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March progress

March was a bit slower on this front. I planned to finish two scenes, but commissions and some real-life stuff ate too much time. However, I did finish one monthly clean animation and started working on another one. There are three more scenes with the faceless mutant.

Thank you for the continuous support!<...

Scene 004

Second published monthly scene. The spiked mutant's "arm" is looking for something.

Lydia Oths Collage 7

A collage from the next seven unique portraits I made for the ask blog.

Frank's Spikes

Frank can voluntarily move his spikes like a hedgehog. He thinks that he could learn to move each spike individually, which he tries to achieve when there is absolutely nothing better to do.

February progress

This month I finished 2 consecutive scenes of the faceless mutant. The first one was published and the second one is stored. I'm planning to finish the whole sequence before moving to other parts. First scenes where Lydia appears I'll leave for the last because by the time I got to them my skills will be better. The same goes for her "squid-parkour scenes". The latter because they're complicated and the f...

House Typhon Navigator

I've been working on a corsair ship that would appear in my Dark Heresy game after the "Dark Heresy Ark" is over and the "Black Crusade Ark" will begin. For a navigator on that ship, I decided to create an offspring of a renegade navigator house. After some research, I found house Typhon in Navis Primer book for Rogue Trader. This house believes that navigators are the next evolution step for humanity and psykers are a dangerous dead end. This belief fueled many forbidden practices which even...

Scene 002

Since the first milestone was reached last month, I will publish one scene monthly. Of course, I'll try to make more than one scene this month. Currently, I'm working on the next scene from this sequence. A feral monster goes hunting.

Little Annoyance

Some things never change. The world might change. Monsters might herald the end of the world. You might change into a six-legged furry creature. You might sit in your armored mobile base. There is still that annoying fly that will buzz around and bug you!

January progress

January was a complicated month. I tried to close the gap in my budget which appeared while I worked on previous scenes. I made 7 animatics which concluded 3rd part of 5, leaving the final and epilogue. Also, I published a teaser for the project which brought several more patrons to me (hi guys! o/). Which also got me past the first milestone. Thanks to you I can spend enough time per month to finish at least one clean scene. Thank you all!

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December progress

The last month of the year has ended and with it the infamous year 2020 is over. For half of the month, I was trying to figure out what kind of backgrounds I want to see in the cartoon. A small and serene mountain town filled with unusual dangers and one little mutant girl. You saw the result in the 3 scenes I publi...

Hot chocolate

I wanted to make something cozy before the end of the year.

Scenes 021 and 023

Two scenes are finished and I added a background for the scene 020. Took me a while to remember how to draw houses and I'm still not sure if I like how the backgrounds look. But it will do for now.

November progress

The hardest part of the two scenes I promised is done. I have a clean animation for one scene and all the needed rough frames for the other. Also, I'm going to try to make backgrounds for these two scenes and the one I finished before that. Not sure how long it will take because I'm not sure what exactly do I want to see there. I took scenes 21 and 23 to animate so I could use it with the first finished scene to make a tiny teaser of the cartoon.

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October progress

Bureaucracy and sickness took almost half of the month and most of the remaining time I mostly worked to keep food on the table. But I still managed to make 14 animatics. Though I deleted most of the introduction scenes because they're a mess.

I feel like I'm disappointing all of you with yet another month with next to no progress while you keep supporting me. I'm really sorry. I promise that a...

September Progress

September was a busy month and I only had time to make 9 more animatics showing a small but important aspect of Lydia's character.  No. It's not her love for sweets. It's about what happens after she sees it. 

Another month you're all with me and keep supporting my endeavor. I don't have words to express how grateful I am to you. With your help, the release of this cartoon is getting ...

"Where did it fall from..."

Since Lydia mutated, she saw many strange scenes. This is one of them. The monster obviously fell from the sky and got impaled by a crumbling concrete column. How did it happen? Maybe it jumped without looking, or maybe a huge flying monster dropped its lunch. There are many questions but one thing is clear. It died, but its infection lives on in mutated plants under its corpse. Yet another thing that will keep Lydia scared. 

August's scene

"A mutant girl carefully moving through the empty town, nervously grasping her spear hoping she won't need to use it today."

It was a year since I made my last clean animation so it took me some time to remember how it's done. Because of that, I made some mistakes that made my work harder. I'll try to avoid them in the future.

July Progress

June was the most productive month so far and July is the most unproductive. Last of June's commissions were complicated so I didn't have enough time or mental resources to keep working on the cartoon. After the work was done several real-life events drained the rest of my resources so sadly I didn't make any progress. I'm really sorry about that.

I got some good news too. This week I started work on the first actual scene and if all go well you'll see it in about a week, though this wi...

June progress

June was certainly a much more productive month so far. I made animatics for 20 more scenes. Before I began working on this project I thought animatics are the easiest part of the job and I will be able to design all the 100+ scenes within one month. I didn't think about all the work behind the scribbles that later will turn into animated scenes. Designing the scene, the composition, the movement takes a lot of brainpower. For me, the hardest step always was the first one. Each animatic is th...

Frank Sullivan

One of the characters to eventually appear in Lydia's story.

Alternative outfit

The lightbulb-head mutant was a model in his previous life. This is what will happen if he’ll meet Lydia in a safe settlement.
(I just wanted to draw this outfit and Lydia is the only one of my characters who looks good in it) 

May progress

Ehh...  I finished with April's batch of commissions on the 8th of May and then I was possessed by the idea to draw Lydia and Frank together which in the end turned out to be the most complicated illustration I made so far. It was finished on the 27th of May. While I'm proud of the results I also bothered by the fact I barely worked on my main project this month. This made me rethink my priorities...

Good Morning

"A scene from Lydia's brighter future."

What started as a simple picture of two characters ended up being the most complicated picture I made so far. I feel a bit sad that I didn't make much progress with the cartoon this month because of it but I also feel really proud because not so long ago I wasn't able to make an illustration like this one.

April progress

I wish I could say that April was a great month for this project. Well... it wasn't. But at least I got this project going and possibly in May, there will be at least one finished scene to show. 

When I got to work at the beginning of this month I had only 4 animatics of a faceless monster and a more or less finished script. To make an animatic is not as easy as drawing a sketch. Sketch exists within itself. You don't need to make it look good with other sketches (animatics) on the...

Lydia Oths Collage 6

  A collage from the next seven unique portraits I made for the ask blog.   

Animatic 1 - The faceless monster

This is the first piece I'm publishing for this project. I'm clearing up my schedule and trying to dedicate as much of my spare time to the cartoon as possible.

Here you can see animatics for 3 scenes with the faceless monster. Some of you might remember the sketch of this creature I did some time ago. It's supposed to be the first infected being to be shown. I wan...

Remnants of the Sullivan family

 The idea of the hedgehog boy is almost as old as Lydia's concept. "If there is a fluffy girl, there may be a spiky boy," I thought. As Lydia's world developed in my head, so did his story.

The Sullivan family wasn't perfect, but they were happy. When the panic caused by the alien infection spread, they were surviving together. Then - tragedy. A monster attacked and infected every member of the family except for Edith, Frank's mother. Twisted bodies of her loved ones attacked ...

Last Resort

Lydia usually uses her spear as a tool. Most often, to help her climb. Sometimes, to check for traps. Rarely, to grab something. But there are moments when it has to be used as a weapon. When Lydia can't escape an aggressive mutant, as a last resort, she attacks, hoping to scare the adversary off. 

But it's not always possible...

Nephilim scientist

 While I was getting ready to run a short Fragged Empire game I got an idea of a character I wanted to draw. There is nothing much behind it. Just a visual concept... 

Scavenging

The more time passed, the harder it was to find something good. Lydia had a decent supply of food back home but it was not infinite. She ran out of food and starvation forced her to rethink her position on looting. But when she visited the local supermarket everything useful was already gone. But still, she managed to find a little treasure.