welcome to the monkey pit

Heya, I'm Cal O'Malley. Voice actor, sound boy, art dabbler.

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[mintchocolatechimp]

I composed music for this lovely student film!

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[spencerwan]

An alternate version of my animatic for The Owl House main titles. It was rejected because they thought the POV change was confusing.

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[mintchocolatechimp]

Sorry that this has become a Spencer Wan fan blog. I just think he’s neat.

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[spencerwan]

I found the paper animation for this in my closet so I thought I'd put a process video together.

This was how I designed the animation style for Spiderman Punk in Across The Spider-Verse.

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[spencerwan]

My animation for the last Hades II Trailer.

At some point while I was working on the sound edit, I decided to go back and extend the animation for the sandal shot.

[spencerwan]

This course will cover how to create professional level storyboards for American TV animation. This is a one time special class to learn fro

Hey y’all! I’m teaching a class again!

If you don’t know me, I was the animation director on Castlevania, the animation supervisor on The Owl House, and a visual development animator on Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse

While people usually only know me as an animator, over half of my work in the industry has actually been in storyboards. This year I wanted to teach a class about what I’ve learned, and how to get the most out of your storyboards in a TV production.

If you’re a beginner storyboard artist, someone who’s hoping to work in the industry, or a professional looking to learn some new tricks, this one is for you!

The class will start at 10am PDT on Saturday, June 27th and run for five weeks.

[ziggyplayedd]

things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

change the color used to highlight text on your laptop

move the pictures on your wall

stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all

slightly vary your commute, even just by one street

change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed

drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real

shower with the lights off, without music

buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room

start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing

wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night

listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015

[sandersstudies]

Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!

The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!

This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!

[yippeeepenid]

ITS BACK!!!!!

god i fucking love the quote “dont turn yourself into a sad zoo animal” it has really inspired me!

[mintchocolatechimp]

If anyone sees posts from animation students seeking composers for their student films, send me a link please. 🙏

[whyenn-reader]

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I really wish more ADHD mental health care told you WHY things like this matter to our quality of life.

The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.

But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.

So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.

Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.

Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.

So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.

When you no longer feel like the world is actively killing you, it's a lot easier to navigate it.

[whyenn-reader]

S++ tier addition to the post, thank you tumblr user butts bouncing on the beltway

[mintchocolatechimp]

Hello, I love your work! Would you please consider posting your arcane soundtrack video onto youtube? Thank you!

You got it!

[mintchocolatechimp]

Cover of Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life.