#wallaby

My SO and his first wallaby encounter

Motonari and Kajisuke catch some sun before hitting the English shores today!☀️

Congratulations ~ Motonari!
⚓Please enjoy!

Meet Mr Darcy and his neighbours, ‘The Ians’, ZSL London Zoo

Miro atrás y observó la larga senda que he recorrido hasta hoy.
#wallaby #kangaroo #animals #wildlife #nature #documentary #photography #bestphoto #adventure #outdoors #travel #discovery #natgeo #natgeowild #natgeotravel #natgeoadventure #bbc #bbcearth #bbctravel #animalplanet #memes

Miro atrás y observó la larga senda que he recorrido hasta hoy.
#wallaby #kangaroo #animals #wildlife #nature #documentary #photography #bestphoto #adventure #outdoors #travel #discovery #natgeo #natgeowild #natgeotravel #natgeoadventure #bbc #bbcearth #bbctravel #animalplanet (at Rockhampton, Queensland)

Animated shots I did for my 2019 student film “Red Earth”. I’m more comfortable doing small movements and subtle expressions, as you can see from the numerous frames of not much going on.

Our lead animator Tonia did the heavy lifting with the more action-orientated shots as well as the fire (literal powerhouse animator, go follow her on Instagram @toniaciccone_art).

The film itself is about a Wallaby witnessing the birth of a bushfire while looking for water/food during a severe drought, or as the logline puts it:

“A monster born from the climate crisis rains down the fires of hell upon an innocent wallaby.”

Average fun stuff. I made it in response to Australia’s complete disregard to environmental policy and its climate-denying, coal-loving culture. Surprise surprise we had one of the worst bushfires in our country’s history soon afterwards due to longer dry seasons and government incompetence (I could rant all day about it but moving on).

Initial concepts for the projects. That last one was a Bob Ross painting exercise but I made it into concept art to get the point of dread across for the class. The idea for the art direction was to get the innocence of Winnie the Pooh’s plush-like animals and contrast it with the negative themes of the story blah blah blah.

I’d upload my initial storyboards for the film here as well but we (as in I) lost them after a file purge of the project’s g-drive to make more room for animation files. Thought we had all of our files backed up prior to mass deletion (we didn’t). We still have Tonia’s refined boards however which is nice.

Anyway below are the beat boards I did during development + bonus Hero Image.

Because of Covid-19 a lot of festivals that Red Earth was submitted to were either cancelled or postponed, and the relevance of the Australian Bushfires dwindling in the public consciousness made Red Earth sort of forgotten pretty quickly. Still, I’m happy we made it and it gives us all good portfolio material.

The dialogue is complete shit but it gets the point across and the animation/visuals are what really matters for us at the end of the day.

New Media Film Festival was one of the few festivals to pick it up and they currently have it on full display on their youtube channel. It’ll be a while before I can fully release it on my personal vimeo so if you got 3 minutes to spare have a watch below.

Trigger warning for dead animals and general environmental existentialism.

Nothing to see here. Just Gidgee, a juvenile rednecked wallaby, staring balefully at the intruding camera while holding onto a nipple she doesn’t want to lose track of. While that thought may have you thinking “ouch!”, marsupial nipples are highly specialized and are meant to extend that far when the joey is close to permanently leaving the pouch! When a joey is born and manages to crawl into the pouch, the nipples it finds there are also super tiny - once it latches on to one, the nipple actually grows so that it fills the joey’s mouth and they can’t disengage. This works really well since marsupial babies are born very premature and do most of their development in the pouch, so they need to be kept latched on to a food source until they’re functional enough to find the nipple again on their own. As the joey grows, the nipple changes size in parallel - and the concentration of the nutrients in the milk adjusts too - always staying large enough to fit in their mouth. Joeys continue to nurse during the period when they’re exploring outside of the pouch, and often after they’ve grown big enough they’ve had to pretty much leave it for good: and so the nipples adapt, to be long and flexible, so they can be easily accessed by a joey from the outside. After a joey weans, that teat will shrink back to being tiny, and wait for a new tiny bean baby to be born and start the process all over again! #sorrytointerrupt #marsupial #wallaby #redneckedwallaby #zoo #zooanimals #zooborns #nursing (at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo)
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Thanks for the feedback on these wallaby stickers! They’re now up for pre-order, links below!

$5 each, free shipping worldwide! All proceeds will go to rescue/rehab and long-term habitat recovery through @wildlifevictoria and @nswnationalparks.

One design reflects the night sky over Australia, the other recalls the sun, land and people of the land. All in a cycle long before with the wallabies, and hopefully those that are will continue to be.

The change behind the design was after someone let me know me that wallabies were endangered because colonization had enroached greatly on their habitats. Learning about their situation yet still wanting a tie with this specific cause, I went further back for symbols that truly represented this area of land and sky itself.

Etsy:www.etsy.com/listing/771800771/fundraiser-for-australia-wallaby-sticker
Paypal:https://tinyurl.com/wallabysticker

Wallaby (picture 1 and 2)

Marmot (with the sad eyes) and Wombat (picture 3)

All three dogs (Chihuahua mixes) were rescued from a hoarding situation by Animal Haven in Soho, New York City. They’ve been through some rehab and really shown progress. They are also some of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever met. I want to adopt one so bad my heart hurts. If only my kitty Sam could tell me he was cool with it.

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Today I get : BUZZARD x WALLABY
And here is the result : BUZLABY ! X)

Flat Color ref commission forLordLareton Twitter!
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Red Necked Wallaby (Joey)

quickie pride month comic I guess some male wallabies do have pouches eh? its a fun little head canon but its most likely just a barnyard situation haha these are fun to make I cant wait until I can sit down and actually make little nanos story and other comics.

Had another go at paint 3d… I think I did better

The bridled nailtail wallaby!

Wallaby

The wallaby is in the same family as the kangaroo, but it is much smaller. They inhabit parts of Australia in rocky terrain and share the a lot of the same characteristics and behaviors as kangaroos.

Wallabies use their strong hind legs to kick off predators. Not only are their legs strong, but their tails are also powerful helping them with their balance.

Wallabies are herbivores and eat grasses, leaves, and foliage. They tend to live near water holes, especially during dry seasons. Female wallabies, or better known as doe, flyer or jill, are able to produce two different types of milk at once. One type for her baby and another type for her older offspring.

Photo by:  D Coetzee via Flickr