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@willbits.bsky.social

I'm Will! Animator, currently at ShadowMachine. Creator of 'Minitaur', an indie animated series. Watch it here: https://www.tiktok.com/@willbits

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Oh I meant, like, the atmosphere exploding but you’re right that it would turn into more work and not more leisure

02.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sleeping an extra hour kinda nice, we should slow the rotation of the Earth just enough that every day is 25 hours. I’m sure that would be fine and have no adverse side effects.

02.11.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh shoot I was supposed to pull this down actually, and I guess I didn’t notice it was still up over here. >_>

22.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, they said it was Slightly Simpliced. No raisin to be such a pomfectiono.

16.10.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best Trek has been in decades and taken from us too soon.

26.09.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All this 3d modeling and rigging has been great but sometimes it's great to just get back to some good ol' sketchy 2D thumbnail boards while you're plotting things out.

23.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Horse flu? No, horse run on ground.

28.08.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s rare that I get these! Also on a lot of shows things get re-edited and rewritten so much that you don’t often get it one to one like this. LSS had very, very few rewrites, so more energy was spent on cleaning things up and β€œplussing” the acting.

25.08.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm finally in full production on Minitaur! A fantasy / comedy action adventure starring the tiniest minotaur, who is officially getting a full length pilot!

16.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rigs are coming along nicely! I am definitely not used to tails and digitigrade legs but got some IK versions going that I'm happy with and think are going to be very easy to animate!

02.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having worked for him directly that, uh... brings up some conflicting feelings lol.

30.07.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bento's just pushin' everything overseas indefinitely it seems. With TGN's renewal status being in question, Bob's is kinda their *only* show not being totally outsourced now, yeah? And I bet even that could change.

11.07.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Are we legally allowed to call them tweets here

07.07.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Y'know I could go either way on this. I definitely used to be in the "don't show anything until it's done" camp, but I'm increasingly in the "nah just post it and repost it" lane.

Your key supporters will watch it each time, and it'll keep finding new people each go 'round.

06.07.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Almost time for adventure! Finished up the rigs for Vance and Lin, two characters from my indie series, Minitaur! Made in Blender.
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#blender #blendercommunity #blender3d #b3d #minitaur #indieanimation #indiecartoon #animation #characterdesign #fantasy #greasepencil

04.06.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Scrolling down my feed I thought this was Hatsune Miku

31.05.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Simple hair rig! I don't want it to add secondary action dynamically but I still like having a little automatic gravity that I can adjust as I see fit.

28.05.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

90%, eh? So they want to make it 100% cheaper except all our money goes to some tech bro's abandonware that makes unusable slop. (And then they want to pay us to fix it same as always but now the budget's all gone somehow)

22.05.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Cal-Arts style" as used by John K was more in reference to how "Disney-fied" everything was at the time, more closely resembling their features. It was co-opted later by Twitter discourse to mean "Bean-face" and ladder teeth as a ubiquitous style for children.

22.05.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Totally, love it for keeping realistic characters in scale and getting to play with dynamic poses / angles

18.05.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A mannequin modeled after a character design in blender 3D.

A mannequin modeled after a character design in blender 3D.

A rough animation frame drawn in blender 3-Dβ€˜s grease pencil

A rough animation frame drawn in blender 3-Dβ€˜s grease pencil

A mostly clean animation frame drawn in blender 3-Dβ€˜s grease pencil feature

A mostly clean animation frame drawn in blender 3-Dβ€˜s grease pencil feature

A 3-D modeled background in blender, with a warp effect composited over to simulate uneven paint strokes.

A 3-D modeled background in blender, with a warp effect composited over to simulate uneven paint strokes.

Hey #indieanimationday. I’m making a goofy three minute short in Blender, and I hope to make more things like it.

Subscribe to my Patreon for updates and check out a few sneak peaks below.

www.patreon.com/coreybarnes?...

17.05.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Drawing all this in Blender with just some block-outs for proportion ref is really great to see, what a cool work flow.

18.05.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You think everyone should meet and then meat?

17.05.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're gonna have to be slightly more specific I fear

13.05.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Little lighting test! Definitely was not ramping up the conflict enough up in here.

01.05.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Blender model! The Duke needs just a few little finishing touches but for the most part she's rigged and ready to go. #b3d #minitaur

30.04.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It's funny, they tried to "become TV" with YouTube channels but they just kind of threw a bunch of money at celebrities and when it wasn't an instant success gave up immediately.

Nobody wants to go to the trouble of fostering genuine grass roots talent, tragically.

28.04.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When the rigging is going extremely well

24.04.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Delete this. (And then immediately add a new, identical one)

18.04.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Easing back into some Blender, so here’s a quick character block out! Still lots to do

15.04.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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