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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

Mandatory Sans Undertale palette

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?...

(guy who has thanked you like 50 times already) Thank you SO MUCH again!! watching you work on this video in real time was like watching a wizard it was so scary. truly blessed to have someone as frightening as you on this project 🥺

And that’s it! I hope this was interesting to read. Thank you so much for watching, and happy holidays!!!

The direction and style of the MV thrive so much from your art!! I am a SUCKER for concept art and intentional storytelling through wear and tear.. Aesthetic and color choice are delightful, and not only does the design succeed in being appealing it fits so well with its use in the video!!

The erraticness in line and the way it gets cleaner, more polished, more confident There's a chance you might not even hae intended for that as I feel like often times the more you draw something it just naturally grows more cleaner in its every iteration-