catopolis behind the scenes (Patreon)

hello! I am done with coloring Catopolis, and now I'm just waiting to finish up with sound/music with my collaborators :). Yay. I'm so excited to be done and onto the next thing, hopefully very soon.

In the meantime I wanted to make this little video to give a little insight into how I create these animations. I find that it's very difficult to explain/show in an interesting way, so I kept it pretty short. Most of the "magic" comes from just drawing a million little pictures over and over again, which is pretty self explanatory, but it just takes a long time. This is more about planning/conceptualizing stuff.

I think everyone's method of filmmaking will be different, and will often arise from restrictions in your own project (i.e, time restraints, software limitations, limited capacity for labor, etc) and those little differences make our movies our very own. This is just my little way of doing things. It's not necessarily the "right" way, but it's the way that makes the most sense to me.