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Hey y'all! I'm teaching another workshop!

I don't post on tumblr much anymore, so if you don't know me, I was the animation director for the first seasons of Castlevania and The Owl House, the visdev animator for Across the Spider-verse, and the one who drew that Zagreus hair flip thing.

This time I'll be teaching draftsmanship for animation. If you're looking for ways to improve your drawing for animation, storyboarding, or really anything that requires speed and consistency, this is the one for you. I'll be sharing my own approach for drawing characters, as well as tips and tricks that are common in the animation industry.

It's on June 28th at 10am PDT. Hope to see you there!

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Workshop’s tomorrow! Last chance to sign up if you’re interested!

Hey y'all! Been a while! I am here and I am trying to sell you something!

This time I'll be teaching a workshop on special FX. They let me pick the topic this time, so I'm not saying it's gonna be a better workshop, but that's also exactly what I'm saying. FX are something I'm passionate about and have a lot more experience teaching.

It'll be on August 3rd as 10am PDT! If you wanna watch me live draw FX and explain how to do it, you can sign up here:

https://www.brainstormschool.com/workshop-spencer-wan2

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I forgot to mention I actually did some work on Hades 2 this time. Here are some concepts I made for the witchcraft and a couple of the boons.

[spencerwan]

Hey y'all! Been a while! I am here and I am trying to sell you something!

This time I'll be teaching a workshop on special FX. They let me pick the topic this time, so I'm not saying it's gonna be a better workshop, but that's also exactly what I'm saying. FX are something I'm passionate about and have a lot more experience teaching.

It'll be on August 3rd as 10am PDT! If you wanna watch me live draw FX and explain how to do it, you can sign up here:

https://www.brainstormschool.com/workshop-spencer-wan2

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Miles Morales animation test

The prompt was to show how Miles is more confident in his movements as Spider-Man. Joaquim had suggested a mixture of breakdancing, capoeira, and parkour.

I pitched Miles is more confident but also trying a little too hard.

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My motion test for Gwen in Across The Spider-Verse

Animated by Siggi Orri Thorhannesson in the film

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Workshop’s tomorrow! Last chance to sign up!

Been a minute since I’ve updated here, but I thought I’d let y’all know I’ll be teaching an online workshop on February 25th. 

I’ll be doing demos on how I draw perspective for animation and storyboarding. I rarely get opportunities to teach, so I hope you’ll consider signing up! I’ll be drawing live the entire time.

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My old storyboards for The Owl House 115.

I think a lot about it ended up changing by the time it aired.

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My scenes from the Hades II reveal trailer, with the exception of the last scene where I drew Hecate and Tam Lu drew Melinoe

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Been a minute since I’ve updated here, but I thought I’d let y’all know I’ll be teaching an online workshop on February 25th. 

I’ll be doing demos on how I draw perspective for animation and storyboarding. I rarely get opportunities to teach, so I hope you’ll consider signing up! I’ll be drawing live the entire time.

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My first Owl House animations from five years ago, back before the show was greenlit. 

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Been a while. Might start posting my animation here again.

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My rough animation for Boruto #65

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Here’s my animation for the opening credits of Castlevania without the bells and whistles of compositing.

Not only did I get to develop the style for this part, but it’s the only piece of animation in the show where my original drawings aired without any sort of clean up.

Out of everything I did for the first season of Castlevania, this was the part I had the most control over.

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Here’s my rough animation for cyclops sequence from Castlevania. I got to storyboard this sequence as well, which was a first for me. Up until then I’d never had that level of control over anything I’d worked on in the animation industry. 

Out of everything I did for season one, this is by far what I worked the hardest on. I’m glad I’m finally getting to show it.

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Here’s another round of my rough animation for Castlevania. I animated most of these during the revision process to help along scenes we wanted a little more impact from. Since they were scattered throughout the episodes, I thought I’d do a side by side so you can see how the roughs got translated into the final product.

Next week I’ll post the sequence where the majority of my animation effort went. I hope you’ll look forward to it.

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I finally got clearance to show my rough animation from Castlevania! I did a lot of animation for this show so I’m going to release these through several posts each week, starting with this one.

For the Alucard vs Trevor sequence there wasn’t enough time in the schedule for me to finish out the animation, so I completed a first pass and the drawings were sent over to Korea for the artists at MUA Film to to tie down.