Holy crap dude, you made TROS look like a Star Wars movie. O_O

(<Still hasn't bothered actually watching the thing, but holy fuck that is some ugly af grading)

Babish mentioned this channel in yesterday's episode and so naturally I decided to check it out and wound up binging 15 episodes in a row. #DammitBabishDotGif

The short pitch: That one actually cool and engaging interpreter at the historical museum on that horrible class field trip you had to go on in 7th grade, who teaches you about cooking and living in the 18th century and somehow actually makes it interesting. This guy just radiates 'best teacher I had in high school' energy, it's great, I love it.

Thanks dude, it's gotten a lot easier/smoother/better since I decided to steer into the skid and embrace the glow-y painterly look, there was a long while there where I just really hated the look of some of the stuff I was putting out, but over the past 6 months or so I've really found the groove and started bringing everything to a place I really like.

And I've been avoiding making claims like that cause the universe has invariably come along and gone "HAH, fuck you" and thrown a meteor at me that pushes it back another 6 months, but considering it's 2020 and like, that's basically been this entire year.... if I can actually work on it consistently, about another month/month and a half on visuals, and then a couple months for sound design depending how quickly I pick up on Reaper's shenanigans.

Today was Convocation Day for the college I work at, and due to all the *makes world exploding gesture*, you know, the College decided to go with a virtual convocation. So that's been my life at work for the past month and a bit.

I have no expectations of anyone to watch these, but I figured I might as post em in case someone's reeeeaaaaaaaallllllyyy bored. But there's a few nice bits of mograph I'm proud of, including the end title animation which has been an ongoing process since I started last year.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … ENM6FIq5xg

This is so completely my shit. My gods.

Thanks duuude It's an absolute clusterfk of shape keys, armatures and curve modifiers, but it actually works and looks pretty much like what I was hoping for, so that's an A+ win in my book.

Did a fully rendered test last night: https://i.imgur.com/t2nAJhC.mp4

And hey, since we're on the subject of blooming things anyways... another flower element for another shot: https://i.imgur.com/rv3SEL7.mp4

Finally managed to find a way to make this one work by making a boatload of shapekeys based on inverting the flower and throwing some softbody physics on it, so gravity pulls it down into the folded up form, and then reversing everything so it "blooms".

I don't think we can embed twitter videos, but: Laika animators take on the virtual fight challenge. And it's /delightful/.

https://twitter.com/LAIKAStudios/status … 6614910976

I do what I can

(They look a lot better in the picture than they actually are. Because my machine really needs some maintenance, trying to do nice smooth curves wound up wandering around a fair bit, but an iron hides all crimes.)