 23rd!!

Still haven’t joined the party? You’ve still got three days left to sign up!

[skullharestudios]

I’m about to become a spamton account I’m literally so sorry lmao

I deadass made myself spamton

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GOD I DID THIS FOR NSR AND ITS SO FUCKING COOL SEEING MY ART IN THE GAME AAA (Shoutout to my pal GreenGuyGeno for the screenshots)

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Art for a bunch of friends! First one was for @narffy and the second one was for @zeroodd 

Hoblins belong to Narffy and Swift belongs to Sel! (I made a nice steampunk design for him for fun though, with some fun lore!)

Made two Hoblins named “Hart and HeadSkull” who take after my sonas Atom and Tuzi.

Swift Lore for the steampunk universe was this: Arthur and Swift probably worked with each other back then (there is no psychonauts in the universe I'm building but I think instead, there would be several monster hunter agencies) and Swift was part of that Monster hunting agency! They mostly specialize in capture/release so- The picture is of them basically introducing Swift to their friends/the RIP agency-  because oops we have a problem that this specific person can help with-

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I'm stupidly obsessed with this 3 hour piece I just did the other night.

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Abstract art from March.

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Recent Art (May and June) Respectively...

Eastern art and Breakcore inspired.

Second one’s been admittedly a vent art piece.

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Some fake screenshots I did!

Top one is for a current project I’m pumping out called Tallyho! and it’s meant to mimic Netflix-

and the second one is old, and is supposed to mimic cel animation from the 80s/90s. The large creature belongs to @xrsjaru and the lyrics are from Avalanche by ghost.

[skullharestudios]

Just some doodles from Feburary. Nothing much to say haha.

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my psychonauts sona I forgot to post (im 18 now so you can tell this is kinda old) ghfdgds also made a sheet for em for @delblogs19‘s psychonauts tabletop (as an npc)