The Push Up Challenge

A new animation! This is the first time in a very long time I've released two animations in the same month. Last time I was this productive was in 2007 when I would release a new animation every few weeks.

While I was animating Your Bones I started a stick figure animation and another Bill Burr video. I decided I wanted to make a video where I wrote everything from the ground up rather than use another persons material but still do it in the stick figure/Bill Burr style. That was the initial springboard for The Push Up Challenge video. I also wanted to try making a "swoozie" style video which is basically just telling a story with simple animation.

My writing process was simple. I wrote a two page monologue. Deleted 95% of what I wrote and then expanded upon the remaining 5%. I started animating before I finished the script. My original idea was to have the movie be a series of still frames but I decided to animate it.

I also wrote the music for this video but it was necessarily composed for this video. For a few months now I've just been composing a lot of short songs(about 10 a week) trying to convey different moods and emotions. I'm trying to build a library of my own background music that I can use without having to worry about copyright. I can also freely edit the music. For The Push Up Challenge I took two of the songs and expanded them. If enough people want I'd actually put the music online for other people to use as long as they credit me.

Concept art.

Unused poses!

Now what's next? I plan on making a couple very short videos before doing a longer video. One is just a silly idea and the other is a parody. Hopefully they each will take me just one week to animate which means I'll be releasing another cartoon next week! I am writing a few black and white sketch video in the same style as The Push Up Challenge as well. I also am working on a couple of much longer more intense projects but they won't be done for quite awhile.

Oh and I am still writing Directionless!

Your Bones

 

A bunch of sketches!

Very early on I wanted the movie to look like this. 

The inside of the book originally looked like this.

A Full Metal Alchemist inspired design!

Rough storyboard.

Final.

This was the first piece of concept art I did.

This was an early look I tried out. I used this shot in the final movie.

This is another piece of concept art.

And here is some concept up for the next dramatic movie I'm working on. It's not a sequal
but it's in the same "vein" of storytelling.

So I finally finished this movie! Feels good to finally be done! I actually have a series of 8 shorts I wrote in this style. If a lot of people like Your Bones I'll make another one!

I have a lot I can talk about with this movie but I'll save that for other posts.