Dairymancer short (Patreon)

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The above video is a work in progress, it is just to show the voice of the archer elf on the right.  I didn't expect that he would turn out to be Australian but the voice actor Business Orc tried this voice and it's funny (he's American btw).  It reminds me of the elves in the Dota cartoon if you've seen that, there was this squad of 4 elves and they all sounded Australian to me.  One of them later became a god and started doing a Scottish accent.  Also Jheese the space Australian from DBZ comes to mind.

I'm pausing Meth Orcs to make a Fernando short called Dairymancer.  It will be around 1:30 long, the goal is to finish it by the end of November (hopefully earlier).  This is the first shot, you can see Nanders looking at some water.  I tend to draw characters soulfully looking at the ocean a fair bit recently.

I started Dairymancer because Surfshark asked if I could make an ad read for black friday, but they haven't told me when they need it by and I have a feeling they will need it a while before black friday and I won't have it done by then.  Hopefully it will work out, I've communicated all of that to them but in any case it's a fun short so far and I will finish it whether or not I can work things out with Surfshark.

I knew about necromancy and pyromancy but I only recently learned about the existence of Geomancy and Chronomancy.  (And also Gnomemancy and Pizzamancy.)  

This is some smelly mist that the antagonist can emit.  It had to be animated on 1s (one drawing per frame) because we see it close up.  I thought I could do it on 2s or 4s so it took way longer than I expected.  Looks pretty nice though I'm sure I can reuse it since I often portray smelly things.

It will look more like this with some blur and glow and the stars will have a parallax effect.

This is the first glimpse of the antagonist, Teal Mist.  He smells nice.  He's being voiced by Jake aka Scaredofclocks, he voiced the unfortunate catboy leader from the last Meth Orcs and he is also Treshtog's friend in the Meth Orcs I'm making at the moment.

Oops Fernando is popping out there.

Here he is from the front.  He's rocking a mohawk, mullet and boob tube.

I tried a few facial hair combo suggestions but I think we'll stick with clean shaven.

I've always wanted to animate a manwhore battle of seduction, but it never came up in any of the ideas I had.  This cartoon is a battle of seduction with a very flimsy pretense, unlike the usual 3-5 minute denser style of story I usually do.

Plan is to go straight back to Meth Orcs once this is done.

This is the timeline in premiere atm.  The first half is mostly complete and the second half is still to go.

Patreon has changed a fair bit recently, one thing they appear to have done is introduce a public subscription.  I'm going to make this post only public, if you're not a patron this is the kind of post I do every 2 weeks or so when I have enough things to share.