GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE - || OC PMV Pearlous 2024-01-20 | Cynthia content is real, as promised!! I've had this idea for ages so it feels pretty good to finally get it done- There's some bits I wish I could've done differently but I was a bit too ambitious for my current skill level, though I don't mind that because I'd rather have a finished project rather than a lifetime of waiting til I'm good enough! I still got to try some new stuff here :DThis thing is mostly silly but it does follow Cynthia and how extremely hard she falls for Rosetta! I really wanted to show off how much of a wreck she used to be lol. Also if you're curious about how the heck THAT is Cynthia, it's because the whole design-altering event didn't happen until after they met and got together.Song: youtube.com/watch?v=ClD1vBjh8fcCharacters: Cynthia (zoroark, any pronouns), Rosetta (houndoom/lycanroc, they/she), also Roxie (salazzle, she/her) appears for one frameCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
Usseewa | Intro | OCs ✨ COLLAB ✨ Pearlous 2023-12-23 | Finished MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=lmKWOZW7D58I took this part to help out the host because some difficulties had come up- I did my best to come up with something cool and fun, but when I couldn't think of anything to fill all the panels in with, I decided to ask people I know if they wanted to collab! And to my surprise I actually got to collaborate with funky people (none of my friends are full time animators so I really did not expect even one response lol)The only guidelines I was given for an intro was that it doesn't need to involve the MAPs palette if I don't want it to, and that it has to involve some kind of transition into the comic world. So I went with Saffron exploring an old library at night and finding this cool project! I thought it'd be a very fun and silly use of the character.As for the panels, I made the black and white ones, @lunalilylover made the blue ones, and @novamallow made the red ones. Nova also helped me with a lot of the editing on the due date because I just couldn't get the greenscreen to work right in my editing program! If it weren't for them we'd probably have a much more desaturated version of the project here... I wanna give a big thanks to both of them for being amazing and getting this all done in time :D!!Carrd: flamey.carrd.coMusic: youtube.com/watch?v=2WioMvWkpOg
Why Worry? | Part 22 | OCs Pearlous 2023-12-16 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=1II3IRy8nQg (Has backups open!)Woah speedrun!!! I took this when working on another part so it was kinda impulsive but hey, I got it done in just a few days time so that's fine! I really do take any opportunity I can get to animate a Set It Off song lmao maybe one day I'll do all of them!Anyway just basic content here, June and Olivia doing their thing where they kill a god for the sake of everybody's safety... I feel like I haven't animated anything Lunala related for years so I should probably get back to that plotline somedayCharacters: June (she/her, Blaziken), Olivia (she/her, Vaporeon), Lunala (any pronouns?)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Hanahaki Syndrome | OC PMV Pearlous 2023-12-08 | Channelled myself from 2017 for this one in order to make a Flora-centric animation with almost no planning whatsoever. So here it is! Finally, more up to date backstory contentFor context! In case it's not made obvious enough by the ending of the animation, not all of this is exactly abiding perfectly by canon- The general gist of her actual past is all there but anything past that is more metaphorical and it can be up to you to interpret that however you wish! But for the most part I wanted to follow the miserable vibes of the song I used so some parts may appear somewhat out of character, such as Flora visibly being frantic in some sections. That's intentional.A lot of her backstory is still the same but the biggest change is that her curse isn't because of an outside source anymore. No evil forest trees, just regular old ancient magic. The peer pressure is still kinda there though.Song used: youtube.com/watch?v=XYn-iMfq54ACharacters: Flora (pikachu, she/her), Princess (buneary, she/her), Celeste (beheeyem, she/her), also Ryan shows up for a single frame because he's puppyCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
Eve | Speedpaint | Dressuptober 2023 Pearlous 2023-10-28 | Support the art: twitter.com/pearlousthetic/status/1716907411670217009Background music: youtube.com/watch?v=0K6qBmnRizUMy info: flamey.carrd.coBeen doing some Dressuptober prompts this year, where basically I just draw my characters in funky little outfits! This is the first one I've ended up recording the timelapse for, and its of my silly Diancie, Eve! They're probably the most Halloween-looking character I've got, so of course I use them for the majority of orange outfits.
Black Mambo | Part 23 | OCs Pearlous 2023-10-01 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=Xi5XLM8qBUcTook this part a little while back, and probably would've been done way earlier if I didn't get sick! But its fine cause I still got it done in a reasonable time and actually had quite a bit of fun doing it! Also I grabbed this part before checking how many reptile characters I have that aren't dragons, and the answer is... 5, maybe 6 if you push the definition of reptile a bit. So I kinda had to use Verde here ahsgdjshThis is the second time I've animated these OCs in a red-themed MAP, which is odd! I imagine this one takes place a bit after Leave Me Alone did though since these two have had numerous meetings, almost none of them for good reasons. Their dynamic is a work-in-progress but they met when Pearlous's career was first taking off and she started getting invited to cool events. Verde already has his job as leader by this point, so he offers to help put her out there even more. Unfortunately his real intentions are far more sinister.Characters: Verde (snake, he/him) & Pearlous (pretty lady, she/her)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Spaceman | Part 13 | Zero Escape Pearlous 2023-09-23 | MAP: youtu.be/dvIFMlMoqwAHey so what if I said I grabbed this part completely on impulse and then completed it within 5 days? Because that's what happened and WOW the power of brainrot is surprising!!! I didn't even have the animalified designs planned, I made them up on the spot!Anyway to be completely honest, I had no clue what I was gonna do here until I sketched the whole part out and decided it was good enough. Usually I try and make my MAP parts fit the song as well as possible but since this was one of the last 3 parts to complete for the project, and I wasn't sure if I'd be motivated enough over the span of an actual month, I went with my first idea!8-bit cover used for the animation process: youtube.com/watch?v=81hIQ8jwNn0Carrd: flamey.carrd.co(vague spoiler talk below this point)Junpei and Akane make me absolutely miserable, I love them so much... ever since I finished 999 its been in my brain! God I love this game so much!! I actually started Zero Time Dilemma the other day and its so funny that they act divorced now oh my god.
Disposable Girl | OC PMV Pearlous 2023-09-09 | Note: Despite the misery of this animation, this is not a vent in any way!! Though it involves my sona, it's intended completely in-character and meant to be interpreted as actions between two characters, not anything personal to myself, so please refrain from comments asking if I'm okay! Because I can guarantee that I am~So, hi! Guess who not only finished an original project for once, but also finally worked up the courage to make that profile warning real with something besides just gore.Had this idea since I first heard the song- It's for sure a Fuchsia vibe, but I felt like parts of it fit both of them and I sort of started seeing it as a conversation or argument between the two. Even though I've changed a lot about Fuchsia, I consider them and Flamey to basically be two versions of the same person (metaphorically of course) and wanted to explore that! They've both experienced similar events in life and the whole mindset of "any attention is positive attention" is also a shared experience but Fuchsia is the only one who still displays similar behaviour outwardlyThis hurts both them and their relationships a lot!! They're working on it - this animation is probably Fuchsia at their worst, attitude-wise - but it is still something that has a great impact whenever it comes out, especially aimed at somebody who does their best to NOT end up in that sort of headspace.Characters: Fuchsia (pink one, any pronouns) & Flamey (purple one, they/them)Song: youtube.com/watch?v=l56icYwdrmI (go support WeevilDoing for more misery-inducing bangers!)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
The Magic 8 | Complete Anything MAP Pearlous 2023-09-02 | After just over a year, we have completed this project and I couldn't be happier! All the animators here did an incredible job and I'm so grateful to everybody for participating, seeing each part as they were completed absolutely blew me away!! The reason I did frame by frame for my own part is actually because I was so inspired by how amazing of a job everybody else had done so far ;w;Thank you to everybody who participated for working together to create such a fun animation!!Intro. Cider’s Bunnyworks - youtube.com/channel/UCIAnpXWV_64wyL7LyhbiqAA1. RizeRobin - youtube.com/channel/UC0clqJwUGcqvvAT0fj4KYsg2. StormzAway - youtube.com/c/StormzAway3. MR.MISTAKEMAKER - youtube.com/channel/UCOsbmTCSDylibPucnOYn3Fg4. JingleBells ! - youtube.com/@jinglebells28625. DaGrandDragonn ! - youtube.com/channel/UCOIiy3Nsa8TQ5sjydCVFIrw6. Psych - youtube.com/channel/UC2VOuDUY-_DAwhfzpiQIk7w7. aeternum - youtube.com/channel/UCsCAbvoi_tp8Xb0znwwUoCg8. myorkka - youtube.com/channel/UCR5EhHOkXAFj_5tV5OwisgQ9. Nix Creatures - youtube.com/channel/UCqxLMvAOeS19d8tDUzSgX3g10. WereClancy - youtube.com/channel/UCNqGX2Gb0ubindfqEjQv2Mw11. HollyBearr - youtube.com/channel/UCnkRw8b--Azpi9lh_1ljSLw12. Sea_Bug990 - youtube.com/channel/UCmiWYLs0xExyfhxHrz7K_bQ13. _l ŁAVÉNDÉR l_- youtube.com/channel/UCHNBBmm6Mf8OI408I3ebBVQ14. Wolfszerie - youtube.com/channel/UC0lTbMk_sfSQS2nhrF3eCmA15. ToTo-Ka - youtube.com/@totoka-202216. ToTo-Ka -17. StalkHaus - youtube.com/channel/UCTaDKoIcH2Y4xA1ckS4g-ew18. StalkHaus - 19. Pearlous - youtube.com/@PearlousDemon20. Smol - youtube.com/@XSmol21. DustySkalez - youtube.com/channel/UCIB9GilqRwIqFyqJSYE1htw22. Bananere - youtube.com/channel/UCVkPpQtqPnj7Sy3AVWsTbrQ23. Cider’s Bunnyworks - youtube.com/channel/UCIAnpXWV_64wyL7LyhbiqAA24. Scooped Kiwis!! - youtube.com/channel/UCB4RW0VLX1FImPD_Hrv6WRA25. Random Doodler - youtube.com/channel/UCWSAAwKlwVaXRMMx6H_olaQThe winning thumbnail is by Cider's Bunnyworks.
Came Back Haunted | 14 & 32 | VLR / Ghost Trick Pearlous 2023-08-20 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=hqU0dcsHPyA (Go and join! It's still open at the time of me posting this)aaaAAA I animated again. Are you guys proud of me.Grabbed some parts in this project because I thought it fit with most of the things I'm into right now!! I think this is my first fanart in a while so yeah, more visual novels / puzzle games where people suffer, who would've guessed!!! I got into Zero Escape last year & Ghost Trick the other month when the remaster came out. They're both so good and I'd love to make more MAP parts for them especially since they seem kinda obscure!(SPOILERS FROM HERE ON)Both parts were kinda funny to make bc I was just making stuff up. Part 14 is just about Dio being awful as usual, but I kind of blended a few scenes together in my head without realising- I was aiming for it to be either related to his myrmidon lore dump or the bomb reveals where everybody gets blown up, but in the end it's vague enough to be up to interpretation. Genuinely, almost every route in VLR has some scenario where Dio acts condescending and everybody stares at him angrily. Until the endgame plot kicks in, that's just a constant.32 was a bit more concrete in concept because it was always meant to be a general mishmash of game content! Ghost Trick is still so fresh in my mind that I'm not really sure how to interpret the characters, so I just wanted to go with purely canon stuff. I had to reference a couple of game scenes because of my inexperience with drawing humans, but I tried my best! I feel like the palette and hard cel shading helped match the style of the game.That's all I think... I don't have any owed projects in progress right now so I can't guarantee any consistency with uploads, but I do have a few WIPs in my files right now ;3Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Crystal Cave | Speedpaint Pearlous 2023-08-06 | Drew this for Artfight last month and decided to test Medibang's recording feature, since recording my screen usually just results in me zooming so fast that it hurts to look at. It's a shame the quality gets a little crusty because I liked doing this a lot.Character belongs to Lunalilylover, you can find her socials here: lunalilylover.carrd.coAnd mine, since the full art is up over there: flamey.carrd.coMusic used is Crystal Cave from PMD :)
Artfight is Almost Here Pearlous 2023-06-24 | My profile, should mostly be up to date: artfight.net/~pearloustheticAnybody who wants to can share their username and I'll go check out your characters! No guarantee I'll draw them, but I do like a wide variety of themes and palettes so its always worth me taking a look!!Finally figured out how to render vertical stuff without my editing program exploding sooo expect all silly meme videos to be shorts from now on as well as the occasional bit involving me talking
Usseewa | Part 11 | OCs Pearlous 2023-06-03 | MAP: youtu.be/e_nCTcvBUC0Something a bit edgy!! I'm so happy to be part of this project because I was obsessed with this song for 3 months after it came out. Still kind of am tbh. The comic book theme was super interesting and it was fun to try something new! It turns out fitting art into panels is really difficult? I had to make sure all the editing was super precise or else backgrounds and stuff would seep out. I worked pretty hard actually!Went through about a dozen ideas for this but eventually settled on this. I like these two! They're weird! This isn't exactly how everything went down, but basically Iolite was responsible for Hyasynthe's death, and since she got another chance at life she decided to haunt him for fun. An apology wouldn't really help in this kind of situation.Characters: Iolite (he/him) and Hyasynthe (she/they)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
TRASH TALKIN | Animation Meme Pearlous 2023-05-20 | More Pearlous content.... I can't help it, she's fun to draw!!Saw the original when it came out, went "hmm maybe I could do that", then this appeared over the course of about four days. I do not know what possessed me to finish it so quickly but here we are!!I was actually originally gonna animate this with Peach, but then I decided her patterns would be too annoying to colour, especially if I followed the original and did that fancy frame by frame bit. Honestly I do not know how to draw characters dancing at all so I was not about to try animating it for the first time here! Hence the very simplified version of the meme. I used more of the song to make up for it tho so its a bit longer than usual!!Original: youtube.com/watch?v=L4hyzZM6NGUSong: youtube.com/watch?v=ncIEgkCN_VMCharacters: Razzlie (indigo spotlight, they/them), Eve (orange spotlight, any pronouns), Clyde (green spotlight, he/him), Venus (purple spotlight, she/her), Pearlous (she/her), Lazuli (they/them)About me & my content: flamey.carrd.co
Girlfriend | Part 7 | OCs Pearlous 2023-05-14 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=fCnPmuW1FnU - It's still open, go check it out!Saw this project when it was first posted but I was too busy and demotivated to join. Luckily it still had parts open when I came back a couple months later! As much as I wanted to join, I kinda struggled to come up with actual ideas for my part? So this is relatively simple. But also these designs are not easy to animate lolI was like two seconds away from using Ace and Aria for this too. But idk I had even less ideas for them even though it would've been fitting enough. I'm relatively happy with how things ended up though.Characters: Pearlous (she/her) & Lazuli (they/them).Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
I drew my Pokemon Violet team! | Speedpaint Pearlous 2023-05-06 | Finished drawing: twitter.com/pearlousthetic/status/1654943306009264128It is speedpaint time!! I've actually been meaning to draw the team I used in my main Violet playthrough since I beat the game but it was kind of an ambitious project, so I kept putting it off! The lads are finally here though, and I hope that they look good!I was originally going to draw all of them with their held items, but I only remembered that idea once I was done with the lineart... With some of them holding stuff like the Covert Cloak and Rocky Helmet, I decided that I'd have to redo most of this art entirely if I wanted to portray them correctly. Maybe I'll do that another time - but for now I just wanted to see if I could draw some of the new Pokemon!Music used is the Team Star grunt theme & Nemonas champion theme. I don't own either of them, I'm just using them because I like the SV soundtrack :DCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
No Plan | Part 34 | OCs Pearlous 2023-04-15 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=KNXQpUpXf1sSurprise, I actually took TWO parts in this MAP! I just didn't bundle them together because I don't have anything else to post and I don't wanna have to stress about that!This one was a little harder to make, if only because I originally planned for it to have more complex tweening... that idea fell apart really quick because I just didn't fancy trying to work out all the editing this time around. I had a lot of fun with the backgrounds though~Characters: Aria (Milotic, she/her) and Ace (Lurantis, he/him)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
No Plan | Part 11 | OCs Pearlous 2023-04-09 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=KNXQpUpXf1sI love impulsively taking parts in MAPs where I've never heard of the song being used before lolThis was nice to work on! A relatively simple part, very relaxing compared to my last few projects... I appreciated the break greatly. Plus I should probably get back into tweening, I've been a little out of practise lately.Character here is Skye (he/him) - He's a side character of mine that I don't use mostly because he's currently deceased and therefore I can't do much with him. But he was a very honourable guy who loved to help others. Also, he's Cyrus's dad.Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Cute Girlfriend | OC Animation Pearlous 2023-03-25 | I STARTED THIS IN NOVEMBER!!! It was meant to be frame by frame & editing practise but then I realised I had to colour all those frames and immediately took a month break from the project. Plus once the new year came around I immediately didn't feel like animating anymore, so. You know what, it's probably a miracle that this got finished at all!Anyway, this song has big Snowdrop vibes. I would've animated it a bit earlier but I couldn't find any good covers until Will Stetson's one came out of nowhere and made me get brainrot for weeks straight. So there's no specific story here, it's all just a demonstration of how horrible Snowdrop is while still being just charming enough to get by. Spectral knows everything but they feel far too powerless to free themself from the situation.Characters: Snowdrop (the green one, she/her), Spectral (the puppy, any pronouns)Music: youtube.com/watch?v=KcuEozCMMlIMy Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Comes In Threes | Part 25-26 | OCs Pearlous 2023-03-04 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=eh9-oeFKY4YSorry for not posting I've been super demotivated!! Also frame by frame is hard so I spent... a long while working on this one. I'm pretty proud of it though, I experimented a bit with the speed of the frames n stuff. I don't know how to explain it lolThis is an anger/rage themed MAP and I have SO many angry characters, but none of them seemed to fit with the song in a way I was happy with? So Flamey gets to beat someone up instead. Kinda epic of them.Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
20, NOVEMBER | MEME | BIRTHDAY!! Pearlous 2023-01-24 | Omg hiiii heey hewwo hii!!!! Its my birthday today! :DSo I decided to animate something for it as per tradition!! There's actual frame by frame in this woah... and it involves my sona being happy for once... much progress has been made. Honestly I just started this because I got the song stuck in my head for weeks and I figured it'd be a nice upbeat meme to finish for this kind of occasion! I'm way more proud of it than I expected to be, actually!Since this is just fun dancing and stuff, I don't have too much else to say! Character featured is Flamey, my main Pokesona, who goes by they/them! They have many forms but I drew their main two (Alolan Raichu & Reshiram) here cause they're the most familiar ones.Where to find more of my art: flamey.carrd.co/#contact
2022 MAP PARTS Pearlous 2022-12-31 | [ CONTENT & SPOILER WARNINGS - there is an actual desc under all these! ]0:27 - 0:37 || Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, case 4 spoilers. Bright colours.0:50 - 0:55 || Pokemon Legends: Arceus spoilers? Not sure if it counts, very vague1:11 - 1:20 || Bright colours.1:26 - 1:34 || Bright colours.1:34 - 1:40 || Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney spoilers.2:06 - 2:15 || The Owl House spoilers.2:34 - 2:40 || Nirvana Initiative spoilers? Also vague.2:52 - 3:00 || Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations case 5 spoilers.3:08 - 3:15 || Pokemon Legends: Arceus spoilers.3:21 - 3:27 || Your Turn To Die spoilers, Chapter 2-2. Bright colours / Eyestrain.Here's every MAP part I made throughout the year!! This is actually the most I've ever done, as far as I'm aware, which is super cool considering I kept feeling like I was unproductive or not working enough. Clearly I actually was.I finally got back into occasional frame by frame this year, which is a huge step! I've also been using more effects and messing with adding camera effects to tweened shots to make them extra dynamic. I'm happy I've finally found the motivation to animate more fanart as well.Thanks for all the support!!Carrd: flamey.carrd.co (Contains commission info, FAQ and other site links)
All I Want for Christmas | Part 6 | OCs Pearlous 2022-12-24 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=_rxwX8NK9RwTook this part kinda impulsively and did my absolute best to finish it on time!! I started worrying that I'd be too busy but everything worked out fine in the end. My intention was to add lots of characters here to make up for the lack of proper tweening - but then I cut some bits up anyway so there's lots of characters and a fair bit of tweening. Oops. At least that makes it doubly impressive, I hope?I love drawing my characters together, especially ones that usually might not interact or be featured in group pictures!! I especially love holiday themed stuff and tbh I very often think about writing little scenarios where everybody gets together and has a nice time. So animating this was super satisfying in that I finally got to share some ideas.Not listing all the characters in this video because there's a lot - If you're interested in knowing a specific one, just comment and I'll give a short introduction!Date completed: December 13th, 2022Music: youtube.com/watch?v=tR0OLPeDnpICarrd: flamey.carrd.co/#contact
Masquerade | Part 3 | YTTD Pearlous 2022-12-19 | MAP: youtu.be/NsiVrc-z4zkI think this is the first YTTD thing I've animated?? Which is weird because I love this game. so much. and it's not even finished yet!! Seriously I recommend it to anyone who likes that sort of game. Anyway, I took this part and then speedran it over the weekend because I wanted something to post and I just barely finished it - apologies for uploading 5 hours later than usual! I'm sure its still Sunday somewhere in the world.Did a few different lineart things this time around! Not super good at glitch effects tho, can't figure out that one even with all the different broken TV options in Sony Vegas.Characters: Sou Hiyori, Kanna Kizuchi, Nao Egokoro and Sara Chidouin. All from the game Your Turn to Die created by Nankidai - the animalified versions are by me, though.Carrd: flamey.carrd.co/#contact
Celeste learns what slay means Pearlous 2022-12-11 | idk where the audio is from honestly I just saw people animating it a lotI think Celeste sounding like Hatsune Miku would be very funnycharacter goes by any pronounsCarrd: flamey.carrd.co/#contact
IM SUCH A LOSER! || original meme Pearlous 2022-12-03 | Song: youtube.com/watch?v=FRi_MB-wWAQI was actually going to animate this with my Pokesona but I figured my friends would tell me not to bully myself, so instead I just went with the most fitting OC. Peach is very silly and also kinda miserable, I love them. They're also not as difficult to draw repeatedly as I thought they were? They've got a couple of patterns but they're fairly easy to remember after the first few frames got done.Anyway!! I feel like pretty much any short animation can count as a meme by this point so go ahead, make your own version if you want! I'd appreciate being linked back to, but above anything else, link the song in your description because its silly and I want it to get attention, along with the artists other work.OC: Peach (they/she, Alcremie)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Skeleton | Part 29 | Hollow Knight | REMAKE Pearlous 2022-10-30 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=JT7qO_8yEZ0Old version: youtube.com/watch?v=aKsiKyfL-KkGot a chance to remake this before the finished MAP goes up! I didn't like the latter half of my part so I decided to come up with something new and I think it worked pretty well! I don't really have much else to say about this, Hollow Knight isn't my main interest rn but I'm always happy to make content for it because... I don't have to draw human characters hdghdjdhI hope everybody has a good Halloween!! I wanted to get this remade before then so I wouldn't be stressed trying to do it later or anything. Social Media: flamey.carrd.co/#contact
The Magic 8 | Part 19 | Pokémon Pearlous 2022-10-22 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=XDLmG1g29jU (backups still open, as well as a thumbnail contest - feel free to apply!)*this one is finally done!! I'd gone through a couple stages of not really liking any of my ideas, then I turned it into frame by frame after I felt inspired by the rest of the participants and. lemme say that singlehandedly saved the part from possibly being passed onto someone else, cause I could not find a way to do it fully tweened that felt right to me! so!! thanks gamers!Apart from that, this took ages and has way too many frames for such a short animation. I'm not used to doing so many in-betweens, but I really wanted this to look as smooth as possible no matter what, so I pretty much poured my heart into it. I really do hope it looks good!!Characters: Volo, Akari, GiratinaAll from Pokemon Legends: Arceus, animalified designs are by me!Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
COMING SOON || OC PMV Pearlous 2022-10-01 | I realised I hadn't made an original animation at all this year, it's all been memes or MAP parts, so I told myself "okay, I'm gonna make some kind of PMV then" and then um... I did this within about three days? I think it came out fine, honestly - it's about as simple as anything made within less than a week would be.I'd had the idea to animate this song in my head for a while, actually. I planned to make some kind of vent with my sona, but upon listening again I kind of connected it to Shortcake here a bit more.Speaking of, I don't think I've animated Shortcake at all yet? So here's a little introduction!! They're an isolated young Cinderace who seemed to naturally exceed everybody else throughout their childhood, but as they grew up, they became unable to keep up with the high standards everybody around them had put in place. As they struggle, they lose their will to do much at all. After all, where's the worth in somebody who can't do anything right?Song: youtube.com/watch?v=0mo8TIhkiDQCarrd: flamey.carrd.coDate finished: 1/10/22 (at about 3 AM, so barely even into the new month...)
Flip | Part 13 | Hollow Knight Pearlous 2022-09-25 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=M1kS1-w3Mbsbeen wanting to join this MAP since i first saw it but iirc I was either too busy or just not very motivated. but I got a part the other day and um, finished it the same day I started hsghdjshf,, I felt super motivated for some reason! And I've kinda had a thing for frame by frame lately, so I did some more of that very impulsively!Characters: The Knight / Little Ghost & The Hollow KnightBoth characters are from the game "Hollow Knight" which I highly recommend to everybody ever. It's very good.Carrd: flamey.carrd.co(Date actually finished: September 19th)
Parade | Part 18 | Ace Attorney Pearlous 2022-09-18 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=MIHP5ai3lO0I had a lot of fun with this part, especially because of the colour palette!! It was initially pretty intimidating because I've always had trouble with planning out and editing fast paced stuff, but I'm actually really happy with the result and I hope everybody else enjoys it too!AA stuff is still fun to animate - I kinda feel like I drew Phoenix differently every other frame but that's fine. The other two designs are totally improvised, though drawing Iris wasn't too hard since I've already got a design down for Dahlia, who looks almost identical.Characters: Sister Iris, Phoenix Wright, Larry Butz (for like one frame)All from Ace Attorney, but the animalified designs are by me.Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Invincible Rainbow Arrow | Part 19-20 | OCs Pearlous 2022-09-10 | MAP: youtu.be/mf24dKhUudEI!! also picked this part up probably a month or so ago, sketched it, and then proceeded to not finish it until this last Thursday, two days before it goes up. There's not much of big importance here - I picked characters that fit the general vibe of the song (Nico, of course) or fit the lyrics (Eclipse at the end) and just came up with the rest on the spot! There's a couple new background effects here and that's about it.This was gonna be tweened immensely - Like, every part that could move would be moving, but in the end I really didn't feel up to spending that much time on a project I was already struggling to get through, even though I love the song and was inspired enough.Characters: Nico (she/love), Eclipse (any pronouns)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Tangerine | Part 19 | AI:NI Pearlous 2022-09-03 | MAP: youtu.be/v61XySkXIkQOughh the mark of a fixation getting way too big is my first MAP part about it. the last few months I've went through AI: The Somnium Files and then the sequel cause it came out like a month after I got into the first game. they're silly n weird and just what I enjoy tbh, I have a few issues with Nirvana Initiative but not enough to stop me from loving it!!This part is... pretty aimless tbh, I didn't have a concrete idea in mind. Also I don't really like animating actual scenes from games, so instead I rotate the characters in my brain like a microwave until I end up with results.Characters: Mizuki, Ryuki, Date, Tearer (the latter two for like one frame each)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Dizzy on The Comedown | Part 10+17 | OCs Pearlous 2022-08-27 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=pVjv6NzoUKs It's still open, you should go join!! Especially if you wanna animate Nonbinary characters :3Hi hey hello I stopped animating for like. 3 weeks. Because burnout after Artfight hit HARD but I managed to find the will to finish these parts!! Both of which came out way better than I expected and kinda experimental in some aspects too! I'm surprised I did these so quick tbh, each one was only done over a couple days each (barring the sketch phase which was actually done a few weeks back)Characters: Lazuli (they/them), Pearlous (she/her), Flamey (they/them)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Artfight 2022 | SPEEDPAINT Pearlous 2022-07-30 | Finished drawing: artfight.net/attack/3946996.69-dont-wanna-talk-baby-i-just-wanna-danceAnother speedpaint because I ran out of simple stuff to finish! Plus I knew this was gonna be a detailed piece from the start so I figured I may as well record the process. This is for Luna, it's of her characters Bede and Wish!! Here's her Artfight page, which has other social medias linked on it: artfight.net/~lunalilyloverI like how this came out, though the colours were super hard to get right- I was worried about Wish being way too pink the whole time and also I only know how to draw one stage background lmao, but I had a lot of fun and it was cool 'cause I haven't drawn these characters before. Well I designed Wish but that was in 2019 so-Music used:youtube.com/watch?v=w9ep6aD7AQMyoutube.com/watch?v=4WhZInUkekQCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
The Stand | Part 22-23 | The Owl House Pearlous 2022-07-23 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=dSW3jU1X0WAI meant to finish this like... two weeks ago and schedule it for today, but it turns out that I only got it done yesterday because I've been either extremely demotivated or doing like 2-5 Artfight attacks a day dhfghjsdh- I actually quite like how this part came out, I didn't expect it to look as good as it did in the end!Also these animal designs for everybody? Totally improvised, I scribbled them all down in one night after thinking "oh wait... I applied for a MAP I don't have designs for" - I actually kinda like them? They're pretty simple but I like it.Characters: The Collector, Belos, Hunter (all from The Owl House, but with animalified designs I came up with)Date Finished: July 22nd 2022Carrd: flamey.carrd.coArtfight: artfight.net/~pearlousthetic
Bastille Megamix | Part 15 | OCs Pearlous 2022-07-16 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=z9XqN8UYsI4Original Mix: youtube.com/watch?v=91g0LONOX8ISomething I did during June because. These Megamix projects are extremely fun!! I haven't animated Cyrus very much and he's a very underused character of mine despite him also being one of the most developed. His dynamic with bree and relationship with his family are things I have a lot of fun drawing and writing about.Characters: Cyrus (he/him, Togetic), Bree (she/her, Venomoth), Skye (he/him)Date originally finished: June 14th 2022Carrd: flamey.carrd.coArtfight: artfight.net/~pearlousthetic
3008 || MEME Pearlous 2022-07-10 | ORIGINAL: youtube.com/watch?v=zdrtpyRMFwoFigured I may as well do this since it's something simple! I had a really fun time figuring out the fast-paced tweening, and shading the frames was pretty fun. I didn't expect to like the end result as much as I do! I'm pretty proud of myself actually! And I somehow made it backstory relevant at the same time... sorta, because a lot of details are still unrefined.Characters: Periwinkle, Zacharie, Valentine (all he/him)Date finished: July 10 2022Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
PUNK TACTICS ✨ || MEME Pearlous 2022-07-02 | Original: youtube.com/watch?v=UMY-WJJSTCk&t=0sJust something quick I made so I don't have any gaps during July! I plan to focus entirely on Artfight this month so I wanted to prepare a couple uploads in advance. This is just Zach being edgy because he's the only character I could think of to do for this meme... Besides Maxine, but I dunno, she just didn't vibe right with me this time.Character: Zacharie (he/him)Carrd: flamey.carrd.coArtfight: artfight.net/~pearlousthetic
Aura Blackquill - [ SPEEDPAINT ] Pearlous 2022-06-18 | Finished drawing: twitter.com/pearlousthetic/status/1538250194176724992This was gonna be just a quick test since I got a new recording software but then I got super motivated when I noticed the drawing was coming out well!! I referenced one of her sprites pretty heavily because a total lack of pose ideas tends to prevent me from getting any art done. But seeing as I only did a loose sketch over a very low-res sprite I wouldn't consider it direct tracing or anything.Anyway yes hi I love Aura, she's very pretty and probably my favourite AA5 character. Shoutout to her for being pretty much the only canon LGBTQ+ character in Ace Attorney, I picked her out specifically to draw for pride month.Music used, in order:youtube.com/watch?v=VL6Y6Cj1GlIyoutube.com/watch?v=Ui8I7JsrygAyoutube.com/watch?v=n42kjrhOMzsyoutube.com/watch?v=RxX_agiLKdkCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
Kiss Goodnight | Part 14 | OCs Pearlous 2022-06-11 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=2vcc87f8rWcIts been ages since I did anything focused on Celeste and Flora which is a CRIME I love these two so much!! They're so nice to animate and I think that stuff their relationship is one of my favourite things to animate,, I've been working on them for so long that ideas come really naturally to meThis part doesn't have any fancy tweening or anything unfortunately but I kinda thought,, it didn't need any? This just didn't come across as a part that I'd have to make super lively. I do wish I added a little more movement in places but that's okayCharacters:Celeste (Beheeyem, she/her)Flora (Pikachu, she/her)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
glitchs special announcement Pearlous 2022-06-06 | audio: youtube.com/watch?v=hzrN8_-3e2whappy pride month everybody. i did this in one sitting over about 3 or 4 hours
HONEYSUCKLE KISSES | Complete OC MAP Pearlous 2022-06-04 | Another MAP of mine is complete and it looks absolutely incredible! Thank you so much to all the participants, thumbnail contest entrants and everybody else who participated in some way, even if you just spectated :) I’m so proud of everybody!!I especially love how there are lots of different types of characters here!! That’s always my favourite part of MAPs, especially OC ones. The animators here did a lovely job.I plan to host many, many more projects in the future (I may even attempt to juggle multiple at once soon, just so I can get more ideas out there) so feel free to keep an eye out for that on my channel!!1. Mozzigator / youtube.com/channel/UCazAMYMoCIYEL48JQ6AIvrQ2. Pinklemintea / youtube.com/channel/UCad4rY3WPSY-dkg3XheFv7A3. JingleBells ! / youtube.com/channel/UCo-J788kzbYPnqQe5AHITDQ4. spiderwicks / youtube.com/c/spiderwicks5. Linhvie / youtube.com/channel/UCZ7HtxDmBt-2y-uc5RL4CfQ6. phantdevil / youtube.com/channel/UCsGVMg0ooTXc-yZsGT3-jDQ7. Freak kaerF / youtube.com/channel/UCx9nwvCo8QcVjsL8nQtshIQ8. TheBleachii / youtube.com/channel/UCk3yL5ndIoMSxfbz5W-RtTgHeyItsPip / twitter.com/heyitspip9. Gore is a Roach / youtube.com/channel/UCBB5MNW9SU6yMdoODaFW-_g10. Linhvie / youtube.com/channel/UCZ7HtxDmBt-2y-uc5RL4CfQ11. 23 Xcavat0rrs / youtube.com/channel/UCrclQrU53gdrfgm8MBrCjrQ12. Whiteheart7 / youtube.com/channel/UC8k5JMZ5Tr-UiBhfHXp4Ocg13. myorkka / youtube.com/c/myorkka14. hoshi-robotto / youtube.com/c/hoshirobotto15. Mochi the dragon cat / youtube.com/channel/UChFbZJtAumCpLRGgsHvVBjg16. lemoncrisis / youtube.com/channel/UCvyrCO7OantNMAyu6RwRJFA17. fossilfrappé / youtube.com/channel/UC45cixLTPmBW7MHsMmJvikA18. HollyBearr / youtube.com/channel/UCnkRw8b--Azpi9lh_1ljSLw19. Pearlous / youtube.com/channel/UCFtt0i3V5FyJPm38pCl7g6w20. Faract / youtube.com/c/Faract21. Pearlous / youtube.com/channel/UCFtt0i3V5FyJPm38pCl7g6w22. MochiiTeaa / youtube.com/channel/UChwqiFPDWY69XCKZsvNLfOQ23. tootall buggy / youtube.com/channel/UC4H_fcYouFCMQzwDizLqGeA24. Electricraven / youtube.com/c/ElectricravenSong: Honeysuckle Kisses by The Orion ExperienceCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
SPACEMAN | Part 19 | Ace Attorney Pearlous 2022-05-28 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=R74ES4gp6PUI meant to finish this last Saturday but I had an unexpectedly busy week and so I had to spend a couple days doing other stuff instead. I've kinda started rapidly losing motivation and ideas but I managed to get this finished at least!!Think this came out pretty well, I redid my cat designs for Apollo and Vera in the process of making this part bc I didn't like the previous ones very much... I think it helped a lot! I also had fun doing the shading here, and although the backgrounds were kinda hard, at least it was something new for me. There's no specific plot for this part tbh I just really enjoy the general vibes of AA4 and hope to emulate them in the content I make. Vera Misham is 100% my favourite one-off character in the series so I tend to focus on her a lot.Carrd: flamey.carrd.coOther music used: youtube.com/watch?v=81hIQ8jwNn0
DO IT ALL THE TIME | Part 2 | OCs Pearlous 2022-05-14 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=9KWrSkUuXkIAnother part for this MAP and even more frame by frame animation! This one took significantly longer because I've had more unrelated art to do, I also feel like part of it is because these characters are much more complex to draw, so the frames took more time to complete. I also struggled to find ideas for it, but now that it's all done, I think it came out pretty good!I don't have too much to say about it besides that - the characters are Iolite and Hyasynthe, two more recent additions of mine. I'm still working out their full backstory and dynamic, but for now all you need to know is that Hyasynthe torments him for a very valid reason.Characters: Hyasynthe (she/they), Iolite (he/him)Other song used: youtube.com/watch?v=1JP2d7K63J4Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
PURRFECT I HAVE BECOME 🌈 | Part 5 | OCs Pearlous 2022-05-07 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=cnymjA0hRmYI remember looking at this MAP when it first came out but not quite feeling skilled enough to apply or something like that,, then a few days ago I saw something saying they needed someone to take one of the last parts so! I figured I'd go for it!Not much to say here again, I just think this mashup is hilarious and I enjoy subjecting Zacharie to overly edgy behaviour. Little emo boy gets stuck at a party and hates it, then of course his family gets involved.Since this one was lineart only I didn't really have much video progress to share, hence the second "WIP" being totally done apart from extra camera effects.Characters: Zacharie, Periwinkle, Valentine (all he/him) - some foreground characters in one frame that aren't worth namingCarrd: flamey.carrd.co
IMPROVEMENT ✨【MEME】 Pearlous 2022-04-29 | original / inspired: youtube.com/watch?v=lxAefvi-ihQi've always wanted to show the progression of my work somehow, so happy to finally be able to. i'm honestly not sure how many people know about how i started everything on Flipnote hatena back in 2012 (technically some even older stuff exists, but it was before I started making characters and stories) and only really moved to standard digital animation about ~5 years ago nowmy relationship with my own work is really complex sometimes! with my animations in particular i always feel like the 2015-2016 range is where i peaked; there was so much smooth frame-by-frame stuff in there and i was able to get work done so fast, it was really something special, i think. but i'm learning to accept that the changes i've made in technique don't make me lazy or worse at what i do, i'm just adapting to what i find most comfortable! and when i want to do frame-by-frame, i'm gonna push myself outta my comfort zone to try it again. it's pretty fun, but also super stressfuli'm not a professional animator and never have been. never taken an animation class in my life - i've barely even looked at online tutorials, though i have a decent enough grasp of the guidelines. anybody can animate, you just have to do what you can and experiment with different ways of movement to find out what you find the most enjoyable to make. there's so many different ways to animate.everybody's gonna be inexperienced for a while and sure, it might be embarrassing now but in a few years you'll be able to see the progress.carrd: flamey.carrd.co
⭐ Messages From the Stars ⭐【MEME】 Pearlous 2022-04-23 | Original: youtube.com/watch?v=ruGpbeylNzcVery simple meme to make sure I still know how to tween well enough, I just wanted to draw a pretty lady and do some aesthetically pleasing stuff.Character: Venus (she/her)Carrd: flamey.carrd.co
DO IT ALL THE TIME | Part 9 | OCs Pearlous 2022-04-14 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=9KWrSkUuXkIframe by frame practise featuring the two edgiest guys around!! i got this part done surprisingly quick and i'm also super proud of it. i even remembered to save more than one WIP so you can see part of the process too!i was gonna save this for next week since i've now taken another part in this MAP, but i dunno how long it'll take me though so i'd rather post it now just to make sure i don't go inactive again!characters: glitch (he/him), mono (he/him)carrd: flamey.carrd.co
Dinner is not Over | MAP Intro | PLvsAA Pearlous 2022-04-07 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=Uct5BNacXMgSomething quick and pretty simple while I try and figure out what I wanna do next! This was an incredibly impulsive decision,, I haven't actually finished this game yet, so instead of animating any specific scene from it, I kinda just let the characters exist in an empty void instead. I don't have very much to say about this nor am I very excited about it, except the last frame which I think is fairly coolThe designs for Layton and Luke were done by my friend Nova, I got permission to borrow them for this video! Please check out their art, they make so much cool stuff: twitter.com/dragon_pawzLinks: flamey.carrd.co
