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Cashier pov

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I need a job, I'm bored

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Being a Babylon Rogues fan in 2025 is fantastic.

I've spent the whole weekend looking at video clips and screenshots of Crossworlds, especially about the Babylon Rogues shit talking to others or to eachother.

Needless to say I'm pretty satisfied with what I've seen as of now. Looks like Storm has got a new english VA too? Or maybe the new voice direction is 100 times better than Free Riders was because holy crap, it's been 15 whole years since Storm did get something. No, I'm not counting Sonic Forces Speed Battle.

(That orange bird/tiger hybrid is my OC, Autumn. I ship her with Storm if you wanted to know).

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cat girls

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THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY MADE MY FUCKING DAY

BRO WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE HES ABOUT TO BURST INTO TEARS 😭😭😭

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so uhhh. yeah.

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They heard someone talking shit about Bruce

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If I had a nickel for every time I drew Tim insisting that Jason is a good person I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s sad that it’s happened twice.

anyways have some de-aged Tim angst

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consumed a piece of media recently

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Hello! I’m trying to make a pilot of my own to submit to a studio to make a show. Problem is.. I can’t draw, let alone animate, and I’m broke. But I want to make an animated show from the bottom of my heart. What would you recommend is the best way to pitch a show and find volunteers to make a pilot?

Most pitches just start as loglines, scripts, or concepts if that helps. Just play to your strengths. Long answer ahead

This is one of the number one things I always tell students when they're making a portfolio and also why I didn't fully animate my pilot. I've had so many folks who are trying to get into storyboarding show me animatics from their portfolio that they edited themselves. Unless it's an action scene with very specific timing, or if the artist is also a skilled editor, I'd rather just click through a PDF. If the editing is bad, I'm gonna be distracted by the editing and not view the board properly. It takes away from the actual skill you're trying to showcase. Showing more often creates more room for error and makes your weaknesses much clearer.

I'm not a great animator and I knew that if I tried, it wouldn't come out the way I wanted and all the inevitable errors would have been distracting (it also would have taken FOREVER and would be expensive if I tried hiring other folks to help me with it). But I know that I'm good at storyboarding so I stuck with that.

All this to say, you don't need to create an animated pilot to pitch. There are so many different ways to pitch and get your idea out there. In most cases the pilot is made in development if the studio likes your idea anyways. If you truly have no money, just use the skills you have at your disposal. Unless you're 1000% sure that a fully animated will help your chances and that you can find other people with the skillset to execute it, I wouldn't do it.

But if you DO really want to do it, ask artist friends or people you trust to help out. Most of the people I worked with for my pilot were friends who, even though I offered to pay, helped pro bono. If you don't have artist friends, you can post open casting calls on socials, but make sure to be super up front about it being unpaid work, COMMUNICATE, and also write contracts. If you're working with strangers, having a set agreement that states that you will be using their work to pitch will help you avoid potential legal issues in the future.

That's my 2 cents! A fully animated pilot is a 2+ year commitment AT LEAST (if you're lucky). I'd just do what you're good at and fill in the gaps when you actually get a development deal

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rip me apart, split me plant new seeds

let me feel the worms twitching

let me grow anew like a forgotten garden, let gentle deers meander through me

carried by the arms of the storm I want

to be in awe.

illustrations, text and typographie ©marlin finn mackensen, 2023

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I was always going to end up doing this

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big fan of this gender... oohough..

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Everyone say thank you Shara Kirby

She’s DeVoid’s VA in the pilot so this counts as a sneak peek 🖤

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- Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Adventure 2 (SEGA/ Sonic Team)