I’m doing a thing! Super stoked to say I’ll be panelling at the @academymuseum this Friday representing @blacknanimated 💝
Honored to have been invited to this convo, and can’t wait to chat it up with my pal @angelamsanchez.writer from @latinxinanimation .
Shoutout to the homie Andrew Acedo for inviting me, and @margedean for moderating. Excited to be there 💃🏾🌟
I have a fun habit of building elaborate worlds, and then completely forgetting I built them.
Flip Town was another series I developed and wrote in 2025, then promptly left sitting on my desktop.
It’s a tween mystery about two enemies trying to undo a very inconvenient apocalypse no one else sees.
It follows a kid named Tripp who can freely travel to the Afterlife (and mostly uses it to procrastinate and fact-check homework). But things get weird the day he sees his entire town in the land of the dead.
Except they’re all still alive. And acting completely normal.
The only other person who can see what’s happening is his academic arch nemesis — the only person not “dead.”
The heart of the story is about two kids with wildly different coping mechanisms learning how to live in the moment. (They’re both kinda me.)
I had a fun time writing this one, so I’ll probably reopen the file at like 2am and pretend I know what I’m doing.
May add more later.
#animation #story #show #cartoon #sketch
One of my favorite parts about making was definitely the end-of-season-1 twist. Sabin’s long lost mother was revealed to be a supervillian who mirrors most of his own qualities and values.
Sabin’s dad saw all of those traits in Sabin, which was one of the hidden engines behind their emotional conflict.
There’s more to her reveal, and how it’s planted, but building it was fun.
Frandshap ♥️
Going to just finish dumping SPARK drawings since we’re at the end of the year. It’s definitely something I’m going to go back to tho.
#art #manga #animation #cartoon #sketch
Day ?? SPARK Dump: Will probably just release the rest soon cus I keep forgetting. I spent a good amount of time thinking about the world, but it kept going back to “who lives here and how do they make Sabin feel?”
The townsfolk of Atlas City are basically old school Brooklyn-like New Yorkers in spirit. A bit harsh, blunt, but practical and honest.
The townsfolk don’t tease Sabin so much as dismiss him. They’re in deep survival mode after the witch took over their city, and very much lack the blueprint of what to do which a colorful kid like Sabin.
Also tried to figure out which shows this one feels like, so I attempted to make a diagram. Never used it, but kinda is the show in a nutshell.
Day 5? More SPARK stuff. (Excuse the cropping on later pages) Meant to post these much earlier, but here we are. Sabin’s friends were probably the first characters I designed after Sabin himself - they formed somewhat of a “team-avatar” sorta group.
Baldwin hyper logical and brave, but is deeply inflexible - and Nakeisha who’s intelligent & fun loving, but doesn’t do feelings. They both have a deep respect for Sabin (despite or due to his goblin energy) though the two of them clash with each other regularly.
The only real twist here is that Colby, the only boy in the group with powers (teleportation) turns out to be Sabin’s long lost twin. Yet they have no memory of each other.
I intially wrote Colby to already have been living with Sabin, but i re-wrote it once I changed the real twist to the first season (which will come later).
