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Oldie But Goldie: Squash & Stretch
Squash & stretch is as old as animation itself and I’ll show you how you can use it to free your puppet animation from the rigid shackles of a bone structure (or at least make it look like it was). Flipping Head Turns!...
New Technique is Turning Heads
Head turns in animation aren’t such a big deal, unless you want to combine them with head tilts. Then you’re in a world of pain, unless you use my new way of doing head turns/tilts that mix well and save time! Flipping Head Turns!...
I Screw Up on a Daily Basis
These failures shouldn’t go to waste, so let’s from them. Here are my 'favorite' screw-ups while using Moho Pro for animation… Yeah, Didn’t Think Of That…...
The hardest scene is done!
I just completed a fairly complex action scene for the pilot of Shadywoods and thought I'd summarize some of my findings, pains and struggles in a YouTube video episode… Animating a Complex Scene in Moho Pro...
Shadywoods Status May 2024
For one of my rigs I just captured the whole process, to share on YouTube. I ended up with 9.5 hours (!) of footage. And then I made so many stupid mistakes that I had to cut out massive parts of it, so not to confuse the hell out of the viewers. So here it is...
Shadywoods Status April 2024
I finally entered my two-week holiday (during Japanese "golden week") and found time to rig most of my characters. And it's a lot of work. On a good day I can probably fully rig one character if I work on it kinda full-time for a whole day. Watching glaciers must...
Shadywoods Status March 2024
As I mentioned in my last post I recorded the Shadywoods narration, I turned that, some intro and outro music and sound effects into something akin to a ‘radio play’. Judging from the audio alone I'm quite happy with the outcome, the episode is 22 minutes long as...
Shadywoods Status February 2024
With the final script ready what was left was to find a recording studio that is open from 22:00h until the middle of the night, or actually even longer, so I could record the audio with the other voice actors together. Of course not in the same studio, but all of...
Quo Vadis Phungus & Mowld?
Episode 3 was released over a year ago and you might wonder, what the hell I’m doing all the time with zero output regarding episode 4 on Instagram, Facebook or this website. Yes, of course I am working on the next episode, the script is written, some artwork is...