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My show is out! Holy shit! I am so happy to have finally pushed myself past this milestone. I put years of effort into developing this show and I just wanted to create a post here highlighting all my work!!

Thursday 3:27 was originally conceived in 2022. It was originally named "The Hands Of a Clock", and had completely different plot. I went through multiple iterations of THOAC, sometimes getting to the writing phase, sometimes getting to even the animation phase, but I never was happy with the story. THOAC dwindled away. Just as a note, when thursday is completed I will fully explore its old iterations for many details contain spoilers and concepts I may use in the future.
I never stopped thinking about THOAC though, concepts and ideas continued to turn in my head whether I liked it or not. Around december of 2023 I was sitting in the car with a few of my friends and when conversing, through some way or another, I started explaining the current iteration of THOAC to them, and they all genuinely adored it. It convinced me to pick the show back up again.

The first four images on the right hand side (or below on mobile) are extremely old drawings from when thursday was first conceived. The first two being the first drawings of Pocket Watch and Card, and the next three being from very early iterations of the show, Everything else is from 2024.
The photos of Pocket Watch as a human are from when I was playing around with the idea of making this a show with humans in it. It was a short-lived idea.
Next are the official refrence sheets for Pocket Watch and Playing Card. Card had didn't have a final design for the longest time, his heart is meant to be upside down like a skull, Sam suggested it. It is only right side up in the ending of the episode because I hadn't made that design choice yet. Don't mind the fact that he doesn't glow in the episode, It didn't look good with the enviornment.

The next few images are from my production sketchbook, specifically the ones for the opening scene. I had a stroke of inspiraion one day in march and started the episode!!. When boarding I put down every idea I have, good or not, I used that technique for the entirety of this episode, a majority of the scenes had multiple iterations. I don't know if I will ever release them, maybe when the show is over.
The next few images are screenshots of various backgrounds I enjoy, and semi-hidden details.

The ending to this episode took me the longest to figure out. In march, when I had started this episode, I wanted to go in a very different direction. The ending was going to be in a sort of purgatory, Love Of the S*n esque, but that idea fell short once I realized that stylistically, it wouldn't be very interesting.
I can't comment on the details within these images for that would spoil the show. Instead I can highlight the technical side of it!
I got very interested in traditional animation in middle school when I stumbled across Don Hertzfeldt's and Jonni Peppers' animations. Their use of traditional animation in some of their early works greatly inspired the stylistic choices in the episodes ending. Especially Jonni Peppers with her use of multiplanes in The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia. It was relatively easy for me to animate card and everything else in this scene, but the pitfalls in the ending came when I decided to use my new camera, as opposed to my phone, to capture the images. My camera isn't at all built for capturing stop motion animation and I honestly wish I took that into consideration when purchasing it. If you've seen any of my old traditonal animations you may notice how there is a lack of overall jitter in the video, that is because, when capturing on my phone, I use a bluetooth-connected clicker that captures the images remotely. If I tapped on my phonescreen to capture the frames then the final animation would contain a jitter. You may have noticed the ending of the episode has a horrible, disgusting, jarring jitter. "raver, why is that the case?" You may ask. Well dear reader, my camera does not have any bluetooth functionality. It cannot capture images in the way that my phone can. This had to be one of the worst pitfalls I fell into in production because I was stuck trying to find away around this problem for months. I tried to use a wired clicker as opposed to a remote one, my camera didn't have that function. I tried connecting my camera to my computer, maybe I could control it through there? No, my camera didn't have that function. I tried using wiring it to my damn TV too!! But no! My camera does not function like that at all. It was really disappointing, I just landed on using the "timed photo" feature on my camera but that wasn't perfect. I feel okay about the visual aspect of the ending, it WAS fun to make, I just need to find a solution to the camera problem.

Some context for "The Bucket of Slop" image: I was mixing together glitter glue, regular glue, and a cup of water to make the background in the final scene, it was Papier-mâché on leftover cardboard. I used scrap paper from the ending scene for the "papier" part.

The last few images are various doodles I created during producion, some vent art, some shitposts, but mostly just doodles.

I hoped you, dear reader, enjoyed the insight into episode 1 that I showcased. Have a good day my friend.