msjolly

Shelbie Copas. Animator that likes to sleep and drink tea. Twitter @ themsjolly

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Warm up sketches and color exploration.

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Corgis exploration.

[matthew-benham]

I’ve had this drawn long before our art trade. (I was holding my breath that you wouldn’t choose her during our trade for this reason.) Truffles for @themsjolly.

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I forgot to reblog this! I love this so much, the expression, the pose! Its all too GOOD! THANK YOU!

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Dumpster fire drawings.

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A bunch of exploration doodles of my knight lady character, Axton.

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Commissions are open! Please email me with your details. :-)

[themsjolly]

Commissions are open! Please email me with your details. :-)

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The two shots I did for the DBX bendy and Cuphead battle; I did a lot of cleanup. Animated with Photoshop.

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Valie redesign exploration sketches.

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A bunch of character expressions.

[matthew-benham]

@themsjolly ‘s Knight lady Axton.

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Ahhh! This is so good; I love it! 

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Character design assignment.

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A garnet.

[makingtoons]

How TV Cartoons Are Made - A (Mostly) Simplified Guide

When I was in school and wanted to work in animation, there was very little information about how cartoons are actually made. Even my professors at college knew very little about the industry as it is today. I’m sure it would’ve been better to study somewhere in California (like CalArts) to be better informed about this stuff, but I didn’t have that opportunity.

Nowadays, many kids in school have a dream career that they don’t really know much about. There’s a lot of missing bits of information and a lot of straight up lies that get circulated as fact as people try to scramble to put the pieces together on how cartoons for television are actually made.

I’ve been storyboarding for television for a while now, and there still aren’t clear resources for those wanting to get into the industry. I wanted to make the basics available to everyone, so here’s a quick rundown through the TV pipeline. Please note: all studios and productions are different. Even cartoons made within the same studio could have wildly different production guidelines. This is not a concrete explanation of how every cartoon is made; this is simply a generalized look at the “typical” television pipeline.

**DISCLAIMER** All images in this post have been sourced from blogs, twitters, scribd and flickr pages are publicly available, and no internal studio materials have been used that have not been already published publicly online. This post is influenced heavily by my own individual experience, as well as friends’. 

With that said, this might be a lengthy read, so let’s go!

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A Peridot.

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A quick pearl color practice. I love this outfit.

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Late night doodling.