ROB!!!!

Inktober Day Twenty-Six: Zip

Inktober Day Twenty Five: Fracture Heavily drew on actual reliquaries for reference. They're pretty wild!

Went to see Wildwood tonight. What a beautiful film. I realize there’s always the danger of recency bias, but I think it’s my favourite Laika film. The sets and animation are just staggering. (Also - packed theatre and applause at the end; hopefully a good sign for its box office!)

Inktober Day Twenty-Four: Bake

Inktober Day Twenty-Three: Dapper It is so much faster and easier to write these when it's not midnight and I'm not completely exhausted.

Inktober Day Twenty-Two: Beacon Man, the rendering on this one really got away from me, but I went to a life drawing class tonight and didn't have time to try again. (Super fun to go to life drawing again, though!)

Took a high stick to the face last night. It wasn’t bad, didn’t even bleed, but it did make me reconsider my assumptions about my own invulnerability. Maybe it’s time to switch from a half visor to a full cage?

Inktober Day 20: Lounge Two thirds of the way there (ish)!

Inktober Day Nineteen: Confused 'Muzzy' was apparently Victorian-era slang for confused or dazed, but it occurs to me as I post this it's entirely possible it has come to mean something entirely different in the interim and I'm just going to gamble that it's not a weird sex thing.

Inktober Day Eighteen: Flightless Originally this was the idea for yesterday's prompt, but then I read about Victorian-era cane guns and decided to change things around.

Inktober Day Seventeen: Contraption

Inktober Day Sixteen: Gangly I'm not sure I made the fingers quite long enough to properly connect to the prompt but there's no time for redos, I'm afraid.

Inktober Day Fifteen: Hooray I don't drink, so had to look a bunch of stuff up to write this (and still probably got it wrong).

Inktober Day Fourteen: Lady

Inktober Day Thirteen: Flimsy

Inktober Day Twelve: Toss I feel like I'd probably be into Goblin Ball.

Inktober Day Eleven: Rescue When I was doing the art, I'd intended the Roman numeral IV to represent the number of active tokens associated with the bell, but I couldn't find a way to squeeze that bit in there. Writing these has been a real exercise in figuring out what I can and can't include.

Inktober Day Ten: Mystical Made it just under the wire, by which I mean actually over the wire, but frankly I spent the day at Ikea and it's a miracle this got done at all.

Inktober Day Nine: Ram I dunno, sheep knuckles sounded better than ram knuckles to me?

Inktober Day Eight: Stinky Made it just under the wire!

Inktober Day Seven: Panic We made it a week! It might seem like after a few of these you'd stop over-thinking and second-guessing every word you've written, but nope!

Inktober Day Six: Ogre Would have liked to tweak the wording a bit more, but I have a 10:30 hockey start and I'm out of time.

Inktober Day Five: Smack

Inktober Day Four: Cactus

Inktober Day Three: Miniature This was meant to be a quick exercise every day but I'm finding it surprisingly time-consuming? Hopefully I can stick it out for the duration.

Inktober day 2: 'relic'

Inktober Day One: Apple I knew I'd never have time to do a full illustration every day, but wanted to do something this year, so I'm just going to do a little drawing and an accompanying blurb - like they were inventory items in a game that doesn't exist. Very rusty with brush and ink!

It seems weird to complain about given that prior to this year I hadn’t played hockey in about twenty years…but now summer hockey is done and I have to wait more than a month to play again and that seems cruel.

Man, Canada deserved better but that was a hell of a game

The PWHL Sceptres beat the Victoire, the Flames beat the Oilers, and Canada won their game at the World Juniors (although kudos to Latvia, they played HARD). A great day of hockey and all of my teams won!

Normally I would consider it a positive for a company to go private. This…is not one of those times.

If you’re thinking of watching K-Pop Demon Hunters you just need to ask yourself two questions: 1. Do I enjoy heartfelt storytelling paired with boundary-pushing animation? 2. Do I want the songs of a fictional k-pop band stuck in my head for the rest of my natural life?

Apparently I follow exactly enough ttrpg people to have a vague sense that discourse is happening without following enough ttrpg people to ever know exactly what the discourse is about.

I KNEW IT!!!

Just finished my third week at a new job. It’s going to involve a lot more organization and management and a lot less hands-on animation - which I know I’ll miss - but it’s a fun project and an amazing team, and given the state of the industry super grateful not to be job-hunting still.

As usual I'm at the very forefront of new releases, but I finally got around to playing Gris, and man, what a lovely game. Beautiful art and animation, very polished controls, and you can finish it in an evening or two. Loved it so much I immediately played Neva, which is arguably even better.

I've been quiet on here because I have my head down job-hunting and also because the world is on fire, but I've been tweaking some of my animations and did a more extensive overhaul on this one. I think it's a big improvement!

Okay, I know it was just a hockey game, but it also WASN'T just a hockey game, and the world feels a tiny bit more hopeful today.

HOCKEY hockey hockey hockey hockey hockey

I don't really care about football - hockey is my one true love - but it's very watchable, and I actually kind of miss going to superbowl parties. Unfortunately, since moving to Ontario all of the friends we've made also don't care about football, so it doesn't seem likely to happen.