#moon animate

I want to take the time to thank you guys for your support. Fandom can be a hellscape, but I’ve always found the Moon Animate fans to be positive, encouraging, thoughtful, and kind. I am filled with love for you guys and I hope in your animation adventures, you never have a dropped frame.

I’ll keep you posted on what I can find out. In the mean time, thank you for the positive thoughts!

I try to keep it on topic in here, but this is an important reminder. Today’s another day an artist has been chased off social media for not catering to the demands of the alleged fans of a cartoon show.

Moon Animate Make-Up is an exceptional project because of how many hundreds of artists have come together to make a little piece of fun that culminates in a half-hour of loads of fun. I’m very lucky it’s been received so well among fans and artists, and it motivates me to continue with these works since we’re all having a good time.

There is this other unpleasant side of fandom and I want to be clear there is no excuse to harass someone because they’re not drawing the art you want. If you’re old enough to be on the internet, you’re old enough to know how to be respectful of other people. These artists aren’t “being afraid of criticism”. They are exhausted from being abused.

Artists don’t owe you anything. You are not special. You are not entitled to anything. Do not harass them about their choices, hack their phones, call their workplace and demand they be fired, stalk their SOs, or anything else that aggravates their day because you’re in a mood the cartoons didn’t kiss and you don’t want to do the work to create your own art. And as I say this as someone who used to party in Gundam Wing fandom. I understand frustration.

Annotations will be up soon. Be good to each other. Or I’ll dub Moon Animate 3 with TannhauserandBarton Fink. :) Or maybe a Steven Segall movie…

Annotations are halfway done. Vimeo upload will be up once these are done.

We broke 105,000 views on YouTube today! Thank you guys! Let’s keep it going. Mama likes the ego fluffing. :D

1) Good news! I’m finally back online at my house so getting annotations and the Vimeo upload going will be a lot faster than it’s been. (Brilliant timing, right?) Moon Animate 2 was literally uploaded from my laptop in my bathroom because it was the only place I could get a signal before I got my wifi extender.

2) Vimeo’s upload will have any corrections that needed to happen. Annotations will be on YouTube. (I can re-upload the video on Vimeo. For now, I believe YouTube doesn’t allow that option.) Shoot me an e-mail if I missed something.

3) I’d like to do a Moon Animate 3, but I’d much rather let my brain repair first with another project. You know how the Dust Bowl happened because farmers didn’t rotate their crops and planting clover replenishes nitrogen in the soil? Yeah? Sort of? It’s like that. (Yes, it was ten other variables too but bear with me.) And hey, last time you got a Bartkira trailer out of me, so win/win.

4) No plans to do season 1 or 2 again or Dic. Might use the Viz dub for part 3, but would rather prioritize the original language.

5) In an attempt to put some kind of face on these projects, I’m over at @kaitlin-ps. I think I’ll be using it to talk about animation production, my favorite movies, books, artists, etc. Follow me if you want to see me yak about my bookshelf and movies or if you have questions. Or maybe it’ll just turn into a void with no updates for two years like any other non-work Tumblr I create.

6) YouTube comments are staying off. Protestations about your first amendment rights will just make me laugh myself into a cramp. You can talk about it literally anywhere else.

7) I’m on episode 3 of Stranger Things so y’all forgive me if I vanish for awhile so I can finish it. I’m digging the hell out of this synthwave.

55,000 views in two days!

Thank you so much everyone for your support! This was rendered and uploaded on my laptop from the one weird corner of my house that gets wi-fi so thank you for bearing with me.

Huge important thank yous to everyone who contributed and took time out of their work and school schedules to chip in a shot or two or three. This project would not be here if not for the wonderful animators who helped put all the pieces together. Big love to Nikhol and Shige Yoshii for their transcribing so my mostly non-Japanese speaking animators could get a sense of what their characters were acting with. (I was terrified of Godzilla dub acting.) And to many many good friends who kept prodding me to ask, “you’re going to finish this thing, right?”

My name isn’t spelled right/is missing

Thank you for letting me know! Please shoot me an e-mail with anything I might have flubbed. There will be an edit with corrections for the Vimeo upload. (YouTube won’t let me replace the video without losing everything.)

Can I upload this with the Dic dub/Spanish dub/German dub/individual clips? Why didn’t you use the Dic version?

Guys, the body’s not even cold. Let everyone’s work be enjoyed first. Come back to me in a week or two about other languages. English speakers, you got the subtitles. I didn’t use the Dic dub because there was so much they cut out of the episode and I’m not a fan of season two’s acting. Also if I’ve got an opportunity to reanimate “She’s Got the Power” or “Ai no Senshi”, my pick is pretty obvious.

When’s Moon Animate 3?

I’m very flattered so many want to sign on to the next one, but let my soul find my body again. My hard drive needs sleep. I’ve got a few ideas of what I’d like to do for Moon Animate 3, but my brain needs a palate cleanser and I’ve got something else in mind for the next animated project.

Who animated this shot?

Annotations will be up later this week.

How can I get in touch about one of your artists/you and your awesome work?

*winkwinknudgenudge* Just shoot me an e-mail at moonanimatemakeup (at) gmail (dot) com and I can help you out.

I want to sign up to work on Moon Animate 2! Here’s my reel!

We’re actually all done. That’s why it’s up on YouTube. I’m not taking reels right now for the third one, but if and when that happens, I’ll post here.

What’s next?

Probably hotboxing my apartment with Raspberry Kush while I listen to Mussorgsky and Dvorak at top volume. (HA, not really.) I can relax for maybe twenty minutes before I’m back to work on the next thing. I already started storyboarding and some vis dev for the next project but I’ll post more about that when I’m ready.

Sorry east coast. Best case scenario, this is up later tonight for a 7/31 debut west coast time. Worst case scenario, it’s up tomorrow. Some of the retakes took longer than anticipated, including time re-mapping most of the second half of the episode to fix a lot of lip sync issues. And I caught a bug that’s got me operating at half speed.

Current status is I’m halfway through the subtitles and it’s slow work, but it’s getting done. I’m so grateful for how excited you guys are for this becuase it’s giving me the energy I need to keep going. This is a really good one. There are about 315 animators who worked on this and I cannot sing enough of their praises for how hard they worked to get this done.

Thank you for your patience. It’ll be up soon.

Sequences 010, 020, 030, 040, 060, and 080 are rendered! I have some edits to do on 050 and I’m waiting on a few shots for 070 and then that’s in the bag.

I can’t say enough awesome things about the wonderful animators who signed on to get this project done! I’m hoping to get this up before Comic Con next week and it’ll still be up anyway. Thank you so much for all of your patience!

And look both ways before crossing the street in Pokemon Go. :)