iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There wasn't any dialogue for this bit, so I had to come up with some lipsync. I had her talking about one piece lmao. I forget what she says exactly, but at the end u can see her say "sun god"

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Behold the most cursed timeline you'll ever see

The solid red timeline represents the many blood sacrifices needed to keep maya from crashing

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Progression of that long shot. A ton of iterating went into this, I tried to get eyes on this as much as possible. At one point I turned in what I thought was the final, but Goose wanted another Polish pass. That pass added so much more to the shot, gave it so much more life

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I don’t have the energy to do another shot progression vid, so I’ll put everything I can come up with here! This bit was a lot of fun, here it is slowed down. I tried to do a lot of Bad Guys spacing/tricks

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I specifically asked for the shrimp town shot

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Still putting together a process video for Digital Circus ep 7, but here's a bit from one of my fav run of shots. I didn't keep the specific workflow playblasts, but I think it's cool to see all the ideas staying the same from ref to final, just becoming more complex and pushed

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

My shots from Digital Circus Ep 5! So much fun getting to animate more of the DC characters. Each one has their own little quirks/challenges to figure out #animation #digitalcircus #cg

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

All of that culminating in this last bit. Not just contrasting his acting from earlier, but the craziness that's happening off screen. Also, great secondary action of getting out a cigarette and lighting it. It's weaved into his primary acting so nicely.

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Texture timing and rhythm are awesome. He communicates so much with his hands, especially at the end when he's interrupted.

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'd say he's living in this pose for so long, but he's barely living haha. And that adds to the gag. Towards the end of the shot he kind of wakes up from this frozen trance he's in

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

That bird like gesture, where he turns his head but keeps his eye on her is so funny

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I love Arsenic and Old Lace, It's got some of my fav Cary Grant acting (everyone in the movie is super fun to watch). I think because it's adapted from the stage play, the acting is way more exaggerated. Thread of some clips:

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

For these shots at the end, because they were a lot subtler ( and I have an easier time figuring things out in the graph editor) I animated these splined first. Then I made an override layer with the stepped interpolation that I wanted on 2's 3's and 4's...

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Here's this bit slowed down and zoomed in

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Here's a progression of this shot; Blocking, anim pass, then polish. Mud is super fun to animate

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Here's my work from the Gaslight District!! + a thread of some bts stuff #animation #glitch #thegaslightdistrict

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Here are all my shots from the Digital Circus billboards!

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

When I started, we were still working on the models/rigs. I guess having the face helps me create more interesting body anim as well

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Main run of shots. There was A LOT of pulling back animation wise. I have a tendency to over polish, despite telling the animation team to stay in a limited style. I'll practice what I preach next time😅

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

First shot on the short! Imma try to do more with Clorinde next time (lookin at you hoyo)

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

After this test, since parenting in blender is a little tricky, our rigger @bnbaku.bsky.social made a prop specific control. You could switch it's space and parent controls to it, all within the rig.

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As a lead I did some tests to help develop our rig/style. We had a cool switch that woould shift different parts of the face to look better in profile. Lot of fun to play with and get cool 2D cutout shapes.

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As a lead I did some tests as we developed the rig/style. We had a cool switch that would shift parts of the face to look better in profile. Lots of fun to play with to get cool 2d cutout shapes.

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Contrast in color and shading, coloring Luffy in shadow so he stands out.

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

For all you freaks that are able to draw perspective

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Look at those poses! Great Loa's. I love the rhythm of this one too

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

You can really see the leads and follows when it's slowed down. I think this bit was animated by Frank Thomas

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Found this clip from Brave Little Tailor(I think). Super fun! I really love this design for Mickey. Thread of some bits slowed down for studyin #animation #2d

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Derek Christmann @derekanim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm terrible at using social media, but let's give this a go! #animation #3d

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