If anyone is interested in helping, I submitted a workshop effect last year for Halloween, that still has a shot this year to get in. It was made by a team I formed, guided by a friend called Muhai who does a lot of workshop items, the concept was done by me and the project directed, it was a interesting collab. If anyone could vote on it or share, the money on it would go towards making this movie and personally, I could use the extra funding for building the set pieces. I'm literally building everything myself and materials gets expensive. I'm shooting it on a iphone 16 pro max with anamorphic adapters, while still offering the movie for free at 1080p via flash based (posting it on newgrounds in segments) the entire film is gunna be shot at 4k and pitched to apple tv.
I have had a lot of people help me so far, and Griff has been a vivid / regular sketchbook buyer, I've set aside the money from him to upgrade to this phone and get the lenses. The puppets are gunna be custom built, latex / rubber, etc. I'm pooling already a lot of money into this on my own and waiting to switch to a job that offers me more for free time next year to shoot it. I'm a selling a house to give me the breathing room. It started as a small thing, a little thing, but its become a passion project for me, and any help would mean a lot.
https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/550178103_24597014953282855_394906819775710890_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=eDR8wj8KJQcQ7kNvwG3GrFc&_nc_oc=AdltU5E3ZCEFxP3egm40y4j7jS2o9ad0DHw3BzxrIdhzXEGG51gjk6vphZ9nXIEtIbg3Q4dV2V4c527mXP4_E6gY&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.ftpa1-2.fna&_nc_gid=caDYBDv-FqnV1El1Ps-COw&oh=00_Afa-G_mJABCRZ3ao62_Vuw9f9L4jjr-b__KUaDD4P_g2hw&oe=68D86CDC
I'm going to make a new sketchbook for concept art for it and send it to Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim / The Neverhood / Armikrog / Clayfighter) and see if he wants to collab and help.
This is the workshop item if you wanna vote: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3343977851
and this a sneak peak at a new one my team is working on:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1317086750673473586/1419470388026413216/hand.gif?ex=68d331d0&is=68d1e050&hm=7f79a9e0ab5918c16286b570275df732ccb8a58faa38fd958b941a94167fe1ab&=
I know I joke and shitpost here a lot, and making art and movies, is my gateway to moving beyond tf2, at least in a competitive standpoint, I want to stay retired from it and put my passion into things I've invested just as much time in. You guys are the community I've been with for years, bad and good, so hopefully you might remember the good and let me grow to offer something with my hands other then clicking on people on the internet. Thanks.