ArcadeDoodles

As well as a lot of progress in general, this was the first time I got into 3d renders and animation. Not many ‘big’ 2D works this year, but a lot of sketches.

January:

At this point in the year I was mostly doing sketchy experimentation, i still quite like some of the ones in this sketchpage.

February; Very similar really, a lot of quite dense sketchpages and oekakis sketches, as well as the first basic flickbook-style animations.

This one is pretty indicative, note the lineart is getting a bit cleaner.

March:

Mostly Oekaki sketches, resulting in 100+ files to sort through for this month, most of which aren’t much on their own. This Oekaki compilation gives a good idea of what I was doing for practice;

April:

First forays into the third dimension! In 2D, also first forays into coloured lighting and better attempts at transparent rendering.

May:

Lots more experimentation in 2D and 3D, started 3D sculpting and first attempts at hair sim. Pick for this month is a try at doing a horrible gremlin thing in 3d;

June:

All 2D for a while. Improvements with rendering;

July:

Most sketching+experimenting with game stuff. First go at doing a fully animated, if shonky, 2d character;

August:

A lot of work done this month, hard to pick; assets for a (never finished) game jam game, quite a bit of 2D painting, and 3D animations. Decided to go with one of the 3D animations (first one with a proper texture).

September;

Not that much done this month, and mostly 2D. Experiment with monchrome palette:

October:

Didn’t get much done overall in october, but did get a coupe larger painted works done.

November:

Quite a lot of 3D stuff done, multiple short animations. Had trouble picking favourite again, but went with this jumping slime animation:

December:

Mostly 3D experimentation, but did get a very polished animation done: