THE WILL OF MONSTERS posts
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56) Animation Progress
Jarrad is making a tough decision against his more cautious nature... but yknow what? Life's full of risks. And sometimes you have to risk something or someone to accomplish your objective.I promise Im still animating! TVPaint has been treating me VERY well over the past couple years! One day Id like to purchase th...
55) Kuki Krumbles Update
I already know Im juggling far too much but this little update to this character is to prep my work for success. Kuki is bar none my favorite character in the TWOM cast and I'd like to use her in the crowdfunding video (which would be separate from the next trailer) which would show off the film's world and dif...
54) New Trailer Slate
I've been nursing this little guy for a few months while I produce a rough cut of my film's trailer. I've been steadily building all new footage and animation for the trailer and storyboard revisions are very nearly complete for the film as a whole. I recently started a new job though and its thrown my work...
53) The Boundless
VERY slow and obviously crazy month due to me starting a new job and computer issues (I just needed a new cooling unit but it took a few days to get right).Russia (more accurately, Putin) invaded Ukraine today, creating a deadly war-torn environment in a world already tense and tired from the pandemic. I dont know much...
52) Jarrad Ironstride and LadyGValentine
Newcomer LadyGValentine has been busting out storyboard-revisions for the action-packed sneak-peek of TWOM! She's done an excellent job so far and even found a way to make Jarrad cooler?Somehow I forgot to send reference of Jarrad when he's not wearing a hat, something Im typically better at doing. So naturally...
51) New Trailer Rough Cut
Hey gang! Happy New Year! So the grant money from Maryland's State Arts Council FINALLY came through during new years so I spent a great deal of the week drafting up a rough pass of the newest TWOM trailer. I cant show it in full here unfortunately since I need to keep things under wraps. But I'll give yall a p...
50) Patreon or Ko-Fi?
Hey gang, as you might have seen from my Twitter post, Im thinking about moving monthly updates from here on Patreon to Ko-Fi instead. That might be months down the line, probably closer to the next trailer's release or it might be at the end of December... if at all.The reason being is I've seen some success w...
49) Month of Administrative Duties
Hey everyone! One of our good Scarecrow boys has thrown a very SPOOPY bomb!I wonder what the explosion will look like!Im late on this one so I will cut to the chase:I've still been quiet on social media as I manage assignments, get Pai's voice-actress ready via SAG-AFTRA and get some paperwork & admin tasks fin...
48) Amazing News!!
Hey gang. I've been spending the last few months trying to nail down a grant for this film and I got the word I've been approved for one by the Maryland State Arts Council for $3500! This is incredible news because not only is this free money (that is not coming out of my own or YOUR pockets) but it also helps ...
47) Important Update to the cast and Tier-List
Hey gang! I hope you've all been well! I'm trying to think up ways of keeping you guys engaged for this film. I do need to make this Patreon worth your while so I ask:Would you guys be interested in joining my little Discord for TWOM? It is where some of my friends and fellow artists hang out and I run ideas ab...
46) Compositing Month
Started this month feeling a great deal better about the work being done on the 3D end of that last shot. I felt REINVIGORATED when I got into After Effects and I think working in Blender really helped me get a stronger handle on the depicting fast movement. Look at Cham go! This is one of my favorite shots so far!Im s...
45) Chase Scene in Blender
In my hubris, I chose to do a VERY complicated shot requiring a true 3D-camera instead of trying to mimic After-Effects very limited 3D space. This shot will host Pumpk & Cham running for their lives and will be part of the Sneak Peek trailer Im putting together. Im happy to be working in Blender. Its a cool little pro...
44) Storyboards by Julia Heliou
Julia Heliou is a new bright star in storyboarding and she has been nailing alot of shots I send her way. The gang above is about to have their first round against the Craven-King and Pumpk has a fairly unorthodox idea!I havent been able to update as much since a very time-consuming shot has taken most of my attention....
43) "Let Me See What You Have!" A KNIFE!! :D "NOOO!!"
Who's knife is this?? WHO LEFT THIS HERE??!! FOR WHAT REASON??!!More than the flash-bombs or even the mean little crows, this little dagger I think holds the most significance to the story than any other mcguffin. Go find @Lucky_chandl! Their artwork is super good and they've been workin with us for a little bi...
42) Finished Leap of Cham
This took me a bit to figure out but I had fun ironing everything out in this shot. Cham's leaping for a bomb that fell and I wonder if he'll be able to catch it in time to counter the incoming crows!Im running very slow lately so yall will have to forgive me. I had to bring some jobs from other artists to a ha...
41) GO FOR IT, BOY!!
Its been QUITE a month! Between losing my wallet, the backlight on my Cintiq going dim, my bank information going haywire, the air-conditioner going out for a month and a few health scares with the fam, Its been an extremely trying start to summer.I have been increasing my progress on my shots with Cham though! Really ...
40) Catchin Up To Yall
Ooof.May was something else. I've worked out three shots last month, including the one yall see above. Im still fighting with some weird picture/image issues with my Cintiq since its been cutting off or dimming out of nowhere. I think it needs a new bulb, honestly.For now, here's the finished shot of Cham being...
39) Back to the Grind!
This shot is of Cham reacting to a Flash-Bomb going off before someone snatches him off screen! WHO COULD IT BE??? Well its only one of three people.... could it be CHAM'S EVIL TWIN BROTHER.... SAM?? (lol, as if).I feel like Im apologizing to yall every post now. It took some time but I managed to finish off the Pr...
38) Project Management and..... A PITCH??
I feel like I've been apologizing to ya'll alot lately. The last couple of months have been VERY busy and I've needed a better way to communicate instructions to other artists vs just doing Google Docs. What you see above is a screenshot of AirTable which allows you to fully customize your tasks and truncat...
37) March 2021 Summary
Hey fam. Sorry Im late. This has been a pretty hard month since I had to juggle A LOT of tasks in production, specifically on the admin side of things. Animation is going well... a bit... TOO well, actually. Sarah has been pumping out brand new backgrounds (which I will show soon) and Casey exploded with a large batch ...
36) SQ-C Animation 95% Complete
The Cravens are hard as hell to draw out but I really like figuring them out! Its a huge exercise in getting the details correct according to the character models and all.I adore how this came out cuz I tried to channel a very specific animator who's work I enjoy named Naotoshi Shida of One Piece, Dragonball and Sa...
35) Website Update and Slight Venting
Twitter got to see some preliminary character art of the main trio by the amazing Angela Sprecher BUT yall are getting the incredible redraws by Lucky who's art was closer to what I needed! I thought Angela's art had the wild, adventurous energy I was going for but the characters needed to reflect their in-film...
34) Cham Chase Progress - SQ-B, Shot 24 Animatic Update
Happy March, fam! Here's to another month of the film looking better and better as time goes on. Casey McDonald has been knocking out Storyboard Revisions by taking my crude little boards back in the 2017 animatic (probably drawn in 2013) and making them into something legible. She's sooo good! Check her out!Th...
33) SQ-B, Shot 1 - 100% Complete
Sarah Gavagan absolutely crushes another background shot for our movie! If you're a TIER 2 Patron, congrats! You'll be seeing a link to the workfile in your messages later today!This lovely shot occurs in the beginning of the story and I wanted to give the impression that something is not quite right with the f...
32) SQ-B, Shot 39 Animation Complete!
Look out, Pai!!Another shot 100% finished! I might come back and make a few adjustments but I'm moving on to a simpler shot! I'll move onto Compositing a little later. I wanna do as much animation as I can in straight-shot.Enjoy, fam!
31) SQ-B, Shot 39 - Pai Waking Up Roughs and Commissions
Who knows what craziness awaits Pai now that she's finally waking up! I posted this on Twitter with the intention of supplying you all with a timelapse of this animation but my editing software wouldn't take MKV's for some reason so I spent much of the day converting videos to MP4's. So while I waited f...
30) Pai and Razz by XongBros
Pai and Razz jump for joy in radically beautiful picture by the XongBros. I've worked with these guys a bunch a long time ago when my brother and I tasked them to illustrate his web-comic Elements of Light but this is the first time I've commissioned them to do anything regarding The Will of Monsters and I'...
29) The Crows are ready for battle!
This was a fun one ! I actually enjoyed animating the mean old burbs but I wasn't expecting it to take me as long as it did on the compositing end. I consider this shot 85% complete. When Im animating, Im always thinking about what I could do to PLUS a motion or a scene so I took the opportunity to add a little bou...
28) Webcomic Page 2
Pai gets a little ahead of herself and Pumpk is havin NONE of it! We got some new members of the TWOM fam this past week so I figured Id share a new webcomic page with you lovelies! Social Media wont be seeing these webcomic updates any time soon since I wanna try and give you all the GREAT stuff as opposed to the regu...
27) Cham and the Burbs
What's up, fam! Thank you all for your support! I've been workin on a relatively easy shot for Cham and these burbs.. Its about 58% done since I require a background and an additional animation of a bird flying in. Hoping it'll be done in the next month or so. This shot was boarded by me and REVISED by the ...
