Liz Ard

Some Liz Ard Lore + Timelapse

Happy sunday~ :)

Today's video is a timelapse of what I've been working on, while I talk a little about me and my character. I won't be able to really convey everything I imagine about her in the video even when I complete it, so I just wanted to share a little, if anyone's curious!

I always love seeing people's unique characters and headcanons, so maybe someone here would like to know a little more about Liz Ard? Other than the videos, I don't really write out this stuff anywhere...

WIP: Two more weeks?

Hello, another weekly update!

This week's been very chill for me. I'm trying to balance my job with animating this video, and it's going well enough. I always wish I had more time to do this, since it's so much more fun to animate G'raha instead of working, but it's fine. Just having some free time to do this already makes me happy! (although sometimes I do want to use that free time to keep g...

Tutorial: Making characters cry

Hello! Happy sunday~

Today's video is a step-by-step tutorial on how I make Lizard cry in my videos.

First, start by saying G'raha won't be in Dawntrail---

...just kidding (or am I?!)

Please let me know if this is useful to you and if you like this kind of video! I know it's very specific, and I wondered how useful it could actually be. I tried to make it so even if you're not trying to do exactly that, or you're just getting started, maybe there might be someth...

WIP: The beginning!

 It's thursday again already?! That was fast...

Hello! I hope everyone's doing well.

I had a family emergency at the start of the week so I feel like the days went by on a blur (don't worry, everything's fine now! Always wear helmets when riding a bike, it saves lives). After that I was able to finally decide and start working on my next video, and that will be the flashback one I mentione...

Starting a Video: Adding Sounds

Hello, happy sunday!

Today's video shows the process of making the audio for "You're not Alone".

It's something I find really fun to do, and ever since I started making videos I'm always listening to new cutscenes and moments ingame noticing new audio clips I could use.

I forgot to mention in the video, but you see that little audio bar at the right of the timeline? You want to keep an eye on it to know if the volume is too high or loud. I've heard somewhere that ideally the...

WIP: New Ideas

Me: I won't do any complicated long videos for a while.
Me one week later: So I've got this 1+ minute long layout of emotional ARR flashbacks---

Hello! Happy thursday. :D
These past few days I've been thinking about what video to do next. I've got a few ideas, but I still need to really plan them out to see which ones are going to work. Some of them are getting pretty long and complicated.....

Starting a Video: Post-production and Visual Effects

Hello! Happy...monday. :')

Today's video is a general look on how I build the VFX for the last video!

I think this is a really relaxing part of the whole process, and every little thing you add it feels like it make such a huge difference! I think the learning curve of Premiere is pretty comfortable as well, so if you're interested in starting out in an editing software, I really recommend it, specially if you've used photoshop or something similar before!

I ended up not mak...

You're not Alone

New video out! You're not Alone. :D

The video name is the quest of the original cutscene, by the way...titles are so hard to decide on.

I hope you enjoyed it! It's a short and sweet one this time. After that really challenging otome video, it was relaxing to do something I'm more used to making.

Not a lot more to add for context, if you've played Endwalker, then you know everything there is to know. If you didn't, I can't really tell anything else without it being a spoiler....

WIP: One shot left!

Hello! How was everyone's week? For me, this was another fast yet productive one!

I might be able to finish my new video very soon, finally! There's only one shot left to animate, then I need to build the audio for it and finish the visual effects...though I can't help myself and end up making them between animating the shots because I really want to see how it's going to look!

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Starting a Video: Rigging Characters

Hello! Happy Dawntrail benchmark release day! I'm about to check it out after this. :D

Today's video is how I rigged Emet and Hythlodaeus for the UT Reunion video. This is not really a tutorial but I still try to show and explain some of the things I always do, like how I like to set up the eyes, while also talking about how I try to solve things when they don't work out as well. Instead of going in depth on how things work and the theory behind it, I like to approach things in a way ...

WIP: Rigging more characters

Hello! Is it just me or did the week go by incredibly fast?!

I still have lots of work to do but I feel like I can handle my schedule a little better. In exchange I haven't been active in social media at all, my twitter's been bit abandoned this past week. All of the G'raha fanart yet to be seen!!!

I've been slowly able to work on more shots of the UT video, and I finally got to start (and fini...

Behind the Scenes: Eternal Bonds

Hello, and happy sunday!
Today's video is a quick Behind the Scenes of Eternal Bonds, my otome game video. I don't go much into technical stuff, but I talk a lot about my ideas, where some of the assets like voice clips and references came from, while I play a timelapse of some of my animation work. I hope you like it! Sorry in advance for getting a bit overly excited there and for how many times I say "otome games". :P

Feel free to ask if you have any questions about it.

Tha...

WIP: Time to get organized!

Hello! Weekly update time.

First I want to welcome the new supporters! There's a few of you and I am SO grateful for you being here. I hope you enjoy your stay, and as I always say in every post, if there's anything specific you want to see or if you have any questions, just comment or send me a message and let me know! I usually post a weekly updates every thursday, and a full video on sundays.

Eternal Bonds - A FFXIV Otome Game!

NEW TRAILER OUT FOR ETERNAL BONDS!!! A romance otome game with the Scions!!!!!!

...if only. Happy April Fools! :')

That's me, I'm the fool that spent like 1+ month making this. I hope you like it! I've been looking at it for so long that I don't know if I do anymore. lol I do wish it was a real game, though - I was 100% motivated by my delusional wishful thinking of wanting this to be a thing.

I have to admit, it was SO WEIRD animating Lizard with anyone other than G'raha! I...

Starting a Video: Animating the First Shot

Good morning! Happy sunday!

Today's video is the animation of the first shot of the Ultima Thule video we've been working on lately. I start from the layout we had before with the lights and go to full animation. I also show you my usual render settings and how to render the animation. Total of time to animate this shot was around 3 hours! Enjoy the Sailor Moon BGM this time~

As always, I'm here if you have any questions or requests.

Thank you very much for you support...and...

WIP: IT IS DONE!

Now I'm just waiting for the right moment.

As I commented in my last post, this week's been very busy with work. I'm trying to really focus on it so I can get the most part out of the way soon and go back to spending more time on my XIV animations guilt-free later, so I'm barely even checking social media or even actually playing FF. I did get my preorder earring though! Dawntrail feels so close now!...

Starting a Video: Adding Lights

Hello! Happy sunday!

In today's video I will show you step by step how I usually add lights to my projects. I'm using the same project I've started on last week's video, so we will keep working on it until the end while I show the process step by step!

Even though I'm doing this step right now in the process, you could do it later or even after the whole animation is done - really it's about preference. I raised the render settings quality in the video to be able to see something ...

WIP: One week left!

Hi!! Weekly update time, and...yes, it's still about this one. I'm ALMOST DONE, I promise!!!

Just this little part left! This may or may not require rigging 7 characters with a different outfit just for a final frame, it really depends on how much time and patience I have left.

Next week is the one th...

Starting a Video: Building a Layout

Hello! Happy sunday :)

Today's video will be showing how I start planning and putting together the initial layout of my videos from scratch. Instead of showing a video that's already done, I decided to go with a complete new idea that I hadn't even started yet, so we will be building it together. The goal of this part isn't to get it perfect, but to know if the idea is worth investing more time into, to have the files organized, and to have a good starting point for animating, with char...

WIP: Yes, it's still this one

Good morning! Weekly update time, and...yes, still working on this one. I'm pretty sure this is the one that I've worked on the most, and it's still not done! I really want it to be the best possible. It's like all my delusional wishful thinking materialized in a trailer. 

That timeline from last week wasn't trustworthy, but the video got shorter, so yay! Not because I necessarily wanted ...

[OUTDATED!] How to get Started! Some tips and advice

Edit: This video was made way before Dawntrail! Some things have changed to put a character together since what I said here, and now I have an updated video tutorial on how to do it. New video about starting tips coming soon! I hope it's helpful!

Happy sunday!

Today I have a few tips and advice on how to get started if you want to learn how to animate FFXIV characters in B...

WIP: Slow and Steady!

...well, I don't know about the slow part. Maybe not that slow. I don't really know?!

Good morning! Weekly update time!

So, what I mean is...usually, I have a layout planned out for the videos, and it's easy to tell how much I still have to do. This time, since I haven't done anything like this before, I'm just winging it and putting the video together as I go. So far I'm happy with how ...

Animating a shot + commentary

Hello, happy sunday! :D

I mentioned last week that it would be fun to show the animation of the last shots in more detail, and that's what I'm doing today!

This is a timelapse of just the animation of the last scene of the Linkpearl video, the one where she finished the call with G'raha and death stares Noah. It's not a tutorial at all, but I try to explain what I'm trying to do while I animate. I don't really go into detail about the technical part, but if you have any questions ...

WIP: This is going to be a long one!

Good morning! Weekly update of my next video. I am SO excited for this one!!!

As I've mentioned in my last update, it's not a cutscene-style video and I'm experimenting with a lot of things, so it's hard to be able to tell how long it will take. I'm giving myself a month to do it without rushing anything, but it could be a little more, could be a little less. I don't have a layout ready like I...

"A Linkpearl call" animation Timelpase

Hi, happy sunday! I'd like to share the full timelapse of the Linkpearl video.

Some fun things to notice:

-This time, I put the date in the right upper corner!

-First scene that was animated was Raha's fall;

-The first shot where she is calling him, I actually animated her mouth movements, and then decided they didn't look right, so I deleted all of it.

-The mammets positions are all fake (the ones close to the camera)! You can notice them floating way over the f...

WIP: Video done! Now on to the next

Hi!! I usually post my weekly WIP updates on thursday, but since I posted the complete video yesterday, I waited just a little bit longer.

Everytime I finish a new video I get so excited to share it as soon as possible that I don't think of anything else! I finished the last details in the morning as soon as I woke up and I had to post it immediately. I hope you enjoyed it!

Last week I ...

A Linkpearl call

...specifically the one from the Eureka Orthos unlock quest! Highly recommend it.

The animation is fanmade, but the dialogue is all canon.

I finished itttt! Way earlier than I expected to, even. Right now I think I'm happy with the result!

Ever since I played this quest I couldn't get it out of my mind that I wish we could've seen G'raha's PoV. If you haven't played this quest (don't worry, this isn't spoilers), the dialogue here is all canon, we just don't see an...

Brief Behind the Scenes of my first videos

Hi! I want to share a little bit of what I still had of my very first videos. Sadly I lost a lot of the older files, but I tried sharing what I could and what I remember of making them.
These are my very first experiences in Blender and figuring out how to do things, so they are very important to me. I like looking back and having confirmation of things I learned along the way!
Here I talk about the Angel video, the Kiss Scene, Ultima Thule scene "fix" and During Patch 6.4.

I hav...

WIP: 50% done!

Hello! It's been a week, and I was able to steadily work on the next video every day!

I already have 50% of the video animated, 20 seconds exactly - which is the first 6 shots. If nothing goes wrong, I might be able to finish it next week?! I hope so! Here is a little progression of the first shot:

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A little about post-production

Hello! This time I wanted to share some of the things I like to do in Premiere, like video editing, compositing, color correction, adding sounds and things like that!
In the video I said only editing and compositing, but all of things I went over are all considered "post-production"....even though technically I do them all during production as well. :P
Of course I'm no expert in any of this, but I like trying to learn new things with each video, and I enjoy this part quite a lot.
2024-02-11 10:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post