CQ Studios
Villain’s Greif || Mini PMV
updated
This idea has been kinda sitting with me for a while so why not put it out there.
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( Psst, do you like KH? I have a KH MAP I’d like to see finished too, check it out || youtu.be/cLAAXgtYtlI )
( I also have Ravenpaw MAP open if you’re interested. Only 3 parts left! ||youtu.be/sauhwmwQmfM?si=E0zwfhbZ2SQZ78DM )
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Parts Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewAJ52wXsirjHskqfFRF3Z0SZjaon5ot&si=zNqR7KDufa26zuXX
Rules and Parts: docs.google.com/document/d/1Fs2jXoMbMsnQ9lwZ0RNSw_kJzPaFwQNGyp3JM_CEgyE/edit
Google Drive: drive.google.com/drive/folders/10gIE5oXbXoPsyw3ECLQQwSqRzMH_-23L
Discord Server (Spectators Welcome): discord.gg/5cjjuCUtYS
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Parts:
Intro-
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5- Sourghostzz || WIP Seen
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19- CQ Studios || WIP Seen
20- CQ Studios || Done
21- Sourghostzz || No WIP Seen
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23- Kayden || WIP Seen
24- Kayden || WIP Seen
Backups (Infinite)
CQ Studios
Wanted to put these on to the internet because I’m probably not finishing any of them. I think the one I’m most likely to complete is Leave Me Alone but even then.
Also I scheduled this way ahead of time (May 17). Just wanted to make sure I had something when Art Fight’s going on.
Got possessed and did this in like 3 days. MAP part is next on my list (Sorry Kit). I'm drowning in KHUX WIPs.
What’s that?
This isn’t any of the animations I was working on in my WIP video?
I should finish those?
….
Shhhhhhhh, I’m still picking away at them promise. This year is the year I get (at least) Choice Meme done lol
This is something I’ve wanted to make for a while and I was struck with a burst of motivation so I took one of my shortest animation ideas and did it all in like 3 days.
I probably should’ve been working on my MAP part but the KH anniversary was rapidly approaching so I decided to start a whole new project lol
Audio from Bojack Horseman
Inspiration: youtu.be/qFP1Kkou_zU?si=9YBuWdIwvZoryMeB
(Oh KH animations, you’re in purgatory again but you will get finished eventually)
About the actual part though. I love this song, I love The Broken Code, I love drawing Ashfur being the most dramatic guy on the planet, so obviously I had to take part in this MAP. I won’t lie it took me a bit longer than I thought it would (and than I wanted it to) but I guess that makes sense because I was doing something new.
And that something new that took up the majority of my time was the walk cycle and ripples.
Man, that whole shot took the soul out of me more times than I can count. But look, I did it, it’s done, and it actually looks decent I think.
The rest of the part was all pretty much within my comfort zone (and I’m certainly glad it was because otherwise I’d have probably lost motivation) so that all got done pretty quick, like pretty sure I did all three of the lipsync shots in like 1-2 days each.
The walk cycle took me forever lol
Anyways on to the next MAP part (Hollyleaf time, whoop whoop!) then back to my KH stuff.
MAP Call (Open): youtu.be/7Wg6vB1cSaE?si=P7YCxHipLMNo6A-F
( Psst, do you like KH? I have a KH MAP I’d like to see finished too, check it out || youtu.be/cLAAXgtYtlI )
Parts Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewAJ52wXsiqw_xpmGrvZ96Dn0Z2cpXok
Rules, Script, and Parts: docs.google.com/document/d/13H0ee1vQ7zpQsL4-5cCmIUti7id_IbHWgSCDxalUmq4
Discord Server (not mandatory but appreciated): discord.gg/9k9G7Gjzmr
Parts:
Intro- That1DireWolf || WIP Seen
1- Vari201 || Done
2- Vari201 || Done
3- Julietgrishaj || Done
4- Julietgrishaj || Done
5- Clown Lasagna || Done
6- moon warrior || Done
7- CQ Studios || Done
8- arweiha || Done
9- Junk in the Trunk || Done
10- exho ghoul || Done
11- Coco the Hybridwing || Done
12- CosmoCat || No WIP Seen
13- Julietgrishaj || Done
14- exho ghoul || Done
15- Anto_Kitty2013 || Done
16- Julietgrishaj || Done
17- pronghorn studios || No WIP Seen
18-☆▪︎Galaxy▪︎☆ || Done
19- warriorofthewild || Done
20- LeafTheBeast || WIP Seen
21- pronghorn studios || No WIP Seen
22-☆▪︎Galaxy▪︎☆ || Done
Backups (Infinite)
CQ Studios
Cover by Rennie (youtu.be/bI3TiZCKhJQ?si=rAr7qfuIaw7dgae3)
Still chugging along at finishing my KHUX animations, been focusing on the Choice Meme recently and I’ve actually made quite a bit of progress. I’m hoping to finish at least that one by the end of the year. Who knows what’ll happen tho, maybe I’ll see a MAP and get distracted again lol
(Thank you so much, dude, I'm not sure I would've finished the part without the help)
Its done! WHOOOOOO!
This is one of the most complex MAP parts I've taken recently. So much animation compared to what I'm used to. lol
I had a lot of fun with this one though (even if I burnt out a bit by the end).
Now that I'm done though I'm gonna try and finish some of my KH WIPs...
Well, I say that but I'll probably see a MAP in a week and be like "Ooh shiny"
I guess we'll see soon enough... lol
MAP Call (Thumbnail Contest Open): youtu.be/LLzPRj-5Qls?si=uoObwavV7fQVL7jk
Nothing much here just a little animatic I impulsively made of how I would remake my Hollyleaf Runaway MAP part if the MAP weren’t cancelled. Its kinda just the basic idea, but I had it and wanted it out of my head, so I scribbled it out real quick.
(I scheduled this ahead of time so I’d have an upload during July… Art Fight is most definitely gonna consume all my free time)
I was gonna upload an older version of this for the anniversary of the finale but I forgot, so whatever, we get it now lol
First up in the video we have Goodbye to a World.
I’d already posted a WIP for this one before and I don’t think I’ve made much progress on it in months. I started drawing the fountain got stuck on it and never looked back. But I should look back, because it’s really close to being done.
Next we have the Choice Meme.
This one I’ve been working on for even longer than Goodbye to a World and yet I’ve made significantly less progress. Doesn’t matter though, I still really want to get it finished at some point.
I’m hoping to get the two above finished this summer. Gonna try to work on them and Art Fight at the same time... we’ll see how that goes lol
After Choice Meme is Ocean Eyes.
I haven’t done much for this one yet, and out of all of these this’d be the one I’m most likely to drop. I am still semi determined to finish it though, it might just take longer than everything else.
Then we have the Home/Homward Bound Animatic.
This one will only every be an animatic. It’s gonna be over 4 minutes long when it’s finished and I know myself to well to say that I can animate all that alone. But I can storyboard it lol
But yeah that’s what I’m working on right now. I’ll probably take more MAP parts in between because I lack restraint.
Plus my goal this year was to finish 12 animations and I’d like to achieve it.
(Edit: it’s out! youtu.be/4M_alUjddWk )
I’m still so excited that I’m going to be in this MAP. I still can’t really believe it (damn you imposter syndrome). Cheeta Z joined the server the other day, and like I already knew this MAP was gonna be pretty big, but when they joined it hit me harder, so I knew I had to redo my old part.
Pulled this off in literally three days. I think I actually got possessed. But hey, here it is!
MAP (Complete): youtu.be/4M_alUjddWk
Old Part: youtu.be/KExjM7g-i4w
(More KHUX stuff coming soon, I swear. It’s being worked on, I promise)
Cats are much more fun (and easier) to animate than people. Pretty obvious but sometimes I forget lol
I saw this MAP and joined it on an impulse because I liked the designs. Don’t know what came over me when I decided to do AMV with said designs though.
The zoom out was a new thing for me. I did it the same way I did tweening for Saathi Re. It was much easier though (and had much fewer video files lol). No green screen, less layers.
I enjoyed the break from my (several) Kingdom Hearts animation WIPs but now I feel ready to get back to them and hopefully get them done. Expect Goodbye to a World within the next month I'd say.
MAP Call (One part left): youtu.be/DcbSZyyayxA
My motivation to draw humans (and, like, work on my personal projects) is currently dead so I thought I’d take a MAP part to get me back in the animating mood. (I’m gonna get back to my KHUX projects promise, [I’m so close to finishing Goodbye to a World, there’s no turning back now] I’m just taking a cat break lol)
Finishing stuff for other people is always easier than finishing stuff for myself for whatever reason, so hopefully once this is done I’ll be reinvigorated (then maybe I can finish all 4 of the KHUX things I’m working on lol)
MAP Call (Open): youtu.be/DcbSZyyayxA
Lyric Translation: “Our footsteps are yet to meet”
Story Explanation:
In the left panel is Phosphorus’ (the white one’s) dream/memory of him hanging out with his siblings. The right panel takes place after his siblings’ deaths they all surround him to comfort him as he sleeps since he’s not used to being alone at night.
Saathi Re was an experimental MAP so I decided to go all in on a new way of editing and tweening for this part. And if course I did it in the cheapest way possible, using the green screen feature on iMovie. It was a lot of trial and error trying to get the sizes right and the paths to line up properly. I think by the end I had about 300 (not an exaggeration by the way lol) videos of green screen for this part, since I couldn’t see the rest of the animation when I was trying to get everything to line up.
It was a mess, yes.
Will I do it again something like it again? Probably. Will it be a joyous experience? No. Lol
Anyways next up is most likely something KHUX so stay tuned if you like those
MAP Call (Backups Open): youtu.be/r2uwnQcGofU
So yeah, Copyright sucks, had to reupload with a cover. It’s syncs up pretty well but if you’d like to see it in its intended form the link is below
PMV with the original audio: photos.app.goo.gl/71FzMSt7vtubM48L8
The cover I used: youtu.be/QhuVO3JGZ8E
Original Description:
Whoa, after almost 7 months of production hell, this behemoth of a project is done!
Where to even start?
Well, this is one of the longest PMVs I’ve ever finished in general, and certainly is the longest PMV I’ve ever finished with backgrounds (Remind me to never draw the Lifeboat again) and with humans. It’s a wonder I got this far when I rarely ever finish much smaller personal projects. The power of my Union X hyperfixation I guess.
But wait, did you think the production hell statement was only motivation based? No. No it really wasn’t.
Here’s a curated list of events that this PMV somehow survived:
- Several levels of art block
- The death of a Grandparent
- My animation app completely breaking and me having to find a new one about half way through production (luckily not much was lost but I did have to screen record what I had done)
-A one month break for Art Fight (normally when I stop working on something my motivation to go back to it tanks)
-My old iPad completely breaking and me having to get a new one (resulting in 3 frames lost, all including the lifeboat, another month with no progress, and me having to re-edit what I already had finished)
-The release of the rest Dark Road (My brain changed gears for a week or two after that came out, didn’t last tho lol)
-A song fic being made inspired by my song and character choices (not an obstacle just a fun fact I guess lol)
-Me getting Covid
-And the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (which seems like it has nothing to do with this but it does)
Anyways KHUX, amirite?
Hey 3 other people Union X fandom, it’s been like, a year and a half since our game finished now, isn’t that insane. I still haven’t moved on. I’m still riding on that hype. My feelings are still hurt (in a good way) by how it ended. I even looped someone else into the fandom while I was working on this. There’s four of us now! We can spread out our suffering (due to lack of new content fan or otherwise) even more!
Of course I’ll continue to make Union X content, don’t get me wrong. Legend has it after I do like, 1 Warrior Cats MAP part I’ll be heading back to the KHUX kids and animating another PMV, or Animatic, or, God forbid, an AMV (Please don’t do that to yourself CQ, you have so much to live for). I mean I have like….. too many animation ideas for them to not pick up at least one of them after this. I don’t learn lessons so I might even do one that means I have to draw the Lifeboat again (*Yay!*).
Alright, I should shut up now ‘cause I’m rambling. See ya next time I made a needlessly complex project!
Okay, I know, I know. I said in the description of the last video that I was gonna work on the Choice Meme next, but I guess I lied because I had this idea and it was short and it was simple and it possessed me. I did all the idea having, idea scripting, and animatic making in one sitting, okay? It was only like 3 hours of my time
Will I finish this? Probably actually. There’s only like 10 frames and I mean it’s almost time for more KH news (….hopefully…..) and if we get Missing Link news….
I’m not even sure if it’s clear what’s happening but it will be when it’s done, promise lol
To clarify though
The first shot is Player whilst being shot by Ephemer flying into the Portal
The second shot literally says exactly what it’s going to be, I was to lazy to animate it at the time lol
The third shot is Ephemer feeling real bad about killing his friend
Then it’s his Lifeboat hitting in the wreckage
The next two shots he stares out at the destruction
Second to last frame we fade the wreckage into (ML Era) Scala ad Caelum, specifically Ephemer’s statue
In the final version there’ll be some 3D camera effect and it’ll pan down to show (ML) Player (who is probably most definitely “Bluehood” and by extension KHUX Player) looking up at their old friend’s statue
I also realize that in the first section I’m pretty much animating the same scene as my “Safe and Sound” PMV but… um… the framing is different and, uh, so many of my KHUX animation ideas seem to include it so get used to seeing Ephemer shoot Player. It’s a heartbreaking scene lol
But yeah, I’m on track to finish the Saathi Re part this week so stayed tuned for that and this, which I’ll probably finish at some point this month or early April
After I finish this (and maybe another project I’ve been picking away at) though I’ll do Choice Meme, I swear. I already have most of it sketched out and one of the animations finished and I’ve legitimately wanted to make it for like 2 years now so I’m gonna get it done lol
Here’s a quick WIP of my part in Pix’s Saathi Re MAP. I’m using OCs I’ve never animated before, (White) Phosphorus and his siblings (Red, Black, and Violet). I’ll go more into detail about what’s happening in the part when it’s finished.
This’ll be the last MAP part before I go back to KHUX and make the Choice Meme with the New Union Leaders
MAP Call (Backups Open): youtu.be/r2uwnQcGofU
The Rough Animation: youtu.be/mGIRTuUkBG8
Backgrounds by @PefkA_Z (youtube.com/@PefkA_Z)
Please check them out they both did great jobs!
Got called as a backup for this one so I had to finish the part in like 3 days.
Really hyped that a got to be a part of this MAP though. It’s almost done and I can’t wait to see it finished. It’s gonna look awesome
Completed MAP: youtu.be/EAzgmtk9ZOo
Crowfeather is such a stinker 10/10 grumpy man, now with the messiest love life you’ve ever seen
So I’ve realized the three of the latest MAP parts I’ve done have all been primarily from the same angle. I think it’s just a coincidence but next time I promise it’ll be something different lol
MAP Call (Closed): youtu.be/7eSzWO_0WO4
5 days.
My last PMV took me 7 months and this took 5 days.
Motivation is certainly something lol
Obviously, this one is a lot more rough then Safe and Sound. It was originally supposed to just be an animatic so I could get the idea out of my head. I need to work on a MAP part and it wasn’t letting me focus on that. Now that I have this done though, watch out MAP part here I come!
CONTEXT:
So this PMV is a non-canon scene where Brain receives a letter from Ava about how she is going to take part in the Keyblade War. I normally try to stick to more canon events in my animations but I heard this audio and said “screw it headcannon time” lol
I’m going off two assumptions here. A) that Ava and Brain were friends before the war, which is a pretty common headcannon, I think? And B) That Ava told Brain at some point that she was going to try her best to stop the war, and if worst comes to worse, flee with the Dandelions. She doesn’t in the end, of course, because whatever Luxu told her convinced her to take part in the battle. So in this animation she sends word to Brain that she will not be going with the Dandelions, and will be accepting her fate. The letter would be the last he hears from her.
Audio from Hamilton but taken from this video: youtu.be/kaPJdJjsd-0
I don’t know what came over me but I just zoomed through this part. Motivation was at an all time high. Must be because I haven’t animated cats in a bit.
MAP Call (Open): link
The Safe and Sound PMV has been taking up all my animation motivation since I started it so I kinda disappeared for a while there. It’s almost done now (3 frames left!) and I’m hoping to have it finished and posted by December (don’t quote me on that tho lol).
As for this animation: I wanted to take a break from drawing humans and animate a cat again. It was supposed to be a quick animation practice, just a low detail sketch, but I ended up getting a bit carried away and colouring and even shading it.
I’m really happy with how it came out!
MAP Call (Open): youtu.be/cLAAXgtYtlI
I’ll try to finish this, but hey who knows
(Update, August 22, 2022: Only 8 frames left but my iPad broke, hopefully I can get it fixed soon so I can finish this)
(Update, October 17, 2022: Had to get a new iPad, luckily all the finished sections were backed up so I only lost progress on 2 of the frames. They were almost done so it burns a little to have lost them, but I still have the motivation to finish this and plan on having it done at some point in November. Wish me luck lol)
(Another Reupload because, once again, a frame was missing. I triple checked this time and it’s actually fixed now lol)
MAP Call (Open): youtu.be/NbPXQK3_pHM
Just a WIP right now, progress has been slow, school has been consuming all my time. Still working on The Accident animatic but MAP parts take priority of course.
MAP Call (Open): youtu.be/NbPXQK3_pHM
TWEWY has been my hyper fixation recently so chances are your gonna get a lot of that from me for a bit lol
I know this audio is kinda dead but when I was trying to sleep last night my brain rot was like “you know what would work great with this Haz and Rindo? You know you wanna animate this with Haz and Rindo. Do it!” And here we are.
Will I finish it? Good question, I’ve been getting a bit better at finishing things so who knows? (Edit: Haha you absolute buffoon, thinking you’re gonna actually finish something… Yeah, no, don’t think this will ever get done)
To be clear, I know Rindo remembers what happened after he was revived, he’s playing dumb
MAP (Complete): youtu.be/4M_alUjddWk
I’m so happy I got into this MAP! I’m really hyped to see it finished… you know eventually lol
Might try to take more parts in it
MAP (Complete): youtu.be/4M_alUjddWk
My friend Bug asked me to make a comic for him so I made him a PMV instead. I’m decently happy with how it turned out, the characters are a blast to draw so I might end up drawing them again lol
It's done! Four months of work all compiled into this less then 30 seconds!
I'm pretty proud of how this turned out. For my first 'animation' of humans I think it looks okay. But that's awesome in my book, considering I'm almost never happy with how my personal projects turn out. And I actually finished it, so that's good. lol
I’m still working on the Ava AMV, it’s just taking a long time lol
So if this is your first time ever seeing a MAP let me give you a definition. A MAP is a Multi Animator Project. To put it simply it’s just a giant collaboration between artists, generally to make an animated music video. I’m bad at explaining things so I apologize if that didn’t make sense to anyone but myself.
Want to be a part of the project? Comment on the video asking for the part/parts you want!
We have a Discord (not mandatory but appreciated): discord.gg/qHX672Gq
This MAP will cover the events of the entire franchise up to Melody of Memories (except Coded) so spoiler warning for the script
Script and Rules: docs.google.com/document/d/1bjwOWF29cabUr2f3MkGbNYfYmiOa2qShJI_0JZEjszY
Update (May 15, 2021): Aiming to get this done/upload the finished version when the KHUX Finale comes out. I’m over half way done!
I’m gonna finish this one folks, I swear to god! I’m still working on The Bridge and I’m gonna get that done too. But this one was short and I need to get some KH animation ideas off my chest, so here is the first WIP for Empty Crown! It’s mostly just Ava being like “Aw, why’d this war have to happen, man?” and then Kingdom Hearts shows up and she’s like “Wow! That’s beautiful. I wish 20 million people didn’t have to die for me to see it.”
I might make a video soon showing off some of my other KH animation ideas, and if there’s interest I might make a MAP.... who am I kidding? I’m probably gonna end up making a MAP anyways and it’ll never get done lol
MAP Call (Cancelled): youtu.be/zBufo7d_d7Y
(Edit, 10/17/22: HAHA, Lies lol)
So this is a catified Kingdom Hearts PMV. I started working on it before actually watching the cutscene myself, that’s why in some parts it’s inaccurate.
(Edit: So I finished/uploaded this literally one day before the JP update that shows how she died comes out, lol! I was kinda right?)
I randomly had the idea for the PMV idea so I quickly scribbled it out. I might finish this but I’m not sure. I don’t know if you can tell but I’m bad at finishing personal projects.
Side note: I’m still going to finish the Walls Could Talk PMV I just had to get this idea out of my head first.