Studio Flimpo

Flimpo Friday Update (6/20/2025)

Happy Flimpo Friday everyone! Milo again :D

A Patreon Discord server member going by "the name collector" brought to our attention that it has now been over a year since the original Mandlebrot Hall trailer dropped! Woah!! Time really flies when you're flimpin on...thank you so much for sticking around all this time y'all!

Unfortunately a cold has been going through the studio for the past week or so- Reid and I already caught it and Ren's only just going through it now. Thankful...

Flimpo Friday Update (5/30/2025)

Hello everyone! Milo here, happy Flimpo Friday! Let's head right into this week's updates:

For the production of Mandelbrot Hall's pilot, we broke down the full 22 minute episode into seven smaller "chunks" (technically nine if you count the guest animation and theme song). Despite only having half the anticipated time we would usually allot for a production chunk (~1 month) we completed almost all rough layouts for chunk A! In less technical terms, we're making good progress a...

Flimpo Friday Update (5-23-25)

Hi everyone! Reid here with your weekly update!

Production is off to a great start. This week the three of us have been working on background layouts and animation layouts, which is basically drawing in rough character poses to the animation scenes to make sure everything lines up with the background elements. It's pretty much just setting up the files for when we start rough animation next wee...

Flimpo Friday Update (5-16-2025)

Hello everyone, it's Ren- happy Flimpo Friday!

We have officially launched the next phase of Mandelbrot Hall's production- the animation phase! After several months of hard work, the animatic is locked, save for some minor timing adjustments that need to be made after we record retakes with our voice actors.

Going into the next phase entails a whole lot of organizing and planning- which...

Flimpo Friday Update (5-9-2025)

Hi everyone! Milo here, happy flimpo friday once again!

Exciting news- the design bible is finished!!! Or at the very least finished enough- almost all the designs have full color, with only a few location designs being line only. This means we can make background layouts properly when we start animating (which will also be very soon). We've just exported the new soft-locked animatic and are about to send it to our cast and crew. Then we'll record some quick retakes, and the co...

Flimpo Friday Update (5-2-2025)

Hi everybody, Reid here!

Ren was away for part of the week seeing family, so I took over storyboarding duties and I can confidently say we're very close to locking the thumbmatic! Once we have that locked we can schedule retakes with our voice actors and, at long last, begin animating.

As of right now, all the location designs have been lined, meaning our design bible is nearly complete! ...

Flimpo Freestyle #6: The Waiting Game

The 6th Flimpo Freestyle, animated by Milo!

Flimpo Friday Update (4-25-2025)

Hi hi everyone! Milo again for this week's Flimpo Friday update ^^

Remember how one of the perks on the Mandelbrot Hall campaign was your own character in the pilot? One person got it- and Reid finished the design for that character today! No spoilers, but the gag we had written for this character (before we even knew who it was) fits hilariously well. Reid also wrapped on all of the prop design this week, marking a good chunk of our production bible complete!

Ren has been workin...

Flimpo Freestyle #5: Gnome Bounce

This gnome is having the time of his life. Watch on loop for maximum HOO HOO!

Animated by Ren in Toon Boom Harmony.

Flimpo Friday Update (4-18-2025)

Hello everybody and welcome back to Flimpo Friday! Apologies for the gap last week- we were in Toronto attending TAAFI. This week's update is brought to you by Ren.

TAAFI was a great time! We met stars like Aaron Blaise and Eric Bauza, awesome peers like Kiana Mai Khansmith, Studio Homework, and Zeddyzi, as well as many filmmakers and the amazing staff! I represented Studio Flimpo at the Indepe...

Flimpo Friday Update (4-4-25)

Happy Flimpo Friday everyone!

Reid here to wish a belated Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all who celebrated. This week we had a late upload for my Flimpo Freestyle celebrating TDoV, but it is now live!

This week has been a pretty standard production week for all of us. Ren has wrapped up sorting through voice lines and flagging lines for retakes, meaning our rough animatic now has scra...

Flimpo Freestyle #4: Celebration of Self

Happy belated Trans Day of Visibility! Here's a little piece celebrating all the different stages of me!

Animated by Reid in Toon Boom Harmony.

Flimpo Friday Update (3-28-25)

Happy Flimpo Friday once again everyone!

It's Milo again- technically its Reid's turn this week but he's busy editing our animatic for this week's assemble. I've asked him for comment, and this is what he had to say:

"Balls"

Thanks Reid! Anyways, this week has been straightforward but productive. Ren has been in the Adobe Audition TRENCHES sorting through six hours of voice over audio to find the best takes and assemble everything in order. It's slowly driving them crazy, bu...

Flimpo Freestyle #3: Surely A Sandwich Will Stop Me Feeling Like This All The Time

Surely.

Animated by Milo, made in Blender 3D!

Flimpo Friday Update (3-21-25)

Hi everyone! Milo here, and can you believe it- it's a Flimpo Friday once again!

First of all, thank you SO much to everyone who showed up at MoCCA's SVA table over the weekend! It's always so cool to meet you folks IRL, and thank you to the many folks who purchased merch or dropped a business card/freebie by the table. I'm so glad we've fostered such a kind community!

Besides MoCCA, Mandelbrot Hall's production has been going strong recently!

The first pass of recording...

Flimpo Friday Update (3-14-25)

Happy Flimpo Friday and Pi Day! This week's update is brought to you by Ren.

Come see us at SI MoCCA Arts Fest in New York this weekend! Milo will be representing Studio Flimpo at the SVA BFA Animation table (#3). Check out cool art and merch from us and our talented peers. Reid and I will also be around at the festival- come say hi!

We've been keeping busy this week with locati...

Flimpo Freestyle #2: Creature Stack

What a peculiar bunch...

Freestyle animation by Ren.

Flimpo Friday Update (3/7/25)

Hello everyone, Reid here! This is what we've been up to this week:

The first of our silly weekly animations is now available for $3 patrons and above! It will be posted publicly next week, but patrons get early access. These little animations will be made individually by one of us, rotating each week. This week's animation was made by yours truly!

In the realm of Mandelbrot Hall, we've b...

Flimpo Freestyle #1: Silly Dance

Here's the first of our new weekly releases! This week's little loop was made by Reid. It's a cute little salamander guy inspired by a game we'll just call... Creature Catcher. What should its name be?

Flimpo Friday Update (2-28-25)

Happy Flimpo Friday everyone! Here's what we've been up to:

We have locked the script for the Mandelbrot Hall pilot (at long last!). That means it's time to record with our voice actors. We'll start things off with a table read next Friday, where all the actors will get a chance to read through the script and get to know each other.

Over the course of March we'll then do one-on-one recor...

Flimpo Friday Update - What we've been up to! (2/21/2025)

Hi everyone! Milo here- I'm sorry it's been a while since our last proper Friday update. Due to some difficult personal circumstances, we felt it was best to take a break from our social media pages. Don't worry, we're all OK- and thank you to those who expressed concern or wished us well during our hiatus! Things are going a lot better now, and our social media break has been a great opportunity to...

Billing paused / social media hiatus

Studio Flimpo's social media accounts are on hiatus until further notice. This month's Patreon billing will be paused, but our merch shop will remain open. We’ve also extended the MH survey deadline to March 1st.

When we return, we will no longer upload to X (Formerly Twitter), and continue posting on TikTok if the platform remains available in the United States.

We will use this time away to focus on the production of Mandelbrot Hall, and to re-think Studio Flimpo's future so...

Flimpo Friday Update (11-15-24)

Hello everyone, Reid here with a shorter update! Here's what we've been up to this week!

The first batch of BackerKit surveys has been sent out! It's just a test run, so if you don't see one in your email don't worry. Only 130 have been sent so that we can fix any issues that might pop up before we send it out on a wider scale.

A lot of our time this week has been dedicated to organizing merch and ordering shipping supplies so that we can jump into order fulfillment as soon as we'...

Flimpo Friday Update (11-8-24)

Hello everyone, Milo here! Been a while...sorry about that! It's been a very hectic few weeks, but let's talk about it!

Mandelbrot Hall BackerKit

We've sent our backer survey to BackerKit for approval earlier this week, and we just got our notes yesterday! There's only a few more things to tweak, then we'll do a smoke test by sending ~5-10% of our backers their surveys to see if everything is working smoothly. If it is, then it'll go out to all backers!

Clie...

Flimpo Friday Update (9-27-2024)

Welcome back to Flimpo Friday, everyone! We're very sorry about the recent gap in updates. We've been going through a nasty patch of collective burnout lately, so your continued support means the world to us.

With LightBox Expo drawing ever closer, a good chunk of our time has been focused on getting ready for the big event. We've been working with our graphic designer to spruce up the Flimpo brand and develop some new merch (thanks, Charles!).

We're also knee deep in the writing ...

Flimpo Friday Update (9-6-2024)

Hello everyone and happy Flimpo Friday, brought to you by Ren this time!

First off, we have an update regarding the Mandelbrot Hall crowdfund surveys. Last week we said you could expect them by now, but after calling with BackerKit and figuring out some behind-the-scenes logistics, we decided it'd be better to roll them out at the end of this month. Apologies for the delay!

Another correction from last week: the "final edits" to the script were a biiit less final than we thought. ...

Flash poll! Which lanyard design do you like best?

Designed by Charles Kugler, @saintlycharles on Instagram!

Flimpo Friday Update (08-30-2024)

Hello Flimpos!

Reid here bringing news of the many things we've been up to in the past week.

We're still working on the Mandelbrot Hall crowdfund survey, but expect to see that in your inbox some time next week (only if you donated, of course). We've also been working on some final script edits for the pilot and creating some final character and prop design references.

In other news, l've been preparing my thesis film

"Jamie's Pond" fo...

Flimpo Friday Update (8-16-2024)

Happy Flimpo Friday everybody!!

Unfortunately, all three of us Flimpos have been under the weather this week :-( Thankfully nothing serious, just some sniffle-y colds! (If you're wondering why we didn't upload today, that's why!) Because of that, it's been a slower week, but we still have some exciting updates!

• We started a small gig this week for a very big client! We can't say anything more than that for now, but expect to se...

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Flimpo Friday Update (8-9-2024)

Hi everyone! Hope you’ve had a lovely Flimpo Friday :D

Update on the shorter side this week as we’ll be out of office until this Wednesday. We’ve been busy managing what the next year or two will look like with the production of Mandelbrot Hall- and we’ll have a more precise idea of what that looks like once we get the final amount sent to us from BackerKit (after fees and cards declining, which you have until the 14th to remedy by the way!)

Excitingly, w...