hi! i'm cal, and this is my art blog. i'm a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, so i post art, animation, writing, music, and video edits. i post both fan content and original stuff, but i have a separate blog for personal posts and (most) reblogs.
software: for art, i use procreate, csp, or toonsquid. synthv and fl studio are my go-tos for music, and my mvs are made in davinci resolve.
current fandoms: my current fixation is link click, and hades was before that. i'm also a big fan of tf2, utdr, hollow knight, okami, and the legend of zelda.
Hello Art Fighters! It's time to get prepared for the 2026 MAP!
We've just recently updated our latest news post with the link to sign up for the 5th edition of our annual MAP. This year's song is Radiant Revival by Jamie Paige (ft. Hatsune Miku)!
For those who don't know what a MAP is, MAP stands for "multiple animator project". A MAP is a short, collaborative project made up of numerous animations by different creators. MAPs are typically set to music which have been sliced into shorter segments. Each project member is responsible for animating their assigned part.
Our sign-ups will work a little differently this year. Instead of it being a first-come, first-serve application process like in previous years, applications will be open from now through June 25th at 12:00 PM EDT. After closing, we will randomly select our 34 participants. We will randomly select backup participants as needed as well.
Please be sure to read over the MAP rules here prior to signing up. You can sign up here.
Thank you for all your interest in our annual MAP, and we hope to see you sign up!
Still learning to make animatics using stick figures, but I'm finally through the first bridge of this! The song is Kikomori's cover of Pale Machine, and the characters are from Link Click. I hope you can still tell who is who :P
Here's my new English SynthV cover of THE TIDES by 白鲨 JAWS (from Link Click)! Lyrics:
Dark room, quiet night:
Spindrift stings in my mind’s eye.
All these visions got me feelin’ like
I just got my perfect alibi.
Often spend nights in a gale, still set sail--
So torn up, but I fly still.
Hunt eyes in the dark, skipping heart
Head reelin’ cause I’m frightened as hell.
So what’s that sound, sound, sound?
Spinnin’ all night long, long, long
Temperature goes down, down, down
Got my mind feelin’ drown, drown, drowned.
It’s constant.
I’d hear it in the echo of a pindrop,
only revealing its luster when the light’s off.
Secretly, we extend our hands
trying to hold onto lives that slip through fingers like sand,
And the moonlight’s reflection I chased it with you,
sinking into the blue.
Open your eyes (In every lifetime)
Passing through lies (All days intertwined)
You’ll wake without me by your side,
the present’s stuck on standby.
Steady your stride (I got lost in the trap of timelapse)
Cut through the night
(I can see we ain’t got no way back)
We’ll never alter fate’s design
Marooned within the flow of time.
Sordid, the vanity: Spectacles fracturing.
Quiet reprises of rusted candlelight.
That one precipitous touch,
Then there were no witnesses left to testify.
Impending redemption unfolds.
Footsteps controlled.
Trail has gone cold.
Spiderwebs of enigmas untold.
Close to your chest, keep the cards that you want to hide.
_____
I’m looking at people come and go,
Wondering who would run this show.
Can’t kill this butterfly in my stomach
When I gotta swallow the truth down my throat, But I just know
I hear the symphony in your vicinity.
Riding the low tide deep into the sea.
Trippin’, Trippin’
We’re losing the target, yeah.
Sinkin’ , Sinkin’
Deep into the darkness, yeah.
Catch me off the radar.
I’ll be ghosting so hard.
Is there any hope of calling a mayday in currents out this far?
Trippin’, Trippin’
We’re losing the target, yeah.
Sinkin’ , Sinkin’
Deep into the darkness, yeah.
Catch me off the radar.
I’ll be ghosting so hard.
Catch me off the radar.
Open your eyes (In every lifetime)
Passing through lies (All days intertwined)
You’ll wake without me by your side,
the present’s stuck on standby.
Steady your stride (I got lost in the trap of timelapse)
Cut through the night
(I can see we ain’t got no way back)
We’ll never alter fate’s design
Marooned within the flow of time.
Go on without me by your side:
The present waits on standby.
Steady your stride.
Cut through the night.
Find your new place in fate’s design.
Remember me and brave the tide.
Here's my new English SynthV cover of THE TIDES by 白鲨 JAWS (from Link Click)! Lyrics:
Dark room, quiet night:
Spindrift stings in my mind’s eye.
All these visions got me feelin’ like
I just got my perfect alibi.
Often spend nights in a gale, still set sail--
So torn up, but I fly still.
Hunt eyes in the dark, skipping heart
Head reelin’ cause I’m frightened as hell.
So what’s that sound, sound, sound?
Spinnin’ all night long, long, long
Temperature goes down, down, down
Got my mind feelin’ drown, drown, drowned.
It’s constant.
I’d hear it in the echo of a pindrop,
only revealing its luster when the light’s off.
Secretly, we extend our hands
trying to hold onto lives that slip through fingers like sand,
And the moonlight’s reflection I chased it with you,
sinking into the blue.
Open your eyes (In every lifetime)
Passing through lies (All days intertwined)
You’ll wake without me by your side,
the present’s stuck on standby.
Steady your stride (I got lost in the trap of timelapse)
Cut through the night
(I can see we ain’t got no way back)
We’ll never alter fate’s design
Marooned within the flow of time.
Sordid, the vanity: Spectacles fracturing.
Quiet reprises of rusted candlelight.
That one precipitous touch,
Then there were no witnesses left to testify.
Impending redemption unfolds.
Footsteps controlled.
Trail has gone cold.
Spiderwebs of enigmas untold.
Close to your chest, keep the cards that you want to hide.
_____
I’m looking at people come and go,
Wondering who would run this show.
Can’t kill this butterfly in my stomach
When I gotta swallow the truth down my throat, But I just know
I hear the symphony in your vicinity.
Riding the low tide deep into the sea.
Trippin’, Trippin’
We’re losing the target, yeah.
Sinkin’ , Sinkin’
Deep into the darkness, yeah.
Catch me off the radar.
I’ll be ghosting so hard.
Is there any hope of calling a mayday in currents out this far?
Trippin’, Trippin’
We’re losing the target, yeah.
Sinkin’ , Sinkin’
Deep into the darkness, yeah.
Catch me off the radar.
I’ll be ghosting so hard.
Catch me off the radar.
Open your eyes (In every lifetime)
Passing through lies (All days intertwined)
You’ll wake without me by your side,
the present’s stuck on standby.
Steady your stride (I got lost in the trap of timelapse)
Cut through the night
(I can see we ain’t got no way back)
We’ll never alter fate’s design
Marooned within the flow of time.
Go on without me by your side:
The present waits on standby.
Steady your stride.
Cut through the night.
Find your new place in fate’s design.
Remember me and brave the tide.
Thank you so much to @jellyv33 for the new profile picture! Not only is the art stellar, the commission process was so friendly and pleasant. Please check out @jellyv33's art and give it some love 😊!!
New SYNTHV cover is out now, this time for Ruler of My Heart!
[LYRICS]
Chase the darkness inside:
You’ll still outshine the dawn’s light
in your wreckage, my star.
My immaculate muse,
all of creation diffused
in Lacrymosa unmarred.
My savior, un belle âme teinte en noir.
I don’t believe you’re a liar.
So, give me your sins, and I’ll bear all of our scars.
Trust me, and I’ll lift you higher.
Ruler of my heart (x3)
Your beauty’s transcendental.
Ruler of my heart (x3)
Stripping away your walls,
Endless crumbling vaults
Cast me into the Abyss unfurled.
Every glimpse of you gone,
Can't remember your song.
I’ve lost my whole world.
My savior, divine and devastating.
Make me your God: I can give you everything.
So, give me your sins: I’ll bear perdition’s flame:
All hell exalted in your name.
Ruler of my heart (x3)
Ever ethereal.
Ruler of my heart (x3)
[Instrumental]
Ruler of my heart (x6)
![THE TIDES ༄ [English Cover] || SynthV Hayden & NOA](https://64.media.tumblr.com/422a33e1d97b7a40805cf84b4129267b/deb9ddad65f5aac8-e3/s1280x1920/c5a58fc5101ac9bf875d595a85d4b86de91b3838.webp)
