Joel Mayer
@joelmayerprods.bsky.social
2D Animator (rigs & traditional, mostly Moho and iPad these days) + occasional indie gamedev.
Creative Director by day, working on cool (?) projects for myself and others by night. Also make tutorials sometimes.
All my links: https://linktr.ee/joelmayer
Creative Director by day, working on cool (?) projects for myself and others by night. Also make tutorials sometimes.
All my links: https://linktr.ee/joelmayer
Did a little inbetweening exercise with my apprentices. I had them animate their initials in whatever way they want, it just needed a start and end state and then morph from to the other. This was my demo (ToonSquid)
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Did a little inbetweening exercise with my apprentices. I had them animate their initials in whatever way they want, it just needed a start and end state and then morph from to the other. This was my demo (ToonSquid)
Kinda realized today that, apart from Moho vector tools, which i mostly do with an Intuos Pro L, ALL my drawing and 2D animation work happens on the iPad these days. I don't even know when was the last time i used my big drawing display.
January 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Kinda realized today that, apart from Moho vector tools, which i mostly do with an Intuos Pro L, ALL my drawing and 2D animation work happens on the iPad these days. I don't even know when was the last time i used my big drawing display.
Experimented around with Blender today... just researching for the game AFTER doggo 😅
#gamedev #adventuregame #indiegame
#gamedev #adventuregame #indiegame
January 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Experimented around with Blender today... just researching for the game AFTER doggo 😅
#gamedev #adventuregame #indiegame
#gamedev #adventuregame #indiegame
Cat Fight!
#indiegame #gamedev #madewithconstruct #adventuregame #retrogame #indiedev #gamedevelopment #videogames
#indiegame #gamedev #madewithconstruct #adventuregame #retrogame #indiedev #gamedevelopment #videogames
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Some of Python's funniest and most underrated stuff! Played the heck out of these as a kid :D
#montypython
#montypython
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Some of Python's funniest and most underrated stuff! Played the heck out of these as a kid :D
#montypython
#montypython
Drew a new background as well...
January 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Drew a new background as well...
January 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Cool Sierra Style skip cutscene Fast-Forward button ^^
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #madewithconstruct
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #madewithconstruct
January 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Cool Sierra Style skip cutscene Fast-Forward button ^^
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #madewithconstruct
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #madewithconstruct
Rooms are being connected! After a few weeks of graphics and animation, i'm finally putting the actual game together ^^
Follow for more updates onf this little kids CD-Rom style adventure game!
#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedevelopment
Follow for more updates onf this little kids CD-Rom style adventure game!
#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedevelopment
January 10, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Rooms are being connected! After a few weeks of graphics and animation, i'm finally putting the actual game together ^^
Follow for more updates onf this little kids CD-Rom style adventure game!
#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedevelopment
Follow for more updates onf this little kids CD-Rom style adventure game!
#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedevelopment
Some more animation... this came about two-fold: coming up with faster ways to get around in adventure games and being too lazy to animate the dog actually climbing stairs 😆
#devlog #indiegame #adventuregames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #animation
#devlog #indiegame #adventuregames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #animation
January 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Some more animation... this came about two-fold: coming up with faster ways to get around in adventure games and being too lazy to animate the dog actually climbing stairs 😆
#devlog #indiegame #adventuregames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #animation
#devlog #indiegame #adventuregames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #animation
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Okay this got more attention than i expected so lemme just clarify that i'm no better since i actually do a throwback to the 90's game but in my case it's kids CD-ROM's so i guess that's kinda innovative 😂 So much for consistency...
While i agree i’d also then like developers to stop with the „a throwback to 90‘s… etc etc“ nonsense and stop including meta jokes about three headed monkeys and whatnot of 30+ year old games nobody remembers. We‘re also partly to blame.
December 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Okay this got more attention than i expected so lemme just clarify that i'm no better since i actually do a throwback to the 90's game but in my case it's kids CD-ROM's so i guess that's kinda innovative 😂 So much for consistency...
Lucky it had a lasso select from the get-go 🤪🔥
ToonSquid has had many feature updates in 2025. Here's a recap of some of the most exciting features from versions 2.0.6 - 2.0.14 that did not get their own dedicated update video. Which one of these is your favorite?
toonsquid.com/updates
#animation #iPad #toonsquid
toonsquid.com/updates
#animation #iPad #toonsquid
December 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Lucky it had a lasso select from the get-go 🤪🔥
Gonna make one of my low-effort intro tutorials for Toonsquid in January.
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Gonna make one of my low-effort intro tutorials for Toonsquid in January.
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just some of the animation i did for the dog over the last couple of days... i'm up to about 200 frames of animation now for the dog alone... thought this was going to be a SMALL project 😅
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #indiedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #indiedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just some of the animation i did for the dog over the last couple of days... i'm up to about 200 frames of animation now for the dog alone... thought this was going to be a SMALL project 😅
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #indiedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment
#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #indiedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment
The Masters are ded...
#gamedev #adventuregames #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #animation
#gamedev #adventuregames #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #animation
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Masters are ded...
#gamedev #adventuregames #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #animation
#gamedev #adventuregames #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #animation
Poor Spider will get chased through half the house 😅
#adventuregame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelart #animation
#adventuregame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelart #animation
December 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Poor Spider will get chased through half the house 😅
#adventuregame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelart #animation
#adventuregame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelart #animation
Holiday started! Still recharging my batteries a bit but slowly starting to work on my doggo game full-time. Here's a list of tools just because:
Engine: Construct 3
Art/Animation: PIxquare, PIxaki, Aseprite, Moho
Sound/Music: Studio One
Hardware: Mac Mini M4 Pro, iPad Pro M4
Engine: Construct 3
Art/Animation: PIxquare, PIxaki, Aseprite, Moho
Sound/Music: Studio One
Hardware: Mac Mini M4 Pro, iPad Pro M4
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Holiday started! Still recharging my batteries a bit but slowly starting to work on my doggo game full-time. Here's a list of tools just because:
Engine: Construct 3
Art/Animation: PIxquare, PIxaki, Aseprite, Moho
Sound/Music: Studio One
Hardware: Mac Mini M4 Pro, iPad Pro M4
Engine: Construct 3
Art/Animation: PIxquare, PIxaki, Aseprite, Moho
Sound/Music: Studio One
Hardware: Mac Mini M4 Pro, iPad Pro M4
Turns out the creator of McZee's last name is McPhee 😆 I'm glad i finally have a person i can thank for the early inspiration and my first drawing software (and of course 3D Movie Maker which we all loved)
December 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Turns out the creator of McZee's last name is McPhee 😆 I'm glad i finally have a person i can thank for the early inspiration and my first drawing software (and of course 3D Movie Maker which we all loved)
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Animated a little Moho shot for this which was a lot of fun :) Check out Piti's beautiful new short! 🥰
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Animated a little Moho shot for this which was a lot of fun :) Check out Piti's beautiful new short! 🥰
Animal Doodles...
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Animal Doodles...
More Multi-Media PC era Nostalgia... everyone else had this? Kind of an off-shoot of Encarta i'm guessing but i spent tons of time with this CD-ROM!
#retro
#retro
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
More Multi-Media PC era Nostalgia... everyone else had this? Kind of an off-shoot of Encarta i'm guessing but i spent tons of time with this CD-ROM!
#retro
#retro
I think i watched this little animation more times than i actually used the software ❤️🫶
@microsoft.com Bring him back! And i say this as an Apple user :D
I really wish i knew who the illustrator was for these things.
#retro #retrogames #retrocomputer #windows95 #oldschool #microsoft
@microsoft.com Bring him back! And i say this as an Apple user :D
I really wish i knew who the illustrator was for these things.
#retro #retrogames #retrocomputer #windows95 #oldschool #microsoft
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I think i watched this little animation more times than i actually used the software ❤️🫶
@microsoft.com Bring him back! And i say this as an Apple user :D
I really wish i knew who the illustrator was for these things.
#retro #retrogames #retrocomputer #windows95 #oldschool #microsoft
@microsoft.com Bring him back! And i say this as an Apple user :D
I really wish i knew who the illustrator was for these things.
#retro #retrogames #retrocomputer #windows95 #oldschool #microsoft