CONTENT WARNING: Body horror.
Spooky scary Shelley-tons!! Ok Michael Distortion fans, this one is for you.
Drawn in Storyboard Pro 20.1 with custom brushes from Rozlyn Waltz. The Magnus Archives is a podcast written by Jonathan Sims, Directed by Alexander J Newall, and distributed by Rusty Quill! This clip features voice acting by Jonathan Sims and Luke Booys!
Had a lot of fun figuring out how Michael moves! Now that I've drawn his grand entrance, maybe someday I'll draw the scene where he...uh...leaves.
After a week of drawing "spooky scary shelley-tons" I took today to draw some jmart fluff instead. Vaguely season two-ish vibes.
Audio from the "Gaming and Giving" charity stream where Jonny and Alex did requests.
so, my friend @demonologi and I recently realized that the descriptions of the creatures from the beastiary in part 17 match up almost perfectly with descriptions in the Call of Cthulhu sourcebook H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands: Roleplaying Beyond the Veil of Sleep, and after spending a minute hunting down a pdf of it, we found that almost every creature in the show has an entry and description, so boy do I have some interesting things to share with y'all. More under the cut
"A lamp-eft is a salamander-like creature two or three feet long. It floats in the air, writhing its way along with its flattened tail and four paws, but has no wings. It has two huge globe-like eyes, but no mouth. Lamp-efts normally inhabit the upper air, and only descend to the earth’s surface at night. They feed on ambient magic. Lamp-efts are easily tamed and magicians sometimes use them as a live-in defense against shades. lamp-eft can project a beam of bright colorless light toward a target."
"Zoogs are small and brown, with a rodent-like body outline. Small tentacles dangle from their snouts, concealing their small sharp teeth. Zoogs live in burrows and tree-trunks in the Enchanted Wood. There are several prominent zoog villages in their domain. Though they live mostly on fungi, zoogs have a taste for either spiritual or physical meat as well, for many dreamers have entered their wood and failed to return."
"Closely related to the fireworm is the boltworm. Boltworms are found primarily in the Bnazic Desert, but have been sighted in other desert areas throughout the Dreamlands. During its travels the boltworm builds up an enormous static charge which it can release at prey or attackers either to stun or kill. Once every decade or so, the boltworms release great amounts of this energy during their courtship and fill the skies with sheet lightning."
"The Gugs are a hairy and gigantic race of beings which once inhabited the surface of the Dreamlands in the area where the Enchanted Wood now stands. Here they reared a circle of colossal stones and made sacrifices to the Other Gods and the crawling chaos, Nyarlathotep. Finally, while trying to summon Yog-Sothoth into the Dreamlands, the Great Ones took notice of their blasphemies and banished them to the Underworld forever. Only a great trap door at the top of the tallest tower in their city, the Tower of Koth, connects their realm with the surface world, but no Gug will dare to open that door for fear of the curse of the Great Ones. Gugs stand approximately 20 feet in height and are covered by a coat of short, coarse hairs. Roughly humanoid in form, their arms split into two separate and fully functional forearms at their elbows; in effect giving them four arms and paw-like hands. It is the gugs’ head which is their most striking feature. Their mouths are filled with great yellow fangs and run vertically from their foreheads to their chins. Their pink eyes, set on either side of their head, bulge outward and are shaded by bony protuberances. Their ears are so small as to be non-existent, but they have a highly developed sense of hearing and they can pick up even the slightest sound. Gugs are also capable of moving almost as silently as nightgaunts. Combined with the fact that they have become accustomed to seeing in absolute darkness, this means that they can strike without warning at any who may blunder around in the dark."
"Haemophores are small humanoid beings with webbed hands and feet, and curious W-shaped mouths. A haemophore subsists on blood and is attracted to bright and shiny objects. It will suck blood from a victim until the haemophore is so monstrously bloated that it is completely distorted and bulging, incapable of movement. Their name comes from their habit of filling up on blood before migrating. Haemophores move very softly and often carefully investigate potential prey before sucking out blood. Once a haemophore has bitten a target, the creature remains attached on subsequent rounds, sucking blood and draining 1D3 points of the victim’s STR each round until the victim dies. If the victim survives, the STR returns at a rate of one point a day"
"Buopoths are a little larger than horses, but resemble elephants in general outline. Buopoths are pale mauve, with light green mottling over the backs and sides. The skin is soft and felt-like, and the mouth is at the end of a long trunk-like proboscis. The ears are shaped more like human than elephant ears. Along each side of the back are rows of protuberances. Their eyes are large and liquid. Their calls are soft and melodious trumpetings. Buopoths live in remote forested areas. They are gentle and skittish creatures which would rather flee than fight. If cornered, a buopoth rolls up its proboscis to keep it out of danger and charges, trying to knock down and trample its opponent."
The only real you is the actions you take
-SPOILERS! -Flashing images at 6:53-6:57. -Eye/Body horror warning
This is my version of episode 159 from The Magnus Archives. Thank you to the friends who cheered me on though the project, the cool folks who hung out with me on twitch, and my awesome sister who is too scared to finish the podcast but will listen to me talk about it for hours on end.
And, of course, thank you to Jonny Sims, Alex Newall, Alasdair Stuart and and the rest of the crew and cast behind TMA (I'm so looking forward to the Magnus Protocol!)
I love animation, I love storyboarding, I love the Magnus Archives.
SOFTWARE: Storyboard Pro 20, with ROZ ToonBoom brushes (https://rozlynnwaltz.gumroad.com/l/SBProBrushesStarterPack)
@badgerhat
So the other week Harlan and Jo were playing Fobia on Spooky Stream and Harlan started playing in Malevolent, mostly Arthur and John, but some other characters sneak in as well. Even though obviously not canon, there are some mentions of things that have happened in more recent episodes (up to part 25). I will say the most impressive thing was that I never realized how quickly and easily Harlan switches between John and Arthur.
guess who made another animatic because the tma brainrot continues to be nothing but strong?
I blame it on the song
Take a look if you are interested! I had a lot of fun with all the glowy bits (and most importantly more martin-screentime, than my last animatic :)
I was bored so I made a thing
IT’S HERE!!
(I’d really appreciate anyone who’d go over and support this on youtube, I’d like to reach people there too if possible :) )
Jonathan Sims - the human, not the Archivist - has a new book coming out on October 13.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8YSSMVK/?pldnSite=1
This man single handedly wrote The Magnus Archives, the best damn horror anthology I’ve ever experienced. Far and away my favorite podcast. (Pity that episode 160 is only five minutes long 🙃)
BUY THIS BOOK.
I was working on this around this time last year. Sucks but I don’t think I can work on it anymore, so I’m uploading the unfinished version. Enjoy!! ^^
ITS DONE! IVE DONE IT! IT TOOK ABOUT A WEEK BUT ITS DONE!! 100+ FRAMES N ALL!!
ill be posting frames from it here shortly!
The Mind Electric - TMA PMV
This was the first thing I did to quell my Magnus Archives brainrot, and now that i got the ropes of clip studio EX from doing my previous TMA video, it's time.
If you want to check the video (with music and all), it's available at my public Patreon, where I'll be updating more frequently every time I have a bit more to show :)
Check the video so far over here. (it'll direct you to a Patreon page, but the page is open so you will be able to see this and other posts there)
[Also, do not repost the images/gifs/etc anywhere else. I am just one artist doing a leisure project for myself that I hope others will enjoy. The way to show appreciation to the project is to not repost, but to reblog/retweet/share the link. If you feel like you must repost my work, please ask first.]
Continuing my weird adventure with animation by making a tma animatic this time
https://youtu.be/CdovaiuDRPA
I actually really like it? people who follow me for tma content I’m summoning you to check it out
Hi howdy hey I made a tma animatic
My post got 1 like… So here it is. Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives reading “Man Door Hand Hook Car Door” like a statement. See you all again in like 3 years.
Spoilers for MAG 50!! I. Uhm. I made another animatic. Again. No chill. I don’t really like how this one turned out but it still makes me laUGH
A huge thanks and shout out to everyone who participated, no matter at what level (whether that be creating, reblogging, or just appreciating all the wonderful submissions people made 💚 )
>if you haven’t seen your work appear on this blog for any reason, don’t hesitate in reaching out and that will be remedied posthaste.
>The Jonmartin Week Archives parent collection will be left open the rest of the year for late submissions and/or fics written for any year’s prompts not done during the event weeks.
>Additionally, this blog will continue reblogging/signal boosting other tma fandom events’ posts during the year.
All that said, here’s to another fantastic Jonmartin Week and hope to see all of you here again next year!
if jonny won't write the flesh attack on the institute then i will
Mr. Lonely Himself
Happy (late) mag200 day! here’s an animatic I just finished
Commission me 💛 ko-fi 💛 inprnt
made another tma reel hehe
[Video Description: The first bit of the video shows Jon stretching and yawning while wearing a hospital gown. There's text above him that reads "Finally woke up from the coma!!!". The next part shows Jon, now dressed in a sweater and jeans, walking to the right. There's new text that reads "🥰🥰🥰Time to see my dear Martin again🥰🥰🥰". The last part of the video is a picture of Jon sitting keeled over on a chair (like the shinji on a chair evangelion meme) with dramatic lighting from above. The new text reads "He is isolating himself from everyone as a result of working for Peter/the Lonely and is actively avoiding me". End Video description]
Starting to muster up the courage to work on a longer animatic project. Here’s a sneak peak 👀
Did you know that Jon has said Martin’s name out loud 168.5 times in four seasons of The Magnus Archives?
SPOILERS through episode 160
cheers to @magpiedragon for the help and encouragement
Less awkward
Well... I usually don't really write fanfiction, but instead prefer to stick more directly to the text and focusing on my own visual interpretation for that (unless it is jokey jokes, then all bets are off). But I also am a sucker for casual romance side plots that while being not the main focus of the story still are there and important to the characters and their progression. Hence these kind of scenes don't need much prompting to form in my brain... It was important to me that their dialogue, as I imagined it in their voices, still sounded true to their characters and I tried out several things for the coloration of this to make it als light and fluffy as possible without becoming too kitschy? It is more or less the antithesis to the Lonely scene... also since weird kissing sounds are not a problem in this medium... yeah. Yeah.