Lemon Powered

09/06/2024

Production stills, from Cake! :D

31/05/2024

Production still, from Cake!

Kas, if you can message me, you should probably do that. I think Rob has some secret secrets to tell you.

Do we have secret secrets to share?

POSSIBLY.

I'd tell you, but they're secret.
Shhhhh.

30/05/2024

Look, look at our beautiful director! Leering over Fred's shoulder. Making sure work gets done.

28/05/2024

We have been ever so busy! Animation and development takes a long time when you're just two people working on all of it.

We did have a huge interruption-- Rob's father died suddenly, on Rob's birthday in January-- and so every other thing in our lives (not just animation) got tabled for a time, while we dealt with that.

Now here we are nearing the end of May, and we are in the final touch-ups to the animation. I'm excited. Are you excited? I can't wait to get to show you what we've done.

17/10/2023

After so long, we FINALLY got an upgrade to our workspace, which includes a suuuuper fancy computer that actually lets us do some good 3D rendering, and can handle our work!
So, I'm so happy to say that the development of the 3D version of CAKE is back on!

Rob: We got an upgrade to our workspace, so we can finally continue work on the superfancy 3D version of our CAKE animation ! I'm so excited.

11/03/2023

Screenshots from the development of CAKE, how terribly terribly exciting!

11/03/2023

We've had a few technical setbacks-- had to switch from 3D to 2D and alter some of the style of it, which is a shame--, but the animation for CAKE is still underway.

15/04/2022

15/04/2022

The excitement got to us, so here's the cast page.
We still need one more character, and the cat is being voiced by Rob's youngest son (William).
But this is the main recurring cast, other than the cat:::

14/04/2022

As we work on getting all the voices we need, Rob wrote some lyrics and now we have a theme song for CAKE, and Fred is modeling a variety of super rad 3D assets to prep to animate the first episode of CAKE!

It's looking really cool, so VERY cool.

Rob has been poking about to learn 3D skills, and snatched away some character models to mess with, for your pleasure, HA. Rob is very proud, because on top of being the one who came up with the character designs, Rob's first decent build in 3D, was Cake's hair! :D IT LOOKS SO COOL and FLUFFY.

The face portraits are our main characters Cake, Ruth, and Sam. They will look less horrifying in the final, these are templates to throw into photoshop, to create character expressions, to be recreated on the models later.

The final image is a pose of the model for Harris, who is spooooky, and not a main character (kind of??).

09/04/2022

We have almost the entire main cast for CAKE, and just picked up a truly amazing artist to put melody/voice to the lyrics of the theme Rob wrote.
We're super excited to when we get to post our list of cast and development people working on CAKE. Ughh, I wanna do it nowww.
Soon, though.
SOON.
😍

09/04/2022

One of my favorite that is from the CAKE . It's just so sweet and wholesome. "You're gonna be so proud of me!"
Poor kitty.
Poor fluffy kitty.

08/04/2022

Because we're doing CAKE as a 3D , people seem to be interested in what kind of mad skills Fred has. Let me tell you--it's the MADDEST.
This is an older 3D animated clip that Fred made and was gracious enough to let us share it here. Fred made everything in it, from the models to the music, and I adore it.
There's another little 3D clip Fred made more recently, but we're not allowed to share that yet (shhh, it's still a secret).

31/03/2022

Creating 3D sets are super cool. But they definitely look better when they have all the lighting and posing and effects! We are kind of in love with Cake's bathroom set-up, like, who wouldn't want a ducky curtain? And little ducky footprint mat to match?

23/03/2022

When creating in 3D, you need to do art and textures to help make the modeled objects look like something other than a block of boring gray clay.

Here is a small selection of the many, many images we created to go on things such as book covers, magazines, wall posters, and frame photos.

23/03/2022

Our little series is going to made in 3D, which is honestly the coolest thing. Rob created the character designs in 2D, and then Fred made them as models in 3D!
Here's a side-by-side sneak peek so you can see how a pair of Rob's favorite characters in the show translate from the page to the 3D stage!
Even without all the fancy lighting and effects we'll be adding in post-production, THEY STILL LOOK SO COOL.

21/03/2022

Hey there! Winifred and Rob have started working on creating an animated series! WOW.

The plan is a 3D-animation, with 6 episodes, 5-8 minutes long per episode. It will be a while before episodes can be released.

We'll update you as things go along! So definitely expect some fun behind-the-scenes sneak peeks and crash course tips about the development as all this stuff goes down.

We're so EXCITED.

30/12/2020

For the holidays, we folded the last of my good watercolor paper and painted holiday cards to donate to the Northwood nursing home, in Dartmouth.

It was fun, making silly holiday arts, with the goal of putting a smile to the face of whichever senior got them. We made about 18 or 20 in total? I forgot thr count, ha. There were quite a few.

Rob did some, Fred did one, but mostly, we did them together with Rob doing lines and Fred painting.

30/12/2020

Drawings from my (Rob) sketchbook. I'm trying to practice realism, best I've got is semi-realism. I'm also killing time until my watercolor supplies arrive.

These are mostly pencil only, a few marker pen brush and pen.

05/10/2020

Animation practice!

05/10/2020

Here's a bunch of comics, about a trans person dealing with everyday life things. Inspired by real events.

24/07/2020

We made a platformer game, within a three week deadline. There are 6 different endings. It can be played in-browser, or downloaded and played on PC. Runs on Windows and Linux.

https://fredbird.itch.io/beryl-the-magical-unicorns-quest-for-truth-and-justice

Jump! Dash! Win! Ridiculous!

07/07/2020

Pikachu, though.

25/05/2020

Animation Puppets! so cute/creepy!

22/05/2020

Because why not? I like a good art meme.

28/03/2020

The small sized version of our poster for our 48hr film Festival cartoon submission: Detective McSnaps!

27/03/2020

We are registered and ready to knock some cartoon loving socks off! Yayyy.

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie - write, shoot and edit it - in just 48 hours!!

26/03/2020

How's quarantine life treating you?

You'd think we could get more work done since we're confined to these 4 walls, but the two school-aged childrens running about, screaming their faces off, might suggest otherwise!

But we are alive and preserving, as we do. And hopefully you as well ♡

09/03/2020

Apologies for the lack of art from Rob. His laptop got all smashed up. Working on a good alternative, should be something soon.

17/02/2020

Variety of Art.