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I put together a cover (and FM arrange) of endless possibility from Sonic Unleashed.

I programmed all the backing instrumentation from scratch using the kodamo essencefm mkii. Forcing pure hardware FM synthesis to sound like a 2000s punk rock track was definitely a choice, but dialling in those crunchy guitar patches was actually pretty fun. (not me realizing sonic unleashed is from 2008, wow.)

This serves as the official debut for the Lem V4Bi voicebanks. I ended up using all three libraries (civet, quoll, and phascogale) and just bouncing between them to cover the dynamic shifts. Turns out having that many pitches of arpasing and a ridiculous amount of ALT aliases actually comes in handy when you want to avoid that robotic machine-gun effect on repeated phrases. I also heavily abused the cross-lingual routing to swap out muddy english vowels for pure japanese ones whenever I needed a sharper attack to punch through the mix.

I also drew a visualizer for it. Canonically, lem's shapeshifting is a really slow, gradual process, but the bridge of this song just went too hard, so i broke my own lore and gave him an instant werehog-style transformation into a massive feral were-civet. His stretchy sensory-friendly clothes are doing a lot of heavy lifting to stay in one piece.

Anyway, hope you guys like it.

If you want to mess around with the voicebanks yourself, Lem V4 is free to download over on the site: https://wik-wav.neocities.org/lem-utau-voicebank

#fm synthesis #kodamo essencefm #furry art #audio production #voicebank release #kemono #vocal synth #utau #utau cover #openutau #lem utau #lem the shapeshifter #arpasing #sonic unleashed #endless possibility #Youtube

segamascott

communist-hatsunemiku

I have a creeping suspicion that some people have read my post about Teto being more TMA than Miku, and taken the illogical leap that Miku isn't trans-coded, despite me explicitly stating that.

Hatsune Miku is undeniably trans-coded, She was(and still often is) seen as a 'fake' singer by many people, She was and still is seen as 'lesser', not as good as, or a downgrade from 'real' human vocalists. Vocaloid technology experienced a reactionary backlash in much the same way trans women and our fight for our rights have experienced reactionary backlash.

But beyond the negative trans coding aspects, when Hatsune Miku was released in 2007, suddenly a lot of japanese otaku eggs had a way to sing in a 'girl's' voice. Suddenly all these closeted trans women had a voice they felt comfortable with, and I think that is so profoundly beautiful! To this day, Miku(and Teto ofc!) continue to give trans women a singing voice, continue helping eggs get cracked. Really this can be said about many vocal synths, but Miku was the first.

Miku truly cracked so many eggs, just by being brought into existence! So I get a little peeved when it's implied She's not trans or trans-coded. It's why I went out of my way to explicitly state that in the original post! She is the reason I realized I am trans.

myjetpack

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

rauko

M.C. Escher | METAMORPHOSIS II (1940)

woodcut in red and black, 19.2cm x 400cm

xaoca

lol took me awhile to find this gif again… Escher is GOAT!

jollyfurydragonballer

woman-becomer

IT'S TIME TO FLOP IN THE SLOP

sayhelloanimalfriends

no music 🎧

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Thank you for the no music note. Animal frolicking noises

krispylemur

Rainforest Rhapsody

descenacre

2025 retrospective:

This last year I really expanded on the mythology and storytelling of my world. I've started to settle into the idea of it being parable/fable-esque, and explored it from that perspective.

I made a tarot set (that I sadly never printed ! Maybe later) which also doubled as a card game, Sucedja.

Maybe next year I will program a little demo of the game instead of letting these files sit for nothing...

descenacre

I made a few more pushes to turn the story into a real thing, but I still haven't really Clicked or found my Momentum. I will get there one step at a time.

You can listen to the draft I made for the First Episode here:

(Day 0, the Crack in the Night) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PmJSsP9RhW_sIp4opcqg7IFiV604kWcx/view?usp=sharing

I'll eventually have to come back and revise it, because I am proud of it and I could definitely make it better, teehee

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I got really into drawing creatures this year because they are based.

Last one is actually an album artwork for an album I participated in twice!

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decided celes can have teeth now. as a treat.

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still enthralled by the idea of making a story revolving around the Celes and their creation mythology...

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finally got back into my favorite pasttime, making fanart of other people's characters, whether friends or just artists I look up to (typically both)

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joined a community of Awesome Furry Musicians at the start of the year, and have been participating in Awesome Beat Battles with them

Really proud of how much the beat battles have helped me experiment and push my wacky style to be even more wacky.

other remixes of my friend's music from said community!

most hyped video of the year stats wise was hands down third sanctuary remix. Was a pleasure to work with octo (metaphorical.monster) on designing this video.

descenacre

I would love for you to read my silly short story / mythology, Bedel, but I can't seem to upload a pdf here for you! I will simply share a screenshot, and if you know me on Discord, feel free to dm lol

Miscellaneous arts I really liked:

I don't know whether my favorite art of the year was this:

or this

Which I think is a nice way to wrap up my 2025. Very happy with all my art, music and writing!

Thank you for reading :)

changan-moon

How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard.

cr: 承启建水紫陶

amemait

that last teapot is like witnessing an eternal and important truth

ms-demeanor

I just watched this with the sound on and i really recommend it because the utter silence of the last teapot is both perfectly predictable and totally remarkable.