When it comes to production of the shorts that I make, one of the biggest bottlenecks is the size of the rigs that I animate with in Toonboom Harmony.

Late 2025 - early 2026 I spent some time trying to update my pipeline. The goal is usually to find ways to produce shorts more quickly, but this time I wanted to see if I could re-implement animatics.

Once those (tests) were done and the results were in I found the performance of the V5 puppets lacking, to be frank.

Sometimes you receive a blessing so great that in the moment you might lose your wits.

It’s like the list grows and gets bigger everyday 🧐

Here I am thinking about all of the choices of my life that led me to this point

For about 9 months, I have been working on several updates to my shorts.

As I’m currently writing this blog, the ‘master puppet’ or “KSP” (Kyle Samuels Puppet) has been completed.

The major goal of this change was to knock out as many issues, and implement some future proofing to the puppet where possible.

Funnily enough, the style sheet revision was a late addition