ASTOUNDING TALES OF ART FICTION

Art blog of Darwin animator, illustrator and writer Jonathon Saunders.

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Fun test animation featuring Samson. Background is a modified shot from Zero-Point Season Zero, Mark G Russell did the animation for the explosion.

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Bridgman studies.

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One Minute to Midnight! A one minute short film I did last year for the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) New Light 2023 and Illuminate Adelaide 2023. Wanna get back into more Zero-Point animations.

Animated in Toon Boom Harmony, backgrounds illustrated in Clip Studio Paint.

Directed and animated by me.

Music: Borrtex - Getting Ready.

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Do people still use this site? Here's some sketches/studies that I've uploaded elsewhere.

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Been a while since I did some sketches and figure studies.

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Sneak peak at some inks for Zero-Point Origins part 3.

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2/2

While working on Zero-Point Origins, I also did a comic that would continue from my animated web series Zero-Point Season Zero. However, it would be a bit confusing jumping right into climax with Samson for new readers coming in from ZP Origins that didn't watch the web series. So I decided to scrap that and just continue from there. Since I pretty much inked the first chapter of Ground Zero and can't really do anything with it, I decided to release it online.  Stay tuned for more Zero-Point in the next Wild North Comics!

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1/2

While working on Zero-Point Origins, I also did a comic that would continue from my animated web series Zero-Point Season Zero. However, it would be a bit confusing jumping right into climax with Samson for new readers coming in from ZP Origins that didn't watch the web series. So I decided to scrap that and just continue from there. Since I pretty much inked the first chapter of Ground Zero and can't really do anything with it, I decided to release it online.  Stay tuned for more Zero-Point in the next Wild North Comics!

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More ZPG boards/animatic. Been a while since I did a fight scene.

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Not dead, just been busy with work and other projects. Had some time to do more Zero-Point Gaiden storyboards.

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Another sneak peak of the new Zero-Point short. Used boards from an earlier draft, with new pencil test. This is a work in progress, so timing isn’t final.  

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Took some of those new Zero-Point short storyboards made a little animatic. I am also shameless in reusing Season Zero clips! 

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Film lens size study, and how it effect perspective and figures. Can you guess which films are referenced?

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Re-working some old test pages for a new comic.

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Cover sketch. 

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Nearly finished the inks for another ZP Comic.

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Zero-Point animation test! While this is from a scraped scene in an old version, I still liked the animation. Gave me a chance to brush up on Toon Boom Harmony 21.