There is just one simple thing I will ask from all of you:
Since many of the channels are Patreon exclusive (all of the fun ones 😉), I need you to private message me here on Patreon with your Discord username when you join.
This way, I can grant you Role access to these serv...
2025-12-23 04:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I've got something super cool for all of you...
The next piece is special, and very different from everything I've done up to now.
I'm calling it Bear Dreams.
Still within the sub 1-minute category of my shorts, and categorized best as experimental horror; a genre that I've never worked in before.
While this piece has a long way to go, I've attached an extremely rough pass of motion capture that I to...
2025-12-19 21:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
I'm sharing today something really cool. I've recently begun taking a course held by the artist on Instagram, known as @papa.png
I've been a huge fan of his style, and wanted to figure out how I can push my work to be more experimental while still being globally appealing.
After a few weeks of his class, this has been my first "final" painting. It didn't take particularly long, and is quite messy, but shows a lot that I've learned so far.
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2025-12-14 14:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
I'm making this post to see if anyone would be interested in sharing our time on a Discord server :)
While just opening up Discord alone can make me feel like a senior citizen, I think it would be worth taking the time to build a space for this community.
Here's some cool ideas for it that I've been jotting down!
Could be a place for me to just drop in what I'm working on during my day-to-day.
Not a full post, just small snippets ...
Well...I hope it's final. I'm sure i'll wake up in a cold sweat at 3am and re-export with some footstep sound fx lowered 2db.
But FOR NOW WE'LL CALL IT FINAL AND MOVE ON.
Definitely hit some obstacles here but I also learned a lot.
About compositing in Blender, using motion capture, and exploring new visual styles.
I'll be posting this soon on Instagram but I'm very happy to have gotten to share this journey with all of you.
So thank you to everyone re...
For Sunsets, I had mentioned awhile back that I'm collaborating––in concept and execution––with another artist.
This artist is George Varodi! I know some of you are familiar with his work and have even worked with him on his current animated film, but he is best known for doing layout on the works of Alberto Mielgo.
The painting you see above is done by him!
George and I met in Cannes about a year ago when I invited him as my guest...
2025-11-26 19:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostAt long last! Animation is finished.
After completing the motion capture about a month ago, I handed my animation off to Dylan de Kock (an animator at Steamroller who messaged me on Instagram to animate a piece).
He has spent the last 2-3 weeks polishing the mocap, adding face and lipsync, prop constraints, etc,
Then the last 2 days I have spent taking a pass of my own to adjust and tweak his animation.
Overall, I'd like to say it works quite well.
...
I managed to get most of the piece's character layer rendered out (on frame step of 5, so only every 5th frame) and composited it with the sound.
It's early, but it really gives you an idea for how your piece works,
and you can take note of what there is to fix!
Obviously the animation is temporary, so we'll be focusing on the compositing side.
For example: After seeing this, 2 things stuck out to me
In the light, the lips...
2025-11-19 21:22:37 +0000 UTC View Post
After way too many hours of struggling in Blender's compositing editor, I finally have a character render layer that I'm ready to share.
(Note: This is only to consider the character layer, the background is to be disregarded)
It may not be the final look as there are a few areas that bother me (most specifically the hair) but the energy is there.
It feels quite rough and soft in a nice way, and hits on a few things I was trying to achieve with this test.
H...
Hello everyone!
I had originally planned to set this as a product in the store, but decided to simply share it as a regular post for most tiers.
If you haven't seen it, this was my latest painting that I shared on Instagram yesterday evening.
The goal was to push myself and experiment, while still retaining the quality that makes my digital art recognizable.
While I liked the result, this has only pushed my eagerness further to experiment.
I enco...
I find that every now-and-then, I need to change the background of my phone wallpaper, or get a new fashion style.
Same goes for art, I think. I can't do the same kinds of drawings forever without getting tired and needing to stretch my (metaphorical) legs.
That's why I want to start moving away from pen and trying pencil more, but it also means re-learning a new way to draw. I can't approach pencil sketching with the same mentality as pen, nor do I want to continue drawi...
So it's been a busy couple few days. Probably spent more time on Instagram than I should have, but it's for a good reason:
I jumped from 25k to almost 65k (Probably 70 by tomorrow)
And I won't sit here and talk about how it's all about
CONSISTENCY!!!!!
and
HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE!!!!!!!!
because like, it's not.
In fact, I haven't posted in a month or 2 until just a few days ago. Because as I learned, it doesn't seem...
2025-10-25 22:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I knew this would be the hardest part of my new piece, titled Sunsets.
When I started on this test, I wanted it to feel completely different than my other pieces. But after almost 2 weeks of work, I wanted to share the progress and how I got to this point.
Putting together a Pinterest board of visual references that inspired me.
These could be related or unrelated images, from media, paintings, other existing animations. Anything ...
I'm posting this with my fingers crossed that none of you watch the video and ask,
"But, where's the motion capture footage? Are we not allowed to see you in the suit doing the performance? With what can we compare the 3D animation to?"
Unfortunately, no...I will not be sharing the footage of myself acting. I had recorded it with the intention to share, but I cannot think of any amount of money that would make me post myself in a tight suit, no socks (bare dawgs, uncensored, ou...
She's ready to be animated!
This is the new model for my piece, which i'm now calling
Okay not a great name, but I prefer to give something short and code-name esque to these sub 1-min animations than some full blown title.
And, the script.
So this piece is, visually, quite simple. A woman in a dark room pours herself a drink, takes off her heels, and sits back in a couch. But as we watch the piece, we listen to her monologue.
...
I'm going to create a much deeper video on this in the next few days, but I wanted to share with you a very big problem I hit in my new piece, and the (only somewhat convoluted) solution I found to get around it.
The other artist on this piece had a folder of pictures he took that I wanted to use in this piece, however it was an assortment of random photos that I couldn't easily stitch together.
My plan was to have an HDRI of the enviro...
2025-09-27 00:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not advocating giving up on pieces, but there is a time and a place to do this,
and I lead by example.
Well, I've scrapped my idea for Who Am I Now.
There's 2 reasons I've done this.
When I went to NYC in hopes of polishing the idea with a very good friend and well-known animation director, the ideas just...clashed.
We couldn't agree on much at all, and it ended in a messy compromise of our ideas.
Hello everyone!
I want to share something with you that I've been working on for a while.
This is my new, very limited brush set that I've been developing and using on all of my recent paintings (including the piece attached above).
I'm really happy with how it works and I've found my best paintings are done with it.
There's only a few brushes because I find this keeps the style consistent and seamless, and unburdened by textures in an era of texture-heavy digit...
Hello everyone!
Upon request, I wanted to share this short demo on how to create functioning, lit sets from 3D scans taken in day-to-day life.
This is a great tool for layout or short pieces, and I've presented the same method in Maya and Blender.
I hope it helps and i'm excited to see what you make with it!
Here are 3 unedited pencil pages that I did recently.
They are all from observation, and are emphasizing perspective and scale
I'm always in support of carrying around a small sketchbook for practicing environments, it helps so much in being able to freehand perspective!
Okay, ignore the questionably looking hand.
Here's an example of a page I did to help set the tone for the first of 3 parts in Who Am I Now.
With this, you might be able to better understand the vision hand-in-hand with the rig I posted yesterday!
As much as I rely on 3D, drawing is a great way to get ideas out quickly. It's not finished, but it's enough to get an idea onto paper.
Use lots of reference from pinterest, immediate materials like pen and colo...
Here are some visual updates from my new piece, Who Am I Now.
The concept of this piece is a bit complex, consisting of 3 shots with separate costumes and sets and a V.O.
The first shot takes place in the bathroom, with the model that has red lipstick on her face.
The second shot will be using the sequin jumpsuit,
And the third shot will have a large ballgown-esque costume.
To some extent i'm getting ahead of myself by putting this time into cos...
This is my first post of my new test, "Who Am I Now".
It's also a short introduction on why I think 3D scanning is my favorite new way to block out, and something I will recommend everyone to try.
I really wanted to try a whole new workflow for this test, and that started with the set. On "Big Fire", I took weeks to model every object for the apartment. But, despite this set being much smaller and not fully existing, it works very well for layout of a single shot.
Y...
Hello everyone! I'm beginning a new piece of animation, even larger and more ambitious than "Big Fire".
This one will take a new direction on my work, and honestly, quite a new voice. I'm extremely excited to post more about it soon.
For now, I want to share a few very small ideation sketches about the shots / colors that may be featured in the piece.
Alexander
Hello everyone!
In my Pt. 1 post, I spoke about finding the thematic tone for the film; your Day 1.
Today, I'm going to talk about how you turn that into a series of hooks that will lead to having the seed of your idea.
Day 2
So let's set ourselves up with a tone. In Pt. 1, I told you to chose 3 films that together describe the taste of your idea. In this example, let's say 3 fairly well known films.
The fantastical world building an...
In a search for a new look and new processes, I wanted to try doing very quick color keys.
This was the result. Extremely simple, but was happy with the outcome. I've been really trying to push my work even more and it's not an easy journey, but small, quick pieces like this help me see what else my work could look like.
When I began writing my newest story (which I will be sharing more about very, very soon) I knew I needed some practice in the sci-fi genre.
My work is generally quite modern, I'm not someone to do grand works of fiction. But 'sci-fi' doesn't need to mean Star Wars, or Ghost in the Shell. Trying to find a new visual approach to fiction was the goal here, and using what I know (architecture, wood, not grand glossy structures) as a base to add things beyond this world seemed to be the b...
So I just got back from doing some traveling, and the whole time I was constantly taking photos in black and white.
And since I began carrying a camera with me, I've found that I'm able to chose better compositions and draw values better when sketching in pencil. Here's why:
When I began drawing more with pencil about a year ago, it was because I felt like my art needed more value and tone -- something I couldn't get with pen.
I'd stop and do drawings , but pencil t...
I had made a post recently on why I struggle so much with gallery art and I am finally able to share all 4 finished pieces from this series.
The final 2 were admittedly no less easy, but turned out quite nice. (So nicely, in fact, that I re-did the orange piece and the green piece to feel like they all worked well enough together.)
These will be on display June 20th until August, I hope you enjoy this sneak preview.
Also, an UPDATE!
This l...
This is a big topic, and hopefully an exciting one for many of you.
I'm beginning this 2 or 3 part series because I have the exciting opportunity to begin collaborating on a short film script with an incredibly talented, influential animation director (who's name I will not be sharing). This film would be made after the completion of A Home for Swallows, so it will give us both plenty of time to sit and consider the story.
Here is the first part of my process, from ...