enjoy the moment!

I've actually been in Toonsquid hell the past two months trying to figure out how to make the visuals for this 😭 The cover itself was super fun to make though. Rikka and Karin have both really grown on me as voicebanks, especially Karin (and I only recently learned that they're in a little unit with Chifuyu... that's so cute! I have an Uwagaki/Write Over Me cover with the three of them almost done, and I have a more clear idea of the visuals for that one so it hopefully won't take as long as this one did 🤞). When I first listened to Hanamekanai I thought the lyrics were fine but I was really in love with the instrumental; making this cover really made me appreciate the original lyrics so much more. I have no idea why they didn't resonate when I first read/heard them, when that sort of vindictive, ugly suicidality that they describe is like. deeply relatable to me and has been for over a decade lol? I guess it's just like that sometimes. The original art and video is also so good. Part of me wanted to recreate that here but I genuinely would have no idea how to even begin doing that with some of the visual effects used!! Hopefully someday I will. I do like how these visuals turned out though. I had grander aspirations when I began sketching but the process of making this still taught me a lot despite how simple the product is.

I really love all of Alterour Setsuna Pop; along with vanilla flavor piece and MOSAIC, Halo is one of the songs off of it that has stuck with me the most. It has some very interesting soundscapes going on in the beginning, and the cacophony of horns and percussion towards the end always hits so hard. I would like to remake this cover once I'm more experienced with SynthV and Reaper (and animation... I've never really done much of it, hence why this is so rough!!), because I feel like I didn't capture what made the original song so magical.

YouTube kind of ate and spat out the thumbnail, so here's a cleaner version of it:

here's one of the frames i drew for the video... sorry for putting you in the backrooms ROSA it will happen again and again and again 😔

pre-effects and sketch once again. this was so rough to colour 😭 i think i should've maybe planned colours out more?? i tried so many different things and spent waaaay longer than i wanted to on this as a result. also i feel like Jason does not feel anywhere near as dynamic/kinetic as in the original sketch; i made a lot of changes with his design (his original UTH design will aaaalways be my fav) so that probably contributed to it?? also drawing more than just both their torsos really fucked with the composition, i now see why samnee cropped it the way he did lol. for dick's design i referenced her nw suit from when rick leonardi was on nightwing '96. those chunky boots and gloves are soooo fun and i'm sad she's never drawn w that design. like look: