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Posted by AnimatedAF - 13 days ago



My latest animation showreel is up! Talking bin bags, talking apples, and various sharks! Lots of new stuff since last years thanks to about six or seven months in a row of projects!

Can also be viewed on Vimeo!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - December 26th, 2023


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Another 12 months of animatin’, illustratin’ and video creatin’ in the can! This was another pretty stacked year for freelance work and building up my YouTube channel. Read on for more details on each month!


January:

The year kicked off with the release of What a Waste, which I animated at the end of last year. I created a poster to celebrate it’s launch. I also had some artwork in print via an article in LeftLion magazine! I also illustrated my OC Drillbot ReV for the year of the rabbit and put out a new animation showreel.


February:

I did a valentines card for CherryT of the pair of us in Mario & Luigi style. I was also commissioned to do an edit of the van animation I did last year, this time with a car and some other minor tweaks.


March:

At the start of this month I hit over 1000 subscribers on YouTube, only took 17 years! To celebrate I put together a quick video talking about the past, present and future of the channel, using it as a test to see how I could start making more fully-edited, scripted videos using my PNGTuber. The first of these was an almost hour long video exploring my DVD/Blu-Ray collection.


April:

This was the month that I really pushed to get a load different videos out on my channel, with full illustrated thumbnails for each! This mostly consisted of a six-part let’s play of the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, cut down from an April fools day livestream.


I also did an impressions video about the Super Mario Bros movie and a scripted video about Easter eggs I snuck into my animations, just in time for Easter! I also made a speedpaint video for one of the video thumbnails and made a new logo for the speedpaint videos.


There was also a birthday card illustration for CherryT inspired by the Mario movie!


May:

May was a pretty quiet month, mainly consisting of two illustrations: a quick one of an OC for mermay and a piece of fan art of vTuber Asha the Game Genie. Both of these were captured off-stream and turned into speedpaint videos.


I also made a supercut of a Netherlands travel vlog from 2018 with a bunch of additional footage that I never got around to editing before, in time for the 5th anniversary of our friends wedding that we attended that year!


June:

My first big freelance project finally arrived between May and June, an informational film about Credit Unions, done in a similar style to several films I did last year, but with more colour in the mix.


I also did a couple of livestreams this month, namely a reaction stream to a Nintendo Direct and a Sonic anniversary stream, a part of which was edited into a video of me drawing obscure Sonic characters from memory.


July:

With that freelance project done and dusted I dedicated most of this month to some personal animating stuff: mainly giving my PNGTuber a fresh coat of paint by improving all the animations with more frames. I made a scripted video about the process. I also made big progress on a re-animated collab shot that I finally finished in November.


August:

Browsing my pages you’d think I did absolutely nothing this month, but I was in fact deep in researching for a video series I plan to make for YouTube in the near future when I have more spare time for it. What started as a single short video idea deep-dived into a rabbit hole of fascinating stuff that I can’t wait to share with you all!

I also started animating an intro for this video series, which is currently sitting in sketch form and will be returned to next year when I can!


September:

My YouTube planning had to be stuck on hold as another big freelance project landed on my lap: an informational film about community lenders. There is some pretty fun scenes in this, and yet another loan shark character! This took up all of September and was released at the end of October.


October:

Just as I wrapped up the previous project another even bigger one was being cooked up: a sequel to What a Waste! Once the filming of the puppetry and the recording of the voice talent was ready I could get to work on once again animating faces for the returning apple character and the five new characters!


What a Waste was a pretty experimental film but this time around I had a working system in place to jump straight in and assumed I would be able to get this one done in less time. I technically did get it done in less time because the deadline for it was much tighter, but it was a crunch to do so, consisting in total of over 2000 assets!


In the short space between these projects I illustrated Rouge the Bat based on a Twitter trend.


November:

November was mostly taken up by wrapping up production on Apple-y Ever After. In total it took about five weeks, about a week longer than I planned, not helped by me choking on a slice of potato that rendered shallowing anything difficult for weeks! It was a good thing CherryT was around at the time to perform a Heimlich maneuver on me! Absolute life saver! A teaser trailer was released mid way through the month.


Once that was done with I went back and finally finished this shot for the Wario Ware GOLD re-Animated collab which I had been chipping away at on-and-off for around three years! It’s done pretty nicely on both Newgrounds and YouTube. The full collab should be out sometime next year! Speaking of which, I have another shot reserved that I need to crack on with when I’m less busy with freelance work!


December:

I have started another big animation project that will be ongoing until the end of January and should hopefully release in Feb. This has been the third project in a row with barely a breather between them and that on top of cinema work left me feeling pretty burnout, hence this quick doodle.


I spent the spare time I had at the start of the month to make a video about the latest birthday cake CherryT made me. I also took this opportunity to edit remasters of previous cake videos, including one that was never finished. Here’s the playlist for all six of them.


Apple-y Ever After finally released near Xmas, which meant I could publish this poster I made for it. Next month there will be a making of video published by Deadline and so far the film has been quite the hit, currently sitting at around 40K views!


Finally, I published an old Xmas animation from 2010 on YouTube, but because the original video had copyrighted music baked into the sound effects, I remade the soundtrack from scratch!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - December 24th, 2023



This is a Christmas animation I did over the course of a week back in 2010 while doing work experience for a animation studio in London.


I only had the flattened down single WAV file of all the sound so this version has a completely re-made soundtrack, with a silly pan-pipe MIDI version of Let it Snow instead of the copyrighted song previously used and I had to re-voice all the dumb sound effects! If I had more time I would of liked to have remade this whole film tbh!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - December 2nd, 2023


The one thing I look forward to the most about my birthday is when my fiancée CherryT makes me a custom birthday cake! This year she decided to embrace the weird and created quite possibly the most obscure video game cake ever created! I can guarantee you this cake idea has NEVER been done before anywhere on this planet in its entire history! Check out the video below!



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Posted by AnimatedAF - November 18th, 2023



The teaser trailer for the sequel to “What a Waste” called “Apple-y Ever After” that I once again animated the faces for is here! The full film should be out sometime next week!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - April 6th, 2023



I watched the Super Mario Bros movie yesterday and ended up having a LOT to say about it, so I rambled about it for twenty minutes here! This isn't so much a review, more just my thoughts on seeing it for the first time. Btw I made sure to put all the spoiler-y stuff at the end of the video (from 12:23 onwards) so you can stop watching from there if you haven't seen it yet!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - March 3rd, 2023



Whoa, there are now over one thousand of you staring in my general direction on YouTube! Cheers for that!


In this video I talk briefly about the almost 17 year long history of this channel; where it started, where it is now and where I hope for it to be in the near future! Thanks again to everyone that has checked out my stuff so far and I hope to bring you some fun new videos soon!


Thumbnail art by CherryTerrier

Toontalker2005 from the world of Keith Stack


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Posted by AnimatedAF - January 19th, 2023



I created so much animation in the last year that it only made sense to update my showreel to feature it all! There is now no longer stuff any older than 2017 in here, compared to my previous showreels that still had stuff going as far back as 2011!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - January 15th, 2023



Created with Deadline Communications for Love Essex, What a Waste it’s a superb marriage of puppetry, set design, animation and voice talent! One of the coolest projects I’ve ever had the privilege to work on! I animated the eyes and mouths, if which there are around 1400 in total! The film can be watched above, and check out the films IMDB page for some production photos of the puppetry!


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Posted by AnimatedAF - December 31st, 2022


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It’s that time of year again, time to look over the last twelve months of creative productivity! This was my busiest year for freelance animation EVER, with six projects all pretty much one after the other, some of which lasted several months! For the first time in over ten years animation actually felt like my main job! Read on for full details on each month!


January:

I kickstarted the year with an attempt to keep myself busy (haha) by coming up with weekly personal illustrations to work on while livestreaming. This included a couple based on childhood toys, followed by fan art of games I was playing at the time

I also started my first freelance gig of the year about visiting a recycling center for Love Essex, which was finished and released in early Feb.


February:

I continued the weekly art streams (though I did skip one week while I was wrapping up the animation work) that included more Balan Wonderworld fan art and another nostalgia trip based around old TV game show Fun House which was seen and approved by Pat Sharp himself!

I also made some Valentine’s day silliness for CherryT and with her help also created this ridiculous Art Data-Blast video featuring all of my art over the years with a 90′s TV inspired intro.


March:

A big turning point for my livestreams arrived here when I decided to create a PNGTuber using Veadotube Mini! I livestreamed the majority of my experimentation and process and the cutdown videos about it became some of my biggest hits on YouTube yet! Going forward I would now use this animated avatar instead of a webcam, though this would actually end up being the last month of the year that I’d have any time to livestream because…


April:

..April would be the start of one of the biggest projects: six one-minute animated shorts for the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit about the dangers of loan sharks. This month was spent mostly storyboarding most of the films and completing the first one.

At the same time concepts were being developed for another six-minute piece of animation that I would need to juggle alongside the above project over the coming months!

I should also mention here life-wise I changed my daily job from working in a cinema to…working in a smaller, closer to home cinema!


May:

This month was mostly spent storyboarding for the second big project and waiting around for approval while the Loan Shark project was put on hold, so while I had a bit of spare time I gave my website a new lick of paint (including some new art of old characters) and made several illustrations including my favorite Eurovision 2022 act (now my most popular Tumblr post ever for some reason!), joining in on the Catoon Network CMYK art fad, and fan art of a fellow PNGTuber. I was also commissioned by Jadypie to create some cute animal Twitch emotes!


June:

After two pieces of quick art including another obscure game character and another excuse to draw Amy Rose, me and CherryT took a couple days away to visit the theme park Alton Towers, which I made a travel vlog about

The 2nd film for the Stop Loan Sharks series was completed this month and this was when the 2nd big project was given the official go ahead! The six-and a half minute long film has yet to be released and might end up staying in the private sector but all I can say is it has a similar subject matter and art style to the Annabelle’s Journey film I made last year.

I also drew these guys for some reason.


July:

This month was almost exclusively knuckling down to get the un-released film fully animated. Much like the Annabelle film this was a massive amount of hand-drawn animation squeezed into just over one month! I also made time to do this commission for PCWzrd.


August:

With that long, time-consuming project out of the way it was time to jump back into the Loan Shark films. Two were completed in April and June but I still had four to go, so this month and most of September was day-to-day animating again!


September:

I was getting these Loan Shark films done at a rate of roughly 10 days per film, though the last one took a little longer as it was yet to be storyboarded until now. This project was finally complete midway through the month and released near the end!

Somewhere in the middle of all this I managed to fit in some livestreams of the Sonic Fan Games Expo and some reactions to some gaming events.

In the last week of the month I worked on a pretty exciting commission that I need to stay tight-lipped about for now!


October:

This month was started by wrapping up the above commission and jumping into another, thankfully much shorter 1 minute animation that has also not yet seen the light of day, but when it does I shall update this article! As soon as that was done another big project approached!


November:

This freelance gig started at the end of October and lasted all through November and up until the middle of December! Again I can’t really talk about this one until it’s out but this one I know when: the 9th of January, so stay tuned for that! 

There was a break at the end of November when me and CherryT went to Birmingham for a few days to finally go to a concert we booked back in early 2020 that kept getting delayed!

Mid-month I also quickly doodled up my OC a couple times.


December:

This last project ended up taking longer than I anticipated at around seven or eight weeks total, most likely because it’s quite unlike anything I have done before (oooh intrigue!). After what felt like roughly nine months of almost non-stop animating the last half-month of the year was spent last-minute Christmas shopping and finally chilling out a bit, including going to a local video games expo for the weekend! The last piece of art I did this year was for the Newgrounds Secret Santa.


That was an intense year! I can’t wait till you get to see the stuff that’s not out there yet and in terms of 2023 I do already have a couple things queued up for January so we’ll see how it goes I guess!


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