"O LIGHT - Mob Psycho 100 fan animation" CREATION PROCESS

    Well hellooooo internet! Welcome to another blogpost! And today I'd like to share with you my creative process of my latest video! A fan-animation from Mob Psycho 100, featuring the song "O Light" by Kikuo with Hatsune Miku!

    But first, a short story: The year is 2021 and I finally got that stingy desire to watch a very specific show, a feeling I get every now and then where my brain just decides it wants to watch a random anime/movie at that very moment and I can't calm it down until I answer to its demands.

    The anime this time was Mob Psycho 100, this anime had actually been on my radar ever since it released in 2016, buuut I didn't have Chrunchyroll at that time and I personally hate the pirated anime experience (sketchy sites, low quality footage, small PC screen EEEEEEE), so I kinda put it aside with the intend of torrenting all the episodes later, however I just ended up forgetting about it, haha....

    Anyway, I finally watched it and it was love at first sight, instant fave, I love it and I believe it's one of the greatest things humanity has ever achieved. Then comes O Light, man, after watching the show every time I'd see the beginning of that music video I'd think "Hey this would make such a cool Mob animation". Thus an idea was born.

    But after so many years, why did I decide to execute it just now? Well, I was young and under-confident about my art, I also had zero editing skills/knowledge. Nowadays, thanks to self-improvement, After Effects classes, support from teachers, and currently re-watching the show, I finally decided to do it.

Animated Profile Pics

    Hello internet! Here's some animated gifs that I made a loooooong time ago, feel free to use them as pfps, as I made them exactly for that.

    So a small story about each of them. I created Mondo's and Byakuya's when I was still playing DR1, Mondo's I made in one day so it looks kinda choppy and the consistency of his face is all over the place, but honestly I just wanted to pass the time and draw his beautiful eyelashes/eyeliner LOL. I was going for the comic book style of the Closing Arguments, and I think it turned out quite nice for something made in just one lazy afternoon.

    As for Byakyua, I put more effort on him, it took me one week to finish. Why did it take so long you ask?? Idk. I was travelling when I made him and had a lot of free time so I wanted to spend as much time as possible on him, that's why the canvas is not only bigger, but also his movements a bit more intricate, plus I did my best to make sure his proportions stayed consistent. I don't even like Byakuya that much LOL but he turned out great (also everyone that I showed him to thought he was a girl XD).

    OH LOOK IT'S OZEN, she's not even from danganronpa what the hell is she doing here?? So I made her as a gift for a friend and he allowed me to post it on my socials so it's all good. I did like Made In Abyss but I don't really call myself a fan, still a great anime totally worth a watch.

THE GANG! For wallpaper!! (Spoilers)

✦ SPOILER WARNING: Spoilers for the entire game!!! ✦

    Hello internet! It took a while but I finally got the courage to post this artwork at its highest resolution lol. I made it with the intent of being being used as wallpaper! So feel free to use it. For this artwork I was still suffering high levels of Danganronpa brainrot and wanted to waste that energy on something really big, and came up with the idea of drawing the entire cast.  The entire thing took about one week to finish.

    At this time I was also rediscovered PowapowaP's music (rest in peace), and the style/limited colors was inspired by two of his songs. 

    The colors of this version are inspired by "Strobe Light", while this song hadn't made a strong presence in my childhood, its other version called "Strobe Last" surely did. I remember listening to it along side other 2 or 3 other random songs downloaded on my phone. It's such an unique sounded song, unlike anything I've listened to before at that time.

    For this one I took the colors from "Year 3 Class C-14, Chiyoko Kubozono's Joining of the Cabinet" (oof what a mouthful ik). I actually discovered this one quite "recently" (around 3 years ago ig) and it turned into an instant favorite, it has this happy, energetic yet somewhat sad tune, is hard to explain but it sounds like someone trying their best to retain optimistic despite being so tired of doing so for so long and in reality they just wanna give up.
 

    Uhhh, so anyways, here it is! I don't know if I'm ever making a version with the DR2 cast, I plan to, but not sure if I will. Also, my favorite part was drawing the rocket in the background, Taka-chan and Celeste are my favorite both came out absolutely adorable.

Saya...ka...?

✦ SPOILER WARNING: Heavy spoilers for chapter 1!!! ✦

     Hello internet! I made another video! This time is an original short animation, took me around one week to finish it.

    You see the idea behind the animation was that I wanted to crate something dramatic and "professional" looking, as well as an experiment on shading/lighting effects in After Effects. Tell you the truth this wasn't even supposed to be a video, just a collection of 4 drawings, then one day I saw the "nobody's coming to help us!" bit in a Sayaka Maizono video compilation, and eureka! A video idea was born. There was no script, no planning, nothing, I was just figuring everything out as I edited.

    Ngl this was very fun to do, and I'm satisfied with the result. So here's the art featured in the video without any filters!:

 Animations!:

Estryllia Enhillia's Kyoko and Makoto

    Okay tell you the truth this drawing is actually unfinished, I didn't plan anything after putting the base colors so just to make it look Finished I shaded and added an abstract background and called it a day. Man, this is why I hate just jumping into an idea without proper planning, I always get in a dead end not knowing what to do next once I get to a certain part.

    Anyway, one day I was scrolling through Pinterest and found these really fancy designs, turned out they're from a clothing line collab with  Estryllia Enhillia, never heard of them before but wow the clothes are absolutely stunning, and when I saw Kyoko's dress I was like "I need to draw this" and so I did and it was painful. Her dress is extremely detailed but I wasn't expecting to be that hard to draw, I'm very satisfied with the end result at least. (And yes, the focus on this drawing is Kyoko's dress, I wanted to make a dynamic pose that really showed her floaty frills and semi-transparent fabric)

    Also, thanks to drawing now I'm obsessed with the idea of Makoto holding a golden gun, it just looks real badass. His shoes were also fun to make.

Genocider's Paranoia

    Hello internet! So here's another post! This drawing was actually done way back in 2023, when I was still on my first playthrough, I was first planning to post it on my steam profile buuuuuut I took too long to actually do it so which resulted in never posting it anywhere lol. 

    I was inspired by the song "BUG" by Kairiki Bear for this one, absolutely love that song and listened to it on repeat as well as covers when drawing, and I'm pretty proud of this piece! The shading and everything turned out perfect, line-working took an eternity tho lemme tell ya.

    While I don't think the song has anything to do with Toko/Jack, I just wanted to draw her in the style of the music video because the character was also holding scissors XD.

ABANDON ALL HOPE

    Chapter 5 was so metal and absurd that inspired me to make some very dramatic art lol. I wanted it to look like a heavy metal CD cover, tho I must confess I got kinda lazy with literally everything else after rendering the face, and you totally notice. The Usami sticker came out amazing tho! Very proud of it, and it wasn't ever that hard to draw. While drawing it I listened to Utsu-P and BabyMetal to erally get in the heavy metal vibe yk, and honestly, I got a liking for it! It's very high energy and makes me wanna SCREEEEEEE-

    The Japanese reads: "Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Farewell Despair Academy", it's just the Japanese title of the game.