Em Void
@coherentvoid.bsky.social
Artist, scientist, wanderer. Grasping at dreams I refuse to abandon.
Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.
Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.
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Em Void
@coherentvoid.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Cut together a little reel of my animation learning progress in 2025.
I aim to have a lot more and better stuff coming soon. Too much for a 2026 reel, I hope.
I aim to have a lot more and better stuff coming soon. Too much for a 2026 reel, I hope.
Just listening to some old records. Operation Ivy.
Posting for no reason...
Posting for no reason...
February 17, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Just listening to some old records. Operation Ivy.
Posting for no reason...
Posting for no reason...
Genesis shmup recommendations?
February 17, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Genesis shmup recommendations?
No energy for drawing yesterday.
Felt like crap, hated everything.
Then at bedtime I just thumbnailed out a 17-page story thing and fell asleep.
I think I'm going to make it a comic/zine thing. Like a visual poem.
Felt like crap, hated everything.
Then at bedtime I just thumbnailed out a 17-page story thing and fell asleep.
I think I'm going to make it a comic/zine thing. Like a visual poem.
February 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
No energy for drawing yesterday.
Felt like crap, hated everything.
Then at bedtime I just thumbnailed out a 17-page story thing and fell asleep.
I think I'm going to make it a comic/zine thing. Like a visual poem.
Felt like crap, hated everything.
Then at bedtime I just thumbnailed out a 17-page story thing and fell asleep.
I think I'm going to make it a comic/zine thing. Like a visual poem.
It's not likely humans from the future will time travel to help us.
It is more likely that some future technological species will time travel to eradicate us to rescue Earth's ecology from humans.
It is more likely that some future technological species will time travel to eradicate us to rescue Earth's ecology from humans.
February 16, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It's not likely humans from the future will time travel to help us.
It is more likely that some future technological species will time travel to eradicate us to rescue Earth's ecology from humans.
It is more likely that some future technological species will time travel to eradicate us to rescue Earth's ecology from humans.
Just reposting this because it makes me happy that I made it.
Old experiment with india ink and brush. I kinda wanna play it though.
February 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Just reposting this because it makes me happy that I made it.
I was doing so well 2 days ago.
Now I just feel like I should give up on art and that I'm an idiot.
Now I just feel like I should give up on art and that I'm an idiot.
February 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I was doing so well 2 days ago.
Now I just feel like I should give up on art and that I'm an idiot.
Now I just feel like I should give up on art and that I'm an idiot.
I've had about enough of this "wake up in the morning" grown up crap.
I need to be up at the witching hour drawing mystical things in a tome by candlelight.
I need to be up at the witching hour drawing mystical things in a tome by candlelight.
February 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I've had about enough of this "wake up in the morning" grown up crap.
I need to be up at the witching hour drawing mystical things in a tome by candlelight.
I need to be up at the witching hour drawing mystical things in a tome by candlelight.
We should start sending dinosaur fossils to the lunar surface.
Time to plan for fucking with the next dominant species' future scientists.
Time to plan for fucking with the next dominant species' future scientists.
February 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
We should start sending dinosaur fossils to the lunar surface.
Time to plan for fucking with the next dominant species' future scientists.
Time to plan for fucking with the next dominant species' future scientists.
Yeah I know these aren't great, but posting them as I do them ensures I keep doing them.
Carnotaurus crossing the swamp. Gouache and acrylic marker on black.
I'm still learning physical media.
Carnotaurus crossing the swamp. Gouache and acrylic marker on black.
I'm still learning physical media.
February 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Yeah I know these aren't great, but posting them as I do them ensures I keep doing them.
Carnotaurus crossing the swamp. Gouache and acrylic marker on black.
I'm still learning physical media.
Carnotaurus crossing the swamp. Gouache and acrylic marker on black.
I'm still learning physical media.
More Carnotaurus warm up and gesture drawings.
February 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
More Carnotaurus warm up and gesture drawings.
Carnotaurus day 2 warm up sketch.
I'm just doing things in black paper, gouache, and acrylic marker.
I'm just doing things in black paper, gouache, and acrylic marker.
February 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Carnotaurus day 2 warm up sketch.
I'm just doing things in black paper, gouache, and acrylic marker.
I'm just doing things in black paper, gouache, and acrylic marker.
Just kinda feeling like there's no point in doing art, music, math, physics, writing, etc. since I'm just isolated with it.
There's something deeply unsatisfying about doing things alone and putting them in a drawer never to be seen again.
There's something deeply unsatisfying about doing things alone and putting them in a drawer never to be seen again.
February 15, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Just kinda feeling like there's no point in doing art, music, math, physics, writing, etc. since I'm just isolated with it.
There's something deeply unsatisfying about doing things alone and putting them in a drawer never to be seen again.
There's something deeply unsatisfying about doing things alone and putting them in a drawer never to be seen again.
I'm having an enormous amount of trouble finding artists to connect with.
We need to find a way to have real community. Too many of us are hiding in digital holes living in artistic survival mode.
(I'm guilty.)
We need to find a way to have real community. Too many of us are hiding in digital holes living in artistic survival mode.
(I'm guilty.)
February 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I'm having an enormous amount of trouble finding artists to connect with.
We need to find a way to have real community. Too many of us are hiding in digital holes living in artistic survival mode.
(I'm guilty.)
We need to find a way to have real community. Too many of us are hiding in digital holes living in artistic survival mode.
(I'm guilty.)
Starting a 2-day dinosaur drawing course with Terryl Whitlatch now.
Here's my pre-class carnotaurus sketch.
Here's my pre-class carnotaurus sketch.
February 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Starting a 2-day dinosaur drawing course with Terryl Whitlatch now.
Here's my pre-class carnotaurus sketch.
Here's my pre-class carnotaurus sketch.
So how exactly does one become an indie animator?
As opposed to a weird old hermit drawing atop piles of sketchbooks and dried gouache in her cave?
As opposed to a weird old hermit drawing atop piles of sketchbooks and dried gouache in her cave?
February 14, 2026 at 2:17 PM
So how exactly does one become an indie animator?
As opposed to a weird old hermit drawing atop piles of sketchbooks and dried gouache in her cave?
As opposed to a weird old hermit drawing atop piles of sketchbooks and dried gouache in her cave?
I want to be in a punk band.
But nobody else does.
But nobody else does.
February 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I want to be in a punk band.
But nobody else does.
But nobody else does.
More style exploration for a "Solvang Misteries" cartoon series.
I'm actually finding it easier to get the rough spooky aesthetic if I avoid digital painting.
So right now it's looking like I'll try animation over mixed media. (punk rock score tbd).
This is a fun idea.
I'm actually finding it easier to get the rough spooky aesthetic if I avoid digital painting.
So right now it's looking like I'll try animation over mixed media. (punk rock score tbd).
This is a fun idea.
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
More style exploration for a "Solvang Misteries" cartoon series.
I'm actually finding it easier to get the rough spooky aesthetic if I avoid digital painting.
So right now it's looking like I'll try animation over mixed media. (punk rock score tbd).
This is a fun idea.
I'm actually finding it easier to get the rough spooky aesthetic if I avoid digital painting.
So right now it's looking like I'll try animation over mixed media. (punk rock score tbd).
This is a fun idea.
Cardio works.
Blood volume increased.
Heart efficiency improved.
Stress levels down.
Sleep quality up.
Dreams more vivid.
Creativity enhanced.
Propensity towards mischief intesified.
Blood volume increased.
Heart efficiency improved.
Stress levels down.
Sleep quality up.
Dreams more vivid.
Creativity enhanced.
Propensity towards mischief intesified.
February 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Cardio works.
Blood volume increased.
Heart efficiency improved.
Stress levels down.
Sleep quality up.
Dreams more vivid.
Creativity enhanced.
Propensity towards mischief intesified.
Blood volume increased.
Heart efficiency improved.
Stress levels down.
Sleep quality up.
Dreams more vivid.
Creativity enhanced.
Propensity towards mischief intesified.
Doodling up a concept for animation.
A cat tackles mysterious goings on in sleepy, creepy Solvang.
I am going to work on trying to capture this scratchy style digitally and in motion.
You damn well know you want murder she wrote with cats in solvang.
A cat tackles mysterious goings on in sleepy, creepy Solvang.
I am going to work on trying to capture this scratchy style digitally and in motion.
You damn well know you want murder she wrote with cats in solvang.
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Doodling up a concept for animation.
A cat tackles mysterious goings on in sleepy, creepy Solvang.
I am going to work on trying to capture this scratchy style digitally and in motion.
You damn well know you want murder she wrote with cats in solvang.
A cat tackles mysterious goings on in sleepy, creepy Solvang.
I am going to work on trying to capture this scratchy style digitally and in motion.
You damn well know you want murder she wrote with cats in solvang.
By the way, if I throw out a pitch, feel free to engage, even critically.
Be nice, but these are proto-ideas and I genuinely want to see when things are a hit or miss.
I wanna improve and I have more ideas than I can produce. Most will be duds and I'd like to hear why.
Be nice, but these are proto-ideas and I genuinely want to see when things are a hit or miss.
I wanna improve and I have more ideas than I can produce. Most will be duds and I'd like to hear why.
February 12, 2026 at 2:07 PM
By the way, if I throw out a pitch, feel free to engage, even critically.
Be nice, but these are proto-ideas and I genuinely want to see when things are a hit or miss.
I wanna improve and I have more ideas than I can produce. Most will be duds and I'd like to hear why.
Be nice, but these are proto-ideas and I genuinely want to see when things are a hit or miss.
I wanna improve and I have more ideas than I can produce. Most will be duds and I'd like to hear why.
Story pitch: In a world where Earth is an organism which uses viruses to balance life and target evolutionary traits, humans broke the system. Earth must evolve a network of new organisms to work in tandem to cripple human expansion.
Feedback?
Feedback?
February 12, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Story pitch: In a world where Earth is an organism which uses viruses to balance life and target evolutionary traits, humans broke the system. Earth must evolve a network of new organisms to work in tandem to cripple human expansion.
Feedback?
Feedback?
Feeling cute 3 days in a row. This can't be a good sign for my enemies.
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Feeling cute 3 days in a row. This can't be a good sign for my enemies.
More talk of sentient AI.
If only I could deduce the connection between these articles and the nvidia earnings reports...
If only I could deduce the connection between these articles and the nvidia earnings reports...
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
More talk of sentient AI.
If only I could deduce the connection between these articles and the nvidia earnings reports...
If only I could deduce the connection between these articles and the nvidia earnings reports...
Nothing I write can capture how good these cookies are.
February 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Nothing I write can capture how good these cookies are.
Should I try to make the whole indie game myself or should I be looking to hire help?
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Should I try to make the whole indie game myself or should I be looking to hire help?