Hello, everyone! 👋
Did you enjoy the Puss in Boots parody? Somehow I managed to keep that a secret the whole time 😂. Originally I was only going to animate the last bit, but Jack Horner's personality is such a great fit for Pekora that I just had to do more!
And I was not expecting so many people to be surprised with the violence. I've animated so much gory stuff in the past:
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2023-07-28 07:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, I started animating this thing so long ago, I can't believe I happened to finish it on her anniversary. Or the day after... cuz it's already the 18th in Japan right? 🤔
Anyway, it's finally here! I hope you'll enjoy it.
2023-07-17 23:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, things didn't go very smoothly this month. The holocats took longer than I expected to animate and I had to make a new rig for Pekora's face.
As you can see she's a bit chubbier in this animation. But yeah, the new rig is a lot better, more efficient and easier to animate. It's very similar to Jill's face rig now, it relies more on simple 3D layers rather than 2D layers with lots of expre...
2023-07-01 02:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally. Pekora has accomplished her evil plan and captured all of the holocats! I'm kidding, of course, there are many more hololive nekos out there. Eventually every single member will become a cat. 🐈
I spent a lot of time animating nousagis, which was very fun, because they are basically just a blob with a face. R...
2023-06-04 22:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone. Sorry for the late update, I was dealing with some pet troubles last month and it really messed up my schedule. It's all good now, so let's start with a picture of a young Pekora enjoying some baked goods. Yep, her mom owns a bakery in this universe, and everything is carrot flavored!
The Nousagi logo above the door is a nod to Peko-chan, the very popular Japanese candy ma...
2023-05-02 12:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working on this scene where Pekora is reminiscing about her childhood, and the camera pans to the side to reveal a gallery of old family photos. The picture above is the first one and as you can see I decided to make Bugs Bunny her father. For no apparent reason. It's not essential to the story or anything like that, I just thought it would be funny! It also gives a little "mistakes into miracles" kinda vibe you know?
2023-03-29 17:37:08 +0000 UTC
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The Pekora face rig that I made for the short worked out pretty well! And I thought it would be a waste to just use it in a six second clip. So I decided to turn the short into a regular animation, with a proper aspect ratio and all (it's very frustrating to work in portrait mode :p). I'm also changing some things. For example, the Nousagi that I showed in the previous update is going to be replaced by another character named Jill.
2023-02-28 18:04:19 +0000 UTC
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A very late Happy New Year to all of you!
2023 is the year of the rabbit. So we're gonna start the year with more pekora!
Video Download - https://www.patreon.com/posts/hololive-43990121
Images - https://www.patr...
2023-01-29 12:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, everybody! Here's a short Pekora animation!
2022-12-25 18:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It was really fun to work on this! I love these characters and when you only have to animate a single basic action, you don't have to worry about any complicated movements and rigs, you can just focus on the shading and making sure everything looks good! I was able to make most Pokémon fairly quickly, but I did have some trouble at the end with Haachama, which was a bit surprising because I animated her before in that 2022-11-23 00:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Halloween, everybody! Nothing spooky here, unless you fear the pokemans.
We'll be taking a look at the pokemon food chain in this animation. From the smallest creatures to the biggest monsters and some unexpected characters.
I'm having a lot of fun making this, I think it's been almost a decade since I worked on something pokemon related!
2022-10-31 09:59:59 +0000 UTC
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I've realized that I might have messed up the color profile settings on the project. Like the color on the youtube video seems a little bit washed out, or maybe it's just that the video compression doesn't look great on very saturated flat colors. I'm not sure. But the downloadable version here should look better:
Video Download - 2022-10-16 21:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, I've been struggling the entire past month with After Effects. The render times were brutal, it took 7 seconds to preview a single frame of Sana's kimono at 1/4 resolution. And I thought it was because of all the heavy effects, but after a fresh install everything got 6x faster. Just wasted a bunch of time...
But anyway, it's finally done! Here's a little late send-off to sana!
2022-10-05 10:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It's half-way done! I assumed that things would be faster with this one since I'm not doing any painting in Photoshop, but that's clearly not the case. These watercolor and stop motion effects are way too heavy for After Effects. I've had multiple slow downs, crashes, and I even lost a couple hours of work on one occasion, which was very frustrating. I don't even think the effects were on at the time, all I did was move a shape layer and the program just stopped responding... Sometimes AE is ...
2022-08-26 00:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sana announced that she is graduating this month. I was very surprised and sad because she is my favorite member from Council. She's also an amazing artist (the best in all of hololive) so I hope to see more of her ...
2022-07-24 22:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a "new feature" that was implemented into After Effects two years ago, but I just found out about it last month. It's called Tapered Strokes:
Something that I desperately wanted ever since I started using the software over a decade ago. Totally found out about it by accident while I was messing around in the shape layer menu, and it really impressed me! This is the kind o...
2022-06-26 23:15:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in 2017 I re-animated the first episode for the 5 year anniversary of TBSP, and I wanted to do something similar with the Portal 2 episode for the 10th anniversary this year. Unfortunately I missed the exact date, but I still want to do it!
It's not going to be a complete recreation of the episode. It'll focus on Luna and Celestia in the co-op playthrough, rather than the single player campaign with all the other characters. There's a lot of amazing moments in that original Be...
2022-05-27 17:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The Great Mighty Poo kicked my ass
Here are the rewards:
Video Download / Animatic - https://www.patreon.com/posts/hololive-43990121
Sorry for the wait, everybody. This month has been a bit chaotic, with pets going to the vet and family members going to the hospital. But it's fine now! The animation is here and the updates/rewards should be coming this weekend.
2022-04-26 14:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Super Quick update! There are just two scenes left to animate, but there's still quite a bit of painting to do. I'm also experimenting with 3D a little bit, kinda like the Beef PC animation, but instead of 2D elements on a 3D character, it's some 3D parts on a 2D character. The ETA on the animation is around two weeks, maybe sooner!
2022-03-26 12:39:01 +0000 UTC
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Tough times, everybody. Extremely tough. I hope all of you guys are safe and okay! I wish I had a new animation ready to cheer you up, but all I got, for now, is this short update.
After watching Korone's stream I got inspired and decided to make another Banjo-Kazooie animation. A new exciting chapter in the Eekum Bokum series! :p
This means that the telephone game animation is on th...
2022-02-27 01:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Korone is finally going to play Banjo again! She announced it on twitter last week and I painted this little image to celebrate.
Back in 2020 she was trying to do 100% completion on her first playthrough, which is crazy. Hopefully, she tries the 360 or the switch version this time around, she would probably enjoy it more with all the little improvements and the save states!
The next holol...
2022-01-27 17:45:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year, everybody! The sequel is finally here! One year in the making... 🙃
When I started animating this back in December 2020, I said something like: "This is a little animation that will be done before the end of the year!" So, clearly, as you can see, things did not go exactly as planned! But thankfully it's finally done. And that first animation has 18 million views now! Which is absolutel...
2022-01-02 01:18:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh man, these last few days were rough. But it’s finally here! I'm glad I finished before Christmas! Now I’m gonna try to finish that pixel animation before the year ends.
2021-12-22 15:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned in a previous update that I was having some lower back pain, so I finally went to the doctor and it turns out that I actually have a fractured coccyx. It probably happened when I slipped and fell in my kitchen a few months back. It hurt a bit and I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I know that my aging bones are very fragile!
Currently, it's not very painful or anything like that, it'...
2021-11-28 00:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in case any of you guys missed it, I made this illustration for Luna's birthday earlier this month. And the date of her birthday, October 10th, is the same day that FiM premiered in North America. So I decided to do a little crossover and paint the two princesses together! It would've been even cooler if mlp Luna had made her first appearance on the same day, but I don't think they aired that two-part episode on the same day.
Fubuki, Korone, and Ollie also celebrated their birthday...
2021-10-28 00:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh my god, you guys, the response to the animation has been so good! I'm really glad!
Last month I was upset that I couldn't finish it earlier, but I guess it does work really well as an October / Halloween video.
Here are the rewards:
Video Download / Animatic - https://www.patreon.com/posts/ho...
2021-10-05 10:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is! Sorry for the wait! Those bloop transformations took a bit more time than expected. Updates + Rewards are coming next week.
2021-10-01 02:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, I’ve been watching and animating hololive for a year already. I can’t believe holoEN 2 is debuting soon. I haven’t even made a holoMyth video yet :p
But that’s about to change. Because the next one is a Gura and Ina animation! Well… kinda. Ina is actually playing another character.
Gura attempted to prank call Ina during her stream last month, but things did not go exactly ...
2021-08-21 09:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
