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  • OsamaMughal
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    Hi everyone I just joinned Polycount.
    This is my Animation Showreel 2015, I will soon upload my latest showreel in a week or two.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgunOE55ZM
  • Gabriel_Brandao
    Hey guys!

    This is my very first post here on Polycount... it seems to have a very cool community of artists and I would like to be a part of it!

    I am a 2D/3D animator based on Brazil! I work as a freelance in the ads industry, but my aim is to get into animated series and cinematic productions, which is not common here where I live :'(

    Here´s my latest Demo Reel. Hope you guys enjoy it! Any feedback is welcome!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGleSTDgvEw

    Ah! And thanks to _adamturnbull for creating this thread! Nice to meet you all!
  • Pyronatic
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    Hi all,
    My name is Austin and I'm from Austin, Texas. I'm currently in the last year of my bachelor's degree in Media Art's and Animation. I am hoping to work in the gaming industry with my degree. Right now I'm actually getting ready to start applying for positions in the industry. I have lurked here on polycount for about 6 months.  There are a few things in my demo reel that I need to update and fix for my portfolio defence next week, so I will upload and post it in a few days. I'm looking forward to becoming part of the community here and getting to know you guys and girls.

    Edit* added demo reel finally!


  • NWAustin90
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    Hey Polycount!
    My name is Nick Austin and I'm 26 years old and from the US! Currently I'm a freelance animator, but before that I was animating for a year on an indie game called Tuebor. Before all of that I was studying animation at College for Creative Studies in Detroit.  I actually recently moved from the Midwest to California in search of better job opportunities. Its a pleasure to have so many talented people to learn from here!
    nickwaustin.com
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    And heres my current demo reel!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7E02q_-o0

  • KyleG
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    Hello All

    I'm Kyle Kenworthy, I've been an animator in the game industry for 10+ years. I'm currently at Schell Games in Pittsburgh PA where I'm the Principle Animator. I also teach animation for CG Master Academy. Been looking to work on more personal tests so hope to be able to work on some of the monthly challenges. 
    You can see alot of my animations here
    https://vimeo.com/channels/1023795/page:1
    Most of these are personal as lots of my professional work is under NDA/not allowed to post online. Shoot me a private message and I can link you to a private video with more professional work if you're interested in seeing.

    And here's a promo vid for my class

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  • Hito
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    nice animations Nick! there's a frame skip around 0:53 with the tire flipping guy, I think it's a video output issue or frame rate change or something.
  • esssko
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    Hey everyone! 

    I've been hearing about all these cool animators on Polycount (mostly through creeping on Adam's twitter posts), SO I wanted to jump in and hang out too! I've been an animator for games for about 5 years now, and I'm currently at Hi-Rez Studios. I also recently started a podcast about animation/gamedev with 3 other lovely animators called "A Keyframe of Mind" (Haha.. get it? Get it?!!).  Anywaaaay. I'm loving the animation community I'm seeing in here and I can't wait to see all the great things you guys will post next!

    Here's my latest reel:



    And here's them linky-links! 

    Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/esssko
    Reel: https://vimeo.com/191117045
    Podcast: https://twitter.com/akeyframeofmind
  • jPEG
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    hello, fellow animators and anim-curious polycounters!

    it's been, uhh, 8 years since i last posted and figured it's about time i get back into the community here. currently i'm working on Paladins: Champions of the Realm at Hi-Rez Studios as an animator.

    to be honest i'm kinda bad at forums but, like a cartoon wolf floating by its nose on the scent of a pie cooling on an open window sill, i am lured back by the enticing aroma of the "Anime Action Challenge" hosted by _adamturnbull because it just sounds like a fantastic exercise.

    anyway, i'm looking forward to trading and sharing knowledge with you. here's my current reel:


  • Hito
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    damn awesome reels!
  • NWAustin90
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    Hey thanks for the heads up Noah! Your stuff is pretty great yourself!
  • tiagosol
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    Hi everyone!
    Very cool to find a place to learn and share our passion for animation. Currently I´m a video game animator. Have worked for different companies doing a variety of projects that go from rpg´s to FPS with crytek, CDP Red  and DICE. It´s a pleasure to meet you, as well  It´s kind of my first time on forums :P
    Sorry cannot show my latest work. I need to update my reel, but you can check out my blog, I posted some of the anims I´ve worked in the past :smile:
    blog: tiagosod.blogspot.com
    twitter: @tiagoSolarte
  • AtomicToyRobot
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    Hello Polycount,

    My name is Vin. I'm still fairly green at animation but have been working on improving my skills for the past 8 years or so.
    Currently I'm unemployed but have been looking for Junior level work at game and film studios. This is my current reel that I'd love to get some feedback on. I've had a fair amount of critique on it already but always welcome more. 




    I'm looking forward to your comments and the awesome work on this forum and possibly any networking.
    Thanks

    Please feel free to add me on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincenzo-baratta-11293944/
  • Jacnofuture
    Hello Polycount, I figured some good animators are sharing great work here ! I'm coming for some motivation boost, and hope we can all inspire each other !

    My name is Camille, for a short introduction, I'm a 3D animator currently working on VR games :wink: I used to work in the movie industry right after my graduation at the film school in France. Now, I'm currently located in Amsterdam. 
    I started as a generalist, more or less lighting/texturing/modeling oriented. But after 2 years of looking for my path in 3D, I finally found a greatest interest with animation. And hop, I quickly got on track with gaming and hey, I love that, it's quite addictive, and also I love watching other's reels and your great work all of you !

    I'm sharing my vimeo here, as I just started as an animator 1 year ago I don't have yet a reel but I hope to find good critics on this forum to improve my skills.. Cheers!

    https://vimeo.com/camillemarjoux
  • KlausGrabler
    Hi, I'm Klaus Grabler. I currently live in South Africa and work as an freelance animator, doing everything from product animation, stage and set design pre - viz animations to general VFX and graphic design. I've been doing 3D animation for over 5 years now and really love doing it. I'm entirely self taught and work mainly in Cinema 4D as well as After Effects. This is my showreel for 2017.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7QjpqB9FUo

  • MiAlx
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    @tiagosol Hey Santiago! I came across some of your assets during Blood and Wine production! Jamie mentioned you a couple of times, hope you are having fun in Stockholm :)
  • tiagosol
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    @MiAlx Hi Alex :) hahaha awesome man!! nice to meet you. Hope you are having fun in Poland, now is my favorite time of the year over there. Good luck with CP and looking forward to see you work soon!! :)
  • Majoric
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    Hi everyone ! I'm Majoric, i'm french living in Belgium, i finished my study in video game the week before. I learnt game animation, rigging, sculpting... I also participated to a very cool CgSociety Workshop with Kyle Kenworthy (He talk about this forum). I shared my last reel here, i hope you'll enjoy it ;)




  • FelipeSAMA
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    Greetings! 
    My name is Felipe and live in Brazil, still I am doing indie games and studying. I have my own enterprise, at the moment producing a game about vikings for mobile. I am not animator, actually I do lots of things (generalist). Still I haven't decided which specialization I may invest, but I like to do stuffs as modelling, animation, drawing and a bit of texturing. I guess my favourites are animation and modelling. 

    Still I don't have a demo reel, but here is a little demo of my work:




  • HeXiFy
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    Hi everyone! My names Jonathan Agueda, currently in Orlando, FL. I'm enrolled to The DAVE School located inside Universal Studios and have been doing this work since March 2017. I'm also doing freelance work for Pixel Perfect Polygons on "Our Ghosts of War" and for Monkey Punch Studios on "The Government Experiment"

    http://youtu.be/oQfsbducg4E
  • MIKENTNZ
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    Hello fellow animators! My name is Miguel Antunez. I am from Austin, Tx and tomorrow is my last day before graduating with an associates in 3d animation. I have been having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly it is that I have to do now that i'm going to be done with school. What I mean by that is that I would love some tips on how to go about landing my first job in this industry. If there are any veteran animators in here I would appreciate some words of wisdom. I would also love to hear some feedback on my demo reel which I will leave the link to.


  • AGoodFella
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    MIKENTNZ said:
    Hello fellow animators! My name is Miguel Antunez. I am from Austin, Tx and tomorrow is my last day before graduating with an associates in 3d animation. I have been having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly it is that I have to do now that i'm going to be done with school. What I mean by that is that I would love some tips on how to go about landing my first job in this industry. If there are any veteran animators in here I would appreciate some words of wisdom. I would also love to hear some feedback on my demo reel which I will leave the link to.


    Nice work, especially as you are just graduating.

    Your first piece is your shot, I think. I think a general note is you can push your poses a lot more as well as the timing. 

    I know that sounds vague but it really is apparent in the 'pushing car' shot.
  • LeeMeredith
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    Hello everyone, I've been on Polycount for a while but I feel it's time I posted on this thread. My names Lee Meredith and I live in England, I recently graduated and am working on a few small projects but my ultimate goal is to find a full time in-house position as a junior animator.

    This is my demo reel as of now, I'll add new work to it as stuff comes out of NDA.
    https://youtu.be/eiX3ufDxXmM

    www.animatorlee.co.uk
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-meredith-33046b73/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnimatorLee
  • MIKENTNZ
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    MIKENTNZ said:
    Hello fellow animators! My name is Miguel Antunez. I am from Austin, Tx and tomorrow is my last day before graduating with an associates in 3d animation. I have been having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly it is that I have to do now that i'm going to be done with school. What I mean by that is that I would love some tips on how to go about landing my first job in this industry. If there are any veteran animators in here I would appreciate some words of wisdom. I would also love to hear some feedback on my demo reel which I will leave the link to.


    Nice work, especially as you are just graduating.

    Your first piece is your shot, I think. I think a general note is you can push your poses a lot more as well as the timing. 

    I know that sounds vague but it really is apparent in the 'pushing car' shot.

    Thanks for the feedback. Pushing my poses is something that I always hear about my animations, and I will be working on that from now on. Thanks again for the advice, it's nice to hear feedback from someone other than teachers. I have tried posting on the 11 second club forum for feedback, but no one ever seems to reply to anything.
  • prismdesign
    Hello everyone!

    Let me introduce you our animation and motion graphics studio Prism Design. We specialise in CG-production and create video presentations, explainer and promotional videos, 3D, VR, AR, etc.
    Here is our showreel. You can follow us on Vimeo and Facebook )


  • tinster31
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    Hello everyone,
    My name is Thinh Ngo. I am an animator living in San Francisco. I was working as a 2D mobile animator the past 6 years doing various things. I then decided to change career path early this year to become a 3D animator. It has been a challenging but very satisfying journey so far. Please take a look at my current reel. I appreciate any feedback! Thank you!

  • Roy_Suarez
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    Hello all.
    My name is Roy Suarez, I work a lot on Tv, and some character animation for games, nothing big, I love character animation for film specially if its monsters or strange in nature.

    I hape you all like my reel chears :)


  • ajramsey28
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    Hi everyone!
    My name is Amanda. I'm new to polycount. So happy to see there is an animation forum thats pretty active. I had a hard time finding on. Anyway I just graduated back in May with a bachelors degree and I am looking to improve my work and meet other animators. 

    Below is my student reel. Right now I'm working on some new(hopefully better) stuff to add to it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K4w9TTx7uE

  • JamesSummers
    Hello everyone!

    My name is James Summers. I started my 3D journey at Full Sail University (2010-2011). During my time at Full Sail, I had the opportunity to learn different disciplines of 3D, such as, modeling, rigging, lighting, texturing and animation. I really wanted to learn more about animation, so I made the decision to join Animschool ( 2013-2014). During my time at Animschool, I gained a deeper understanding of animation, rigging and was introduced to game animation. After AnimSchool, with the knowledge I gained, I was able to put together my first demo reel . 



    Currently, I am working on improving my animation skills and learning more about game development.
  • powerkelp
    Hey everybody.

    I just stumbled upon this forum and I'm stoked to see all this great stuff. My name is Scott Stribling and I've been working in the games industry at Steel Wool Studios for the past four years. I've been wanting to get more into the community and this seems like a great place to be.

    Here's my current demo reel:


    I would link you my twitter but I've only written one tweet. But it was a good one... I'll think about it.


  • mcuevas
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    Hello, I'm Michael Cuevas.  Polycount has been great to me all these years. Here's some fun stuff I'v done lately.



    https://vimeo.com/mcuevas
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcuevas27/
    https://twitter.com/michaelCuevas27
  • crappyguy
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    Hello everyone!
    My name is Bijay, im 20 years old (almost 21) from India. I recently joined polycount butnhave just started exploring this place now.
    I began my 3D journey a little more than a year ago, mostly concentrating on the technical part of the software, getting to knownit and all that. I've also done a little bit of modelling and rigging for fun.
    I decided to kick things off in 2018 by focussing mainly on animation, starting from the absolute basics, building up my fundamentals, so yes I'm probably the least experienced in this place.  (Help me get better pls)

    Anyway i hope to meet some people here and be helpful to them if i can and have a good time. Thanks :)
  • brae_bk
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    Hi all, My name is Brae thats me on the right im 25 and live down under here in New Zealand.

    Im not your typical animator as i work with motion capture at a film level (animating at a invisible or should i say realistic level). Iv been working at Weta Digital going on 3 years now, working on films titles such as "War Of The Planet Of The Apes" as well as a selection of "Marvel" and "Dc" films.

    It all began back at university studying full time and freelancing to small studios, jobs were small and few but ranged from animation prep to on set animation/motion-capture technician. What ever was going id put my name forward and take it even if the task seamed daunting, what i can offer from my experience was i wasn't the best but i showed up and worked 110% every time and that got the next job and opened bigger doors along. 

    Fell free to chat me and ill do my best to reply, keen to give back in the CG community that helped me to get were i am today.

    All the best Guys and Girls.

    Cheers,
    Brae.
  • CrisVaquero
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    Hello there! My name is Cristina Vaquero, but I prefer Cris. I am from Basque Country, in the north side of Spain and I am a 22 years old recently graduated animation student. I started using polycount not so long ago and I am still getting used to it, but I find it exciting to be part of such a huge and lovely community. 

    I am working on improving my animation skills and polishing my demoreel so I can find my place in the animation world outside college, so if there some tips or feedback you guys want to give, they will be more than welcome! Thank you very much and I hope you like it! 



    Links to my other work: 
    https://cristinavaquero29.artstation.com/
    http://crisvaquero.com
  • Huski
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    Hello everyone!

    Long time lurker here. Wanted to get to know the awesome community of animators here a bit more so I'm putting my self out there. I also hangout in the animstate discord.

    My names Nikita Taranduke and I am a senior animator at Blind Squirrel Games in the SoCal area. I dont have anywork from my current job as I am relatively new here (started in January), so instead heres some of my iAnimate work from last year:



    You can catch me on twitter and instagram. Lots of inspiring work on these forums!
  • Alireza_Anim912
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    Shadow Fighters Loop Animated Fight Scene

    This is my personal work that ive done in my free times



    Cheers


  • FlyingFerret
    Hi guys,
    nice to start to be a part of this community, and happy to meet you all.
    I'm Beniamino Valentini, not yet a professional animator but a "wanttobeone"  o:)  
    I'm italian, 34 years old and fresh out from the second games workshop at iAnimate. I live in Germany since I moved here for working in Adidas as assitant 3D designer for two years and now looking for something more close to what I love to do (read: animation). Before Adidas I worked in Italy in a visualization and VR studio in Milan, and was responsible for rigs, models and animations. So you see, not quite a big experience in games dev, but want to fill this gap as soon as possible :) 

    I post here my animation reel: 

    If you want to connect through linkedin, faceboook or instagram please do it, I will always be happy to know more animators :)
  • OmiKor
    Hi there! I’m a self-taught animator and I really want some feedback on my works... 
    This is a link to some of my little animations:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1D7x19_a1Z5aHDA6m50pcA
  • HiroArchus
    https://vimeo.com/281732656
    Hello! My name is Clay Hogan. Nice to meet all of you and great to be here! this is my first Animation Demo Reel. Please let me know what I can do to improve on it and any tips and advice would be greatly appreciated. Also, I never learned how to make a title card for my demo reel, which is why it just jumps right in. please let me know how I can make one or what to use so that I can make my demo reel a little more appropriate. Thank you very much!
  • Mariel0rp
    Hi everyone, my name is Mariel Rojas, I'm from Mexico, i really new in the industry for  9 months in an outsourcing studio in Monterrey , now  I'm a freelancer modeler and i want to know more about 3d animation because is interesting for me, but i don't have any experiences yet in a work only in the school, my friends and i made a short for the school, and that is my only experiences in 3d animation, i made only a two blockings, in this moment studying for learning more


  • Green_Cheek_Conure
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    Hi all, long time lurker!
    My name's Daniel I'm part of the vancouver animator community! Glad to be part of polycount.
    Though I'm more of a TV and VFX animator I still love game animations and love this forum.
    Heres my reel~

    http://vimeo.com/327162375
  • RichyD
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    Hi everyone, my name is Richard Derteano and I'm a multimedia student from Lithuania.
    I started learning about animation as a hobby around 3 years ago, but it completely entranced me, caught me in it's grip and still refuses to let go (not that I want it to). I had the privilege to try out 2d, 3d, vfx and motion graphics work and decided that I want to pursue animation as a career, specifically as a 3d game animator. While not much, this is my first demo reel:

    https://vimeo.com/334848072

    I'm looking forward to being a part of this community ^^
  • Hito
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    Hi yall. Great works!

    Quick reminder in addition to the forum here at Polycount there's also a discord server where many animators, game and film and every other kind, congregate, http://www.animstate.com/community/




  • Ramadanhasani
    Hello everyone,
    I am looking to get into game animation. Currently I do not have a demo reel, I have however tried to make a couple animations. At the moment it is difficult to balance university and practicing animation so the progress has been going on and off for the past couple of months. Regardless, I always try to gain some knowledge by watching a video or reading an article. 
    You can see some of the things I attempted to animate on my instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/ramadananimates/
    Excited to learn more on this forum! 
  • tholmes3d
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    Hi, my name is Taylor Holmes, I'm a senior animator in the game industry, currently at Respawn Entertainment. I worked on Jedi: Fallen Order, and before that The Avengers Project, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider. I try to stay active on this forum because it's inspiring getting to see everybody's ideas and work, because critiquing is fun and a great way to keep my eye sharp when I'm not doing side projects, and because I want to give back to the community and encourage people to keep pushing. I've been in the position of trying to break into the industry and if I can make that a bit easier for somebody else, I absolutely want to. Feel free to reach out to me anytime if you have questions or want followup on some critique. Also, thanks to everybody who posts their work, and to those who take the time to critique. I enjoy learning from you all. 
  • analauramc2
    Hi! My name is Ana Laura Martinez, I am a Game Design and Graphics student graduating this year and I have decided to focus on 3D gameplay animation. I am very inspired by all of you out there, so here I am. Currently I am working on my gameplay showreel and I have many ideas for it. I would love to get some feedback on my animations and learn from all of you! Hopefully one day I can be the one giving feedback to somebody. Anyway, I post updates of my work in Twitter, if you would like to see: https://twitter.com/AnaMtzz
    So happy to be joining you guys and ready to learn as much as I can!

  • Wilson_Villa
    Hi fellas, Wilson Villa here. I'm having a hard time socialising with the current lockdown so I'm looking for platform where I can meet more peoples. I'm currently living in Montreal and working at Behaviour on Dead By Daylight. I just love animation, I love creatign animation, watching animations, revieving others animations. So I felt it was a good idea to stop by and say hi here, so HI =D

    I'm working on personnal projects when I'm not working or gaming, and I'll be asking to anyone around to give me feedback when they can. For the curious ones who pass the reading and just go straight to links, here is my current reel and my socials.

    https://vimeo.com/320518055

    Twitter : https://twitter.com/AnimatorWilson
    Vimeo : https://vimeo.com/wilsonvilla
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsonvilla/

    Feel free to contact me for anything, I wish you all a good time in this weird period, stay safe and take care!
  • martio
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    Technically not an animator but i do rigging, skinning & motion capture re-targeting in Blender3D, one of my favorite character COD MW2 Ghost by Infinity Ward is great to work with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q44lnCzBdvQ
  • Mkondash0905
    Hey everyone!
    My name is Matthew, I was born and raised in Oregon.
    I am an aspiring video games animator, currently enrolled at the Los Angeles Film School. I'm 23 years old, I have a newborn baby and a girlfriend! This is not only my passion but I want to continue to grow and make it a future career. Bare with me because I'm still learning, but I'm very interested in the community and everything it has to offer. That's just a little about me! Thanks for listening!
  • MissPersona
    Howdy y'all! I'm a 3D artist/animator and working to showcase storytelling and work that I have done so far for an intern in my hometown!
    https://ahays1.wixsite.com/website
    The link above is my website including my portfolio if you ever get time to look it over. 
    My goal right now is to get better in my artistry and is needing feedback on the work I'm doing so far. I hope this is the place where I can get that! 

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