Welcome to My Masters Blog:

I’ve been continuing to practice rigging in Adobe Character Animator, which reads character files from Photoshop (or Illustrator). I strongly prefer drawing in Procreate, though, so after I finish my artwork I bring everything into Photoshop and reorganize the layers so Character Animator can read them properly. It’s a bit…

The Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is one of only five sites in California where annual counts exceed 10,000 butterflies. Monarch butterflies undertake an incredible…

Today is Mother’s Day, the second biggest blessing of my life (the first being marrying the man who made me a mother). It also means…

My youngest tore his ACL at a basketball tournament in LA, and isn’t that just like life? One minute you have one trajectory, and the…

After building and running a coffee shop, my love for a good cup of coffee endures. Sadly due to health concerns, I have had to…

Hello!
Nikki Tibbett: artist, teacher, instructional designer… sometimes amateur animator.
Connect. Animate. Grow.