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Ok, so this did take 3 months to make. Yes, I am that unemployed friend.

But just to qualify the lunacy a bit: this project was also a way for me to channel my ADHD into learning Blender and adding material to my demoreel. So you see, it was just like... 63% of the way to the moon. Top of the exosphere at most.

As I said in the video, I will be making a long post of BTS of this project with details and fun facts, but for now, here's a taste with the posters and framed photos in Kyoko's office, I had a lot of fun making those, especially the homonculus diagram.

This is the coolest thing anyone has ever sent us for any project I've worked on. Yes, I'm including Epithet.

This person made an entire professional level animated intro for a stupid bit we created. It's incredible and you should watch it even if you haven't watched a second of our streams. This transcends fan content. This is a pitch Bible for a show that I wish was real so I could watch it.

I had to do it @jelloapocalypse

And it. was this super cut

I also wanna show off this dumb thumbnail

Phalera bucephala, otherwise known as the buff-tip moth, is a remarkable mimic that can easily disguise itself as a twig. This moth has a unique resting position that makes its body seem narrower and more cylindrical, and its wings are covered in silver patterns that resemble tree bark, while the buff-colored patches on its head and forewings mimic the appearance of freshly-snapped wood.

Above: three actual twigs and one buff-tip moth

This type of camouflage is also known as a "protective resemblance" -- a form of mimesis in which an animal can avoid being preyed upon by mimicking an unremarkable or inedible aspect of its environment. Many other moths are able to disguise themselves in similar ways, often mimicking dead leaves, twigs, moss, and/or tree bark.

Above: more photos of Phalera bucephala

The buff-tip moth is particularly adept at disguising itself, however, and the fact that it so strongly resembles such a specific object (not just a dead leaf or a piece of foliage, but a broken twig from a silver birch tree, in particular) makes this disguise seem even more impressive and unique.

Above: the photo at the top shows a buff-tip moth in its resting position, while the photo at the bottom shows the same species with its wings unfurled

It also tends to look like there's a weird little smiley face in the setae surrounding the moth's head, which is arguably even more striking, but for some reason none of my sources seem to mention that weirdness.

Above: the weird little smiley face on the back of the moth's head

This species is distributed throughout the British Isles, mainland Europe, and parts of Asia, with its range extending into Eastern Siberia.

Sources & More Info:

Wildlife Insights: Buff-Tip Moth Identification Guide

Butterfly Conservation: Buff-Tip

Wildlife Insights: Phalera bucephala

The Wildlife Trusts: The Buff-Tip Moth

Moth Identification: Phalera busephala

Encyclopedia of Life: Global Map of Known Occurrences for Phalera busephala

Insecta: Phalera bucephala

Lepidoptera and their Ecology: Phalera busephaloides and Phalera busephala

Journal of Ecology and Evolution: Strong Foraging Preferences for Ribes alpinum in the Polyphagous Caterpillars of the Buff-Tip Moth

sorry for ruining your movie stream, but you gotta admit it was funnier than a normal bit

(i was also the Nekomaru and Julius Caesar profiles too, you can kill me now, DR execution-style.)