AFoxInSpace

Happy Holidays! (*hakk-hukhh-whurrgh*) - Also: MAGFest

Hope everyone had a good one this year and, you know, didn't get super SICK for a whole week... ahem. 

Other than still being a little under the weather, everything's been fine. Got to see my family for the first time in months, open presents, give some, and even work on more of those ...

The stream gets a face-lift!

Spent the past two days designing my own fully-animated stream overlay from scratch, and signed up for Streamlabs to make it more engaging with follow/sub/etc. alerts I animated and put together, myself. 

Hope you enjoy it!

No streaming for a few days!

Since I tried to log into my twitch on the new work computer, I was required to use my Authy 2FA account for the first time ever...? I've been locked out of my account due to my Authy app being linked to a phone number I no longer have.

I've already got the ball rolling; the number-changing proces...

Welp, I've committed.

 A simple stamped and addressed envelope with one thing inside of it: a 3x5 penciled, inked, and signed original drawing of a random AFIS main character.

I'm going to make 50 of these as a holiday thank-you to my top 50 patrons, or the top 50 that have shipping addresses on their account.&nbs...

A Fox in Space - "WHERE IS EPISODE TWO???" Q&A [MASSIVE SPOILERS]

 WARNING: THIS WILL CONTAIN HUGE SPOILERS FOR 90% OF THE UPCOMING EPISODE. BE WARNED.  

Live stream from last night, where I go over episode two of "A Fox in Space," and explain what's taking so long and the work that remains.

If you want to see literally almost everything I've got...

Train Render Test

Exported a frame of the bar car scene with James Pigma and Peppy with a quick animated terrain to see how the train effects are going to look.

On a side note, I'm really enjoying Blender. All the backgrounds of the cartoon are going to be at least this good.

Halloween Wallpapers

 I made some Phantom of the Paradise-themed AFIS wallpapers. You should see that movie; it's one of my favorites of all time.

Have a safe spooky season this year, and thanks again for all your support.

Goals

Just a heads-up: I'm going to be adding another goal to my Patreon, in order to help out with new hardware and equipment like a better editing computer, a better sewing machine for puppets, etc. 

No pressure on this one. This is all equipment I'm eventually going to buy anyway, but this will ...

Puppet Update

Finally figured out the up/down mechanism that will work in tandem with the left/right using a Playstation analog joystick. 

I drew the pupils before I found the center position for the new setup, so the pupil deadzone center needs to be raised in the future. Still, the mechanism totally work...

Another Puppet Update

Finally figured out how to do the up/down mechanism of the eyes, so I spent the day getting all of my Arduino stuff together. I've got the left/right servo in place, and just have to 3d print a special wheel I designed in zbrush for the other up/down servo. 

Once I'm sure that this 4-directio...

New Maine Workstation

My new, mostly finished workstation, now that I'm settling into my new place in Maine.

Still have to get the sewing machine set up and pegboard for hanging the tools.

 I've really been wanting to get back on finishing the AFIS puppets, but my truck couldn't carry a trailer so I had to g...

3 Good Things

I have some wonderful news. 

1. My move to Maine is complete.

2. I've surpassed 100,000 subscribers on the AFIS YouTube channel.

3. The script for episode 2 is 100% finished.

Thanks for 100k subs! It means a lot. Maybe I'll even get one of those newfang...

Move complete!

Boxes are all indoors and accounted for. Utilities are on, and the internet people should be coming by later this afternoon.

If everything goes smooth, I'll try and begin streaming again this evening.

Thank you for your patience.

Moving to Maine

Anthrocon was a lot of fun, even though I just ended up working on my cartoon in the lobby for most of it. Met a looooot of people there who love the project, and a few new viewers as well. On the way home now, just in time to start packing for my move to Maine. I should be settled in by the 15th,...

Train Confrontation Part 1 (rough/wip/spoilers!)

I got Josh (WeekyTubeShow) Gotay's lines for Dess, and am close to finishing up the first part of James's confrontation on the train. This leads up to the second part, which was posted on YouTube last week.

A Fox in Space - [CLIP] - "Standoff"

 Taking place ten years earlier than the events of the first episode, this scene from the upcoming second episode shows a tense standoff between James and two VIA agents aboard a train making its way across the toxic plains of Venom.  (Voices by Matthew Gafford)   There are still...

Wolf argues with his dad [ROUGH]

 Rough animation with audio of Wolf's dad, Cael O'Donnell, arguing with his son.

My lines for Fox before his voice changes at the end for "Sorry about that" are just placeholders for the VA doing young Fox's voice.   

Fox's mid-pubescent screech is missing because I just can't...

Original Lineup Wallpapers

I think the Arwings are coming along well enough. Have some wallpapers!

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A look at James inside his Arwing

Got the model ...

"Wolf Ruins Everything" [CLIP]

Here's another clip of some animation I finished this week. Hoooonk.

Thanks

I haven't really made a thank-you post in a long time, so here goes.

I just wanted to thank everyone for the support over the past couple years and let everyone know that I'm working as hard and fast on this second episode as I can. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be able to continue doing this. ...

AFIS Animatronic Puppet Update #3

 First testing of hand-controller and eyeballing of fur/face pattern. Still got a long way to go, but making progress. 

Another Patreon Puppet Update

Just an update for the people on Patreon to show how the A Fox in Space puppets are coming along. 

This is a very prototype-y Wolf O'Donnell I'm showing off, as I get my bearings for the fabric/fur stuff and the rest of the mouth/face animatronics.  

The puppets will be featured in...

Do Lemurs Know VSL

I first thought, "Hey, since this Venomian lemur detective guy is mute, I won't have to worry about animating his mouth moving!" and that surely meant it would be easier to animate and take less time!

I was wrooooong

But anyway, yeah, chugging along, just wanted to shar...

Puppet Update Video

 Just an update for the people on Patreon to show how the A Fox in Space puppets are coming along. This is a very prototype-y Wolf O'Donnell I'm showing off, as I get my bearings for the fabric/fur stuff and the rest of the mouth/face animatronics.  The puppets will be featured in short sk...

Puppet Stuff

Organizing everything, getting the rest of my workstation assembled, finishing up the eye mechanisms and moving on to the lower jaw and fur.

Getting there! Stay tuned for more updates.

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The Lemur Police

Venomian bureau agents pursue James McCloud on a train.

"A Dandy Cadet" [CLIP]

Tweeeeeeeeeee-eeew. Tweee-eeeeeeew.

Weekend Puppet Update

Taking on the challenge of designing things from scratch can be fun, but  sometimes you run into some real snags. Fortunately, I had a breakthrough today and have jumped yet another hurdle in my way of finishing this eye mechanism. I guess I'm trying to create something that is super simple but...