~ currently TMNT and Star Wars. a bit'a Transformers. occasional Marvel. some other stuff. ~ 📺 currently watching: - TMNT 2003 (S 6+7) - The Testaments - Broadchurch S3 📖 currently reading: "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi 🍁 Rora, she/her, Canada 🍁
The wrestling was legit and yes, one did lift the other all the way off the ground to stop them from putting their whole arm into scalding steam. Unfortunately for them, the buns were cold by the time they stopped trying to one up each other lol
Leo, for all that he might have the braincell occasionally, is absolutely dumbass enough to throw that out the window when faced with a perceived challenge. He’s drank tea straight after it’s boiled, “careful it’s hot” is a slight against his reputation! (which is nonexistent. His brothers worry for his taste buds)
These two have always been the hardest of the four brothers to draw for me, so… I’m actually uncommonly happy with how they turned out. Also, my linework is getting quicker?? Could it be that daily practice increases one’s speed?????????
✨ Happy Star Wars Day Week everyone! (a bit late to posting this here 😅) ✨
Time to finally give you some updates on the Tukk Tales project and introduce one of its new characters:
Commander Faust of the Coruscant Guard.
More on him soon, but for now I'll let this animation speak for itself. 🫡👀
But why new characters? And where's the short film??
First of all I'm sorry I haven't been great with keeping you all updated in the past! Juggling the project with my freelance work and private life hasn't been easy and I wanted to wait until things have developed further until I make any new announcements, but here's basically what happened:
After the announcement teaser trailer in 2023 completely blew up and I got to see how much love and support there already is for Tukk, his company and the project, I got motivated to push both my storytelling skills and the film itself a lot further, going back and rewriting the whole thing to let us spend more time with these characters and tell a more impactful and memorable story.
Instead of a little one-off 6 minute short (which at the time was still mostly in rough previz stage), it evolved into something closer to a full Clone Wars episode, which I've eventually decided to separate into three mini-episodes, inspired by the beautiful "Tales of" shows from Lucasfilm.
With that expansion also came the need for a lot more characters, designs and assets. And since I'm making all of those from scratch, with hand-painted textures, animator-friendly rigs and screen-accurate details that have to hold up in all kinds of close-ups, I've spent a LOT of time on that part of the process while simultaneously setting up some of the previz animations for the new story.
But an end of that step is in sight and once it is complete, updates will become way more frequent as I'm much faster when it comes to bringing shots from previz to a final stage.
I still can't give a release date yet as it's a no-budget personal project that is happening between client jobs, but it's still going full steam ahead and I'm extremely excited about the new direction it has taken on a while ago.
I'll also be looking for other character animators to bring onto the project later on and help out with some shots, so if you're interested in volunteering, feel free to send me your reel (mail address in my linktree)!
That's it for now, more character reveals soon (and no, they won't all be clones 🗡️🥸)!
What chance do we have? The question is "what choice." Run, hide, plead for mercy, scatter your forces. You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission. The time to fight is now!
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
2016 | dir. Gareth Edwards