Whatsapp has a new Anti-hero called the Bluetick.

It's been a while since I updated my blog. Today is Sat 8/Nov/2014 and yesterday my Whatsapp started showing 2 blue ticks whenever someone reads your messages. This has, as you can imagine caused mayhem. A few people in my social media circles started complaining that they can now be exposed when they ignore/ refuse to reply someone's message. The blue ticks are being painted as somekind of mega villains. I thought it would be nice to play around with that idea..

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Have an awesome day!
Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

Comic strip artist for hire!

 Greetings :)

AWESOME news Totally2d had been designing well polished, creative comic strips. If you have comic strip ideas that you can't draw yourself go to this link and Get comic strips designed for you.

cheers!

Beechies Gum

I'm working on a few comic book ideas I'm working on. Recently I illustrated a Children's book "Grumpy Frog". The writer, my friend Megan had the first copy printed yesterday I'm keen to see the print later today :)

Moving on to "Beechies" design.. I was given a challenge to re-brand the Beechies bubblegum packaging at college. Beechies is a very vibrant, young, sexy. I wanted my packaging to reflect that by with bright orange, that makes the packaging radiant. The illustration I placed on the pack is also on the print advert I created. I really enjoyed the class project :)

If you want to gain a greater understanding of Beechies, checkout their website

www.beechies.co.za

Thank you for coming to my blog
Tafadzwa

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Grumpy Frog

 

My friend, Megan Kinloch and I worked on children's picture story book "Grumpy Frog". The first print was done yesterday. I'm going to see how it came out later today! Megan says it's awesome :)

I'm looking into how we can self publish the book. Someone recently recommended Kickstarter to me but it only Funds American citizens (sigh). Luckily my lecturer recommended Indiegogo as a viable option for me, I'm now and member but haven't had the time to check out a lot of the features yet but it's a lot like Kickstarter. So I'll probably use Indiegogo then, if all goes well the book could be published.

A lot of sleepless nights went into the project, it was Megan's school assignment but we now want to bodly take it even further. I mean the work has been done.  The book is here, we thought why not publish it? I might get her to write in a few extra pages, or we might tweak some stuff. Who knows?

The Last Devil's Bride

 Greetings, I've been working on a graphic novel called "The Last Devil's Bride" it's looking good so far. Ive just recently uploaded some of the sample pages. The silhouette style works really well and I won't reveal the storyline just yet.

So far all the artwork I've done for the Graphic Novel is "dark" and bloody. It's hard to create your own style in today's art industry but that's the angle I'm aiming for. Scars, silhouettes, stitches, blood and a heavy storyline.

Feel free to follow me on twitter @totally2d and visit my website www.totally2d.org or my Youtube account www.youtube.com/totally2d

I'll keep you all posted when the project is complete :) thank you for visiting my Blog.
Tafadzwa

Soul Sister

Hey guys!

I have been working on a lot of downloadable 2d templates for animators recently. Some of you are now familiar with my e-shop Totally2d Mastershop where Crazytalk Animator users can download some templates. Even if you're not a 2d animator/ Crazytalk user feel free to check out the e-shop and just see what Totally2d has to offer.

As of now I'm keen to launch a new set of character designs for different softwarecompanies. I'm designing a few new works like Soul Sister below:








 The style you see in my Soul Sister above can be found through out my animations i.e Salad chick, Mbira Dzakondo and future projects still pending. It's becoming my own unique trade mark style, now it's going to be available for sale.


Have a splendid day!
Eat.sleep.animate

2d animation template

The past few days I was designing a Album sleeve for Elsa Kamsoda, and that went really well. The printing is being done as I write this and I'm so eager and excited to see the final product :)

I'm now working on some new character designs to upload into my e-shop. The "Death Machine" above is one of the many designs I'm currently working on. The bot has a War Angel feel to it, and I think it will make a great addition to all my e-shop customers' galleries. More information is coming soon!

Eat.sleep.animate.

Tafadzwa

Upcoming

A recent character design I've created for my upcoming project! The animation process has already started :) I'll keep  you posted on the progress.
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African sun (templates for 2d animators)

  Hey!



I hope you're having a wonderful day. I’m currently working on a Crazytalk Animator Backgrounds collection of 2d animation templates called “African sun”. The first edition is finished and I’ve attached some of the promotional images below.

The backgrounds will be soon available on the Reallusion Market place, once my store is running I’ll post up the linkJ. Like I said before the African sun has 8 backgrounds. I’m working on more Crazytalk Animator content that you’ll be able to use alongside with these backgrounds.

As of now the backgrounds will be able to be used royalty free once you purchase them on the upcoming store. I hope to fill the market with alien templates, city, villages and other vast templates.

I have great plans for the African sun collection. I pray to God things keep coming together.

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Cheers!

Black Tuesday

The Secrecy Bill was passed this Tuesday.

Hip pops cereal [Complete]

Sigh.. the Hip pops packaging is done. I posted these recent images to my facebook page and here to show the actual size of the pack in comparison to a model (thanks Angie).

The design process was fun and I'm currently juggling a few things like the next design (shoes) and a script for a new animation. I'm eager to kick start production, but there is still a lot of work that I need to do before that can happen.  A lot of work!

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Tafadzwa Tarumbwa
Totally2d

Hip pops - Cereal box design

I really enjoyed designing the cereal box above. I did it for my latest class assignment, and I came up with the name Hip pops for my cereal and used a modified version of the Dizzy Don animated character from my Mirira musical video I did sometime last year. The assignment also required me to do some photography, and I had to photograph a bowl of cereal. The rest was mostly hand drawn except for the mini cooper image I had to Google since I don't have a Mini I could photograph myself.

Now I'm waiting for the prints to see what they'll look like.


Enjoy your weekend!
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Pirate!

 If you go to my website www.totally2d.org you'll find some new changes there, tthose of you who animate using Toon boom studio will be able to download some Christmas character templates there! Speaking of Christmas check out this upcoming Christmas animation's trailer: http://www.skwigly.co.uk/new-arthur-christmas-trailer/

Now, back to my own design: I made a announcement a few days ago that I plan on creating another short. This pirate is one of the many character designs I plan to use in the upcoming show.

Wish me luck!

Enjoy your day
Tafadzwa

My website

Character Design: Female

The character above was also coloured in Photoshop, it will be featured in my upcoming animation along with the Pirate I last uploaded. So far, so GOOD.

Thank you for visiting :) Check out my website:

www.totally2d.org

Sun of God

I've been having a great animation week, I've just started Hot stuff mini-skits seasoning 1. The GREAT news is I've just finished another animation titled The Sun of God. Here are the links:

Vimeo link (Recommended):

http://www.vimeo.com/29308171
 
You TUBE link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQuRJcYC-g

Cheers!


www.totally2d.org

Hot Stuff : Episode 01

I'm really enjoying the production of Hot stuff mini skits. Above you'll find the first episode, and I'm done with the next script for it. My 3rd episode will feature something from the 2011 Rugby World Cup! However I still have to do the 2nd episode before we get into that! Cisca De Villiers even helped me co-direct a scene from episode 3 which will be spoken in her first language; Afrikaans.

Usually I upload a "Friday drawing" but I thought this would be so much more fun, hope you enjoyed the episode!


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New animation FINISHED!

My animation titled: Hot Stuff mini skits (episode 1) is now FINISHED and watchable online! After writing the Script, I took a deep breath and dove into the hectic and sometimes tiring process of animation. Follow the link below to watch the episode:

Hot Stuff mini skits (Episode 01)

More episodes are now being scripted!


cheers!

http://www.totally2d.org/

Chameleon: Friday Art

I painted this in my illustration class last Tuesday. It's a chameleon painting its self :) with a little of its tounge sticking out. I've always enjoyed painting since my days at Peter Birch School of Art

It's been a great week I'm glad my Animation website is now back online again after a few glitches. Cheers!



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Hot Stuff: SEASON-ing 1

Thank you for barring with me, and visiting my blog. Totally2d.org is currently down but my Engineer is working on that (its tough for small websites like mine but he really does a great job) please be patient with us, and than you for all you support.

Now for some GOOD NEWS...

As an independent animator, you may realize that I have the room to make quick decisions on what to animate. What works, and what doesn't. This requires keeping your ear on the ground on whats happening in the industry. The above image is an extract from my new Work-in-Progress titled Hot Stuff: SEASON-ing 1.

Previously I mentioned a 2d animation software called Crazy Talk animator. Now that I have it, I plan to show the world how powerful it is. Watch my sample animation here, its just a test of how to animate in Hot Stuff: SEASON-ing 1. I'm SO EXCITED about this! Thank you Reallusion for all your invaluable support.




Cheers!

Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

Yes... it's a fairy

Hello there!
I've started working in Crazy Talk Animator, creating a musical video for Elsa Kamsoda. This Fairy above is one of the character designs I'll be using. She'll be playing a violin, so I was just doing some online research on violins online.

The musical video will probably be ready after I finish the current project "Sun of God" which will be an animation of Elsa's poem. If all goes to plan another project I have on the cards is Clouds of Love by Zayed :) So much work, so little time.

Check out my animations on my website

Enjoy your day! Thank you for visiting my blog. Cheers..