Susan Smith - wych elmTraitor - MAP Part 15 [Wolf 359]Basil Kat2024-09-05 | There’s no lyrics in the map version but I like adding them so they’re here for my own version. Can u tell Jacobi is my favorite :]]
I started this a year ago and the map’s getting picked up again so I finished it off. I think there’s parts open idk go check it out
I don’t even remember where I got the audio from at this point sorryfriends with my sister - Lion’s Daughter AnimaticBasil Kat2024-08-27 | Happy sunbird day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They live in my mind rent free so I wanted to explore more Abigail and Audrey moments!!! And stuff I just made it but headcanon to be real in my heart. They could be friends, just not now.
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Media: The lion’s daughter !!!!! thelionsdaughter.com Read now on lions daughter dot com!!!!!!
Audio: Friends With My Sister - Now, Now
Programs: Procreate VideoleapCuchito - Warriors OC AMV [Artfight Attack]Basil Kat2024-07-10 | Where’s he running to? What’s he running from? Go attack aliencat on artfight to find out!
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coCall To Heaven - Warriors OC PMV [Thorns and Berries]Basil Kat2024-07-04 | Me: if only I had a large stretch of time to work on this I’d actually get it done Southwest Airlines, about to send me to another state for 9 hours: heyyy 😏
Anyways big Sparrowflight lore drop. He dies. Badly. Hes fine he’ll get over it.
I wasn’t gonna join any pride maps this year as I’m feeling pretty burnt out from last semester and I’m working full time now butttt with a short little map I couldn’t resist. And it was really fun, I think I got some motivation back with the power of Wolf 359. The contents of the part don’t really have anything to do with bi pride but uh diversity win! The ppl committing acts of violence against each other are bisexual! (except Jacobi he’s gay) And the image of Goddard uniforms with pride flags on them is just really funny to me. Imagine happy holidays-esk episode for Goddard hosted pride event. Anyways
Also I just realized this is my 200th map part!! Wowie
This video is a longtime coming and I learned a lot taking my first animated commission. And how I'll probably never do it again now that I'm haunted by the field of chemistry. This was a really fun project to work on and I'm really happy with how it came out :D --- Story (by painter_pup): When StripedLily (orange shecat) first joined GlacierClan with her siblings, she never expected much to happen with her life. Things quickly changed when she met CalmNight (gray transgirl), and though they were total opposites, they became the best of friends. Their bond gave StripedLily the courage to ask CalmNight to be a donor as she desperately wanted a litter, and CalmNight gladly accepted. They had ValleyKit, FeatherKit, and GlowKit together, all named after cats that StripedLily lost during her life. Shortly after their birth, a group of rogues took over the clan, who were soon found out to be CalmNight’s half-siblings and estranged mother. They took to torturing her and her family as a way to force the clan into submission, even forcing poor StripedLily to attack CalmNight, nearly killing her best friend. She became very cold even towards her kits and felt immense guilt about the situation— she had never felt so powerless. Eventually a civil war broke out in GlacierClan and the rogues were all killed. This left the leadership position open. StripedLily decided on a whim to try out for the leadership competition and, to everyone’s surprise, won. She officially became StripedStar, preformed her kits’ warrior ceremonies, and asked CalmNight to be her mate.
—-Dear Dictator - Leafpool AMVBasil Kat2024-05-14 | If I think about Starclan’s betrayal of Leafpool for more than a minute I go beast mode
This was gonna be a quick pmv I started months ago but then I decided to spend 15 hours animating it. Frustratingly, the frames kept glitching so I just gotta live w the errors
— Media: Warrior Cats
Audio: Dear Dictator - Saint Motel
Programs used: Procreate Videoleapsour switchblade - warriors oc pmv [Thorns & Berries]Basil Kat2024-05-08 | cw there be blood, mild self harm, and a single instance of the word fuck ahead
— This might be the first time I animated a whole song?? Maybe?? Anyways I have like negative time for animation nowadays but I snuck this one in there by combining sketching and lineart into one.
Story: Sootbranch (black and white, he/him) is Starclan’s special little prophecy guy, marked by a star on his paw he’s got some grand destiny, but he reallly doesn’t wanna give up his few freedoms to be a medicine cat. So, Beetlewhisper (calico, he/they) proposes they swap. A decision they make as kits so they can both get what they want, one little lie only grows. Now they’re trapped in this lie together. They’re a lethal co-dependent combo, both obsessed with each other with a tendency to lie for the other’s sake, only hurting them more.
What do you do when you’re a medicine cat apprentice who’s been rejected by starclan? Make shit uppp Beetlewhisper starts lying more and more as he continues to get away with it, but it catches up to him because Sootbranch Knows and doesn’t like it. They promised never to lie to each other, but they’re both massive hypocrites. They have a big fight about it, Sootbranch goes off and dies rip but now he’s possessing this random guy who accidentally killed him (Sparrowflight, little guy with the scars, he/him). Beetlewhisper goes full murder revenge mode on Sparrowflight but uh oh his dead boyfriend is possessing this guy so he can’t even get his murder revenge :/
Other charcaters in this are the ghost guy at the beginning (Driftstar he/him) and the medicine cat mentor (Silverfern she/her) — Media: Thorns and Berries (warriors oc story)
Audio: Sour Switchblade - Elita
Programs used: Procreate Videoleap
—Don’t Say You Love Me - ASC MAP Part 26Basil Kat2024-04-09 | Contains spoilers for Thunder but spoiler free for Wind!
— Waffles in the warrior cats?!!? Who let him in there ?!!?
This is a purely self indulgent PMV about Flypaw navigating their gender with the support of their mentor, Twigbranch (who I hc as transmasc) and coming out to their siblings and clanmates :]
Haven’t made anything for these characters since 2021 but now that the roleplay has been revived they are infecting my brain again. The only character I own here is Fishstriker!
Story: Fishstriker’s little brother, Moldpaw gets pushed into the river by Blackpaw and gets a pretty bad concussion. When Fishstriker hears of this he goes murder mode and attacks Blackpaw right there in camp, with the intention to kill. He epic fails because the brood isn’t going to sit there and let this guy kill an apprentice.
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coInto The Unknown - Warriors OC MAP Part 13 [Thorns and Berries]Basil Kat2023-11-10 | I started this part last year, and put it on hold along the map, and now I’ve finally finished it! I kept the character art but redrew all the backgrounds this year as I’ve improved with them so much over the course of a year :D
Story: More Sparrowpaw! After an accident holds him back from his warrior training, Sparrowpaw feels left behind as he watches his brother, Juniperwhisker, earn his warrior name first.
The story is Sparrowpaw strays from the path of reestablishing their family line of leaders his mother (Tawnythroat) had planned for him, and it puts a strain on their relationship. Tawnythroat is often blinded by her desire to have her children succeed where she couldn’t, that she forgets they might not want that for themselves. And Sparrowpaw is a big people pleaser and tries his best to be everything Tawnythroat wants, but falls short as his heart isn’t in it, leading neither of them to be satisfied with where they are.
I think this is the most hours I’ve put into a map part! Insanely proud of this one :33! This was originally supposed to be PMV but I made the mistake of using procreate’s animation assist to map out the first scene and then emerged months later covered in blood and clutching a fully animated map part. Dunno what happened.
I figured out a lot of hacks to help me animate quicker - or at least it feels that way. I use a sketchier brush and don’t clean my lines or animations much. I hardly use the onion skin. Anatomy is mostly a suggestion when animating fast paced action or in-betweens. I also color and shade an entire frame before moving to the next one, so I don’t finish coloring all the frames, and have to go back and shade them all too. Every scene took under 5 hours to animate except one, which took ten hours, guess which one.
Story: During a border skirmish neither characters really care about, Sparrowflight (gray one) kills Sootbranch (black n white one) in self defense. Unknown to Sparrowflight, Sootbranch is Starclan’s special little prophecy guy, so now Sparrowflight inherits the magical ghost powers and also becomes a vessel for Sootbranch’s ghostly shenanigans.
— MAP: I’ll link later, unless I forget
Media: Thorns and Berries (warriors oc story)
Audio: I Ain’t Done - The Crane Wives Windows startup sound
Programs used: Procreate Videoleap
Originally completed: 10/27/23
Time taken: 31.8 drawing hours
Times procreate has crashed: Too many
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Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coA Good Song Never Dies - Corrupted Hero and Villain MAP Part 8 [Wolf 359]Basil Kat2023-10-13 | That moment when you’re an alien clone of yourself and you get mind controlled to shoot your commander. Hate it when that happens fr.
Drawing anthros is a pain but i love doing it anyways!! I gave them socks idk i didn’t wanna draw shoes. They lost their shoes in the vents rip
— MAP Call: I’ll add it later. Unless I don’t. 😁😁
Media: Catified Wolf 359 (Lovelace, Minkowski and Cutter)
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coWires - Warriors OC MAP Outro 1Basil Kat2023-09-29 | Outro participant dropped the first half so I picked it up and finished in a couple hours. I am determined to get this map done asap so I can host other projects.
This part features one of my oldest ocs, Stormstar. Back in the day she had an epic fanfic on wattpad dot com. Here she is dying and going to hell :)!
This MAP's premise is to animate your self-insert allied with the villain of a fandom of your choosing, and I choose Warriors because there's nothing else in my brain. I may be cringe but I am free!!!
I imagine the story goes like this: My self-insert character, Marshclaws, is a former kittypet who tried to join Skyclan during the time that Sol was a member. When he's exiled, he convinces Marshclaws that it wasn't his fault and it's all the clan's fault and their unjust code. So Marshclaws joins Sol when he leaves.
Marshclaws follows Sol to the lake clans to use his newfound knowledge of the prophecy to destroy the clan's faith in Starclan. The story follows the books with the battle happening and then the eclipse halts it. Sol then explains his plans of exploiting Windclan's beef with Thunderclan to tear them down. Marshclaws is like "wait hold on I thought we were just destroying the clan system not like starting wars and killing ppl :(" oopsy
I never gave my wc sona a backstory but this isnt canon sorry idc about sol enough. He was right about Starclan but his whole thing was really just a means to an end (destroy the clans) so it kinda lost me.
Little German ghost boy struggles to adapt to a world that is changing and moving on without him.
— This is an artfight attack on @Sunbird_ ! Featuring her graphic novel characters you should totally check out go buy it now on your phone!!!! It won’t help you understand what happens in the animatic, that’s a secret, but it will cure you of all ailments and troubles.
— Media: The Lion’s Daughter (Sunbird’s epic cool graphic novel available now on thelionsdaughter.com)
edit: im taking a step back from being the main host on this project, the map is still going and I've handed host privileges to Sunbird.
Y'all have no idea how long this MAP has been in pre-production and how insane I am over the parallel between these two!! Two cross-clan relationships, ended tragically.. the choices they made and the things completely out of their control,, just aughh read the map doc!!
This MAP wouldn't have been possible without the help from my friend Alien Cat!! (instagram.com/_.alien.cat._) They did most of the designs, the characters and composing for the thumbnail, helped with the script, and ranted with me for hours about these silly battle cats. Thank u UFO heart emoji. Unfortunately she doesn't have discord so I'll be handling the actual hosting but just know and appreciate all the work and influence she had on this MAP and its direction!!
There will be a thumbnail contest anyone can join no application necessary, simply join the discord!
If your comment receives a heart it means I've seen it. If it doesn't receive a heart in 24 hours, youtube probably deleted it, pls comment again in that case! You've got the part only if I reply to you! Parts are picked a few days after the call drops!
---- Media: Warrior Cats (Leafpool and Mapleshade)
Messed around w a different brush for this one, fun but I prefer my defaults. Twigbranch is based off a gray weevil, Sparkpelt a firefly, and Alderheart an earwig
— MAP Call: youtube.com/watch?v=czjM-Haz3CY Backups are needed! I’m helping w the hosting so please consider checking it out :D
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coWillow Tree March - (Unfinihsed) Warriors OC PMV/AMV [Artfight Attack on @Birdisjell]Basil Kat2023-08-18 | I flew too close to the sun, got too ambitious w this and lost all motivation to finish aughhh !!! Maybe I’ll finish this someday but I might as well post what I’ve got. A lot of the sketches r rough and not completed and we’re gonna be animated but alas.
Go check out Bird’s vidoes on these guys there are so interesting the lore has captured me and I need to know more!!!!!!
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coChit Chat - Warriors OC PMV [Artfight Attack]Basil Kat2023-07-24 | “aw yeah this will be a quick PMV no problem. Could probably finish it tonight” - guy who’s about to lose all motivation to draw for a week straight
This part takes place during the end of TNP and features art direction I hope to use for a PMV I'm planning.. eventually. I think LeafCrow is just so interesting, they're not a relationship built to last but at the same time Crowfeather kinda embodied this freedom, Leafpool, who was feeling isolated from her peers and chained to her duty as a medicine cat, was yearning for. And then she never got to have!!!!!!!!!!
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coTrees - Leafstar MAP Part 1 Section [Collab with @bluebeary711 ]Basil Kat2023-07-21 | This was a fun challenge! I’m surprised it turned out so well :]] Roughs and background were done by Kippercat! I just did the characters. Leafstar will be added in the final by another participant! I just wanted to show off what I’ve done
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.co🎪Loo Loo Land - COMPLETE Warrior Cats Dark Forest Mini MAP🎪Basil Kat2023-07-17 | Another MAP that was originally hosted by @the_dogfish who passed it off to me! This was a fun little MAP to host, I'm happy to be able to bring it to completion! :D
🎪Audio🎪 Loo Loo Land - Helluva Boss Cabinet Man - Lemon Demon __ Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coTwin Sized Mattress - OPEN Stranger Things x Warriors MAP Call [Rehosted]Basil Kat2023-07-10 | This map was originally hosted by @Greatwyrm , who passed it onto @SkyeStudioss and I! The art and ideas all belong to exscientiaomnia.
I am so excited to help host this project, I was obsessed with it when it first came out and I can't wait to see it to completion!
There will be a thumbnail contest, join the discord to participate! --- Make sure to read the docs before applying!!
Apply on the google form and comment here that you've applied! https://forms.gle/UbhMJ9LqkEsQiBgg8
If your comment receives a heart it means I've seen it. If it doesn't receive a heart in 24 hours, youtube probably deleted it, pls comment again in that case! You've got the part only if I or Sky reply to you! we'll be picking parts a few days after the call drops.
---- Media: Stranger Things
Audio: Twin Sized Mattress - The Front Bottoms
--- Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.co❤️💙Something Entirely New | COMPLETE Cloudtail x Brightheart Lineart MAP 💙❤️Basil Kat2023-07-09 | This MAP was originally hosted by @the_dogfish who passed it off to me, and I'm happy to announce it's completion!! Thank you to everyone who stuck with it, this project turned out so lovely!!
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coApplause - Warriors MAP Part 11 [Collab w @fallstarz ]Basil Kat2023-06-30 | This was a collab between me and Fallstarz, who let me finish up their awesome storyboard! Fallstarz did all the boarding, rough animation, Bramblestar, and Crowfeather. I did the rest :3
Thank you to SythenTheMystic for getting me the lyric pngs!
Socials: instagram.com/basil.kat basil-kat.tumblr.com basilkat.carrd.coObsession - Hawkfrost & Ashfur MAP Part 17 SectionBasil Kat2023-06-19 | Thai is just a section of 17, the final version in the won’t be quite like this, but instead a collab. Due to a miscommunication I was assigned a section of this part, while someone else was also assigned it, didn’t find out for a few days after I’d already started. Thought I’d finish it up and post anyways.