Garrett Animates

06/04/2026

It’s been a minute since I’ve shared any studio work so I thought I’d share some shots I animated on Strange World! I play a lot of board games so definitely relate to Ethan’s frustration here lol. I remember one of the challenges with this shot was struggling to manage all the different cards and making sure they hooked up between shots (esp. because the whole point is the game is unraveling 🥲). Looking back at these shots I forgot how wacky/cartoony the poses were. And even throughout the whole movie — I feel like Strange World had a really fun animation style to it!

02/27/2026

Did you know pigeons are notoriously bad at making nests? I thought this detail fit in perfectly with this caller’s clearly frustrated voicemail 🤣. This voicemail was a lot of fun to animate — I never thought I’d get to design a ‘working mom’ pigeon outfit lol.

SUPER special thanks to all the Patrons who voted on this voicemail and continued support me while making this Chirpmail! You can join in as well if you’d like to see all the behind-the-scenes videos, vote on voicemails, and keep tabs on my progress!

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10/30/2025

My first time tabling at Lightbox was amazing, exciting, tiring, inspiring and all of the things 😄! I’ve learned a lot — To start I learned that there is a (largely untapped) need at the convention to cater to the interests of CG Animators (there are only a few of us tabling there!). I also talked to dozens of animators and asked them what sorts of things they struggle with in terms of the craft, and there were a LOT of common struggles that I plan on making more videos on. Lastly, I learned that there is a very real and almost universal love of Chirpmail and that was super touching to me. I even met with the person who submitted the Chirpmail I’m working on now, and I actually spoke with the mother who’s voice it was!

Anyways, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to anyone who visited me! I appreciate all of you and hope you had as inspiring a time as I did ♥️!

10/22/2025

It’s my FIRST time tabling at Lightbox (or any convention for that matter!) and I’m not panicking at all 😅! Come visit me over at Table #300 - I’ll be with good company, right next to the brilliantly talented .draws !!

I’ll be selling Stickers, Postcards and sharing the latest updates with Creator Club Pro! I will also have a game wheel with various prizes including recorded critiques, free merch, free patreon memberships and more! ALL PATRONS VISITING WILL ALSO GET A FREE GIFT 🎁! If you swing by on Saturday, you’ll probably see fellow cohosts and who I dragged into this as well 😂!! It’s gonna be funnnnnn! Super special thanks to who will be my booth babe for the weekend ❤️.

See you there 🎉🎉🎉

10/20/2025

10/07/2025

I’ll be animating at Netflix for a while!

As many of you know, I’ve been deep in my independent animation work this year — building Chirpmail, running Patreon and exploring what it means to make stuff completely on my own.

While I keep developing that side of things, I’m also excited to be joining Netflix! And for the first time in my career, I’m working on the same animated film my wife has been boarding on for a while which is so cool ❤️!

10/03/2025

✏️I use drawing to help me work out complex mechanics, thumbnail ideas, and even ‘supervise’ my own work (and I’m not actually good at drawing lol). Doing drawovers really helps you break down things more graphically and get out of the messy CG world which can limit how you think about your animations! Check out the full video now on Patreon!

05/29/2025

This month Squab members get a glow in the dark and holographic sticky🌟!!! Only a few days left to snag these bad bois https://www.patreon.com/Garrett_Animates

05/28/2025

I’m very excited to be a part of Artist Alley this October 🎊! I’m looking forward to getting inspired seeing all the epic talent 🌟!

Tickets are available online now, I hope to see you there — Come say hi 😁!

05/26/2025

I feel like if I had to distill my animation growth into a super dumbed down formula, it would be something like: Fear + Fun = Growth. Fear gets a bad rap, but I think it can be used to help you improve -- but it's also a fine line because you don't want to beat yourself up too much... And speaking of fear and growth -- This is kinda my first deep dive into longform videos! I had a lot of fun making it, I hope to do more like this. Waddya think???