HarveyRothman

Jolly Good Show

Fun with synths that permeated the late 80's-early 90's. Some bits are still sloppy.

I could make an album of this stuff honestly.

Bullwinkle rough layout

Testing out using newspaper print roll for animation paper. It's not strong paper, but you can do long background pan layouts, and it's the right amount of translucency. It's off-white so it's not ...

And now the weather...

Made a very cheesy M1, DX7, OB-Xa, steam train sample "MIDI stack" because I miss having a D50 and it's a fun sound to play despite being terribly outdated. A sloppy unquantised tune done in about ...

Life drawing

Been to 2 sessions so far, and I'm enjoying it (and getting away from the computer for a bit), although the railway tickets and class every week might end up costly. Proportion is what I really wan...

Robot Rats again

Polished up that little robot rat concept 'cause I liked the composition. I'm not even that huge on the 50's style thing, but I end up doing it a lot.`

Year of the Rat

Some sketches I did last night, roughing out an idea for a Rocky & Bullwinkle reanimate. The toughest bit right now is finding ways to group parts of the crowd into shapes so they have a nice c...

Abyss

Chill hop track done as a result of jamming with a Dreadbox Erebus and Abyss. Finally figured out a dual MIDI keyboard set up for getting a backing track down quickly. All I need now is a rapper. 2020-01-18 15:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post

PPG Wave bouncy thingy

Thought I'd muck about with a PPG Wave sample, but the OB-Xa VST I tried is really nice sounding (and it's free too!). Also an attempt to sequence drums in REAPER like I used to in FL Studio; didn'...

Science Goat sketch and Sausagescope

Visited my family in the holidays and took some shots of the dog (inspired by a Chaval cartoon) with a Hypergonar anamorphic lens, with a wonky wooden mount and wide-angle converter. Surprisingly i...

Floating (rough take)

Isabella had some lyrics for an old tune I did, then I added a washy vocoder in the background. It's a rough, getting-the-idea-down, take (it was a different structure, the version she wrote the ly...

Deer having a lager in Cinemascope

I liked one of my Xmas card doodles so much that I decided to colour it and do a mock-up to test my anamorphic lens simulation on. It's pretty close to how I'd like my future projects to look, or a...

Assortment of doodles

Sorry, been creatively bankrupt as of late! I want to have a story worth animating, and I'm dying to get started on something. It must be the winter being all drab.

Here's some amusingly crud...

Felix the cat walk cycle

A little contribution to ibcf's Felix The Cat reanimate!

Christmassy song

I know it's illegal to mention that holiday at this point in the year, but it just sounds Xmassy to me that's all.

First traditional animation livestream!

Finding a good angle is going to be trickier than I thought. Naturally I thought the left side would be better 'cause you'll see the drawing and not my hand. But flipping the pages, you couldn't se...

Traditional animation livestreams

Traditional animation livestreams! I've been wanting to attempt this for a while, but before I moved the computer and animation desk were in separate rooms (the animation room having no internet) a...

Soppy Korg M1 chords

While I'm well over "lo-fi beats", and think most of it's just lazy sample flipping, I get in the mood to do my own jazzy chords to a drum loop sometimes.

Scampish Scampi Part 2

Probably one of the last styles of music I'd expect to use a growl bass in, but here we are. Also, at the moment this song's ended up at 9 minutes long (this is the second half) 'cause of the const...

Gwonam Does A Drive-Thru - Zelda CD-i Reanimate Sc. 4 Process

Finally got round to doing a video of this! The Mama Luigi one got on my nerves for how often I repeated the source audio, so I experimented with filtering and mixing with music.

Few animals

Sorry I haven't been up to much original posting lately! All work and no play for the time being. 

What I have been doing with my spare time is making acoustic panels out of rockwool to ...

Smug reindeer

Just a wee bit of animation practice before I proper work. Hooray for being an adult. If I were a half-decent writer I should do various sketchy short-form cartoons but I just need skits worth anim...

Gaudy song more or less finished!

I think some master fader riding could improve the slight inconsistent level unless you think it's fine! But all that can come later when putting the whole album together to sound consistent. Big t...

Wide angle compositions

Giving thumbnail doodles of ultra-wide angle perspective compositions another go.

Just so you know, I'm going to be away for a while as I re-set up everything as I'm moving out. There might b...

Little funk jam

Another sloppy preset jam of just two easy chords. Quite enjoyable, but not sure if it's original enough to flesh out. It's some cross between Head Hunters and Toejam & Earl. 

E Piano and Dexed bass jam

A very sloppy, poorly mixed improv' jam to prove that making preset track templates for REAPER is worth it. It took only about 30 minutes or so to get this track down, whereas before if I wanted to...

CD-i Reanimate scene finished!

It all comes together in it's full glory. The only thing I wish I did was maybe make the outlines a dark grey and especially give Gwonam shadows in shot 2 & 4, so he looks a little more grounde...

BPM/FPS Calculator on steroids

I could not take "only BPMs that divide perfectly into so many frames per beat" as an answer. Nor could I tolerate the non-mathematical method of just following the waveform's peaks. So I updated m...

First background!

And first attempt at doing a cloud while actually looking at what they look like.

Ain't she a biggun!

I gave making brushes a go in Clip Studio Paint, using scans of ink covered bubble wrap. So you end up with rather rough, but still circular, textures to go with. Once I'm happy with them, I'll mak...

Jungle Boogie (mastered)

I thought maybe the songs I couldn't change the mixes aren't a complete lost cause. So I did my best to improve the dynamics, tonal balance, and stereo width using the export. Hopefully it sounds b...