Recipe for traditional last minute festive animation™ - 2023:

- holiday season sneaks up on you (again)
- don't panic and eat loads of cookies instead
- just wing it while high on sugar
- feel good about it and eat some more cookies

Recipe for traditional last minute festive animation™ - 2021:
- find some animation you did years ago
- give it a facelift by adding some hair
- render (twice, because something jumped mid-sequence)
- as always, eat loads of cookies in the process 🍪

Thanks to the random flipbook folder, I just remembered that my initial idea was to go with this guy. At some point I decided he was not festive enough...or is he?! 🎄❄️

Short process video for anyone interested.

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Recipe for traditional last minute festive animation™ - 2019:
- reuse the "set" from last year (good 10 minutes saved)
- decide to go with procedural vs. keyframe animation
- question your choice for the next few days as you try to make it work
- eat loads of cookies in the process

Slowly approaching that time of the year when I'm torn between the urge to make some silly animation vs. eating cookies and doing nothing.

Luckily, I devised a recipe for traditional last-minute festive animation™. Here's a little throwback to some of them, starting with the one from 2018. ❄️

Hey bsky! I'm a 3D artist/animator and I like to make things that move around.