EricaWester

New Years 2024 Update - getting back into it!

Hey guys!  Hope everyone had a good holiday and new years!

So here's an update for ya'.   The industry job I'm at gave everyone the nice Christmas surprise that they're lettin...

a leeel update... (industry stuff!)

Hey guys!  I recently took an industry job, so I'll be pausing the billing this upcoming month.

I did this a year or so ago when I took my last industry job, and it feels like the righ...

SC03 video!!!

Hey guys!  Here's something we haven't had in awhile... a whole ass video!  With sound!  

Timing is subject to change, and it's still missing some stuff like foley/sound effec...

W2H2 Animation

Hey guys!  This month I've got another animation gif for ya!

This shot was kind of difficult, it's in a weird perspective, and there's a camera movement, which I animated in the animati...

Spinning shot!

HOPE YOU GUYS like seeing the same shot over and over again!

I've been noodling with this one a lot 'cause it's one of the only shots in the film that's going to be colored AND it has speci...

teeny tiny update on that indie studio interested in W2H...

... Absolutely not gonna' happen.

I wont go into the deets, but since I've been hinting at it in past posts, I thought I should give you guys that update.  

There was some shady ...

spinning shot color + camera test!

Hey guys!!!  Sorry for the dry spell of work these last couple months.  I moved in the middle of January and I've been trying to get my stuff all set up in the new place and settle in to ...

Maikoh / Kolotl illustration process!

Since I'm short on animation this month I thought maybe I'd share the process for a drawing I did earlier this month.  

They're all in order, so hopefully it makes enough sense, but her...

Demon Tactility Physics diagram

This is kind of a weird one!  Haha... so there's an insert-shot in W2H2 of an illustrated diagram, and in my boards it was just stick figures 'cause I hadn't designed what it should look like ...

Jonathan + Mephistopheles head tilt

Heyyyyy!  It's another animation-less post, guys!  Traveling for the holidays and all that junk kinda got in the way, as it does.

But!  I got these nifty head-tilts for the ch...

UPDATE! On posting W2H2.

Hey guys!  So I don't think I've made a proper post about this yet, but I had an epiphany recently that I just need to post W2H2 once I feel like I've gotten to that "good enough" point.  ...

Sock and Jonathan Head Tilts!

Unfortunately I don't really have any animation this month because I've spent most of my time doing these head tilts!  They've been really hard and they're still not quite right, but they're c...

W2H2 Animation

Hey guys!  So you'll probably recognize a lot of these from previous posts, but I assure you they are updated or refined and therefore different!  

Got some added lip sync, got som...

Meph Mouth Chart and Tom!

So this month I had to decide on colors for Tom, and I also sketched him out real quick into the size comp, so... here you go!  Full body, full-colors Tom!  For the hardcore fans.

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W2H2 Animation

Okay so this month I've got this big-ass bonkers spining shot, and it's still definitely a work in progress... I went ahead and left some animatic-y stuff in that's not timed out properly, just to ...

Sketchbook dump

Sorry it's mostly furries????  I was helping my friend come up with a design for a dog lady for something he's working on (she's a daschund!), and then I was like "I wonder what kind of dog I ...

little update!

hey guys!  I feel like my post was a little sparse this month, and I'm worried it will be a little sparse next month too (I'll be out of town for a chonk of it)... so I thought I'd switch it u...

Better Off Alone_WIP

This is a song I've been working on that I'd like to use in W2H2!  It's still FAR from being finished, but I thought I'd share it since this month's animation is pretty sparse.

I guess ...

Sketchbook dump

not much this time around... but I found a pink pen in the bottom of my pen case that I really like!  

W2H2 Animation

Had to go in and refine some of this Meph acting... adding in-betweens, fixing arm positions, doing lip-sync.   

Not much to say, but Meph's lip sync has been a little more involve...

Monthly sketchbook

sketchbook is kind of light this month, but I wanted to revisit an old idea for a story my girlfriend and I would like to develop.  It's about 2 teenagers in 1999 who are obsessed with ~Fuzzmi...

W2H2 Animation

Most of these shots will probably look familiar, if you've been a patron for awhile.  

Most of them  were still in pretty early roughs, so I dug back in and filled them out some mo...

Standard pose Turnaround - Meph

had to updated Meph's turnaround to go with the new ones I did for Sock + Jon a while back.  It was about time!

I think I might have an update for Debbie pretty soon too, haha.   2022-04-08 21:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post

W2H2 - keyframe animation

Hey guys!  This month I've got some guest animation work from my buddy Wen Qui!   

You might recognize the scene, she had previously animated a shot from it awhile back, and sh...

Sketchbook dump

Hey guys!  It's been awhile since I did one of these, so hopefully you get a kick out of it.  This round was mostly me trying to figure out character designs.  There's some stuff fro...

Standard pose turnarounds!

I knew I'd have to do these eventually...  Less goofy turnarounds for Sock and Jonathan.  Plus a height comparison.  Enjoy!

UPDATE!

Oh my god, this is the 2nd time I had to type this, I got logged out and the draft never saved... UGHHK!!!

Okay, so just a general update!

I'm currently doing storyboards on Tuca &...

Streaming with Neil!

Hey guys!  Doin' a stream, check it out!

Streaming Tomorrow w/ Special Guest: Neil (Meph's VA)

Hey guys!  I'm gonna stream tomorrow around 7pm PST / 10pm EST!  

It might end up being closer to 7:30/10:30, but I wanted to give you guys a heads up.

I'll probably be ani...

"I Will Never (Be Your Friend)" - Cover Song from W2H2 Trailer

I've got a couple requests for this so I figured I'd upload it here!  My crappy coffeehouse acoustic cover of Irish Stew's "I Will Never (Be Your Friend)" for the W2H2 teaser trailer.

U...