No dogs are fighting in this video, however.
I'm trying out a bold new technique here: instead of using my weird framerates of anywhere between 15-20 fps, I'm doing what the animation industry has done forever in this one and using a mix of ...
2024-11-24 13:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Well well!
I do really like doing animated shadow and lighting effects on top of still shots, you know? Sometimes that's just what you have to do.
It's quick, but effective!
Also I'm gathering some options for the next postcard pol...
Well well!
OK, so we finally blew the rebel station up. I drew all the individual background pieces of debris and then added all of the scorch marks and airbrushed the wrecked bits.
Here's the background itself:
2024-11-08 21:06:48 +0000 UTC
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Hello there and a happy Halloween!
This sequence will receive a few touch-ups: the pilot at 0:02 needs some lines drawing on his vest thing and we need MORE FIRE at 0:11, but it should give you an idea of how things are progressing! I also w...
2024-10-31 15:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there!
Well, we had to blow it up eventually. This six seconds is 92 frames long and took quite a while to do due to having to animate all those explosions! I might add more detail to the platform itself - tiny bits of debris flying, e...
2024-10-24 06:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
I'm working on a couple of shots at the moment and thought to show you the backgrounds for them. The one above actually has a bunch of animated elements on top of it in the finished scene - there are walkways falling down, debris rain...
2024-10-15 20:08:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Another scene in the bag!
I think that once you've got TIE bombers this close and shooting at your station with their little pew pew laser cannons, you've probably really screwed up somewhere.
As an interesting(?) aside, I was debating w...
Oh, hello!
I thought you might enjoy a behind the scenes look into what went into making the finished artwork.
The process typically looks like:
1. I draft a sketch
2. Maki checks and revises
3. I send Maki a colours draft...
Hello there!
Fistly, if you're reading this on the East coast of America when it's published, I hope you're keeping safe from Hurricane Helene! I'm actually in Atlanta at the moment and it's really coming down outside. It's pretty exciting a...
2024-09-27 05:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
A quick sequence for this week of everybody's favourite Xg-1 Star Wing Assault Gunboats disabling the rebel platform. As anyone who's played TIE Fighter will know, those ion cannons come in really handy! Electricity is also very fun t...
2024-09-20 04:31:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a typical day on the mining vessel Thanatos. Let's hope nothing bad happens to them!
As always, layout by me and Maki, anatomy fixups and colour grading by Maki, final illustration by me. This print will be flying out to all of you in...
2024-09-13 18:44:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We thought it might help to show what projects are on the roster!
As you may remember, a mech project was proposed before Alien: Monday. You can view it here: 2024-08-31 01:27:37 +0000 UTC
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Well, RIP to those X-Wings, I guess.
This is a really quick shot, but took quite a while to do because so many individual elements had to be animated. The X-Wing is 3D but everything else is hand animated and there are a few smoke trails goi...
2024-08-27 03:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone!
And welcome to any new people joining after the Alien film!
Between next stage planning and the postcard, I'm back to finishing off scenes for TIE Fighter Total Conversion Reimagined (see this video if you don't know ...
Well well!
The results are in, and it seems that most of you want an original piece of MONDAY art! So I shall get right on that!
On an unrelated note, I'm actually in the US at the moment and good lord, the heat! How do you survive it?? T...
An original piece of art comes your way, what should it be?
2024-08-05 23:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Thank you for the 1.2 million views!
Alien: Monday has been translated into 5 languages (7 if you count reuploads) and pretty cool that many viewers found it valid to be tagged as "horror".
I thought to share some art Producer M...
To all glorious member of the Elite tier:
Thank you very much again for all your support, and please find a nice 4k resolution edition of the film, along with the 100 page art book, screenplay, movie ticket and poster here:
2024-07-22 23:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Film, check.
Artbook, check.
Music, check.
Premiere date, check..!
Watch and chat with us live on Youtube July 22, 2024!
Premieres 6pm ET / 11pm BST / 8AM AEST !!
We'll send a reminder the same day along wi...
As things wrap up, we're planning on starting regular streams again. I've been working on a little opening animation for the streams, and thought I'd show you a few quick screenshots of how it's going. Hopefully it'll actually be pretty amusing wh...
2024-07-03 18:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some more TIE bomber stuff. The fun part is going to be animating all the destruction when the missiles hit. I always liked how you could target enemy subsytems in the TIE Fighter game (I would always missile a space stations laser turrets ...
2024-06-25 18:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
How are you all?
Every update we get from our mysterious sound engineer is super exciting, as he's layered and mixed in more sounds and it's really bringing Monday to life.
In the meantime, here are some pilot shots for the TIE bomber...
Here's a sneak peek (in 4k resolution no less)! This isn't going public for another couple of days so please keep it to yourselves though...
First off is a short transformation sequence to celebrate the launch of TVPaint 12. I was inspired ...
I do like animating explosions. And here's how I do it! It's amazing what a difference some impact frames make.
Project A-Ko is a really great reference for 1980s anime explosions:
2024-05-30 04:40:54 +0000 UTC
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As sound work continues apace for the Monday film, animation likewise continues for the TFTC opening cinematic! Here's the latest few seconds.
I'll post some really big explosions next time. Maybe a "how it's made" style video showing the wh...
2024-05-23 23:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Well well!
Here's another few scenes that I just finished for TF Total Conversion. There are a couple of bits I need to fix up (the TIE cockpit POV shot wobbles too much and actually scrolls off the top of the screen at 1:19 ) but this shoul...
2024-05-15 23:03:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
I finished a bunch of animation for the TIE Fighter intro this week which I'll share when it's further along, and here are some background shots from it that I designed.
2024-05-11 00:37:00 +0000 UTC
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Well, hello there!
As we await sound design and music on the Monday film, I'm back to animating the intro cinematic to TIE Fighter Total Conversion. Here's a couple of shots of Vice Admiral Thrawn in his snazzy olive coloured uniform, wonder...
2024-05-01 23:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I dare say this artbook is about 90% done visually and it's exc...
Welcome to Galaxicon 2263!
I read a variety of opinions and results on the last poll so I fit in as many sci-fi series as I could first think of! Hopefully you like it and can recognise at least half of the ships on display. F in chat for Maki'...