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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 5/21/26 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 5/21/26

The V6 Puppets

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

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 5/7/26 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 5/7/26

Style Updates 10 - Inverse Kinematics In Toonboom

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

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 1/15/26 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 1/15/26

A Look At The V5 Updates

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

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 12/18/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 12/18/25

Style Updates 11 - Finishing Touches

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

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 12/4/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 12/4/25

Style Updates 9 - Stronger, Better, Faster

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

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 11/20/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 11/20/25

Style Updates 8 - Stylesheet

Funnily enough, the style sheet revision was a late addition

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 10/30/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 10/30/25

Style Updates 7 - Animals

As I was finishing up the redesign for the human characters, I realized that I did not really like making animal characters for the shorts.

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 10/2/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 10/2/25

Style Updates 6 - Backgrounds

The subject for today’s ‘Style Update’s’ blog (formerly, ‘Puppet Updates’), I’d like to discuss the topic of backgrounds.

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 8/21/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 8/21/25

Puppet Updates 4 - Hands

Today’s blog is about a big change I’m making to my puppets. The hands are an important part of a character’s design…

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Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 8/14/25 Animation / Art Stuff Kyle Samuels 8/14/25

Puppet Updates 3 - Line Work

Here’s a quick, but exciting update for the puppet update I’ve been talking about.

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