I made a 3D model of my Shyabeetus logo, then rotated it and dithered it with a Game Boy palette in Photoshop. The resolution matches that of a Game Boy screen.
Spinning Shyabeetus Mask
Category Archives: Animation
Dan-gerously Creepy
This was a birthday gift for my friend Dan. It starts out looking like his character in my high school comics, when suddenly… It’s his actual devious face.
Desert Mirage
Desert Mirage is a feature length animation/live action hybrid film by Wild Dogs Productions. I was responsible for a scene and a half (14 shots). Chad Kaplan provided the key poses, and I inbetweened, inked, and colored them. I also provided Teagan’s shadow layers and Leopold’s smoke effects.
SiIvaGunner Sprites
On two separate occasions, I created low resolution animations of characters for SiIvaGunner videos. The first was for the channel’s false ending, in 2016, and the second was for the Haunted House Fusion Collab. I was really proud of some of them, so here they are!
Title Theme & Ending
While some characters in this collaboration already had existing sprites that could just be dropped in (such as Grand Dad and Felix the Cat), others needed to be created from scratch or modified to fit the environment.
Homer’s sprites were taken from the Simpsons arcade game, then scaled down and cleaned up. Haruka’s appearance was based on a reference image that was sent to me (my version uses an 8-bit palette, but the version in the final video uses a 16-bit palette.) I gave her a 6-frame walk cycle, which I recycled for Nozomi’s sprites. Mudbone’s sprites were modeled after Simon Belmont’s walk in Castlevania. Smol Nozomi and the Bean were done from scratch.
The Kirby sprite went unused, but it was a reference to a running gag on the server. It was made using sprites from Kirby’s Adventure.
Nozomi 
OG Mudbone 
Smol Nozomi 
Nozomi (Confused) 
Green de la Bean 
Haruka (NES Palette) 
Homer 
Kirby (vrum)
Haunted House Fusion Collab
Many of the sprites in this collab were from existing game sprites, but scaled down and silhouetted. There were a bunch that I created from scratch or modified.
The Beast’s walk cycle is based on the full Beast sprite I made in 2016, with a simple 4-frame walk cycle. Hamoud and MIDIJam sax were made using keyframes of videos with larger resolutions. Similarly, Buck Bumble and the Beatles were taken from larger images, and animated manually. Leonidas was based on Richter Belmont’s sprites, and Spiderman’s were taken from a Sega Genesis Spider-Man game, but I added his pizza delivery box. Rubber Hose 8-Bit Beast and the Sentry Buster were created from scratch.
8-Bit Beast 
Buck Bumble 
Leonidas 
8-Bit Beast (Rubber Hose) 
MIDIJam Saxophone 
Spider-Man 
Habibi Hamoud 
Sentry Buster 
the Beatles
And as a bonus, here are a couple shots I animated in Flash. The high quality Beast walk from the Ambience segment, and the Beast doing the Caramelldansen dance.
“Goatercycle”
This idea started when I drew my Capricorn character lying on the floor, and Erica drew her Cancer character riding on his back like a motorcycle. I decided to animate it, and it became the first of many Goat Dad and Crab Mom drawings.
Josh Running (in 3 Styles)
I made these back in 2015 (when I still had hair!) I wanted to demonstrate that I could animate traditionally, as well as imitate 8-bit and 16-bit graphics, and ended up using different methods for each. From left to right:
- The 8-bit sprite fits within 16×24 pixels, allowing him to fit in with most NES player sprites. I limited the color palette to 4 colors (including transparency), and only used three unique frames of animation.
- The 16-bit sprite was drawn and shaded in Flash, without using outlines. Each color was exported separately, brought into Photoshop, and dithered down to a few colors, limiting the color palette to 8 colors (including transparency.) There are 7 frames, and the sprite fits within 32x64px.
- The Flash animation uses 12 frames and follows no specific limitations.
Glassa Milk
A timeless tale about a man and some milk. Mm.
The main artwork comes from the Super Nintendo game Captain Novolin. I created the different mouths and hand in Photoshop, and animated them to Chris DePew‘s voice in After Effects.
Captain Novolin is a game about a superhero with type 2 diabetes. Before each stage, this doctor character tells the captain what he is allowed to eat, and this often includes a glass of milk. Chris and I refer to this character as Dr. Glassa.
2014 Animation Reel
This reel mostly contains projects completed at University of the Arts, and some clips that I made as filler. The music is by Storm Blooper.
Botknights
My senior thesis at University of the Arts. It’s the tale of two slacker knights, in a strange land of cyber armor people, who decide their responsibilities are too boring and decide to go on an adventure. The film features voice acting from my classmates, and an original chiptune score (with a cover of a royalty free track by Kevin MacLeod) which I created in LSDJ.
Attorney at Claw
I created this film as my junior thesis at University of the Arts. It’s a nonsensical ocean-themed courtroom scene starring Crabby, a recurring character of mine. This was my first attempt at creating a (somewhat) cohesive, dialogue-driven story with multiple characters.