Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
WARNING: Mild flashing and blood/animal death!
Ashfur, and later Shadowsight, are sought out by a malevolent spirit. To their reflections he smiles, and promises to solve all their problems... but evil is lurking in the water.
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WOOF this bad boy is finally available to watch!! Parting of the Sensory was a project @Vampviz came up with a couple years ago while I was boarding Next Up Forever. (If you haven't subbed Vampviz yet, do it!! They have amazing work!!) I loved their ideas for an AU revolving around Ripplestar, a niche Code-of-the-Clans Warriors character, and how his story could be woven into Shadowsight and Ashfur's. We decided to collab on a storyboard and host a MAP for it!
As time went on, though, we both got too busy and the project ground to a halt. I still wanted to finish the storyboard though, even if we've had to put potential MAP planning on hold. There are so many shots that I had so much fun with, and I love how the whole animatic turned out!!
We still might host it as a MAP eventually, but for now, enjoy the storyboard we worked so hard on. Vampviz did the first few shots, and we did the thumbnails for most of the video together.
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About the AU - it is about Ripplestar, a malevolent ex-leader who was killed by a bolt of lightning when he attacked the other Clans at a gathering. This bolt gave him the power to summon lightning - but it also trapped him in a liminal, underwater place, where he waited for cats he could manipulate into helping him. He wanted to return to the world of the living - by possessing the body of a Clan leader.
When he met Ashpaw as an apprentice, he promised to make Squirrelpaw love him - if he only delivered up her father, Firestar. It takes years for the time to be right, but of course Ashfur tries to kill Firestar for him...and then Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight intervene.
Later Ripplestar would try again with Shadowsight, who was tasked with healing the gravely ill Bramblestar. Ripplestar promised he could make Bramblestar well again, if only Shadowsight brought him to the water... and the desperate medicine cat felt it was his only option.
In the end, both Ashfur and Shadowsight - each marked, cursed, and betrayed by Ripplestar - must team up to stop him.
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Song: Parting of the Sensory by Modest Mouse
This video was created using Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, and Vampviz's sections were made using Clip Studio Paint EX.
WARNING: Mild flashing and blood/animal death!
Ashfur, and later Shadowsight, are sought out by a malevolent spirit. To their reflections he smiles, and promises to solve all their problems... but evil is lurking in the water.
***
WOOF this bad boy is finally available to watch!! Parting of the Sensory was a project @Vampviz came up with a couple years ago while I was boarding Next Up Forever. (If you haven't subbed Vampviz yet, do it!! They have amazing work!!) I loved their ideas for an AU revolving around Ripplestar, a niche Code-of-the-Clans Warriors character, and how his story could be woven into Shadowsight and Ashfur's. We decided to collab on a storyboard and host a MAP for it!
As time went on, though, we both got too busy and the project ground to a halt. I still wanted to finish the storyboard though, even if we've had to put potential MAP planning on hold. There are so many shots that I had so much fun with, and I love how the whole animatic turned out!!
We still might host it as a MAP eventually, but for now, enjoy the storyboard we worked so hard on. Vampviz did the first few shots, and we did the thumbnails for most of the video together.
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About the AU - it is about Ripplestar, a malevolent ex-leader who was killed by a bolt of lightning when he attacked the other Clans at a gathering. This bolt gave him the power to summon lightning - but it also trapped him in a liminal, underwater place, where he waited for cats he could manipulate into helping him. He wanted to return to the world of the living - by possessing the body of a Clan leader.
When he met Ashpaw as an apprentice, he promised to make Squirrelpaw love him - if he only delivered up her father, Firestar. It takes years for the time to be right, but of course Ashfur tries to kill Firestar for him...and then Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight intervene.
Later Ripplestar would try again with Shadowsight, who was tasked with healing the gravely ill Bramblestar. Ripplestar promised he could make Bramblestar well again, if only Shadowsight brought him to the water... and the desperate medicine cat felt it was his only option.
In the end, both Ashfur and Shadowsight - each marked, cursed, and betrayed by Ripplestar - must team up to stop him.
***
Song: Parting of the Sensory by Modest Mouse
This video was created using Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, and Vampviz's sections were made using Clip Studio Paint EX.
![Everlasting Night Warriors AU MAP - Part 18 [for Mossysprout, collab with @galaxymew]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yD4CgoD8Kro/mqdefault.jpg "Everlasting Night Warriors AU MAP - Part 18 [for Mossysprout, collab with @galaxymew]
Sol hurries through an icy wasteland to find his old pal Midnight - but she is not who he remembers.
FINISHED MAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9ajiiY1To
Oooh this one kicked my butt, but Im so so happy with how it turned out. A collab between my buddy @galaxymew and I! I did the animation for the first two shots, and all the backgrounds; Galaxy did the animation for the final three shots, and all the effects work like the lighting and breath clouds. (She is very cool, check out her work.)
What a fun AU and aesthetic! Man, animating those two shots near about killed me (I LOVE Sols design but he is an ornery boy to animate, with all the different moving parts.) But I had fun figuring out how to animate heavy breathing or jumping down a pile of rocks. Which, painting that pile of rocks, was also a fun adventure to problem solve! In the end, Im overwhelmingly happy with how it all came together, and I will refrain from being THIS ambitious until at least after the holidays. Haha.
MAP call video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUaOTOzXBc&t=0s
Song is Lapse, by Black Math
Storyboard and animation done in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro; backgrounds painted in Adobe Photoshop;")
