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Saw a snake outside my apartment complex today.

St. Lucia trees (Taken with instagram)

Posted this to Facebook. Screenshot of near completed scene in Wonders episode 4.

This is my favorite scene for reasons I can’t disclose without spoiling the episode. It’s the first one I conceptualized and the first one I animated.

Taken with instagram

St. Lucia bay (Taken with instagram)

Opening shot of Wonders episode 2.

I much prefer to show space sequences with some realism. Like here, the ship actually orbits the planet which means the star, starfield, and earth have apparent motion. I hate it when sci fi movies/TV use the term “orbit” to mean “floating high above the planet”.

An orbit is essentially a constant free fall due to horizontal speed overcoming gravitational pull. Unless you are in a geostationary orbit, you are moving past the point on the surface directly below you.

I’ll explore this concept further if we ever use a space elevator in an episode.

First screenshot of Wonders episode 4!

This setup was more complex than it should be: I can’t use Adjust Color - Tint and a Drop Shadow filter together. The shadow also tints. And the Adjust Color filter wouldn’t make the graphic all black either. So instead of making duplicate body part symbols as all black, I duplicated the tween and symbol on an upper layer, gave it a white inner shadow, and used the Knockout option on the filter.

Annoying, but effective.

My Pokémon inside their Pokéba–…Pokécubes.