Animated AF!

2D Animator, Illustrator from the UK!

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Moon Child Vs Sonic the Hedgehog! Sonic CD style!

A fun redraw challenge based on a photo from a demo scene in 1993 featuring an illustration the two characters, shared by the artist behind the game over on Bluesky! Done in roughly seven hours in FireAlpaca.

Speedpaint time-lapse video below!

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A new animated intro for the Animated AF Vintage Collection!

Using music from the Sega Vintage Collection, featuring a bunch of old characters such as Lucy Lolly, the Labbox, Cyril the goldfish monster, Mia from Manga-Gaga and Rocket No.9!

The full video features over 30 minutes of my short films from 2004-2013 all remastered in 4K to the best of my ability! Check out the full video below!

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🎉 Happy Birthday to the most important person in my world @cherryterrier!! 🎉

CeeTee variant of this animation, which itself is a parody of one of the Zero Wing endings!

GIFS below!!

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So I finally got to check out the Super Mario Galaxy Movie after a busy Easter at work and a hay fever outbreak: what did I think of it??

Check out the full video below which includes in-depth spoiler chatter in the second half!

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A couple of recent commissions I done did!

YouTuber banner and icon art based on an existing character design for That's Noso.

Original character design "Glow" for Mangloes.

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Bella from Donut Dodo Do! the arcade version of the game!

Where are the 🍩 at??

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Cheese must go down? Maybe cheese is good? Maybe there are far more important things to be protesting about?

This is a character from an animation I made back in 2005, a silly misinterpretation of the lyrics to "Magical Girl" by Guitar Vader.

I had this art sitting half finished on my hard drive since 2022 and was compelled to complete it as my thoughts on protests have gotten much stronger as of late for obvious reasons.

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It's Cinnabnu with a precious space boy!🪐

Their channel is rad get on it 👉 www.youtube.com/@CinnaBnu

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Ever since our last visit to the land of Do-As-You're-Told, Go-to-Bed has transitioned into a big, beautiful woman! She is still very tired, however! Can you help her get some sleep?

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Happy New Year everyone! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣

First art of the year! You will be seeing a LOT more of these mofos this year!

This is based on a photo we took last night while we were rather drunk!

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It's that time again: time to talk about all the animatin', illustratin' and video editin' I've done over the last twelve months! There was basically nothing to report between January-April on account of er...buying a house and all, so this time I've put multiple entries for the busier months! I also skipped doing this in 2024 as it was an even quieter year.

Full nitter-natter about each month with links to stuff after the break!

January-March:

Just before Christmas in 2024, the biggest news me and CherryT have had in our entire lives up to this point dropped: We had an agreed price on a house we really wanted!

Our landlord in our rental was planning to kick us out to "sell up" many months prior, so we had already started to pack and by the start of 2025 almost everything except essentials were boxed up.

These three months were the most tense I've ever experienced, waiting for the solicitors who were deafly silent right up until the last minute when all the paperwork flooded in.

☝ Me for three months straight.

We finally got the keys in March, but didn't move all our stuff in until about a week later as we got a bunch of decorating done: mostly upstairs painting the walls and re-carpeting. I now have my dream Sega-blue game room!!

The game room when it officially had it's first game in it.

Oh and the landlord lied. They immediately rented it back out again days after we handed the keys in. Good riddance, eat a bag of dicks.

So yeah I wasn't really in the mood to do much of anything else, but there was a couple little things:

I edited a long-overdue speedpaint video showing me animating a scene from the Rubbish Rumours series of films I made in late '23-early '24.

I also started having a go at building a new website on Neocities. Mostly faffing about with CSS. I still haven't got back to it since, whoops!

April:

There was still quite a bit going on regarding the house at this point, so things were still pretty slow on the creative front, but I did get started on my first freelance animation of the year.

While tending to our garden we found a gargoyle sticking his tounge out hiding in a bush! We named him Fronk and I started making doodles of him! The image above is technically the final render of the art I did in September.

I also doodled Princess Daisy in one of her Mario Kart World get ups.

May:

A majority of this month was dedicated to the freelance gig, another Stop Loan Sharks film which was released in October. Oh, and finally getting the game room/office all set up!

The dream is real! :O

June:

With the Loan Shark film completed and most of the house gubbins sorted (for now..), I finally had some free time to draw...for fun! These illustrations included another Mario Kart World Daisy, a Pride Month AAF, and a friends OC. I also did an illustration commission for Pcwzrd based on the Worms games, which ended up on a T-shirt you can buy!

I wanted to treat my YouTube channel to some new stuff too, so I started a '20+ Years of being Animated AF!' season looking back at my animation past, starting with a brand new 2025 showreel followed by a HD remaster of my first showreel from 2005! I then made a video about my history of editing showreels!

Speaking of remasters, I started working on 4K remasters of all of my old short films from 2004-2008, which I plan to release as a compilation video! This project ended up getting put on hold and hasn't been completed yet, but I plan to get back to it early next year.

July:

I was almost exclusively focused on my YouTube channel in this month, fuelled by hitting the 2500 subscriber milestone! I launched a membership program on there called AAFicionadoes, and beavered away at a video chronicling the inception and long-arse history of my OC/logo AAF! This video was my biggest hit on the channel in over a year!

August:

Another month of mostly focusing on for the 20+ year season of videos, this time with a video looking back at my portfolio website from 2005; Tea N' Crumpets!

These YouTube vids were mammoth edits!

My partner in crime CherryT was really getting back into drawing at this time, working on her OC 'CeeTee' that is also a sloop-doop-da-floop-doop like AAF! I had a go at drawing her in the style of my PNGTuber! I also livestreamed a Salt or Hype.

September:

As promised when I hit 2500 subscribers, I put together a Q&A video for commenters on the channel! For some bizarre reason I decided to make the intro a parody of Uncle Duck! It was the first time I've used the default Flash brushes in...maybe 15 years?? This video also had a crude animation of EAT PANT Bart Simpson, inspired by one of the questions asked!

I also illustrated another friend's OC and fully rendered that Fronk sketch from earlier in the year.

I also did a livestream where I unpacked all my Sonic the Hedgehog figures to place them in a new display cabinet I got. I also did four livestreams for SAGExpo. Oh and another Salt or Hype.

House wise we had a small leak that led to us deciding to have our entire roof replaced! Seven blokes shaking the entire house for a day!

October:

The animation I made in May finally released, and I made a couple more illustrations of friend's OCs. I livestreamed during the Sonic Hacking Contest as well.

November:

Now that the roof was replaced we also had the loft sorted out: new, much thicker insulation and some proper flooring and shelves installed to store away a tons of stuff! I'm sure you find all this house talk riveting!

A big freelance animation gig landed on my lap during this month, one that's still in progress and is a second season of a series of films I did a couple of years ago!

I did get up to quite a bit of fun drawing too! I caught up with the latest season of Star Wars: Visions and ended up creating fan art of a Twi'lek called Gura from one of the shorts.

I also drew AAF trying to hide his impending age! I put the feelers out for a 'draw this in your style' of AAF and was treated to FIVE pieces of fan art around my birthday! Aww yisss! Thanks go out to Euan, TrashNerdJen, LuketheFox, JustinDalebout and Pineapplegrenader for these!

Finally, I worked on a commission for the Dreamcast Junkyard to celebrate the blog's 20th anniversary! This released in December alongside a podcast I took part in!

Oh and I er...got into drawing....erm..."alternative" stuff. Most of this wasn't published anywhere but a couple were if you know where to look. Heheee.

December:

Still beavering away on this animation project, as of writing the first of four film is complete and the second one is in development. The image is a sneak peek! Still got a ways to go~

Previous years: 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019

2018 - 2017 - 2016

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Artwork I created for The Dreamcast Junkyard for the website's 20th anniversary, re-creating the layout of the blog in it's early days!

This was one of my earliest homes on the Internet, I joined as a writer on this blog back in 2006! This led to me creating some of my first ever YouTube videos including the 'Rummage' review series!

I joined Tom Charnock, Simon and Mike Phelan for a podcast celebrating the anniversary and reminiscing about our time on the blog which you can listen to here!

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One week from now...

Gulp!

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Gura and her little octo minions from the Star Wars Visions short 'Yuko's Treasure'!

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A re-draw of HyperJerk's character Aria! In particular this art of her!

Slightly belated for their birthday but I had to have a crack a drawing this space QT! 👽

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Here's a piece of commissioned animation work I done did for Stop Loan Sharks in collab with Deadline Communications earlier this year. You may have seen clips of it in this years show reel but now it's finally been released in full! Check it it below!

(and yes I did sneak a Sonic run in here because of course I did)

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Fan art of H of ‪Rewind and Design‬! I've been really enjoying their let's play videos and she's just got started as a PNGTuber recently, check them out! >>> https://www.youtube.com/@Rewind_and_Design <<<