GothfrogA YEAR AND A HALF IN THE MAKING, here is the anijam that I directed and edited!! Huge thanks to Courteney Rodriguez for helping me organize the participants and for introducing me to the song! Participants listed in order below, along with the info for the musician!
Door Into SummerGothfrog2019-07-28 | A YEAR AND A HALF IN THE MAKING, here is the anijam that I directed and edited!! Huge thanks to Courteney Rodriguez for helping me organize the participants and for introducing me to the song! Participants listed in order below, along with the info for the musician!
song is yoshis island athletic themeStarClans Chosen- Warrior Cats MAP Part 42dGothfrog2022-05-23 | wahooooo so happy with how these both turned out :)
this was really fun to put together!! it's always nice to look back on past work unfortunately a lot of my very earliest animation is lost to dead computers and corrupted hard drives, but I do have the first draft of wings to show :3
i tried to only put one clip per film on this, which is why 2019 has like, nothing haha!!
Patreon: patreon.com/caseyannemcd Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog/ Website: caseyanneimation.myportfolio.comWings 2 | Heartwarming Short FilmGothfrog2022-04-01 | HOO boy has it been a struggle to keep quiet about this one. The reason I've been so absent from YouTube lately was because I had been working on the continuation to Wings!! I'm so happy I could continue to bring this story to life after the overwhelming response to the first film :') Thank you all so much for supporting me.
I directed, background painted, animated, and did all of the cleanup/coloring for this film!
Art Tumblr: frogart.tumblr.com Personal Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog . . . PSYCHE april fools!! the reason i have been so absent from youtube is because i have a job :') still i hope you can enjoy this silly thing I put together! I had a lot of fun haha2 MAP Parts- Coastline & Triple Baka ReanimateGothfrog2022-03-17 | heeey everybody sorry for radio silence i have been. Busy.
Hello everyone!! so this started out as more of an animation meme but then morphed into its own thing, so while I didn't label this as an animation meme I did put a credit in the description for inspiring me.
BOTW was my first ever zelda game- i finished it last year and had a great time with it! And then playing through skyward sword for the first time (which i'm also enjoying btw) made me realize how much i appreciated the subtler and more tragic story botw told. I think its delivery was definitely clunky at times but the core of it was really good and compelling and I loved how much of it was told through the environment! zelda as a character was also great and i love her very much, and even link has a character arc if you go looking for it. this amv is just me shaking the shoulders of everybody who says botws story was bad and going YOURE WRONG ACTUALLY
Anyways my hot take is that the real villain of botw is society and putting heavy expectations on kids. feel free to talk to me about this in the comments ive been in botw mode for like 3 months and my roommate is getting sick of me!!!!
Original: youtu.be/yl7B_fFaCRc Inspired By: youtu.be/wJgtOHCtee0 Song: youtu.be/yd9p4n5hLEgRPG | Animation Meme | Thank you for 150k!! | WARNING- Glitch EffectsGothfrog2021-09-14 | WHEW ive been sitting on this for 6 months. I was getting a lot of subscribers early this year so I was like "welp, better make a video early so that I don't miss the milestone!" and then I stopped getting new subscribers LOL.
Puck and the Magic Flute is hugely inspired by video games I grew up playing, so doing this meme only felt natural!! The spritework was all done freehand by me, but I referenced Pokemon trainer sprites, Link from Minish Cap, and Drawn to Life characters to get the style and proportions right :)
also, i know my youtube has been a bit dead recently but I promise I'm working on stuff! I post wips on my patreon about once or twice a week if you're interested, link down below!
Patreon: patreon.com/caseyannemcd Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog/ Website: https://caseyanneimation.myportfolio....wolf link runcycleGothfrog2021-07-04 | uhhh i did this in like 3 hours to keep me focused in a dnd session tonight. ive never played twilight princess. enjoyWe Are Free Mice | TrailerGothfrog2021-06-01 | "The first days of spring play lightly across the face of the Commonwealth..."
We Are Free Mice is an upcoming text-based choice-driven narrative game of miniature antiquity. It focuses on the Commonwealth of Free Mice, last inheritor of our myths: ancient Greece, the Roman Republic, and Arthurian legend. Its novel-length branching narrative is told through tarot; with every card drawn, the player responds by answering two questions: is this who I am? and is this what I want?
As the spring festival begins and the Caesar prepares to relinquish the throne to their sibling, an ancient relic of kings is recovered. Unrest flirts with revolution, while on your hearth, a kettle sings. What role will you play?
We Are Free Mice is coming to PC in 2022, with a demo due in summer 2021.
Follow We Are Free Mice on Twitter at @ZeroSummerStory or online at wearefreemice.com
A trailer for a game I've been doing freelance work on over the past two years! Check it out if you like mice and political revolution :3 Production materials from this short are on my Patreon, along with many other things that aren't yet public!
Hey everyone!! Hope you like this, even though it's a bit shorter than the standard meme is. The second half was too spoilery to finish up and post but you can see it on my patreon! :D
Patreon: patreon.com/caseyannemcd Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog/ Website: https://caseyanneimation.myportfolio....Coastline- WIP MAP PartGothfrog2021-04-16 | sharing this bc i'm starting up full-time work again next week and idk when stuff will be ready x_x might private it down the line. The concept for this was ur ocs visiting a real world location :)
hosted by Okaeno!!: youtu.be/ZwvQMERuFo8SPEEDPAINT- Puck and the Magic Flute Lore/Worldbuilding!Gothfrog2021-04-01 | Hi everyone!! This is a video + video format I've been meaning to try out for a while. I get a lot of questions about the lore and worldbuilding of the Puck world and characters so I thought I'd start a series of speedpaints going over the basic stuff!! Note that everything I outlined in the video is temporary and not necessarily how things are going to turn out in the final- also, I left a lot of stuff out because I don't want to spoil too much ahead of time! Let me know if you guys liked this and I can do more videos like this :D - - - Music Credits: El Muchacho de los Ojos Tristes (youtube.com/watch?v=PAe0gyrDSyg) - - - - APRIL FOOLS, AGAIN. I do genuinely want to make a little series like this though + people have been asking for it, so keep an eye out for something similar in the future. Also I had a REALLY GREAT april fools idea this year that I ended up not doing bc of time restraints but HOPEFULLY.... next year. bc it was really good.Roses | Animation Meme | Loop **Warning for Flashing Lights!**Gothfrog2021-03-17 | **PATREON** patreon.com/caseyannemcd
helloooo... just a little loop so my channel is not completely dead... i have some more interesting animations in the works for subscriber milestones though :3 including one that's already done for 150k and i am just sitting on until i get there... still i hope you guys like this! It was fun :D
Characters: Puck, Robin, Nymph (OCs) Cool Silhouettes (also OCs but like im keeping them a little more secret. if youve seen my older videos youve probably seen at least one of them)
Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog/ website: https://caseyanneimation.myportfolio....Casey McDonald Demo Reel 1/12/2021Gothfrog2021-01-12 | new year new reel! I have some animation work coming up so I will probably update this within a month or two but today is portfolio day on twitter so i figured I might as well toss this up here as well. sorry if this seems like a rehash of my 2020 animations video LOL
there's some new stuff in here that i haven't posted on my channel before!! Specifically Nixie and Nimbo, which I did a lot of animation for back in late 2019- it's a miniseries about teaching kids to deal with their anxiety and you can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/5E3DmHW0OZk
Song is Pokemon Square from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red & Blue Rescue Team
Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog2020 AnimationsGothfrog2020-12-31 | WOW what a year. Disclaimer that this isn't actually all the animation I did this year, a lot of it was for work and I can't share it, some was very spoiler-heavy for my stories, and some were wips that I've posted before and hadn't made any progress since so I didn't want to post again. But this is still a lot more than I thought I made this year!! Everything in this video is on my channel so if you missed something, it's there if you wanna go find it!
I hope everyone is happy and healthy going into 2021. this year has been... a lot.
Music: youtube.com/watch?v=dXZrnhYxE4I&list=PLpRBdl3a1rxTeglZwAPSr3I7nabVp59O2&index=6Lipsync/Acting Practice (WIP)Gothfrog2020-12-20 | wahoo.. i took dialogue from morgana (persona 5) for puck and a side character from s3ep2 of avatar: the last airbender for robin. These are the closest voices I could find for how I imagine them! I'll probably finish cleaning these up so I can put them in my reel, but it's been a while since my last upload and I like the way they're coming out so far, so I thought I'd put them up here too.Little Mistake | WIP Animation Meme | Avatar: The Last AirbenderGothfrog2020-11-13 | wip animation meme since the poll i put in my community tab said you guys were interested in seeing more wip stuff!! Not sure when i'll finish this, I kinda lost steam and then got super distracted by botw, but my goal for it was to try and replicate the a:tla artstyle. I think I did pretty ok! hopefully i'll finish it sometime :D
Original meme: youtu.be/rLHP3S3vxJs Song: Teen Pregnancy by Blank Banshee (youtube.com/watch?v=RQxDM2K-hd0)mermaid walkGothfrog2020-11-06 | i did this in like 2 hours before work yesterday because i was driving myself crazy trying to figure out how the mermaids would move on land. decided on something pretty similar to a sea lion! might private this later since it's so short and not at all like my usual stuff but thought i'd post it for nowDANGER | Animation Meme | Happy Halloween!Gothfrog2020-10-31 | OK so this isn't really very halloween-y but it is my villains being cool so i thought it would be a fun thing to post today. I rushed it a bit to get it out today but I'm happy with it anyway! hope everyone has a safe and happy halloween!
Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog website: caseyanneimation.myportfolio.comShikabane No Odori | Flower Symbolism MAP | Part 17Gothfrog2020-09-19 | for @Mapple Pie !! wahoo featuring puck and robin and a mysterious unnamed man who doesnt even really have a design yet (hence why he is suit only) i was gonna make this loop a few times but tbh i do not want to edit the video u__u
anyway this is a part of the plot i havent brought up anywhere except with some friends in private so good luck deciphering what is going on here... u will get no answers. puck's flower is a dahlia, robin's are foxgloves and poppies, and the man's are rhododendron and wolf's bane. EDIT: OH and the flowers at the end are violets and a lily
Map call: youtu.be/gsPmrFtLU-o Characters: Puck, Robin, mysterious unnamed man Song: Shikabane no Odori (youtube.com/watch?v=O9eHRiaTuL4) (im gonna keep it real with you guys i have no idea which vocaloid sings this. i thought it was miku but the video says Kikuo?? is that a vocaloid or the songwriter??)
i wasnt gonna post this but im having so much fun with this map part that i wanted to share the wip!! first few frames belong to @Amelia Bothe who has the part before mine (which you can see the wip of here: youtube.com/watch?v=3yb6xNHQbKA :D) and the last background is a placeholder I took from Olivia Olive's style frame, who has the part after mine (and also who youtube wont let me tag for some reason? Here's their channel: youtube.com/channel/UCYES3xc2gVtmd2oZQt5P9rw)Blood//Water | Palette MAP partGothfrog2020-08-17 | too tired to edit a nice vid for this and it's already super late but here is blood//water for @Cassiroll !!! let me know how u want me to send the file (sendspace, discord, google drive, etc) :D
Find me Elsewhere! Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrogStrawbunnies | Animated Short | 48 Hour FilmGothfrog2020-08-13 | A little bunny tries to prove he can bring a strawberry home by himself.
What a fun project!! I really enjoyed working on this and I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it came together in only two days. Please go follow the rest of the team, they're all so talented and this was a huge group effort!!!! This was for You Have 48 Hours, a 48 hour film festival helmed by my friend and classmate Katya (twitter.com/paperisfood). It's going to be an annual thing, so if you're interested in making your own 48 hour film, you should follow the official twitter (twitter.com/YH48HRs), instagram (instagram.com/youhave48hrs), and subscribe to the official youtube page! (youtube.com/channel/UCrjIUrhXBSW1p8jXQisA3GQ)Unfinished/WIP animation meme compilationGothfrog2020-07-25 | **ALL THE ANIMATION MEMES/SONGS LISTED IN THE VIDEO ARE GONNA BE LINKED DOWN HERE!!**
AAH what a fun map!! i haven't actually read any of the newer books but these designs were so fun i wanted to animate them anyway. we love an evil kitty.
In unrelated news, I'm on artfight this year!! it's artfight.net/~gothfrog but my job keeps me pretty busy so I probably won't be able to attack everyone back- just wanted you guys to know it was there!
Find me Elsewhere! Artfight (team sugar!): artfight.net/~gothfrog Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog4 million views!!! (Thank you!!!)Gothfrog2020-05-26 | the response to Wings has been so overwhelming ;__; I finished it just over a year ago and I could have never anticipated how far it would go. Thank you all so much for helping it reach so many people!! I did this little loop as a thank you.
For anyone who hasn't seen, Wings is my senior thesis film, and you can watch it here!: youtube.com/watch?v=RtU8nBnpFVEAmericas | Animation Meme | Thank you for (almost) 125k!Gothfrog2020-05-13 | OK SO i know I haven't quite hit 125k yet but im REALLY close and i've had this done for a week already so I wanted to post it!
I also wanted to announce that I'll probably be stepping back a bit from animation memes after this! They're fun to do, but they aren't really helping me improve anymore, so unless I see one that seems like a lot of fun there will probably be less of them on this channel. I'm gonna try to do more storyboard/animatic/amv stuff instead, as well as maybe taking on more map parts again!
Art Tumblr: frogart.tumblr.com Personal Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrogCasey McDonald Demo Reel (4/15/20)Gothfrog2020-04-16 | this is mostly stuff you guys have seen before, with a new bit or two from work! it's been 9 months since I updated my reel so I figured it was time for another bump. sorry it's not super exciting!
music is the main theme from pmd: explorers of the skyTrauma | Animation Meme (April Fools!)Gothfrog2020-04-01 | Characters: Nymph, Puck (OCs) Song: OogaBooga- Someday (youtube.com/watch?v=p2jLy7wj5LI) Original By: Deleted :C
Find me Elsewhere!
Art Tumblr: frogart.tumblr.com Personal Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog . . . . . . . . . . APRIL FOOLS|!!!! I was able to put much more effort into this than last year, and I thought I would continue the tradition of faking you all out with a nymph meme. the images in this are all jokes that me or my friends have drawn over the past two years!! the REAL song: Ween- Ocean Man (youtube.com/watch?v=vcaPiiFZu2o)Bruno (short pmv)Gothfrog2020-02-02 | hi i havent posted in three months and threw this together last night so i thought i'd post it. i'm not dead just have a job. this isn't for anything in particular i just had this stuck in my head and couldn't concentrate on anything until i drew it!
song: youtube.com/watch?v=BkSYlY0KGkA song edit by: youtube.com/watch?v=1vTyXWR_upwHigh | One-Week Map PartGothfrog2019-09-04 | things were getting too cute around here so i joined a real quick 1 week map before my next stint at work!! and who else could the lyrics fit but my dear nymphy boy
also i am going to test out to see if i can make those little blue hashtags show up in the actual text of the description so #animation #maprojectAnybody But You | Animation Meme | Thank you for 55k!Gothfrog2019-09-02 | OKAY so originally the plan was that this was going to be a 45k video, and I was going to do an original meme for 50k. but you are all subscribing to me TOO FAST! I could barely get this done in time for 55k!
seriously though thank you all so much, i never dreamed I'd get this amount of people subscribed to me :'0 I'll still try to get an original meme out at some point but my next stint at work is starting so it might take a little while. I hope you enjoy this in the meantime! I just wanted to do something cute and fun :)
anyway this is just a loop that i did in two hours. i put it as an animation meme bc there is one of this but this is literally just the character bobbing without any of the stuff in the bg so?? idk if it counts. i'm tagging it as one because it gets more views and thats what matters. Also if youre reading the description and havent seen it already go watch my thesis film!!: youtube.com/watch?v=RtU8nBnpFVE
Original Meme: youtube.com/watch?v=CgR9g17oeVI Song: Lil Boom - "Already Dead " (Omae Wa Mou) (prod. deadman 死人) Character: Chip (OC, patmf)
Find me elsewhere!: Art Tumblr: frogart.tumblr.com Personal Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrogWings | Animated Short Film | SVA ThesisGothfrog2019-08-27 | In this story of kindness, friendship, and the fear of being left behind, a friendship takes flight as a mouse that wants to fly and an injured bird cross paths.
Final film from the School of Visual arts. I directed, background painted, animated, and did about half of the cleanup/coloring myself! The rest was handled by my awesome team in the credits. Thank you to Colin Andrew Grant for the fantastic score, and thanks to SVA for the two grants that helped me produce this film!
And thank you all so much for watching. This was a huge labor of love for me, and I'm so glad I finally get to share it!
I'll be premiering it next Tuesday at 3:00- the link for where it can be watched is here, if you're coming across this first!: youtube.com/watch?v=RtU8nBnpFVE&feature=youtu.beDOOR INTO SUMMER- Parts 11 & 13Gothfrog2019-07-30 | my parts for door into summer!! i had to do 11 in the past two weeks to cover someone who needed to drop out, and 13 is more than a year old at this point.
Video Source: youtube.com/watch?v=8UjWwMtrETkRun Boy Run- wipGothfrog2019-02-21 | for marlineanimates! i haven't made a ton of progress on this yet 'cause thesis has to come first but hopefully soon!Marble Soda- Part 25Gothfrog2019-02-13 | for LightningRei! featuring mob psycho 100. i'll probably be posting my two other map wips at some point in the next few weeks.
find me elsewhere! Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrog Art Tumblr: frogart.tumblr.com Personal Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com2018 Animation ReelGothfrog2018-12-31 | thank you for a fantastic 2018!! I definitely animated more than what was in here, but the other stuff was either a) unfinished and already on my channel b) an entire film or c) an entire meme. I chose to cut down on runtime so i could stick with the song!! the animations are roughly in order
ANYWAY there's some film preview stuff in here! That should be coming out in May, unless I enter it in awards shows, in which case who knows! Lots of puck stuff too hehe
I wanted to do something for 25k but I didn't have a ton of time between my tablet breaking, finals, and working on thesis, so I just cleaned up three walk cycles I had lying around and set them to music. You guys seem to like my animation memes so I thought doing an original one would be a nice thing!! And did some illustration and stuff. ye. the backgrounds are very very inspired by wandersong which is an excellent game that you should play.
Feel free to do your own!! And comment below if you decide to, I really want to see them ;o;
Characters: Puck, Robin, Nymph (Marnie makes a cameo in the background) Song: Soldier, Poet, King by the Oh Hellos youtube.com/watch?v=MzVKsltzYdI Animated in: TVPaint, After Effects
Art Tumblr: frogart.tumblr.com Personal Tumblr: gothfrog.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/caseyannemcd Instagram: instagram.com/gothfrogAfterEffects TestGothfrog2018-10-06 | just a little thing i did to mess with in after effects- I liked the way it turned out enough to post, and since it's a video i decided to upload here too!! i might private it at some point, we'll see.