Polygonyall
Darktails Revenge Part 17
updated
WARNINGS FOR:
- Cartoon Gore
- Animal Death
- (Within MAP) themes of an unjust government
Collaboration with @alovelydeadfish
Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=yKvGbEfV6V0
Songs: Rules · KMFDM / Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) · The Immortals
Script: Brambleclaw lifts his head up, before slamming the metal part into the back of Firestar’s neck.
Please pardon the uncanny models I used to map out movement lol
song: youtube.com/watch?v=raAgr2Mzjv4
youtube.com/@howdouart
youtube.com/@giingersnaps
its been months... years...
This was a huge whammy of a part that I got right when I started working full time. I learned fursim from scratch throughout the process and while it doesn't look exactly how i pictured it (fur simulation is very tempremental) I'm still proud of it!!
I couldn't have gotten this part done without @HowDoUArt who provided some background asset resources that I used to create the skydome (the sky background texture) and @giingersnaps who did the rotoscoping on swift! and the rest of the server for keeping the energy!
MAP CALL: youtube.com/watch?v=HMJrlEYgwn4&t=2s
CHARACTERS: Swiftpaw, Brightpaw, mud statues of whitestorm, mousefur and cinderpelt.
SCRIPT: "Swiftpaw attempts to replicate Brightpaw's apprentice ceremony in Thunderclan camp. it is cringe and fail" (These were my exact words when proposing the script for this part)
PROGRAMS USED: -inhales- clip studio paint, autodesk maya, zbrush, photoshop, substance painter, and adobe after effects.
getting the hang of fur simulation and not getting things taking multiple days to render (failed the second one though oops)
trying to replicate the exact rankin bass wooly tinny fur was hard but i think i did good enough
MAP CALL: youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2obeElJ5A
CHARACTERS: Smudge, Tigerstar
SCRIPT: Smudge running happily until he grows older, choosing to sit down sadly. Tigerstar interjects, talking (I took it way too literally and had him literally deflate lol)
SOFTWARE USED:
2D PORTION: Clip studio paint, Adobe after effects
3D PORTION: Zbrush (sculpting) Maya (UV Mapping, background, rigging, fursim, animating and rendering), Substance painter (texturing), adobe after effects (compositing)
Xandra sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Xandra reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
woe. neopets against be upon ye
if you want context read the faeries ruin plot comic its fire
This was originally going to have a fur sim but my fur sim exploded the night of the deadline so thanks maya
MAP CALL: youtu.be/jOOEPpIkBRg?si=72DCfqecdhPl3l2b
Characters: SCP 682 (Tigerstar)
Programs used: Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Adobe After Effects
SO!! I'm really excited to have a part in this. My epic gamer plan is that Brightpaw and the background are 3D animation but Swiftpaw himself is rotoscoped 2D.
The timing in this is really really fast so i'm likely cutting out the first shot to mitigate it. the second one gives the full context already so its repetitive
Base Script: Swiftpaw and Brightpaw travel to different places in the territory (you can make up places not on the design sheet such as a river or meadow) trying to find a cure for the zombie infection. Swiftpaw is kind of just dragging Bright around and trying different things on her (such as herbs or other things, get really creative!) she is oblivious and kinda just goes with it giving little or no reaction. Swiftpaw seems frustrated. Part 10 includes a storyboarded piece at the end where Swiftpaw slumps onto the ground in frustration.
My creative freedom script: Swiftpaw attempts to replicate Brightpaw's apprentice ceremony with Mud statues posing as the other Thunderclan cats. He appoints mud statue Whitestorm as her mentor. Mud statue Whitestorm quickly falls apart, freaking out Brightpaw who violently bats at it.
Yesterday was my birthday and I started this like mid yesterday so uh... sorry for being late
Original: youtube.com/watch?v=zTCRLlBDPmo&t=0s
Inspo: youtube.com/watch?v=XczR5Je3C8Q
Fun map part now that i'm like less busy. I'm getting a new PC which will speed up map part productions exponentially which is exciting!!
Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=vFO19CWO22g
Characters: Breezepelt and Antpelt
Script: -
Completed MAP: -
Not entirely satisfied with the current groom so Its probably gonna look wayyy different when its done I"m just happy with my current progress (and want to shoot for weekly uploads oops)
Longtail design + Mr. Fear (A 10/10 map) belong to @giingersnaps !
Special thanks to Soupy and Puzzleparrot for helping me out troubleshooting and accessing resources to learn fur simulation and the rest of the WC 3D server for tolerating my slow descent into madness
Halloween Ends slice of life my absolute beloved my best friend. My part is in the Autumn section but is the last Autumn part so I decided to make the last shot more transitional into winter. Like a halfway point.
Scenes + Character explanation
Shot 1: Laurie and Allyson at Karen's grave, mourning but comforting each other
Shot 2: Allyson is sorting herbs while Laurie and Lindsey gossip with her, she acts annoyed but actually thinks its funny.
Shot 3: Deputy Hawkins jumpscaring Laurie. He offers her the bird as an apology and they have awkward small talk
Shot 4: Halloween Ends drama starts. Allyson comforting an upset Corey while telling Laurie to go away. Laurie leaves, saddened. She misses the shape in the background.
MAP CALL: youtu.be/x4r-RbEN_Tk
I graduate in like a month and one of my final classes was a reel class. Focused on Character modelling stuff for this one.
Boon makes a cameo because my Boon model was fire
Really proud of this one the vibe is exquisite and I used a lot of techniques
MAP CALL: youtube.com/watch?v=vZozsjzx6wA
ANIMATION REFERENCES: youtube.com/watch?v=iJmneEjiI8w
CHARACTERS: Ravenpaw, Thistleclaw as Geo gu gwi
SCRIPT: Ravenpaw runs into the house. under the floor, Red eye is shown.
TIME TAKEN: month on and off but hunkered down and worked on it consistently 4 days straight
PROGRAMS USED: Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Adobe After Effects, Clip Studio Paint
TWITTER: twitter.com/BeauDoodles
ART ONLY TWITTER: twitter.com/polygonyall
PORTFOLIO WEBSITE (+ COMMS) : polygonyall.weebly.com
Was working on this a ton early 2022 but got sidetracked and I don't really see myself finishing it in the near feature. but got a good chunk done so I decided to post the unfinished stuff on a rainy day.
For Gorgiwing (IDK ur YT channel will add later) ! I hope you enjoy
Full secret animator (check it out!) youtu.be/rY9lPTS9i8c
INSPO: youtube.com/watch?v=8hDp-alJSZ8&t=0s
The characters are from The Faeries' Ruin plot from Neopets which goes extraordinarily hard and I recommend you read it. Xandra literally grabs Faerieland and smashes it against the ground like Majora its fun
Song: City Trial - Kirby Air Ride OST
Thank you to Snugbug for indulging me by allowing me to make a MAP part with my Silly little AU. AU explanation will be pinned comment
MAP CALL: youtu.be/pWPiNwRcdkY
SONG: Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon
CHARACTERS: Thistleclaw (front), Tigerclaw (back left) (design by Cante Skuya) Whitestorm (back right), Spottedleaf (second shot)
SCRIPT: Thistleclaw emerges from the dream realm, cornered by Whitestorm and Tigerclaw. He laughs viciously at them. Spottedleaf is initially stunned by a combination of fear and rage before charging to attack
MAP call: youtube.com/watch?v=3iMcHEpnA68
Characters: Blazemiser (Lionblaze) and Alderheart (help him)
Script: Paw to his mouth so no one else can see, Blazemiser cheekily speaks to Alderheart- who looks horrified at the lava
Also I was put on the spot by my professor to pick a soundtrack for it so I used the song starless night used sorry about that guys.
Song: youtu.be/dswBHoxAH7s
Updating the desc later have a remake of this ( youtube.com/watch?v=IuIQobSVNsw ) happy halloween
audio is from Troll 2 youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4 this is literally like Troll 2 but warrior cats its funny to me and five other people
None of the models nor textures are mine. they were extracted from Splatoon 2 by The Models Resource (models-resource.com/). I only own the animation and particle simulation
I am uploading this with a horrible cold wish me luck sleeping tonight last night i had a tension headache lol.
This part got done way later than it should have, I wanted to get it done like a few weeks after 3-19 but kept having artblock motivation issues and RL stuff.
A special special thanks to TeddyStarlight for helping me out! They colored Jay in shot 1! check out their channel youtube.com/channel/UCQCrjZL_xs632ruaTb7jDNQ
Map Call: youtu.be/LBrf_L_KJGI
Characters: Jayfeather, Ivypool
Script: Jayfeather stumbles to stand up, walking around the medicine den as he trips on Ivypool’s body.
Check out @motsonagic ! who did the 2D animation of the spirit wisp, a massive lifesaver and I adore their style.
Lantern leaves is so awesome and I'm glad I was able to participate!
MAP CALL: youtube.com/watch?v=oYpaMEfpKFM
Characters: Fallen Leaves, Wisp Spirit
Programs: Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, Substance painter, adobe after effects
I was originally going to use my own voice but decided text to speech because I was feeling particularly self conscious about my voice when I was editing. I hope you guys enjoy!
MAP CALL: youtu.be/LBrf_L_KJGI (check it out!)
CHARACTER: The Guide (Spottedleaf)
SCRIPT: “ out of bounds “ the guide says, the cavern glitching and rumbling as they speak. (added with permission: the camera strays as a stalactite falls into the murky depths in the distance, returning to the guide)
SOFTWARE USED: -INHALES- Autodesk Maya (Rigging, animating, rendering, lighting), Zbrush (sculpting), Substance painter (texturing), Medibang paint (base textures), Adobe after effects (video editing)
TIME TAKEN: Around a weekish
GLITCH EFFECT: youtube.com/c/footageisland (not linking the exact video because it has a lot of flashing)
I'm so excited to release this I think its my best Map part yet. The starless night map is such a cool idea that harkens back to give yourself goosebumps and I'm glad to have a part in it (I actually have two but the second will be 2D animated).
ALSO its subtle but I used glitch stock footage from FootageIsland for a glitch effect! Check them out here, their stuff is free to use youtube.com/c/footageisland (not linking the exact video because it has a lot of flashing)
MAP CALL: youtu.be/LBrf_L_KJGI (check it out!)
CHARACTER: The Guide (Spottedleaf)
SCRIPT: “ out of bounds “ the guide says, the cavern glitching and rumbling as they speak. (added with permission: the camera strays as a stalactite falls into the murky depths in the distance, returning to the guide)
SOFTWARE USED: -INHALES- Autodesk Maya (Rigging, animating, rendering, lighting), Zbrush (sculpting), Substance painter (texturing), Medibang paint (base textures), Adobe after effects (video editing)
TIME TAKEN: Around a weekish
need to do a lot of polish but its really fun
youtube.com/watch?v=LBrf_L_KJGI check out the absolute behemoth of a map its so cool
Playing Cookie Run back from 2017-2019 and then seeing all of these new characters was a trip dare I say. A semi-obscure in the west game became such a juggernaut so fast, I couldn't believe when I was at a Con and I saw a major voice actor's banner showing their roles and one of the main ones was a Cookie Run character. that's unbelievable to me but it was such a fun game and I'm glad to have participated in this MAP (sorry for rambling lol)
Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=pRUBHtat2p4
Song: "Smoke and Mirrors" by Gotye
Characters: Sol, Firestar, Blackstar, Onestar, Leopardstar, Hollypaw, Lionpaw, Jaypaw.
Script: "“Sol” appears out of the den and sings the lyrics. All the other leaders appear, the same eyes as Firestar has. The Three are angry at “Sol” and hiss, as if saying, “You won’t get away with this!”"
REALLY REALLY REALLY proud of this part. I switched the CSP and its a dream for brushes. I think this is my best part yet.
Also gave me the opportunity to use Jersey Devil music which is the most underrated video game soundtrack of all time
MAP CALL: youtu.be/p3G_2sZiHY8
Music used: youtu.be/4xp0ZcKrWg8 Jersey Devil OST 3 by Gilles Leveillé HIGHLY recommend listening to the soundtrack
Characters: Tigerclaw and Bluestar
Script: The crescent moon is replaced by a full one on a different night, pan down to Tigerclaw attacking Bluestar
This Map is super sweet and heartwarming I'm glad that I had a part
Map Call: youtu.be/smVoWyBZkzs
Character(s): Sleekwhisker
Script: In a bad mood, Sleek picks up after Dark, cleaning up his empty ice cream tubs and bottles and trash.
Programs: Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Adobe After Effects
I'm genderfluid and bi so enjoy this silly video
Art twitter: twitter.com/Polygonyall
Thank u jay for letting me SNATCH your dream sweet in sea major designs for this! Please check out Jay's map its SO good youtu.be/bmRff4pF1gY
I recently got into Bojack Horseman and this scene fit really really well with bristlefrost so I had to be a wee bit evil
Audio is from Bojack Horseman Season 4 episode 9
Designs belong to Grimalkind youtube.com/channel/UCSCZ1heHJuxHXrxoTjYLT8Q
I've been around far longer its just for this channel! Sorry for the lack of uploads I'm working on stuff
Check out Jax who helped me out so much with this part! They did colouring on the first shot and I couldn't have done it without them youtube.com/channel/UCxzUEeGx_FrMRa6Iz-WcBkw
And check out the map! We still need backups and Jay is a really good host, its been a blast working with them youtu.be/Kus9oYWfZic
Now to fall asleep as wisdom teeth pain meds take over lol
MAP CALL: youtu.be/rrsTTBpetrs (This map call contains disturbing content! viewer discretion is advised!)
PROCESS MUSIC: youtu.be/nu9t98K4AQM
Having about 5 map parts on various levels of completion is rough and its why there haven't been any uploads even though I am working on all of them + the animation meme!
This took about a day, was really happy to get this part as I got backup quite late! I love this map because there aren't a lot of horror maps that have a noticable lack of gore.
Character: Random Starclan cat
Script: "StarClan cat melting/being creepy"
This map is perfect because I have a neopets OC that's intended to be as 2006 as possible and was also a fun and surprisingly relaxing experience!
Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=sMZIC0haN5U
Character: Angel_Shoyru_Kewlz (thats his name on the neopets site go complain to the five year old who named him IG)
Of course the pose is a reference to that frame in I Will not Bow (You know the one) so youtube.com/watch?v=BsVP8OQ9QHc here is the upload by the person who made the original AMV!
Experimented a lot in after effects and I really like the final product's motion! + I helped out Pastel Cookie with animating the leaf at the end of Part 4.
was going to finish this way sooner but life got in the way! I hope you all like it now
MAP CALL: youtube.com/watch?v=YKsDZWmK73Y
Pastel Cookie: youtube.com/channel/UCNc00aBwQ34IFI_MA4dgUfQ
Welcome to my full 3D process (I’ll make a separate video for nonpainted eyes!)
I decided to model a really iconic and accessible neopet for people who aren’t familiar to neopets. Despite its blobby anatomy the aisha is very appealing and fun to model rig and animated (except for the legs! Those legs… are going to heck.
Something I forgot to mention is that before rendering I sculpted a collar that I then parented to the neck joint so it would move with the chest and neck! Forgot to mention that
Some notes
- I use maya, Zbrush, substance painter, adobe after effects, photoshop and (sometimes medibang)
- The main purpose of filling in before substance with medibang is that I don’t have to colour the inside of the mouth in substance which is a pain
- Blender is an amazing free alternative to maya if you are not an animation student with the license! Its completely different but its open source and super innovative!
- Blend shapes are where you can keyframe a specific pose or expression to move to later. So for example, a neutral face would be a blendshape and so would a frown. This can be used for a lot of facial expressions or even lip sync.
- By doing this you can use a set driven key to pin the different blendshapes to a control, like I did with the mouth
- I am a complete beginner at zbrush, I picked it up only two weeks ago so if you see me doing something dumb, please no judgey
Song: youtube.com/watch?v=wKHCjNzRSB8
Artstation: artstation.com/beaudoodles
Art twitter: twitter.com/PolygonJubjub
Decided to sculpt a holly to practice zbrush as she is my muse... and then i got the idea to make a 6 month improvement video because MAN i've come so far.
I'm smiling right now just thinking about it
Original 2 Sentence horror story vid: youtube.com/watch?v=Px1SPhrnTQE&t=0s (go check out!)
I decided to make another one because I got a lot of inspo from the audio!! The plot of this one is that Bramblestar's imposter wants to get rid of things that remind him of squirrelflight so he thinks, and plots to get rid of Sparkpelt as she is gossiping with hollytuft
This will probably be the last one for now as I really need to finish art fight and map parts
Original Tiktok: tiktok.com/@bad_dream_baby/video/6981126294830435590
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=Px1SPhrnTQE
So I love me some good warrior cats horror content and I found a video by Tammy cherry that scratched that itch so I decided to check out the content from the original tiktok it was from and found one that was really fitting
I made this in a couple of hours but it was super fun to make!
artfight.net/~Beachside Here is my art fight! I usually follow back
Song: youtube.com/watch?v=DmusaQZSCl8
Map call: youtube.com/watch?v=fLVSSyIuJUw (still open!)
Characters: Bramblefake (ashfur)
Script: Bramblestar's Impostor is singing.
Time taken: A week
Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=fgqoJI4KtvI
Characters: Smoke, Onestar, Random warrior
Script: Show Smoke and Onewhisker just talking to each other Flash to Onewhisker fighting in some random battle Onewhisker points to a scar on his shoulder, as if telling Smoke about how he got it in a courageous battle he won. Smoke looks impressed and fascinated by his scar.
Quick 72 hour map part for funsies to experiment with painting shading and to take a littol break from 3D.
Dumb stuff to practice animation
Background is from Spyro the dragon i didn't feel like drawing today
This is so dumb im so sorry
Decided to add some behind the scene content! Hopefully it gives some insight into the animation process
Little tidbits I didn't add
- Sol and leafstar are individual models, while the kits have the same model with modifications
- I used a color corrector because the render was very saturated
- The kits models are extremely glitchy for some reason
- This took 4 hours to render
Map call (Still open!): youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2xqVxJ0Yw
Script: "Sol says “by finding those kits” as he stands up but sits down again because he’s tired. Leafstar interrupts him and says “but you stole them in the first place!” She looks angry and accusing. Sol says his line defiantly."
Characters: Leafstar, Sol, Firekit, Harrykit, Stormkit
Time taken: 5 days on and off but i spent most of my free time on this. I'd guess about 16 hours of work total
Map Call (Still open!): youtube.com/watch?v=WsxYANDa_0c&t=57s
Script: (no script)
Characters: Leafpool (clown fish), Crowfeather (Marlin), Cinderpelt (Nurse Shark)
Song: Pools by Glass animals
Damn what 10 months and one rigging class will do for you lol.
I'm still super inexperienced with maya but this was really fun for me to make even tho i've never animated a fight scene in my life!!!
This took like 3-4 days of constant work to put together and im really proud of it and my growth as a 3D animator
Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=Fmrr9d1tSS4&t=0s