DONKS (Patreon)

DONKS!!! It's here, it's done, and you can watch it right now!

What is this film? How do I describe it?? I was thinking about ocean plastic, bottom feeders, and animals adapting to living with humans, even though they're as far away from humans as possible. So I guess it's about that- as a musical extravaganza!

There's a bunch of other influences and themes and motivations behind this, but I've been staring at it for too long to tell what kind of film the final product is. So I'll just let the film do the talking -hopefully it's good!!!

The name of the film comes from a box of miscellaneous plastic objects that my child has. Things that are not categorically blocks or figurines or anything describable. I referred to them as "gonks", which was pronounced by my then-2-year-old as "Donks". This film was me making my own set of Donks, and building silly things out of them.

The Donks themselves are modelled in 3D, which is the first really significant use of 3D in one of my films. But, they're animated in 2D! It's all just pictures of the 3D objects being dragged around frame-by-frame, and occasionally swapped out for pictures from different angles. It was fun finding a way to start learning 3D and using it in a project, while still playing to my 2D strengths!

Also, you may notice there's a company logo at the start of the film! That deserves its own post, but long story short, my wife and I now have a studio name to release our projects under- either individually or when working together!

Now this probably goes without saying, but please don't share this around with anyone just yet!!! This is an early release for Patreon, but I'll be putting the film out publicly on YouTube in about a week or so!

When it goes up on YouTube, I'll also make some big HD copies available for patrons to download, so you can see every pixel as intended!

A huge thank you thank you THANK YOU to every single one of you for helping fund this production over the last 16 months!!! It's a very dense film made using a completely unfamiliar method, which is a slow way to work, but the amount that I've learnt and improved and branched out would be near impossible if my time was being eaten by fast turnaround freelance work. So thank you for your patience, as well as your immense generosity!

The creative freedom you afford me is an unbelievable privilege, and I hope to apply some of these new skills I've built up on some faster projects for you to enjoy!!!

Much love,

Felix