HEYA GUYS So I’ve finally uploaded my big ol senior project, AKA the animated short that I independently created!! It was a lot of work and that last week before the deadline especially killed me but IT IS DONE and I’m extremely proud of it so link is above!!!
And CW for blood, violence, swearing, and death- though it is intended to be comedic :3
Another last college project!! This one being based around my series that I’ve posted a good deal about here, Jamie Jones :] (Which like I gotta get back on track with doing I KNOW I KNOW,,)
So enjoy a comic with our beloved little Dread Mortis going on a truly epic, harrowing adventure…
One of my final ever projects from college :’) I wanted to do a big ol culmination and sorta celebration of my characters from elementary school to now, so there is a loose sequential order from the top to bottom of the composition :3
It was a lot of fun thinking over different times of my life again and just like EMBRACING WHO I WAS because cringe culture is dead and literally my art would not be what it is now if it weren’t for Sonic or Invader Zim. Like yeah I did cringy things but ultimately I WAS JUST A KID WHO LIKED INVADER ZIM Y'KNOW…
But uh rambling aside I still really love how this turned out and it’s been my phone’s home screen for a good three months now :]
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I think it’s kind crazy how Vivzie was exposed for demanding that other indie projects don’t pick up her animators
And fans are like “well she doesn’t want to overwork them!” Because of this comment here
Hello? That is not a fucking normal reaction to have. Animators aren’t her goddamn slaves, they’re allowed to have other jobs and aspirations. Vivzie herself is on record for saying that she wants her work to be the main priority for her team. Like lovebombing your crew while overworking them and refusing to let them find other jobs doesn’t sound abusive to you? Alright.
Vivzie is not concerned about her team having too much to work on, she’s concerned about them having other JOBS because it means her show isn’t going to be the main priority anymore. Hell she admits that her supervisor wants to get rid of several animators for doing this and Vivzie’s only concern is how many animators she might lose.
Like Vivziepop’s bizarre reaction to realizing that her animators might join other projects makes it kind of obvious that she very clearly did not prepare for this. She definitely expected her crew to be extremely loyal to her and only her, likely not picking any other job until the show was finished. She wanted to make two shows with a single team with fluid animation and extremely overly designed main characters and was somehow shocked when her animators wanted to leave or get a second job.
There is quite literally not a single justified reason for Vivzie to block her team from working on other projects. She’s just predatory and selfish.
It’s important to contextualize that the majority of Viv’s artists are contract, which means they are not salaried employees, have no benefits, and get paid on a task by task basis, and they aren’t exactly getting paid crazy well.
While working on Season 1 of HB, a coworker confided in me that Viv basically had them on standby as far as new assignments, despite their open availability and high quality of work output.
That same employee went looking for work to supplement their income—as they had rent and bills to pay—and was told by an indie creator whom Viv had already approached that they could not be hired, despite their qualifications, because Viv “won’t allow it.”
I had a similar problem where I’d gone a while with no assignments due to the pipeline bottlenecking and being generally disorganized. I took on some extra small jobs, then got a huge assignment dropped on me that I was initially given no deadline for.
We didn’t get a lot of deadlines in the beginning. It was sort of “get it done when you can.” At that time we’re also working on stuff much further out in the pipeline. For example, I was given backgrounds to complete for the Spring Break episode well before Episode 1 was completed.
Then once Murder Family went live, the pace accelerated greatly. We were being given work to complete for a given episode up until the final hour. One of the assignments that nearly broke me was a bunch of background posters for LooLoo Land. I was initially given no deadline and a very loose idea of the scale for this assignment. There were points when time got wasted because I was still waiting for Viv to give me feedback on process work she’d been sent days earlier—yes she was still giving out assignments and feedback on pretty much everything herself at this point.
At some point I was handed off to Sam Miller. She wasn’t officially a lead at this point but had been taking on the responsibilities of one more and more as production ramped up. It finally occurred to me to ask Sam for a deadline and was given about a week to complete all 7 posters and because I loved the show and idolized Viv, I didn’t dispute that deadline despite knowing I’d have to pull all nighters to get it done.
Evidently the episode they were for was going live at the end if that month, which I hadn’t been made aware of prior to this. I ended up completing the line art pretty much the night before the episode launch, with someone else stepping in to colorize them. As far as I know based on what my friends in the animation department told me, that episode was uploaded pretty much as soon as it was finished. And I believe that was the case with all of season 1. We had no backlog, stuff just got posted as soon as it was finished, and as much as it might seem impressive to crank out new episodes every other month that sort of pace just isn’t sustainable for a any kind of production, let alone an indie.
There’s a reason networks finish the entire season before airing it.
To quote Markiplier: If you’re working on an indie project.. You don’t wanna be like this.
Because Vivziepop and her writers are disgusting. This is awful in every way.
And the fact that the bootlickers of the fandom are so caught up with their heads in the sand to realize that the creators/writers of this show are just.. god awful is both frustrating and incredibly disappointing.
If you wanna watch an indie project, I highly recommend checking out projects like Lackadaisy and Talon.
These two amazing indie projects certainly blow this abysmal sh*tshow straight out of the water when it comes to quality and great writing/storytelling imo.
