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I had a blast from the past looking through my old videos, and my second ever animation, "Chica Plays the Piano", shows how far I've developed myself as an animator. I was surprised to learn, however, that I never made an SFM poster corresponding to it! So here it is at last. Apparently one of Chica's secret desires is to become a piano player... and here she is, gracefully performing on stage in front of an attentive audience.

So, the details. This could possibly be the most models I've ever used in a single picture. The front two rows of the audience consist of the animatronics from FNAF 1 and 2, Sister Location, and Springtrap (the Phantoms and Nightmares don't actually exist). The rest is basically four random humans that I copied a dozen times and shuffled around. Yes, it's not good to be lazy when you're an artist, but I'd rather not bore myself to tears resizing and posing 128 individual models, and no one's going to be paying much attention to the background anyway.

The piano is the basic TF2 grand piano (the same one I used in my animation), except it's a special version with a movable stool and keys. Yep, every key can be moved! The astute among you will know she's playing an E flat minor chord.

I also edited Chica's outfit, since formal attire is required to take part at this electrifying soiree. A wacky "LET'S EAT!!!" bib is hardly appropriate for a classical pianist to wear.

There are 8 lights here:
2 shining on the audience from above
2 shining on the stage from above
1 shining on the audience from the stage
3 faint golden volumetric lights on the stage

This is the first time I've used the Sister Location models. The grave problem I have with these models (and this is no one's fault; it's how they're designed in-game) is that they are RIDICULOUSLY SHINY. When looking through the main camera, all I could see was messy white blotches where the characters should be. It was so bad, I had to use VTFEdit to remove the phongs from the textures, but even after I did that, some of their body parts were still gleaming even when I reduced the Bloom setting to 0. Eventually I gave up and left them in - you can see them on the right-hand side.

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In other news, I'm finally getting back into creating animations for YouTube! What will my next animation be, you may ask?

OK, so if you haven't been following my channel lately (I don't blame you lol) you may have noticed that "Toy Bonnie is FABULOUS!!!" has disappeared. Why? Well, as it happens, UMG (Universal Music Group) muted the video because of bloody copyright infringement; I believe it's because UMG recently acquired the rights to the Bee Gees' catalogue. I took the video down because it's far less entertaining without the music.

Inspired by this travesty, I'm setting out to recreate the video, only 10 times better! There'll be much more advanced animation, sound effects and even a little story to go with it. This time the music won't elicit copyright issues... mostly. You'll see what I mean.

Here's a preview of it. The quality is off and there's no sound - I just want to give a little teaser of what's to come:

MP4 No Preview

Enjoy the picture!

Made in SFM, edited in PhotoScape
FNAFBTSC

Description
I had a blast from the past looking through my old videos, and my second ever animation, "Chica Plays the Piano", shows how far I've developed myself as an animator. I was surprised to learn, however, that I never made an SFM poster corresponding to it! So here it is at last. Apparently one of Chica's secret desires is to become a piano player... and here she is, gracefully performing on stage in front of an attentive audience.

So, the details. This could possibly be the most models I've ever used in a single picture. The front two rows of the audience consist of the animatronics from FNAF 1 and 2, Sister Location, and Springtrap (the Phantoms and Nightmares don't actually exist). The rest is basically four random humans that I copied a dozen times and shuffled around. Yes, it's not good to be lazy when you're an artist, but I'd rather not bore myself to tears resizing and posing 128 individual models, and no one's going to be paying much attention to the background anyway.

The piano is the basic TF2 grand piano (the same one I used in my animation), except it's a special version with a movable stool and keys. Yep, every key can be moved! The astute among you will know she's playing an E flat minor chord.

I also edited Chica's outfit, since formal attire is required to take part at this electrifying soiree. A wacky "LET'S EAT!!!" bib is hardly appropriate for a classical pianist to wear.

There are 8 lights here:
2 shining on the audience from above
2 shining on the stage from above
1 shining on the audience from the stage
3 faint golden volumetric lights on the stage

This is the first time I've used the Sister Location models. The grave problem I have with these models (and this is no one's fault; it's how they're designed in-game) is that they are RIDICULOUSLY SHINY. When looking through the main camera, all I could see was messy white blotches where the characters should be. It was so bad, I had to use VTFEdit to remove the phongs from the textures, but even after I did that, some of their body parts were still gleaming even when I reduced the Bloom setting to 0. Eventually I gave up and left them in - you can see them on the right-hand side.

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In other news, I'm finally getting back into creating animations for YouTube! What will my next animation be, you may ask?

OK, so if you haven't been following my channel lately (I don't blame you lol) you may have noticed that "Toy Bonnie is FABULOUS!!!" has disappeared. Why? Well, as it happens, UMG (Universal Music Group) muted the video because of bloody copyright infringement; I believe it's because UMG recently acquired the rights to the Bee Gees' catalogue. I took the video down because it's far less entertaining without the music.

Inspired by this travesty, I'm setting out to recreate the video, only 10 times better! There'll be much more advanced animation, sound effects and even a little story to go with it. This time the music won't elicit copyright issues... mostly. You'll see what I mean.

Here's a preview of it. The quality is off and there's no sound - I just want to give a little teaser of what's to come:

MP4 No Preview

Enjoy the picture!

Made in SFM, edited in PhotoScape
FNAFBTSC