✦ Animator · Illustrator · Comics Creator ✦

SpikeyTortoise

★ Hand-crafted animation with a vintage soul ★

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Featured Project · 2024

The Sensational
Cat-Man Movie

Animation is a collaborative art. A single feature often takes dozens — if not hundreds — of artists to bring to life. In 2024, I took on the monumental task of animating an entire 40-minute hybrid 2D/3D film entirely alone.

"Forty minutes of polished hybrid animation, completed solo, is exceptionally rare — and it was both exhausting and exhilarating."

Working with Austin McConnell's story, I designed every character drawing on Hanna-Barbera, Genndy Tartakovsky's Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, and the early 2000s Clone Wars. I walked Montréal streets taking reference photos and distilled them into painterly watercolor backgrounds.

Every character, layout, frame of animation, background painting, composite, and edit: my own work. Solo animation studio for over a year.

⚡ Character Design

Expressive designs built for fast, fluid limited animation

🎬 2D Animation

Frame-by-frame at 12fps — authentic limited-animation feel

🧊 3D Hybrid

3D models repainted & composited to match 2D style

🎨 BG Painting

Watercolor-style backgrounds from Montréal reference photos

Austin McConnell Presents
The Sensational
Cat-Man
Movie
40 Minutes · Hybrid 2D/3D
Written, Directed & Animated by
SpikeyTortoise
2024
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Who I Am

The Artist Behind the Ink

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Animator

Frame-by-frame 2D with a vintage limited-animation soul. Inspired by Hanna-Barbera, Tartakovsky, and Saturday morning cartoons of eras past.

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Illustrator

Bold lines, flat fills, expressive poses. Mid-century modern shapes meet Silver Age comics energy. Every drawing is built to move.

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Comics Creator

Sequential storytelling with wit and heart. Retro ink textures, punchy layouts, and characters with too much personality.

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