#Ray Avid Lebon

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack - Rapture / Higher / Delineation

It's Thursday and that means FLASHBack. This time we'll be looking at animations from Ray Avid Lebon, who in the mid 2000s was an animation student at the same Chicago-area art school as R. Wappin, an animator you may remember from one of my posts about Weird Al's official music videos. Ray is also listed on Albino Blacksheep as their "most active female animator and musician". She would later go on to be a producer on the award winning short animated film Play Date, but I'd like to talk about some of her more personal projects, a series of fiction and art that she called "Requiem of the Bandii", set on a world called Thae that was home to many fantastical races of creatures.   One of those races were the Verr, an anthropomorphic race with feline and equine traits. Ray would feature one particular Verr in three of her flash animations, and while I won't presume to call the character a self-insert or even a fursona, she is named "Avid Lebon". Take from that what you will. Ray's first animation of Avid was for AlbinoBlacksheep's Flash Developer Contest #8 and was posted to the site on 1 October 2005. The contest challenge was to make an animated music video of at least 30 seconds in length. Lebon's entry was Rapture, set to the song from iiO. Noted at the time for it's smooth lipsynching (prompting ABS to request her to put together a tutorial on the subject), the 2D animation also gives a look of having been rendered in 3D in places. And before the inevitable comparison to Princess Celestia from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, it's worth noting that Avid predates that series by a half decade.  

On 12 August 2006, Avid would again hop on her windsurfer, this time singing a song of Lebon's own creation, Higher. While it seems clear that there was some asset re-use from the previous Flash, the lipsynch has been redone to match the new song, and Ray showed off with some new, skilled water reflection animations in the background. The Verr diva would return to Albino Blacksheep a third time for the 2008 Tournament of Flash Artists with the animation Delineation. This one departs from the riding the windsurfer and singing routine, to instead give some insight how Lebon the Flash artist draws Lebon the character.   On a more recent, unrelated note, Krinkels has put out fresh Madness Combat content. (Caution: Body Horror, Torture, defiance of the laws of physics) When I ended the Mid-Month Madness series, I had mentioned that there was a Flash in the works, Ultimatefear.fla, that'd introduce a new character called Scrapeface. That animation has been renamed An Experiment and was posted publicly on 6 June 2020. In it we find the answer to the question that's been burning in everyone's mind: Where did Sanford and Deimos get that car they were driving in Madness Combat 9? *listens to offstage voice* That wasn't the question everyone was wondering about? *Gets handed note, reads it* What do you mean the question was "How do hands work?" -- We all know that Krinkels was just taking an animation shortcut by not drawing arms for these characters, you can see a similar shortcut with the hair of the girl from that "Play Date" animation that Ray Lebon produced and was linked to above. Just because it looks like it's floating near by, disconnected doesn't mean that's what they're actually doing. *Listens to offstage voice again* Oh. Turns out that is what the hands are doing in the Madness Combat universe after all, just floating near the body. And the titular experiment of the Animation, which Krinkels has verified to be part of the main Canon storyline (and fans presume occurs sometime between Madness Combat 6.5 and 7.5), is an investigation by the A.A.H.W. to find out what just what happens when those floating hands are forcibly separated by a sizable distance from the body controlling them. Turns out that the result is Reality itself gets broken, and the owner of the hands starts glitching out horribly. The result has been described by some as a cross between broken ragdolling in Gmod and the Russian Sleep Experiments Creepypasta.   Next time, we'll check in with that new middle-of-the-month staple, Brackenwood, and see what shenanigans Bitey's gotten up to.

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Mun: Ray Avid Lebon Blog url:  @peppergidget​ Muse name: Pepper Muse gender: Female Muse race: Child Robot Muse soul type: Sparkling Energy Field (In Undertale Verses half human (red soul), half monster (white/grey) Muse Bio: Pepper works as a Chef at Boffle’s Luxury resort on his private island. She can cook just about anything she can download the recipe for! Well usually- though sometimes her memory glitches. She believes that she was sent to Boffle’s resort to learn how to be a responsible adult. while In reality she actually [REDACTED] which she has no clue about because [REDACTED] and will probably never be able to change on her own. There’s a lot of rumors going around about this “Boffle”, rumored to be a robot who has a soul, which without he would not have the same rights as other people and would be regarded the same as any appliance. Perhaps if you are clever you might find out more about this mysterious person.  (Keep in mind, IC at this point in her arc she only knows her name is Pepper, and doesn’t call herself Pepper Gidget yet. It being in her blog name, it may be easy to forget muses shouldn’t know this either unless something happens in plot.) Undertale Universe muse Bio: Essentially the same thing, except Pepper works at Mettaton’s resort.  List of any muse powers/special abilities: She can wear different robot bracers and accessories to give her different abilities- similar to the outfits in FFX-2. Her usuals are fire bracers, a jet outfit for flying, her neon flashing raver gear, and of course her chef outfit. She is very skilled at sword fighting Pepper knows some basics in electronics and robotics (fixing machines including herself) from her dad She can also go without sleep if she has a charged battery pack she can swap- but doing this for a week or more can start causing defrag and even greater memory issues as well as a lack of proper maintenance from her maintenance bay.

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[writteninlucidink]

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TAGGED BY: @cyltherobot TAGGING: Anyone who wants to do it

BASICS:

Name: Ray Avid Lebon Aka Inkymun / Lucimun / Flowerymun Age: Old enough Preferred pronouns: It changes, She/her works as that is whatt I masquerade as IRL Sexuality: is confusing Zodiac sign: Libra

Three facts

Jerky is delicuious

I can touch my elbow behind my back with my opposite hand

You just tried to touch your elbow behind your back with your opposite hand

EXPERIENCE:

How long (months/years?):Tumblr: One million years give or take a million years. Platforms you’ve used: Deviantart, Tumblr, Discord, Steam, and Skype Worst experience: Going to the amusement park because I promised when I needed surgery and was guilted into going because it was a ‘lame excuse’. Blacked out on the viking ship ride :/ Best experience: Being a child who didn’t understand the concept of bills and college loans

MUSE PREFERENCES:

Typical muse gender: Everything. 

Favorite face: Clock faces

Least favorite face: Am I suppose to call someone ugly here or...?

Multi or single: Are we talking about verses or ships? My muses will probably only ship with one person unless that person stops RPing.

WRITING PREFERENCES:

Fluff, angst or smut: Fluff and Angst. I don’t wanna open the door on smut. Plots or memes: I do both constantly? Long or short replies: It depends on the RP. Best time to write: When I’m not falling asleep. Are you like your muse: The muses and I share similar facets, though we are quite different in our opinions and ideals.