Once upon a time in my late teens/early 20s (forgot if this was the late 2000s or early 2010s) I participated in Laura Sullvian's project 900 Voices (We Are One).
Found the raw files in my Onedrive & edited & compiled them.
What a way to end the year, terrible recording, terrible lighting, and a terrible topic to discuss. Yet I needed to get this off my chest but after I'm none talking about it I flipped backwards on how to end the video lol
TL;DR someone I envy just got exposed online & excrement hits the turbines. Also cancel culture sucks sometimes.
The one where I wanted a 30STM carousel music box just cuz a friend of mine got a Ghibli movie carousel music box for her birthday a couple of years ago.
Animated a random song I recorded during Anterin's rise, after Uber's acquisition by Grab in all of Southeast Asia. Sadly nowadays there's hardly any Anterin ojols seen anywhere, maybe I'll make a song about Maxim ojol or InDriver ojol instead?
This here episode aint no different from the usual "my past was like this" storytime episodes.
Tbh it's all because my sisters went & watched Petualangan Sherina: The Musical and I got involuntarily reminded of the cringy efforts I make to copy this movie & made one for myself cuz I envied Sherina at one point. And a 9yo could only draw comics for she hath no filmmaking skills.
As an adult now I bear no ill will towards Sherina & her friends who starred in this movie, and I'm glad to see them still thriving.
The one where I went to botany con and got disappointed, and talked about small progresses can quickly be countereffected by a greater setback.
(c) Letters To Spring 2015
It's been half a year since my last vlog btw. I wont vlog as much this year seeing all the workload i currently got, buuuut I made time to try out Kinemaster & see if it's good for editing vlogs, cuz I've tried it before with short videos before.
Plus a bit of a review of Hanasui body lotion in the end.
Song link: https://soundcloud.com/ratryoshka/whe...
A random tune that came out late last year (originally it said "that's eleven years from now"). Think of this as a prayer or some sort, hoping that things'll go smoothly in the future. Theres still hope for 2024.
Lemme confirm to y'all that this was indeed recorded on October 30th. Editing takes time. I initially plan to just ramble nonsense or tell a scary story in the dark while wearing makeup & a costume, but im not good at making up stories in a short time so i went with the rambling instead, which happens to be something we all secretly like doing, eventhough some of us wont admit it. And then making things awkward. Cue the fingerguns to dissipate the awkwardness.
The actual scary thing about this video is the audio recording, even after I've edited it on Soundbooth & Audacity 😓 welp time to actually use the microphone my friend gave me.
Today I'm gonna ramble about all the times paper had been involved in my life and how I used to paper craft everything from making notebooks & paper dollhouses for fun to crafting replicas of gadgets/toys/accessories that the cool kids had that I envied, while reducing the amount of garbage at the same time.
Once again I'd like to apologize for the weird dubbing voiceover thingies in some scenes and also the lighting inconsistency. I had to shoot on several days cuz thats what happens when you have a 9-5 job & not enough memory on your phone.
BFFL animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=192ml...
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Another track, another cry for help. This right here’s a track to listen to when you’re really, really tired with whatever you’re doing right now and desperately need an escape but never got the chance to escape.
Or just generally really tired and need some sleep.
Twitter: @ratryoshka
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From the outside looking in this kinda seems like a weeb review video but it's not. It's just more pointless reminiscing as usual cuz starting this year I've came across several of my old fandoms, the books & TV series I used to love specifically when I was 8 (and sometime around the past too, but still mostly when I was 8).
This whole vlog is just basically me pleasing my 8yo self drawing the scenes I wasnt able to back then. Another thing to add is I'm not really a self-insert kinda fan, however back then I actually did make self-insert characters in a few fandoms, one of which is this one mentioned up there.
Also I bought the 2nd scent from Black Friday, which comes in a bundle with Lovana's HUG ME body mist!
Lastly, please please PLEASE get yourself vaccinated ASAP. Like I said n pretty much everyone else mentioned, vaccines might not protect you 100% but even if you did catch the disease-who-must-not-be-named, it'll make the symptoms lighter.
ID 🇮🇩:
Jadi kan videoku yang Oreo rasa Listerine (yang sebenernya parodi iklan Oreo rasa jeruk eskrim waktu itu) udah melonjak popularitasnya. Nah, beberapa tahun kemudian sekarang aku K E M B A L I dengan kombinasi absurd dua produk terkenal yaitu Fruit Tea dan Pantene!
Idenya dateng dari sepupuku Fya (iya Fya yang nyuarain di iklan Oreo Listerine) pas kita mikir bareng lol.
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EN 🇺🇸:
As y'all know I've found success with my Oreo Listerine animated commercial (which was supposed to be a parody of the orange ice-cream Oreo commercial from back then), a couple of years later now I'm B A C K with another animated commercial with two other products absurdly combined, Fruit Tea and Pantene!
Gotta give it to my cousin Fya (yes that Fya who voiced for the Oreo Listerine commercial) for co-founding this idea lol.
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Voices: @paramithania & @kamiqurra and myself as the narrator
Music done in Garageband
Animation done in Adobe After Effects
Y'all, if some people get birthday blues, then I'm probably having the birthday REDS. Get it... cuz I'm ranting & not cuz the whole theme is red?
Btw special thanks to the folks over at Soup.io for sending me a Soup t-shirt (the one im wearing here) & a Soup tank top allll the way from across the globe as a thank you for my fanart. I'll count it as an early birthday present.
A rant about someone’s birthday on your birthday https://raraconteuse.livejournal.com/2487.html
Whatevski episode 2: https://soundcloud.com/whatevskishow/whatevski-2
Ew the thumbnail's a disaster.
Sorta made this video after bingewatching Punk'd. Who doesn't like a playing a good prank? (Emphasis on 'good' cuz we gotta be careful not to cross over the line). Having been a big prankster enthusiast since grade school & even made a comic series about pranksters it's kinda ironic that the pranks I pulled are actually way lamer than expected. Can't compare real life to comics.
This was meant to be uploaded on April 1st but yanno how long it takes to edit a video. Let alone write the flow cuz words are hard. P.s. please ignore the gross acne scars on my chin, I've used up my good skincare set that made my skin better & now i have to wait till I get it again.
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More on MRMF: https://raraconteuse.livejournal.com/...
the Tom Hiddleston "LOKI'D!" skit on MTV news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eto8a...
Yo hit me up on dem tweeters http://twitter.com/ratryoshka
Of course I gotta write something about my favorite holiday of the year!
Hah jk. The lyrics popped out last November, just sometime around after Halloween & I knew gotta turn it into a song. Initially it had a different ending but Hanitafrun came out with a better suggestion & she corrected it. Et voila
Btw the other two who sang with me are Rahmania95 & Kamiqurra. No idea who the 1st character is.
Earlier this year I was kinda curious about how a PATD song would sound like as a DDLC soundtrack, soooo this happens.
Well actually I blame the "the ink flows down into a dark puddle" part, reminding me of "the ink is running toward the page" in Northern Downpour. That gave me the idea for this mash-up cover.
This time I had to repeatedly listen to both songs WHILE in the process of making this cover, trying to get the notes right. It's still harder to control my voice & breathing though, plus I just recovered from a cold so that explains the slight phlegminess. The video accidentally got cut off in the first part, cuz halfway through drawing the iPad ran out of battery, & Procreate failed to save everything from the beginning.
audio: https://soundcloud.com/ratryoshka/downpour-reality-panic-at-the-disco-x-doki-doki-literature-club-cover
art: https://www.deviantart.com/chocoreaper/art/Downpour-Reality-747532573
Welp, I'm 4 months too late uploading this, cuz it was supposed to be for either V-day or Shamrock day (and I celebrate neither but you get the point)
Another WIP from 2 years ago, finished just this year. P.s. the reason why the first part of the clip looks different is cuz I initially drew it on a different vector software, & animated it in Hype. After 2 years I decided to continue working on it & drew the rest in Illustrator & animate with After Effects (except for the scene with the boyfriend, which is done in ToonBoom Studio cuz I miss it but it makes my laptop lag lately)
Y'all, i've been busy, the first two months I've had a malfunction/breakdown cuz my office computer crashed & all the saved data were gone, including a project I've been working on for a friend. I was also rushing on a long overdue commission. Thats why the vlog's two months late, and I've got nothing good to say on camera other than lightly roasting both TheBlackFriday & Adamtots (please dont take this as an invitation to harass Adamtots & TheBlackFriday even further), and of course plugging my friends' clothing line.
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SOME PLUGS
The Black Friday:
instagram.com/TheBlackFridayID
Blibli: Black Friday Official Store
Momala:
instagram.com/momala.clo
Shopee: Momala.clo
Tbh I've always wanted to do one of these cuz i reeeeeally wanted to be on Verified by Genius. Maybe there's a very slim chance that I'll get featured on Verified or some other show similar to it one day, but at this rate it's pretty unlikely, seeing I havent been signed to a record label yet & still hadn't released a full album after 8 years of making music, but a girl can dream, right?
Like most of my songs Grudges is a song about feeling inadequate seeing someone else do better than you & feeling unsatisfied with your own achievements & wanting to outdo these people you hold a grudge against.
(for those who are wondering, 'gebleg' is one of the various Indonesian slangs for a word that means the opposite of 'genius'🤣)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMH3aFeF2lW/
At last the year has come to an end, thus making this one the last episode of 2013YOTQ. Who knows what I'm gonna rename my vlog with. Will it have '2014' in it? I dont know.
Yes, it's been a terrible year, we all felt like our freedom has been taken, etc etc. But at the same time a lot of us find this year oddly motivating, as it provides a calmer environment for us to concentrate on creating things. And no more time wasted on transport, that time's going in the productivity bank :D
However it's still a terrible year looking at all the deaths due to the pandemic all over the world, and violence happening in various countries.
Animated shorts compilation: https://youtu.be/8UUGvJvrkTg
Been a while since I did a timelapse, cuz I’ve only recently got my hands on an Android tablet. Usually I use drawing time lapses for song covers, but lemme just try doing what other youtubers do for once. Back then I borrowed the office iPad & it had Procreate in it, which allows timelapses but Procreate isn’t available on android so I used Ibis Paint.
A little sidenote regarding the end of Greed: I don't mean to unsupport other fellow artists, it's great to buy their merch, especially when they're doing it for a cause or fundraiser. But sometimes we gotta understand the situation, if you're buying internationally & the shipping costs more than the actual product itself, dupes are fine. Else, go support your favorite musicians, artists & content creators by all means.
Thought I was gonna make my vlogs strictly around 6 minutes, but this one ain't it. What can I say, I've got a lot of things to say when it comes to copying, imitation and the occasional topic of envy that comes with it. There's loads I wanna talk about but in this vid it's just my dumb copying experiences; how I first came to like copying as a wee bebbie kindergartener, how the tiniest similarity can drive someone into imitating another, and how I became this brand™ of annoying that y'all see today 🤣
Right The so-called "subliminal messages". After exporting from Final Cut Pro there are suddenly these frequent green screen gaps popping up that I couldn't fix in the middle of the video, so I took advantage of them & filled them in with these messages as a joke.
Was feeling extra silly this time, and my glasses won't stop doing that anime thing because my screen was too bright on purpose. I've turned it down & added extra backlighting with the nightlight but that didnt do it either.
Let's go 5 years back to the late 2000s, when Yo Mama jokes were still somehow acceptable, and besides rocking out, I had other plans of going up on stage & telling jokes to my audience. Tbh eventhough music is still my main goal, doing stand-up comedy is still in my bucket list.
One of the things that spark joy for me: finding & comparing alternatives to your usual everyday apps & sites, especially social media websites. Idk, there’s just something about using sites & apps no one’s ever heard of before which are basically competitors of already famous ones. It’s sort of like listening to underground bands.
I forgot to mention that there's a site called AlternativeTo, it's where you can find out about the possible alternatives of the sites, softwares & apps you're already using. You can also create an account & suggest some alternatives they haven't mentioned yet.
SO. MANY. JUMPCUTS. Ugh I had to retake some scenes in here, I'm still trying to grasp the thing called recording smoothly.
While doing vocal warm-ups on Instagram I realized these two songs click so well &
Going for the scratchy scribbled-on cutouts theme cuz it's been a while since I color comics that way. And I apologize for the rumblyness at the beginning. Back when I was still using the iPad tuning down a bar's velocity was easy in Garageband over there, not so much on the laptop.
During this time around when we're all stuck at home, why not do something we all haven't done before?
I'm not the vlogger type tbh, but there's no harm in trying. Like I said up there, talking in front of the camera serves as an outlet or some sort of speech therapy/practice, since I'm not that good at talking IRL.
This was recorded on Oct 27th 2018, i forgot to reupload it here. Anyway enjoy my mediocre piano skills cuz i messed up some bits because of lack of practice 😅
Disclaimer: I don't usually put honey in my coffee, I only did it for the occasion.
The animatic was only finished today but the song was made 7 years ago as an improv, cuz it's just one of those moments, y'know.
Inspired by Brendon Urie's silly Vines, thats why he's up there.