I keep getting asked if I'll collaborate on or make NFTs and I just want it to be known that I am ethically and creatively against NFTs. The whole thing stinks and I don't want to be anywhere near it
I don't think I ever said (or if it was obvious) that I did all the title cards for Hilda. I was disproportionately excited to see them come up because they're the only things on screen that I actually drew
Excited to reveal that in Hilda season 3, Hilda's Great Aunt Astrid is voiced by the one and only Miriam Margolyes (alongside
@PhilippaRice
as your new favourite weird little guy The Pooka)!
Hilda won best animation at the childrens BAFTAs last night, which is pretty crazy! Thanks and congrats to everyone on the crew for getting it here, I'm super proud of everyone and what we've made
So glad people are excited for this! It's still relatively early days but there's been so much amazing work done for S2 already. There's some cool and crazy stuff on the way...
Wow, Hilda won all 3 Annie awards it was nominated for last night! So happy for everyone who’s worked on the show. Special congrats to Scott and Stephanie for their individual awards!
Hilda: The Trolberg Stories is coming out this October! It's a hardback collection of The Bird Parade and The Black Hound, but you also get unseen sketches, process stuff and a new short comic about The Raven. It's available to pre-order now!
Imagine if celebs started commissioning artists for their
#newprofilepic
instead of flaunting these shitty, unethical, procedurally generated anti-illustrations
I've had a few questions about the order of the Hilda graphic novels recently so I've updated the guide I made when season 1 came out! They're all available from
@FlyingEyeBooks
and anywhere you can buy/order books.
My rough designs for what I referred to as "the franken-nisse" from the
@hildatheseries
episode The Windmill. The final design was based on one of my alt sketches. I guess someone for some reason was put off by his bandaged, bleeding stump for a foot?
Hilda has been nominated for FOUR
@DaytimeEmmys
! Including Outstanding Children's Animated Series as well as Writing, Directing, and Main Titles in an Animated Program!
Sooo it looks like it's streaming now! Thanks for all the love and enthusiasm so far, it means a lot to me and I know it does to everyone involved. If you've been looking forward to it I really hope you like it!
This is out today, in the UK and US from
@FlyingEyeBooks
! It's a hardback collection of The Bird Parade and The Black Hound with a bunch of extras including a new short comic. It came out really nicely, so check it out!
Just want to say thanks for all the kind words and messages about Hilda over the last few days! The response has been kind of overwhelming. I'm so glad people are enjoying it!
Hilda has been nominated for three
@AnnieAwards
! Including Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children!
Check out the full list of nominees here:
#HildaTheSeries
Note to all
@hildatheseries
fans: These books are out now and they are adaptations of the upcoming episodes. They WILL spoil the season, so if you get them maybe hold off on reading unless you're not planning to watch it for some reason. The series is out December 7th!!
I'm in the process of updating my website a bit. Here's a comic I did five years ago (??) for a Hello Kitty 40th anniversary book. I guess she's 45 now.
Hilda: The Wilderness Stories is out today in the UK! It collects the first two Hilda comics into one book and includes behind-the-scenes stuff for both stories. You can get it here:
I couldn't make it to NYCC this year, but if you're there and get The Mountain King from the Hilda booth you'll get one of these special bookplates I made
Today at
@NY_Comic_Con
, 10.45, room 409! I won't be there unfortunately but
@kindofandycoyle
and head writer Stephanie Simpson will be, so check it out if you're there and want a sneaky S3 peek
Looking through some really old work. These are all pre-Hilda pictures of stuff that ended up in Hilda in one way or another (a lot of little house vs big thing)
Some really early Merman sketches I did for
@hildatheseries
, probably before the script was properly written, because I just had a strong feeling about this little guy
There's a lot of Hilda fanart suddenly and I can barely keep up, but to everyone doing it please know I love it and it's very distracting and making me feel incredibly unproductive.
I ended up focusing on Hilda's design (and by extension my drawing style) and the way it's evolved and shifted across the books and into the show. If that piques anyone's interest!
All you ever wanted to know about “Hilda”, but were afraid to ask:
@thatlukeperson
’s 2019 PictoTalk on all things
#Hilda
now available for your comfortable home edutainment!
A good way to guess which of your ex-favourite artists is going to be next on the NFT train seems to be whether you can picture them on the cover of Juxtapoz
This was a nice surprise to wake up to! Congrats to the whole team. I'm super pleased for everyone and continuously grateful to be along for this increasingly successful ride!
Hilda has been nominated for the
@PeabodyAwards
!! We're in fantastic company with Steven Universe being the only other nominee in the Children's & Youth category:
Some concept stuff for the Deerfox episode of
@hildatheseries
. The design team vastly improved on them but these were my first attempts at depicting what I was thinking of
The third hardback Hilda collection is out next month! It collects The Stone Forest and The Mountain King to tell the full story of The Night of the Trolls in one book (with sketches and extras.) You can pre-order it now!
It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals.
I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.
Sad to hear that Ana Lúcia Menezes, Hilda's Brazilian voice actor, has passed away. She was the voice of a huge amount of characters including Ahsoka Tano and Chihiro, to name a couple of my own favourites, and clearly she meant a lot to a lot of people. RIP
Just don't fucking do it guys. If you're actually looking forward to the show, now's the time to dip out of the Hilda discord or reddit or whatever and just wait a few weeks. You'll ruin it for yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you!!
Feel like
@hildatheseries
fans should be checking this out! Particularly if you're into the spookier episodes. Congrats to
@hamishsteele
and the crew, I'm wishing this thing all the success
I drew a birthday candle for Quentin Blake's 90th as part of the
@qbcentre
#90Candles
project. You can buy a print of it here to support the opening of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. The other 89 are v nice too.
It's my Granddad's birthday today. He's 96 and in the last ten years he's self published four books. These are the covers I drew for them, all based on his own ideas and sketches. The most recent is just from last year.
We took all 3!! Congrats to everyone and thanks to
@mercuryfilmwrks
, SGM and everyone else involved for everything that's gone into this thing over the years. Feels good to see the hard work getting recognised
I tried to take a photo of this illustration in a book, but accidentally started a video and tutted to myself and the tut sounds like the character(s) in the illustration kissing:
Thanks for all the positive feedback on the Hilda trailer! It's really nice to be able to share something after literally years of looking at it nearly every day and I'm glad people are excited about it.
Pretty crazy! Congrats to all of the
@hildatheseries
and
@mercuryfilmwrks
team. I really lucked out that Hilda ended up with people that could make it so awards-worthy. Congrats to
@GiantAnt
too for their win for that killer intro sequence!
I can't stress enough how grateful I am that so many people put so much hard work and care into this thing. I hope everyone involved is proud. It was a real privilege to have my work adapted like this and by such great people.
Hilda's nominated for a children's Bafta! Continue to be super proud of our team
@hildatheseries
@mercuryfilmwrks
. And congrats to Hilda herself
@BellaRamsey
who's nominated for best young performer (for The Worst Witch)!