Aaron Long

SubparGeekGirl96 Date (public)

I know I posted it on here months ago when I actually made the cartoon, but the second SubparGeekGirl96 short "Date" is now public (with a couple of imperceptible little tweaks from the previous version).

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OIAF, TAC, BigCartel & lots of trips to the post office

I've been busy with lots of boring real-life crap I won't share on here, but I'm finally caught up with the initial wave of online orders for the Sublo zines. It's been an interesting experience doing them-- I was all excited about the creative side of making a book, but I underesti...

10th anniversary sketch

Ok I'm too busy to do a proper digital illustration, but here's a little watercolour sketch to celebrate! ten years wtf?! how did this happen? anyway I seriously appreciate every one of you who have stuck with the show and continued to support me while my slow ass trickles out episodes. Yo...

Production Notes zine now available!

Tomorrow, August 29, is going to be the ten-year anniversary of Sublo and Tangy Mustard's first episode! Seems like a good time to make the Production Notes zine available online, so I finally got my act together and launched a 2025-08-28 21:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Faux-watercolour music loop

Here's a little rough walk cycle of a figure trudging through snow I did a couple of weeks ago. I played around with giving it a watercolour look in Flash by colouring it with a few layers of transparent scribbles. Not totally convincing but kind of neat? I thought it went well with this song fro...

I just released three albums

Hey this isn't cartoon stuff but I have three albums of new music that I just released on Bandcamp and on Youtube. Well not entirely new, I posted e...

Sublo Catering Scene and Some Musings

Here's a little scene from the next Sublo episode, where the gang is driving up to Markham. The music is obviously temp (shh!) along with some other elements - the painted BGs aren't in yet, for instance. Anyway I think this is the first time we've actually been inside a car in the show, I find p...

Recent Sketchbook Stuff

Just felt like sharing some sketchbook scribbles from the last week or so. I'll have a more substantial Sublo update soon, hopefully tomorrow. I've been trucking away on the animation for it, prepping to do another workshop next week and doing a little freelance... Maybe there was something else ...

Trusting the Animator

As I work on Sublo and Tangy Mustard, I'm reminded again and again that the more creative choices I leave for myself in the animation stage, the more engaged I am, and the better it goes. When everything is all figured out too early, it just leaves a big pile of tedious follow-up work and you los...

Sublo Update + Random Recap

Animation is progressing steadily! Tonight I'm in the middle of a long driving scene (the first image). The characters are just sitting and talking, so it's very simple in terms of movement, but the length and number of characters makes it tedious. Overall I'm having a good time on this episode t...

A Snippet of New Sublo

Here's a quick WIP clip from the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode (s3 e5 Catering)! There are a lot of group shots I've been putting off, so much of the episode isn't contiguous yet, but here's a tiny spoiler-free chunk from early on.

Also, a general update:

Tabling at the Book Do...

Sublo Zine Interview Trimmings

I've been scrambling to get the Sublo and Tangy Mustard Production Notes zine to printers in time for the June 5 event I'm tabling at, and putting together stuff for the indie production workshops I mentioned, which have been a lot of fun so far.

I'll sell the zine online once I have it to ...

Quick update on Sublo zine

I'll be out of town for a couple of days, so I wanted to squeeze a little update out before then. Recently I've mostly been focused on putting together the Sublo and Tangy Mustard Production Notes zine, since this year will be the 10th anniversary of the show (oh god). Sorry if I already outlined...

Katy's Birthday tidbits

Going through old storyboards to grab frames for the upcoming Sublo and Tangy Mustard production notes zine, I found a few tidbits I'd forgotten about from Katy's Birthday (season 1 episode 4), that I thought I'd share now:

- a slightly different storyboard of the opening scene

-alter...

Flash Talk - Vehicles & Backgrounds

I promised a video about animating cars, so here it is! Listen to me ramble as I poke around in my Flash files and show you some of the techniques and ideas I'm using for the driving scene in the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode (season 3 episode 5 "Catering").

Let me know if this is to...

UWM Interview

I'll have another art post soon about animating cars, but in the meantime here's a recent interview I did for UWM student Stavros Hatzopoulos.

Q: What got you to start pursuing animation as a career?

A: I've always loved animation. I drew compulsively as a kid and b...

'Catering' colour keys

Some of the colour keys for the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode - this part is always really fun, it feels like digital finger painting. There's no expectation of making "a good drawing." In general that's something I love about indie production, compared to working in the industry and havin...

Animating cars again

Hey I'm still working on backgrounds... Lots of cars and dreary suburban office parks. Here's a couple of shots I've been working on - the car animation here is just mockups with the keys tweened around, I promise it'll look better in the final version! But I figured I'd share a bit. I also have ...

Sublo 'Catering' WIP Backgrounds

As I've mentioned here before, the next Sublo and Tangy Mustard episode is about the Subpar gang driving out to the suburbs to do catering at a dreary office park. Most of the backgrounds aren't particularly exciting to look at (lots of office hallways, desks and tables) so I've been reluctant to...

Get a Load of These Doorknobs

Another Sublo and Tangy Mustard pic I drew last week, and finished off this morning! I'll have a bigger update with BGs from the next episode soon, there are a lot of them but I've been chipping away at the stack.

Danish Snack Review with Kevin

Random non-cartoon-related video, but I'm posting it here since it features Kevin (Tangy Mustard).

Our friend Anthony had a short layover in Toronto, so we met him at one of our favourite greasy burger places not far from the airport, Apache Burgers. Anthony brought us some snacks from his ...

Nightclub dance loops

When I made the Nightclub episode I did these little dance loops of Sublo, Tangy Mustard, Katy and Vanessica. I think maybe I used them for promo the day the episode was released, but they probably got a little buried. I also found a few abandoned early attempts and threw them in here too.

2 Sublo illustrations and old doodles

New Sublo and Tangy Mustard art fresh out of the oven! I've been doing more of illustrations lately since I need covers for the soundtrack release and the production notes zine, and didn't want to just reuse old stuff. Plus I think it's nice to have art of the characters that isn't just stills f...

Upcoming on here

I've got a few major projects I'm juggling right now. Doing them all at once has maybe not been the best approach because it means each individual thing takes longer to come out, but eventually:
-More Sublo and Tangy Mustard episodes, as always!
-A Sublo making-of zine (...or book?! Trying ...

Beatles tribute to Sublo?!

Wow I don't know how they did it considering two of them are dead, but it sure was nice of these lads from Liverpool to sing a tune about Sublo and Tangy Mustard! They must be big fans, clearly they have great taste in cartoons! I wonder if Ringo is a Patreon member under an alias. Peace and love...

Shopping & 2024 wrap-up (also Sirens)

I hope you all had good holidays! It's a little late to post here now, but here's the key art for Shopping and the Subpar Sirens calendar art from the episode.

I've mentioned it before, but Shopping is actually an old unused script from season 2 (with a couple o...

Sublo and Tangy Mustard - Shopping

Here's the new episode! Sublo and Tangy Mustard bring you a heartwarming holiday tale of that most universal yuletide pastime, shopping for gifts. Maybe I'll edit this post to say something more interesting, for now I gotta go post it on social media. Let me know what you think!

Sublo Shopping - more WIP stills and update

This little Christmas episode is almost finished. I've only got 4 shots left to animate and they're all fairly simple. Hopefully by this time tomorrow they'll all be complete! I still haven't imported the backgrounds, but here are a few more animation frames for you patrons. I'm still on track to...

Sublo Shopping progress

Okay, I'm deep enough now into making this Sublo and Tangy Mustard short, and still on schedule with it, that I can confirm you'll get it in time for Christmas! It's called "Shopping" and it's just three minutes of the guys looking for Christmas presents at the mall. Here are some in-progress ani...

Sublo mini-episode "Shopping" coming

I'm working on a long-delayed very small Christmas episode of Sublo and Tangy Mustard! It's nothing big, just a couple of minutes of the boys talking shit while they shop for presents at the mall. We recorded this one way back for the second batch of episodes, but each year I kept either not havi...