Liz Ard posts
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Poll: Vote on the next video!
Edit: POLL CLOSED ...Aand it ended as a tie :') hahaha...It was a rough one between Mahjong and Champion of Eorzea, and they kept switching through the week! Maybe having 3 options wasn't the best idea :PFrom what I could see though, the Mahjong option was the most popular during the majority of the time, so I'm going with that one <3I hope you all enjoy it! I'll talk more about it in my future WIP posts. Thank you very much for voting!Hello! I'm here with another poll to hel...
Eorzea Academy Anime Opening
IT'S FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Here's Eorzea Academy opening...as my WoL's romantic comedy shoujo anime~This was so much more work than I thought it would be!! My first WIP video from it is dated to October 7th...so it was a little longer than that. I had to rig a looot of new characters, learn how to customize their outfits to try and match how they're portrayed in the manga, render almost 40 separated Blender scenes...I can safely say this was my hardest to make video to date...
Tutorial: Building and Rigging a character
Hello! Today's video is an updated video on how I put characters together from Textools to Blender. Compatible with Dawntrail and the newest version of Mekrig!As always, disclaimer that I can't say that's the best, correct optimized way of doing it, it's the way I personally do it right now while trying to keep things simple, and it works pretty well for me.I hope it's helpful! Let me know if there's something I missed or if you have any questions.Here is the spread sheet...
WIP: ...it didn't take a week
Hello!...I'm late, I'm sorry...I failed! It didn't take a week. T_TWell, I'm still working on it, and it's ALMOST THERE!! But I really wanted to have it finished today or even before that, but here I am. Partially because of IRL stuff and working a few extra hours, and partially because the few shots left...I just couldn't make it simpler, could I?!One more Raha rigged. If you read the manga, you know what chapter I'm referencing! He looks so cute~ Lizard agrees.And n...
WIP: One week left? Maybe???
Hello! Weekly update. Still going!I'm almost done with one more gap of my timeline~The selected area, which I've been working on all week. For this to finish, I only need to rig Thancred and animate his clip, the white rectangle part. He wears a gym teacher uniform, and for him specifically I need to download a mod to fix his face that the graphical update changed...Then, all that's left will be the second gap over there (red rectangle), with the characters I already have! It's.....
Animation Tutorial: Easy tails, blinks and ears
Hello! Today's video is an animation tutorial!I explain stey by step an easy way that I animate tails, blinks, and G'raha's ears. They take 2 minutes to make and are things that are in every single video, so I want to have a simple, fast way to go about animating them.I hope it's helpful, be it for animating those specific things, or maybe using the same tools for other things as well! Let me know if you have any questions about it, or if there's anything you'd like a vid...
WIP: So close...yet so far...
Hello! Weekly update~ How's everyone? I'm...not gonna lie, a bit frustrated with this one. :')The more I work on it, the more I realize it was far more work than I anticipated!!! Too...many...characters...I did work on it a lot during this week, yet I could only really add a few seconds to the final video. I'm at 75%, which is 1 minute and 4 seconds currently done.The reason for that is, there's a lot of characters I want to include, and I want to have their outfit match what...
WIP: Still going...60%!
Hello! Weekly WIP :)This one is taking really looong...I mean, I knew it would, but still! I'm starting to get at the stage where I already can only look at the things I don't really love of what's done, but I know if I push through and keep going at it litte by little, it will be worth it at the end. It always is! And now I really want to finish it before the end of next month because I have other new ideas pilling up that I also want to get started on...Look at this clean and almos...
Inn Remake Series 07: Editing and compositing
Hello! Next (and possibly last?!) video in the Inn Remake Series! Editing and compositing.I show you what I do in Premiere to make the final video look prettier and put together after getting the raw images from Blender, and how I make things like color correction, adding blushes and shadows, fixing the backgrounds, etc. At the end there's a little breakdown of some of the shots being put together effect by effect.I hope you enjoy it! With this one, I think it covers all of the main areas of...
WIP: 33% done!
Hello! Weekly update, and some good progress this time~! It was a chill week for me, and so I was able to get a little more done than before. :)Here's the timeline!The nests/circles parts are all dooone! Which is around 33 seconds fully animated and edited. Wooo!!! That is just a little over 1/3 of the video. So that's all of the (currently planned, at least) G'raha and Lizard solo and duo shots. They're looking cute together, as planned. I'm pretty happy with what I have so ...
Inn Remake Series 06: Rendering
Hello! Next on the Inn Remake Series: Rendering!After finishing the animation in render, this is where you set up your scene to make it into images that you can use in the video. This is something that I feel like I still have the most to learn about!! I'm very much a beginner in all of this. I'm sharing how I think about it and every rendering setting I use, but I'm not sure at all if I'm doing it the "right" way or if it's the better way to set them up! But well, it...
WIP: So much to do, so little time!
Hello!! Weekly WIP update~This week was rather chaotic for me again, and I couldn't even open Blender for a few days...but!! I have a nice breathing time of work now and today and during the weekend I will be able to focus on it :DHopefully that will give me a nice boost of progress. I do have some fun things to show, anyway~This clip is based on an specific part of an specific anime opening. I wonder if anyone here recognizes where it's from? If you do, you probably had a very magical, ...
Inn Remake Series 05: Audio
Hi! Next on the Inn Remake series, I wanted to talk about the audio, which is something I have a lot of fun working on.I show how I think about the audio, and where every sound clip I used comes from.Ironically for a video about audio, my usual microphone's cable is broken so I had to use a spare one that I don't like the sound of...so my own voice's quality is probably worse than usual. I'm sorry about that, I hope it doesn't sound to bad for the video. I'll try to get t...
WIP: New beginnings!
Hello! First WIP update of the new project~This week's been busy with work for me, so I didn't have as much progress as I'd like, but I think it worked well for this video in particular. There's a lot of small, faster to animate shots, which then I'm going to edit together with a song.As I've mentioned in my last WIP post...I have been re-reading Eorzea Academy lately. And as you can imagine, I love my cute, slice of life, school romance anime. :PSo I'm making an open...
Inn Remake Series 04: Second Part Timelapse
Hello! New Behind the Scenes video from Late night visit~This is a timelapse of the work on the bonus/ending scene with Estinien. It's all of the 12 recorded hours of work speed up while I talk a little more about it.I still plan on making a few more in-depth videos about certain aspects of it, but I thought it would be interesting to show the remaining timelapse, in order, of how I finished it. Then for the next ones, I can focus on specific parts, like the audio, rendering and certain shot...
WIP: Now to the next one...
Hello~ WIP update! I hope you enjoyed the Late night visit aka Inn Remake video :)The day of posting it, I actually "finished" the last bit of animation left in the morning, which was that last shot - that was the second hardest shot after the kiss one!...and then spent the entire day rewatching it and fixing minor stuff. I was at the stage already of not really noticing the emotional bits and tunnel visioned on stuff like "for 2 frames the shadow flicks in this particular pixel here...
Late night visit
IT'S FINALLY DONE!! The remake of my very first Blender animation, G'raha's vist at the inn in Endwalker. Thank you very much everyone that voted on that poll to make it happen. I really hope you all enjoy it! Again, I was really happy that you wanted to see this one. :)...this took me quite some time. The first WIP I have saved here is the layout from september 5th. :xI've been working on it for so long that I'm at the stage that I can only see the technical mistakes now. I ...
WIP: Just a few more days...
Almost done!!! Almost! Hello~ weekly update :DThere's only the last shot left to animate and it will be all done! I did have some unexpected issues with one shot, and if it didn't happen, the video would actually be done by now. I might use the weekend to actually finish the animation and delay the weekly video by a couple days. I hope it's okay... :xThe video total is 1 minute and 6 seconds right now...which for me it feels like a lot. I think for anyone just watching videos on the ...
Inn Remake Series 03: Animation Overview
Hello! Next video of the Inn Remake Series, a little bit more about animation tools. :)This time I go over a general look of some of the basic commands that I use to animate in Blender. I hope it's helpful, specially if you're getting started on using Blender to animate!I mention in the video as well, but from a technical point of view, there isn't a lot of different tools or "buttons to press", if that makes sense. After you get used to most of what I talk about, it really d...
WIP: First part animated!
Hello~ WIP update! I finished animated all of the first part! Hooray!!!I mean, that doesn't mean the first part is 100% done, because I still need to finish the audio, and make adjustments to the editing, color correction, and small fixes if I have the time. But the most time consuming part is done!It's funny that I asked for feedback about it I've been told it's more "spicy" than the first one... :P I've changed some of the timing, lights and cameras, but the situati...
Inn Remake Series 02: Lighting
Hello! Sorry for the slight delay... but here's the second week of the Inn Remake Series!Today I'm showing how I think and position the lights for this video.I hope you enjoy it! If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them!Thank you very much for watching and for your support :)
WIP: 20 seconds animated!
Hello! Weekly update on the remake video~50% of the animation done!...of the first part.How is that in total? Maybe 1/3 of the whole thing? I still need to make the layout and start on the additional bonus scene I want to make at the end, but I decided I'm only going to do that after animating what I already have. I'm having way too much fun animating these scenes!!!Like this hand shot! That's something I couldn't have before. Hooray for graphically updated fingers! :DI also alre...
Inn Remake Series 01: Making the first Layout!
Hello! Today's video is a timelapse of my work on the first layout of the Inn Scene Remake video.I've worked a total of 12 hours to have the first version of the layout done. During the entire video, I didn't want to cut anything from any of it, and comment on what I'm doing in the exact order as it happens, trying to explain the general logic behind it and how I keep myself organized, and even keeping the mistakes and testing of things that I discarded later.Because it was a lot...
WIP: Starting the Remake!
Hello!! First update on the Inn Scene Remake! :DI am SO EXCITED to make this one! Thank you for everyone that voted on the poll. In the end it was almost 50-50, but during the entire week, the remake was the most voted. I'm glad to know both videos seemed interesting, and I will make the Champion of Eorzea one eventually as well!In fact I wanted to get started so fast that I already worked a few good hours on it during the week! Making this just makes me too happy~ I'm giggling all the w...
Animation Timelapse: Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss
Hello! Today's video is a timelapse of part of the Sailor Moon sequence of the White Mage video.This was the shot that took me the longest to finish, a total of 4 hours and 15 minutes. Granted, it wasn't particularly challenging shot for movement reasons, but it was harder to make because of how my rig is set to work. As in, I animated it with IK arms, and that was needlessly complicated... :xI still had a lot of fun making it, because making animations based on Sailor Moon makes me happ...
Vote on the next video!
Edit: Closed!! Thank you very much for voting! <3I'm really happy all of you voted on it, and I'll start working on it immediately! Will post an update in a couple days~Hello! Today I'm asking for your help to decide which video I'll be working on next.I have two main ideas right now I'd love to make, but I want to know which one would you prefer to see. That doesn't mean I might not make the other in the future, but might not be the immediate priority, or it might change...
Behind the Scenes: Me playing White Mage
Hello~ happy sunday!Here's the Behind the Scenes video for Me playing White Mage!I go quickly over a few of the things I wanted to do and some of the effects and ideas. I hope you find it interesting! I really enjoyed working on this one.As always, if there's anything you'd like to see in more detail, or if you have any questions, let me know!Thank you for watching and for your support!
WIP: Thoughts on WHM video!
Hello!Weekly WIP/update post :) I hope you enjoyed the White Mage video!Yesterday I was so hyped to finish it and post it that I did the entire last shot in one sitting. From finishing rigging Alisaie, to getting the dungeon footage, animating, adding lights and editing. Sometimes it takes me days slowly working on a particular shot, and then the more I'm close to finishing, the more I go all in! ...and yes, I've always been the kind of person to wait until the last second of deadlines t...
Me playing White Mage
New video! :DI'm in my WHM era now!...and I'm not good at it. My static must be thrilled. But hey, now I can enjoy the magical girl job aesthetics~I wasn't going to insert anything Dawntrail related in my videos, but at the last minute I had this idea for the last shot. I was actually planning on having Thancred at the Aetherfont, but then I thought of Alisaie in a DT dungeon and it actually works in benefit of my own personal lore!Lizard uses the Aetheryte Ticket from Alphinaud to t...
Animation Timelapse: A Moment in Azys Lla
Hello! Happy sunday~Today's video is a quick one with the timelapse of me animating Lizard in the last shot of the Azys Lla video.Honestly, I wanted to make a video showing my work on the new one I've been working one, with the new Dawntrail models, or even a comparison but then I... didn't record it. All of that footage, lost!!! My bad...So I'm just talking over the animation of the last one, some of my thoughts comparing the two, and on animating. Hopefully I'm not repeatin...
