Terminal Montage: Something About Series - Storyboarding, Backgrounds, Coloring, FX

I'm a Digital artist/Animator for the Terminal Montage Youtube channel.
We are a two person team and we release a 7 minute long animation every 1.5 months!
We achieve this by maintaining a simple art style, working smarter not harder by taking shortcuts wherever we can (reusing/editing assets), and we put our effort into areas that make the most impact in our cartoons.

Jeremey is an animation powerhouse all by himself, but he brought me onboard to speed up the process and appease the hungry Youtube Algorithm! With my 20+ years of experience in Adobe Animate, I can visually create anything he needs for his cartoons and take part in any step of the production! I take on many roles: Digital inking and coloring, storyboards, special effects, backgrounds, and compositing!

Here are some of my contributions to the "Something About" series!

2024. My roles: Animatic, Backgrounds, Writing, VisualFX, Additional Assets, Coloring, Animation.

I did animatics for most of this cartoon!

Here's an example of what my animatics look like before they're outline and colored!

A screenshot of my animatic for DKC2. My backgrounds can get pretty detailed for a storyboard.

A screenshot of my animatic for DKC2. I turn my assets into symbols so that they're easy to manage and finalized within Adobe Animate.

Sometimes I keep characters extremely rough.

Sometimes I go overboard and draw completed assets. (The island just needs to be colored!)

I try to come up with interesting compositions.

I use a lot of layering.

Screenshot of my animatic for DKC2

Screenshot of my animatic for DKC2.

Color coded assets that I've turned into symbols so they can be easily finalized when handed off to someone else to do assets.

Screenshot of my animatic for DKC2

Very rough drawings.

Screenshot of my animatic for DKC2

2024. My role: Animatics!
I did the animatic for most of this animation. Jeremey gives me a script with the beats of the story he wants to cover, then I add jokes, storyboard what I can, then turn it into an animatic!

A frame from my Animatic for Something About Banjo-Kazooie! Lots of layers and assets!

A frame from my Animatic for Something About Banjo-Kazooie!

Coming up with silly jokes, like a cellphone with the trademark RARE eyes.

A frame from my Animatic for Something About Banjo-Kazooie. "REALISTIC" BEAR!

Background pan from my Animatic for Something about Banjo-Kazooie

Background pan from my Animatic for Something about Banjo-Kazooie. Different sections are layered so the character can move between foreground and background. Some parallaxing.