#mircsyap

Makes me feel like I have been stolen from. Intellectual property is just as property as a carriage, a book, a carved wooden statue etc… If you make money of someone’s more than HUNDREDS HOURS OF WORK a simple credit does not solve everything. At least not for me. If someone wants to show the work of an artist for profit the LEAST is to ask them if they are okay with it and whether they want compansation. For the person’s own sake, because it can draw legal actions from the original artist’s side and that Argentinian artist is lucky that you mentioned them anonymously.

I personally always allow fans to include my works in for example compilations if they mention there is no profit of it. People are allowed to have fun unless they cause harm to others.

About what you mention in your question I feel especially unsurprised and if possible even more disappointed. With a friend of mine just some weeks ago we joked about how EPIC became the capitalism of art (when it comes to animatics), and sadly this is making this joke be less of a joke…

The fact that beginner artists/animatic makers have to apologise in the captions that their work is not as good as X artist’s who’s been at it for a decade already, is heartbreaking. And this happens because how fans (especially on TikTok) treat artists. Never before have I seen this much comparison among artists by fans.

Suggest names to my little beaver-wolf-eagle-somehornedanimal hybrid! 😆 In the last few days I decided to rebrand my Patreon (while it’s still small) to be more connected to this creature, and I was wondering if you guys had a name for it? It can be real, fantasy, serious or silly. The more there are the funner it will be.

I will choose three favourite (if there will be enough names lol) and make a little poll of it ^^

I found you through Epic the Musical animations, and I love your monster design for the cyclops! How do you come up with interesting character designs like that? Yours is like the only really unique cyclops I've seen.

Thank you!

I was bored of the classic interpretation, plus wanted something that fits EPIC’s fantasy theme, and something that foreshadows that Polyphemus is Poseidon’s child. So the idea of the hooves came to me quickly. For the head my concept was that I wanted something unnatural or rare to find in nature (can be found mostly just in plants) thus the vertical eye and mouth, and the skin layer that opens like a venus flytrap. For the rest I kind of just let my hand and subconscious do its job while keeping in mind that I must be as far as classic designs as possible. Since you have to know the rules before you break them.

Miles Bron’s main motivation was to “have his name mentioned with Mona Lisa in the same sentence forever” Spoiler from the movie after text break below

I’ve been planning to do that for a long time now, I actually have a Youtube post about it, I just never get there.

I eventually want to do a Remember Them animatic AND so many more, I am just in my last year at highschool, I’ll graduate in less than a month and studying for the finals in a messed up education system where half of the teachers are incompatible has been consuming all my motivation to do anything.

I was wondering about one thing - how does being popular in the fandom/liked by people here make you feel? I mean, is that annoying or maybe more heartwarming? Did you want it when you first started animating? And when people want to befriend you do you feel bad about it/tired of it or maybe you are happy about it (or something totally else)? I'm just curious, if you don't want to answer, you don't have to, obviously!

Oh, these are some interesting questions that I have never really considered before, hmm…

I definitely didn’t do my first EPIC animatic to become popular, I never thought it would become popular, let alone lead to working with Jorge later. Until now I was used to that my works don’t get much attention, and I just accepted that. If twenty, thirty, at top fifty people see them, that’s already a huge success for me even now. What heartwarming is when people freak out when I pop in the EPIC discord server chats now and then, although those times I freak out as well because I’m always surprised someone recognises me ahaha. Or when I see people discuss what they like about my works BUT reading reasonable, constructive critisism is also very much appreciated and welcome.

When the fandom was smaller I made some good friends, and keep contact with them even today. Nowadays not many want to befriend me, though there is a bunch of EPIC and other artists who’ve been brought together about half a year ago to play gartic phone (I’ll always be deeply grateful to you @abandoned-raccoon ) and that group works like a found family now😂

And honorable mentions to @arwenmusic and Casper Fox, top tier song writers and musicians