Our little tumbleweed

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Jan 12, 2025

Olive is now a tumbleweed.

She’s rolling all over the place.

Here’s my VERY professional setup.

Toy box + deconstructed lamp + index cards + mini tripod = animation studio

Pacifier so you know it’s legit.

You can see my first failed tumbleweed attempt on the left. It was too intricate and complicated. Plus the pen bleed through the index card.

Last week I listed some things I did last year that I would like to keep doing this year. I forgot to include MAKING ANIMATIONS. How could I? I feel so betrayed.

Obviously I’m going to keep doing that.

Speaking of animations, Substack featured Seeds in motion in one of their recent posts.

Pretty cool!

I added a page to my website that has most of the GIFs I made last year. Warning: it’s chaotic. Check it out here.

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