CalicoBetter late than never I guess haha I cancelled this MAP quite awhile ago due to it's progress stalling and the popularity of Drift Away and me not being able to manage two MAPs at once. 100% my fault. But it's the two year anniversary of the original MAP call, so instead of letting all of the finished parts go to waste, I decided to edit together what was done!
A huge thank-you to all of the participants for putting up with my inexperience in MAP hosting and working so hard on your parts throughout all of this! πππ
And a quick note to anyone watching this: These parts are two years old. Artists improve tremendously in two years. Any sort of negativity towards participants will not be tolerated.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and have a lovely rest of 2020 π
(Due to many channels setting all of their videos to private due to COPPA last year and my awful memory, I was unable to track down and credit a couple participants. If anyone recognizes the artists of part 2 and 10 and could link me to them that would be an incredible help!! Also if any of these channels have since changed their name and would like me to fix them just lmk^^) Parts: Intro- Filler image 1- Donniekid Animations 2- 0:27 - 0:31 Needs Credit 3- Calico 4- Filler image 5- Spoopy dood 6- Nightberry 7- Filler Image 8- Sapphire Likes to Draw 9- Dramatic Doe 10- 1:08 - 1:13 Needs Credit 11- Filler Image 12- Calico 13- Wolfgirl493 14- Sapphire Likes to Draw 15- Filler Image 16- Filler Image 17- Desolate Darlin' 18- StoryOfAnArtist 19- Joycelyn Wolf 20- Filler Image 21- Red (Warriors Amino) 22- Nightstorm Artist Cat 23- Lucky Starz 24- Filler Image
Familiar {Semi-Complete Warriors MAP}Calico2020-12-25 | Better late than never I guess haha I cancelled this MAP quite awhile ago due to it's progress stalling and the popularity of Drift Away and me not being able to manage two MAPs at once. 100% my fault. But it's the two year anniversary of the original MAP call, so instead of letting all of the finished parts go to waste, I decided to edit together what was done!
A huge thank-you to all of the participants for putting up with my inexperience in MAP hosting and working so hard on your parts throughout all of this! πππ
And a quick note to anyone watching this: These parts are two years old. Artists improve tremendously in two years. Any sort of negativity towards participants will not be tolerated.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and have a lovely rest of 2020 π
(Due to many channels setting all of their videos to private due to COPPA last year and my awful memory, I was unable to track down and credit a couple participants. If anyone recognizes the artists of part 2 and 10 and could link me to them that would be an incredible help!! Also if any of these channels have since changed their name and would like me to fix them just lmk^^) Parts: Intro- Filler image 1- Donniekid Animations 2- 0:27 - 0:31 Needs Credit 3- Calico 4- Filler image 5- Spoopy dood 6- Nightberry 7- Filler Image 8- Sapphire Likes to Draw 9- Dramatic Doe 10- 1:08 - 1:13 Needs Credit 11- Filler Image 12- Calico 13- Wolfgirl493 14- Sapphire Likes to Draw 15- Filler Image 16- Filler Image 17- Desolate Darlin' 18- StoryOfAnArtist 19- Joycelyn Wolf 20- Filler Image 21- Red (Warriors Amino) 22- Nightstorm Artist Cat 23- Lucky Starz 24- Filler ImageMission To Mars {Mini AMV}Calico2022-06-10 | Two videos in one day would be impressive if I ever posted more often than once a month lmao. Also no thumbnail rn, I'll try to add one if I remember
But here's another RKS animation! Sorry if these are getting excessive, I went to one of their concerts a few months ago and fell in love again. It's Goro and Hemlock from my Goodbye AMV, not too many details but this is basically how they met! Goro got angry at something, punched a hole through a wall, and stumbled into a white void space where this green ghost cat was manning a control panel. What's he doing with it? No idea
Also just to reiterate what I said in my last community post: (Copy/pasted from last video as well) I'll be on a roughly 7 month hiatus to complete an internship that's nearly 15 hours away. I don't expect to be drawing much, and if I do it'll be almost exclusively work for my upcoming comic. I'll still be available if anyone has any questions or wants to chat, just for the time being, no more art for a bit! See you guys in January :)Be Calm {Storyboard WIP}Calico2022-06-10 | Storyboard amalgamation with bits and pieces that are several years old lol. Anything with lyrics is from 2020-2021 and is the second go at this, anything without lyrics is from 2021-2022 and is the third go/second redo. Cut out all the bits that were older than that bc I personally didn't like them and wanted to change those parts anyways. This is just Memento slowly diving deeper into madness! A little bit of Mori animation sprinkled in too but you guys have already seen that!
Also just to reiterate what I said in my last community post: I'll be on a roughly 7 month hiatus to complete an internship that's nearly 15 hours away. I don't expect to be drawing much, and if I do it'll be almost exclusively work for my upcoming comic. I'll still be available if anyone has any questions or wants to chat, just for the time being, no more art for a bit! See you guys in January :)Improvement Meme || 2016 - 2022Calico2022-05-01 | 6 years... huh 13 year-old me would either be proud or terrified and I don't think there's any in-between
Sorry for the quality on the first few shots, the jump from an iPhone 4 to an actual computer w/ graphics tablet is really apparent lol Also lots of my animations are more slow-paced so the quick editing was a little awkward, but a lot of fun still. I liked matching up lip-sync to a completely different song :D Also also I tried to use some older/newer animations that haven't been posted or gotten quite as much attention. Y'all have never even seen my old Roxanne part,, and gosh the amount of warriors OC animations I have on back-burner is scary.
But anyways, thanks for watching, have a nice day! Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoonWork Out - Short AnimationCalico2022-04-16 | ...4 Types of Husband (Meme)Calico2022-03-25 | Quick little meme while I work on some bigger projects! I needed some practice with animating on FireAlpacha and editing with my new software, so hopefully it turned out alright. Itβs not perfectly timed, but itβs funny I hope
Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoonShowtime || Complete Warriors MAP (BLOOD)Calico2022-03-18 | Nearly two years later and Showtime is finished! A very big thank you to all of the animators who made this a reality, I truly enjoyed working with each of you and appreciate the effort put into all of your parts. Thanks for bearing with me as I continue to learn how to be a proper MAP host, and I hope all of you are as proud of this project as I am! π
To any viewers: Make sure to give each of these talented animators a follow and check out some of their other work. Remember that they worked on this for free; the least they deserve is a bit of your time and engagement!
Thanks for watching, I hope you all enjoyed!Be Calm || Lipsync AnimationCalico2022-01-09 | Character(s): Mori (OC) # of Frames: 23 Time Taken: 1 day Programs Used: Pencil 2D
Animation reel flopped so I'm posting this snippet separately! Just an angsty lad singin' to his angsty gf about killing people in self-defense.
I wanted to animate more lipsync without any still frames that just have the mouth moving, and also get some more practice with keeping circles consistent, so y'all get 4 seconds of consistency :) Working on another vid kinda like Nothing Left to Lose in terms of style. It's gonna be somewhere in-between an animatic and an AMV I think. This is just a little sneak peak since I've only finished up to this point of the storyboard so far. I definitely want to get it finished, because it's a project I've had in the back of my mind for quite awhile, but it'll take a long time due to time constraints and other projects. I'm very passionate and excited about this one, though. It'll fill in a few gaps in their story and should have some fun shots to animate!
Character(s): Aspenwing, Hail, Duskstar and Frostbite (Background of shot 1) # of Frames: 70 Time Taken: 3 days Programs Used: Pencil 2D, Windows Movie Maker Song/audio: Fever Pitch by Rainbow Kitten Surprise (Live in Athens, Georgia ver.)
New animation! I made a speedpaint with these two and this song awhile ago, and still really like the concept, so I've been on-and-off working on a storyboard with them. This is just my favorite snippet so far as a complete animation, I'm hoping to finish the entire AMV at some point! Basically it's just the story of Aspenwing's not-so-secret 'affair' with a polydactyl rogue named Hail, who recently got a complete redesign! They're sweeties, I love them very much.
Character(s): Gatsby (Brown, he/they), Memento (Purple, she/her), Mori (Blue, he/him), Hemlock (Green ghost cat, he/it), Sashi (Light green alive cat, now with a man bun per my brother's request, he/him) # of Frames: ~500 Time Taken: 4 Months Programs Used: Pencil 2D, Windows movie maker
Happy Halloween everyone! Hope you all are having a wonderful day :) This is my first complete animation in a few months, and I'm very excited to get back into the groove of things! Expect videos every other week until January, I have a lot planned.
This is a project I started back in June, and was originally supposed to be a simple, 30-second, limited-animation stress reliever, but of course it turned into a full AMV because I like to make things complicated. I am very glad I finished it though, I'm happy with how it turned out and I was finally able to piece together a couple storylines for these characters! As for what's actually going on-- I think I'm going to leave it up to interpretation for a few days while I write up a coherent explanation, but I'd love to read any guesses/theories you guys have in the meantime!
My friend Coffee and I have been working the past few weeks to revamp this project from a couple years ago! We remade the MAP call, script, designs, and the discord server, so if you're interested at all you should check it out, we'd really appreciate it :D
Also Coffee is so so close to 100 subs,,, go subscribe,,, please π₯Ί youtube.com/channel/UCKSCsOTBXaRUf4HOYM0w0-wIts Called: Freefall || Warriors OC AMVCalico2021-07-16 | Just realized my original upload was recently blocked by copyright (all my other RKS videos are fine though, and I've seen other IC:F animations too so idk why that happened exactly :/) so I'm reposting this with a very lovely cover by Vanessa McGrew! youtube.com/watch?v=_JWxxMaV73M Made some small tweaks here and there so it could fit with the lyrics better and just because there were some things that have bugged me for the past year, but overall it's the same animation and I'm still incredibly happy with the outcome! This is definitely my biggest project to date, with around 1k unique frames and taking over 8 months to complete, so I wanted to make sure people could still view it after all of that.
This is also a great opportunity for me to officially announce that a comic is in the works for these guys! It's called: Birds of a Feather and features Finchpaw, Wrenpaw, and Hawkpaw's stories as they train to become warriors. Will most likely be posted on DeviantArt and maybe Instagram too, and I'm aiming to start posting it in early September! I'll make a community post if I have anything to add regarding this, but I just wanted to share the news with you guys :D
The script will be in the pinned comment once I get a second to retype it!
Thanks for watching, have a nice day! Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Commissions - caracal135135.wixsite.com/commsGet Used To It || Brambleclaw & Squirrelflight WIPCalico2021-06-15 | Another AMV WIP/preview! This time a Warrior cats one I've been wanting to work on for a bit! Unlike Goodbye, which is only gonna be about 30-45 seconds long, this one should hopefully be the full song, minus the outro. Also with lots of scenes I'm really excited to get to! If I do ever reopen AMV commissions, they'll be more like this and less like Story of Us or Guns and Ships, mostly because these take less time and motivation and I can have them at a lower price because of that :D
Also, a quick note: I've seen some nasty people on other Bramble/Squirrel videos, so I'm gonna politely ask you guys to uhh... not attack people who have a different view of a character than you? If you interpret him as abusive, cool. If you interpret him as the best mate in Thunderclan, cool. They're fictional cats. Nothing to get so worked up over. I'll reiterate that when I finish this animation, I just wanted to make sure I put it out there. Y'all are usually pretty chill, but there's always someone that isn't.
Song is Get Used To It by Ricky Montgomery I use Pencil 2d and Windows Movie Maker to animate
Thanks for watching, have a nice day! Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Commissions - caracal135135.wixsite.com/commsGoodbye || WIPCalico2021-06-13 | I was gonna just make a community post but I thought I might as well make a video! And before anyone asks, no, I'm not leaving, that's just the song name lol
I've been thinking a lot about why I've been so burnt out for the past few months, and I realized that it's probably because my standards are a lot higher than they used to be. Now I'm always trying to make every animation as high quality (using this phrase very lightly lol) as Oh Ana or Heather, which is a good thing when it comes to commissions and professional work, but obviously has led to me burning out when putting that much effort into every single one of my animations for the last year or so. I haven't had a chance to make something like El Scorcho again, where I literally just made it because it was fun, with absolutely no cares about how good it looked. But now that I've stepped back from AMV commissions and have a bit of free time until my first semester of college, I'm gonna start working on some personal projects with that same kind of mindset! Probably the same way I made Nothing Left To Lose, but hopefully more clean and with more animation cause I've got some fun shots planned with this one specifically :D
Just angsty brown cat doin angsty brown cat things. Timeline-wise (if anyone's actually keeping track of my OC lore) this is gonna take place a year or two after Chop Suey, at the same time as Pure Imagination!
I also have the first few seconds of another one with Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight, but y'all are gonna have to wait a couple days to see the preview cause I was too lazy to just edit them into the same video
Character(s): please help me, I've been drawing this guy for YEARS and I still haven't come up with a name I actually like. For now, he's just unnamed brown cat #1. Also Memento is there for a sec. She always is. Music: Goodbye from Bo Burnham's 'Inside' Time Taken: Literally a day. I missed having motivation. It feels so good.
Thanks for watching, have a nice day! Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Commissions - caracal135135.wixsite.com/commsPride2021 YCH {Read Desc}Calico2021-06-02 | Happy pride month from a few side characters in my upcoming comic! I'll hopefully be doing something else with the main three in a few weeks, so I wanted to showcase a couple cats I don't get to draw as often! Characters(In order): Ryestalk, Piper, Cuddlepaw, and a blank base
This base (as well as another, non-animated base) is available as a 'pay what you want' YCH (Your character here) until the end of June, with all proceeds going to The Trevor Project! If you're interested, please read through the carrd linked below, it'll explain more about the Trevor Project and links to their website, as well as how to contact me about getting one of these with your character!
And of course don't be afraid to ask me any questions, I'm very excited to get working on these :DNo ones around to help {Commission}Calico2021-05-21 | Fun little commission for Plufonium on Warriors Amino! http://aminoapps.com/p/55886w
Don't use the character or animation without permission from Plufonium or myself. The actual idea is a meme I'm pretty sure, so you can make your own, just don't repost/steal this animation specifically.
Temporarily removing the AMV option from my comms for awhile. I'm not too sure how often I'll be able to work on big projects like that while I'm in college, so I don't want to commit to anything I won't be able to finish before then. I've also been burnt out for the past few months and was hardly able to work on anything, but I think getting a shorter comm like this got me out of that funk! I've been fairly productive this week haha, and I should hopefully have a lot more time for personal projects and YouTube stuff now! Gonna try to get back to uploading once a week starting today :DShowtime {Warrior Cats MAP Part 2}Calico2021-04-24 | MAP Call: youtube.com/watch?v=ybkEm-bfork A few parts just opened up, and it's very close to being done! Maybe go check it out? Character(s): Hawkfrost, Brambleclaw # of Frames: 30 Time Taken: 2 weeks Programs Used: Pencil 2d, Firealpacha, Windows movie maker
A quick backup part for my Showtime MAP! It may or may not be used in the completed project, depends on something, but I went all out for it anyways since it's such a short part :D I might take another part too, we'll see ( By 'all out' I mean I added shading and a more detailed background than usual lol, pretty happy with it regardless )
Took a bit of a break to get this bad boy finished, and here it is! I've had such a great experience with this, it may be one of my favorite projects so far, I learned a lot about pacing,,, it was fun :)
Character(s): Cedar (Gray), Sapphire (Orange) # of Frames: 650 Time Taken: 5 Months Programs Used: Pencil 2d, Firealpacha, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Pro
I've been wanting to join a time machine MAP, this one was a lot of fun! I had a bit of trouble deciding who would be my evil character, since I don't have any really evil OCs, but I feel like Wrenflight would definitely jump at a chance to take care of a bully, so I went with them! They probably went on a bit of a spree afterwards though, killing cats like Shrewclaw and Rainflower until Finchpaw finally stops them. Got a bit carried away I guess, oh well it happens.
I'll definitely need to work on expanding my villain lineup for my comic lol,, I just like the good kitties π
Thanks for watching, have a nice day! π Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Commissions: Closed/updating. Will reopen in February!Comfort Crowd {Warriors Comfort Character MAP Part 26}Calico2021-01-15 | MAP Call: youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_zZDHg1Zk&t=58s Sendspace: sendspace.com/file/699qb4 Character(s): Lionblaze, Berrynose, Poppyfrost, Cinderheart & kits # of Frames: 56 Time Taken: ~1 week Programs Used: Pencil 2d, Windows Movie Maker
Yeah I gave him green eyes, yellow eyes don't work with my design lol
In case it wasn't obvious enough by all my animatics and MAP parts, drawing Lionblaze makes makes me happy. He's a doofus I love him. Wait,, all my comfort characters are really just no thoughts head empty huh
The other characters that go by in the first shot are references to my 'Let's Only Think About' and 'Nothing Left to Lose' animatics!
Thanks for watching, have a nice day! Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Art Commissions: calicoart.carrd.co Animation Commissions: calicoanimated.carrd.coFamiliar Warriors MAP {Parts 3 & 12}Calico2021-01-08 | MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=vCqFsF-Ghv0 Character(s): Cinderheart, Cinderpelt # of Frames: Part 3- 46, Part 12- ??? Time Taken: Part 3- About 2 weeks, Part 12- Probably a day or two idk I was pretty fast back then Programs Used: Pencil 2D, Windows Movie Maker
"Familiar, staring up at the ceiling, insisting that 'hey, I'm a diamond too...'"
A couple of parts I did for my Familiar MAP! Part 3 I finished in early December 2020, Part 12 I made in December 2018, but had completely forgotten about until I started editing the MAP together (hence why it isn't in my "all MAP parts" video lol)
Thanks for watching, have a nice day! Other places to find me: Instagram- instagram.com/cal.iico Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Art Commissions: calicoart.carrd.co Animation Commissions: calicoanimated.carrd.co2021 Channel TrailerCalico2021-01-01 | Happy New Years!!! Here's a compilation of my favorite animations of 2020 to work as a new channel trailer! Most of these you've seen before but there are a couple in there that are new/haven't been posted
Editing it was really fun haha, I liked timing it with the music :D
All art/animations belong to me! Some of the characters do too, but most are from Warriors. Others are from The Owl House or belong to people that have commissioned me! The music is Cocaine Jesus (Instrumental) by Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Hey guys! May or may not have already had a storyboard with this song from last year that I just repurposed once I saw this MAP π It's been awhile since I've done a SU song anyways, so I was happy to work on this!! Finchpaw is absolutely a star, both figuratively and literally haha
I'm still not back to a regular upload schedule just yet, but I should have another video up on Wednesday (It's a shitpost for my brother's birthday lol) and I'm working on something for Christmas. I may have another animation before/after that but no promises! If I have enough time I'm gonna try to finish a couple Warriors OC storyboards and let you guys vote on the one I should finish, but that might not happen until January. Other than all of that, I'm still working on a couple animated comms that I'm aiming to finish by February 1st and maybe a map part or two between now and then. And I think that's all I have planned so far! Hope you guys enjoyed the little update, thanks for watching!
Other places to find me: Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Art Commissions: calicoart.carrd.co Animation Commissions: calicoanimated.carrd.coAnimation + WIP DumpCalico2020-11-26 | I've been recovering from uhhh yeah that,,, so haven't had a chance to animate for a bit. But the two weeks spent on the couch gave me plenty of time to edit some old/unfinished animations together! Here's a quick description of each video:
Happy - Ivypool AMV -I'm finishing/redoing an old animatic of mine with the same song/characters! Haven't made any progress past this point, but this is the only animation in this video that I'm planning on finishing, hopefully by next summer or so.
Bloom - BoaF Meme -Old animation meme I did last winter I think? Spent like a day on it as a stress reliever and don't plan on finishing it. The file is corrupted anyways lol. Hawktalon was supposed to be the final part but I never got to him.
I've got a Dream - BoaF Mini AMV -Aspenwing and Finchpaw get caught in the rogue camp, they all sing about their dreams. (Sickle is 100% Big Nose lmao) Aspenwing wants to be leader and also be everyone's dad. I finished this part but I don't think I'm gonna do the rest. I may do Sickle's part if I get some time though!
True Kinda Love - BoaF Mini AMV -Hawktalon consoles Wrenflight after the death of Finchpaw hndgfgdfhd I love them
Sorry, Jack - OC AMV -Mori yells at Goro for being a loser except Mori isn't actually there and Goro is just seeing this while in a coma. Chronologically this takes place after Chop Suey!
I Will Make you Proud - OC AMV -Mikah is Mento and Mori's adorable son! He's fun to animate! His original name was Goro,, like the guy that tried to kill both his parents, but he thought that was stupid so he got it changed. He expects his parents to be upset about it but they support him and are really just happy to see him!! Sweethearts!!
Disobedient - Needletail MAP Part -A very old WIP for a part I had to drop because the file got corrupted and I didn't have enough motivation to redo it :'( Luckily I had edited a WIP together a few days prior so I still have at least a bit of it! The designs were really cool but I think the MAP call has since been deleted
And then there's some animation loops and commission WIPs!
Backups: (Unlimited) - Nekova - Koteika {LM} -Oh Ana {Antpelt MAP Part 3}Calico2020-10-22 | MAP Call: youtube.com/watch?v=3P1aYxm1CLQ Sendspace: sendspace.com/file/dtq75u Character(s): Antpaw/pelt, Onestar, various random background cats # of Frames: 70 Time Taken: 1 month Programs Used: Pencil 2d(Animation), Firealpacha(Backgrounds), Windows Movie Maker(Editing)
Hey guys,, I am EXTREMELY happy with how this turned out! So,, much,, follow through,, The only thing I'm a little iffy on is the backgrounds,, I like how they look, I just don't think they work with these cats,, still trying to figure out my style on that. Other than that though I think this looks awesome hhhh
Also I've updated my commissions and put them in a Carrd (Link below) so hopefully they aren't as confusing now! They're seperated by animated and art comms^^
It's been awhile since I've done an animation meme, they're really fun and like,, not stressful to work on, especially the parts with tweening, I just wish I knew how to use adobe animate so it could look better :/ Overall thought I'm happy with how it turned out! Kinda wanna go make more memes now but I have so many things i'm already working on hhh
Thanks for watching! Other places to find me: Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Art Commissions: Currently Updating Animation Commissions: calicoanimated.carrd.coLumity.mp4Calico2020-09-28 | Hey guys guess who can actually animate humans if they would just try a cute style that they're used to instead of hyper-realistic anime peoples,,, it's me,,, Also guess what show I made the mistake of binging 1 week after it's season finale and now have to wait several months for s2 of,,, it's The Owl House,,,
To take my mind off of my impending fall into a show hole, I figured I would try my hand at drawing Luz the other day, and that drawing turned into an animation, and I was gonna be done there but I liked a doodle I had of Amity so I made one of her real quick too, and I just,, love drawing her hair,, And of course I had to use the dance music, I would literally die for that animation hhhhhh
I don't know if I would be comfortable enough to make a full length animation with humans yet, but maybe an animatic or two wouldn't hurt if I ever have any ideas. I've only ever drawn Memento/Mori as anime humans, but now I kinda wanna draw them cartoon style That won't happen anytime soon though because I have school and am babysitting my younger siblings for the next 2-3, maybe 6 weeks? So I have like, a grand total of 30 minutes a day to draw, but I'll be as diligent as I can about it, and as soon as this is done hopefully I can get back into the swing of things
I've been working on developing my Warriors OCs' backstories! This is Aspenpaw(wing), his older brother Duskshadow, and their dad Copperstar. They just raided a rogue's camp to steal this guy's kit and ruin his day, unfortunately, he gets his revenge eventually by killing Finchpaw but hhhh Also! This is how Aspenwing got the scratch on his muzzle! From a tussle during the raid!
Moral of the story is: Copperstar is both a bad dad and a bad leader, but I'm really happy with how his animation turned outt
Included the process just cause! Lmk if I should do this more often^^ And for those wondering, I just go straight from storyboard to lineart. Saves time, lets me use lots of smear frames, cats don't have anatomy, etc etc
Thanks for watching! Other places to find me: Deviantart - deviantart.com/calicosong Warriors Amino: https://aminoapps.com/c/warriors/page... Email - Calicosong42@gmail.com Art fight: artfight.net/~CalicoTyphoon Art Commissions: deviantart.com/calicosong/journal/Calico-s-Art-Commissions-840776972 Animation Commissions: deviantart.com/calicosong/journal/Calico-s-Animated-Commissions-840776989 #wintercheetahFinally//Beautiful Stranger {Storyboard}Calico2020-09-15 | So,,, soft,, It's supposed to be like El Scorcho (But from Memento's POV rather than Mori's) so I figured I'd upload the storyboard for this one as well! And this is just a fun little project I plan on working on in between commissions and schoolwork, nothing big, I just really love these two and if I can get away with another sweet AMV I will do so! Haha you can tell which parts I like the best bc they have inbetweens
Anyways yeah my upload schedule is gonna be messed up for a bit. I went from having around 10 hours of free time to maybe 3 a day? So I have a lot less time to animate and commissions take priority before youtube. Until I can balance everything I'm just gonna upload stuff as I finish it! Hopefully that still means a video a week, just on random days now rather than every Friday!
Alright, you guys are awesome! Thanks for watching^^ Feedback is very much appreciated, especially for storyboards cause I can still change them! Or if you just want to chat about music or tv shows, I've been listening to a lot of Glass Animals and watching The Owl House, and am down to talk for a bit! I just like interacting with people every now and then lol Or ask me questions about my OCs god I could talk about them forever
This whole description is just me rambling I'm sorry I've gotten like, 4 hours of sleep since Friday
Not super happy with this overall, but I think the parts with Jake turned out okay. Tallstar is just the complete opposite of cats I'm used to drawing and Jake is perfect lol If anyone has any critique (especially for the first part 'cause I can't animate half-body walk cycles) then I'd be happy to hear it!
Oooh and I tried out gray lineart for parts of Talltail that were harder to see, let me know if it looks better or worse than usual so I know if I should do it again!
Also, this is a really fun MAP and a lovely idea! I love TallJake with all my heart and their designs are adorable!
You can vote for your favorite in the poll on my community tab and the winner will be my next project after Showtime is finished! (Or right before, it depends)
Info for each MAP:
-Through It All (Tangled: the series) - Veil of Shadows/Bristlefrost [I know Veil of Shadows had mixed reviews, and I agree that overall the book kinda sucked, but I really enjoyed the codebreaker gatherings! Those were probably my favorite parts! This would be a MAP about Bristlefrost (With the help of Squirrelflight and Tigerheartstar) trying to raise the cats' spirits and keep everyone on the same side while they're arguing about when to attack and whether or not to kill the Imposter and all that jazz. Overall it should be a very lighthearted and fun AMV MAP with a loose script!]
-Son of Man (Tarzan, Rock cover by Jonathan Young) - Kittypets [This would be an unscripted MAP about the kittypets in the Warriors universe! Pretty self-explanatory, just cats like Rusty/Firestar, Red/Russetfur, Jake, Almost any Skyclan cat, etc, who chose to join the clans or played a major role in them!]
-Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Glass Animals) - Mothwing, Tadpole, & Hawkfrost [I really really like Dreamland, and I also really like the thought of Tadpole floating around the Dark Forest yelling at his brother. This would take place right after Hawk arrives in the Dark Forest and when his body is brought back to Riverclan(So kind of a sequel to Showtime too!). Long story short, Mothwing is in Riverclan, reminiscing about their lives growing up, while Tadpole is straight up demolishing him to his face. Should be fun! I'm hesitant to do this one so soon after my other Hawkfrost MAP, but if it ends up winning the poll then I don't have a problem with it! It's moreso focused on Tadpole and Mothwing anyways.]
-Jimmy (Tones and I) - Beetlewhiker & Antpelt [A couple of vastly underrepresented lads! Content for these two (Beetle especially) is few and far between, so when I heard this song I knew I had to do something with them! This would focus on Beetle and Ant's lives outside of the Dark Forest, and how their sudden, unexplained deaths impacted not only the other trainees, but their friends and family in the clans, mostly Icewing and Breezepelt.]
-Everything You Ever (Dr.Horrible's Sing Along Blog) - Clear Sky [This song hhhhng, it fits Clear Sky. His journey to the forest territories, losing Bright Stream, setting up camp, losing Storm, growing more and more power hungry, losing Gray Wing, basically just everything Clear Sky does in the first 3 books of DotC goes well here. Also there are plenty of Gray Wing/ Gray Wing & Clear Sky MAPs, but not too many that focus soley on Clear Sky's arc!] Forgot this call art in the thumbnail :(
-Mother We Share (CHVRCHES) - Goosefeather and Moonflower [This has been on my mind probably the longest, and I have the MAP Call completely finished, I just need to finish the script and it should be good to go! This is a MAP about Goosefeather, but from the perspective of his sister, Moonflower. How they have a distant relationship because of Goosefeather's abilities and role as a medicine cat, as well as his dislike of Stormtail, but they are still siblings and share that closeness nonetheless.]
Alright I'm about to run out of room, so that's all!
Maelstrom sort of drowns/sort of freezes in the cold river, while Finchspirit fades away from the wound dealt by Maelstrom.
I've wanted to do this ever since I started work on IC:F, and I'm glad I finally did because now I have practice with animating ghosts and bubbles, something that's harder to do on my program, but still nice to know!
Was looking for an excuse to animate big anime tears while simultaneously making my brother mad at me for having his OC crying lol Pretty happy with it though!
Basically what's happening is Green cat (Sash) is angry at Purple cat (Memento) for killing his girlfriend who was actually her girlfriend and who she didn't actually kill, just everyone including herself, thought she did,,,
Hopefully this'll be my last OC part for awhile; I've been trying to find some good Warriors MAPs to join but I saw a Hunchback of Notre Dame song and just,,, had to take it
I'm honestly still not a fan of tweening, but my experience using Firealpacha was a lot better than Adobe Animate, so I'll let it slide for now. I think some of these shots turned out pretty cool, like out of the 4 tweened shots the only one I'm not happy with is the first one. I think the fourth is probably my favorite,, It's my first successful try at drawing angry Mori. Every other time it just,,,, doesn't look right,, If I ever post my old-ish Ready As I'll Ever Be storyboard you'll see what I mean lol
I saw a MAP with this song and I just HAD to join, it is so good and fits Nightcloud so well! I love it! This was an absolute blast to work on and I am super happy with how it turned out! I did a lot of things I don't usually do, (like shading and detailed backgrounds) so completing this was a little more challenging than normal, but it was nice to step outside my boundaries and push myself a bit!
Orange cat dies and everybody yells until Purple cat(Memento) admits to killing her. (It was actually Brown cat(Goro) but he's controlling everything so no one knows that.)
Memento is about to die but Goro 'rescues' her and ropes her into a revenge scheme to kill all the others but why would she do that??? She figures out he really killed Orange cat and attacks him, which is where she gets her ear scar, and he's about to kill her when Blue cat(Mori) comes out of nowhere and attacks him. Everyone thinks he died and so they left, but he actually didn't and just stayed in the abandoned mansion with all of the ghosts for a few years.
I'm still working on what's gonna happen after this, but that's the pretty much the whole story! I'm going to try to resist the urge to make 15 more AMVs with these guys and just stick with MAP parts that may fit them for now π’
My first thought after hearing it was Ivypool, but I didn't wanna do Ivypool/Dovewing so I was thinking Ivypool/Birchfall but then I sketched out a few frames and Lionblaze/Hollyleaf popped into my head. That's how this happened. I figured this could be a prequel kinda thing to my 'Let's Only Think About Love' animatic and this was perfect timing cause that turns 2 in like, a week.
Lionblaze is my favorite Warrior cat if anyone was wondering. Idk I just like his chapters a lot better than Holly's or Jay's, and his and Squirrelflight's relationship is very sweet. 11/10 good boyo
Ivypool! One of my favs! I've drawn her so many times this week I'm so glad some people have easy designs for her hhh
I've started turning my old 'Happy' Ivypool animatic into a full AMV and I'm really liking how it's turning out so far! Aiming to get it done by September, but hopefully a little sooner^^
I've had the sketch for this lying around since... maybe January? It was just a fun little thing I wanted to do so I made a mini storyboard for it (which is where those bonus sketches come from) and then I realized this Wednesday that I could use that storyboard to redo this part??? So I did??? The old part is 2 years old and very gross and it uses their very first designs eww why so bright?
Angsty Memento can't hypnotize cameras d'aww I love her. And Mori, I love him too. 10/10 sweet lad
That bonus sketch is them robbing a bank because my brother and I decided the first thing they would do when they escaped the mansion would be to use their powers to rob a bank like in a cowboy movie hhhh
Ft. My sona, Cal, a couple irl friends, my cat (#1 trans ally), and my little sister. Dunno if i've said this yet, but happy pride month! Go be you! Punch a racist! Do crime! Be gay! β€οΈοΈπ
Tried out tweening for this part! Can't say I'm a huge fan, the coloring was a little weird, but it was quick and fun and I can go over 100 frames in animate so... yeah. Frame-by-frame will always be better tho lol
Guys what is even happening. This morning I was admitted into one of my top pick colleges and will be moved out around this time next year, then I reached 1k subscribers, and now I've finished this MAP part and I'm very happy with how it turned out??? Today is a DAY oh man Sorry if I sound like I'm bragging or something I'm just excited this is my first good day in months and I want to cherish it before something bad happens
Anyways, this is a Palebird MAP. Palebird is one of my favs, she's so good, I WILL fight you if you think she's a bad mom π€ And Halsey is my favorite artist so this is a win-win
I don't have anything planned for 1k subs because I'm very busy, but thank you guys so much! This is...a lot of people that enjoy my work...I don't think I could even name 1,000 people...Nevertheless I promise that I'll keep on working to make content that you all enjoy! Thanks again π
Anyways this MAP! I love this song! I'm not a huge fan of Leafpool, but this was fun to work on! Also,, first MAP part in like, 5 months? Very excited about doing these again!
I had a lot of fun with this one! It's very goofy and I like doing lipsync! I do wish I added more movement, cause it looks a little stiff in some places, but overall I'm happy with how it turned out^^
This is a project I started as soon as I finished my last AMV {El Scorcho} and it is a HUGE deal to me, I love the characters, I love the song+band, I love the animations, aaa this thing makes me so proud. Speaking of El Scorcho, that had less than 500 unique frames, most of which weren't even part of an actual, moving animation, and the song was 4 minutes long. ICF has ONE THOUSAND FRAMES and nearly 5X as much actual animation!!! It's a lot and I'm super happy with it!!
The story will be in the pinned comment if you're interested!! It's a long one but I hope you enjoy it!