Happy New Year, you guys! I managed to finish all the paintings for the intro last month!
I wanted to post this update sooner but the holidays ended up delaying everything a little bit, I actually just finished editing the Speed Paint video today. Sorry about that!
So, these paintings were supposed to be reminiscent of the storybook illustrations from the show. But I w...
2020-01-03 00:31:24 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the things that I struggle the most with, in my animations, is the backgrounds. When I make them in After Effects I usually go overboard and add too much detail, the software slows down, and it ends up taking a lot of time to finish a single background.
The super rad animation that I'm working on right now, has a plethora of different scenarios, and that means a lot of different backgrounds. So I needed to find a way to make my work more efficient without sacr...
2019-12-08 01:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted a little video update on my main channel too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkufE6JhUqM
But yeah, here it is! The animatic is complete, and now I can finally start animating! But there are so many cool scenes that I'm not even sure where to start!
I am gonna be trying some new animation techniques with this project. So, I'm planning to record a lot of WIP videos to sh...
2019-11-12 20:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, I was hoping to finish the animatic before the mlp finale aired in the US. And this update is super late too... I'm really sorry, you guys!
This is a short video, but it's very fast paced, so I want to break it down and go over some of these scenes.
We start with a transition to Grogar, showing him enslaving all the ponies and preparing to take over the rest of th...
2019-10-14 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Yo, so the season 9 finale is out already. The Dutch version aired earlier, and now the English version is out too. I couldn't resist and I end up watching it last week, but I'm not going to talk about it now, because I know that there are a lot of people waiting for the official release in the US. So let's try to keep the comment section spoiler-free too!
I told you guys I ...
2019-09-07 18:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I really should've finished a bigger scene before giving that two weeks estimate in the previous update...
So, the animatic is halfway done. It started with super basic sketches, without a lot of motion, but I felt compelled to properly animate the later scenes. It takes extra time to do it, but the upside is that it gives me (and you guys) a clearer picture of the end result, and I will be able to re-utilize the camera animation and some of the same comps and partic...
2019-08-16 18:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks like the music video won! Thanks for voting, everybody!
I've been wanting to make something like this for a long time, so I'm super excited to work on this project!
Usually, I just start making the assets and animating right away, but this time I'm going to make an animatic. Because I need to know if my ideas are going to work and I really need to match the timin...
2019-07-26 02:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostI have some cool ideas for the next TBSP, but there's something else that I really want to do!
As some of you already know, the current mlp generation is coming to an end. Season 9 is the last one and we already are halfway through the season!
G5 is coming next year, but the rumor is that they are going to change a lot of stuff. And people at Hasbro were even talking a...
2019-07-23 04:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a very messy project folder for this episode, but the Patreon asset packs have to be super clean and organized. So I decided to tidy things up! I moved everything to new folders, which ended up breaking a lot of stuff... But that's fixed now because I went into every single character, object and environment file, and just fixed the bugs, reassigned all the textures, replaced all the references an...
2019-07-15 23:14:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is!
Download link for the patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/12673963
The file size is big because the video is 4K and H264 compression doesn't play well with pixelated graphics, so I had to crank up that bitrate to maintain a good quality. Let me know If this is too much, and will render a regular 1080p version for you guys!
The other rewards are coming soo...
2019-06-15 01:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know if I'm under some kind of curse or something, but it seems like every time I'm finishing a TBSP episode some bullshit happens with my computer. This time Windows froze out of nowhere and I had to force a shut down. I turn the PC back on and BAM! Corrupted hard drive. Windows was able to repair it, but some really important files got busted. Thank god, I had made a backup recently, and I was able to recover most of it. This could have been disastrous!
Win...
2019-06-06 14:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, the bear fight is finished! Oh my god, that took way too long...
I don't remember if I mentioned in the previous update, but the second part of the scene takes place at night, and I had to make some extra assets and adjust all the materials on the scene. That's the big disadvantage of using this PSX plugin, the light support is very basic, like for example, I can't ...
2019-05-25 17:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, guys, I had a rough week, with a bad cold and a really bad sore throat to boot, so the last few days haven't been the most productive. But, antibiotics are your friend, and I'm feeling better now, so let's talk about bears:
The image above shows some of the options that I had for the bear model. I went with the last one, the Skyrim bear. Even though it's the most techni...
2019-05-05 16:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Turns out that some of the scripts that I had set up in Unity for the horses and the buffalo didn't work out super well, so I had to manually animate a lot of extra sequences in Maya. But all the horse scenes are finished now, and I can finally move on!
I don't remember if I ever mentioned the original length of this episode in a previous post, but it was planned to be aroun...
2019-04-16 18:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Nope, couldn'tdo it. I'm gonna need another two weeks after all :p
I was pretty confident last weekbecause I animateda lot of stuff in Maya, but when I started exporting the scenes to Unity I ran into a bunch of problems, and I ended upspending most of my time troubleshooting rather than animating the rest of the episode. Here are some of my issues:
Limited ani...
2019-04-01 08:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, I got things working in unity! But there were many hurdles along the way :p
I found two really good shaders for unity that mimic the PS1 look. The first one is free and it's just a simple material that you apply on your object, there's no script or anything like that, very easy to use and the animation looks great, the only problem is that it doesn't support lights, shadows or ambient occ...
2019-03-15 16:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in case some of you guys missed the update on my channel, here's TBSP ACU! Made by the guys at NDAnimations. They've been working on this animation for a long time, and they did a fantastic job! If you haven't seen it yet, then be sure to check it out!
I haven't started to work in Unity Engine yet. I want to have the environment done before importing the char...
2019-03-01 14:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick health update before we get started: I'm feeling a lot better! I still have to be careful when I tilt my head, but I think the BPPV will be completely gone within a month. Thanks for the well-wishes and the kind messages :)??
The Night Trap episode is on hold for now, and I started to work on the mini-episode. I wanted to keep the game a secret, but it's kindof impossible to do these updates without spoiling it, so I'm just gonna go ahead and say it, it's Red D...
2019-02-16 12:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy, last month was rough... so three weeks ago I tilted my head backward, and I got dizzy, like super dizzy, the world was spinning and I was puking. I went to the doctor and I was diagnosed with BPPV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo). Turns out there are these little crystals in your inner ear that help you keep your balance, ...
2019-02-01 03:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the new year, everybody! Did you enjoy the holidays? I spent the holidays away from my PC with my old laptop, that kept shutting down and restarting at random. It never did that before, so I thought that maybe it was overheating from all the dust and cat fur that accumulated over the years, but the exhaust ports were super clean, so I don't know, I never figured out the source of the problem, I just kept saving my work every 5 minutes. It ended up being a very u...
2019-01-12 16:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, everybody! Here's the WIP video! Make sure to watch the entire thing, because there's a little preview at the end there!
So this is the last update of the year, and I want to thank all of you wonderful people for your amazing support! I also want to apologize for the lack of TBSP episodes this year, and I want to assure you guys that there's going to be more content next year, I'm working very hard right now to make sure that happens. I'll see y'all ...
2018-12-25 14:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm super behind schedule, you guys. So it's going to be a quick update today.
As you can see, I animated more BoJack! But I still haven'trecorded the WIP video, I'm gonna take care of that next week.
There's still a lot of work to do in this scene, and my goal right now is to finish that last "chunk" of animation (1:20 to 2:10) before the end of the year. It's gonna b...
2018-12-15 21:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week I animated a lot of Celestia, but not a lot of Bojack. I did make some good progress with his rig though!
There's still some stuff left to do, like making more hand poses, and rigging some puppet pins, etc. But all the main controls and expressions are done!
I ended up...
2018-12-01 03:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Some people thought that was just a joke for the update, but no! There is going to be a full scene with Bojack and Celestia in this episode. It doesn't have a lot to do with Night Trap, but it's going to set some things up! It's pretty good :3
Originally I wanted him to be playing the game with them, like a full TBSP episode with Bojack. But after experimenting a little bit, it became clear that it was just not possible... mainly because I have to use voice clips from the B...
2018-11-18 09:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The October update turned into a Halloween update... in November.
2018-11-09 07:54:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a background that I'm going to use in the intro. It's the entrance to Canterlot, you might recognize it from the Hearth's Warming Eve episode from season 2. My scene doesn't take place in the winter though, so I turned it into a summer environment. But it's not done yet, I gotta finish the main building and add more detail to the ground, so it's a work in progress.
I usually just focus on the sisters playing video games in their room, but you're gonna be seei...
2018-10-16 03:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick Update!
It took longer than expected but Part 1 is completed now. I ended up re-animating some of the scenes because of Celestia's rig, it's the same one from Friday the 13th, so I had to update the controls andfix a few bugs. There was also some other minor stuff that you only notice after you render everything. But oh boy, those render times...
Moving on to par...
2018-10-06 02:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Gotta a lot of stuff animated last week, and I think now it's a good time to break down the episode for you guys:
Yup, it's gonna be over 9 minutes long (so much for keeping things short...). The length for the intro and the outro are just estimates, they might be a little bit longer.
I wanted Night Trap to be ready for Halloween, but at this point, it's pretty clear t...
2018-09-20 02:51:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody, I'm back! I was suffering a little bit from travel fatigue last week, but I'm all rested and refreshed now, and 100% back to work! I've been doing a lot of different tasks such as editing, lip-syncing, organizing and fixing some of my After Effects bugs, like the character shadows that keep moving with the camera:
I've just noticed this issue. Apparently, this...
2018-09-06 09:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember that stuff I was working on, back in May? Well, here it is, a short animation that took a lot of work to make. This is an intro for Matt's new series, Edgelords! In the first episode,Ashen the Viobladertakes a look at Spawn! If youlike edgy characters, make sureto checkit out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1gEpQYEVsQ
New Best Sisters Play
The first editing round is d...
2018-08-24 00:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post
