Official 829th

A relaxing day for rex

(Touched up an old drawing! Old one below cut->

I go by Nini, or also known as @twinsunstars and @ninilily, and this is the home of my zine, Tales of the Clones! I plan for this to be a digital free-to-the-public and a non-profit zine, though one of my goals in the future is to do something for charity. For now, I have hopes for the creation of this zine to go well. Thank you to those who voiced their support on my idea, and I am excited to co-create with others!

Now in the early development stages, below is a linked form for the zine if you wish to be part of it and submit something for approval to be featured in the zine. For this zine, you may create and submit:

Fanfiction

Fanart

Collages

Creative/mixed media

LINK TO CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FORM

sketch of a comic panel redraw because the actual comic’s boba depiction pisses me off so much ☹️ original panel below

Temuera..... hehehehehe

I don't think I am okay

✨ Happy Star Wars Day Week everyone! (a bit late to posting this here 😅) ✨

Time to finally give you some updates on the Tukk Tales project and introduce one of its new characters:

Commander Faust of the Coruscant Guard.

More on him soon, but for now I'll let this animation speak for itself. 🫡👀

But why new characters? And where's the short film??

First of all I'm sorry I haven't been great with keeping you all updated in the past! Juggling the project with my freelance work and private life hasn't been easy and I wanted to wait until things have developed further until I make any new announcements, but here's basically what happened:

After the announcement teaser trailer in 2023 completely blew up and I got to see how much love and support there already is for Tukk, his company and the project, I got motivated to push both my storytelling skills and the film itself a lot further, going back and rewriting the whole thing to let us spend more time with these characters and tell a more impactful and memorable story.

Instead of a little one-off 6 minute short (which at the time was still mostly in rough previz stage), it evolved into something closer to a full Clone Wars episode, which I've eventually decided to separate into three mini-episodes, inspired by the beautiful "Tales of" shows from Lucasfilm.

With that expansion also came the need for a lot more characters, designs and assets. And since I'm making all of those from scratch, with hand-painted textures, animator-friendly rigs and screen-accurate details that have to hold up in all kinds of close-ups, I've spent a LOT of time on that part of the process while simultaneously setting up some of the previz animations for the new story.

But an end of that step is in sight and once it is complete, updates will become way more frequent as I'm much faster when it comes to bringing shots from previz to a final stage.

I still can't give a release date yet as it's a no-budget personal project that is happening between client jobs, but it's still going full steam ahead and I'm extremely excited about the new direction it has taken on a while ago.

I'll also be looking for other character animators to bring onto the project later on and help out with some shots, so if you're interested in volunteering, feel free to send me your reel (mail address in my linktree)!

That's it for now, more character reveals soon (and no, they won't all be clones 🗡️🥸)!