dessertmonkeyjk

After a little bit of prep work, I published both Blender and a Unreal 5 project containing the rigs I made for several Spyro animations (including Unreal rigs made for Special Delivery). I put together a showcase/walkthrough video as well, links in the video description. youtu.be/4_fwg4qpeek

Starting to slowly migrate over the rigs I built in Unreal 5 for Spyro animation Special Delivery, planning to publish that as its own project so it can be used as a template. The rigs are working, just need to carry over all the models/materials/textures/etc. at this point.

Just posted a comparison video showing Special Delivery at various points of production. Kind of my way of documenting how something like this can be made. Don't worry, I'm not posting any more hour long videos on this thing after this lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pf1...

Uploaded a new video featuring the music I made for Special Delivery since some people were asking for it. Audio levels could be a tad better but released it mostly how it was in the animation itself. youtu.be/zOa_Jb_CHX8

Well it's Spyro 28th anniversary so I might as well post something. Currently looking at putting out the rig I made for Special Delivery amongst other things, might be awhile. This new render is from the Blender rig I made around February 2024.

Here it is btw. Go watch this cute Spyro Fan Animation📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd1...

youtu.be/0yd1WeKKsS4?...

HELLO FRIENDS Im sorry Ive been inactive quite a lot, been busy But I wanted to share this link today, I absolutely love it and hope any other Spyro fans would enjoy it also :3 Dessert Monkey really worked hard on this!!!! Good job youtu.be/0yd1WeKKsS4?...

oh dang it's out!!! check out this feature-length spyro fan animation. I voiced a couple background characters in it 😎

Completely random but... Why did Krita (an alternative to Photoshop) create a near 1 TB log file on my system? That's insane lol Nothing important was lost, I just couldn't save anything for a moment. Had to dig out WinDirStat to see what was taking up so much space.

This is insanely cute and well made. Glad it popped up in my recommendations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd1...

Something I've been looking forward has finally released. I encourage everyone to go and give this a watch. Especially if you're a Spyro fan. youtu.be/0yd1WeKKsS4?...

This was pretty fun to watch - if you like Spyro PS1 games, check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd1...

authentically ps1-style film length spyro fan anim made in UE5. neat

A creator named DessertMonkey made a feature- length Spyro animation!!!! I've watched the first 5 minutes, and it's incredible! #SpyroCommunityDay youtu.be/0yd1WeKKsS4?...

I urge everyone to watch an support this, I hope they make more of these kind of videos :3 #spyro #spyrothedragon #furry #furryart youtu.be/0yd1WeKKsS4?...

I'm in a Spyro fan animation by Dessert Monkey called "Special Delivery", using the models and graphics from the original trilogy! You can hear me as one of the jovial dragons that helps Spyro! Thanks so much Dessert Monkey for bringing me onboard! youtu.be/0yd1WeKKsS4?...

Here's a 1 hour Spyro animation I worked on for some time. Let me know what you think and feel free to share it around if you like! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd1...

Why yes I am still up at 2 AM wrapping up the final edit, why do you ask? Will get it rendered and uploaded tomorrow, just be patient, I know I was lol

Spyro Community Day approaches and I might have something ready just in time. As ready as it's going to be at any rate (some dialogue is a little iffy quality wise). Mainly finishing up with audio balance and minor polish at this point. youtube.com/shorts/dETM4...

"A small purple dragon pressed against the window is staring at you, what do you do?" This image of Spyro just glaring through the window never stops being funny imo Got about 90% of the video is edited at this point, mainly dealing with audio balance (music/dialogue) still.

Want to mention a handy free app/plugin known as Youlean Loudness Meter. Handy if you're needing to balance audio in whatever program you're using (in my case Unreal 5.5 and Mixcraft which doesn't seem to have a way to measure LU).

Still adjusting audio and other minor things (meaning I'll have to record another "take" as it's done through Unreal) but started assembling a rough cut of the final animation in DaVinci Resolve. Adding in subtitle and additional credits while I'm at it, currently looking at around 01h 10m length.

...what do you mean the animation constraints fixed themselves? I swear I'm not making this up, Unreal 5 is driving me crazy behind the scenes🙃 For context, I was recording the animation just in case and that's when it started working again... I like Unreal but it seems it doesn't like me lol

Welp, it finally happened. All the constraints in the one shot that used them the most broke. Animation constraints is the most unreliable thing in Unreal 5 I ever dealt with, I'm NOT going back to fix it. Good news is I have some older footage to fall back on, so I can salvage it in post.

Back at it again, more or less just working through a to-do list (around 25+ left). Getting to the point where I'm confident at setting a deadline soon, at least with recording video/audio from Unreal. Mainly just getting one or two hurdles out of the way first.

Soon I'll be back from vacation and I was looking through some old videos I posted and I nearly forgot made this dumb thing 10 years ago lol Definately not my first time messing around with Spyro models, just didn't know what to do with them at the time. youtu.be/xAtXjnCVSqk

Since it's summer break, I'll be out for a week so might as well post something. Been looking at adjusting audio balance and working on polishing some shots, one of them showing Spyro taking a cart ride back to a cavern space of some sort. (Yes, I know the wheels don't rotate don't worry about it)

This dude is making an HOUR LONG Spyro fan animation in the style of the original trilogy of games, but like, lightly touched up. Insanely sick.

I reached out to @dessertmonkeyjk.bsky.social about their upcoming 2026 #Spyro fan film, Special Delivery. In this animated project, #SpyroTheDragon accepts a job as a mail courier and finds it not as easy as he thought. Read more here: www.magic-crafters.world/2026/06/spyr...

Oh hey I voiced some dragons in this! You can juuuust barely hear me laughing at the end of the trailer lmao The full short is set to release later this year! Thanks for the opportunity @dessertmonkeyjk.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCWw...

About 8 hours already and the 2nd trailer is already surpassing Jar Confusion, the last animation I did that currently sits at 10k currently. I guess I did something right😅 Probably should resume animating this thing and not just stare at YouTube stats all day but appreciate the support!

What's this? A 2nd Spyro fan animation trailer has appeared! youtu.be/uCWwm2IThZ4

A new Spyro animation trailer tomorrow

Animation is practically done, currently making small music snippets for the Spyro animation that still needed it. I might of gotten carry away with a scene of someone simply running out the door lol Yes, this is still the Spyro Soundfont collection I'm using

Well how about that, a new official Spyro game is on the way. Definitely looks interesting to say the least. Planning on posting a trailer for my animation project but gonna wait a week at least. Spyro kinda "flies" in it, this is the most relevant screenshot I got lol

Could there be a Spyro 4 around the corner? (picture unrelated, though I'm a little skeptical of a leak with no source/evidence imo but I'll guess we'll see)

Wondering if something will happen if a few days? (Not related to anything official, planning on finishing this project regardless... also wanted an excuse to post another scenic screenshot from the end credit sequence I'm working on.)

Mostly got the music and animation polish done (aside from blocking & animating one last scene during end credits). Mainly taking to finish up things I had on the backlog (additional sky & terrain lighting, cleaning up other things, audio, 2nd trailer). Shot of evening & night for the 3rd location.

Finished most of the music and starting to adjust the animation to account for it, mainly working through the 1st location. Also quickly made last weekend of a short scene to help show what the dragon elder Spyro is trying to avoid is doing (who otherwise flies in out of nowhere in a later scene).

Had nothing really planned for April Fools so here's a slightly awkward Spyro picture instead. In other news, almost got the music for the last scene done that the screenshot takes place in.