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ripping channel mascots but club penguin'ified

i really enjoyed seeing two of my special interests together >:]

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All assets I did for TTGD's New Year Bash! video! Check out the video if you haven't already!

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VvvvvaVvvvvvr’s Lore: A Creator Commentary (Part 1)

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A wise(?) man(???) once said “There is no lore. Fuck you.” And while he might be true, some sneaky bastards decided otherwise.

For those unaware, VvvvvaVvvvvvr is a SiivaGunner fanchannel that has no quality control. As the tagline goes, “I upload everything”. Amongst the offkey offbeat mashups accumulating within its high video count, there contains less than a hundred videos that tell a somewhat deep yet funny story that has gone on to inspire many people in their future endeavours. Originally ending on July 12 2020, the channel got brought back in 2023 and along came a slew of new stories to tell. Some of those stories being penned by me.

Here’s a behind the scenes look at all the stuff I’ve done for V’s lore over the past three years. Starting with…

The VvvvvaVvvvvvr Cryptover

This is technically the first lore project I was involved in. My only contribution to it though was a rejected logo.

However, a part of it was used for the thumbnail, that being the downward arrow.

…and that’s all there is to say on my part lol.

VvvvvaVvvvvvr's Spooktacular Literally Not Halloween Special 5: The Mare Before Christmas

Ah, now here’s where I start getting more involved!

I voiced the narrator since I thought I could pull off a deep voice well. Having no legit stint at voice acting prior, I think I did a good job at it. I liked the inflictions I gave for some lines such as “Oh you can celebrate Christmas…if you can survive” and “they dialled a 7 instead of an 8”.

The outro had a…bit of a rocky development. Minindo did the edit for the intro, so naturally he was going to do the conclusion. But due to clashing events, the outro’s production was halted for months. That’s when I decided to take the edit offer instead and went forth with my Sony Vegas expertise. We ended up uploading it after the April Fools event since its theme was fake lore videos, so ending it with an actual lore episode was funny enough to do.

I enjoyed working on this a lot, mostly cause I started learning how a vavr lore video was made. There’s a bit of structure to it that some may not realise, such as the audio levels of V’s midi and wiseguy voice, the specific fonts used for each character’s lines, and even the movement for when V and N talk as they jump forward and back (idk what else to call it…writing out editing quirks is weird lol). Unfortunately, the latter point is something you can only do properly in After Effects, which I thought was a scary spooky program at the time, so I stuck to just painstakingly keyframing their dialogue bops (I think I’ll call it that from now on).

Lazer (the writer of the project) gave me some tidbits about my voice work from the opening, so I applied them as best as I could to the outro, with me taking the role of Horse and the narrator again. Since they’re the same character, I didn’t do much with my voice to differentiate the two. For Horse however, I added a layer of glitchy noise to the recording as to reflect their glitch attributes. This was done by vocoding my lines to a glitch sfx in Audacity. It was a weird method, but it got the job done at least.

I also did the MS Paint backgrounds for the room and hallway. I enjoyed adding little jokes here and there for both areas as well as adding references within the hallway specifically. I based it off of the same area in the first Horse video, with the doors and dark corridor being placed relative to where they were in the original.

I’m very proud of the final product considering it was my first lore edit. Lazer’s writing was great and the Tim Burton-esque art Modems and Frisk did were awesome.

VvvvvaVvvvvvr’s VViki Venture aka Wiki Week

This was the first lore saga I wrote. Originally, there wasn’t gonna be one since the event was a day long, but it got extended to a week cause we got more submissions than expected, which encouraged me to develop a storyline explaining its purpose. I got the premise after thinking about how V’s town would’ve reacted after the events of Ends Here, Ends Now (EHEN). The idea of Mashupville documenting V after he saved them was interesting, and I thought it’d be a funny outcome that his story was so stupid they just gave up treating it seriously and moved on.

I.M. Meen being the titular takeoveree came from me picking out characters that would fit a museum or documentation vibe, such as librarians, historians, or just book nerds. I planned for the cashier to be an original character like Crypto Nerd but team swayed me to use a meme character instead. Once Meen popped into my head, I realised his erratic behaviour would be perfect for what I already wrote up. The other wiki editors were suggestions by me as well, with Yoshi being an idea from Moder.

The museum exterior and general video editing were done by minindo, while I did the hallway background, the storage room, the channel banner, and Meen’s sentence mixing.

Most of the images framed in the hallway were random memes I had saved (excluding the first one, that's a reference to I'm Not Your Daddy I'm Your Grandpa), but minindo recommended me to use some iconic vavr thumbnails too (see if you can identify them). The storage background was fun to do, as I went through old EHEN project folders to spread little trinkets throughout the room.

During the event, I wanted to utilise the community posts as a way to have some fun with the Meen character and get people more involved with the lore. I wrote up 5 poems based on the wiki editors to tease their reveal in the outro and play in character since Meen wrote poems in his game.

(Turret's poem was gonna be a jokey one with him just revealing his identity, but he suggested against that)

Unfortunately, no one was really attempting to solve them. Looking back, I do think some of the poems were quite vague despite my attempts at making them cryptic but solveable. However, I then got the idea to play into the fans ignoring the poems and made posts about Meen getting angry that no one was caring about his work, leading to the characters being teased once more by posting blurry selfies of a mad Meen with his friends in the background.

I was really happy with how I turned things around and yet still stayed in character. Remember kids: improvise, adapt, overcome.

To finish off the event, I came up with Ending - The Shining as a reference to wayneradiotv's I.M. Meen stream ending. Wanting to create a photo that'd be as confusing as the original Shining picture, I made this…perculiar one of Meen and V in 2017, basing it off of this picture used in EHEN.

What could this photo possibly explain? Was I.M. Meen always there from the start?! Much to think about...

Nlog 2020/12/14: Tower

For the 1 year anniversary of Chapter 2 Episode 3, the team thought to make something lore related since Episode 4 was still in development. I brought up the idea of doing an Nlog related to Wiki Week and how N felt that people were interested in his ordeal. Another idea was brought up by Kiiva and Turret to do one on the Tower as a way to tease Episode 4, which we went with instead.

I didn't have much involvement with the writing. That credit goes to Kiiva, Turret, and Modems. I did make But Nobody Forumed - Vvvvvatale (with help from Hwc) cause I like when rips get uploaded as supplements to lore uploads (such as Black Black - Black Black and Maki’s birthday after the Yankover).

[END OF PART 1]

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UnderFes Banners Overview

For my few non-ripper followers basically because Undertale turned 10 years old this September and it's so important to ripping, VvvvvaVvvvvvr dedicated the whole month to Undertale rips, with tangentially-related sub-events. The event was called UnderFes, with the name and premise sort of being a riff on an old SiIvaGunner event called SummerFes, which was themed after Summer and had tangentially-related sub-events. (Get it?) As part of this event, we changed the YouTube banner several times, and now with the event being over the main point of this post is that I am going to talk about the banners that I created for the event.

To get things started, this was the initial concept image that I put together in 30 seconds during a VC:

This looks basically exactly like the Ruins banner.

Though I ended up deciding to create an extra banner for specifically the first room of the game to use before the main Ruins one.

This is the only time we'll see front-facing Vavr.

The Vavr sprites I did not make, they are reused from Vvvvvatale.

This banner along with the main one for the Ruins were as simple as finding a map for the Ruins, adding the Vvvvvatale sprites and then centering it.

Here's the main banner. It just kind of conveniently works out that there's already a long straight hallway in the Ruins so I didn't have to do anything.

Here is the first banner that actually took some effort. I got the tiles off of the Spriters Resource as well a some of the random scenery. This doesn't exactly represent any particular room, it's just supposed to be a hodgepodge of Snowdin-related imagery. That's the main philosophy I went with for these banners.

Before the Mr. Bean sprite was done I just added this second walking Vavr as a placeholder.

After creating this banner, I realized doing it all in an image editor would be too annoying and I had to look up some tile map tools.

This is sort of based on the room where the bird carries you over a disproportionately small gap, since it's the room with the most tile variants but it's not 1:1 or anything.

I couldn't find any tile mappers that weren't also kind of annoying to use so I ended up using them only for the base ground tiles, then adding the scenery on after.

I didn't add the characters, so peep added them in for me. Well that turned out to be a mistake, since he doesn't know how to scale pixel art properly. However, if you're eagle-eyed you will have already noticed that I made the Waterfall banner 1x instead of 2x like literally every other banner. Yeah so in the midst of figuring out the tilemapper I just used the banner dimensions without remembering at any point that it was supposed to be 2x, which means the version of this banner with the characters looks even worse. So yeah, I just screwed up everything with this one.

A fun detail with this one was the Gaster door. Obviously I wanted to include it as one of the most notable Waterfall landmarks, I decided to put it up against the water where it'd be logically inaccessible.

I didn't make the Waterfall castle banner, so we'll skip that and go right to Hotland. From here on out I made sure to get everything right so there shouldn't be any screwups, aside from the fact that almost every banner after had its last revision done like the day before it went up.

The first pass of Hotland. I extended the Mettaton fake kitchen to add this poster of Mettaton that appears in another room. I was thinking about adding Fuku Fire and/or Gaster Followers, before I remembered that for some reason I decided it'd be better to not use any of the NPCs from the areas in the banners and only use the scenery. Because of that the only characters we see besides the ones representing the sub-events are the ones that were depicted in-universe (Mettaton's poster here, and the statue of Tem in the previous banner). I think that was probably the right move but I could see the argument for otherwise.

Final version of Hotland with the characters now that I'm adding them myself to make sure there are no mixels. Again, I did not make the character sprites, they were made by others. Here you can see I moved the Mettaton poster to the opposite side, this is because the edge of the kitchen was in the area visible on mobile and I figured it would make more sense if the Mettaton poster was visible instead of just the edge of the kitchen. Another detail is the brick with glue, this is basically because the Hotland banner was used starting with WayneradioTV Day, and an actual Wayne fan suggested I add the brick with glue from one of his videos, which I figured it's simple enough to sprite (and it was).

Also, just for fun I threw in this unused sprite for a higher part of the Core that was shown off in the Undertale art book. It still doesn't reach the top of the banner sadly but it's not like it matters since it's all in the unseen part of the banner anyway (welcome to Boundary Break). (technically, the whole banner can be seen if watching YouTube from a TV, but we never optimize for this and basically consider the top and bottom "unseen".)

Here's the one for the Core, which was actually kind of annoying to make due to the amount of tile variants. But there's not much else to say here, so moving on.

For New Home, I knew the Asgore castle view was basically required to be the basis of the banner but to keep up the gig of making it a hodgepodge of elements from the area I also added the furniture from the actual New Home part of it, recolored to match the colors. Also, the trash can featured on the right side is actually from New Home within Undertale Yellow which I just threw in since there wasn't much else to add and Undertale Yellow is generally cool.

I didn't do the Monika classroom banners so moving right to the Judgement Hall banners.

Alternate version of the Judgement Hall banner where the characters aren't shadowed out. This obviously doesn't look as cool which is why I never really considered this for use but I did render it out as I spent way too much time on the standing edits for the ones who didn't have them from the original spriters, before realizing I was just going to shadow them out anyway. (In fact, Steven's color sprite literally never got shown on the channel lol.) Main detail I'm sad about losing is that I had Monika looking at you instead of forward which I thought was a good detail.

Obviously later I added the front pillars + shadowed characters. In hindsight I probably should've aligned the top of this with the edge of the seen area of the banner instead of centering it but oh well.

For the Megalovania Day version of this banner I initially made an edit of Steven before being told I was just supposed to use Sans.

And here's the color version of that abomination...

Initial surface banner, I'm glad someone called this out as obviously being way too empty because I was almost too lazy to do it properly.

And yes, to extend the green I literally just scribbled.

Later but not final version. This was almost the final version, before Jerma got a proper back sprite, causing me to skuff together one for Wayne based on his front sprite. I did like how it paired Jerma and Wayne together as the only two not interested in the sunset, which is fitting because they're just guys and not fictional characters so they've probably seen a sunset before or something like that.

I redid the extended mountains to make the whole thing feel less empty as well as extending the clouds. I didn't want to interfere directly with the central part so that's why the clouds don't connect.

The three mountains on the left are actually just taken directly from the logo for one of my cherished PS2 games, Downhill Domination. You can tell because they look way better than whatever I was cooking on the right side lmao.

Also, an /r/place amogus is there next to Jerma because he's the sus guy. The amogus is still on the banner in the final version but I moved it to another spot, it's no longer next to Jerma since he's properly looking at the sunset squished between the others.

Here's the actual final version, and also the current banner on the channel since we haven't switched back yet.

And that's pretty much everything I wanted to talk about. UnderFes turned out great and these were fun to put together, so I just wanted to have a place to point out some random details and stuff. Peace out

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Vavr: Hey N I know you're blind but you have to see this

[minindo]

Today is my birthday. In the past month some things in my life haven't been going great. I've been trying to turn it around… but recent news really didn't help. Today completely flipped that on its head. Nearly 100 people who I consider friends made a birthday album for me:

The whole album is so well done and just such a wonderful gift. It touched me deeply, and I'm so happy and surprised and proud and thankful, and I am going to use the positive energy from today to push through in all the challenges coming up, remembering that my friends got my back. Love you all.

Related to that, and this tumblr page… I will be answering more of the FAQs here for real, this weekend! Someone asked for random useless trivia for the wiki, and while I'll think of a more fittingly random answer later, here's something I feel that it's an appropriate day to reveal: since May, I've been a backroom member of SiIvaGunner. I do some of the uploading now, and a decent amount of managing projects and logistics, alongside the many others who do that vital work keeping the channel running at max quality. I'm honored to be part of it and I try not to take it for granted.

That's all I have to say on that. Catch me at MAGFest 2025 if you can!