Now

What I’m Working on:

🐶 Capturing, editing, and animating indie game trailers for Indie Pups.

🎮 My friend Will Spaar and I just finished our third game jam game, Lightgate.

🐋 Animating the Into the Aether Season 8 artwork by Scout Wilkinson.

🎙 Editing and starring in the actual play podcast: Broke ‘N Gaming Plays: Delvebound.

What I’m Learning:

🖍 Brushing up (get it?) my drawing skills with Marc Brunet’s ART School for Digital Artists.

🍩 Finally dipping my toes into 3D with CGBoost’s Blender Launch Pad.

🎸 Learning to play acoustic guitar through Paul David’s Acoustic Adventure.

Free Time Fun:

👟 Slushing my way through another season of winter running with Coach Bennett’s Podcast. I’ve enjoyed his work with Nike Run Club for ages now, so a little extra dose of optimism each week has been helping me make the most of all this snow!

🎮 So many games! I am still beating my head against the wall (positive!) that is Hollow Knight: Silksong. I just love these little buggy guys! Also alternating between crying and cozy vibes with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Dragon Quest VII Reimagined. It is going to be really hard to top DQVII for 2026 GOTY for me, especially with all the great music. What a special game.

📚 Right now I’m reading Doodles by Ryoko Kui: Daydream Hour; a collection of sketches, musings, and full illustrations from the author of Delicious in Dungeon! The whole book is super cute and great reference material.

Gear I’m Using:

💻 M1 Max Macbook Pro with 64GB of RAM connected to a BENQ GW2765 monitor with a NuPhy Air 75 keyboard and Logitech MX Master 3S mouse. For drawing and cel animation I use the Wacom Cintiq Pro 22.

🖥 For game capture I use a PC with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU, NVIDIA 5080 GPU, and 32 GB of DDR4 RAM. I crammed all that into a Mini ITX build and have the whole rig hooked up to a LG C4 OLED.

🎙 Elgato Wave: 3 microphone and for headphones either AKG K240 for editing or Sony WH-1000XM4 for listening to music/podcasts while working. For recording, I use Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba, which actually rocks. Podcast-style recording is such a breeze with that app and I honestly can’t say enough nice things about it.

🖥 I edit video in Premiere and audio in Logic. For animation I use After Effects primarily, but for character rigging I do everything in Moho Pro 14. For drawing and cel work I use Clip Studio Paint.

🔌 I am not a huge Plugins for Everything guy, but I do have a few I can’t live without. Labels, EaseCopy, Kbar, Portal, FX Console, Align Pro, Ray Dynamic Color, Overlord, True Comp Duplicator, and Motion 4.

🖌 For brushes, Ayeoops’ Everything Brush I use for, well, everything. I also really like her Clip Studio Pack for funky textures.

🎮 My big PC and Steam for just about everything nowadays! Steam Deck OLED for indie games and a Moonlight/Apollo combo for Steam remote play. Then my iPhone with the Delta Emulator for low stakes Pokémon ROM hacks instead of endlessly scrolling Bluesky.

Updated February 2026