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New Dimension 20 fan animatic! This time from Fantasy High Sophomore Year. The way Brendan speaks as Telemaine is an all time bit.

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This bit from episode 1 of Dimension 20’s Mentopolis was so funny I had to make a little animatic of it!

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Beenzebrew's Cafe for Demons and Angels Hottest coffee this side of the seven hells!

I always start missing winter during the incredibly hot LA summers, so I thought I'd make a snowy coffee shop scene to cool me down :) No dialogue this time, just cozy vibes <3

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Silly lil comic about an angelic donut shop w/ gameboy inspired aesthetics! Been really enjoying playing around with pixel art lately.

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Park day for some lil angels and demons! First attempt at a top down tileset pack for pixel art. It's far from perfect but I learned a ton! What do you think?

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New OC? No name yet. Undead Boxer Idle & Walk Animation

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Two existing franchises I would LOVE to work on some day: Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Bill and Ted's

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I made an animatic called "Calm Mind" based off of my experience with anxiety and panic attacks, starring everyone's favorite lil' headache pokemon Psyduck!

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Isometric pixel art of me and my friends’ latest tabletop characters. I absolutely love designing isometric characters, and sky pirates no less! 

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Earth, Water & Fire (Lava) Isometric pixel art practice!

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GBA inspired pixel art portraits of my DnD group's latest party- Meet the Tailwinds!

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New glasses, new haircut, new ART MEDIUM?!? I’ve been messing around with pixel art this past week and it’s SO MUCH FUN! I’ve always wanted to try it out and it’s really been a delight, gonna have a lot more to share soon! :)

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Final Poke-Principle of the Day 13! Straight Ahead! Straight Ahead is an animation workflow technique where you rough out the movement one frame after the last. I.e: you draw frame 1, then frame 2, and so on, pushing forward "Straight Ahead". Straight Ahead animation often feels more organic than Pose to Pose animation, but motions can end up choppy or floaty if you're not being thoughtful and deliberately putting the other principles to use at the same time! (I kept forgetting to upload these on a regular schedule despite them all being done MONTHS ago lol. But there all here now!)

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Poke-Principle of Animation 12: Pose to Pose!

A little trickier to explain in a single gif, so I'm sharing a process video. Pose to Pose is an animation workflow process where you draw “Key Poses” first, then adding breakdowns and inbetweens.

Here I roughed Hitmonchan’s start pose, anticipation pose, and final pose before experimenting with inbetweens and timings. Then I finally moved on to clean and color. 

Animators often combine Pose to Pose with “Straight Ahead” animation techniques (tomorrow's tip). I personally like to do pose to pose for primary body movements, and use straight ahead techniques when adding overlapping action like hair and cloth.

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DJ G-RAVE mixing it up on the 1′s and 2′s!!! Rough animation of my favorite part of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet.

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Poke-Principle of Animation 11: Solid Drawing Solid drawing is the ability to make a 2d drawing feel like it occupies three dimensional space. This requires thinking and drawing “volumetrically.” and drawing characters in perspective. Develop solid drawing skills with life drawing, practice drawing characters in perspective, and consider the canvas a camera that is looking into a world with depth rather than a flat piece of paper.

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Poke-Principle of Animation 10: Exaggeration. Push your poses, expressions and timing! With animation we are free of the limitations of reality. Exaggeration can be used extremely effectively in both action and comedy, and its use is all a matter of taste. I like to think of exaggeration as a spice- because too much can be overwhelming and make big moments feel less special.