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(she/her) I HOPE YOU LIKE CART TOONS!!!!! I MAKE 'EM!!!! https://www.patreon.com/aimkid https://ko-fi.com/aimkid

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also through blender's "geometry nodes", i made my own Line Boil modifier effect! blender has a built in "Noise" modifier for a similar effect, but i wanted more direct control + a specific look thats more like my own typical line boiling, so i just made my own! very handy for drawing with a mouse

1 month ago by@aimkidblast 10 comments

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here's some of the Cool Stuff i've learned over the past ~7 months: Grease Pencil instantly rules if you're familiar with blender! internally its all vector lines, so you can just pick out + modify individual strokes which feels real nuts coming from animating 100% raster-based for so long

1 month ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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hiya!! general update on stuffs in general following the fundraiser: things are going well! still cracking away at the comms i already had lined up before, and i'm still very thankful for how kind everyone has been!! i'll be starting on proper Animating Business within the next week or two!!

1 month ago by@aimkidblast 8 comments

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thank you thank you for all the fundraiser help so far already and the kind words!! also just remembered a lil expression doodle test page of sorts for the summer animation i forgot i wanted to include in the video yesterday

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 0 comment

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heya! i started a "Fund's Raiser" over on ko-fi to temporarily help cover essential bills, so i can focus getting to proper business on the animation for this summer! been beefing up my Cartoonsmaking Powers!!

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 17 comments

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also i'm gonna do a lot more regular Art Posting's here in general, since my big "blender grease pencil + Mental training arc of the past 7 months or so" is proper over :D (and the patreon will get back to postings very soon too!!)

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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after i upload the next animation this summer, i'll be following up on it shortly by finally doing plushies of some Classique "Aim Kid" characters, because it'd rule but also to help secure immediate stability going onwards!

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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i still have some YCH comms left to do right now so it'll be about 2 more weeks before i can get to animating proper.. and thank you LOTS to everyone who's gotten a comm and been so kind and patient!! it's filled me with spirit!!

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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heya! i started a "Fund's Raiser" over on ko-fi to temporarily help cover essential bills, so i can focus getting to proper business on the animation for this summer! been beefing up my Cartoonsmaking Powers!!

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 17 comments

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i like that pink thingy in that osamu tezuka movie.. earlier this year i was messin around with the idea of re-timing + adding more inbetweens to that one scene of her dressing up because it sounded fun to animate a cartoon glob thing

2 months ago by@aimkidblast 10 comments

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brief Tennar thing from august

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(if you're waiting on a paid-for commission right now, i haven't forgotten about you! i just got very delayed by practical life stuff, so thank you for your patience!)

3 months ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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heya!! i'm taking in another round of YCH (Your Character Here) animated icon commissions! here's some of my favorites from last time as an example.. a big thank you to everyone who got one before, and anyone who submitted in general!!

3 months ago by@aimkidblast 14 comments

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The sculpted body count is immaculate. thank you floombo my friend for giving it the funniest possible lead up. with Car blend file comes great responsibility

8 months ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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in 'The Where' garn47 animation i basically reverse-rotoscoped luffy going Gear 5 onto Car. this is what it looks like from another angle.. i made him do that just because i thought it would be really funny to myself and friends, then floombo wanted to make it part of a full animation

8 months ago by@aimkidblast 10 comments

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(new Garn47 verison 2.5 is out! go play NOW!!)

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i'm not gonna publicly say what i'm working on next until it's almost nearly complete so i don't unintentionally lead anyone on.. you have my aimkid guarantee! 2025 is still well within the target, and it's very likely not gonna be an animation, i'll say that much

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 6 comments

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to be clear stay on ur anti-psychotics if you need them. being able to get off of them without major drawbacks was specific to my case of psychosis where the main thing fueling it in the past was a big fear of it that i no longer have thanks to professional help

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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im officially (and safely) off of my anti-psychotics which turns out were really dulling my imagination, and by extension motivation, for like 2+ years.... it feels like my soul has returned to me..... no more fucken around..... it's Game Time

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 27 comments

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splatoon is one of the seven wonders of the world.......

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dont stress about trying to be like disney. dont worry about sticking to every single principal like it's the ten commandments. please just create for yourself and experience the delight that comes from the simple act of seeing your characters come to life through motion. let that alone be special

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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i can't stress enough that ANIMATION IS ART! even if it's a long, tedious process to do. as hard as people try to say otherwise, there is no right or wrong way to animate if you're actually making it instead of letting a neural network do it for you, sucking out any expression in the process

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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its disgusting to see how companies truly view animation, a mere tool for profit instead of the art form it truly is. it's so ironic in toei's case because one piece's art direction recently has been absolutely awe-inspiring. you just cant replace the people behind animation or art as a whole

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i'd hardly ever mentioned ai-generated art before but this fucking sucks. ai has been creeping into animation where despite how clockwork the animation process is, every choice is so human and thats what makes it beautiful and worthwhile bsky.app/profile/cats...

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 7 comments

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developements.......

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almost forgot to mention the little rig i made for this!! i set up a driver to offset the UVs of the mouth/eyes based on how much you move the matching bone on his face.. i was able to replicate this behavior in unity as well so it all translates in-game :D

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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the plan is to, at the end of me finishing the fangame i want to build around this, release all the source code publicly for people to poke around and do whatever they want with!! assuming this project sees the light of day LOL.. it's smaller scale than anything else ive done game-wise so Maybe

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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the game itself is supposed to be the rough aesthetics of parappa 1 but with the quality of life/transparency of parappa 2, and the difficulty of um jammer lammy for the most part!

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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it took forever to get this all set up because i also made an in-game chart editor, what you saw isn't just a hard-coded map, it's fully featured with variable length lines + multiple lines :D

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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very random side project to exist alongside my 1000 other side projects: a parappa engine prototype! it uses a similar scoring system to parappa 1, so silly freestyling is included!!! im gonna try making a fangame around this.....

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 9 comments

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to end on a lighter note heres a silly 2021 video of that same cat from earlier.. her name is Sookie and while i lived with my mom (yuck!) she was a very cute and loving little kitty.. she'd sit on my lap while i animated :D she's actually the cat that's been on my youtube banner all these years LOL

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 12 comments

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it sucks and is often tragic but i still think its worth talking about every now and again so others like me don't feel so alone in these struggles.. i'm the wacky cartoonswoman but i'm still human. i know what its like to be deeply hurt with no outlet, that's the reason i dissociate

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 4 comments

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i dont really talk about it publicly anymore but dissociation is still very much a problem for me.. my dads shown me photos of me with him in places i dont recognize. someone in my close friend group passed 2 years ago and despite having known them for 6 years up to that point i barely remember them

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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despite everything i'd always been very good about archiving various moments of my life via my pictures + videos folders id been keeping since 2015.. they can be a source of Great Humor but also a source of Great Pain. heres a video i took of my family's cat using a ps vita in 2015

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dissociative amnesia: how it feels to Remember

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this is what they're making slimegirls look like in 2025

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forgot to mention, but i had received direct permission from Neil on twitter to monetize this video in specific back when it was first uploaded

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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to be absolutely clear, i doubt this is Neil / Lemon Demon's intentional doing, and i have e-mailed him today to try and get this sorted out. it's pretty concerning because the funds from that video grew to make up half of my income.. hoping for the best

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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something concerning has come up.. my animation of "Modify" on youtube was made ineligible for monetization with no notification. i strongly doubt this was intentional on Neil's part if it even had any involvement from him at all, since the claim comes from a company called "TuneCore"

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 10 comments

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generally though i've learned: don't trust what i say in terms of "What's Going To Come Out" unless its near completion, but if anything's true its that Something's gonna release within 2025 LOL

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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i have 2 videos game projects that are in the works currently.. 1 is a pretty chunky one thats the main project and the other is the one shown above which is a smaller side game thats a successor to wario land 3 in specific! the goal for both is to get a demo of the first area out some time Soon™

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 5 comments

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i may be pivoting from exclusively animation to mostly gamedev....... stay tuned (very early dev footage)

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 11 comments

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my current plan: back to the major project i'd been working on since 2023, though before i dive right back in i wanna release a 2 minute animation within the coming months thats basically practicing wacky animation for that Big One, it may not be in color but it should be very fun to do and watch..

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 5 comments

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i'd been stuck off of it since late october 2024 and its been ASS.. adderall is genuinely such a life-changing medication for me, i'd barely been able to do much during that ~2 month period, but now.... its back to Business. Sakuga Time.

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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IM BACK ON ADDERALL YAAAHHOOOO!!!

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(youtube audio credit: SNick!)

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(youtube audio credit: SNick!)

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(unfinished!) (🎵 They Might Be Giants - Rhythm Section Want Ad) not much 2 say about this one! just that it will likely remain unfinished

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(unfinished!) (🎵 Tally Hall - The Whole World and You) another one likely left in The Vault because i dunno what demonic energy possessed me to be able to animate 4 characters at once, 3 of them playing instruments LOL

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 20 comments

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art of a character designed by my partner @smorbee.bsky.social :D

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one last Secret Technique i believe: for some shots, i used blender's "Grease Pencil" feature to animate a segment in 2D, which i'd then essentially trace over with shapes in 3D to have more controlled motion when i wanted it!

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 8 comments

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you might think the pieces of paper floating atop one another break the illusion, but that's also based on reality! i wanted to give the impression of the paper being shot on a multi-plane, which is something featured in Jonni Peppers' works which are done for real! Jonni's work is on the right!

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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this is the part i got my partner's help with since i was a lot less familiar with blender's material nodes.. the paper is also translucent so i could move the surface beneath the paper in place of lights that cast through the paper!

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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by using this setup, i could do cool practical effects like putting a translucent sheet replicating water caustics between the lamp and working area! the light from the lamp passes through the sheet and casts this cool little effect across what the camera can see

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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first off, there's actually a full semi-modeled room surrounding the paper setup, to replicate the real-life lighting setup i used for stop motion a grand total of One Time for a shot in "LADYFLASH" LOL.. the first image is from blender, the last 2 are real! this is to get the light bounces accurate

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 4 comments

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(unfinished!) (🎵 - They Might Be Giants - Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes)

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(unfinished!) (🎵 - They Might Be Giants - Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes)

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gonna be posting some older art here + potentially some unfinished stuff from Year's Past that i don't think i'll be finishing any time soon :o i wanna show some cool stuff as well as make it clear that Hey!!! i'm on this site now instead of That Evil Site

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really a lot of these past 2 years have been trial and error figuring out what i am and am not capable of doing, especially now that nasty mental illness has developed within 2022-2023, but it's only up from here now! excited to make some cool stuff hopefully

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 5 comments

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that "episode 1" is for something i've been wanting to make for like 4 and a half years now and features this freaking guy i've teased here and there.. its also related to that Other (now-postponed) miniseries i've teased in the past as well as the clip i just posted here.. lotsa stuff!

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 3 comments

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right now there's a half-complete ~22 second music video and the start of episode 1 of something completely original, music and all, that should be ~4-6 minutes :D the latter thing would mostly be at 12fps with some slightly more limited animation so i can actually finish it given the length

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 2 comments

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when my next animation will come out? no idea! but i'm getting my stuff back together and will at least be releasing Something within 2025..

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 1 comment

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been almost 2 years since i released my last animation.. scary to think about but i have been working this entire time! i've just been having a lot of trouble getting any projects to stick combined with a big mental health decrease + ongoing recovery period

1 year ago by@aimkidblast 13 comments

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unfinished thingy from 2021 i still think looks pretty cool.. i may have already posted this before? dunno how long ago though

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im da real aimkid blast. heres my proof:

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