Not until I began working with this guy have I learned so much in so little: skillfully moving the various departments at our disposal toward a single goal, and bringing out untapped talent to be enjoyed by all. Douglas De Azevedo is a real captain’s captain. 🔥✍️

Episode 2 of #KnightsOfGuinevere is available NOW on YouTube! Layouts, volume 3 (part 1/5 🧵): Directing animation (still) means directing drawings! ✏️ uuuuuh I just had a lot of fun drawing these :D happy you liked em! #animation #glitchproductions

Episode 2 of #KnightsOfGuinevere is available NOW on YouTube! Layouts, volume 2 (part 1/4 🧵): Directing animation (still) means directing drawings! ✏️ HANDS: one kind of thing, among those that exist at the intersection of “tricky to draw” and “hard to get rid of”. Others in this category include eyes, noses, lips, ears, and the skull. Another thing that they’ve all got in common is that they’re real rewarding to get right. Here are some hands that I drew! 🖐🏾 The hands that we draw must be free to move (and sometimes be right in the viewer’s face) in order to have our characters fully emote, and so I tend to be particular about how their movement is informed by their underlying structure and mechanics. Styloid processes of the radius and ulna crown the forearm, extensor tendons of the back of the hand raise berms of shadow from the wrist to the knuckles, tender pockets of muscle and fat along the metacarpals will bulge out from contortions of the palm. ...Not all that stuff will make it into just any drawing, but having that background is important for giving these fiddly body parts some character. Big thanks to animators Jen Adams and Ammar Alarjawi for their wonderful hand performances included in this thread. More drawings to come, will be uploading more soon! #animation #glitchproductions

#KnightsOfGuinevere Thank you, everyone, for watching the second episode! 10M views in less than 3 days! 🥹 Layouts, volume 1 (part 1/5 🧵): Directing animation (still) means directing drawings! ✏️ This episode was the first wherein I was working from start to finish as Character Layout Director. These are some of my drawings from the episode’s first sequence! With the absolute legend Animation Director @DouglasDeAzev15 joining us and weaving the score of moving performances on the show with our growing squad of animators, I could dedicate time to set the foundation for consistent, striking character art with the newly established Character Layout team: at the time, working with @rnn_tweet and @awk3005. What we call “Character Layout”, “CHLO”, “CharLay” exists as an intermediate step, between animatic and animation. The animatic provides us with story context and continuity, and the basis of how shots are going to be composed and timed; while rough animation is a diagrammatic description of how to ink and paint the moving performance in full. Storyboarders drafting the animatic must work quickly and roughly in order to cover enough ground and portray the full runtime of the show — they each must avoid getting mired in the fine, fine details. Animators are many, and come from many different upbringings as artists, but have to converge upon drawing the same few characters in the same few settings — they each avoid getting mired in fighting against what they themselves love to draw and see in a performance. So then, our job in Character Layout is in developing upon the animatic and setting the animation up for success. 💙 So much more to come, will be uploading more soon! #animation #glitchproductions

Episode 2 of #KnightsOfGuinevere arrives onto YouTube on October 9! My work from the final scene of the pilot: the Repair Halo room. 🧵 In the later months of animation work, I had split this scene with @karekareo, who animated the intervening shots not shown here. A bit of wonderful color scripting and design by @eyecager also included here. I had ran out of time to work on this in the rough animation phase, and had to finalize the hair, skin wriggling, eye burst effect, and other bits after it was returned by the clean-up and color artists at @StudioMeala. So, you may notice some bits missing between the roughs and the colored version. (I’ve heard some speculate that the robotic tendrils were CGI — but nope! All hand-drawn.) See you after the next one! #glitchproductions

Episode 2 of #KnightsOfGuinevere arrives onto YouTube on October 9! Long time, no see — thought I’d post a couple more of my drawings from the pilot. ✏️ This time, featuring...Frankie! 🛠️ Between our three main characters — Frankie, Andi, and Princess Guinevere — I believe I’d drawn Frankie the most. Didn’t really intend to at the start, but because properly getting her look took a bit more time for the team and I to get used to, I would end up drawing more and more corrections and notes! Good ol’ Frankie continues to be a joy to draw and put on screen (and put into mischief! Among other things. Stay tuned 🥹) #glitchproductions