Dear Patrons,
Hope you're all doing well and have gotten positively into this new year!
Today I bring you a bit of a dramatic scene preview. This one is probably as far into the episode as I can get before it starts feeling to spoilery to show full-scene previews. I really wanted to have this one completely cleaned up for the Februar...
2021-02-07 13:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Thank you so much for sticking with me over this crazy year. I hope you've all managed to get through in one piece - or if not, that you will be given plenty opportunity to pick yourselves back up in 2021.
The end of the year ended up coming a bit suddenly for me. For these past two months I've had my head buried in wor...
2020-12-31 13:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Hope you're all doing well, all things considered.
Just wanted to share with you this month's preview and update. As I've been writing about previously, I've had this French directing job to take care of as well, which has evolved underway - but I just had about a month's pause on that where I got to go all-out on the c...
2020-11-07 15:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy October everyone!
For this spooky month I thought I'd prepare this clip with some kinda-spooky black cats for you all. The clip is not comped yet, so it still requires some polish before it can really pop, but it's on it's way!
Anyways, let me get the good news I have to share out of the way... We got the funding we appli...
2020-10-02 17:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi dear Patrons! How are we all doing?
I myself have had my head buried in work quite a bit since last I wrote. As expected, the directing job I took on has slowed down the production of the web-episode a bit, but I've also learned a lot from it. For now, there's only two weeks left of that job, and afterwards I can return to do full on ba...
2020-09-03 17:41:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I hope you're all doing well! This is just my monthly check-in to let you know how things are progressing on Tales of Zale :)
VIDEO TESTIMONIALS:
First of all, thanks to you guys and a bunch of other kind people we managed to get 33 awesome video testimonials for the fund application. P...
2020-08-08 20:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi dear Patrons!
So I didn't post this when I first did the soft launch of this "call for video testimonials", especially since I knew a good majority of you were all aware through Discord or Twitter. But now that I've made this video, I thought I'd share!
So it's been no secret to you that I've been pushing for the TV-series for a w...
2020-07-17 09:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
We've made it through another month! This one felt like it went by very quickly. I've started working on the episode from Nørlum's offices rather than from home, which really is a relief. There, I'm joined by Giorgos, who's going to be interning for the next 1,5 months helping me with clean-up. You can see some of his, my ow...
2020-07-05 14:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I hope you're all well. Since my last post was more of a public service announcement I thought I'd just take a moment to provide a more update-y update.
As you can see in the video above work on cleaning up the animation has begun. It takes the time it takes, but I think it's gonna look all the better for it in the end....
2020-06-09 18:20:10 +0000 UTC View Post
For most of you this may be irrelevant. But as those of you who have pledged 10 dollars or more per month recently know, I've had a period where I've been unable to access the Patreon Art Zines due to me only coming back from France after my usual workspace had been placed under corona lockdown. Well- after all these months I finally ma...
2020-06-04 12:18:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Hope you're all faring well!
INTERNS:
It's been a pretty big week on my end. The interns started their online internship at Nørlum helping to construct concept and character art for the TV-series pitch. It's been pretty much as great of a start as anything could be under the circumstances! ...
2020-05-09 13:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Like a game of Bingo, little by little we're filling in the rows and finishing up one scene of rough animation after the other. This little scene here is majorly thanks to Myra's hard work - she's being super fast and efficient!
I'd better work hard to keep up...
2020-04-23 19:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Thanks to those of you sticking with me in these odd times! I hope you're all in good health. It took a little while to get back into things with the new workspace, but luckily not as long as I'd feared. Got a pretty stable internet connection set up, and TVPaint autosave is cranked up to every 5 minutes as to not lose too mu...
2020-04-08 19:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patrons,
You know that feeling when things seem so good that you just know something bad is about to happen? A couple of weeks ago I was feeling on top of the world – I’d just passed my driver’s license test and gotten a cheap little car. My head was starting to fill with dreams of moving to an apartment a bit outside of the cit...
2020-03-15 12:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I hope you're all well! It's been a little while since I sat down and wrote a proper update, and a lot has been happening - so how about we jump right into it?
TALES OF ZALE (TV-SERIES) HAS FOUND A PRODUCER:
Alright, so starting off with one of the big changes Tales of Zale has found a ...
2020-02-22 20:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
- Well, I'm writing last chance, but I think I'll probably make a 10$ Patreon tier afterwards for people who come in later and want one (while supplies last, I think there'll be around 15 left).
Anyways! It's been some extremely busy weeks, but also very exciting ones. I'll share the full update with you when I can, but there's still an An...
2020-02-02 14:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons!
I hope you're all doing well and have gotten off to a good start in the new decade!
Before I get too far into the general update though: REMINDER! If you want one of the 2019 Patreon Art Book Zines then remember to sign up with your address at: 2020-01-15 22:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Above is a little preview! I'm pretty happy with how this little zine came out all in all - looking forward to getting the printed version at the beginning of January and start sending them out!
Now as for shipping, I've tried setting this up as a new Patreon benefit in the existing tier. You should be able to s...
2019-12-29 16:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Happy holidays! I hope you're staying warm and cozy - unless you happen to live on the other side of the equator in which case I hope you're able to keep your cool.
I've been eager to show you this first half of the third episode (w/ rough animation) ever since I started showing the first couple of scenes animated, and ...
2019-12-19 13:57:49 +0000 UTC View PostAlrighty, so I've been mentioning this a couple of times in other posts, but time to put it to a vote!
I've been thinking of doing a small highlight compilation of artworks previously shared in the "Patreon Artbook PDFs" and putting them into a ...
2019-12-06 20:54:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings from Budapest! I am currently attending the second module of Animation Sans Frontirère here, which is looking to be a bit of a hectic affair. Nonetheless I just saw that it's #ThankYouPatrons day, so I wanted to share another minute of animation I've been doing...
...Well, it's 47 seconds to be exact, but after these two scenes ...
2019-11-19 18:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Hope you've been well. It's been about a week since I returned from Stuttgart, where I had a wonderful time participating in the Animation Sans Frontière. There isn't too much new to report since this first "module" focused on facilitating workshops to loosen the participants up and let us all get to know each o...
2019-11-04 20:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I hope you've been well! It feels like just a couple of weeks since I last wrote an update, but I guess it's already been a whole month. A lot has happened since then, though.
Things got very busy in preparing for the upcoming pitch sessions, especially in the week right up to Cartoon Springboard. I also got the o...
2019-10-11 09:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
As promised here's a new Artbook PDF! I initially didn't think I was going to be able to put out any more of these for the rest of the year, as production on episode 3 started up and the season of pitching began as well. But with the pitching, I ended up feeling the need to create some more presentation assets and these...
2019-09-13 13:11:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
After a busy week of pitch preparations and presentations, Nordic Talents has come to and end! It was a fun experience, and I got a slightly better idea about what's moving in the Nordic film and TV industry - although it was very live-action focused.
Especially the pitch preparations were a lot of fun though, and...
2019-09-06 11:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I hope you’re well and have enjoyed your summer! I’m writing this little update while on a bus on the way to Copenhagen. Once I arrive I’ll be participating in the one week long Nordic Talents pitching event, putting Tales of Zale to the test in front of a live audience. I’m pretty excited to add this experience to th...
2019-09-01 12:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patreons,
As always, I hope you're all doing well!
- As previously mentioned, Anne came over to help on Tales of Zale for a bit. She mainly worked on the poster during these two weeks and has now returned to Copenhagen - for now.
- Meanwhile, I keep trucking along on the production. A layo...
2019-07-21 18:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Following the first week of actual production I thought I would share with you a breakdown of the shot I've been working most on. It's pretty exciting to be back at it, after confining myself to storyboards and character designs for quite a while.
There are still some fix-ups I will need to take care of in certain...
2019-07-05 14:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I’ll try to keep this update brief, since I have the feeling that my walls of text might not be quite as inviting to read. Here goes!
- I got a yes for both Nordic Talents and Animation Sans Frontière! The hard work on the applications paid off, and I’ll now be off to pitch Tales of Zale at new and excit...
2019-06-27 13:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Hope this update finds you well! Some weeks pass quicker than others, and in the case of these previous weeks it feels like they have gone by in a flash!
I have made a new version of the Tales of Zale project bible (attached) once more, and been hard at work applying for Nordic Talents and Animation Sans Frontière. To keep y...