The new Vortex animation studio is done.
For many reasons, this will make I Am The Night a lot better and easier to make.

The best part about this is the table. Before, I animated on the floor, which can be uncomfortable, or somewhat painful after a long dose of animating, so I took breaks a bunch to make my legs feel better and I couldn't film quite as much as I wanted. Now I can sit in a comfortable chair and animate with no worry about that.

On top of that, the table has an elevation for the animation set. This way I can put the tripod on the table with the set on the elevation, making the camera and subject be at about the same height.

Supporting the elevation are four stacks of Duplo blocks. This way, I can change the number of blocks to adjust the height of the elevation and the set's height relative to the camera and tripod.
The topmost blocks are actually screwed into the elevation itself.

I've had some hangers put on the wall at several levels so I can set up my canvas backgrounds at different heights.
Like always, I have one blue painting for day, and a black one with white dots for night and space scenes. I've redone the latter as a canvas since it used to be a huge heavy board of wood.

Some shelves for keeping stuff handy.
The top shelf is for minifigures for the film and other stuff, the lower one for some sets and elements for sets.

Dusters, effects lights, animation and camera accessories.
And some useful LEGO pieces along with the cranky pushy thingy.

Before, I had stuff like this randomly spread across the ground I kept losing stuff for a while, which was quite bothersome.

The only downside to this studio is how hot it gets in the afternoon this time of year, however, I think it's worth it for all of the positives.

This is a huge upgrade for me. For the last few days I've felt all giddy and cheery inside, not as I have felt in far too long. It's almost time once again to do what I love doing the most: brickfilming.

I've been doing some tests to get back into the spirit, and I'll do some more for several days, plus watch some of my films and other films I really like, then I'll finally animate I Am The Night.
And I know it's gonna be so awesome.

Mr.Munchy is going to be in this!!!!

RAINBOWS!!! lol Nice setup! And I spotted your trademark squid

Because that's the name of the room itself. It has been so for years, long before I ever thought of making it into an animation studio.

Moving to this house 8 years ago, we stuffed a lot of unpacked rubbish into this side room upstairs. We got some stuff unpacked, however, it stayed a pretty awful and chaotic mess most of the time. We called this room "The Vortex" as it doesn't really suit the name of any room I can think of, and it summed up the disaster of a room pretty nicely. Some had tried to tame this wilderness, adding some organization to the chaos, but it was still a pretty bad most mess of the time, then it's power grew back again, an unrelenting beast of rubbish. However, after so many years, my brother Wilson decided he would conquer the Vortex once and for all for a new animation studio I was thinking up. So, after many, many months, he won. And the Vortex is now an organized neat room. Since we've called it the Vortex for so many years, I don't think I'll ever call it anything else.

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That speech.... Just beautiful!
WHY DID IT POST LIKE THIS

Love the torso and buildings in the background. I don't know if the bat-signal really looks like it is being illuminated in the sky though.

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Wow. Awesome setup ANP. Now I want to have a better studio too I think the bat-signal looks nice

-FBS

I love your city skyscrapers... they're awesome and you are one of the best animators what do I know. But it's nice that your project continues and you can animate now.