Man, it's so easy to freeze up. Or maybe, it's so hard to keep from freezing. But fuck. It's hard. I've been doing good about making art the past couple weeks, but I've been hesitant to post it, for some reason? IDK. Part of it is definitely me putting pressure on it again. Like, "If this is what I…
HELLS YEAH! SCENE 9 IS DONE AND SCENE 10 IS WELL UNDERWAY! ^_^ I am the excite. And also tired. So, sooo damn tired. Scene 9: https://vimeo.com/670094798 Scene 10: https://vimeo.com/692878335 Everything all together so far!: https://vimeo.com/379934017
Yanno what? Let’s talk about the OTHER reason I’m changing my project schedule. Which, to do that, I think I need to talk about WHY THESE two projects…which is honestly something about which I’m not sure how transparent I’ve been. WHEEE! So yeah, we’ll start top-down: I’m a transgender Otherkin guy…
Okay, I've explicitly not had a schedule, technically, but rather, "Alternate between IDM and New Normal," but...gonna change that a bit. Alternating between the two update-by-update was working really well for a while there, but less so at the moment. I've been trying to work ahead a bit on writin…
Let's try a new thing. I like CGP Grey, and I like his "Your Theme" video from...chaos, January 2020...timing, yo. ^_^;; I did incidentally do it that year: 2020 was my Year of Intentionality. It actually worked out surprisingly well! With "Intentionality" being such a malleable goal/theme, even wh…
Hey guys, sorry I fell off the planet with no warning... ^_^;; I've really been trying to not do that. I'm in the process of selling my house and moving from Illinois to California, which is really, really fuckin' awesome, and I am SUPER EXCITE, but has also been taking up allllll my brain space an…
https://vimeo.com/474481476 Well, this took too long to finish! I was trying to work in a lot of time-saving work-arounds, and not limit myself so hard to working in ToonBoom and Illustrator. Soo, it's a little rough visually, as I try new things, and abruptly switch from backgrounds built in Illus…
https://vimeo.com/379934017 PROOOOGREEEESSSSS ON IT DOESN'T MATTER, with Sequence 6 so far! AHHHH! We're getting to the end of sequence 6 and I'm excited to get to 7! Maybe I should crosspost to YouTube? Even though it'd be the same thing with only a few seconds more footage each time? I feel like…
ALL RIGHT, LISTEN UP, CUZ I'M GONNA GIVE MYSELF A SCHEDULE TO STICK TO WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT! Between one thing and another, I've been having trouble keeping a consistent update schedule for New Normal and It Doesn't Matter. Believe it or not, I keep trying to increase the post frequency for New…
I'm gonna be streaming on https://picarto.tv/SonicSpiritwith https://picarto.tv/SINPUKESUPART! I'm planning to stream from 1:30-6:00PM CST! Join us there!
I'm still not sure the best way to go about posting updates for It Doesn't Matter, but I guess since I'm changing how I approach it, it might be easier, now! SO, IDM is a big, dumb, one-animator animation project, which is fine...except I actually really want to tell the damn STORY, and I'm dying a…
I'm gonna be streaming with my buddy SINPUKESUPART at 1:30! Join us there! https://picarto.tv/SonicSpirit
Okay, below are the links for scene 5 and the full IDM Zone 1 so far. I added two shots to it this week! Ooooooh! It Doesn't Matter Zone 1, Scene 5 (so far) It Doesn't Matter Zone 1 (so far) I was gonna link the two shots themselves, but that would mean making them visible in my Vimeo gallery, and…
Gonna get my stream on!
Stream? Stream! https://picarto.tv/SonicSpirit
LET'S DO THIS! For everybody who doesn't know (which seems like most peoples), I have two main projects right now, the comic The New Normal, and It Doesn't Matter, my big stupid Sonic TF animation...that still hasn't gotten to the TF yet, cuz I'm setting up the story and animating is slow. The way…
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Oh hey! The big dumb montage-like scene four of IDM is done and stuff! Have a link! Next up, MOAR ANIMATING, and characters talking to each other again. I write A LOT of conversation. Whoops! It Doesn't Matter Zone 1 WIP March 17, 2020
So, I need a better name for a cyberpunk nanobot-driven “bodymod” TF setting/story, and thought it’d be fun to ask for suggestions! Long story short, I wrote a short story TF going into FurSquared that I’ll be tossing up here, (just need to finish an illustration to go with it), and I really enjoye…
Because it's a It Doesn't Matter week, have an update! Yeah, I'm still working out how to go about posting that I did a thing. You can see the isolated shot on my Twitter here: https://twitter.com/sonic_spirit/status/1227220372698824706, and if you're interested in any behind-the-scenes shots and s…
OH HEY, GUESS WHAT? I added another 4 seconds of animation for this week to It Doesn't Matter! Yeah, still figuring out how to go about posting about that on here. I throw up the shots themselves on Twitter (@ Sonic_Spirit), but, yanno, 4 seconds of animation is...underwhelming to watch alone. And…
Okay, let’s do this! I’m gonna try this “Actually laying out a schedule,” thing, and see how that goes! First up, I’m gonna put Anything But Ordinary and Thus Spake the Gods: Humans Suck on hiatus. Thus Spake’s reason is easy: after Bipsy passed...it’s hard to look at or work on. Also I was kinda w…
Hokay, let's bump that last journal about how I fell behind on updates with another work-in-progress video of scene 3 (sequence, if you wanna be pedantic and actually use animation terminology) of It Doesn't Matter, my big stupid animation project that is just...I have so much of this shit written,…
Yeah, not gonna be able to get comic done this weekend, I hecked up my time management for my submission for this quarter's FetZine, so whoops! New Normal page 14 will go up on Patreon this coming weekend (October 19-20) as normal! Heh, "normal". Elsewise, I'm going to try slightly altering comic r…
Heh, so I'm posting about how my update schedule is changing, but I haven't actually formally codified my old schedule anywhere, so that's kinda funny. For the past few months my comic update schedule has been "sometime on the weekend, whenever I finish the page." So if I finished a page Friday nig…
Okay, so let's start doing this this way! I've been posting shots as I finish them to my Twitter, but Vimeo lets you update video files, so I'll be able to upload this to the same..."listing," for lack of a better term, as I animate, since I've been working on getting a shot out a week. So yeah, ea…
HEY, GUESS WHAT!? I actually uploaded the first two scenes of It Doesn't Matter, my Big Stupid Sonic Animation! I've literally been writing this since 2009, and I really love working on it. I hope you watch it, and I really hope you enjoy it. Yeaaaaahhhh...in order to actually have something to sho…
Link to Video! The big problem with my primary project being a big stupid animation is that I don't often have much to show for myself on here. Which honestly bugs me. So let's toss another progress video up in my journals. Hey, suddenly I have a reason to toss journals up! So, I'm trying to pump o…
So I was driving the other day and just letting my mind wander, as you do, and I started looking at the different conflicts for each character in IDM, which seemed like a good writer’s exercise so yeah, thought I’d share that. Now, keeping in mind that writing-wise I just finished the first draft o…
Basically: Whoops. More in depth: Kinda not okay with how radio silent I’ve been, but also can’t promise to post more regularly. Fits and starts has kinda always been my M.O. and that ain’t gonna change without more effort than I’m willing to commit to for journal-posting. This IS the second of two…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cWsPiH3S1Y I did actually get this out and uploaded early last week, I just kept procrastinating on posting it. But anyway! Another installment of Escape to Animation! This one’s shorter, but yanno. Working with Imaginary’s character was neat and different! I should…
https://youtu.be/hy3uv1QC0aI APPARENTLY BY "WEEKLY" ANIMATIONS I MEANT, "I'M GOING TO MISS A COUPLE WEEKS IN A ROW, NO BIG DEAL. Yeah, had a big storyboarding commission opportunity come up, and that ate up all my time. Also this one's more ambitious than the first--what with the more characters an…
So guess what! I'm starting a new weekly animation series, updating Mondays, called Escape to Animation! It'll just be a bunch of silly, one-off gags, but it'll be a lot of fun! Here's the first installment, hope you like it!
"Hey, dude? Remember when you used to actually write journals and stuff?" No. "Well, you did." Nope. "Go back and read them. You might be surprised." What're you talking about, me? I would totally remember something likeOH, HOLY FUCK, I DID ACTUALLY USED TO WRITE JOURNALS. Look, that one's just a w…
So, I got tagged for one of those questionnaire things by JaytheBrainMann on dA, and hey, why the hell not, so here we are! Rules 1. - You must posts these rules. 2. - Each person has to share 10 things about them 3. - Answer the 10 questions asked to you and invent 10 questions the people you tag…
Hey! So, I've got a new AIM account now! And, gonna endeavor to actually be on it again, so if you wanna IM me, and don't have Twitter or something, you can talk to me there. As always, these nifty art sites are really good ways to contact me, too. Anyway, my new AIM is sonicspirit128@gmail.com so…
