Riko SakariRemember peeps, never eat worms when they’re alive
I must say this one is a lazy animation hhhhh. I made this as a vent about something happened last year :’D The song is really fit with the situation at that time so I decided to make it. It is me who always push people away, it’s also my fault because I always destroy my own relationships, that’s why I lost all of the friends and the ones who try to be friend with me. Worms represent for the problems in my life. I always let it come into my body and let it gnaw me from the inside until it destroys me completely. Like in the video, I never show it to anyone and keep saying I’m fine just to make people not to worried about me Right now I’m not sad about it anymore but I never want to drop any project so I had to finish it anyway xD So forget what I just said, I’m fine now
This one is lazy and crappy hhhhhhhh, also the timing is off, but I hope you enjoy it anyway
Worms - meme (Warning: This contains VERMIPHOBIA, gore and its badly animated)Riko Sakari2019-01-07 | Remember peeps, never eat worms when they’re alive
I must say this one is a lazy animation hhhhh. I made this as a vent about something happened last year :’D The song is really fit with the situation at that time so I decided to make it. It is me who always push people away, it’s also my fault because I always destroy my own relationships, that’s why I lost all of the friends and the ones who try to be friend with me. Worms represent for the problems in my life. I always let it come into my body and let it gnaw me from the inside until it destroys me completely. Like in the video, I never show it to anyone and keep saying I’m fine just to make people not to worried about me Right now I’m not sad about it anymore but I never want to drop any project so I had to finish it anyway xD So forget what I just said, I’m fine now
This one is lazy and crappy hhhhhhhh, also the timing is off, but I hope you enjoy it anyway
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FAQ:
Art related:
Q: What do you use to draw/animate? A: I use vary, it should be shown on the top left of the screen
Q: What tablet do you use? A: Currently I'm using XP Pen Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2)
Q: How long have you been drawing/animating? A: I started digital art since 2015 and animate since 2017
Q: What inspired you? A: I get inspirations like from everything I came through haha. So my art came out vary depend on my mood and what inspired me at that time xD
Q: How many FPS so you use for your animation? A: I used 24 fps, 60fps for composition, and I animated mostly by two, sometimes by 3 or 4
Q: Do you take commission? A: Commission are closed
Other stuff:
Q: What can I call you? A: Call me Riko. If you want something funky, you can refer to me as cheese cat, cheeto, ect... Please don't refer me as Reek if I don't know you, or uncomfortable when you refer to me like that
Q: When's your birthday? A: August 10th
Q: How old are you? A: I'm around 1 to 99 🥴
Q: Are you a boy or a Girl?/ What are your pronouns A: I'm a Grill... (like, real grill, this is NOT a typo) In all seriousness please refer me as they/them, thank you. Riko (the dragoncat) goes by he/him
Q: Where are you from? A: Rikoland... xD
Q: What's Riko's species? A: A hybrid dragon and cat
Q: Are you a furry? A: No, and I don't like being called that. I just like to draw animals
Q: When you will continue the Apocalypse project (or making animating in general)? A: I’m not sure because I’m really busy with real life stuff atm. I try my best if I really have time
Q: Can we be friends? A: Uhh, that's not suppose to be a question, we needs time to really decide if we're suitable to be friends or not... If you act clingy there's a higher chance I'll even try to stay away from you (that's common sense)
Q: Do you have a Discord server? A: It's closed. Will announce when it's open
(I'll try to add sum other questions if it's been asked too many times)So bitterrrr || Meme #animationmeme #animation #shortsRiko Sakari2024-03-31 | This a random animation and the music somehow fit so I just keep it in it for funsies xD
This more like a snippet of the 26 hours of footage and it took me like 3-4 days to render them (I had to cut a lot at the end because I'm not waiting 8 days LOL, my pc is so weak hopefully I can save up for a new PC soon)
I haven't edit video for a while so thing kinda bit wonky, silly me xD But hey, just baby steps to get back to things again
So I'm free now so what's next? I'll probably start re-schedule all my animation projects and gonna release video more frequently than the last 2 years. The schedule still messy right now but hopefully it'll get rearranged soon!
0:00 Intro 0:56 Unboxing 1:54 Set up 2:51 Origin of the story 3:24 About the Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) 5:05 Behind the scenes - Music 5:37 Behind the scenes - Preparation 6:23 Behind the scenes - Animation 7:07 Behind the scenes - 3D Part 8:10 Final thoughts + Enamel pins announcement!!!
Youtube: you are here Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakari All other social media: https://linktr.ee/RikoSakariChristmas! Just a week away! #animation #shorts #memes #christmas #editRiko Sakari2023-12-20 | Christmas is in a week guys
Youtube: you are here Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakari All other social media: https://linktr.ee/RikoSakariJake Daniels - God // Animation Meme/AMVRiko Sakari2023-09-15 | ⟐ Please read the desc for the story and know more about the making of this animation! ⟐
Oh hey, it's such a miracle that I finish this????? There a lot of time I feel like I couldn't finish it and just drop it. But I guess my will power is something
⟐ The ORIGIN ⟐ -The lore of how I made this lore was when I was still at school sometimes around September 2018 and some of my classmate playing some epic music and it inspired me to imagine some fighting scene with a few cool characters. I didn't imagined how they would look like but eventually in Inktober 2019 I tried to draw the other 3 characters as an Inktober prompt (the basilisk, the hare and the boar) I haven't think about it since until this contest appears, in which the song makes me remembered this story existed. So I was like "hey what a opportunity to animate what my teenager self used to wish that they would do something about this story someday"
⟐ The LORE ⟐ - Now the actual lore of this AMV, it's not that complicated because it was made with simple minded child brain of me - The 4 characters in the AMV are the 4 demigods: Hy (the cat-Asian dragon hybrid), Te (the water dragon-basilisk hybrid), Na (the hare-hyena hybrid), Bo (the boar-armadillo hybrid) - They all came to the sacred peak of Judgement like the prophecy has been told (The huge stone carving on the top of the stairs) to challenge the current God (the owl in the stone carving) so they could become the next god. But before challenging the God, they have to win the fight with the other 3 demigods (challengers) as well. - All the cracks and torn bricks on the way to the peak were made by the previous battles from previous demigods, it's kinda a battle arena xD In short the demigods just fighting and the winner will become the next god, until the next demigod challenging them and the cycle will repeat
⟐ The TRAGEDY during the making of this AMV ⟐ - I kind of render this the 3rd time and it still have so many mistakes like wahhh 😔 This was made during my thesis period so time is super tight to balance between thesis film/moving/classes. - Plus kind of not cash money cuz I started 1 week later than the contest was announced, and I took another 5 days to redesign all of them (Old designs kinda stinki 💀). Also another tragedy is that I feel like some scene kinda push my laptop to limit and it has a lot of render error and timing mistakes (especially the final scene with the 3D dragon). I can't just spend another 3 hours to re-render it again due to time and you know, my laptop can commit shut down any time, devastated - But uh hey at least I kinda push through my limit and finish something within 3 weeks. This meme was way more complicated than Darkside (for example the dynamic poses, the extreme backgrounds, the fighting scene, the very complicated character designs, the struggle to manage to introduce 4 character in a 1 minute AMV) It's not the best outcome due to lack of revision and rush storyboard lead to a train wreck coming after but I'm glad I pulled it off 💪
Thank you all for checking out the animation, it means a lot to me with all the supports. I'm planning to release some of my old art I did about this lore back in 2018 and 2019 on Patreon and Ko-fi after this video is published. If you interested to check them out, you can become a member, it would help me a lot ^^
Art Program: Clip Studio Paint Ex (main), Procreate (a few backgrounds), Blender (3D dragon) Editing program: After Effect CC, Vegas Pro 20 Drawing Tablet Used: XP Pen Artist Pro 16 Gen 2
Youtube: you are here Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakari All other social media: https://linktr.ee/RikoSakariTongue Twister || Animation memeRiko Sakari2023-08-20 | Yo it was my birthday. To be exact it was August 10th xD
I really trying to make my version unique because it's my birthday and I kind of missed birthday last year u_u So I want to push myself to finish this animation (even though I can't post it on my exact birthday), I even added a little story at the beginning about it haha xD Just to show you guys how Riko and me interact I guess. Riko is such a light hearted guys just want to have fun meanwhile I always felt guilty about missing the birthday haha
This is the first time I use really complex tweening as the main part for the animation. Who said tweening is lazy????? It was WAY TOO HARD THAN I THOUGHT😩 It still have a bunch of errors because I was too exhausted to fix it. What an experience xD At least I learn one or two lessons for the future The dancing scene somehow took me 6 hours+ to render maybe because I added too much effect in it. Thank you @TakoKat for help me rendering that scene The animation overall has a lot of errors, because I was a little bit rushed and After effect lagging every 5 seconds. But all in all, on the bright side, I'm happy I don't missed my birthday animation like last year!
Thank you all for tuning in the stream on my birthday, although I can't really save the stream due to copyright bonk and somehow marked as controversial content (prob the debate about pinnaple on pizza). But those 12 hours was really fun!
All socials: https://linktr.ee/RikoSakari Youtube: you are here Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakariMeat grinder || Animation meme (#shorts version)Riko Sakari2023-07-23 | ...Meat grinder || Animation MemeRiko Sakari2023-07-16 | On my discord server we have The Purge Riko (appear with red eyes and a nailed bat sometimes gas mask) for funsies because we keep joking about how strict the server is and and I keep wiping the server every few months (the purge)
Thank you Kurai for suggesting this meme, now I can put everyone in my server into the purge in an epic way (turning everyone into burger mmm)
I like how this turn out especially the editing. Animation isn't my strong points after months of hiatus. But I'm glad this simple animation turned out ok!
I might open my Discord server on my birthday! You can still suggest any animation and I might do if I'm interested
The 3 characters in the last scenes are randomly picked from my Patrons. If you want to be included in my future animation, consider supporting me on Patreon or Ko-fi!
I tried to speedrun this while having a break between semester yes yes. I started the storyboard a few weeks prior but I couldn't work on it until the last 2 weeks when Uni semester ended, the lip sync was a pain xD
⟐ Story in the video: This was like a semi vent at first, but I just really love the concept of the world building think it could make a really interesting story. Basically they (the human) keep worrying that they're hurt people, but they just don't know that because of the overthinking and worrying, they're hurting themselves without realizing it (both of them are my sona and they are basically the same being) At first Riko just try to comfort them and hiding so they would calm down and be stable, but that last question just make Riko lost it and showed them that the flower already somewhat took over him (in a rather passive aggressive way xD) In short Riko got hurt but they just don't care about themselves enough to realized it until they saw it
⟐ The world building + concept overall: That flower field is like a world represent for the mind, so the world will change based on the human emotion (purple and lavender just to make them calm down cuz they don't feel stable) Riko is like their creation and their companion in their mind (in short, Riko is my imaginary friend xD) They grew up together so they understand each other, or at least Riko tried (because I tbh don't understand myself sometimes) Both of them (mostly Riko) will try to keep the world from being crumbled and destroyed just by keeping their mental health stable. The flower just a metaphor for unstable mental health, both of them will grow flowers independently if they feel unstable. The human didn't grow flower in the video because they just didn't know that they're hurting themselves, only on Riko because he aware something wrong is going on
Also just note that some part of Lotus eater meme is kinda related to this mind world, with the noodle dragon and the white Lotus!
That's a really long description but I really hope you guys interested in a story with a rather personal orientation to is. I was just have this concept a few months ago and really just into developing this a lot while trying to help my mental health (could say it's a healthy way to cope, no worries, I'm getting better so I won't go into it too deep). I find it interesting to turn something some what negative into a form of art and story! It means a lot to me! I post a few concept art on patreon/ko-fi if you want to check it out :p
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A small update: I tried to focus on uni and it didn't end very well because art is the only way for me to escape the outside world and cope with stress. Uni was kinda ruined art for me because I just have to draw something I don't like all the time and I couldn't work on my own stuff. So in the next semester until graduation, I'll try finish the rest of the unfinished projects from 2021 and 2022 (one of them is a Apocalypse lore so I'm excited)
Hope everyone enjoy this silly cat animation that I made in less than 24 hours pfffff
Some life updates incase anyone wants to hear: If you've been here for a while, you might wondering I've been disappeared for almost 7 months now, what happened? Last year is just a emotional ride of emotions to me because there was too much thing gone wrong and I have to sacrifice my mental health just to keep a balance between personal animation and uni works, as well as stay positive with a bunch of thing that just happened. I really don't want to go into detail but ye, 2022 was the worst year and I don't want to think about it again
That's why I decided, this year, 2023, I'll stop all my personal project so I can focus on uni. Both uni and personal project has the same demand (both are animation) of time and strength, and my teammate didn't do anything better to make me feel secure about the future of the projects (some of them tried some of them don't). That's why as the leader, this time, I'll try to put 100% of my time in uni until I graduate, just for the sake of my mental health. This gonna be my last year so I won't be disappeared for long
I told myself to make a proper announcement but it will be there soon! I promise, I need to set up Ko-fi properly when I have a mid-term break, then hopefully announce it properly!
If you want to follow along with my work during this hard and trying times, I recommend support me on Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari I posted everything first on there, and as well, university projects that I made exclusively on there (this is probably my only project that I'll post publicly because other has group involvement and I can't take full credit) If you don't like Patreon, right now Im experimenting with Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakari you'll have the same privilege as Patreon, I figured some people prefer using Ko-fi more If you can't support that's okay! you can still follow along with my public works! I active a lot in Twittwer so you can drop a follow, I post doodles weekly haha: twitter.com/rikosakari
Last thing I hope everyone is doing well, hope for the best luck of 2023 and I'll try my best to pull this through so I can go back doing what I love again. I'll try my best to keep a smile and stay positive. Peace!
Youtube: you are here Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakari Deviantart: deviantart.com/rikosakari Tumblr: http://yaseinoriiko.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/rikosakari Twitter: twitter.com/rikosakari Picarto (secret streams will be held here) picarto.tv/RikoSakari#Figure you out || MVRiko Sakari2022-07-31 | This MV is for my After Effect class project, we were suppose to made an MV completely using After Effect. Frame-by-frame is not really recommended because we had to utilized AE as much as possible, hence why this MV is kind of has a different vibe compared to what I usually do. But funny enough, I already have this project in mind before this class even started, so this is such a good opportunity for me to do it!
This is just a random story I came up with while listening to the song, basically the rabbit like the wolf more since he's the rich man, so Riko was pissed about it and decided to shot the wolf xD The relationship between Riko and the rabbit is complicated idk how to put it together tho, let just say they used to be ex I guess? I must say Riko acting a bit too out of character in this, but I like the vibe of the MV overall so I would give a pass xD
I was kind of overwhelmed at the end due to other classes projects and I wasn't in a really good mental state in the last final 3 weeks, but ye, I managed to turned it in on time :D Not really my best work but I'm glad to pull this thing done, haven't mentioned about the length of this projects
Overall, I must say this is really good with all of that factors, bravo me xD
Animating Program: Clip Studio Paint EX, TV Paint (outro), Blender (rendered in Cycles in the rain scene) Editing program: After Effect CC, Vegas Pro 18 Drawing Tablet Used: XP Pen 13.3 Pro
From now I probably be super busy to finish an MV for university, probably will premiere around July! I'll still try to post some at on community post, till then, see you all when it's complete 👀
Sadly I couldn't include everything I made since it a little bit too short for me. but those are probably my favorites along the years. You don't see any wips and stuff because I rarely drop any projects :p but it a good thing I guess. I also include some animation that I never had the chance to finish at that time, I'll try to finish it when I have enough time!
Thank you all so much for the support along the years, it's means a lot and that motivate me to keep working
I'm not really sure how to put the story together. But it think it's kinda self-explanatory. Basically Riko left the government's borderline programs (and just left the government overall) so ye, basically he join the dark side! Wearing his back hoodie and roaming across the land find the answers (and also his sister) xD I think the concept pf light or dark is kind of depend on how you see the story tbh, there's no absolute right or wrong in here 👀 (To me I felt like Riko was just kinda succ for not controlling of his personal problems and turn it to a big deal haha) That's also why I included the part of the lyric said "there's no hero or villain in this place". I also put a few tini details of lore in each scenes so feel free to tell me if you spot out something!
At first I just want to make a really quick and simple project to the contest for fun (hence why it still follow the meme format), but woah, I think I push myself a little off-limits right there. I kinda experimented with this project a bit too much. Like natural movements, advanced lip-sync, dramatic (and really complex) shading, 3d background. Ye it did turn out to be a pain and drained out 90% of my sanity, but the result worth it I guess, I learned a lot during the making of this
Soooo, this is the 2nd time tackle with backgrounds again, and also the first time I try to put a 2D character in it, and also try render it in Eevee instead of Cycles. I'm kind of proud that I did the background from scratch! (except a few props that I used asset) But ye, I'm really proud that my 3d skill getting a little bit better now who knows what I'll make next 👀
Despite having a lot of visual mistake because I didn't really have much time to double check and re-render everything again, overall, I'm still pretty proud with this project and I'm happy to share will all of you too!
The next couple months will be really busy for me. But I'll try to spare sometimes to make a few simple animation meme who knows!
Disclaimer: I mixed the audio myself, if you inspired by my audio mixed version or animation please credit me 👉👈💦
Thank you to my supporters: Adrian, Blackcannk, Hazel, Wolf Blade, Evergreen Feathersong, Flare-0010, jameramen122, Xtrazxz, AroKaOtsu, Grant9446, Kurai, LukaKitKat, Scidog, Aven Fox, Iridescent Seraph, KoiyaEclipse, Rez The red cat, Sammie_2K5, Markius Fox, Twilightzant 03, Anthony Skaldi, Aqua, WolfDoxx10, 小狼仔M M
I have been postponed this for so long due to a lot of stuff, I'm glad that I have finally finished it I will try to make more animation content after the semester ends. Stay tune!
I started this animation right after i finished "The accident". But I got burn out and just spent my whole December hanging out with friends and play games :'D This was suppose to be a stress-relief but I keep overdoing everything x'D
This animation is mostly experimental and random stuff (like test tweening, montions graphics, backgrounds,...) and I just want to use an old OC design of mine with a little revamped. This has no story involved, just pure doing-whatever-I-feel-like-to. Despite mostly filler but like how this turning out! Sometimes wing it is the best form of art xD
Right now I'm still busy with university stuff, but I'll try my best to make more simple in the near future. If you wish to support me so I will have more spare time to animate, considering supporting me on Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari
Some lore: This happens like way way after Ghost/Epoch (probably the same time range with Run boy Run or after) They are on the same side now but Riko didn't know all the event happened during Ghost (Riko only seemed to know someone presence that went after him but doesn't know it was Nix). Until Nix brought up this conversation, that makes Riko realized some connection about Nix present during the run away and the meteorite. What could that be? 👀 Did Nix purposely bring up this conversation to warn Riko about something? (ye probably 👀👀👀👀👀) I could explain better but I don't think i have enough braincells for it. I guess it's up to you guys now, reading your theories makes me hyped a lot xD
I just want to create a small character interaction to practice more fluent lip sync and also experiment with some different find of shading/ composition for animation. I swear using color test sample makes stuff so much easier I should do this in the future. I really enjoy doing the lip sync. It took so long to make the lip sync works well with character expression but it totally worth it!
I'll try to do more lore animation in future. But i wan tto do some small aesthetic project to improve my composition skill a bit. Don't worry, I all the storyboard layout. Just wait when I'm good enough!
At first I was making an AMV (I started like 3 months ago) But I couldn't make it due to university putting me down and demotivate me so much. So I barely made any progress in July, so I had to postpone the project till next year.
I felt pretty bad about it and honestly don't feel really fulfill when making this, at last it was just a looping animation meme. Probably that's the reason why "it's doesn't feel the same" like the other previous years xD But Rita had an idea about hosting the stream and do a random animation instead (the one in the final of the stream) rather some cliché AMV like every other year and i must say i do feel way better doing so and putting stress on myself trying to make that AMV. It's my day after all, I should try to enjoy it
Thank you everyone for joining the stream earlier! I had a lot of fun!
Also just realized the final scene kinda similar to the final scene last year, dang
I'm really into making some kind of lyrics MV like this but never got the chance to make one before (also I think no one gonna like seeing this than actually animation, and most of the song I planned to do are copyright claimed) But when I first hear this song I know I got to make it!
This is super random and not related to the lore (or is it), but I really want to make this ever since the song released because this song hits me hard, honestly basically all Starset's songs are //chef kiss// My brain keep urging me to do this every time I go to sleep so I just spent my 1 week summer-break to make this thing real
About the logo, it was really debatable to choose the design for it, like after 5 days the votes are still even lol. But I finally decided to pick this one because it's simple, yet really epic to look at
Hope you just enjoy this short PMV. Maybe one day I'll have time to put effort into more stuff who knows. Right now, university is the priority xD
I always wanted to test out 3d background for my animation, and I think this simple animation meme would be a great opportunity for me to get into it
It took me like almost 2 weeks to model the that whole city bruhh. But I guess the result pays off even though it look kinda dumb when you zoom in on each building, just sum low-poly blobs put in together
I also got some free model online like the streetlight and some buildings from a far on here: cgtrader.com it's a really good site for 3d artist to get some resources
Probably gonna do more 3d animation for the story AMVs tho :D
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Youtube: you are here Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rikosakari Deviantart: deviantart.com/rikosakari Tumblr: http://yaseinoriiko.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/rikosakari Twitter: twitter.com/rikosakari Picarto (secret streams will be held here) picarto.tv/RikoSakari#Beautiful One Day || Rhythm Heaven MAP - Part 17Riko Sakari2021-03-07 | I was one week late due to that Ghost meme contest, but I'm glad that I didn't drop out. Rhythm Tengoku is like one of my favorite series (I still play this game until today pffff) And still try to grind for perfect, mood. Remix 9 in fever is one of hardest remix in the game but at least that the only remix song I like It's not the worst thing in the world rushing 2 projects at once with exact close deadline. At least both of the video isn't that hard to manage, since I've already got the schedule for them xD
So uh what next? I'm not really sure, i still have that one AMV which we did a vote last time, but I'm not ready to spoil that part of the story yet xD Maybe I'll find some simple animation or other AMV idea to do in the meantime
Song: Rhythm Heaven Fever Remix 9: Beautiful One day by Tsunku♂ The outro song is just the instrumental of the song
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OTHER: TwilightZant 03 Icecolo Ania da Peasant Just Leo
I think this song will be perfect for introducing more characters from the story. Plus I wanted to try doing something with a time limit since I haven't done that for a while now
I'll give a little more information about this character, his name is Nix, and he's a ghost (cough, Starcraft inspired, cough) Ghost isn't related to Riko side or Government side, like it completely runs on their own, also working for a cure (obviously) but who know what's their main purpose!
The whole AMV doesn't look very connected together (since I only do the storyboard within a day to catch up the deadline) but it does somehow :D if you want to guess what's going on, I'd love to hear it in the description
Compare to last year AMV (Platform 9) which was also made within 3 weeks, I must say this one turn out way better than Platform 9. Well I mean there a lot of factors boosting the progress compare to last year like better time management, fast render laptop, workflow in After effect much faster than Vegas and of course, I have more time since I gone to university. I can't say I like the result that much since there are still some part that I rushed, but I must say that's such a huge improvement! Also you can see I add a bit more motion graphic in here, ye, I still love having excuses to do it
I still have 1 more MAP part and the AMV that I paused (to do this one) I think I still take a break anyway since I want to improve my art as well
This collab appeared to be super random, I was watching Haru animate this meme so I was thinking why not turning this to a collab, mainly just an excuse to do more motion graphic. After that I asked Tako to join the collab as well
I can't believed we done this less than 4 days (woo!) Mostly because I peer pressure everyone to go with my pace. Smh, imagine slow. I did all the background and editing so I deserve more credit :you:
This was super fun to do! I missed doing small and simple animation for fun, AMVs is cool but uh... very tiring...
Talking about AMV, I'm planning to publish it in 19th of Feb (one day before the Deadline) I still have a few scenes to be completed, so ye, prepare for it :DD Of course Patrons will have 3 days early access, so if you want to see the early release or WIPs of the AMV, I already publish a few on Patreon: Patreon: patreon.com/rikosakari
Animating Program: Clip Studio Paint EX Editing program: After Effect CC, Vegas Pro 16 Drawing Tablet Used: XP Pen artist 13.3 Pro, Huion Kamvas Pro 16
This is a commission for Xtra on Discord which i started exactly 1 month ago but international until now xD
It's not a really good run since I kinda burnt out at the end, but the overall illustration looks good enough for me xD I should stop being picky about my own art
If you wondering if my commission are opened or not: Commission is closed but patrons with tier $25 or above will be able to commission me anytime ówò; But I don't really mind how much you support me. Watching my videos is already mean so much to me
I still have 1 more commission speedpaint to go, but in the meantime I'll post something else maybe, I'm not sure about the AMV, it's just 20% done pfff
But I guess this will be the final video of 2020 from me, hope next year will be a good year to everyone of you ^_^
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So it's been like almost 2 months since the last time I animate (due to military camp and other factors), as I said I kinda forgot how to animate, plus the motivation just go br so I just couldn't get the hang of working 24/7 like I used to, that's why I decided to make this stress relief animation. It's just a simple idea but I pretty like this meme, so I want to try it in my style. I put a little too hard work on the lip sync part thought (took me like a week or so lmao) That's a pretty dum of me when I still couldn't get used to animating again
I'm pretty proud of the background tbh. I really love to do motion graphic for a while but I had no idea how to do it properly on Vegas Pro. Now that i changed to After Effects, I have tried to experiment with them (previously in HIP meme) It's not the best kind, but I'll try to improve more haha xDD
I'm not sure if this is considered a vent? I mean that phase passed some times a go but I still want to finish this. So this animation mostly for the aesthetic
After this stress relief animation done, I think I'll working on a lore-related animation now :DDD It won't be too complicated so I hope it won't take too long pff
Ngl, but I want to do the waiting meme as well because you the aesthetic hahshashhaahss
If i haven't told you guys, not until 2015 that we had internet in my house. I was just a dum kid and playing games around. I stumble across "Fleeing the Complex" in Kongregate and I literally love the concept. Then I found out there are prequel from the game. Since then i just become a fan of it. In Dec 2019, Flash is kinda dead and I thought it was the dawn of the series. I was surprised when it made a huge comeback xD So much nostalgia. I just wanted to say a huge thank you for PuffballsUnited for bring back the series, I'd appreciate your 3 years of work!
And uh about the dance, Idk why but like I feel happy for the game to finally having the recognition it deserves. Literally the whole game is already a meme for me xD
Don't worry guys I'll be back on track soon, I literally just want to make something as for the tribute to the game a bit. I already have an idea of what animation I'm going to do next xD
Also this literally take me 3 days to animate that, don't kill me
I can't believe it can finish a whole AMV in like, 5 weeks???? Even I myself also impressed xD I haven't done anything AMV-like seriously since Epoch (bruh, Platform 9 just straight up lazy) Still man, I just missed the feeling of constantly getting hyped while working. Like seriously, I didn't even get bored on this project while working on it. It's like, I just have an urge that this thing will be worth it when it's done xD
And ayy happy birthday Rita, I put more effort on something but hey, this is a special year :D I've animated all the details about the conversations of meeting each other and visiting all the sight seeing place in the whole city (some of these places aren't even real, but it made such a great reference in this video xD) I mean, i would be a surprise for me to pick you up at the air port someday, COVID just killed all the plans
About the AMV itself, drawing city is hard not gonna lie, but at least that put myself into a way that forcing to overcome my weakness, it's not the best, but at least I can see some improvements. Also I learned a lot about photo bashing as well, overall it was such a fun practice :DD At least it won't think that's a obstacle when thinking about drawing artificial environments
There're some part that were rushed, and I honestly don't really like the outcome? But man, I mean, this is the only day of the year, I shouldn't be too harsh on myself xD
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Edit 29th November: I just saw some people copying some of the scenes and ideas from this AMV, I'm really happy to see people inspired by my works. But this is a birthday gift for a friend and it's just a little sad seeing people copying all the ideas related to our conversations. I'm not saying you can't use the music, but this is NOT an animation meme, the idea shouldn't be copied
This was made since April but then my Huion pen broke :(((( So that gives me a full art block vibe for the whole May, that's why i made Hip meme while waiting for a new pen. After months hearing nothing from the pen, I realized I shouldn't just wait for it any longer and decided to jumped in and continue this, It takes me around 3 weeks (ye after the HIP meme xD) to finally put an end to this. Also it's pretty irony that when I done this , I got the package contain the replacement pen...
I somehow like this and hate this. I experimented a lot with 3D on 2D animation programs since this MAP is mainly simple color and silhouettes. It looks weird and also painful to make, but I'm glad I stepped out of my comfort zone to do something I never done before, that also count animating independent overlap objects like hairs, and try to put a 2D character in fake 3D environment
I planned to make the background in Blender but I remember the render pain, so I... animate everything... I'm a madlad
I'll take a small break from animation for now, as I said in the last video I'll try oriented to something more unique like AMVs and such. Meme is fun but it's not the thing I aim for. I don't say I'll quit doing meme, but I'll try not to make my channel overwhelmed by it
Honestly since the tablet pen broke, I;m kinda in a panic mode and didn't want to draw anything normally since, but after a few weeks didn't hear anything about a replacement, I decided to work on something any, something mainly... tweening, and this thing came out
This is the first time i try to edit fully with After effect. I never want to use AE due to the lag and constantly crashes. But on this one, I've manage to finished it without any help of other programs. I do put all the scenes to render the full animation, but that's doesn't related anything to the editing part. Also this is the first time I animate and edit in 30pfs woooo
I'm happy that I success, as well as liked how it came out despite the first try. it still have some mistakes but it was too late to fix
After this I'll working on BNA MAP part, and I think It's time I should switch to make AMV rather than memes since I didn't really aim for making memes at first, plus I never like making repetitive stuff. It might take more times to do, but the result will be worth it (unlike this meme xd)
This channel is pretty much dead due to the pen broke that demotivated me to even animate on anything. Thankfully someone commissioned me a speedpaint, so I'm glad I have something to save this channel from being dead xP
I like a outcome a lot honestly (mostly because i overly rendered this). I rarely do oriental themed drawing, but it's quite a fun thing to do, maybe i should do more in the future
I think I might try to use community tab to post stuff just to keep this channel alive somehow... Idk I don't like using Youtube that much xD But still I'll try and hopefully getting used to it. About the pen, it's... still not arrived yet, I think it would take a few more days
Special bd gift for woman Elmo, you're old now U ( U
The looping Elmo running was made on Jan 7 from a call with Elmo and wingedwolf,while testing out with symetry tool. I actually like the out come so I decided to turn it into an original meme. Nothing edgy, just a wholesome vibe
But like, this is the first ever animation that give me no stress at all, I was actually enjoy making from the beginning till the end xP I guess it's just because of its wholesome vibe
I pretty love this one tho, at least I made sth that looks stably ok, Platform 9 was a mess hhhhhh
When you have so much cool ideas for edgy original meme but you end up stumble on this wholesome meme aaaaa
I'll probably do 100k video after this mlem, if I manage enough time
Also I don't care if my original meme looks lame as long as it's not head bobbing and looks likely impossible to make, yes my meme isn't suppose to be copy muahhahaha
(Please don't spam the comments with "who came here from ..." It's disrespectful, Instead, tell them how much you like their music! Got this from Roxx, I think it's necessary to put it here)
And AY, guys, after a year and 2 months I have continued the story of the Epoch meme, I hope you like it
This was planned to be a stress relief video at first, but then I didn't like it, so I discard the lame looping idea, re-made the storyboard and turn it to the next Epoch xD
Honestly I'm not very proud of it? xD I could have refined it a bit more. But after 3 weeks of overworking, this gave me too much stress and anxiety. Honestly saying, I couldn't sleep for the past few days because I can't stop thinking about this lol, so I should complete it!
I'm sorry that the question "Is Riko's sister alive?" hasn't been answered yet, well, maybe in the near future x)
I'm not gonna say what' going on this time, I'll let everyone guess xD
Also, if you like my content, or like what I'm doing, I have opened Patreon :D You don't need to give me much, but it can help me a lot to have more time to make animation patreon.com/rikosakari
I joined this MAP part since February, but I procrastinated too much so that I only finished it till now
The plot is: Riko was running to escape the zombies in the deserted factory and then he met his villain hiding in there The yellow cat is some kind of spoiler for Apocalypse, so I'm not gonna say much
I think it's interesting to... drop my animation progress here. I hope people interested in that It took me a lot of effort for that background, I'm proud of that. I expected to make it 3D but I think that's... too much for a MAP part xD
The overall isn't... the best, because it's it just some sort of remake from an old animation, so it look kinda choppy at some part. But I hope you like it
(Now I shall take a small break and jump into the animation fkdfhiotorfhet)
Tools: TV paint (animate) Clip Studio Paint & Photoshop (Background) Vegas Pro 16 (to edit) Wacom Intuos in the earlier part & Kamvas Pro 16 is the later part
Finally after a few weeks of hard working, the video has been finished :D
Huion has contacted me and asked if I could review on of their product. And that gave me the Huion Kamvas pro 16. Honestly, being noticed by a big tablet company is a really BIG SHOCK. Plus, I never used a screen tablet before, so I’m really happy and proud. Wacom was always my prior choice, but this tablet had blown my mind. Thank you Huion for letting me have this opportunity
About the Speedpaint, it contain sort of back story of how Riko got the spirit form I think, this concept is kinda old (I guess it was around 2014 or 2015?) but it’s still a good and fantasy concept, so I decided to make an art for it
Also enjoy my majestic (kind of) hand, and also the knife is still considered family friendly :v ----------
I was haunted by elmira503 's AMV she made last year: youtube.com/watch?v=K9-Wj4Yakwc and I watched a lot of Steven Universe with her late;y. So I can't help but making this idea xD
I never spent much effort in a painting for this long xD and the result was pretty worth it I really love the blending of Cyan/Green and Reddish Pink, although it's not really a good color to match together, but I'm glad that I could achieve the result I want. Such a challenge but such a fun experiment
The rendering is a pain, i have to make a 7 hours video 2 minutes xD and OBS just messed up with the records welpppp I'm glad i save it in the final minute xD YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF ME WOMAN although it's 720p but it's okay
Also I gotta say i got a new tablet now :D so it pretty convenient for me to multitasking xD The review of the tablet will be posted really soon I promise xD
Ay ay ay, happy birthday woman, I hope you have an enjoyable day xD Btw you're old now
I'm sorry idk what to write in the description, forgive me
Tools: Paint Tool SAI 2 & Photoshop(to draw) OBS studio (to record) Vegas Pro 16 (to edit) Wacom Intuos in the earlier part & Kamvas Pro 16 is the later part
So this is my birthday gift for Rita and for me as well. I tried to drew every event that we have passed through for that whole year. It's more like I draw gift for everyone I knew than receiving them, but all the time we've been together is the really big present for me. So ay x3
If there were a competition of overworking and rushing, I guess I should get a trophy or a medal, because this video was made in a rush, I've planned enough time to finish the video properly, but I had to go to the military camp and I have to finish this in just 4-5 days, I'm not so happy with the result, some part is just really off. But I hope you still like it TwT
Maybe I should follow the original meme with head bobbing stuff next time sksksksksk this is too much pain (but I know my ego won't let me xD)
Tools: Paint Tool SAI 2 (to draw) Clip Studio Paint (to animate) Vegas Pro 16 (to edit)
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Youtube: you are here Deviantart: https://Rikosakari.deviantart.com Tumblr: http://yaseinoriiko.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/rikosakari Picarto (secret streams will be held here) picarto.tv/RikoSakari#The Hole (animatic) ft.elmira_503Riko Sakari2019-06-14 | After 1000 times telling Elmi to work, we've finally done it HEYYY PEOPLE IT'S DONE! We both had a lot of fun while working on it yes Because of me holding things for so long because of exams we really wanted to redo the frames but oH WELL expect more collabs between us, we have some more... TomSka videos to do.. xDDD hopa ya all love it like we do
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you've just read Elmi's description haha
To me I think ay working on it really fun, I've prepare more story for us to suffer together so yea, please be patient xD After this I'll working on a collab with Rita, working on the next animation, MAP parts and uhhhh...... okay I'm dead
P/s: Elmo this is a competition :v
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Storyboard: Riko Sakari Artwork: by both of us Editing: elmira_503
I intended to make it last year, at this time, but I didn’t have time due to Epoch (this project is delaying everything hhhh) Why? Because this time is the time cherry blossoms bloom in Japan, I just want to base on that and it also inspired me a lot *cough cough* must finish it before the season ends xD
I think people will disagree with this but I thought it was gonna be good until I rendered it out, it looks so CRINGE to me xD the timing is off and some part doesn’t come out like I expected lol. But I hope people will enjoy it btw
Btw I didn’t think this thing took me 2 months after I saw the date created (Feb 6) haha I’m surprised. Also this is the first time I edited with Vegas 16, it has some good improvements there, (and it’s also less laggy yay :V)
Oh, and a little announcement, I’m gonna be a little inactive due to the exam, after the middle of May I’m gonna start making Apocalypse project (I started at the same time last year xD Hope it won’t last for 6 months pffff)
I won't explain too much on this because it was a abandoned story but I clearly out of idea to I had to use it x'D
I found this MAP from Tere, and also heavily inspired by her, but it's also took a lot of time to paint every details in each pictures, but the result worth it xD
They gave me 1 months to do it but I decided to finish it in 1 week, eventually, it mainly because my laptop was too lag and didn't let me preview my animation, and I had to ask for an extension. I didn't turn out like what I expected but I hope you like it
Commission for Eclirra on DeviantArt who asked me to draw their dragon character - Umbra
I haven't drawn any dragon for sometimes (except for Riko lol) It's pretty nice to have a chance to draw this creature x3
I haven't make something Monochrome for a while (because I feel a picture must have vary of color) But this actually turn out good? welp, worth for a try xD
The title is inspired by the meme itself. If you read the description, please tell me if you want me to make that meme or not (I found it's interesting to make xD
This is the first time I recorded with OBS, the program in quite easy to use regarding to the first time I use AVS xD I change to OBS because I think I may stream in the future? Let me know if you want me to do that The video freezed in some part because I was taking a break at that time and there was no pause button in OBS Ò q Ó Welp you guys can skip it
This will be a part of Riko's backstory. I'm not gonna spoil anything and let you guys guess xD (It has a post-apocalyptic theme xD)
It didn't turned out like I want but whatever, at least I've done it xD Still I kinda like the final scene some how
I put a lot of hard work in this so it deserved to be called an AMV (if you guys feel it like an AMV :v)
So I begin to be inactive for a while. Because I've to to finish some stuff rather than just animations. So I'll try to throw one more meme while it's still 2018 xD See you guys on another site.
(Btw, some of my video got 1000 views aaaaa)
Edit: guys stop asking why he running,/drop his mask/.... please read the pinned comment before asking anything. Thank you
Tools: TV Paint Pro 10 (To animate), Sony vegas pro 13 & After Effect CS6 (to edit)
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Youtube: you are here deviantart: https://Rikosakari.deviantart.com tumblr: http://yaseinoriiko.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/rikosakariMentir MAP - Part 32 & 33Riko Sakari2018-08-20 | I've finally done it after 3 months :'DDDDD I tried out a lot of of effect in the FX stack of TVPaint. It came out pretty nice but I'm still not satisfied with it :'D Hope you like it I made a little twist with the color pallette I hope it's not a problem x'D I was in a rush since school is started and I still have a lot of projects that haven't done yet, forgive me ;w;
I'll a lil bit inactive from now on ( the truth is I always inactive lol) I'll finish one more MAP Part and then take a break (actually for studying) :'D Hope you'll understand
it just noticed I can make custom thumbnail, phtttt :v
Tools: TV Paint Pro 10(To animate), Sony vegas pro 13 (to edit)
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Youtube: you are here deviantart: https://Rikosakari.deviantart.com tumblr: http://yaseinoriiko.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/rikosakariSolo - meme (Collab with Rita Wooden Wings)Riko Sakari2018-08-10 | A collab with Rita Wooden Wings She asked me to make this meme for our birthday I kinda not satisfied with this because I was in a rush, so I had to get rid some cool ideas. But i kinda like the background. I'll try to edit more and more about it!
I didn't expect that I'll finish it in (almost) 2 weeks but, I did, yay! Trying "anime" style lol, it came out kinda nice I just liked the song then I asked for a part, but I hadn't think about any idea, So it came out a random idea, phhhtt. It's should be "soon" birthday gift for Rita Wooden Wings xDD Hope you like it, I shouldn't have shading this because I have no time but, lol, I did it xDD ------------✿------------
Tools: Clip Studio paint (To animate), Photoshop CC (to make the background), Sony vegas pro 13 (to edit), wacom intuos (to draw), computer mouse (to edit)
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Youtube: you are here deviantart: https://Rikosakari.deviantart.com tumblr: http://yaseinoriiko.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/rikosakari🌊 Summer Vibes - meme 🌊Riko Sakari2018-07-01 | I finally finished this. OMG this takes so long to make :'D I'm sorry if it has low-effort editing, I kinda busy these day. So that's all I can have :'D So about this, it just the routine I'll do in this summer, which include drawing, animating, playing/chatting with friends, ... There're tons of them which i don't include (like studying :V) but I'm lazy to finish it all :'D This time I test a lot of effect in Sony Vegas and it was really fun to experiment with it :D Hope you like it!