I'm user of the day, so what does that mean? Uhh I guess I'll show off? Or better, a mega status post.

First up: Scrapveil Nebula is a tabletop game I've been working on - full ruleset, art by me and everything! As I earn a living, I'm workin on a really big video for Scrapveil Nebula - my current passion project. The video's very early on, still in preproduction (writing, storyboarding, design) but I'm really stoked for it!

Scrapveil Nebula is sci-fi on the harder end, a region of interstellar space in the far-future best described as post-collapse. Space itself is considered an environment, and the situation is grim - what was long ago a frontier of empty void is now ravaged, exploited and intensely polluted. The distance between planets and stars is saturated with radioactive toxic starship exhaust called Myasm, and time is warped by constant FTL travel.

Many post-human species, machine lifeforms and animal uplifts call the Scrapveil Nebula their home. Population numbers in the likely quadrillions spread across hundreds of worlds, but quality of life everywhere is terrible. Communication through Myasm is impossible, so civilizations are very fragmented. A mysterious space wasteland home to impoverished vestiges, arrogant nations, secretive enclaves and ancient ruins!

Some people traverse the Myasm in ancient modular spaceships, but those things get harder to run all the time. A lot of tech and knowledge has been lost, journeys usually take weeks and so simply figuring out how to gather water is just as much a problem as making the next gig. In the tabletop game, surviving as a Spacer aboard your starship is the goal!

My full-time job's Animation Director for the Rational Animations youtube channel, but lately I've been taking on cleanup to do for our upcoming video, The King and The Golem! This is one I'm actually incredibly excited for, it will be my best work as a director and our best work as an animation team.

I did a crumb of rough animation for the next Monkey Wrench video! Always fun to take part in Zeurel's stuff~

I've completely graduated from Flash to Toon Boom and Storyboard Pro at this point - that said I do keep a lil Macromedia Flash 8 around as a keepsake. But man I animate over 40 hours a week :II

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Hm... I like listening to the Tiberian Sun ost lately. It gets my imagination going for Scrapveil Nebula.

Life stuff: I recently moved cross-country out of Dallas and back to Philly. I married 2 years back, will make a trip to India this fall, uhh what else... HEY. USA jerks! Don't forget to vote! You thought this post was apolitical? Joke's on you, Kamala 2024 assholes! HAHAHA FUCK YOU NO ESCAPE