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bentosandbox · 11 months

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Lappy fancam animatic blogging/production notes

now that wolfgirlyaoi is out on global its rambling time about my powerpoint presentation

Concept

Originally I wanted to do an (Tex & Lapp) animatic with the boss theme (broken wall/Signore dei Lupi .mp3) ever since the event dropped but I thought 1) by the time I finished anything someone else would have probably already done it first (lol, lmao even) 2) I remembered the song exists and how much i looped it then while listening to the group's new album drop and thought the lyrics fit Lapp a little too well and also doesn't end abruptly like the boss theme + was shorter so yea

initial stickman storyboard where i put down the lyrics with event dialogue/happenings that i felt would fit nicely together > hastily scribble the images that form in my head

storyboards were basically what i wanted to see (same rule as my comics) lol especially if they weren't shown in the event CGs, eg. there's a CG of the truck crashing into the courtroom so I didn't do that but they didn't mention her physical acting in that scene + the song I used has a bow/salute at that exact part in their live choreo with the very similar line so I wanted to do a homage even though-

-I was like it's going to be such a pain to figure out an economical hand twirl and bow but I have to do this I need to transplant the image in my brain onto the screen because official media did not do a—

Honestly still don't know if its a common phrase and action combo because I was having so much trouble finding external references that wasn't just scrubbing the live video over and over anyway

part of the storyboards were 'recycled' from comic drafts I did (of the chocolate scene because ofc) when the event was running on CN

Originally I wanted to draw Lapp feeding Texas for The Girlyaoi Funny but I wanted to reference the plaque you get which is a Creation of Adam reference right but I also saw people saying it's referencing the scene from Silence of the Lambs lol so...peel the layers to your liking!!

(The chocolate flavour choice was from asking my Columbian friends what the worst chocolate flavour they ever tried which was white coconut)

my sorry attempt at colour keys > final spreadsheet to keep track of progress and paste all the dialogue i put in

Art Direction

A bunch of shots/colour schemes are references to Måneskin's stuff or other media tehepero I'll just put a few here

At first I was going to limit red/blue to tex/lapp respectively but since Omertosa is blue I just did away with that rule and lapp gets to have both (and more!) these two colours have pretty obvious emotional readings I think but also

red = self blue = society Siracusa or: red = yaoi & blue = yuri

for the others:

Purple = Alberto/Saluzzo, its not orange like the fruit he keeps holding because see below; I needed the colour for something else LOL Also the Saluzzos are iirc nobility or whatever and they have purple hints in their clothes so I think it was a good fit anyway

Yellow/Orange = Its supposed to be representing the last word in the story which apparently, yostar went with 'Savagery' which is Correct I guess but (laments again about how nuance is lost in localisation because imo savagery has a more derogatory kind of connotation while I think 蛮荒 in context of the story also has a 'nature/untouched by civilisation' side to it) which is why Texas setting the house on fire was not (entirely) red but orange (and it complements the blues both visually and thematically) and it's yellow at the end when they're frolicking(?) in the wilderness lol

(these colour rules don't apply to the penglog shot and technically a few frames like the shot with shocked penance, the one right after and 'im just lappy' because...i forgor my own rules lol)

The greens/teals were just a reference to the shades in the 3DPV I think

The silhouette/general style was inspired from the 3D teaser thing they had at the beginning of the 3.5 anniversary stream and the card suits that I..forgot to move to the other layers which is why only the green one had them (supposed to be 1 per set 💀)

The clash bit is basically the same as the event CG but with a flipped camera/POV sorry for world's worst screenshot lmao. Couldn't imagine the poses in my head so I ended up posing 3d models in CSP pretty good posing practice

These shots got rendered extra because..they were the first frames I started on and I was still figuring out how much to simplify lol

I also posed the chairs shot for some inexplicable reason…my file was lagging so bad

Headcanon part (kind of)

The childhood flashback scene is probably the part I took the most liberties (headcanon) on since it's not explicitly canon like the rest...the sequence/how I connected the scenes itself to fabricate a timeline of her childhood was kind of inspired by some weibo post musing about how (iirc) texas's sweet tooth maybe came from when she was being fostered at casa Saluzzo and Lapp treating her like a pet essentially and giving her a lot of treats since...you know what happened to her actual pet hehe except maybe texas offered her a stick first and then Lappy just reciprocated endlessly because its one of the few 'acts' she knew that wasn't violence haha yeah this section was basically a stealth doujin sorry

It's mentioned that she was brought up as the ideal Siracusan or whatever and she does the cute doodle in the 3DPV so I thought she probably had the Forced Music Lessons as a kid (The music sheets are Bella Ciao and of course)

The bow choreo was the one thing i really wanted to animate but the music sheet segment (based on that one split second shot above) ended up being my favourite part even though compositing the motion was a mini hell on it's own (ended up compiling a long png to scroll by with the red doodles layered over)

Other things

I will never live down my (self-imposed) shame of misspelling the title (I fixed the title on youtube but its why the ending shot in the upload says ZittE e Buoni instead of ZittI e Buoni) don't rush your fancam in 10 days 😔

I didn't look through the entirety of the EN loc but Idk why they had Lappy say 'Then go.' to Texas when it's supposed to be more like 'Let's go.' as in, 'let's go together' as opposed to 'alright off you go to the greyhall alone' lmfao also her saying goodbye forever padre when addio is right there

I don't think I'm insane enough to do another ppt soon but man this pair really makes the 'imagines a whole music video while listening to music' part of my brain go wheee like first it was Starset's Manifest then Signore de Lupi then this and while working on this one i was thinking how Måneskin's Torna A Casa would be another good track

ok ty for reading #GIRLYAOIREAL

#arknights #Il siracusano #bentodraws #bentotexto #I was going to have this post as a reblog but tumblr broke my copypaste so here's a completely separate post #feel free to ask me about anything else i didn't cover in here

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getvalentined · 2 years

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Okay, this has been going around on Twitter for a couple days now and, given the response over there, I feel safe enough to put it here now; I'll be copypasting exactly what I said over there because there's no reason to say it differently.

As of today (March 1, 2022) he's deactivated his main and his art accounts on Twitter, but he has at least two other alts that are still active. His tumblr account is also still up. His URL here is the same as it was on Twitter until this all came out, which is listed at the end of this post.

Reblogging and replies are fine, just be aware that tumblr's block function doesn't actually keep the person who is blocked from seeing what you post—just from interacting with it.

TW for gaslighting and the other hallmarks of narcissistic abuse.

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I'm tired of not knowing who knows what, assuming people are aware of things when they may not be, so I'll be overt:

Pix abused me. A lot. This is why we broke up. This is why I blocked him. I have a disgusting amount of proof. He's no one's friend. (No, not even yours.)

I'm not a fan of public callouts or anything of the sort, but there are too many people treating this person like their new best friend when he spent months manipulating my friends into leaving me while telling me it was my fault and they were really HIS friends, not mine.

He told people I've known for over a decade that I was "just about done" with them because they were having mental health struggles, he told people they had to check with him before they spoke to me, and he told people to exclude me from things because he'd be a better choice.

He called me stupid, he said I was abusing him when I asked him to stop. He wouldn't let me exist in a space that he couldn't control, wouldn't let me have a COMMENT THREAD that he wasn't also part of. He would not let me exist without his permission.

I've approached people individually that I worried were vulnerable and I knew were in contact with him, but at this point there are too many people for me to keep doing that without existing in a permanent state of panic, so I'm just being public. Which is also terrifying.

I've already had two people block or unfollow/softblock in the minutes since I posted this thread, and I expect there to be more. But he is dangerous and people need to be aware.

This is the person you're talking to. This is the person you're calling your friend. If you're okay with that, then block/unfollow/softblock/whatever. If this is something you're comfortable with, then I would prefer that you disengage with me.

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Interjecting to add that the following screenshots were taken at different times and are from different conversations, so the gaps in the timestamps are to be expected. This was not a single conversation, but tumblr's image formatting makes them look like they were.

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I did my best with this. I tried everything in my power to be what he needed, to make it a matter of Us vs The Problem instead of Him vs Me, but that wasn't what he wanted. I wouldn't fight him, I wouldn't intentionally hurt him back, and so he got worse.

This had been going on for months when I finally broke up with him, and even then I wanted to stay friends. I really did. Because I thought it was my fault he was like this, because I thought I had hurt him somehow to MAKE him treat me like this. It was just me. That was fine.

And that's the real story. That's why we broke up, that's why I blocked him, that's why I don't use his name. I just want everyone else to be safe. I'm done.

For anyone who doesn't know who I'm talking about, his @ is currently pi/xel/ed/pal/ace (without slashes) and was previously pi/xel/ed/xxx. NOW I'm done. Have a good night, everybody.

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#the [redacted] files #personal /#reblogs allowed /#how do I keep this from showing up in the search #uhhh #fuck fuck fuck #fuckity fuck #shit #goddamn #tony the tiger?#GIRL #I know the banned tag issue is much less severe now #but hopefully that works #narcissistic abuse #gaslighting #psychological abuse

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