I like it!
Written & animated by Mike Picone https://twitter.com/foneycone
Cindy Li as Rook https://www.instagram.com/coin.arts/
Quinton Reviews as Partridge https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM0V8r4kuIWIl6Sy-NHj2lg
Critter design by Summer Hayes https://twitter.com/Semisunniee
Sound design by Tony Senatore https://www.senatoretoons.com/
I like it!
It's been roughly 13 years since I've last visited Newgrounds as a kid and I can safely say that I'm glad I've returned, still able to bare witness to the creative loins of the internet and this symbolizes the same charm I'd felt as a kid.
Hey I really like the texture of the lines on this (the square-brush low-smoothing thing is something I get a lot of mileage out of myself) and so I wanted to ask, are you able to shit that kind of thing out really quick or do you spend a lot of time undoing or sculpting with the eraser or whatever? For me, every once in a while I can get into the right mindset where I can produce a lot of good rough-looking stuff fairly quickly, but most of the time I just get bogged down in fine details, even though the rough lineart thing is supposed to make the process go a little faster.
Forgive me if this is a weirdly presumptuous review! Any thoughts on this would be interesting to hear.
This was the first full-length cartoon I made with this kind of linework, and I made the whole thing in chronological order, so you can see I got a better handle on it by the end. I started out mostly by sculpting with the eraser, but by the end I was able to do it by my own brush strokes pretty quick. I've never been good with pen pressure so it was a learning curve for sure, I found that regularly adjusting the size with certain details and shots also helped. Always preferred low smoothing, both in speed and look
Cute character designs. Partridge is my favorite. It sucks she couldn't calm the green dude down. He's also adorable. I like the follow through on the hair. The tree joke was nice too.
A sad story, in the end the only lesson we have is: never be a sheriff murderer, and if you are going to make a new friend, throw the evidence away 👍👍👍👍