Whispering Aspens Animatic Series

Welcome to the Whispering Aspens Progress blog!

Here's where I post most of the work I do on this animatic series! There are potential spoilers ahead! 

What is this project?

Whispering Aspens is an animated series that will be kept at most, as colored animatics. As this project is run completely by one (chronically ill) person, full animation is just not possible.

Completing this project might not even be possible, but being chronically ill and unable to work, I need something to make life feel fulfilling.

Trilled-llama is my main blog if you're curious.

About the show

Payton, a schizophrenic, is determined to hide their disorder after their friends abandoned them. Payton figures its time for a fresh start as they befriend their coworker, Pizookie. Just one problem, Payton can't tell if Pizookie is actually a shapeshifter or if their hallucinating. Do the shapeshifting, kidnapping creatures called Whispers exist? Or are they just another delusion? Join Payton as they figure out what is real.

Format 

Whispering Aspens is a series of [colored] animatics. Each completed scene is posted individually. When all the scenes in one episode are finished, the scenes are compiled and posted in one video.

Music in the show is basic [if any], Characters are NOT voice acted, but there are subtitles instead. 

Posting schedule

Proof of Concept Pilot:

part 1

part 2

Shorts:

ur style

First off when the pilot is finished and all uploaded, the show will be taking a hiatus. I'll still be making short films with the characters (like animation memes and the pink oranges short) I'm considering making talking videos going over lore while I make merch to fund the show.

Speaking of merch, since I know not many people right now would want merch of whispering aspens, my shop will also cover animal crossing, my little pony and my own line of cute animals. I'll be posting prototypes in the future to see which ones people would want. For now though here's a few samples:

These will all be cut with my laser cutter. All products will be cut to order so I don't have a huge inventory lying around.

(I know I misspelled ornaments)

Animation models for the main cast of whispering aspens! They don't have rigs yet (for the pilot I'm just moving the model's parts around) but I'm planning on rigging them in live2d. It'll be a LOT of work to get them all rigged but I think it will be worth it.

Finally! I've been meaning to update these for ages it seems like. It's going to be a bit of work creating new puppet for the end of the series, but I'm hoping I'll be much more experienced by then (literally just swapping all the pieces out for more saturated fatter body pieces)

I'm not sure if I went too much with the almost dead look. Payton, wanting to keep their schizophrenia a secret, has no support system at the beginning of the series. Causing them to do things like missing meals and forgetting their medication. I'm really hoping to demonstrate how a good support system can improve quality of life.

I kinda want to redesign payton's face structure. The problem is Payton is meant to be a mix of several races while also looking kinda sickly.

Considering this was two years ago, I feel like I could do a much better job. Especially since it looks like their lower jaw is tiny. Seriously, where is your jawbone?

Happy pride month! This is the main four’s canon orientations. Elloise and Giga’s might not appear in the first season. Might do some other characters later.

Elloise- lesbian greyace

Payton- librafluid aroace (also apothi-aroace but couldn’t fit the flags)

Giga- demiromantic asexual

pilot color key

Whispering aspens's pilot starts releasing next week! 

payton turnaround

Basic turnaround for Payton's first outfit of the series.

pizookie turnaround

A basic turnaround for Pizookie's final design

batty-and-chip-ponies

This is basically a ponified version of Whispering Aspens. Schizophrenic thinks their hallucinating their friend is a shapeshifter but they really ARE a shapeshifter and is afraid to tell their friend.