it's Bandcamp Friday! if you've been holding off buying our album to wait for one of these, now's the time! thank you so much to everybody who's supported the release so far 🥰
— NEW RELEASE —
‘Meanwhile’
by
@aivisura
🌸⏳☁️
A collection of piano and chiptune duets that have bloomed slowly over the last 10 years of aivi & surasshu’s lives.
(🎨:
@genniieeee
, with character designs by Julian De Perio)
[ links below ]
can we stop praising disney for having a "first LGBTQ character" over and over and then it turns out it's 2 seconds that's easily edited out for "foreign markets"? sick of disney getting publicity for nothing, while actual marginalized creators get punished for not being perfect
i keep thinking about how kyoani is a female-led, majority women company, that doesn't overwork or underpay their staff, provides schooling and care, making shows mostly about uplifting everyday people and the healing power of fantasy. to think any of that could cause this hatred
i don't think non-jp folks understand, the numbers splatoon 2 did in japan are IMPOSSIBLE. it sold 4+ million copies, which is almost double what mario odyssey and zelda botw did
idk how else to link this, but for a really weird time click through on this tweet, scroll up, then read the whole thread. this might be the most bizarre thing i've seen all year
the steven universe TV score soundtrack is officially coming out!
@waltzforluma
and i carefully selected our favorite tracks from each season (including NEW material produced for this release!). follow here to be notified when each season's OST releases! 🥰
✨ OUT NOW ✨
"24" EP
pay what you want on bandcamp!
🌞 24
#digitalfusion
ringtones, one for each hour of the day
🌝️inspired by my newborn baby
☄️ cover art by
@genniieeee
👽 composition, mix & master by surasshu
this is my (incomplete) understanding of the definition of art:
- something that wasn't there before you made it (craig fergusson more or less said this in his opening monologue of the last episode of the late late show, it really stuck with me)
- sincere, to the point of cringe
i fell down a pc-98 pixel art rabbit hole, so thread. keep in mind all of these are 16 colors max (some have than that, like pic 3 has 13 colors 😱)! i really want to someday see this art on a beautiful CRT screen 🤤
really a lesson to everybody not to use arnold rendering. it calls home to check your licence for EVERY FRAME and so if your internet isn't rock solid, it does this. yikes!
Hahah the word “ARNOLD” appears in huge letters in a single frame of the USA version of Kingdom Hearts 3’s frozen segment because during rendering, their copy of AutoDesk Maya could not verify the license for Arnold Rendering and wartermarked it. Source:
aivi & i both got sick of our alarms that we set for feeding the baby, so i decided to take matters into my own hands. partially inspired by
@ringtonebangers
, i'm hoping to do more of these to stave off alarm song ennui!
mamoru hosoda just casually making an existential horror masterpiece in another person's funny rubber cartoon goofball franchise, it's unreal that this movie exists and it's so so so good. i could go on about how much i love this movie
power puff girls has to be a close second to avatar the last airbender for "least likely to work as a live action". every instant of these shows is meant to be a cartoon. what possesses people to think this could work? ANIMATION IS ITS OWN MEDIUM
writers, journalists: if you're not going to do research, DON'T feature us. we got 4 mentions for ikenfell for "best of year OST" but ALL of them didn't mention co-composer sabrielle augustin WHO'S ON THE COVER ART. plus misgendering my partner, misrepresenting our music etc.
ty to
@gosokkyu
for translating this empowering message on action against the violence in gaza, from yoko taro! really great to see this, massive respect to him
4gamer's end-of-year wrap-up, featuring contributions from 176 devs & game-adjacent personalities, is online—here are the submissions that most interested me, including an uncharacteristically sincere call to action from Yoko Taro
ENDLESS EIGHT THREAD!! ITS HAPPENING!
in 2009, kyoto animation produced one of the most viewer-hostile experiments ever attempted by anybody in cartoon/anime history, and maybe mass media in general? a thread [spoilers for suzumiya haruhi 👇]
why are we, as a people, reviving crummy formats like vinyl and tape? when we could be reviving the retro-future utopian dream format: the sony minidisc (photos from: )
[steven universe spoilers ahead]
tom herpich posted concept art for the singer (band?) performing at the ball for together alone:
i want to talk a little about the music so here's a thread (sorry the song fades, twitter has a max video length of 2:20 😡)
THREAD INCOMING!!! spam SPAM IS SO GOOD actually. i will always defend spam. here are some good ways to eat spam! pic1: spam musubi pic2: spam hash pic3: budae jjigae (korean army stew)
links to recipes in thread
I'm gonna be a dad! 🥰 i still don't fully know how to feel, a mix of excited and worried about my capabilities as a parent, but i hope i can rise to the challenge and I'm very happy to be sharing this experience with my favorite person in the world
i'm in between a lot of things in life right now. two of my biggest jobs wrapped up this year (steven universe, ikenfell). i recovered from an 8-month injury to both hands, and my perspective & abilities are a bit different. i'm pregnant & getting ready for a new chapter in life.
PSA: if you're an artist and you want to draw music notes, and you don't want the tiny minority of musicians who can read sheet music to sigh at you disapprovingly, here's a guide!
In case anyone needs to draw music notes (e.g. for an illustration/comic portraying music, or your own sheet music!)
@surasshu
and I made a quick starter guide!
✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨
my EP "24" will be releasing at the end of this month: friday the 28th of january! 😱24 freshly tracked ringtones/alarms, one for each hour, inspired by my baby boy.
and here's one more preview track: 4pm!
for anyone who finished watching the SU movie, the soundtrack is available here on various streaming/digital download services:
(the tracklist is spoiler-free, but as should be obvious, the songs themselves are spoiler galore)
obviously i love splatoon a great deal, but even if you don't, you have to understand why announcing S3 is a big deal. this is a huge franchise with a massive following, especially in the country that nintendo cares about the most, and a ton of room for growth everywhere else
@ProZD
THANK YOU. maybe i'm projecting too much, but its like they all have this layer of irony of "its a cartoon, but lol, UGLY, so dont take it TOO seriously WINK" to protect themselves from sincerely engaging with anything. being sincere is so cringe etc
Someone on tiktok asked “what streaming platform is best for smaller artists so they get paid” and the problem with this question is streaming is unsustainable for artists. The lack of pay in streaming is literally proof that late stage capitalism is destroying us lol
I still think about this... In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory the storyboard said after the show the audience takes off. The animators in Korea took this as the audience LITERALLY TAKES OFF and fly out of their seats. The crew decided to keep it and even added a sound effect.
if i had my way and money and time weren't an object, i'd want to see an adult cartoon that is:
- super beautiful
- not primarily a comedy (could be romance, drama, thriller, horror, anything OTHER than comedy)
- overwhelmingly sincere
"Omae Wa Mou," an instrumental built around an obscure sample of Japanese bossa nova, was pulled from Spotify as soon as it hit Number One. The teen who made it doesn’t know what to do next
PSA: if you started killing pledges in anticipation of patreon's policy change, and want to undo those changes, there is a pledge history page where you can click "repledge":
ive gotten a few asks about
@Hbomberguy
's end credits song--i'll try to release it ASAP! likely will be early next year, the end of the year is so chaotic... also, the version in the video is unfinished so look forward to a complete version in the near future 😆
kyoto animation--scenes i remember, that are beautiful or funny or special to me in some way. i don't know how long i'll keep this going, but i want to pay tribute. with credit to the animators (if i know, kyoani is often secretive about this). various kyoani show/movie spoilers!
so the solution to their STATED problem is to keep the problem but without any of the upsides to downvoting. you can still "unfairly target" a smaller creator and they will still see it! but now a scam bullshit tutorial won't be visibly marked by the public as such. great work!
Jim Anderson (the architect of the Spotify platform) says the mission of Spotify was to distribute music...NOT get artists paid.
you can read an excerpt of the interview below courtesy of
@digitalmusicnws
.
@BallingerMom
@YouTube
@YTCreators
@PhillyD
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you won't believe how fast i pivoted from "this game/show/whatever is so cheap and badly made" to "every finished production is a fucking miracle", once i started working 😂
i present: my soundtrack for today's google doodle!
i was so honored to be asked by the doodle team to do music for their extremely ambitious doodle, celebrating the life of pioneering game tech developer jerry lawson! i hope you like it!
i often think about the fact that the gems in steven universe are thousands of years old, but they're not really any wiser or more patient than any of us. then again that's probably realistic, if i was thousands of years old i'd still be forgetful and impatient probably
the SU tv score album features a few newly produced tracks that were never fully heard in the show, such as greg's theme and amalgam--and also a few songs that we never put on soundcloud
rip to my mom, who died 11 years ago due to cancer at age 60, after medical incompetence allowed it to become metastatic. at the time i was okay with it but im getting less and less so with time. i'm composing an EP about it, coming soon
what unique talent, what charisma! someone else said this but she moves like an animated character and it's like visual asmr. i might just sign up for tiktok so i can just follow her LOL
sorry for the delay--"wrapping up", the end credits song i did for
@Hbomberguy
is now available on streaming services. thank you for all the kind words on this song, i really appreciate it!
art by
@boxcar_sarah
it's long but a good read! tl/dr: twitters copyright claim system is so weak anyone can pose as a company without verification, and there is an individual doing just that, pretending to be shueisha (who publishes one piece, dbz, etc) to harass creators with false claims. yikes
for aivi & surasshu, this is our high end:
- game music/commissions: $1000-$1500/min (buyout)
- tv music: $250-$400/min + PRO royalties
these rates cover session musicians/sheets/mix/master. we're negotiable for creators who need it (e.g. rev share, lump sum)
#whatsmusicworth
Here’s Jenny Durkan saying that Seattle police didn’t turn their body cams on when they maced children because they hate the idea of a surveillance state
@ProZD
and some of them are even good! but there's always this... layer. buck fartnuts is a normal family man struggling with depression despite his middle income suburbian lifestyle.... with an ASS for a FACE! and his teeth are GREEN!!!
begging yall to learn sometimes bad people make good things (or are involved). idk what is so hard about this. you can decide whether you want to support a bad person, but saying "their music/art/whatever was never good anyway" is a non-starter
i went full anime opening! it was so inspiring to see
@tuyoki
make this beautiful animation all by herself, i'm honored to have been a part of it. THAT DRAGON OMG!!
Finally finished!! I've been working on this on and off for around a year and a half. I've always wanted to do something like this with my characters!! music is by
@surasshu
, strings by
@jeffthatnoise
youtube link:
I hope you like it!!