The Shivering Truth: Season 2

From Summer of 2019 to the beginning of 2020 (feels like a long time ago), I spent about 6 month working on Season 2 of The Shivering Truth. Now that Season 2 has aired, I am going to start posting about it. Will start posting footage and BTS photos once I get the permission for those.

For Season 2, I started as a storyboard revisionist, and later moved onto animation so I have two credits this time. Season 2 is produced at HouseSpecial, with a mix of new faces and season 1 crew.
The animation crew was split up into even and odd episodes this time, so most of my work are in the even episodes until it all blended together towards the end, as productions do. I am not sure if it was planned, but it felt like the odd episodes were heavier on the visual spectacle while the even episodes were more sensitive and emotional. And perhaps due to that aspect of the show, the odd episodes always felt more heavy duty for me on the board revision end.

Here are some BTS photos

Episode 1: The Burn Earner Spits
Episode 1 was a beast in all stages of production. I mostly re-boarded the TV shop scenes/ike and Hank's sequences and did minor redraws and added frames for the rest of the episodes. Animation wise I was responsible for a few prayer flyer shots, and the new age shop (one of the cutest sets)
Episode 2: Carrion My Son
This is perhaps my favorite episode of season 2. The majority of revision happened in the doll shop, but there also added drawings in the opening segments. Animation wise I was responsible for Gigi(girl on the phone), Conrad in the church flexing, some Reiss and mom shots including Reiss taking care of mom doll in the bedroom.
Episode 3: Nesslessness
I feel like I did a lot of rebuild/redraw on every part of the episode. The opening sequence was very complicated for board and animation I believe, and re-building the scene was a bit of a brain gymnastic. I wasn't very involved with animation except for a few elements.
Episode 4: Beast of Both Worlds
Another episode I really liked. I believe most of the re-boarding were in the thug head quarter/fight scenes so lots of violence. Animation wise most of my work was on meditation lawn and him snorting and smoking up books, and the dream girl in her dream cloud.
Episode 5: The Diff
This was a very interesting/challenging one board wise because of how abstract and out of the box this episode was. I think most of my revisions were in the limo sequence, the EMT section and some the half figures, but a lot of work also went into adjusting the very architectural opening and the optometrist's office. Animation wise I did a few shots in the EMT sequence, the hotel and a bunch of tumbling figures, a few shots of the half figures and the pretty animal/nature shot.
Episode 6: Holeways
I don't remember the board revision on this one being super heavy. A lot of it was in the dental office, Dustin tearing up his room, animals and the final field I think. A good chunk of it was kicked back to the board artists towards the end since they didn't have future episodes to work on at the end. Animation wise I did Dustin in the cave, dentist talking through his mouth (was a bit of a challenge since the head mech was not working in half of her face) and the pigs cuddling.

I always enjoyed working on this show, even though I always wished there was more time and money to make it even nicer. But that's true to most if not all projects I guess, and I certainly hope it gets a season 3!

The Shivering Truth: Season 1

About a year after we shot the pilot, I was lucking enough to get called back to work on Season 1 of The Shivering Truth from April to July 2018. Now that Season 1 has started airing, I will be posting and updating photos, videos and reel as more material becomes available. For the mean time, here are all the videos/episodes I can find. I hope you enjoy them!

BTS
Some pretty amazing things were made despite the budget and time constraint. You can see me animating Bennie on the house set, and the nipple hand dance in the animation section. Some of my set photos from Sargent's ep2 monologue and ep3's hospital sets are also featured.

I am posting episodes on the Adult Swim website in the next section. You may need to have an account with them to watch, but sometimes they unlock the episodes so check back.

Episode 1: The Nurple Rainbow
I animates some comedy club extras, and some office workers typing.
Episode 2: The Magmafying Past
I animated Sargent's side of his and private's inner dialogue, parts of private's monologue, bits of decapitated Sargent and spirit Sargent bursting out of bed. Sargent going from holding in to pretty cry and then ugly cry was perhaps my favorite shot in this episode.
Episode 3: Ogled Inklings
I animated most of the wide shots of Neil and the nurse in the hospital wide set. Closeup of Nurse was animated by another animator.
Episode 4: Constadeath
I animated most of Bennie, the house and the god hand on the wide outdoor set that is part of the BTS.
Episode 5: Tow and Shell
My involvement in this episode is pretty minor. I helped setup the rabbit falling shot and animated some rabbits falling loops that may or may not have been used.
Episode 6: Fowl Flow
I animated mostly the big guy in this episode. Starting from the closeup of him smiling, to the infamous nipple dance then the rotting corpse sequence. The dance sequence was quite intense because there were motion control involved, and he was constantly moving. Animating the rotting corpse was also something I did not have experience with, and I only get one shot. It was a foam face on top of a solid skull, so for part of the animation I was stuffing clay under the skin layer to raise the skin before it burst. In hindsight, I wish I went slower with the initial color change phase, but morphing is harder to plan than action for me. I was stationed on the outdoor wide set toward the end so I did a few exterior wide shots of big guy as well.

The Shivering Truth Pilot - Chaos Beknownst

In 2017 Spring, I animated on the pilot of the Shivering Truth for Adult Swim.
This project was under cover for a long time, and we finally got the green light to release our portfolio material. I will update with photos and cut a reel for this once I get all the pieces, but in the mean time, here is the full episode.

The Shivering Truth Pilot - Chaos Beknownst

It was the first TV show I worked on, and there is something special about it. It was a very fast-paced, intense, and sometimes chaotic job (especially toward the end), but I got to work with some of the most talented people in the field and animate some really strange thing. I killed two critters and animated three attempt suicides on the pilot. At one point some of the crew started calling me the murderer. I still remember how nervous I was having to put a knife through a tiny (and super adorable) rat puppet that you can see in the BTS photos because I get one shot and the puppet is forever destroyed.

This was also the project when I started a work journal because things shift around constantly and there was more information than I can hold in my brain. I am glad I did since it is a really good habit to have and the journal has been extremely helpful when I needed to dig up old information regarding past projects.

The full season will go live on December 9th 2018, so check it out if you get a chance and I will be posting more footage once the information is released to me.

Here are some BTS photos from the pilot I was able to dig up from my super old ipad.