[ID: four gifs of a spinning vinyl that has been painted with a zoetrope pattern, so that when it spins it creates the effect of the design moving. this disc shows lily pads spiralling outwards from the center and off the edge of a waterfall at the rim of the vinyl, painted in shades of turquoise and pink.]
Time Agent, can we count on your support tomorrow morning in funding ZOETROPE: Death Didn't Take, the time travel roleplaying game run on cards? It requires zero preparation and seats 3-7 players for 1-2 hours of time travel goodness.
As ZOETROPE Time Agents, take on randomized missions each game with a set of pre-determined actions you can take. Can you solve the time crime quickly and cleanly, or will you have to Rewind and try again? (Don't worry, we all screw up sometimes!)
The game comes with dozens of Actions, Gear, Weapons, and Time altering technology cards for you to get your mission done.
Be sure to be one of the first 50 people to grab Early Bird pricing on ZOETROPE and its expansion, Across Time, which will grow in size with each stretch goal we reach!
Not my usual kind of work but for one of my finals I got to work with some vintage animation methods/optical toys so I decided to have a go at making my very own phenakistiscope! It’s pretty much just a disk that when spun will give the illusion of movement so I took some visual inspiration from a tarot card I made based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream! I would love to make a whole series of these eventually it was actually a really fun technique to work with! ✨💖🌙
And ill share the still image and some of the individual elements if anyone is interested eventually, this has some real goofy in-betweens (also well see how the quality on this is cause its been giving me and impossible time)
The Fox Fairy/Spirit has a lot of variations throughout East Asia. I chose to base mine off the Huli Jing, and Tang dynasty dress. The shapeshifting, predominately female nine tailed fox also takes the form of a Kistune in Japan and Kumiho in Korea.
One of my favourite interpretations of this being is Good Hunting, the short story by Ken Liu (though not the Love, Death, and Robots inspired short animation! :( )
Original art by me! More phenakistoscopes on my page.
Ouroboros spins a loose narrative of joy, grief, death and rebirth, all told through looping images printed on physical animation devices known as phonotropes. Much like the ouroboros, a symbolic snake that devours its own tail, everything in life is a loop.
AWARDS:
Best North American Animation, Female Eye Film Festival 2023.)
Take Me to the Dark: 3 Games of the Strange by Publishing Goblin — Kickstarter
In early October, TAKE ME TO THE DARK: 3 Games of the Strange is coming to Kickstarter! Click the link above to signup and be notified of the campaign's launch!
Take Me to the Dark: 3 Games of the Strange by Publishing Goblin — Kickstarter
Three card-run TTRPGs that take little to no preparation to sit down and play, not even for the person(s) running the story. $25 a piece, or $60 for all three games in a bundle.
ZOETROPE: Death Didn't Take is the second edition of time travel madness! Play time agents trying to stop (or cause) time anomalies in a ridiculous game. Build the timeline on the table with your action cards, so when you rewind (or fast forward) time, you know exactly what did or didn't happen.
SECRET HALLS is 1993 Chicago urban fantasy at its best. You are mages tasked with keeping the peace between other mythological beings, while trying to keep the mortals blissfully unaware of the supernal dream hiding in the dark alleys of their city.
WHAT WE POSSESS is a game of vignettes of the living, paired with the onlooking hunger of the dead. Figure out why your ghosts are haunting this space before their energy fails and they fall to the Whispers that keep them locked here.