I figured I'd repost that list of other animation creators on YouTube that I shared last week, separate from it's original, weird context.
I've also included several more entries based on suggestions in the comments. Thanks for the feedback!
General Content Warning: Some of the below is not for kids, or contains violence or other subject matter some viewers might find distressing. Please use your adult discretion.
Also, this is not a list of moral endorsements. I know some of these creators personally, but many of them I do not. While I have tried to make sure I'm not listing anyone who is a criminal or otherwise objectively harmful person, I don't have encyclopedic knowledge of every little internet drama that has gone down (and chances are I'm not super interested in hearing about it all because it's really difficult to tell fact from fiction from hyperbole around here).
Anyway, check out some Indie Animation:
Far-Fetched
Worthikids
Satina | Scumhouse
Noodle and Bun
Punch Punch Forever
Ramshackle
Noodle
Papajoolia | Pipi
Angel Hare | The East Patch
Jonni Peppers
Salad Fingers
Monkey Wrench
Studio Heartbreak
Felix Colgrave
JelloApocalypse
Odd1sout (started indie, got picked up by Netflix)
Allie Mehner
JaidenAnimations
Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy
Cloudrise | The Worlds Divide
Telepurte
RubberRoss
James Lee
ENA
Godspeed | Olan Rogers
Ollie and Scoops
Meat Canyon
Port by the Sea
Kekeflipnote
Boxtown
Kevin Temmer
Weebl
Joel Haver
CircleToons
Long Gone Gulch
Atlas and the Stars
Animist
Skibidi Toilet
A Fox in Space
Alex Henderson
Talon
Toniko Pantoja
Sr. Pelo
Hullabaloo
Kane Pixels (started indie, picked up by A24)
Homestar Runner
Fennah
Gods' School
Alan Becker
Dungeon Flippers
JazLyte
Psychicpebbles (started indie, Smiling Friends picked up by AS)
Piemations
vewn
Metal Family
Dead Sound
chluaid
Jacknjellify
Betsy Lee | No Evil
My Pride
Cranbersher
GeoExe | Gwain Saga
Horatio the Vampire
Mech West
Playground | Rodrigo Sousa
The Brave Locomotive
Finchwing (+ check out other Warrior Cats animators)
Quazies
SamBakZa
Kamikaze: Trial by Fire
Parasomnia
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🚨EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS!🚨 Due to recent events that have resulted in my declining mental health, I've decided to try and snuff out my crippling self-deprecating thoughts, and steer it towards a more creative endeavor. Step right up, and see your ideas come to life!
What has been your favorite part of Lackadaisy? (I must say I ADORE the animation with the visible sketch lines. It gives such a welcoming homemade feel to the show!)
I think my favorite part was getting that dang pencil to finally look right. Idk if most people here know this, but I built from scratch the brush used to line the characters as well as the early pipeline for how the look of the characters would be handled in cleanup.
My goal was to create a line texture for Toon Boom that looked like the Xerox Era of Disney animation. This was where the animators would take their rough pencil drawings and use basically an old school printer to copy and darken those lines so they looked like finalized cleaned lineart. This was done to cut costs so they wouldn't have to draw AND line every single frame because Disney wasn't doing so well financially back then (crazy to imagine now I know), but the end result was a really unique aesthetic!
Obviously we went a touch more clean than these. I just wanted to show some really nice and crunchy examples. Even so, funnily some people thought that was a mistake instead of a throwback to a long gone era of animation haha I don't blame them tho. People are much too used to hyper clean/crisp lines and we wanted to bring that dirt, grime, and TEXTURE back in for a nostalgic vibe. I'm still proud of how these early tests came out and the further refining the rest of the team did to get that final look is incredible.
In less than 2 weeks, I've had my Discord account hacked, and now probably half of, if not all my friends are gone, along with all the servers I was on. I got Catfished by a piece of shit scammer posing as a model I'm following, only to shake me down, and steal $115 dollars from me. I ended up getting sick of waiting for Discord Support to get their thumbs out of their ass and actually fix my problem, I inadvertently hired a lawful hacker to come in, and get my account back. In the process I blew another $100+ dollars in Bitcoin on them to help fix it. And on top of that, I strained my back at work because I actually wanted to be productive! If this is gonna be the rest of my year, where I get beat down for no reason then what the hell is even the point of continuing on?! Why must God torment me in this way? What did I do to deserve all this?! Well it doesn't matter now. One of these days I'll snap, and end up taking my own life, then I'll be free of this unyielding torment. I can't keep living like this. Forever beat down, and made to feel miserable, and unloved. I'm ready to die. Please just let me die.
i played rottmnt: city showdown for like 20 minutes to get these be happy >:(
so, i really wanted to find digital versions of the model sheets and then saw that they were in this: http://www.nick.com.au/rise-of-the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/games/rise-of-tmnt-city-showdown/
and was like “hey, wouldn’t it be nice to get them for people to see?” so i did :D
they are really poor quality cus the game window was really small and i tried everything to get it in higher resolution but nothing worked oof
So I drew this recently. This may be the last time I draw anything Lackadaisy related for a good while. As cool of a character Madame Savoy is, I need to focus on my own content. However in saying this, something amazing happened in regards to this piece.
It ended up making it into the Backerkit livestream last night. Granted, I didn't get to meet the VA behind my favorite character, but the Fanart I did of her made it into the 2 Million stream. Think I can die a little happier now. Congratulations to the Lackadaisy cast and crew for making it to 2 Million, and thank you for acknowledging the work of not just me, but all the creative fans behind such a captivating story!