[Animation] Electro-Blitz commission

Seems all my commissions nowdays are MLP related. Either way, pretty happy with how this one turned out, I wanted to try out depth and parralax scrolling and I think it worked well with simple tweens and layering. I also learned a way to make stylised lightning that stands out nicely from the complimentary purple sky.

Various updates

Today's mainly been spent on a few different projects at once, so there's nothing substantial enough to fill an entry of its own. Here's everything that's going on at the moment:

Oddball 4:
I'm rewriting the next episode of Oddball to make it snappier and more tense. The old version of the script felt very dragged out and lost the feel I was going for. I should finally have the animation underway soon.

Vampire Pixel:
I'm slowly chipping away at the animation work for this, at the moment I'm just going over older scenes and tweaking the visuals, and I have plans for the arcade scene to try animating it with bright line art to stylise the dark scene and make the most of the art style.

Commissions:
I've had a few slow days with commissions due to other things happening. I was at a meetup yesterday, so I got no work done then, and I'm still negotiating how one of the animations will go. I'm also working more on the next Nick Basile animation, which will hopefully be out soon. Once we have an agreeable animatic, I can create the rest fairly quickly, hopefully!

[Drawing] Completed Minecraft picture

I finally got round to finishing this joined picture with Gary, Will and Jack. The background on this piece was a lot of fun to do, in a bright, blocky art direction true to the Minecraft style. To avoid making the picture look too dull with all the square shapes, I rounded the perspective, using curved guidelines from the horizon point rather than straights.

[Drawing] MC rough background

[Commission] Zanon Cake

Yet another MLP style commission! Wobbly cake is best cake. Click to go to page.

[Comic] Tek Bio

Today was a slow day as far as work goes, I didn't wake up until midday due to flat parties keeping me awake. Grumpiness aside, here's a quick start on Tek's bio for the upcoming comic with Mori:

Tek Bio

Full name: Techa Tesla Decahedron Monochrome

Story:

An aspiring ship engineer with a moody attitude. After failing her exam in ship repairs, she drinks her sorrows away in a bar/ship. Little does she know (or notice) that a planetary invasion breaks out, and as she slips from consciousness in a drunk heap, the ship she is on board sets for the stars. Waking up, she throws a hostile panic at her mysterious surroundings and new company, but gradually accepts it as "shit happens". While she takes the role of support and engineering, she still has scars from failing her exam, and when the ship is in true danger and she needs to save the day, does she have the confidence to succeed?

[Commission] BlackBoltThunder

Today's commission was for Deviant Art user BlackBoltThunder, of his MLP character in a storm. I used this animation as a test to see how much I could move while having the character still, to create more of a sense of the atmosphere around him. I did this through the fast swaying grass, and the wind blowing his mane to show a strong gale force.
http://kr3id.deviantart.com/art/Commission-BlackBoltThunder-375282149

[Animation] Vampire Pixel Run Cycles

Wellp, I'm finally back to work on Vampire Pixel, today I made the run cycle for Vextor, and will be adding Veetoo into the mix soon. These shots are for the opening sequence and I've tried to reflect weight and speed variations depending on the character, which is why Viking has more force in his run.

For some reason the embedded swf doesn't load for me, if this is the case for anyone else, click here.