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Some Liz Ard Lore + Timelapse

Happy sunday~ :)Today's video is a timelapse of what I've been working on, while I talk a little about me and my character. I won't be able to really convey everything I imagine about her in the video even when I complete it, so I just wanted to share a little, if anyone's curious!I always love seeing p...

WIP: Two more weeks?

Hello, another weekly update!This week's been very chill for me. I'm trying to balance my job with animating this video, and it's going well enough. I always wish I had more time to do this, since it's so much more fun to animate G'raha instead of working, but it's fine. Just having some free ti...

Tutorial: Making characters cry

Hello! Happy sunday~Today's video is a step-by-step tutorial on how I make Lizard cry in my videos.First, start by saying G'raha won't be in Dawntrail---...just kidding (or am I?!)Please let me know if this is useful to you and if you like this kind of video! I know it's very specific, and I wondered ho...

WIP: The beginning!

It's thursday again already?! That was fast...Hello! I hope everyone's doing well.I had a family emergency at the start of the week so I feel like the days went by on a blur (don't worry, everything's fine now! Always wear helmets when riding a bike, it saves lives). After that I was able to finally dec...

Starting a Video: Adding Sounds

Hello, happy sunday!Today's video shows the process of making the audio for "You're not Alone".It's something I find really fun to do, and ever since I started making videos I'm always listening to new cutscenes and moments ingame noticing new audio clips I could use.I forgot to mention in the v...

WIP: New Ideas

Me: I won't do any complicated long videos for a while.Me one week later: So I've got this 1+ minute long layout of emotional ARR flashbacks---Hello! Happy thursday. :DThese past few days I've been thinking about what video to do next. I've got a few ideas, but I still need to really plan them out to se...

Starting a Video: Post-production and Visual Effects

Hello! Happy...monday. :')Today's video is a general look on how I build the VFX for the last video!I think this is a really relaxing part of the whole process, and every little thing you add it feels like it make such a huge difference! I think the learning curve of Premiere is pretty comfortable as well, so i...

You're not Alone

New video out! You're not Alone. :DThe video name is the quest of the original cutscene, by the way...titles are so hard to decide on.I hope you enjoyed it! It's a short and sweet one this time. After that really challenging otome video, it was relaxing to do something I'm more used to making.Not a lot more...

WIP: One shot left!

Hello! How was everyone's week? For me, this was another fast yet productive one!I might be able to finish my new video very soon, finally! There's only one shot left to animate, then I need to build the audio for it and finish the visual effects...though I can't help myself and end up making them between a...

Starting a Video: Rigging Characters

Hello! Happy Dawntrail benchmark release day! I'm about to check it out after this. :D Today's video is how I rigged Emet and Hythlodaeus for the UT Reunion video. This is not really a tutorial but I still try to show and explain some of the things I always do, like how I like to set up the eyes, while also tal...

WIP: Rigging more characters

Hello! Is it just me or did the week go by incredibly fast?!I still have lots of work to do but I feel like I can handle my schedule a little better. In exchange I haven't been active in social media at all, my twitter's been bit abandoned this past week. All of the G'raha fanart yet to be seen!!!I've b...

Behind the Scenes: Eternal Bonds

Hello, and happy sunday! Today's video is a quick Behind the Scenes of Eternal Bonds, my otome game video. I don't go much into technical stuff, but I talk a lot about my ideas, where some of the assets like voice clips and references came from, while I play a timelapse of some of my animation work. I hope you ...

WIP: Time to get organized!

Hello! Weekly update time.First I want to welcome the new supporters! There's a few of you and I am SO grateful for you being here. I hope you enjoy your stay, and as I always say in every post, if there's anything specific you want to see or if you have any questions, just comment or send me a message and let ...

Eternal Bonds - A FFXIV Otome Game!

NEW TRAILER OUT FOR ETERNAL BONDS!!! A romance otome game with the Scions!!!!!!...if only. Happy April Fools! :')That's me, I'm the fool that spent like 1+ month making this. I hope you like it! I've been looking at it for so long that I don't know if I do anymore. lol I do wish it was a real game, ...

Starting a Video: Animating the First Shot

Good morning! Happy sunday!Today's video is the animation of the first shot of the Ultima Thule video we've been working on lately. I start from the layout we had before with the lights and go to full animation. I also show you my usual render settings and how to render the animation. Total of time to animate t...

WIP: IT IS DONE!

Now I'm just waiting for the right moment.As I commented in my last post, this week's been very busy with work. I'm trying to really focus on it so I can get the most part out of the way soon and go back to spending more time on my XIV animations guilt-free later, so I'm barely even checking social medi...

Starting a Video: Adding Lights

Hello! Happy sunday!In today's video I will show you step by step how I usually add lights to my projects. I'm using the same project I've started on last week's video, so we will keep working on it until the end while I show the process step by step!Even though I'm doing this step right now in the ...

WIP: One week left!

Hi!! Weekly update time, and...yes, it's still about this one. I'm ALMOST DONE, I promise!!!Just this little part left! This may or may not require rigging 7 characters with a different outfit just for a final frame, it really depends on how much time and patience I have left.Next week is the one that's goi...

Starting a Video: Building a Layout

Hello! Happy sunday :)Today's video will be showing how I start planning and putting together the initial layout of my videos from scratch. Instead of showing a video that's already done, I decided to go with a complete new idea that I hadn't even started yet, so we will be building it together. The goal of...

WIP: Yes, it's still this one

Good morning! Weekly update time, and...yes, still working on this one. I'm pretty sure this is the one that I've worked on the most, and it's still not done! I really want it to be the best possible. It's like all my delusional wishful thinking materialized in a trailer.That timeline from last week was...

[OUTDATED!] How to get Started! Some tips and advice

Edit: This video was made way before Dawntrail! Some things have changed to put a character together since what I said here, and now I have an updated video tutorial on how to do it. New video about starting tips coming soon!I hope it's helpful!Happy sunday!Today I have a few tips and advice on how to get started i...

WIP: Slow and Steady!

...well, I don't know about the slow part. Maybe not that slow. I don't really know?!Good morning! Weekly update time!So, what I mean is...usually, I have a layout planned out for the videos, and it's easy to tell how much I still have to do. This time, since I haven't done anything like this before, I&...

Animating a shot + commentary

Hello, happy sunday! :DI mentioned last week that it would be fun to show the animation of the last shots in more detail, and that's what I'm doing today!This is a timelapse of just the animation of the last scene of the Linkpearl video, the one where she finished the call with G'raha and death stares Noah....

WIP: This is going to be a long one!

Good morning! Weekly update of my next video. I am SO excited for this one!!!As I've mentioned in my last update, it's not a cutscene-style video and I'm experimenting with a lot of things, so it's hard to be able to tell how long it will take. I'm giving myself a month to do it without rushing anyt...

"A Linkpearl call" animation Timelpase

Hi, happy sunday! I'd like to share the full timelapse of the Linkpearl video.Some fun things to notice:-This time, I put the date in the right upper corner!-First scene that was animated was Raha's fall;-The first shot where she is calling him, I actually animated her mouth movements, and then decided they did...

WIP: Video done! Now on to the next

Hi!! I usually post my weekly WIP updates on thursday, but since I posted the complete video yesterday, I waited just a little bit longer.Everytime I finish a new video I get so excited to share it as soon as possible that I don't think of anything else! I finished the last details in the morning as soon as I woke ...

A Linkpearl call

...specifically the one from the Eureka Orthos unlock quest! Highly recommend it.The animation is fanmade, but the dialogue is all canon.I finished itttt! Way earlier than I expected to, even. Right now I think I'm happy with the result!Ever since I played this quest I couldn't get it out of my mind that I wish...

Brief Behind the Scenes of my first videos

Hi! I want to share a little bit of what I still had of my very first videos. Sadly I lost a lot of the older files, but I tried sharing what I could and what I remember of making them.These are my very first experiences in Blender and figuring out how to do things, so they are very important to me. I like looking back...

WIP: 50% done!

Hello! It's been a week, and I was able to steadily work on the next video every day!I already have 50% of the video animated, 20 seconds exactly - which is the first 6 shots. If nothing goes wrong, I might be able to finish it next week?! I hope so! Here is a little progression of the first shot:You might be able ...

A little about post-production

Hello! This time I wanted to share some of the things I like to do in Premiere, like video editing, compositing, color correction, adding sounds and things like that! In the video I said only editing and compositing, but all of things I went over are all considered "post-production"....even though technically I...