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I animated FLAVOR FOLEY’s music video Human ft. SF-A2 Miki!!! @flavorfoley.bsky.social Here’s a thread of my process work on the video as the artist/animator 🤖✨🤝 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbuN...

Jamie P. dm’d me in November to ask if I had any availability to animate a music video for FLAVOR FOLEY! I, of course, answered affirmatively in a composed and calm way

The video had a tight turnaround, so their concept was to have some simple B&W sketchy pieces, and a simple looping hair blowing animation for the refrain, which would go from sketchy -> lineart -> colored. I imagine they meant for maybe a couple sketchy pieces but I’m insane, you see

The singer for this song is the Vocaloid Miki!!!!! I remembered her 2009 design (with the blue!!! The fluff!!!) but didn’t know about her newer, pink designs! (WHERES THE BLUE THO)

FLAVOR FOLEY wanted Miki to look robot-y, and wanted something visually different from her official designs. I immediately got to sketching some, but you can already tell what the problem is. ITS JUST A VARIATION OF HER 2009 DESIGN (BECAUSE ITS GOOD AS HELL AND IM BIASED)

I did also sketch what the refrain would look like– I immediately knew she needed different expressions for each version, with a big cute smile at the end!!! SHE'S HUMAN SHE'S REAL SHE'S HAPPY

Thankfully FLAVOR FOLEY gave me some more constraint ideas for Miki's design (i thrive on contraints): fluffy hair like her 2025 design, “weird eyelashes”, stars, “if we can have navy that’d be cool”, “ROBOT LINES!!! ROBOT JOINTS!!! THIS IS NON NEGOTIABLE!!!!!!”

And finally, rice ( @ricedeity.online , member of FLAVOR FOLEY ) sent me a “vibe sketch” they made forever ago. And it clicked

This is it. The evangelion plugsuit. A body that’s breaking down, cables visible through the wear and tear. And a cool, pristine jacket, lovingly taken care of, perhaps belonging to someone dear to her

After that, FLAVOR FOLEY and I worked together to make the colors fit (pink? white? blue? red????), but here are some wip variations for your viewing pleasure

With the character design done, I got to making a simple storyboard, which didn't end up requiring many changes. Thank you FLAVOR FOLEY for letting me Do My Thing!!!

I worked as an animator for many years, and this was pretty simple animation... I had a lot of fun. I hadn’t animated hair in a while though, so this video saved my bacon youtu.be/8kZlbMPSw0c?...

And after that, I just animated the whole video!!! From the concept art to the end, this took me a week. Which is great because i had one week of break to rest from making my visual novel lol (It's called Truth Scrapper, you can wishlist it if you want <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/... )