Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I essentially finished this one out of spite!
So then, apologies for not uploading for a while. School and Genshin have been both taking up quite some of my time. Plus, on some days i just didn't feel the inspo to edit at all. I figured i could post this now so there's at least something here for the time being!
I'm sick right now, and making this, i didn't feel physically well either, sadly. But i think I'm slowly getting better.
However, i knew that i wanted to make something like this. A while back, i made one Thoma edit (not gonna upload it tho), and now, i really wanted to make another! And i also knew that i wanted to use a soft song, and after scrolling through my spotify just a little, i found this song, and immediately knew that i'm gonna use it uwu
I set the clips, and then i tried out doing a border effect in Vegas, after which i failed to do a rotating border. Although, i went over to AE to do it instead, on a green screen, bc it's quite a lot easier to do there, i feel! And honestly, even if i generally don't like doing moving borders, it was fun to make this one! Quite a lot smoother too. Kinda overestimated the placement of things in clips while making the borders, so i might have closed it too much at points, but oh well!
The idea to do these borders in general was inspired by smth my girlfriend and I were talking about :3
I also immediately knew that i wanted to play around with warpy, vortex transitions, as i've really really been starting to like those lately! c:
The rest was mostly just vibing, and just a big appreciation for Thoma i suppose! And trying to get down a good flow.
Wasn't sure what to do in terms of a coloring tho, so i went with a Very mild one. I mostly wanted to focus on giving everything a dotted texture uwu Uh, i hope that got through okay, with yt's compression ^^''
I was already tired and planning to go to bed by the time i got to 0:16, but then i ended up thinking, ''i don't want to think about or spontaneously make this edit while doing homework tomorrow, i don't want to lose motivation for this'', and thus, I stayed up and somehow managed to finish this!
And i was able to keep my focus too, which was good ^^
Oh! and i recently finally got a new cpu cooler installed in my pc!!! It's doing absolute wonders to my temperature, it's so low!! So i no longer have to worry about, for instance, rendering or gaming essentially burning my cpu at points :o
Absolutely happy with my computer's performance now ^^
This also rendered in 3 minutes, which is great!
I'm honestly pretty proud of this one! I like how smooth it turned out to look, imo ^^ There's nothing i dislike in this one ^^
Oh and about Thoma - i reeeeally like him! I had seen him in edits before, before meeting him myself in Inazuma, but then, when i did, i nearly immediately started liking him! He just gave off this vibe of being so sweet and kind! It was a joy to see him all throughout the Inazuma storyline ^^ I hope i'll be able to get him when he arrives on Hu Tao's banner, and i wish the same for anyone who would like to get him!
And i believe that's all i wanted to say! i really hope that y'all enjoy this, and have a very nice day/night as well! ^^

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Song: YUNGBLUD - cotton candy
Programs: Vegas Pro 18, Adobe After Effects CC 2020
Layers (in Vegas): 15
Media: Genshin Impact
Time taken: 5 hours and 30 minutes

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Thoma idle animation (leaked footage): youtube.com/watch?v=1gcOFSuKWKw
Thoma first appearance cutscene: youtube.com/watch?v=vlRJFDQFAA4