BirdisjellHi, this is a bit different! Almost two years ago, I reached out to the original host of these two maps (the awesome @glamourant !! who if you see this, you are more than welcome to come back to these projects as a participant, or even to take up the mantle again if you so desire!! :) I hope you're doing well!!), who gave me permission to rehost these! After beating around the bush for a pretty long time, I'm finally rehosting them, with the help of my lovely friend @BasilKats ! And.. that's it!
Storm King is a Warriors( or -esque) OC MAP! Send it to Oslo is an Anything Palette MAP. These maps are both wonderful, and they're almost done which is very epic :) There's a few parts which are currently open, and we could use some backups! C:
We tried our best to get into contact with all the old participants, but a few years kinda makes for inactive people ^^" So that being said, if you were a previous participant that we weren't able to reach before, feel free to reach out to us and come back if you'd like! :D
Storm King + Send it to Oslo - REHOSTED MAP CALLS - CLOSED, BACKUPS OPENBirdisjell2024-02-11 | Hi, this is a bit different! Almost two years ago, I reached out to the original host of these two maps (the awesome @glamourant !! who if you see this, you are more than welcome to come back to these projects as a participant, or even to take up the mantle again if you so desire!! :) I hope you're doing well!!), who gave me permission to rehost these! After beating around the bush for a pretty long time, I'm finally rehosting them, with the help of my lovely friend @BasilKats ! And.. that's it!
Storm King is a Warriors( or -esque) OC MAP! Send it to Oslo is an Anything Palette MAP. These maps are both wonderful, and they're almost done which is very epic :) There's a few parts which are currently open, and we could use some backups! C:
We tried our best to get into contact with all the old participants, but a few years kinda makes for inactive people ^^" So that being said, if you were a previous participant that we weren't able to reach before, feel free to reach out to us and come back if you'd like! :D
This will be open for mmm I'd say perhaps a few days to a couple weeks, depending on the response! Thank you to anyone who applies!! :)
Music: Dry Branches by the Oh Hellos Send it to Oslo by Sparky Deathcap Storm King by Big TreeWhen A Woman is Around Part 21fBirdisjell2024-04-19 | Yooo helloooo!! So this was completed back in December 2023!! Whoa!! Taking my time uploading stuff lol. Anyway I was so so excited to get to be in this map aaa!! When I was first getting into maps and discovering them, this is one of the ones I was REALLY excited about, I adored the art direction for it sm at the time and I still do :)) So this was super awesome and I'm so happy I got to make this!!!
I had a really fun time with it and got to pull off this kinda eye shot that I've boarded for myself SEVERAL times and never finished one UNTIL NOW BABAYEEE !! um um other tidbits I tried to make Bramble lipsync "WHAT??" and Squilf "HEY!" (and a no from leaf :'')) and uhhh it lines up awfully well with the song lyrics so that might've been a bust actually D: well i guess even if my intentions aren't clear I hope it still looks cool lol. Also I flipped the original composition I did bc I noticed a lot of REALLY cool stuff lined up with other people's parts and where they're placed in the full shot with all the squares when I did that, SO I DID IT HAHAHA I'm actually so thrilled about it and I'm really excited it ended up aligning like that!! In fact I'm going to put down all the parallels I thought about/saw here for funsies so I personally can remember for future LOL (Lion and Jay look up in Holly's direction at Kalublah's part in top right corner; Leaf looks to the left at the Windclan trio who is focused on at the same timeee AAA by Pokefan1241's part in the bottom left corner; Leaf ends facing the right, and NotSoMagic's/SolarSparky's part directly to the right of mine has Holly facing the leftttt at the end looking down at her AAAA) Maybe there will be more as people keep working... but these are the ones I thought about when I decided to go for a flip :DD
Also I have no Hollyleaf!! In a hollyleaf map?? Sorry not sorry it's my girl LEAFPOOL'S time Holly has had ENOUGH /jk I wanted to put all the focus on Thunderclan/everyone's reactions, and especially Leafpool both because of the script (gotta balance the Holly out yknow), and bc I'm a big Leafpool fan :) So I wanted especially to shine some light on what she would be focusing on rn... and the thought was that she would think about Crowfeather becauseee bc bc in this essay I will-π
Anyway that's all lol!! I hope you like it C: (Was fighting for my LIFE to fix a stupid export glitch so I'm sorry that the endscreen is super long π nothin I can do about it, I had to get rid of that nasty glitch, man πgonna throw hands at davinci quite FRANKLY)
*** Script: ThunderClan being chaotic : arguments between Bramble, Squirrel, Leaf. etc
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~π ~BirdAre You Bored Yet? TAB Map Intro 2 CollabBirdisjell2024-03-14 | Been sitting on this one a while! According to my file dates I think I had this one finished back in... October 2023?? So that's uh. Haha. Crazy!! Trying to space out my uploads so I actually have stuff to share or smth lol. Anyway this was for @BasilKats oc map! :) I love his blorbos, Thorns and Berries swaggg !! Just wanted to help get this little map done β₯
This was a collab, and it was super awesome!: @BasilKats drew up a storyboard, and painted the really gorgeous backgrounds β₯ MysteriousSkeleton (if u have a yt/social u want me to link lmkkk π₯Ί) helped me out a LOT by coloring AND shading Wildkit, Larkkit, and Beetlekit in the first and second shot!! I did the rest of it :3
*** Characters (in order of appearance): Sootkit, Larkkit, Wildkit, and Beetlekit! These are all characters from Basil Kat's Thorns and Berries story! :)
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~π ~BirdNext Up Forever Part 45Birdisjell2024-01-21 | YEEAAAA I actually finished this back in... August 2023??? I think??? I just never had the time to sit down and edit this video together until now π oh and also I guess I helped out part 78 in Novemberrr so I had to put that in the video too yk yk π€ͺ/lh
But this was fun!! I love this AU SO much. I liked doing this a LOT :)) Crowd shot? Emotional damage shot? CHECKED off the typical Birdisjell hitlist. I didn't actually realize until they said so, but my friends pointed out that I do crowd shots a lot, which is?? Crazy?? How does this keep happening to me??? O_O I genuinely do not actively seek these out. It's the hidden insanity in me, I fear...
Anyway THANK YOUU to the people who lent me their ocs for 45, ilyyy pleaseee check them out they're so cooolllπ: @pokefan1241 @gorseyb @kalublah
Also ty Sundyr and Rooke for letting me work on part 78's bg, that was so fun and the final looks MAGICALLL, go check it out!! :D : youtube.com/watch?v=H5ERhjRGuV8 *** Characters: Boon, Yellowfang, Scraps, Gremlin, Violet, Barley, Claw, Snag, Jumper, Mowgli, Todd, Honeysuckle, Cowslip, Harebell, Socks The rest are OCs :)) Oh, uhh for 78 too? Uh, ok: Thornstep, Ruby, Brick, Cinderclaw, Gremlin, Lionheart, Whitestorm :)
Music: "Next Up Forever" by AJR and "Sip Racer" by Freedom Trail Studio
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~π ~BirdiAnimation 2023Birdisjell2024-01-01 | Heyaaaa, there are unfinished things and wips in here that I've never posted publicly by the wayyyyy!!! You should watch all the way to the end to see them :)) I think you would like them. Some of this will likely only remain in this video. Want to reiterate that I'd prefer not to talk about/be asked about the circumstances around the projects the unfinished work belonged to! I'm just not comfortable talking about it. I appreciate the understanding β₯
0:00 Complete Animation 0:45 Unfinished Work 2:30 Current Wips/teasers
Music: Greenpath by Christopher Larkin (let's go Hollow Knight OSTTT)
Wow, so that was a year. I don't think I did as much as last year... well I definitely didn't LOL but also I did??? π It was all just for thesis so you won't be seeing it for a while LSDKFJL oh well. Hahaha! Not to mention the stuff I just haven't uploaded yet... whoooopsies... I'm hopeful for this year. I don't know if I'll be active on here (as if I am ever, haha), or if I'll do all those projects I wanted to, but I'm looking forward to it :) So grateful to the friends I have, you guys made my last year wonderful and I love you β₯
As always, thank you for supporting me!! πMuch love, ya'll~π~Birdipalm tree panic - amv/meme (gift)Birdisjell2023-12-31 | merri crisis, palm tree pix, it is not cold outside but is it warm :3 ?
HIIII I got to have a fun little secret santa with friends and my secret person was THE @PixylMawthz !!! so I decided to draw a little Bugbite beach episode :)) i love this skrungly dude and all their adventures β₯ Packed as much detail/bits as I possibly could in this baby LOL whiilllee also maybe skimming on a couple things to save time ahahaha if you see them no you didn'tπ(i know it's not crimmus anymore but shhh sh pretend this was done earlier π€§) HAPPY NEW YEAR BTW!! or well, SOON, at least for me LOOOL
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~π ~BirdiWading in Waist-High Water MAP Parts 13, 18, and other stuff!Birdisjell2023-11-02 | Finally... after like a couple months since the map released... process video time π Edit: Youtube messed up the endcard... why am i not surprised... anyway. it's no longer wildly incorrect π
I did a lot for this map!! It was my very first hosting experience and I had a most lovely time. Thank you to all the participants that put so much love and care into this rabbit project!!! And a very special thank you to my dear co-host @Sunbird_ , for letting me host this map with you in the first place β₯ Ur the best-ie :3
I love Watership Down and it was such a pleasure to contribute my designs to this map. In case you didn't know I designed every single creature from the original novel?? I am not very normal about this book LOL. I'm in the process of uploading them all, but you can take a peek at all the ones I've shared so far here!: fantasywatershipdown.tumblr.com Heehee. Design blog go brrr β₯
*** 0:00 Part 13 0:29 Part 18 2:05 Part 10 Cleanup 2:11 After-Credits
-Part 13- Held this part originally. Was pretty fun!!
Characters: King Darzin, King Darzin's son, and some random platypi. Fun fact, Darzin's species isn't defined in the actual book, so Sunbird suggested I make him a platypus and that was that :)
-Part 18- This was a DOOZY. But very rewarding. I got some help with Hazel's cleanup/color, which was very lovely!!
SWAG collabers: @gorseyb : Did part of Hazel's lineart @GpopSquib : Did the rest of Hazel's lines and colored him to boot!
-Part 10- Just did some cleanup here β₯ @Sunbird_ provided the original roughs and also finished off the animation! :)
-After Credits??- Surprised everyone with a post-credits scene!! Sunbird had the idea for it and did the original storyboard for it as well! I went and re-sketched it, and then finished it up :) I'm so happy people liked it. It was so fun to surprise the participants like that.
*** Music: "Wading in Waist-High Water" and "Sunblind" by The Fleet Foxes
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~π ~BirdiWhere We Gonna Leave It Part 18 - Collab!Birdisjell2023-09-29 | Wow. It's been um... I guess 8 months since the last video?? Uh. That's crazy. π³ This one's kind of a super basic upload, just to get in the groove of uploading again. Honestly it was just an excuse to show my sketches and draw little doodles for the friends I worked with on this :)) I am... 8... months late to edit and upload this video together but... uhhhh...
In defense. I am working so so hard on my thesis film right now, so that's been the bulk of my days lately! Hope to finish it sooner rather than later... but we'll see. Super excited for you to see it eventually :)) Umm I did manage to finish a trailer with a very dedicated team to wrap up my senior year!! Woo!! So I got to graduate, yayy! We'll release the trailer whennn the film is maybe significantly finished first, ahaha π
Also new endscreen animation. Because it's about time!! I figured since it's been so long it would be appropriate to update the birb c:
Here's all the epic people who I worked on this part with!!!: @LettuceBettuce : Storyboards, Backgrounds, Shot 1 color/cleanup @pokefan1241 : Shot 3 color/cleanup, Compositing, Tweening @PixylMawthz : Shot 2 color/cleanup @Sparroet : Watercolor vignette GIVE THEM LOVE AND LIKES AND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR ELSE π(also the FREAKING. ENDSCREEN. WON'T LET ME ADD SPARROET'S CHANNEL GAHHH SORRY ABOUT THAT ):((( ) I just did the character sketches :3 And I guess the character designs? Or at least some of their shapes/details. I didn't pick out their colors, everyone else settled on a very swag palette C: π
*** Characters: Brightheart and Cloudtail
Music: Where We Gonna Leave it by The Blasting Company
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~π ~BirdiThesis Film Announcement! (Submissions Closed)Birdisjell2023-01-27 | Hi everyone! I've been working super hard on a big project for the past two years - my senior thesis film!! When I say big, I mean big, haha! To keep things short and sweet, I'm essentially just looking for help on it! Here's the google docs link which will give you all the info on what exactly I'm looking for!: docs.google.com/document/d/1sq8j66Y_W6lpEt4ogO1EcNH6exkbb1GXcPO6c2cTHMM/edit?usp=sharing
If you would like to help out another way, I'm also running a fundraiser/Indiegogo for the film and I could use every single donation I can get!: igg.me/at/botmvanimatedfilm/x/31073500#
If you can't help in those ways, just sharing this around and getting more people to see these things would be amazing and a huge help in and of itself.
The volunteer call will be officially closed in the next couple of weeks! Thanks so much for any interest or help you offer, it's so appreciated!!
Much love, Bird β₯Animation 2022Birdisjell2023-01-01 | [CW for animal death (she faints :( ) at 1:36 and creepy monster stuff at 2:02, but that's it β€] Happy New Year :) It has been. A year. haha. β€
Lots of ups and downs, but looking back at it... I made wayyy more than I thought I could O_O this video is five minutes long and two minutes straight of it is fully completed animation. Not even including all the background work in there and all the stuff I'm still working on or haven't posted or even all the illustration I did and my gosh-dang thesis???
Speaking of, it's been hard to feel productive since I'm right in the thick of creating thesis stuff right now, but... I did a lot more than I thought I did. Which is really... that just makes me happy. Usually I feel really slow and like I'm not making stuff, but I kinda did! That's cool for me! :D
Here's what I wrote at the end of the video, since I think it's about a good summary of my feelings (and so you can just read this if that's easier, lol, word-splurge time):
"Thank you all for such a wonderful year!!! I made a lot of things I never thought I would and did a lot I didn't think I could. I've met so many awesome people and made some incredible friends (you guys rock, btw, ily β€β€β€)
"Thank you so much for supporting me so far. I find myself continually surprised and touched that my art really means something to people β€ I'm actually super shy about sharing my work as an artist. Like, insanely shy. Probably hard to tell since I'm so silly all the time and I word-vomit excessively (like I'm doing right now...) What I'm trying to say is... your support means so, so much. It's really encouraging and the excitement of sharing stuff outweighs the anxiety.
"I won't lie, it's been a tough year, too. Lotsa pressure. A lot of gut punches to artists in general. It's hard to stay positive sometimes. So, I'm very grateful that, despite everything, there was a lot of stuff to smile about. :) Together, we creatives persist β€ (hope that wasn't tooo cheesy to say :''')
"I hope to keep growing as an artist and telling all those stories I wanna tell ya β€ Thanks to all of you stickin' around. That means the world to me β€ Here's to 2023, my senior thesis, and all those stories I gotta tell ya! Hope to see you then~ :) β€β€β€"
I'm fighting imposter syndrome like constantly, but I'm grateful for those more frequent moments where I feel like I'm not. Thank you guys for giving that kind of support to me, can't express how grateful I am. β€ See you soon, hopefully :)) β€
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Music: Queen's Gardens from Hollow Knight OST my beloved β€
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiO Holy Night Warriors OC MAP Part 26Birdisjell2022-12-25 | LORE. LORE. LORE. In which Flowergrace creates Starclan :))
WEEE it was literally such a pleasure to do this part for Noah's Ark's sequel map!! It's already DONE and OUT and you should go watch it right now if you haven't already :DDD I put. An absurd amount of detail into this lol π
The intention was for it to be a Christmas/holiday gift from me to youuuu and lookie!! It's here!!! :DD Thank you guys for the absolutely wonderful support that you've given me in my... just a little over two years here animating for maps!! :0 I've made really great friends and have gotten to work on amazing projects, and I'm so grateful to be here sharing things with you :)) I hope to continue making cool things long into the future β₯ β₯ β₯ Thank you for sticking around :))
Ok. It's lore time :) This is a big one OvO
So! As I might have said before, my Warriors OCs are an au version of my original story/universe but in a Warriors setting! In light of that, some of the details from the original Warriors universe are a bit different... And one of the most important things is Starclan.
Here, legends say that the world was crafted by four siblings referred to as the First Folk. (Technically, you've sort of seen all four of them already if you were around to see my Constellations part ;) You might have seen two in the flesh, and that's Flowergrace and Lakesight) An incident occurs (Hollow Moon map part...) that upsets their peaceful world and Flowergrace finds herself completely alone, save for twelve faithful followers. But she is not powerful enough to restore balance to the world alone... so she comes up with a plan (Noah's Ark map part π and yes. the cat directly in front of her here is good old Friend).
Flowergrace splits her flowery heart into twelve pieces - one for each of her faithful friends - sacrificing herself to disperse her power among them and multiply theirs, and they become known as Starclan.
Starclan are a powerful but withheld force in the world, a council of Twelve that act as guides to healers and leaders of clans, restoring balance and doling out justice as they see fit. They safeguard the starry spirits of cats in the constellations wreathed around their tails, and generally keep to themselves, lurking amongst the stars in the distant sky unless the clans are in dire need. Though Starclan tends to act in unison and the clans have long since forgotten their individual names (which Starclan also tends to keep secret from them, as their names have power), each of the Twelve have their own legends and titles that have been passed down through generations.
In order of appearance from left to right (not including Flowergrace of course, who is in the middle), these cats are "The Winterwind" (Ripplechill), "The Piercer" (Boldspark), "The Teller" (Chaossong), "The Silverlight" ('Friend' (you don't get to know his name yet, that's spoiler territory now :) ), "The Radiant" (Goldenlight), "The Timekeeper" (Thymepiece), "The Spacemaker" (Cometflight), "The Springgust" (Petaldust), "The Summerwind" (Beetleblossom), "The Blossomer" (Lilybloom), "The Autumnfall" (Patchworkpale), and "The Seer" (Tallmount). (The split-screen shot (dead working on that π) has them all arranged in the circular order they're in around Flowergrace. The cat in the last shot is Friend :))
Even though they are held in incredibly high regard by the clans, at the end of the day Starclan are just normal cats with a lot of extra responsibility and power in their paws. They hold their heads high with dignity, they remember that Starclan was born out of necessity - but they miss the old days, and they dearly miss the friend that gave them everything.
That's all the lore you get :) For now. β₯ Welcome to the Of Flowers and Futures universe by the way!! :DDD
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Music: O Holy Night by Manchester Orchestra and Night Snow by Asher Fulero!
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiBugbear MAP Parts 8c and 6a (collab!!)Birdisjell2022-12-18 | Yayy, I finally get to upload this!! The Bugbear MAP got completed and I couldn't be happier about it :)) It turned out lovely and you should go see it if you haven't!! I got to do a couple of things for the map that I'm glad I got to!! I had a lot of fun with them. :) My favorite is the credits part. I wanted to wait until the final map got posted before sharing it... maybe I was too ambitious about it, haha. I'm glad I got to animate babies, though :'') But yeah! I got to animate the entire first shot for Part 6, do a background for 29, and this 8c credits part... and that's it! :) (yea I made Jayfeather lipsync "yeah, and"... yeah, and?? :3 /lh )
*** Part 6 was a collab!! I only did the first shot, and was also inspired by wimfei's original sketch of it and their interpretation of the characters!! (although in the end it ended up being a mix of our styles rather than wimfei's or mine :''') . Please check out the super cool people who did the rest of it!! :)) @wimfei @Zukerstal @Sparroet @SplashDreamms @pictionarymodus @LenisLynx @hollycloudsss @cryptidrose.
Characters: Dovewing, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather in 6a! Dovewing plus Shadowkit, Lightkit, and Pouncekit in 8c.
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiFeline Fine Lo-fi MAP Part 38Birdisjell2022-12-11 | In which Leaf tries to decipher the old language in a forgotten underwater train station.
Yoooo so I finished this part in early October and have been waiting to upload it and now it's finally here!! I'm super excited about it. I originally had a completely different part that I had planned to be with Swirl in her little art studio, but there was a bit of a mix-up and instead of getting the part after this one I ended up getting this one instead! Very different audio and color palette lol... but I'm actually pretty glad it happened because now this can exist!!!! :DD Super stoked about that. I really wanted to work with those "train" sounds and I thought a scene like this would be perfect. The intention was to pull off a "lo-fi loop" and while it's kind of off at the end because I wanted the sign change to match the music drop, I hope it's close enough to feel like it's there :)) If enough people bug me about it maybe I will make it loop correctly and for like... an hour... with music I can use... but idk... maybe? if you want it enough? lol
Anywho this part features a little character of mine named Leaf!! (No, he's very much not a leafeon... the similarities are coincidental :'') ) He's actually a super important side character whose story is probably going to take a long time to get here lol. But the gist is that he's a Gifted with Creature Speak, specifically of the fish variety, and he can breathe underwater. He stumbles into some underwater fish-train station one day, empty and old but still running... oh what mysteries it holds...
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Characters: Leaf!
Music: healing by in love with a ghost (they are so cool btw. give their music a listen if you can β¨)
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiEmerald Grove MAP Part 14Birdisjell2022-12-04 | Shimmerwish embarks on a daunting quest, but it's okay because her best friend Peachberry is by her side. :)
I had this done in like?? September???? But I'm sharing it now finally... aaaa!! This is a scene from my Warriors au story, which I've been dubbing "Of Flowers and Futures," or OFAF for short!! Title reveal, lol!! The plan is a webcomic muahaha, but we'll see... I've got all these plot points in my hands... just gotta... script this thing out, that's all... Anyway I had a lot of fun with this one!! It was a color palette map and I really had fun with it... I don't think I've ever done a palette map before but yea!! Thank you for letting me in Callll π Hehe, I really can't wait to share everything up my sleeve β₯β₯
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Characters: Shimmerwish and Peachberry!! Ocs babeyy β¨
Music: Labyrinth I - Emerald Woodlands from Etrian Odyssey Untold: TMG and Spring Field by Godmode
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiCrystals MAP Part 20 (collab with @owlipoppen) and Part C4Birdisjell2022-11-20 | This one is ooolldd, a very long time coming. I was waiting for the map to finish because I had a credits part I didn't want to share until it was out, and then... I wanted to save it so that I didn't upload an abnormal amount of parts at once... so here it is! Finally!! It's really old. I'm not really too proud of the work I did for either part... although I do still think a few of the Hollow Knight designs are cute :) I've been calling the au Hollow Warrior on the side, hehe, I've been wanting to do more with it! I have stuff I've been brainstorming... But we'll see. I just really love Hollow Knight haha aaaaa- I just helped with backgrounds for owlipoppen on the actual part for the map! Still really flattered that they picked me to help out of everyone else that offered. I wasn't going to share it, but then I realized I was going to share my credits part anyway and I thought "why not?" Sooo here we are! Over three months later... maybe much longer since this was done quite a bit before the final map, but I digress...
* ~Part 20~ Here's how we split stuff up! Me: All the background elements (you can see all the stuff in the video lol) @owlipoppen : Original board/idea/au, character art, aurora, and editing!
Not a hundred percent sure who the characters are, I just know that they're from His Dark Materials. I would rather not assume :)
Subscribe to @owlipoppen or the cold of winter will come for your bones /jk β₯
~Credits Part 4~ I did everything lol. Here are the characters in order (there's a lot..)!: Littleghost (main character energy - small dude at beginning), Elder(berry)star (Elderbug), Icedance (Iselda), Foxfly (Sly), Birdbloom (Bretta), Sootshade (Confessor Jiji), Mightyclaws (actually Bugpaw lol) (Zote), Cornfur (Cornifer, omg this is such a basic Warrior name for him so I might change it but also... it really gives Cornifer vibes haha), from left to right Grimkit, Glowkit, and Silkkit, Webkit, and Spiderkit (the Grimmchild, Glowing Womb, and Weaverling charms in game, respectively. how could i leave the babbus out of the picture. Littleghost just be collecting fellow children lol)
Music: Crystals by Of Monsters and Men, and Tongues and Teeth by the Crane Wives! :)
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiLantern Leaves MAP Part C11Birdisjell2022-11-13 | Lantern Leaves!!!
Surprise!! What a pleasure to have been able to animate this walk cycle for the map... a very big special thank you to @LettuceBettuce for not only letting me into this gorgeous project but ALSO for shading and compositing my cycle to look STUNNING so PLEEASSEE please check out this amazing, beautiful map to see it in full and everyone else's work!! β₯ It is so emotional and so good β₯
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Here's how we split stuff up!! Me: Roughs, lines, colors @LettuceBettuce : Board, shading, compositing, background The cave drawings were courtesy of many, many artists in the server who contributed!!
SUBSCRIBE to @LettuceBettuce or Fallen leaves this plane of existence /jkπ
Music: Epic III ('They danced') from the Hadestown Musical Soundtrackπ₯Ί
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiHollow Moon - Warriors OC MAP Part 21a (Collab with @Sunbird_!)Birdisjell2022-10-30 | Remember when I said I was going to be stupid with my uploads well this is me being stupid, enjoy it while it lasts :3 For this I actually got to collab with the EPIC @Sunbird_ !! So floored that we got to work on my silly little ocs together omgosh~ Super cool animator/artist!! Working on many mighty things... you should go look at her cool swag work and probably subscribe?? π I also got to help out the amazing @LettuceBettuce with her Hollow Moon part too!! Just a small contribution, but it was fun and I'm happy to have helped!! :D she's literally such a cool artist go subscribe?? π
OK THE PART HAHA you might recognize one of these kitties!! It's Flowergrace again!! The blue cat is her brother, Lakesight! I'm going to refrain from many spoilers because I'm going to address this exact moment again... in something umm... BUT essentially they've come to do a little check-up on Lakesight's heart and it goes... well it goes quite wrong, haha. I am almost as excited about my little warriors au as much as I am excited about the actual story I'm crafting, so that's something!! I can't wait to share it all when it's ready C:
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Here's how we split stuff up!!: Me: Boards, Roughs, Backgrounds, editing!! @Sunbird_ : Lines/cleanup, colors, shading!!
For Hollow Moon 5, I only did the character roughs/cleanup and lines for the first shot!! I was just helping out. Lettuce did everything else and it looks amazing!! :) I'll try to add her upload here when/if she puts it up, but really do check her out!!: @LettuceBettuce
Music: Hollow Moon by The Crane Wives for the part, and Journey to the Past by Carmen MarΓa and Edu Espinal for the rest!!
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiEmpty Churches MAP Part 31Birdisjell2022-10-28 | OCS??? After like?? A million cat videos??? :0 Hold on, I'm going to be very stupid with my next couple uploads and not space them out very much because they're both part of spooky-month maps and they're going up in a Halloween mapathon OvO very exciting β₯ So be prepared to see another video soon I guess π haha Also thank you all for 1.5k ;;v;; wow!! That's so cool β₯β₯ Thank you all so much for sticking around :'') I know my recent uploads have been very... Warriors-centric... but I'm very much an oc lover and I hope that my ocs are just as interesting as canon kitties :''D β₯ Anyway thank you thank you thank you!!!! β₯β₯β₯β₯
This is one of my favorite map parts now :)) It was. So much work. Characters effecting each other back and forth?? The UM THE BACKGROUNDS?? I really bit off more than I could chew haha, and there's quite a few things I wish I had fixed... but I'm still pretty happy with it :D I also did background work for @FloweryFruitFangs and @Sunbird_ , who are both very cool artists!! And you should one hundred percent check them out?? I'll link their parts here if I can :) FlowerFruitFangs: youtube.com/watch?v=XIPowu81z-Y Sunbird: youtube.com/watch?v=kbxPrpjq3MA
These guys will be new to you (definitely not to me LOL they've been my brain children for almost a decade now) and are making their debut here!! Anxious green man is Alder, his adorable little rider is Periwinkle, and the mysterious critter spying on them is Post. Depending on how I tell this story, you're either going to see them again soon or much, much later :0 Hopefully in general I can tell the whole thing sooner, because I love these guys. I love all my ocs but I digress :'')
For a little extra context to spoil you, Post is afflicted with a curse that forces him to wander the world as a ghostly entity. He cannot be perceived or remembered. However, he is also gifted with Blessings! Essentially, if someone gets their hands on one of his Letters of Blessing (which is exactly what it sounds like), they can see and remember him. It unfortunately ends when the Letter dissipates. Post has been disappointed too many times by that. He unfortunately cannot manifest Letters purposefully, they only manifest at random, so he spends his days reluctantly delivering them and immediately fleeing the scene. But of course, Alder and Periwinkle are not your average people...
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Music: Empty Churches by Giles Corey for the actual part, and Window Demons by roljui for the rest!
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiStarless Night MAP Part 2-10 (β CW!!)Birdisjell2022-10-16 | β CW/TW for unsettling creepy things and mild body horror in this particular part. A bigger warning for animal death, heavy body horror, Gore/blood, and unsettling/creepy themes for the rest of the map project. Please do not proceed if any of these make you uncomfortable! β₯
Wow okay, this is NOT the genre I usually gravitate to, I'm not really the biggest fan of horror or adjacent themes SLDKFJ but I just had to give this map a shot!! The choose-your-own-adventure concept and ideas behind it were so cool and fascinating... I had this particular idea already just roiling around in my head when I applied, so it was an absolute pleasure to be able to bring it to life!! Doing the final parallax was an absolute nightmare though. Tried out After Effects and I timed it nicely only to have to START OVER COMPLETELY because I forgot that it defaults to 30 fps when I work in 24 π So that was pleasant!! /s Also I'm sorry for tracking the flying guys so terribly in the close-ups, I did my best but i made them move so fast GAH π Alsooo I think I made a terrible thumbnail for this but man I didn't think I could include anything in ittt π Ok OTHER than all that, I had a great time :) Animating the little walkies was super fun. Hope it looks cool!!
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Your main characters here that walkie across the screen are Guide/that's spoilers??, and Jayfeather!! Those epic ocs in the background belong to cool people and you should totally go check em out!! :0 The one on the far left belongs to @Dustary ! The one in the middle belongs to @nebulaanimates ! The one next to the tree on the far right belongs to @Javaskulls The two circle heads are randos I made up based on the Starclan concepts for the map, BUT the Upper Starclan cat that flies in towards the end belongs to @ghostobow ! They all offered up cool ocs in the map discord and I just had to animate them :))
Music: I'm PREEETTY sure that the music for the part is the FNAF 2 Main menu theme... correct me if wrong... The rest of the music is Strange Stuff by Matt Harris :) Figureedd it was appropriate β¨
Going to link the map call and finished map below, but pleease please remember that it's horror!! There are horrifying elements in it that can be scary or disturbing!! Please take care β₯ Map Call: youtube.com/watch?v=LBrf_L_KJGI Finished Map: youtube.com/watch?v=h-xGH1CqL-A
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiWading in Waist-High Waterπ | Storyboarded Watership Down MAP Call | COMPLETEBirdisjell2022-10-09 | Complete MAP: youtube.com/watch?v=XSpiHioe-VY ---
HELLO and welcome to Wading in Waist-High Water (WHW), a Watership Down MAP cohosted by the epic @Sunbird_ and yours truly, Birdisjell!! π While we were inspired by the novel, you don't need to have read the book or have any prior knowledge of Watership Down to participate! This is just a fun project to express love for the bunnies C: We're super excited about it and we hope you are, too!! Please be aware that the project does contain some spoilers for the novel, though! π
WHW explores the character Hazel, the principal protagonist from the Watership Down novel, and the parallels between him and the rabbits' mythic hero, El-ahrairah, The Prince With A Thousand Enemies.
The lovely storyboard was done by the fantastic @Sunbird_ ! The thumbnail was a collab between the awesome @BasilKats and I! Song is Wading in Waist-High Water by Fleet Foxes π
If I heart your comment, it means that I have seen it, not necessarily that you've gotten the part! This is to help make sure that you know your comment got through β₯ Parts will be chosen in about 24 - 48 hours!
Backups list hidden!Hollyfawn MAP Part 3Birdisjell2022-09-09 | In which Leafpool gives Hollykit a littol kissy to make ouchie feel better :) β₯
You have no idea how rabid I went the second this map entered my sphere of existence, because Hollyleaf?? The Family CREST??? BENEATH the BRINE??? DEEEERRR??????? Literally had all my favorite things of all time ever, I could not stop myself from applying on the spot.
I feel insanely lucky to have gotten to take part in this map, I honestly was expecting backup at most if anything at all, and I'm so thrilled I got to animate baby Holly again β₯ I'm super honored. My goal is to make her infinitely more precious every time I ever get my hands on her and I hope I succeeded this time :) β₯ ... my channel feed looks highly amusing rn :'''D slowly I am turning into a CCU channel... LSDKFJ swear I have more up my sleeve, I'm just waiting to share them when I'm neck-deep in college and have nothing else β₯
The characters are Leafpool, Hollykit, and Squirrelflight!
Music: Like a Light by The Family Crest (my actual part just had cricket sounds from the map call/storyboard, but I reaaaally wanted to use this as an excuse to tell you to check out The Family Crest so do check out the epic bangers Family Crest they are so cool, one of my favorite bands ever :)))
~Think I'll start sharing my Toyhou.se link as well! Everything is private at the mo while I set stuff up, but I'm VERY excited about it C: https://toyhou.se/Birdisjell
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiSharpen Your Teeth MAP Part 3 (Collab with @Eqqnoq ) (CW!!)Birdisjell2022-08-12 | CW for Silverstream actually fainting and dying onscreen!! :( Not really graphic at all, but... she dies π
I was so so lucky to have been able to work on this map with Eqqnoq aaa!! It was really fun to collab with them ;;v;; β₯ They made my animation look SO GORGEOUS OMG literally would not look so lovely and hecking detailed without their half of the work!! β₯β₯β₯ My first rough sketch had to get revised because she fell way too hard omg π in retrospect I really did not time that right lol - decided to include it because sometimes you make significant oopsies and that's part of the process y'know what ah mean π Guess what she's lip-syncing π (spoilers it's "The end!! :)" because I'm a horrible person π also actually because of the context but i digress alsdfklj)
The fish at the end is an elusive creature... a parrotfish.... will you see it again?? who knoowoowosss *insert ghost noises here* /jk :p
As an aside, I'm currently trying to speedrun a bunch of owed parts at once!! Going to try finishing everything before my senior year of college, where I will have to do my thesis and it will probably kill all activity on all my social media x_x Will probably schedule them out though to stem the inactivity, hopefully it won't be too bad - we'll see!! :'') β₯
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The character featured is Silverstream!
Here's how we split stuff up!!: Me: Rough animation, lineart/cleanup, and background! Eqqnoq: Coloring, Shading, and final edit! The original storyboard was done by Cheeteh Z! C:
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiSerpent Sol MAP Part 141b (Collab with pokefan1241)Birdisjell2022-07-13 | Baby hours β₯
You will never get uploads so soon after each other like this ever again (maybe possibly) O_O I was lucky enough to get to be a backup/helper on the map and then lucky enough to get to collab with pokefan1241 on this!! This was so fun... getting to draw baby... babberina... AND THEN SEEING POKE MOVE HER AROUND HAHAHA IT LOOKS SO GOOD RIGHT!? β₯ It was so fun collabing. I don't get to do it all that often, but it's always such a pleasure to make a collaborative process even more so! At least to me! (so i mean... any of my moots or close frens out there, y'know... if ya'll ever wanna collab... :'''''''D) :D I hope you like how it turned out as much as we do!! β₯
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Here's how we split stuff up!!: Me: Character assets + background! pokefan1241: Shading, tweening, and editing! The original storyboard was done by Toast/Soggy Bread Crust!
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiChange (WC x SU) MAP - Part 9Birdisjell2022-07-12 | heehee, turnaround β₯
OK HAHA I'M BACK I had this done a while ago for the one and only Basil Kat!! C: It just... took me a while to edit the video haha aslfdkjl So lucky to have gotten a part in his epic Steven Universe x Warrior Cats au map, and it was this one π³ β₯ I didn't have to make them spins like in the movie but... I wanted to O_O It's deffo not perfect, but I'm pretty happy that I made it work!! C: I've always wanted to attempt/practice more complicated/dynamic animation (really itching to animate fight scenes bc I'm... a moron...), and I'm glad I had the chance to do so!! I hope it turned out okay!! C: β₯ Thank you for reading, commenting, subbing, all that jazz!! It means the world to me β€β€β€
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Script: "You can make a difference You can make it right" Firestar sings as he dodges Scourgeβs attacks. It would be cool to have them spin like the shot in the movie, but not required (not required, you say? π DFLSDFK)
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiImprovement Animation Meme | 2013-2022Birdisjell2022-04-29 | I caved π
I dug wayyy back into my files to find all the animation things I've done over the years :) I started with lots of stop motion stuff, if you can believe it :D It isn't everything of course, but it's a fair deal! I really started animating lots of things around 2020, so that's why there's so much after that year :'D There's tons of old stuff I'll never ever share anywhere else, and a couple new things you get to peek at :) β€ I saw... an enormous number of these getting uploaded :''D and I got inspired and just decided to go for it! β€ So here it is~ I only hope I can keep growing from here on out~!
Thank you for sticking around~ It means the world! β€β€β€
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiFaust, Midas and Myself - Timelapse/Speedpaint (CW)Birdisjell2022-04-17 | CW for flashing and whatnot, since the footage is pretty sped up! I tried to reduce it as much as possible u_u Sorry if it's still a bother!! :''0
(Can I really quick just say THANK YOU ALL FOR 850?? I couldn't make something like extra special because I just don't have time, but!! Thank you!! SOOO much AAA!!! π) I debated sharing this for a long while, but then I decided why the heck not. I've had the video fully edited for a while, just sitting in my files, so I thought I might as well put it out there π I was waffling mostly because people generally don't enjoy speedpaints (??? maybe?? At least not mine, lol?? :''D) and I don't really think the thumbnail came out too well, buttt maybe someone out there will like it, idk C:
Anywho this is the thumbnail entry I did for the Faust, Midas, and Myself Mothwing map that came out in... February :'') Can you tell that I've been sitting on this for a while haha. The little end credit illustration I did for it is also here! C: The map is based on the Little Prince, which is one of my favorite books OF ALL TIME DLFKJL so I just!! I couldn't not do something for it :''0 So this is what I did! Pleaseee go check out this map, it's - so amazing, and pretty, and everyone is literally incredible ;;o;; please give them all the love!!π :youtube.com/watch?v=nrWf2w03e1U
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Music: Faust, Midas and Myself by Switchfoot Rene's Song by Loopop Dover by The Westerlies
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiWARRIORS MAP Part 18Birdisjell2022-04-03 | What's this?? Canon cats on MY youtube channel?? Couldn't be.
Haha, I usually tend to gravitate towards original content because I love my ocs dearly, so fanart/fan-animation kinda things are kinda sparse on my channel, although I have been tempted to make things from time to time. And there are tons of cool map calls out there too that I'm tempted to join :')) They'll probably remain pretty sparse, but I hope you do enjoy them if and when they pop up here and there! ^w^
But yea! Warriors was a good part of my childhood growing up β€ Read them alongside one of my best friends in the whole world who introduced me (we kinda raced each other, even :'')), so it's got a special place in my heart β€ Firestar π₯Ίβ€ Haha~
So yea!! Was pretty stoked to be able to do this part. It's a pretty cool map! I still think we're open for backups, so if you're interested do give the call a visit β€ I've been working on this on and off since... July 2021?? x_x haha yea. You can't even see all the details in the final edit, but it's fine, I'm fine... :''''') (in hindsight I should've showed all of them in the process part.. it's... ok, it's fine, i'll do that next time xwx) I'm ok with how this turned out! Definitely could be better, but it was... an OBSCENE amount of cats (which is ENTIRELY my own fault, I did this to myself), so I'm happy I even got this done :''')
All the canon cat designs are gekkozilla's!! Let's see, in the second shot you can see most of them clearly... from left to right, front to back, ya got Bramblepaw, Tallstar, Firestar, Graystripe, Brightheart, Cloudtail, Sandstorm, Mudclaw, Onewhisker, Deadfoot, Dustpelt. Third shot ya got Blackstar, Tawnypaw, Sandstorm, Tigerstar, Scourge, Bone, Darkstripe. (before yew nerds get on me about how Bright wasn't at this battle technically, shh shhhh let her do what she wants β€ I actually included her because the person who used to have the part after me had her in it, but I mean how could I miss out on drawing my girl Brightheart?? β€) And in the credit art is Firepaw, based off of gekko's design again :)) As for the background Bloodclan cats, some of the people in the discord were kind enough to let me use their ocs!! β€ I'll try to link all the peeps that let me borrow them, and list who is whose (let me know if any of my links are wrong LSDKFJ)! They're all super cool artists, so please do check them out!! :))) β€ Treeetooop (gray and white kitty with blue collar, brown kitty with olive green collar, orange kitty with red collar): youtube.com/channel/UC_2Wh2PLGQX3gfmQOfOZh0w Flowerwave (dark gray kitty with orange collar, dark gray kitty with yellow collar): youtube.com/channel/UCarVxb2rLvjnnTX74h54gkw LunaTuna (chimera-esque colored black and white cat with dark blue/purple collar): youtube.com/channel/UCdQgzVDeRzwVurgW44Wlf0Q DariaFireStar (purplish/pink spotted cat with light blue collar): youtube.com/channel/UC0oVVeH3JoBj_kFHsSeASqQ Ironyche (light gray fluffy kitty with greenish collar): youtube.com/channel/UCEL_h-m9RHiXwTDNhUrSh8g
Thank you for reading, commenting, subbing, all that jazz!! It means the world to me β€β€β€
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Music: Warriors by 2WEI feat. Edda Hayes for the map part, they're SO cool please check them out if you haven't already β€ and Thunder by Telecasted for the rest β€
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiThe Jelle DanseBirdisjell2022-04-02 | Jellereele dances...
YEA HAHA ALDKJFL :'''''D I originally made a dance for sailorr's epic cool collab which you can find HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=GzOM_SafBYc and which you should totally GO watch if you haven't already!!!! β€ BUT. When I finished it, I realized... Jellereele is transparent. I can put her wherever. I. w a n t. So that's what I did LOL I just let her dance!! C: I had to speedrun this over the course of like two days to get it ready in time so it's veryyyyy rough around the edges - I simultaneously put too much effort into this and also not enough... u_u but!! I thought this would be something fun and lighthearted!!
And also a little quick way to say thank you all SO MUCH for 750!! β€ That's just wild, thank you for sticking around!! I'm so honored and flattered always that you like my stuff that much :'') β€ I hope this gives you a little smile today!! C: β€
ok funky background info time!! The funky fun little sad piano cover in the beginning is from here: youtube.com/watch?v=zme49jD4XQI&t=0s Very cool, go give likes and views and support and stuffff β€β€ The three ocs in order after Jellereele are Lavender, Swirl, and Melonheart C: sisters in crime haha β€ All the irl pics are from Unsplash! i STOLE this EPIC and totally COOL star effect from here uwu: youtube.com/watch?v=UQaNrTk_mLs&t=0s The music is THE dansen music... I think, lol.
That's it!! ;;w;; β€ I do have a very legitimate upload to share, either tomorrow night or Sunday!! I managed to finish another map part that took me like... months x_x so hopefully you can enjoy that instead, if you weren't too pleased with this one, haha!! β€
What's this?? A timelapse?? On my channel?? For Hollow Knight of all things?? Lol. It's HK's fifth anniversary today, and I really wanted to do something :'') I know this is a bit unprecedented, and not what most of you are subbed for, but I hope the few of you that see this will enjoy it~ I apologize in advance for accidentally forgetting to record literally the entire sketch phase and the initial lineart for little Knight x_x my bad haha - also let me know if it's too flickery?? I didn't think it was, but I'm definitely able to stick a content warning in the title and description if that's needed~ β€ ALSO ALSO ALSO the super AWESOME thumbnail was done by my amazing cool BROTHER!!! He's so TALENTED ILY BRO β€ I don't have a link for you, but I absolutely needed to shout him out because he made such absurdly cool text aldsfkjl β€
I honestly can't express how much I adore this game. Or well maybe I can, lol, here's what I wrote under my deviantart post, my little love letter of sorts for this game:
"Thank you Hollow Knight. You have given me an absolutely incredible journey that I will never forget, although sometimes I wish I could, just so I could experience the whole thing all over again. I have never experienced more joy or stayed up so, so late for a game, exploring every nook and cranny, discovering things and figuring out the absolutely wild lore. I will forever adore the beautiful world, the lovely art, and the wonderful characters. I will never tire of diving back into that world just to see it again~ You are such a difficult game, frustrating to no end on certain occasions - but it made every victory that much sweeter. I'm looking forward to whatever Team Cherry cooks up next, no matter how long it takes~ β€
Thank you for being such an awesome experience~ Happy 5th Anniversary~ β€"
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As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiConstellations - Warriors OC MAP Part 11Birdisjell2022-01-19 | Back in the day, Shimmerwish's mentor Melonheart told her all the old stories about the First Folk, Starclan, every whisker and tale that could be heard or found about the beginning of the Clans of the Valley Green. On a rainy summer night in the middle of a long and winding journey together, Marigoldkit asks for a story, and of course there's only one possible thing Shimmerwish can do...
Yoooo I've done it! Another beast of a map part down~ (βΒ΄β‘`β) As I write, I'm in my second week back to college and still being bamboozled, so what's new lol xwx I was a backup but I had a few months and this was due today HAHA but I did it, I got 'er doneeee β€
There's still a couple things I'm not completely satisfied with, like some of the camera movement (and the fact that I broke the 180 degree rule accidentally somehow and yet I'm an actual film major, what the actual hey -_- I hope it's not too off-putting, lol), but I'm just gonna let it be. Overall, I'm super happy with how it came out~ I really hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!! C: β€
In the first half, we have bapie Shimmerkit (gonna be Shimmerpaw real soon though lol) and Melonheart (hey remember when I said this was an AU of my original characters haha you'll never guess which character she's a proxy for π) Second half, we have adult Shimmerwish and Marigoldkit, and the kitties in the back from left to right are Peachberry, Bristlebreak, Shadefright, and Flowerstar :)) β€ Those of you who have been around a while, you've seen 'em all before :p The four kitty constellations will go unnamed for now, but I will give you the big giant hint that you've seen one of them already muahahaha aaaaa it's probably really obvious who it is now, lol :''')
Thank you for reading all that, watching the video, liking, commenting, all that jazz!! It is very much appreciated β€ A special thank you to all of you that stick around for me and my art, it means the world to me to know it's enjoyed! :) β€
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Music: Constellations by the Oh Hellos for the map part, The Gift by Reed Mathis for the rest!
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~BirdiAnimation 2021Birdisjell2022-01-10 | I'm late, as usual hahaaaa x_x β€ So I decided that I just wanted to be a little extra goofy just for the heck of it :'') Before anything else, a huge thank you to all of you supporting me, leaving comments, views, likes, even subscribing at times. It means so much more to me than you know, I appreciate it immensely. I truly value the time you spend on me beyond words, and I'm so grateful for all of you who stick around, for me!! That kinda blows me away every time, that you guys exist, that you legitimately like what I make, I can hardly believe it. Thank you so much β€ (although if someone could please maybe get me away from that 666 number, it doesn't matter which direction at all I'm just trying to have an uneventful year aightπ/jk β€ )
All this is pretty much all the stuff I worked on or at least posted in 2021, save for a few wips near the end! :'') So maybe those'll be fun and new for most of you? Idk, haha~
As I'm posting this, I'm returning back to the college grind, and of course I'm not pleased are you kidding I want to perish x0x I'm still optimistic, though, that maybe this quarter will be nicer to me than the last, haha? I'm not gonna lie, this year was really rough for me, especially as an artist. I don't think I've ever felt so small and slow and unprofessional. It's driving me up the wall, haha. I want so badly to believe that it's imposter syndrome on steroids and it's not real. It's at the point where I'm highly embarrassed posting these kinds of art summaries and reels because I don't feel like I'm... good enough to do it. Which the thought in itself is also highly embarrassing and silly to me, haha, but it's a feeling that exists -_- β€ I don't want to rant, because that's not fun and I don't want to make anyone feel bad. But I feel like I should be honest. I don't want to pretend that I'm just happy-go-lucky all the time and that I never feel lost or upset. I feel it plenty. It's hard to feel okay. So all of you out there that aren't feeling too hot... you really aren't alone.
...Okay. I'm done being extra silly and cheesy, haha. Please feel free to disregard and ignore the above paragraph (save for the part where you are not alone and your feelings matter 100%, got it?? /lh), you don't have to respond to or acknowledge any of that nonsense, I just really wanted to put these thoughts down somewhere and allow for a brief moment of openness and honesty β€ for anyone who might be looking for that or something, I don't know, I'm taking a chance here okay ;;o;;
That's all for now~!! I'll see youuu next time~ C: Ah uhhh the audio is In Every Way by Freedom Trail Studio! In case you wanted to know ^w^ β€
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; π ~Birdi/KirbyNoahs Ark - Winter Warriors OC MAP Part 16Birdisjell2021-11-26 | In which a proposal is made, although not one without consequence~
Ayyyy I'm back! Very briefly!! I have been very bamboozled by college, so everything I've been working on has been very slowww-going :') Thankfully I just had a week off for Thanksgiving break, so yayy!! Took the opportunity to speedrun this part which I got about a week ago (and hopefully progress in other projects too, lol) C: Not the fastest artist, but I really wanted to get this done in time for Thanksgiving because I thought it'd be appropriate, and maybe it's something nice to see after such a long time being gone, perhaps~! :')
Speaking of, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it!! I hope you had a nice time today β€
This might be a bit spoilery to say, but!! Your lovely lady on the left is Flowergrace, and the gentleman on your right is... let's call him Friend :) They're best friends who've just been through a really, really tough time. Flowergrace proposes a solution that is... the best she can think of. It's not ideal. It's a stretch to call it even remotely good. But it might be the only option they have... These two are super important to all the Warrior OC lore I've been building up, lol. Soo... you might see them again? :'') Hopefully with more context next time, haha~ Every Warriors OC you've seen so far exists in the same AU, for sure, and that's all I'm saying~ ^w^
Anyway!! Thanks for sticking around~ It means a lot to me that you do, even if I'm not a content-producing machine, or the best artist :') Thank you so much for appreciating my work and making me feel appreciated, too β€ β€ β€
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Music: Noah's Ark by the Young Heretics for the map part, Falling Snow by Aakash Gandhi for the rest!
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbyLyke-Wake Dirge - Villain MAP Part 19A, 15B, and 17C (CW)Birdisjell2021-08-31 | CW/TW for implied violence! 17C in particular. It's not anything that's really graphic, everything's silhouetted, it's just... v e ry heavily *implied* that it's graphic, haha. Thought I'd give fair warning. Also the quick transition in it may or may not warrant a flash warning, I'm not sure. Just be careful out there~ β€
So!! This might be my last upload for a good while, as I prepare to start - *shudder* - college again x_x But hopefully you might like that I'm leaving you with what are technically three separate map parts, although short. I've been working on these for the past five months on and off, basically in order, and just sped-run the last one so I can enter college with one less worry!! C: This was the last map part I had with a definite deadline, woot woot β€ Our assignment for this map was to take a part from three different sections of it, each in a different aspect ratio, and use those three parts to tell our villain's story! It's super cool!! Everyone's making such cool parts!! ;;o;; β€
So here are my three parts, featuring a few of my own OCs that you may have seen before! I was initially going to make this all about Belline, but I quickly realized that her story is pretty entwined with Drissian's, so now I have this. I tried to fit as much lore through all the details that I could β€
Do feel free to guess at the story!! I'm super interested in hearing how much of it I could get across in the animation alone C: β€ Feel free to ask questions as well if you're curious about something! I may or may not be able to answer, depending on how much I'm comfy revealing at this point, but do feel free to ask~ ^w^
Without being too spoilery, but here is some context and a few hints for ya if you desire it:
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All three parts are in chronological order, ABC! They don't take place right after each other, but they are definitely part of the same chain of events.
19A: Belline on the left, Drissian on the right, your premiere villains in the making~ They're lookin' down on some rather charred ruins. Doesn't look like much now, but it was once. And it wasn't too long ago, either.
15B: Basically you know tfw you make a public apology to somebody in front of literally everybody, but the person you're apologizing to proceeds to reject your apology and also slander and threaten you in the same breath, in front of literally everybody? yeah. Oof, this is a doozy. From right to left, we have Swirl (Personal guard of and sister to Melonheart), King Mahogany and his Second, Melonheart, Queen Lavender and her personal guard, Jellereele, Queen Bloom and her Second, Koi, Queen Soulsong and her Second, Ghastius, Kings Night, Day, and Veritas, King Aerius and his Second, Junie, and finally ya boi King Drissian and his Second, Belline, in front of a very nice humble crowd of the peoples these titans rule over.
17C: Belline and Drissian choose violence :O This one's more on the symbolic side, although what is happening pretty much did happen, just not exactly as depicted. Idk if that makes any sense. :''D Most every silhouette is a background character, except for Melonheart and Mahogany. And of course you have Drissian and Belline, and that unnameable dude behind the throne who's been in two other map parts D: who is that, i can't tell you yet asldfkj O-O
Every single character besides our two villains and... the dude... has something very important in common with each other. The lace might clue you in on what it is. Also, Melonheart's tears (:C) are that color on purpose (admittedly, that hint is a little out there. I didn't want to draw her eyes because drama so I compromised. That's another hint :p ). You can find clues/the answers to these in the description of Melon's ref sheet, actually! :0 I'll link it here if you're curious: deviantart.com/kirbyliscious/art/Melonheart-Reference-Sheet-2021-884934745
... I think that's it! Wow. That is a LOT :'D Thanks for reading all of that, or even just some of it, lol. I applaud your determination ;;o;; β€ Thanks also, for being even remotely interested in my OCs :''D These guys are my passion, so it means a whole lot to meee, you have my undying gratitude ;;w;; β€
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Music: A Lyke Wake Dirge by Matt Berninger & Andrew Bird for the map part (super cool song, you should check it out!! :0 ), Web Weaver's Dance by Asher Fulero for the rest~ (I adore coincidences like these ;w; )
As always, thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbyThis Will Be The Day OC MAP Part 21Birdisjell2021-08-22 | In which Belline goes absolutely feral-
AH okay, was backup again and then I got to pick up this part :0 So a big thank you to the awesome host, Mishi!! β€
For context, this is just me having fun animating with a single solid color background. So this is sorta not canon, in that it's?? Symbolic?? :''D Some of these characters are making their public debut here, but those of you who might be in another map with me will have seen a couple before. In order of appearance from left to right, we got ya girl Belline, Spire, Spark (in the back there), Melonheart, Mahogany, Drissian and uhhhh REDACTED because spoilers, lol, but I will tell you that it's the same dude from the Truth is a Cave map part I did ;)
This was... kind of a whirlwind of a part. Belline was... difficult... to animate, per usual. The tweening for that third shot where it pulls back and she jumps was DDD: I did it in Krita, I knew I was asking for it, but dang, asldkfjl :'''''D And to boot, it was nightmare to edit D: I made dumb mistakes that I had to go back and fix, and ended up having to re-edit the entire thing in Premiere Pro because Davinci glitched the final render for no apparent reason other than to completely waste my time :C So lol. Ouch.
Other than all that, I guess it turned out okay? :''D I have mixed feelings about it, but I think that nightmare editing process is tainting my perception. Hopefully you find it enjoyable to watch~ :')
On a sidenote, I finally got a toy.house, thanks to the generosity of an individual to whom I am highly grateful for!!! ;;O;; It's completely bare right now, but later on I can hopefully compile some nicely organized info for those of you who are actually interested in my characters, which I am completely flattered by, thank you so much ;;o;; β€ So if you're looking for something like that from me, it's on its way, haha β€
As always, thank you for reading all of that, haha!! π
Music: This Will Be the Day by Jeff Williams for map part (pretty cool song!! :0 Pls support artist(s)!! β€), Iron Fist by DJ Williams for the rest~!! (i agree, the coincidence is highly amusing :'))
~If you want to find me elsewhere, you can find me hereee~ xwx β€ Deviantart: deviantart.com/kirbyliscious Twitter: twitter.com/birdisjell Instagram: instagram.com/birdisjell Art Fight: artfight.net/~KirbyLiscious (Congrats to Team STEAM, thanks for pulling my weight ;;o;; lkasjdf also!! thank you everyone who came over from here to attack me, I super appreciate it! Every one of you absolutely made my day~ π)
Thank you for supporting me!! π Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbyThe Truth is a Cave MAP Part 13Birdisjell2021-07-29 | Melonheart, my beloved~ β€
Okiii, firstly thank you for 600!! ;;0;; that is super cool and amazing and I'm so blown away by all the support asdflkj!! I really can't express how grateful I am! Thank you so so much!! π
Also I'm being unnaturally active on this channel, lol, I'm not usually :0 I guess I'm just speedrunning a bunch of parts at once it seems, lol :''D I was backup (again, lol) and got this part a little over a week ago haha, so speedrun yes :'')
Now about the part!! It's for an experimental map, whose main rule was that you can't use digital art or animation (or at least, traditionally digital stuff? That sounds like an oxymoron, lol) - the only digital stuff should just be editing and whatnot. So you could do traditional art, animation, stop motion, photography, all that jazz!! It's really cool, we're almost done with the map and everyone's parts are so neat and awesome! OoO π
So for my part, everything you see is watercolor painting! I hand-painted all my assets on mixed-media paper~ The only digital is the editing, tweening, a a few touch-ups (my scanner has dust particles in it, lol), and a very light yellow overlay on the first background (which is a scanned in piece of plain white paper), and a slight dark overlay on the background of the last shot, to help Melonheart stand out just a tad more. But yeah! That's it! :D Sorry about the sketches being so light, haha. I know they're hard to see D: I needed to make it so that it wouldn't be too present in the end result!
It's a little rough because I did indeed speedrun it, but I hope you like it anyway~ uwu
For context, the little sheep bab is Melonheart! The lovely deer-ish lady is Queen Wisteria. That big ol' monster thing is... eh... spoilers, lol. I'm so happy I got to include Melon in a map part, finally XwX Also it's Queen Wisteria's first public appearance, haha~ β€ If you want to learn more about Melonheart, her ref sheet has a ton of info in the description~ uwu : deviantart.com/kirbyliscious/art/Melonheart-Reference-Sheet-2021-884934745 Also feel free to ask questions! I actually love talking about my ocs, and I'm super honored and flattered that people are interested in them ;;;w;;; That means a lot to me!! If it's too spoilery I can't answer, but please do feel free to ask :'') π
Thank you for reading all of that, haha!! π
Music: The Truth is a Cave by The Oh Hellos for map part (AMAZING SONG, EVEN MORE AMAZING BAND, PLS SUPPORT BAND PLZ ALSKD β€), Castleshire by Chris Haugen for the rest~!!
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbySIRENS Warrior Cats OC MAP Part 11Birdisjell2021-07-21 | Shimmerwish and co. sing with Dawnclan~ β€
Stick around or skip to the end to see Shimmerwish go through an existential crisis similar to the one I'm having right now :''D /pos
Because okay first of all hello??? Thank you for now almost 500 subscribers, what?? ;;0;; It jumped up as I was e d i ting this video, hellooooo??? I am so beyond blown away by all the support and the shout outs I've been getting asdflkj thank you?? I'm literally so so grateful, I can't believe that this many of you like what I'm doing and want to see more ;;0;; β€ I decided to speedrun this map part to say thank you instead of doing another milestone video because I figured it felt a bit soon for another, and I actually can't keep up with ya'll ;;w;; β€ I appreciate literally every single comment, like, sub, view, everything!! I'm super overwhelmed by it all, but in a good way!! I really can't thank everyone enough ;;w;; π ALSDKJ THANK YOU!! β¨πΈπ
Anyway about the actual map part lol I got it done faster because I decided not to be insane and limit my frames :''D The heaviest bits are on twos at the most! Drawn in Krita, tweened and tweaked in Moho Studio, and finally edited together with Davinci Resolve~
All of these cats have names XwX Several of them are background/side characters but they are all actual characters lol
They're all Dawnclan except for a few. In order of appearance and from left to right, ya got Blossomdusk and Squashhop, Bowband, ya girl Shimmerwish (Meadowclan), Bristlebreak (he's the salt n' pepper boi hidden behind the group lol), Peachberry (also Meadowclan), Flowerstar (Flowerclan lol), Shadefright and Marigoldkit (ya'll know who they are probably lol, they are in a weird spot right now with no clan allegiance XwX), Raspberrypaw, Strikestar, Robinpaw, and finally Tumblerind and her lil' BABIES Rollkit and Kindlekit! For most of them this is their first public appearance, say hello! :''D π For a little bit of story context, Shimmerwish and Peachberry are on a bit of a quest. They picked up Shadefright, Marigoldkit, and Flowerstar on their way to visit Dawnclan, who proudly call themselves the clan of singers, dancers, and revelers! So Strikestar is essentially encouraging Shimmer to forget her worries and let loose, haha β€
Thank you for reading all of that, lol π
Music: Sirens by Hop Along for map part (COOL SONG, SUPPORT BAND β€), New Morning by TrackTribe for the rest~!!
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/Kirby200 πBirdisjell2021-07-14 | ahhh here we are again ;;o;; Shadefright and Marigoldkit briefly break canon and also the fourth wall to say thank you~!! β€
I know it's not really a huge video, really a very very simple one, but!! I really felt the need to make something to say thank you again for getting me to this milestone!! I actually had something else planned, but that's going to take a while, haha and also a bunch of you guys showed up out of nowhere?? ;o; So I decided to whip this up instead!! ^^ β€
Sorry for the janky audio, I did it myself again :''D it felt strange without any sound in it, so I stuck some in ;w; I'm sorry if it's off-putting at all!! β€
I know it's not much, but I just had to say thank you somehow!! :'') Thank you so so much for sticking around and supporting me~ It means so much to me, I appreciate it more than words can say!! Very grateful for you all!! I want to keep on making cool stuff that you all can enjoy, and I hope I don't disappoint!! ^w^ β€
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbyStorm King Warriors OC MAP Part 19Birdisjell2021-06-30 | THE BEAST. IT IS FINISHED. β€
Smol babie Marigoldkit and her overprotective, gruff uncle/guardian Shadefright finally exit the Forest and enter the Meadowlands~ π
First animation with these two knuckleheads!! Lol, haha, I feel like I've been fighting this map part since almost the beginning. It started with me saying "I wanna make him walk across the screen!!" and it all went downhill from there x_x I have spent SO long redrawing lines, doing little extra things, fixing stupid stuff, and feeling generally frustrated with myself and my work and how dumb and l o n g I was taking with it AHH! But now it's done! And I'm... pretty happy. :) There's stupid mistakes still, and stuff I just couldn't get right, as there always is, but I worked so hard on it, and it's the best animation I've done so far, so... it's okay~ β€ Still kinda terrified that I will never get any better than where I am, but I think I'm improving, even if only a little, so that's good~ :') Also Marigoldkit looks cute as hecc and I am reminded how much I luv my little baby beanie~ uwu π also Shade is fluffy I guess haha I'm kidding I love him too uwu π As a fun fact all my Warriors OCs are actually my original characters in a Warriors AU setting, so OwO maybe in the future, you will see them lookin a little... different? Haha ^w^
But yeah! Was technically a backup, then I had some free time and asked for an open part, which zoompidgeon was kind enough to grant me THANK YOU SO MUCH ;;0;; This is like two months overdue because college attempted to take my life, so haha uhhh ;;w;; I've just finished what was the worst quarter I've ever had in my entire life, so finally being able to finish this beast of an animation is both relieving and very satisfying π
So anyway this is 24 fps and most of it is on ones OwO haha also remind me never to attempt to hand-tween anything in Krita again, ever β€β€β€
Anyway, thanks as always for watching the video, maybe even the whole video, and maybe also reading my long, long rants uwu I don't blame people for wanting to skip my descriptions lol, so thank you β€
π In all seriousness, I really, really appreciate all your support~ It means so, so much to me, and I hope you know that I am beyond grateful for all of you who take the time to bother with my work!! It's why I'm even sharing it in the first place, haha. I will forever be constantly surprised and deeply flattered that anyone would actually like what I make~Thank you so much~ πππ
Music!: Storm King by Big Tree for map part (GOOD SONG, SUPPORT BAND β€), When We Found the Horizon by Late Night Feeler for the rest~
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/Kirbydollhouse - WOF Whiteout MAP - Thumbnail Entry Speedpaint (Flash Warning!)Birdisjell2021-05-02 | *A quick warning that the video does flash a good bit, because apparently I'm a complete maniac when it comes to flipping the canvas and zooming in, out, and around it :C (Also this took me like eight hours, so I had to speed it up a lot haha so it looks REALLY bad-) Sorry about that!! I tried to edit out all the worst bits, so that's why there's some "skipping" and whatnot :'D I'm learning ahhhh I'll try to figure out a better way to record myself in the future~ β€ *Also the subject matter is a little creepy? ^^" So uhhh if that's not your cup of tea haha I totally get it β€ Here's your heads-up~ π
But anywho, yayyy! The first speedpaint on my channel! :D I know it's not animation, which is probably why most of you are here, but I hope you like it anyway? ^w^" β€
Real quick, I pull up a quick screenshot from one of the participant's map parts while painting! :0 I wanted to reference the actual paintbrush that'll show up in the map, haha~ The design is similar, but I tweaked the colors a bit for unity C: Here's a link to that part, also i demand you go check out everyone else's they're so coooool they're so talented ahdlkfajsdl- x0x : youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pYL_sK5_I&list=PL9ucNwuBx3qpGtKUKWafIVGt0cRMT0p3L&index=6
Also I went back to fix a couple very big smol-brained things after I stopped recording so laskdjf that's why it looks a teeny bit different at the end haha~ β€
I'm busy working on map parts and college, so this was very impulsive of me, haha. I just really really love the whole concept and aesthetic and designs for this map??? and everyone in it is so talented??? also I love Whiteout to pieces π asldkfj π I was feeling so inspired and I just had to try my hand at a thumbnailll β€ There's so many?? Amazing entries out there already?? That I really don't think I'm going to win, haha, but! I had a lot of fun, and I'm actually still pretty happy with it! So I hope you like it, too! ^^ β€
The song is Dollhouse by Melanie Martinez (or at least, the clean version, which is what's in this video and which you can find here :D : youtube.com/watch?v=GiGGrzTsz4M
The original version should be very easy to find ;) ) To be absolutely clear, I don't claim any ownership of this song, and the vid isn't monetized~ ^^" and I'm happy to change the music if the owners ever a serious problem with it in the future~ ^w^ β€
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbyThe Crooked, The Cradle Warriors OC MAP Part 13Birdisjell2021-02-05 | After what feels like a r e a l l y long time chipping away at this thing in my free time, I'm finally done with it!! x0x β€ It's not perfect by any means (I'm especially frustrated with the timing, conSARNit -n- β€), but!! I know I did my best~ I just really hope ya'll enjoy it! C: β€ For context, as the medicine cat of Meadowclan, one of Shimmerwish's duties is to receive and interpret dreams n' visions - this is a particularly important dream (hence the green pupils and weird stuff happening) that I don't want to spoil right at this moment - I'll just say that it leads to her going on the journey that she was comin' back from in the End of the Earth map part! C: β€ So yee! Ton of stuff I wish I could fix, but I gotta leave it as it is and learn from it for next time! x0x β€
The music for the map part itself is from The Crooked, The Cradle by the Crane Wives~ Cool music, cool band uwu β€ The rest of the music is Moonrise by Reed Mathis (I use a lot of their music, huh? ;w; β€)
Map call link!!: youtube.com/watch?v=D2AfG0frOTc (If you're lookin' for a map you should totally check it ouuuttt, there's a part left for someone to take!! C: Help us finish ittt, be a part of awesomeness!!! π)
BIG THANK YOU to the host Sunbird for letting me take this part~!! ;;;0;;; π
Woof, this was a b e a s t to finish~!! I mostly blame it on Belline, since I animated half of her on ones~ -w- β€ Big ouchie~ I was backup on this MAP and then got the chance to do this part, which I was verryyy excited for, so I kinda speedran this a little~ :''D I wanted to get it all done before going back to college, and yayy!! I managed to do it, ahhh!! X0X π *falls over* β€ I'm super super grateful to be a part of such a gorgeous map with amazingly talented animators~ ;;w;; β€ I'm actually really anxious about this part because it's very tonally different from everyone else's so far, and... about the most intense I've ever gotten in my art, haha~ ^^" π And everyone else's parts are also just alskdfj so gorgeous?? I tried my best to match the visual prettiness everyone's put out so far~ ;;w;; I hope I did okay!! π
For context, the big bad meanie goat-lady Belline beat up poor Spark and made her twin sister Spire very a n g e r y~ :0 π (This is sorta canon to their actual backstories? This fight takes place, but in a much... nastier location, ahaha~ ^^" No spoilers for nowwww~) π
MAP part audio is from "Cold" by the Oh Hellos! (please please check them out they're such a fantastic band, ahhhhhhh~ x0x π) The other audio is "Peaceful Conclusion" by Asher Fulero! Which is very pretty, and... uh... very ironic~ XwX β€
Uhmmm, yeah, I think that's it! :0 β€ I hope you enjoyed the animation!! Thank youuu for all the support, it means so much to me~!! β€ππππ
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ ~Birdi/KirbyAnimation 2020Birdisjell2020-12-28 | I realized that I've actually done a lot more animating this year than I thought, so... I figured I would put all of it in a video! :D π Most of it is a little silly and simple stuff, but I hope you enjoy seeing it anyway~ π
The music is Pine Street by Reed Mathis~ β€ I didn't include any of the music from the MAP parts because... uh... most of these animations didn't have any audio, and it sounded very weird and off to me while editing to have MAP part audio randomly cutting in~ XnX So... yeah. Haha. :') I would have included it otherwise~ β€
I made a Summary of Art post as well on my other platforms, and this is essentially how I feel about my animations, too, so I'mma copy-paste most of it below:
This year has been... really productive for me, actually, in terms of art! I got into Krita, which I absolutely love~ β€ I got into animating more, which is awesome, I love it so much~ ;;w;; β€ I got into digital a lot more, and I feel a little better about it! C: β€ And I finally got a screen tablet, which is asdlfkjl I absolutely adore it and will miss it immensely when I leave it behind to return to college~ ;;;O;;; β€
My own positive feelings toward my art have kinda... tanked? A bit? It's always been a roller coaster with how I feel about it, but the closer we got to the end of this year, the more just... kinda terrible I felt about it, I don't know. I keep feeling like I'm a terrible artist and like I'm lying to myself or something. I can't stop comparing myself to others, even though I know I shouldn't, and it's kinda driving me crazy, haha. I'm struggling really hard to be okay with where I'm at. It's definitely a process, and not one I'm really succeeding at right now, but... it's ok. I'm gonna figure out how to be ok. β€
I'm super excited for next year~!! β€ I've got plans, and stories, and I can't wait to share it all~ :') β€ I want to really be active when it comes to my art. I have so much I want to do. I hope I get to do it all~ β€
Anyways, a huge thank you to all of you out there supporting me, watching my vids, giving me likes, subs, leaving comments, even reading my long as hecc descriptions, etc.!! It means a lot, it really does. I am so grateful for it all, for every single one of you that took the precious time to do that~ β€ Thank you so much!! β€
Welp, that's enough rambling, haha! If you have any questions about any of these animations, or really anything, feel free to ask! ^w^ β€ See you all later~!! β€
Much love, ya'll~ ;w; ππππ100 πBirdisjell2020-12-15 | actually happened ya'll are crazy
π There's now over a hundred of you subscribed to me, and it's so insanely surreal I almost can't believe it~ Guys it's literally been like a week and now there's suddenly like a hundred more of you what's happening I-- XwX β€
So I decided to celebrate this smol milestone with a very messy, silly video~ ;w; Because I just wanted to say thank you all, literally so much~ β€ I've never gotten this kind of support for anything I've ever made before, and it's literally blowing me away, ahhhhh~ π To be honest, I haven't been feeling very hot about my art for the past... few months? For a while now, so waking up to all that support after I posted my last map part literally made my entire year, you have no idea~ β€ I feel so overwhelmed and grateful and blessed by ya'll, I really can't thank you all enough~ ;;;;w;;;; π
Umm, let's see, to finish off my typical ramblingg~ the cute feline is mah girl, Swirl, and the squishie birb is my other girl n' channel mascot, Jellereele/Silvertale~ ;w; β€ Two of my many babbus β€ I made the audio myself, so that's why it's kinda janky, haha~ XwX β€
I screenshot a bunch of the comments I got on the End of the Earth map part and stuck 'em in, as well as HarvestBrook's super sweet shoutout~ XoX Which, by the way, I blame for everything that's happening to me right now, literally go sub right now- youtube.com/channel/UCFrr3MGDZe92XWSm687dSQw/featured I also found out through a YouTube email that two?? People actually shared my video(s)?? But YouTube didn't notify me for the other one~ XOX so if you promoted me too, literally thank you so much, ahhhh, I don't deserve you!!! π
I was going to slide like a hundred subscribe buttons in there as a funny detail, but only got around to like fifty before I completely lost count, and Krita was startin' to get overloaded to boot~ XoX But I guess it's okay, since I did get like fifty of ya'll literally overnight oh my goodness tysm-- β€ I hope the warning is fine, I just wanted to make extra sure that the stuff I make doesn't hurt or bother anyone, because that would be terrible and the absolute worst~ β€ stay safe, folks~ XoX π
Um um ummm, shameless self-promotion time now I guess?? Since right now I'm in college and I only do animation on this channel (currently, maybe?? O.O), which takes a while, I tend to be a teeeny, sliiiightly bit more active in terms of content on my other socials~ XoX Sooo ahhh, you can follow me there if you want to?? (O///O)" ππ π DeviantArt: deviantart.com/kirbyliscious Twitter: twitter.com/birdisjell Instagram: instagram.com/birdisjell
Umm... I guess that's it!! Whew, that was a lot of writing! ^w^"
TL;DR, uhhh, thank you so much for all the subs, the likes, and the awesome comments!! Sub to HarvestBrook!! I'm literally so flattered and honored that you all decided to stick around. I hope I don't disappoint~ Thank you~ n' seeya later! (βΒ΄β‘`β) ππβ€End of the Earth Warriors OC MAP part 23Birdisjell2020-12-07 | *Oh alsdkfjkl, I forgot, uhhhh context context, um - after a long journey away, Shimmerwish finally finds herself in her home territory~ β€
After a couple months of sporadic working and several days straight of slaving away at this, I'm finally done with my third map part! :D β€ Have that and a silly little process video to go with it~
I... I kinda went ham on it. OwO" Bunch a' stuff I wish I had done better, but overall I'm really happy with how it came out~ β€All I really want to know is if I improved from the last ones, haha, and if I did I'll be satisfied~ :'D
So like... the audio that I animated the original part to has been blocked in the actual map call~ O_O So, all the stuff you're hearing right now is not going to be in the final map, haha~ What we're planning on doing is using a cover, but we'll see what happens! β€ I might upload another video later with the actual audio we end up using, we'll see~ β€
So yeah! The original music was "Ends of the Earth" by Lord Huron! C: β€Most of the music you hear in the video is "There Are Chirping Birdies in My Soul" by Reed Mathis, which funnily enough, I just picked because I liked how it sounded, so the title and my name is pure coincidence~ :'D β€ That being said... I really, like it. OwO"
It's fate~ β€
Not sure if I did the bluescreen alright, since it's my first time doing it. Had to color correct it a lil' bit, so we'll see if it stays in the final map or not~! :') β€
Uhhhwweee, I've been yammering for a while, I don't think there's anything else to talk about?? Other than wow, finally an upload, lol~ β€ Now I have three whole videos on my channel instead of two~ :') β€
Uhhhh, happy holidayyysss, see you laterrr~ β€ππ
EDIT II: Here's a link to the map part with the audio that's going to be in the final map instead, if you want to hear it!! :) We ended up using a cover, haha~ : youtu.be/8FmTZZPpbd8Geoxor Virtual OC MAP - Part 20Birdisjell2020-09-25 | EDIT 11/2022: Not sure if anyone is lurking around here anymore, but I've literally just discovered that the artist who made this song is really not the best person ever. Which is really disappointing. I will be leaving the original description unedited and both of these videos up purely for archival purposes, but for future viewers please be mindful. I believe the artist apologized a bit ago, and I like to believe the best of people, but I'm also not sure how genuine that apology was as I'm very much out of the loop here. Apologies myself. Thank you for understanding.
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Second map part, hahaha~ XwX π The second I've ever made in my life, haha~
... This is really fun. XwX Ahhhh, it's like super super messsyyy, so much I want to fix still, but! It's already super late as is, ahhh- Just gotta settle for doing better next time~ uwu β€οΈ
MAP call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBo8X... As of now it's still open, so if you can please join and get this MAP done!! :D π You can find the awesome song heeerree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oklzV...
A big thank YOU to the wonderful map host, TofΕ« BΓͺgΓΊrΓΌ, who is lsdkjflaskdf soooo patient, thank you so much for giving me extra time and being so nice, justtt, thank youuuuu!!! πβ€οΈGeoxor Virtual OC MAP - Part 11Birdisjell2020-09-25 | EDIT 11/2022: Not sure if anyone is lurking around here anymore, but I've literally just discovered that the artist who made this song is really not the best person ever. Which is really disappointing. I will be leaving the original description unedited and both of these videos up purely for archival purposes, but for future viewers please be mindful. I believe the artist apologized a bit ago, and I like to believe the best of people, but I'm also not sure how genuine that apology was as I'm very much out of the loop here. Apologies myself. Thank you for understanding.
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Ahhhh, my very first MAP part is finally done!! XoX β€οΈ Very, very late, but done!!
Aaand it's also the first video on this channel. Haha. XwX β€οΈ It's suuuper messy, really really messy, and there's so much I wish I could fix, but I had to stop nit-picking and just finish it. But!! This was super fun, and I hope I can do more things like this in the future!! ;o; β€οΈ And hopefully better, too, ahaha~ XwX β€οΈ
A big thank YOU to the wonderful map host, TofΕ« BΓͺgΓΊrΓΌ, who is lsdkjflaskdf soooo patient, thank you so much for giving me extra time and being so nice, justtt, thank youuuuu!!! πβ€οΈ