{"id":9966,"date":"2026-08-21T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:06:26","slug":"malyck-animated-sketch-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/08\/malyck-animated-sketch-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"Malyck Animated Sketch (WIP) | August 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Line<\/a>Realized this earlier gif showing only the lines is probably a bit more clear to see. <\/p>\n

Original post below: <\/em><\/p>\n

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\"2d<\/a>
Animation sketch (work-in-progress).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I learned earlier this month that Michael Donovan,<\/strong> the voice actor for Malyck from Guild Wars 2,<\/em> unfortunately passed away earlier this year in March. He was 72. The characters I tend to be most fond of in this game are often a result of how the VA’s approach their performance, and this certainly included Malyck. A friend linked me a post on reddit for a different fandom (here<\/a>), where Donovan seemed quite beloved by many fans. He will be missed! <\/p>\n

I didn’t set out to draw this specific animation, but I found myself sketching it one morning after hearing the news. I’d like to finish this sometime as a small tribute to him and his work as Malyck. <\/p>\n

\"Animated<\/a>
Very rough color block-in (not yet aligned with the lines).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I haven’t had a chance to block out the colors properly yet (I’m going to refine the animation and draw the in-between frames first), but above shows a rough color block-out to give me an overall sense of how it’s looking so far.<\/p>\n

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August 21, 2026:<\/em> Added the line WIP gif at the top of the post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Animated<\/a><\/p>\n

I learned earlier this month that Michael Donovan,<\/strong> the voice actor for Malyck from Guild Wars 2, unfortunately passed away earlier this year in March. He was 72. The characters I tend to be most fond of in this game are often a result of how the VA’s approach their characters, and this certainly included Malyck. A friend linked me this post on reddit for a different fandom (here<\/a>), where Donovan seemed quite beloved by many fans. He will be missed! <\/p>\n

More in the full post! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,422,10],"tags":[737,734,386,387,459,388],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2d-animation","category-guild-wars-2","category-work-in-progress","tag-2d-animation","tag-animation","tag-guild-wars-2","tag-gw2","tag-malyck","tag-sylvari"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Landy","author_link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/author\/liz\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"2D Animation<\/a> Guild Wars 2<\/a> Work-In-Progress<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"I learned earlier this month that Michael Donovan, the voice actor for Malyck from Guild Wars 2, unfortunately passed away earlier this year in March. He was 72. The characters I tend to be most fond of in this game are often a result of how the VA's approach their characters, and this certainly included…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}