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FINALLY finished!

This is a fan film based on Desire of the Endless, from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. I’ve been working on this on and off ever since the first audiobook adaptation of Preludes and Nocturnes came out in 2020, but earlier this year I decided to really roll up my sleeves and finish it off.

Like all of the Endless, Desire has their own little personal dimension that’s an extension of their own being. As the embodiment of the concept of wanting, the only thing in Desire’s dimension is a flesh colossus of their own body. THAT’S METAL. 

This is just my personal interpretation of this character and setting, intersecting with my own fascination with body horror and japanese city pop. Really just an opportunity to draw a ton of cool body horror shit. ALSO, it’s a stab at trying to cut together a music video. The track is “Sparkle”, arranged by android52, from King for Another Day 2019 ( aka the greatest single album of music ever released).

My film for this year's 5 Second Day at Titmouse!

My main goal this year was just to make something fun! Fun... and also kind of stealthily drop in a ton of KH references!

It's a story about a four kids and a dog! Join them on a quick adventure through the twisted dreamtime of the city they call home!

A lil sneak peek of my 5 second day film for this year!

Some character designs for my next personal animation project. It's been such a dour sort of year that I wanted to do something fun and cartoony!

After years of not doing it at all, I made a new years resolution this year to go to life drawing sessions again. I've been pretty good about it mostly, going about once a week from February onwards. It's been fun, if a bit daunting at the beginning.

I mostly used Nupastel (RIP) on newsprint, with poses ranging from 30s to 10 min (tho I've been cheeky and embellished a bit more for some poses). These were all done at Basic Inquiry in Vancouver.

Music: Y2Mate.is - The Beat of Your Dreams...

It’s... about angels.

My film for this year’s 5 Second Day at work!

Wowee it’s been a busy year, but I’m finally finding time to make some progress on my Desire of the Endless fan film! Here’s a big progress dump of bgs, plus one comped test shot! If I don’ get sidetracked again, this should be done in a few months.

As time goes on, I find that I prefer to spend my time on bigger, more satisfying projects, as opposed to doing lots of little projects at a faster clip. I get enough of tight deadlines professionally, so for personal stuff, not sweating my pace and having some breathing room is GREAT. 

Been thinking a lot about the imagery in the epic that is SCP-5000. Specifically, the really cool visuals of the elongated humanoid the Foundation was fighting. 

I’ve drawn it a bit more creepy ghouly here for fun, but in keeping with what was laid out in the story, I’d imagine it’d be more like one of those uncanny photo effects David Lynch does in Twin Peaks Returns? Could be worth revisiting down the line.

This is my contribution to the 2021 edition of Titmouse Inc’s 5 Second Day, NIGHTLIGHT.

It’s an idea I’ve had kicking around for a while now, with hints of all the things I’ve really enjoyed over the course of this last year. A world where a cosmic calamity causes the worlds of dreams and reality to meld together, and the humans that now have to live in the spaces between the two. Like... The Sandman meets the SCP Foundation meets Madoka Magica.

This was done entirely in Storyboard Pro except for a few photoshop assets, so it's basically a colorized animatic. In the future, I’m gonna try and refine this idea, amp up the boards and the cinematography, and get it animated with real bgs. HOPEFULLY.

MUSIC:

Allan Douglas Parker (https://www.youtube.com/c/AllanParkerArt​) (Track at the end) - Jupiter Beach - Alexis Smith, Joe Henson, Pete Davis

VOICES:

Charlie Richards (https://charlton-richards.tumblr.com/​)

Dan Neal (https://www.instagram.com/danneal_art/​)

Hi tumblr, been a while! I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had nearly as much time to do personal work as I’d like, buuuut one thing I did manage to do was a film for this year’s 5 Second Day! 

It’s a story called NIGHTLIGHT, about dreams and lights and space, and all sorts of other things that have been stewing in my head this last year. What with life and all, I was only really able to do a spruced up animatic instead of a fully animated film. If you’re willing to overlook that, my film and many others can be seen starting from 03/05/2021 HERE.

(I’ll post it online after the screenings as well)

A birthday present for @beetlekayleigh. Its secrets are not for the world to know.

Here’s my scene for the X-Men Reanimated project! It’s a short scene, but since it has every character in it it still took a WHILE.

Since it’s literally about a second, here’s a breakdown of all the characters: https://twitter.com/gaeree_tweets/status/1323471156418998273?s=20

Remember that really good Sandman audiobook that came out a few months ago? Well after listening to it I really wanted to do a Sandman... something. Something lively, with music?

So here’s some character designs and pre-vis for perhaps a short animated something set inside the Threshold, the flesh fortress of Desire of the Endless.  

The potential for body horror is salivating.

The world’s going to hell in a handbasket and time is fleeting and precious, BUT one of the few not work things I’ve had the pleasure to be part of this year is the X-men Reanimated project! 

My shot had 15 characters running at each other in about a second, so it might be a bit hard to make them out in the animation lol. So for clarity’s sake, here’s a small selection of my favorite run cycles! I’ll post a breakdown of my shot once the whole thing goes live.

CAN’T WAIT.

The new music video from Manila Luzon ft. Latrice Royale, ROBBED, is out now! It came out sooooo fucking good please give it a watch.

Here’s some storyboards I did on it! Super glad director Mac Kerman (https://chaosemporiuminc.com/) brought me onto such a cool project. 

In the original conception of the music video, there were some live action segments planned to pop in in between the animated segments. Everything ended up being animated in the end, and it turned out GREAT.

This is uh, about as much as I can do this year. Stay safe everyone.

I REALLY loved ep166 of The Magnus Archives. It was already one of my favorite podcasts, but every once and a while you get like, SUCH evocative imagery that you just have to drop everything and make a 3 min short film about it.

I took a couple of creative liberties with the specifics of the story here and there, but I definitely tried to maintain the atmosphere. 

If you haven’t caught up on on the podcast, this should still be relatively spoiler free! But you should tho, cuz that new season is wild.