Eppilem

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[eppilem]

Hi I'm Lem

This blog is mainly for Animator vs Animation content!

Other things I'm a fan of:

Sonic

Undertale / Deltarune

The Messenger / Sea of Stars

ENA Webseries / Dream BBQ

Iconoclasts (fandom is hella dead)

OFF

No Straight Roads (Excited for the sequel!)

Shovel Knight / Mina the Hollower (SOON)

Hollow Knight / Silksong (playing right now)

Costco Hot Dog

[commonstick]

I misspelled cubibibism :(

[eppilem]

How The Dark Lord was moving in AvA 13:

He was NOT moving like this against Chosen

[boogey-bamsie]

Hope yall like an aura farmer

Ava 13 was awesomeeeee

[eppilem]

A thought regarding AvA 14

(AvA 13 Spoilers Obviously)

First of all.

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OK THAT ASIDE.

Knowing almost the full extent of Dark's plan of taking over the world by assimilating everyone into his "obey me machine," a thought came across my head. Clearly, the people that are revived through the machine keep their abilities i.e. Hacker. But if Dark REALLY wants to go global... shouldn't he target more than just helpless civilians so that he can have more manpower spread across the land? But where would he start? It's not like we have footage of...

Oh.

Ah.

Hm.

No but like. That was just an EXTRA video.. it doesn't have that much releva-

😃

AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUNNY?

There is NO visual indication of the assimilated being part of Dark's army. No aura. No beaming red eyes. They simply just. Obey him. So even if these guys can survive, they'll have no idea who to trust at a glance. It would be outright chaos.

Another factor is how the virus works in regards to blade cutting. When Hacker is revived from the machine, his abilities suddenly gain virablade properties, like his transform ability:

So does that. Does that mean. That for ANYONE who is revived by the machine. THEIR abilities get vira properties too? YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? THE WORLD IS COOKED. IT'S COOKED. THE ASSIMILATED MAY AUTOMATICALLY GET THE

✨️ One-shot Free-for-me Special ✨️

AND THEY GET IT WITH THEIR ABILITIES. LET'S HOPE DARK HAS SOME INFATUATION WITH THAT ONE CITY BECAUSE IF HE EVER GOES OUT AND KILLS SOMEONE WHO ISN'T JUST A CITY CIVILIAN IT'S OVER. IT'S JUST OVER. IT WAS ALREADY OVER WITH JUST HACKER.

Anyways great episode Alan yk I wasn't really feeling Dark coming back in 12 but ykw yeah I think he'll do great

[artichao]

why is victim (Animator vs Animation) grey?

and why did it take me a whole year to figure out why??? 😭

this was probably obvious to some people but im gonna ramble about it and explain my theory anyway just in case there's others like me LOL-

so here's how i reacted when i watched 'victim' for the first time, and also gathering other people's theories and opinions:

okay so ig entering the internet "stablised" him

and i guess he's old ?? so he's grey from being old man???

idk something something, "ink running out", losing color

commenters under the video thought it was just because he's "morally grey" and i accepted that theory

the animatorvsanimation fandom page says that he turned grey due to being "corrupted and desaturated by [the Outernet's] outer layer".

obviously alan mentioned they needed an easier way to differentiate victim and The Chosen One so I figured this was sorta just a way out that needed no explanation

...BUT THERE WAS AN EXPLANATION. IT WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME.

first, we saw that victim was accidentally mixed in with mitsi's upload (or "life", as i like to view this lime-green magic. it's the same colour as TSC's awakened powers, which is why victim fixated on it briefly in AvA 10).

this forced victim to travel to newgrounds, and then become a part of the internet and outernet through unnatural means. keep in mind he is now completely enveloped by mitsi's life-particles during this transition.

and then, he turns grey? well...

...after victim crashes and meets the now-formed mitsi, it becomes clear.

victim didn't turn grey because of age, or different programs, or being an "unnatural/manmade" stickfigure in a space he should not belong...

it's time to get annoyingly technical about COLOUR.

if you don't want to bother reading all this, scroll until you find the red-coloured header.

keen eyes may notice that the grey of victim's new self is an identical grey to the hair of mitsi. and if you don't believe me, here!

"but chao, that's a style choice i'm sure. it helps to limit a color palette so animation becomes easier!"

here's some examples of characters having very similar colours and yet having different tones:

[caption in 3rd image reads: "these two are EXTREMELY SIMILAR. but if you zoom in, you can spot a very slight difference in shades."]

"chao, you're not considering lighting and shading!"

okay, you could argue the 3rd image has a bit of fancy lighting going on, causing tones to have a slight difference. but 1st and 2nd images have a basic lighting for all characters, causing none of them to become shaded or lightened. and even when lighting IS in play in a scene, there will still be a difference:

and hey, even victim and mitsi are not exempt from being different tones due to lighting and atmosphere. here, mitsi is a lighter colour due to being a distance away (victim being right up close to the camera) and so the foggy atmosphere changes her tone.

but in most scenes (even a frame 2 seconds after this), their matching colour is consistent/near-identical.

[caption in 3rd image reads: "Rendered images are not easy to colour-match, but these two still share small pockets of matching/near-identical colour."]

WHY DOES THIS MATTER??!?!

i simply wanted to prove that victim and mitsi share the same tone of grey to make my theory stronger than just "corruption" and "he's old!"

so the answer the big question, "why is victim grey?"

having been mixed in with mitsi's life and "uploaded" to the internet alongside her, victim was forced to adopt mitsi's colour palette. she only consists of 3 colours (white, light grey, dark grey) and does not go anywhere near the extremity of black. the dark grey, being the closest mitsi's palette can reach toward black, is what the upload "forced" upon victim.

remember, these stickfigures are made from data. combining victim and mitsi's data together would cause some overrides - palette, animation style (why victim "stablises" in his animation style), frame rate. mitsi's data was higher priority, so overwrote a lot of victim's data without destroying who he was as a stickfigure.

this affected his ship too! but i can understand that the team simply greyscaled this model, as colour-grading it to mitsi's limited palette would've been difficult and may look strange. but it explains why the ship changed colour too, at the very least.

THIS IS NOT CONCRETE. this has not been confirmed by Alan or anyone from the team. but it is a theory i have utmost confidence in!! and whilst i do believe this is a really "obvious" observation, i haven't seen anybody else talk about it, so i just wanted to ramble about it.

if you have anything to add or maybe you think my theory is complete bogus i'd love to hear it!! i love to discuss things about one of my biggest hyperfixations :DD remember, this is a canon-based theory. if you have any non-canons and headcanons that clash with this, i would like to respect your decisions and imaginations. ^^ if you tell me "but i headcanon X and Y!" that's very cool, and i think you should continue doing that! but this theory is based on fact and canon, purely derived from what we see in the episode and using some outside smarts.

okay this ramble is OVER!! thank you for readings :D

[eppilem]

AvM 38 Spoilers!

So. New episode right. Nice stuff. Ender + void cryptid is cool as hell. But I was little confused by the lack of references to Skip's teaser video.

Until.

That last part. That's Skip's world.

AND GUESS WHO'S IN IT.

BOZOS IS REALLLLLL

Also. We now know why only 2 UUIDs showed up at the end of Skip's video- it was King and Purple dropping by his world!

[sticksstonessteel]

First of all: AvM arg on skip’s channel. right now. go watch it first

watched it? good. now, take a look at this:

this is a list of all the player UUIDs in skip’s world, taken at 17:45. all the UUIDs above the green line are either skip or his friends, as explained in the video. the UUID above the blue line is the mysterious “bozo’s donut”, also touched upon in the video.

however, at the very end of the video here, two more unique UUIDs appear in skip’s worldfile (below the blue line). immedietly after this we are shown the scene of color gang and co. entering a world.

six names appear. but there’s only two new UUIDs, not counting bozo. unfortunately, unless I am mistaken, both these UUIDs do not return any result on nameMC.

what the hell does this mean. it would make sense if there were six for color gang + purple but only two??? THE NUMBERS, ALAN. WHAT DO THEY MEAN

[eppilem]

I was talking with someone abt this and they brought up a great point:

What if the 2 UUIDs represent the 2 locations the sticks come from?

The CG + Second come from Alan's PC. That's one UUID.

Purple and King come from the Outernet. Another UUID.

Cause keep in mind in Bedwars when Blue gets banned, EVERYONE ELSE got banned too at the same time. So the game might register them all under the same UUID since their data reference is the same. Or something. Computer lingo

The CG might NOT be cooked with 3 cryptids

[eppilem]

Has ANYONE watched the full Skip video that's related to AvM???? I've been GASLIT BY LIKE 3 SERVERS (including the 69 THOUSAND MEMBER AB SERVER) cause NOBODY HAS BEEN DISCUSSING IT

JUST GLANCING OVER THE FACT THAT

SOMEONE ELSE WAS IN THE WORLD AND LEFT A PLAYER ID

WHOSE NAME IS A TYPE OF PERLIN NOISE GENERATION THAT MADE BETA'S FAR LANDS OR WHATEVER

Yknow.

WHERE THE COLOR GANG ENDED UP

And the fact that WHATEVER THIS THING IS CAN RETROACTIVELY REMOVE EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION AND STUFF FROM

PRE-RECORDED FOOTAGE

DID YALL JUST SEE THE RELEASE DATE AND SCURRY AWAY??? HELLO???? ANYBODY???

[eppilem]

Update: BOGOS IS THE ONE WHO LOCKED AND THE OUT OF BOUNDS CHEST.

IDK WHAT THIS MEANS. OR IF ITS SIGNIFICANT.

[addbagelstominecraft]

so re: that crazy skip the tutorial video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-g_vIvF_1c ) i downloaded the bozosdonut skin off namemc

i found it really interesting that it was a full image and not in the shape of a regular minecraft skin (miku skin for reference)

so i was thinking, oh there's a lot you could do with that, i wonder if it has a hidden message? however...

this is genuinely a low resolution version of the main image from wikipedia for perlin noise!

left = wikipedia, right = bozosdonut skin scaled up to the same resolution

so for the 1 person out there who really wanted to know about that bozosdonut skin... there ya go! and maybe i saved you some time trying to decrypt it 😭💖

[eppilem]

IM SO SCARED

[sticksstonessteel]

First of all: AvM arg on skip’s channel. right now. go watch it first

watched it? good. now, take a look at this:

this is a list of all the player UUIDs in skip’s world, taken at 17:45. all the UUIDs above the green line are either skip or his friends, as explained in the video. the UUID above the blue line is the mysterious “bozo’s donut”, also touched upon in the video.

however, at the very end of the video here, two more unique UUIDs appear in skip’s worldfile (below the blue line). immedietly after this we are shown the scene of color gang and co. entering a world.

six names appear. but there’s only two new UUIDs, not counting bozo. unfortunately, unless I am mistaken, both these UUIDs do not return any result on nameMC.

what the hell does this mean. it would make sense if there were six for color gang + purple but only two??? THE NUMBERS, ALAN. WHAT DO THEY MEAN

[eppilem]

THERES MORE OF THEM????

[illmoraineakoi]

Okay, in regards to the new teaser video from Skip The Tutorial, here's some stuff that I've gathered upon watching the entire video:

The chest is important. That much is obvious, and with how weirdly it acts in his video, it's undeniable there's some stick figure hijinks afoot with it. The only question is: why? Why is it important, and how does it play into the story? I'm unsure if it could be the chest that was glitched out by the Corruption wave Yellow tried to fix with the staff, or if it's another chest that'll be introduced in the new video. Given how the chest that appears in the wall of the base glitches like the Corruption, however, I think it's prolly the chest from "Manhunt". [Of note, the chest appears in a frozen biome, which we know the CG were left off at in "Manhunt", and we also know they were near a Farlands wall.]

[Also of note: the chest itself is not a modern chest; it's a beta chest, which is honestly just...weird. Beta stuff has not come into play in the main AvM stuff, the Episode 0 stuff aside. So is Minecraft Beta going to be a thing during Season 5 too? The Farlands are an old feature that has been removed from modern Minecraft, so maybe it's possible the corrupted staff changed the game version in addition to the difficulty??? It is located in an area that WAS the Farlands before they were removed...But this kinda throws a wrench into the theory that the Corruption is tied to Gold, as Gold was NOT playing on Beta. Which means the Corruption might predate what happened to Gold by a LONG TIME...]

I wonder what's up with the 5 air in both the Farlands locked chest and the base chest...Also, the chest requires a rose to unlock? I wonder if the air blocks were replacements for items that used to be in that chest but no longer exist in the version Skip was playing...

There's a player hideout that Skip and Observer find in one of the displaced chunks of the Nearlands, with two furnaces, a crafting table, and some chests. I guarantee we'll be seeing this set-up at least at some point during Season 5. of note: the steaks in one of the chests are NOT stacked, which is unusual and perhaps a nod back to Beta [food did not use to stack]. [I'm gonna frame scrub to see if any of the other items in the chest were in "Manhunt" or could align with the CG's inventories, because that'd be my best bet: this will be their hideout in the next episode.]

There is something very interesting about the segment about the UUIDs. When Skip explains when UUIDs were implemented, they were first implemented in version 1.7.6 in April of 2014. King's son was playing on version 1.7.10. I wonder if this detail is significant, as by this logic, King's son would have had a UUID. [We see that the CG definitely do by the scene of the IDs near the end of the video] OR, if he was playing on another player's world, if "bozo's donut" was that player and Gold might've combined with that UUID when he was sucked into Minecraft. Or I could just be barking up the wrong tree, who knows.

I wonder if the Happy Ghasts will be a thing in Season 5. That seems like a strange change of topic for Skip to make after giving up the the Farlands video he was trying to record, and given how this entire video is supposed to be a teaser for the new video, I'm skeptical that it doesn't mean anything. The CG have gone stuff with Ghasts in the past, so out of all the new drop content, Happy Ghasts would be the most likely thing to appear in the season.

Lastly, the CG seems to have made amends or a truce with that armor stand, at least for the time being, as it's shown following them both in that shot, and with them in the Newsletter sneak peek. We'll likely see this happen at the start of the new episode.

All in all while very weird, this was actually a VERY cool way to reveal the release date of the new episode. It's definitely hinting at some major stuff and was clearly designed to do so. And it was done so well too. Skip played his part very well to the point you can barely even tell he's acting, and the glitchy nature of the video's content was done so cool. Much kudos to both Skip's team and Alan's for how well done this video was made.

[eppilem]

THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS NOBODY ELSE IS AND I'M GOING CRAAAAZYYYYYY

[eppilem]

Has ANYONE watched the full Skip video that's related to AvM???? I've been GASLIT BY LIKE 3 SERVERS (including the 69 THOUSAND MEMBER AB SERVER) cause NOBODY HAS BEEN DISCUSSING IT

JUST GLANCING OVER THE FACT THAT

SOMEONE ELSE WAS IN THE WORLD AND LEFT A PLAYER ID

WHOSE NAME IS A TYPE OF PERLIN NOISE GENERATION THAT MADE BETA'S FAR LANDS OR WHATEVER

Yknow.

WHERE THE COLOR GANG ENDED UP

And the fact that WHATEVER THIS THING IS CAN RETROACTIVELY REMOVE EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION AND STUFF FROM

PRE-RECORDED FOOTAGE

DID YALL JUST SEE THE RELEASE DATE AND SCURRY AWAY??? HELLO???? ANYBODY???

[girlvasectomy]

THE HOLIDAYS

[thegvaconnoisseurs]

The Dormant One

The Dormant One, or "Dormant" is a member of the Hue Crew that replaces The Second Coming from the original series. They are based on a satire AvA fan OC, “The Deceased One,” made by Skim, AvG's main editor.

Dormant was discovered by the other members of the Hue Crew shortly after gaining sentience. Promptly exploring Yang’s computer, albeit with moderate caution towards their safety, they ended up on the Sticksforge website and making their first friends. Yang initially created Dormant for a coding practice project he did for fun, and they were created on quite the old flash drive… Hopefully that doesn’t impact them too harshly.

They tend to approach situations with an outwardly blunt, deadpan attitude, not to mention being incredibly laid back, but this doesn’t mean they are any less passionate about their craft. They love coding, not to mention their intense passion for music, and are a very curious person. They are an incredibly big fan of expressing themself through creative works, and love making other people laugh with their witty sense of humor. They often use their coding skills to help Yang in his game development projects, the two working as a great team both in coding and combat.

Dormant wields the Unity-Wrench, a custom tool forged with guidance from the Hue Crew. Built using melted-down Unity tools and materials across the desktop, the wrench can modify the properties of objects by simply hitting them or through its nodes: These orbs are easily imbued with different “status effects” that can be thrown or launched from the wrench's jaw in combat. The ability was actually inspired by Skim’s “SELECT A MAGIC ITEM” polls on the AvG server that assigned stats and magical properties to ordinary objects. When they're spending time with Abex, Dormant is also able to bring his drawings to life with the wrench.

Dormant has sudden sleeping spells and is often incredibly drowsy. Abex could swear that he’s seen them sleepwalking.

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P.S. Dormant's subtitle is also based on one of Skim's polls!

[kiuk0]

🗣️🔥🔥 oh oh oh oh oh

[supd00dle]

Finally finished something from 2 years ago.Awesom

Based on this painting