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Slice of dogfighting.

No dogs are fighting in this video, however.

I'm trying out a bold new technique here: instead of using my weird framerates of anywhere between 15-20 fps, I'm doing what the animation industry has done forever in this one and using a mix of 1s (24fps) and 2s (12fps).

I think that's why a lot of the youtube comments on Alien: Monday were going on about how weird the animation looked. They're used to seeing the commonly accepted framerates and anything above that looks weird to the ...

Shiny TIE Interceptor

Well well!

I do really like doing animated shadow and lighting effects on top of still shots, you know? Sometimes that's just what you have to do.
It's quick, but effective!

Also I'm gathering some options for the next postcard poll. I'm not sure what everyone's familiarity with retro anime or sci-fi is on here since we have a wide variety of people. Please remind me in the comments what genres of TV, movies, games you're into so I can work it in for future prints.

Tha...

Ships on fire!

Well well!

OK, so we finally blew the rebel station up. I drew all the individual background pieces of debris and then added all of the scorch marks and airbrushed the wrecked bits.

Here's the background itself:

 I then animated the ships and flames and explosions on top.
As always, Vader's fleet is just chilling in the distance not helping at all.

For detailing "battle ...

X-Wing emergency takeoff!

Hello there and a happy Halloween!

This sequence will receive a few touch-ups: the pilot at 0:02 needs some lines drawing on his vest thing and we need MORE FIRE at 0:11, but it should give you an idea of how things are progressing! I also want to add a quick cut of the pilot flipping some switches and the engines powering up, of course.

You can thank Maki for the smoke at 0:02 when the metal walkways smash into the ground, and the sparks as the debris hits that parked Y-Wing in t...

Rebel explosion & Mech note

Hello there!

Well, we had to blow it up eventually. This six seconds is 92 frames long and took quite a while to do due to having to animate all those explosions! I might add more detail to the platform itself - tiny bits of debris flying, etc.

It was fun tracking down various large space stations blowing up in classic anime and seeing how they did it. As always, Project A-Ko came in very useful for reference here (might take a moment for the gif to load, but worth it):

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Hangar Scene Background

Hello!

I'm working on a couple of shots at the moment and thought to show you the backgrounds for them. The one above actually has a bunch of animated elements on top of it in the finished scene - there are walkways falling down, debris raining down, explosions outside, a pilot running up the yellow ladder, etc. The A-Wing on the right has an animated canopy that closes (that's why I didn't draw it on the background itself).

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Rotating explosion shot

Another scene in the bag!
I think that once you've got TIE bombers this close and shooting at your station with their little pew pew laser cannons, you've probably really screwed up somewhere.

As an interesting(?) aside, I was debating with the TFTC game team about where exactly the laser cannons are located on a TIE Bomber. I don't think you ever see one firing shots in any of the movies or media, and there aren't any cannons on the model used for filming Empire Strikes Back (see b...

Monday Print BTS

Oh, hello!

I thought you might enjoy a behind the scenes look into what went into making the finished artwork.

The process typically looks like:
1. I draft a sketch
2. Maki checks and revises
3. I send Maki a colours draft
4. Maki checks and revises
5. I apply changes, go back in and polish off all the details
6. It's goes to print and then Maki mails them out
Btw, they should be arriving to you this week!

So I started with this sketch:

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Flash explosions!

Hello there!

Fistly, if you're reading this on the East coast of America when it's published, I hope you're keeping safe from Hurricane Helene! I'm actually in Atlanta at the moment and it's really coming down outside. It's pretty exciting and apparently it hasn't even really gotten going yet.

Anyway, here's a couple more shots I just finished. Beware there are 4 impact flashes. The strafing shot is short but, as always, took ages to do because there are so many elements layered o...

Gunboats and ion cannons!

Hello!

A quick sequence for this week of everybody's favourite Xg-1 Star Wing Assault Gunboats disabling the rebel platform. As anyone who's played TIE Fighter will know, those ion cannons come in really handy! Electricity is also very fun to animate, it turns out.

I did this in the same way that 80s movies used to do electrical effects. We were watching Predator yesterday and, since this was before mainstream CGI, some poor guy had to manually hand animate at 24 frames per second...

Summer '24 print- Alien: MONDAY!

Here's a typical day on the mining vessel Thanatos. Let's hope nothing bad happens to them!

As always, layout by me and Maki, anatomy fixups and colour grading by Maki, final illustration by me. This print will be flying out to all of you in the Elite tier soon, so please make sure your addresses are correct so that yours doesn't go spiralling off into deep space.

Working on this made me realise how much I enjoy doing concept art-style backgrounds! I used to paint tons of them bac...

The Next Project

We thought it might help to show what projects are on the roster!

As you may remember, a mech project was proposed before Alien: Monday. You can view it here: https://youtu.be/pJKnZCSNqeY?si=7bacH928sAM3vaS-

It doesn't have an official title yet, and we've been brainstorming the story and visuals over the summer, as well as trying out some 3D techniques for the machines themselves. We're al...

Missiles II

Well, RIP to those X-Wings, I guess.

This is a really quick shot, but took quite a while to do because so many individual elements had to be animated. The X-Wing is 3D but everything else is hand animated and there are a few smoke trails going in and out of explosions, debris flying about etc etc...

Anyway, on to finishing the postcard.

-Paul

Missile Impacts

Hello, everyone!

And welcome to any new people joining after the Alien film!

Between next stage planning and the postcard, I'm back to finishing off scenes for TIE Fighter Total Conversion Reimagined (see this video if you don't know what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/oEVrdwZ9bEk?si=w-imvYBHTmBpaMEs ). 

Here's some missiles I finished last night.

Stay cool if you...

Summer Art Poll - Winner!

Well well!

The results are in, and it seems that most of you want an original piece of MONDAY art! So I shall get right on that!
On an unrelated note, I'm actually in the US at the moment and good lord, the heat! How do you survive it?? The sun's finally going down though, so Producer Maki and I will probably head to this nice little late night Korean cafe and brainstorm some postcard ideas for you over a waffle.

I hope none of you are melting in this weather!

-Paul

Summer Art Poll!

An original piece of art comes your way, what should it be?

1 Million Views

Hello! Thank you for the 1.2 million views!
Alien: Monday has been translated into 5 languages (7 if you count reuploads) and pretty cool that many viewers found it valid to be tagged as "horror".

I thought to share some art Producer Maki made in the book and the explosion section. It was one of my favorite parts to work on being influenced by scenes from Iczer-1, Bubblegum Crisis and Project A-Ko. The artbook comes included with the 4K version of Monday, so check out the Elite me...

MONDAY: Elite Swag

To all glorious member of the Elite tier:

Thank you very much again for all your support, and please find a nice 4k resolution edition of the film, along with the 100 page art book, screenplay, movie ticket and poster here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AYvfiHgoCKFi_eVUx8e93Izp64_7oWMH?usp=sharing

I hope you were one of the people we got to chat...

Save the date!

Film, check.
Artbook, check.
Music, check.
Premiere date, check..!

Watch and chat with us live on Youtube July 22, 2024!
Premieres 6pm ET / 11pm BST / 8AM AEST !!

We'll send a reminder the same day along with tier swag.
Elite tier :
• 4K non Youtube-compressed film
• Monday Designworks (big 100+ page artbook)
• HD Monday poster
• Monday movie ticket
• Discord Gold status
• Script

Executive tier :
• Mond...