Em Void
@coherentvoid.bsky.social
Artist, scientist, wanderer. Grasping at dreams I refuse to abandon.
Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.
Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.
If anybody was curious, listening to the Cuphead soundtrack does make one animate differently.
One tends to exaggerate poses and make wacky frames when musically motivated.
One tends to exaggerate poses and make wacky frames when musically motivated.
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If anybody was curious, listening to the Cuphead soundtrack does make one animate differently.
One tends to exaggerate poses and make wacky frames when musically motivated.
One tends to exaggerate poses and make wacky frames when musically motivated.
Why the hell did I pick an Ankylosaurus to animate? It's going to take forever to learn how to draw this damn thing running around.
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Why the hell did I pick an Ankylosaurus to animate? It's going to take forever to learn how to draw this damn thing running around.
Received a tarriff bill for eyeshadow from Canada.
That's all. Fuck all of this. But at least . . . well nevermind.
That's all. Fuck all of this. But at least . . . well nevermind.
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Received a tarriff bill for eyeshadow from Canada.
That's all. Fuck all of this. But at least . . . well nevermind.
That's all. Fuck all of this. But at least . . . well nevermind.
I need to hurry up and start full production on my short animation.
What started as an exercise to draw dinosaurs is now some deeply poetic metaphorical tale about darkness. It's too full of meaning and I'm taking it to seriously.
What started as an exercise to draw dinosaurs is now some deeply poetic metaphorical tale about darkness. It's too full of meaning and I'm taking it to seriously.
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I need to hurry up and start full production on my short animation.
What started as an exercise to draw dinosaurs is now some deeply poetic metaphorical tale about darkness. It's too full of meaning and I'm taking it to seriously.
What started as an exercise to draw dinosaurs is now some deeply poetic metaphorical tale about darkness. It's too full of meaning and I'm taking it to seriously.
Oooooh... character design for my animated short today and I got a fantastic idea for a concepting exercise for the day!
Like so good that I can't wait to start doing it! Yay yay yay yay yay drawing time.
Like so good that I can't wait to start doing it! Yay yay yay yay yay drawing time.
December 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Oooooh... character design for my animated short today and I got a fantastic idea for a concepting exercise for the day!
Like so good that I can't wait to start doing it! Yay yay yay yay yay drawing time.
Like so good that I can't wait to start doing it! Yay yay yay yay yay drawing time.
LED Christmas tree lights are too bright. It's not giving magical tree vibes. It feels like a traffic billboard in my living room.
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
LED Christmas tree lights are too bright. It's not giving magical tree vibes. It feels like a traffic billboard in my living room.
I really want to make an indie game but it seems like nobody would ever play it and trying to connect with people via socials is become mentally draining.
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I really want to make an indie game but it seems like nobody would ever play it and trying to connect with people via socials is become mentally draining.
Some preliminary sketches as I design my protagonist.
I'm launching into concept art and development for a 5 minute cartoon short I plan to make in 2026.
Would anyone be interested in seeing me fumble through the process and learn through mistakes? Or maybe I keep the process to myself?
I'm launching into concept art and development for a 5 minute cartoon short I plan to make in 2026.
Would anyone be interested in seeing me fumble through the process and learn through mistakes? Or maybe I keep the process to myself?
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Some preliminary sketches as I design my protagonist.
I'm launching into concept art and development for a 5 minute cartoon short I plan to make in 2026.
Would anyone be interested in seeing me fumble through the process and learn through mistakes? Or maybe I keep the process to myself?
I'm launching into concept art and development for a 5 minute cartoon short I plan to make in 2026.
Would anyone be interested in seeing me fumble through the process and learn through mistakes? Or maybe I keep the process to myself?
Don't push your dreams aside.
I am looking back at my life and finding it absolutely insane that I put off learning animation for 25 years.
25 years!?
I am looking back at my life and finding it absolutely insane that I put off learning animation for 25 years.
25 years!?
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Don't push your dreams aside.
I am looking back at my life and finding it absolutely insane that I put off learning animation for 25 years.
25 years!?
I am looking back at my life and finding it absolutely insane that I put off learning animation for 25 years.
25 years!?
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❄️ 𝟭𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 Drawings, 𝟯 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 of work, 1 Artist...
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This Friday at 12 PM EST, Snow Bear finally premieres FREE on YouTube!
📽️ Go Here & Click "NOTIFY ME" to See it First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4
🙏 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽!! SHARE & Spread the Word!
And now 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔 2 𝘿𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝙂𝙊! ❄️🎬
This Friday at 12 PM EST, Snow Bear finally premieres FREE on YouTube!
📽️ Go Here & Click "NOTIFY ME" to See it First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4
🙏 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽!! SHARE & Spread the Word!
SNOW BEAR - Award Winning Animated Short Film (Full Movie) by Aaron Blaise
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November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
❄️ 𝟭𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 Drawings, 𝟯 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 of work, 1 Artist...
And now 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔 2 𝘿𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝙂𝙊! ❄️🎬
This Friday at 12 PM EST, Snow Bear finally premieres FREE on YouTube!
📽️ Go Here & Click "NOTIFY ME" to See it First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4
🙏 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽!! SHARE & Spread the Word!
And now 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔 2 𝘿𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝙂𝙊! ❄️🎬
This Friday at 12 PM EST, Snow Bear finally premieres FREE on YouTube!
📽️ Go Here & Click "NOTIFY ME" to See it First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4
🙏 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽!! SHARE & Spread the Word!
As near as I can tell,
an art degree is more difficult than a physics degree.
An art career is more difficult than one in engineering.
Artistic paths provide less respect, lower pay, more derision, and so on.
Yet in 20 years of engineering I never felt like I did anything.
an art degree is more difficult than a physics degree.
An art career is more difficult than one in engineering.
Artistic paths provide less respect, lower pay, more derision, and so on.
Yet in 20 years of engineering I never felt like I did anything.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
As near as I can tell,
an art degree is more difficult than a physics degree.
An art career is more difficult than one in engineering.
Artistic paths provide less respect, lower pay, more derision, and so on.
Yet in 20 years of engineering I never felt like I did anything.
an art degree is more difficult than a physics degree.
An art career is more difficult than one in engineering.
Artistic paths provide less respect, lower pay, more derision, and so on.
Yet in 20 years of engineering I never felt like I did anything.
Just had a weird sense that the entire Tears of the Kingdom story might be Zelda dreaming in Oz-style with Ganondorf representing her resentment of her father, the king.
Almost like the whole game is a trauma nightmare about the events of BOTW.
Almost like the whole game is a trauma nightmare about the events of BOTW.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just had a weird sense that the entire Tears of the Kingdom story might be Zelda dreaming in Oz-style with Ganondorf representing her resentment of her father, the king.
Almost like the whole game is a trauma nightmare about the events of BOTW.
Almost like the whole game is a trauma nightmare about the events of BOTW.
Today's animation practice. Water effects, droplets, and a bubble.
Maybe a little dim for posting, but I'm too tired to fix it.
Still, overall happy with the result.
#art #animation
Maybe a little dim for posting, but I'm too tired to fix it.
Still, overall happy with the result.
#art #animation
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Today's animation practice. Water effects, droplets, and a bubble.
Maybe a little dim for posting, but I'm too tired to fix it.
Still, overall happy with the result.
#art #animation
Maybe a little dim for posting, but I'm too tired to fix it.
Still, overall happy with the result.
#art #animation
Oh cool. A drop of poison in a circular champagne glass will create a standing wave pattern in the surface that manifests a complimentary ripple source at a point symmetrically offset from the center by the same amount as the original droplet. The two areas will alternately oscillate thenceforth.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh cool. A drop of poison in a circular champagne glass will create a standing wave pattern in the surface that manifests a complimentary ripple source at a point symmetrically offset from the center by the same amount as the original droplet. The two areas will alternately oscillate thenceforth.
Private equity officially killed my engineering career.
Fortunately I saw what was coming and bailed when I had a cushion. Otherwise I'd be laid off and in debt today.
Fortunately I saw what was coming and bailed when I had a cushion. Otherwise I'd be laid off and in debt today.
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Private equity officially killed my engineering career.
Fortunately I saw what was coming and bailed when I had a cushion. Otherwise I'd be laid off and in debt today.
Fortunately I saw what was coming and bailed when I had a cushion. Otherwise I'd be laid off and in debt today.
My "finished" shot from #animation bootcamp with Aaron Blaise.
This assignment took me out of my comfort zone but I learned a lot struggling through it.
I'm excited for my next project now.
This assignment took me out of my comfort zone but I learned a lot struggling through it.
I'm excited for my next project now.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My "finished" shot from #animation bootcamp with Aaron Blaise.
This assignment took me out of my comfort zone but I learned a lot struggling through it.
I'm excited for my next project now.
This assignment took me out of my comfort zone but I learned a lot struggling through it.
I'm excited for my next project now.
Okay so animating a 20 second sequence in 3 days is harder than I thought it would be.
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Okay so animating a 20 second sequence in 3 days is harder than I thought it would be.
I'm really happy when I'm animating.
Unreasonably happy.
Unreasonably happy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I'm really happy when I'm animating.
Unreasonably happy.
Unreasonably happy.
The thing I kept experiencing during my drive across the gulf coast is that the world is really big.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The thing I kept experiencing during my drive across the gulf coast is that the world is really big.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
I attended an animation training class last week and got artist block. It blew my whole assignment and I thought I failed.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I attended an animation training class last week and got artist block. It blew my whole assignment and I thought I failed.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
Just want to point out that I got the high score at the Star Fox kiosk at Toys R Us when it was released. My score stood for nearly 10 minutes!
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just want to point out that I got the high score at the Star Fox kiosk at Toys R Us when it was released. My score stood for nearly 10 minutes!
So glad I drove 2500 miles across the south instead of flying.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
So glad I drove 2500 miles across the south instead of flying.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
I salvaged animation class but I now need to take the character that gave me art block at a critical time and ... rend him asunder in a coming animation.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I salvaged animation class but I now need to take the character that gave me art block at a critical time and ... rend him asunder in a coming animation.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.