Liz Ard

WIP: Many things to work on!

Hello! Weekly WIP, starting a new one - again! Well, two, actually.

I already mentioned briefly the GMV idea haunting my mind since Heartache came out, and it didn't stop. So I've been working little by little on it in parallel with something else. And now I have a timeline!

2025-04-18 10:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Triple Triad Card

New video!!! It's actually pretty fun making simple projects between the most time consuming ones. A silly one to raise awareness of a VERY GRAVE ISSUE WITH THE GAME: the lack of G'raha Tia Triple Triad cards. Thank you for the instax emote for the inspiration for this. It really was the first thing that came to mind.

The 3 Alphinaud & Alisaie cards actually exist - just like 3 other Y'shtola cards, 3 Thancreds, 2 Urianger, 2 Tataru...and even Unei and Doga from the CT quest. How co...

WIP: Triple Triad G'raha cards SOON

Hello~ weekly update!

Finally a good week when I don't feel sick anymore, work went well enough AND I'm almost done with the new video already! Who could imagine going to the hospital would actually make me get better faster, huh...

The animation of that one was actually pretty fast except for one shot. There's only the final part left, which I'm probably going to be done with next week!

Behind the Scenes: Eternal Bonds M

Hello! Today I have for you a short Behind the Scenes for the Eternal Bonds Mobile video!

I'm back with the Patreon videos~

I'm sorry for the delay! I'm still not feeling 100%, but I'm getting better. You might notice that my voice isn't at its best...I hope it's not an issue.

I tried showing a little bit of every part of the video and some interesting things about each one!

If you have any questions, or if there's anything you'd like to see in more detail, let me know...

Eternal Bonds MOBILE! A FFXIV Otome game

Happy April 1st! With the FFXIV Mobile announcement, it only felt logical to make a mobile version of Eternal Bonds as well!

Just like last year, it's not really a "prank" the kind you usually see today. The joke is more like that I'm delusional and I'd play the hell out of this if it was real - although this one is gacha, so I kinda not want it to be. I'd be an easily exploitable fool. Maybe I should add a bonus shot there at the end with Lizard having spent all her gil for that SSS. 2025-04-01 09:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP, Life Update and new Live Wallpaper

Hello! I'm late...and sick. But I finally started recovering! :')

I'm sorry, didn't say anything earlier so this doesn't just become my personal blog without any project updates, but it's been so long since I was able to actually make a patreon video and I'm feeling really guilty about it.

I was hopeful that I'd get a lot done this week because I had finished the video I'm going to post ...

WIP: Almost ready for launch!

Hello! Weekly WIP update...

First of all, I'm sorry about no patreon video in a little while. I was working on the wet shirt tutorial, but while recording for Thancred, I realized following the same method I did it for G'raha didn't work very well. I'm trying to figure out a better, more guaranteed way to achieve it, but I will have to test it out with more characters. I think it's better to m...

WIP: Excited to share this!

Hello! If last week I was late, now I'm a little early, but I really wanted to share this week's progress, and couldn't wait one more day!

Maybe it's because I focused on G'raha and that made me happy, or maybe it's because this actually looks good...though it's G'raha, so that's a given. Anyway, I'm just happy with how this came out, so I really wanted to post this.

I always want to lea...

WIP: A little late!

Hello! A little late with the weekly post.

I wish I had more to show but there was a lot going on this week!! I'm starting to get worried that I might not be able to finish everything I want to do, but as I said, I will try to keep it simple if I have to. This week and the next I will work on the most important parts, which are the ones that have G'raha in it, of course. :x

2025-03-08 13:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial: Adding new bones to a rig

Hello! Today I made a simple tutorial on how to add new bones to a rig.
Sometimes you might need bones for areas you want to move but can't, or maybe you're adding new parts to the rig that you want to control. Or maybe you just don't like certain bones that come with the rig and want to make your own.

You can also use this to maybe fix how certain bones move that you might not be happy with.

I tried to keep it simple, but there are many other tools that can help you with the ...

WIP: April 1st!...in a month

Hello! First post about the new project~

From today on, I have pretty much a month to finish the April 1st video I really wanted to make, and that's what I'm already working on! I already got started this week and it's going well. First, I want to try to get the whole structure done, and use until the last second to keep adding details and animations whenever I can. I'm working with a fixed de...

Behind the Scenes: Screenshot Saved

Hello! The Behind the Scenes for the Screenshot Saved video is here!

I went quickly over some of the new things I did and learned in this video, and how I planned it~

I didn't go in depth on how to do the new rendering and lighting things, but if anyone's interested, let me know and I'll be happy to go over them! I'm still learning more about it all though, so I hope I get to show more of this and improve on it in the future. :)

If you have any questions, let me know.

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Screenshot Saved: Live wallpaper download!

Hello~

Today instead of a regular weekly WIP, I want to share a little downloadable gift! :)

This was actually SundaeOwl's idea, requested last week when I posted a preview of the sleeping G'raha animation, to have it as a loop to use as an iPad live background. Thank you very much for asking for it! I'm really happy you enjoyed it!!!

I decided to share it with everyone here too, as...

Screenshot Saved

New video! A quicker and simpler one this time, before I get started on another longer project.

This one is my own version of the start of the second cutscene of the "Friends Gathered" quest in Endwalker, because there is no way having G'raha Tia sleeping there like that wasn't meant to be /gpose bait. I can't be the only one! He just looks so cute, and if you time the screenshot juuuust right...

I actually meant to finish that one faster than I did, but I got excited with a few n...

Behind the Scenes: Me playing Mahjong

Hello! Today's video is the Behind the Scenes of the Mahjong video~

I tried to include some of the things I found more interesting about it, I hope you enjoy it!

I was just double checking though, 2 hours of voice lines recordings might've been an exaggeration, since some of the recordings I mentioned also include backgrounds, getting the ambient sounds and music as well! If you noticed, the backgrounds are not static screenshots, but screen recordings, so I could get the nat...

WIP: New video next week?!

Hello! WIP update for the video I'm almost finished~

As I mentioned last week, I wanted it to be a short one...and there's only 2 shots left to animate! :D

One of them is the longest one, and the most important to get right for the idea to work. But I'm pretty confident that I can finish it for next week.

2025-02-14 09:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Liz Ard's canon Timeline

Hello! Today I'm going to put all my videos so far in chronological order, and share some curiosities on how they fit together, my ideas and headcanons for my characters and talk about her journey with G'raha a little bit. :)

Also because I didn't have stuff to fill in all of the 15 minutes, I'm animating (in real time) in the background, so you can see how it looks without speeding up the video. I actually move things verrry slowly. :P

My Lizard isn't exactly a complete self inse...

WIP: And a new one starts!

 Hi! I hope you enjoyed the Mahjong video! :D

I've been enjoying reading the comments and reactions on it this week, and I'm so happy many people seem to like it! I like being able to show a lot of people G'raha being the most supportive and cutest Mahjong companion~

And there were people interested in trying out Mahjong too! Yess, do it! For the best boy!!! And for the game, it would be n...

Me playing Mahjong

IT'S DONE! :D

I just spent the last 2 months animating to say "I don't know how to play Mahjong". But I will if that means having G'raha Tia talk to me while I do it.

Funny thing is, because of this, I actually learned a little more Mahjong than I did when I started, and now I want to keep playing and get better at it. It's pretty fun when it actually starts to make sense!

I had to research, ask for help and learn the rules to add a few small jokes for Mahjong players. For e...

WIP: Even later update...

Hiii! I...skipped last week's WIP update because, well, I failed.

Some of you might have noticed that sometimes, when I'm about to finish a video, I do this thing when I get impatient and do nothing but work on the video I have, hoping that instead I will make a "New Video" post in its place.

But then, this weekend, I tried that and didn't finish it. Oops.

HOWEVER!

This weeke...

Replicating UI Elements

Hello! Today's video is a little quick overview on the UI elements in my videos, how I usually think about them and how they work.

I'm sorry for taking so long with this! Thank you so much SundaeOwl for asking about it!!! I'm really happy you were interested in it~ <3

Also, to complement the video, I'd like to share some of the elements I used here. I...

WIP: A late update!

Hello!

A littleee late with my usual WIP post, but everything's fine! Weekend was a bit busy, that's all.

Honestly, not a lot of new things to share about the project. It's almost done...but there's still a lot to do. I feel like everytime I try to finish a scene I end up adding a few more seconds to it. I hope it doesn't get too long. But I basically finished the first part!

2025-01-20 14:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Project Setup Basics! Beginner Tips and Guides

Hello! Today's video is a beginner Blender tutorial to complement my How to Get Started video.

Here I show some of the basics of opening a Blender file, how I start setting up and organizing my projects, how to set up a reference to animate, and how Scenes in Blender works and how I use them to help in my projects.

I hope it's helpful, specially if you're just getting started!

WIP: Getting back on track!

 Hello! Again, happy new year! It's been a little while since a WIP post.

The last couple of weeks of December were a little more busy than I had planned, and now I'm trying to put everything back into place, and also getting a few new jobs that I have to balance with my G'raha projects. But it's going to be fine! I might struggle a little bit these first couple of weeks of January, but I think ...

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great time during New Year's Eve and is getting a nice start to this new one.

 I want to thank you all SO MUCH for supporting me here, no matter for how long and for how much. This was my first year opening up Patreon, and I never expected to get this much support. Not only it's really motivating, but also very helpful for me in many ways as well. I don't think I cou...

How to get Started! Beginner Tips and Guides

Hello! Here is my updated version of the "How to get Started" video. In this video I go over the software I use and recommend, where to get started learning, and how to learn animation. I hope this is helpful!

Down here I will link everything I've mentioned up there, from download links, to video recommendations.

Also, an extra advice that I didn't mention in the video: In the end, the most important thing to make the most of any learning journey in my opinion is to find out how Y...

WIP: Mahjong, and the Holidays

Hello! Weekly update, on the project and some of my plans!

I'm slowly working on the Mahjong video. Got to plan most of the scenes from the second part, and have seconds basically done and animated! :D

I've been learning more about mahjong as well, playing it a little more and doing my research, as well as getting help from a mahjong enthusiast friend, and I could include a few things th...

WIP: Mahjong video begins!

Hello! Back to my WIP updates because there's WIPs to talk about again~

After the poll it ended up...tied between Mahjong and Champion of Eorzea. Well, it's my fault for having 3 options. I remember seeing Mahjong winning most of the time I checked back and most comments were about it, so I went with that one!

2024-12-13 09:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Behind the Scenes: Eorzea Academy opening - part 2

Hello! Here is the second part of the Behind the Scenes of the Eorzea Academy opening video.

I try to give a general look of how my Blender files look, how the outfits were done, my Premiere timeline and some of the props used.

I hope you all like it! Let me know if you have any questions or something you'd like to see next.

Thank you very much for watching, and for your support!

Behind the Scenes: Eorzea Academy Opening - part 1

Hello! Today's video is a Behind the Scenes of the Eorzea Academy opening.

It was getting pretty long so I'm splitting it in two parts! In this one I want to talk about about all of the anime and manga references I tried to include, how the idea came for certain parts and some of my choices while making it.

Then, next week I will try focusing more on the technical aspect of making it. Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to know!

I hope you enjoy it. Thank you...