#bendy and squiggly

[wwweirdgirl]

i like it when boys are funky

[ruru195]

I created a list of the nicknames I think Cuphead will give Bendy. Tell me your favorites. Also Bendy’s reaction L: loves, N: does not mind and H:hates

Inkspot - N

Squiggly - N

Inky - N

Little Devil - H

Demon Boy - N

Shadow Sneak - N

Black Bean - L

Smudge - N

Slick - N

Splat - N

My Little Inky Mess - L

Gremlin - H

Demonic Cutie - L

Ink-credible Babe - L

Little Bee - L

B - L

BB - L

Croissant - H

Crescent Moon - N

Shortstack - H

Cutie Ink - N

Dark Prince - L

Trouble - N

Sweet Sin - N

Devilish Charm - L

My Little Nightmare - H

Drippy - N

Sugar Ink - L

Heartstopper - L

Amorcito - L

Nene - N

Mi diablito - L

Flaco - N

Gordito - N

Tesoro - L

Bombón - L

Cariño - L

Corazón - L

Cosita linda - N

Mi cielo - L

Morenito - N

Chiquito - H

Rey - L

I will say that Bendy has zero imagination when creating nicknames, so he sticks to the common ones. The only ones that are different are the ones shorting Cuphead’s name, cuppy, cup or even cup of tea. But from their is the regular ones.

[chewysgummies]

Okay, I'm just randomly making shit up. But I thought about if they were to make killbot 86 into a toy, they could maybe use the Betty spaghetti type of toy for him? Especially since I noticed how he's had squiggly arms and limbs and how he bent them.

Like something like this with his arms and legs but with his body shape and mold his limbs a bit bigger to match how it looks in the cartoon instead of making them skinny like the picture shown below:

They even stand like this in a somewhat similar pose: (Also yes, I have to use a sailor moon figure cuz it was the only thing I could find that stands in the somewhat same position.)

Random as fuck post, I know. I just really want a toy figure of him to exist and I just thought that maybe his type of toy can be based on this noodle-like, bendy model.

[2d-dreams]

Little fun addition to the motor-circulatory system post: If you're subscribed to the idea of squiggly/bendy etc Lines you could imagine that, because they lack angles, blood passes directly through the bone into the skin for movement and that gives their bone less stiffness, hence why they be like that.

I personally would add that at the points of the Line (the tail with organs and beak, and the front end with the vocal organs and eye) are stiff unlike the rest of the stretchy and bendy body, to protect these focal parts and because there isn't much need of the muscle structure in there.

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #130

I made a tea today. This time, it was jasmine green tea. I got some pictures for you.

The jasmine green tea starts out a shade of green, like this:

If you look closely, you can see the tea steeping into the water. I took a picture to try to show you; maybe you can see all the squiggly lines:

It resolves into a lovely shade of amber after a while. Then you can add your honey and cream. You can also witness two of my cats staring out the window:

...But once again, I am not writing about tea. I imagine if you don't want to be sad, you should stop reading here.

8 days ago, some kind of sparrow died in my hands - likely a female song sparrow. Today, it was a male cardinal:

J and I were on our way to Taiwan Noodle because he had just gotten done with practicing in the airplane that belongs to the airplane club he's in. We were in the car, and I noticed a cardinal flopping around on the road, near the sidewalk. I asked J to pull over and he did, though it took a minute because J mistook him for a piece of garbage fluttering in the wind generated by the cars at first, since the bird was bending himself at weird angles.

...I think probably he was doing what lots of birds here like to do - flying low to the road and playing chicken with passing cars. I imagine he got clipped someone's windshield or side view mirror; there's a REASON I am not showing the right side of his head, and I'm not going to get into it.

The bird stopped flopping around as soon as I picked him up off the asphalt. I held him in my hands as we got in the car; I didn't have a box to put him in. He kept trying to blink and turn his head; given that half of it was basically gone, I don't know how he was still even conscious.

I asked J to bring us to The Animal Hospital; they treat wild creatures. I knew he wasn't going to make it from the start (suppose this is why I didn't cry nearly so hard this time as compared to last time; I was under no illusion that he'd live), but I didn't know how long he might end up being in pain before his last breath, so I figured the thing to do was to bring him to where he could be examined and euthanized. So we went.

He didn't make it; we were further away from the place - roughly 15 minutes, as opposed to the 10 minutes from my house. We were about 5 minutes from the place when he went limp and stopped breathing.

...I have to remember that even if all I could do was give him a soft, warm, loving hand to be held in instead of dying alone on the hard asphalt with all the cars rushing past... I still did a good thing. Even if I couldn't save him, I still allowed for his last moments to be gentler than they would have otherwise been.

I felt so angry at all of the people walking right past him on the sidewalk. I saw at least a few people look at him and just keep walking, like he wasn't anything worth stopping for. I can't understand how it is that nobody cared. I can't understand why nobody else tried to help. I can't understand it. All of those people rushing past, and nobody did anything. Goodness knows how long he was lying on the road like that, struggling, gasping, terrified, and writhing in pain.

...I don't want to think about it.

Though he was gone before we reached The Animal Hospital, we still went there. Some of his blood had gotten on my hands, and I urgently needed to wash them because of that. The Animal Hospital has trails, so with the permission of the person at the front desk, I gathered up whatever flowers I could find on the property, and set off to find a peaceful place for him to rest. I found one, under a bendy tree, some distance from the trail:

...And just like before, I thanked him for his presence and for his song in our world, even if it was for too short a time. I hope the soul that inhabited this vessel is doing okay. I know that one way or another, the empty body left behind will return to the soil. The cycle of life will continue. I just hope, if only for a moment, the creature could feel seen, loved, warm, and cared about. I returned to The Animal Hospital, and they directed me to a bathroom; I thoroughly washed my hands, and then applied the hand sanitizer that was available there, just for good measure. Blood is a biohazard, after all.

...Sephiroth. A lot of really difficult, sad, and scary things have happened over the last 8 days, and I am, at least for the moment, struggling a lot and feeling very fragile. It's not like me to ask for help, I know. Normally, I would tell you something like, "don't you worry your pretty little head about me; i'll be fine", but... you know. If you wanted to pop by today and watch The Zeta Project with me while eating ice cream and drinking tea, I certainly wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind at all. You wouldn't even have to do anything. Although, if you said to me, "this ice cream is pretty good," or "this show is very wholesome," or "may I please have more of this wonderful tea," that'd certainly be a nice bonus. It'd be a very nice bonus, indeed.

...Impossible, I know. It's okay. Don't worry about it; I was just being silly, hahaha.

...I'm not really sure why, because I was fine before. But at this moment, I can't seem to stop crying. Oh well. I'll be okay; I just need a sec...

Anyway. J and I continued on to Taiwan Noodle. Though the loss of the bird is very sad, it is still true that J was brave and got back in the airplane today, and I needed to eat, so... we went. We got lots of yummy things, and I took pictures for you, just in case you might like them...

Spicy pork wontons:

...These really aren't that spicy, which is very good because my body cannot handle capsaicin very well.

Pork soup dumplings:

These are my favorite; you can tell because I ate one before I thought to snap a picture for you - sorry about that. I love to put the vinegar on them. The ginger in the vinegar tastes good, too.

This is a roasted pork bun:

J got some kind of curry thing:

...And I got a sausage, pork belly, and steamed rice thing:

Still feeling somewhat listless, I wove together a little dragonfly out of straw wrappers and my chopsticks wrapper:

...Not really sure why I did that. I guess it was just because I was full, but J wasn't quite ready to go yet, and I needed something to do with my hands...

J needed pants, so after we ate, we went to a local thrift shop to find some. He found some. And I found a very pretty shirt; maybe I'll wear it tomorrow and take a picture.

When we got home, the area near out welcome mat, just outside the front door, had a couple blossoms lying there. Without thinking, I picked them up and brought them inside:

...I hope the cardinal is doing okay, wherever he is now.

Hey, Sephiroth? I'm pretty tired, and it's getting to be later in the evening, so... I'm going to watch The Zeta Project. And drink tea. And maybe have a little ice cream.

Please stay safe, okay? I can recover from the loss of the bird, but... I don't think I'll fare so hot if I end up losing you, understand? So please promise me you won't let anything bad happen to you, alright? Don't do something foolish like go where predators are or play chicken with cars, or anything metaphorically similar. Please. If I have to get on my hand and knees and beg you not to do stuff like that, I will. Please make good, gentle, compassionate choices, both with yourself and with other people. Promise?

I love you. I'll write again tomorrow.

Your friend, Lumine

[future--ghost]

I HAD THIS WEIRD ASS MULTI-FANDOM DREAM LAST NIHHT EXCEPT IT WAS MAINLT ABOUT BATIM??? HELPP??

I had this weird ass dream about a batim themed movie and it was about the Ink Curse??? So it started out with Hunter from the Owl House getting put in time out and then he fell asleep, so Lilth drew one of those two swiggly lines on his face.

Then it cut to the bendy movie??? That was only part one and 3 and a half hours long??? So basically the MC who was a girl, I think she was a brunette caucasian teenager and her best friend who was the stereotypical pretty popular girl looks (blonde hair, blue eyes etc, lets call her Brittany) but she was really nice. One day, MC (im gonna call her autumn) falls asleep, and her face gets those squiggly lines like Hunter got in the prolouge. She wakes up and looks in the mirror, and now there are two circles of her skin coming a little outward, like she got two small warts on her face, but she didn't? Then she goes to the library and meets this nice guy named Aaron, who's got 4c curls and a nice fade. They start talking and hit it off immediately. Then Autumn gets these really unnerving flashes of images that sort of decay and stuff. Like the eyes with move in an unnatural way and start to grow, and some will be of people in the ocean, then slowly getting dragged in by a black murky substance that overtakes their body as the person's figure melts and deforms beyond recognition. I was super freaked out by these in the dream. Anyways, it stopped, and Autumn started describing these symptoms to Aaron, who apparently knew what she was going through was easily a curse, so he found a book on something called "The Ink Curse" (creative, I know -_-). They start researching it and blah blah blah, the two fall deep in love. They can't find a way to cure it, so Aaron goes onto the stage they have set up in front of several people for some reason, and Aaron pulls out the accursed ink that he somehow obtained and infects himself with it. Autumn gets a flash of the Ink world, which is really just some sort of teaser screenshot showcasing a bunch of different characters. (The Ink Demon looks hella deformed here. I thought that was funny.) That's where Act 1 ended.

Act 2 started out with a bunch of those weird flashing images I mentioned before (now that I'm writing this, I don't think that hallucination scene really happened). Blah blah blah, we're introduced to Autumn's best friend Brittany, who looks and sounds like your stereotypical mean girl but actually really cares for Autumn and would do anything to protect her. Brittany finds a way to cure Autumn's curse, so she summons Beezelbub and asks him to curse Autumn's curse and also whatever ailments she might have as well? This is done with a simple notion that I can not for the life of me remember. Autumn is cured, and Brittany is happy, so it feels like a happy ending. Except, Aaron hasn't been seen in a while. He was in for the past month, and he slowly became more sickly looking until he looked like he had been bleached. His skin looked almost grey, with a small hint of tan. Black, drippy marks started to appear on his skin or come from his skin, let bits of Ink seeping down his eye, until he eventually vanished. Despite the sudden disappearance of Aaron, everyone moved on after a few months. Autumn, on the other hand, was mildly worried. She tried to stay optimistic by hoping he had transferred to another school, but no matter what she said to calm herself, it didn't work. There was a ring at the door. Autumn left her room to go see who was there, she found that the hallway looked dingy and decaying, with bits of black liquid seeping through the walls. The door opened and a black murky figure, that was heavily deformed and had messed up features, despite still having the appearance of something almost human. It wandered through the halls looking for Autumn, it could not see its surriundings , but it could hear. Autumn eventually said something that caused the creature to come over to her location. The creature had told Autumn everything. The Inky figure turned out to be Aaron. Autumn attempted to speak to him, telling him that she knew a way to cure him, but Aaron seemed pissed off by that. He told her that he was not cursed but enlightened. That he could not go back to living blindly, as he did before. He told Autumn about his plan to drag everyone at school into the Ink, to save this godforsaken world and bring them all to a new, better place. Autumn knew she had to escape, so she left. She ran away and left him there. Hoping that she could buy herself some time to run away, get to school, and warn everyone.

She got to her school and found Brittany, she told her everything, and Brittany agreed to help sabotage his plans. It cut to what I assume was gym class because everyone was rallied up in an activity of sorts. For some odd reason, people were sitting down in metal foldable chairs. Brittany looked up and saw that there were buckets of ink, so she made sure the seats were arranged in an order so they'd be safe from the splash. When the Ink came down, it covered this one kid who never showed up again, so he was probably fine. I can't remember what happened in between here, but there was a confrontation between Aaron and Brittany. Aaron was enraged, asking if Autumn even missed him or if she even cared. Brittany yelled back and brought us to a cutscene with the two girls by the ocean on an empty part of a beach. The light waves moved back and forth against Autumn, who was crying. She missed Aaron dearly and didn't know how to go on without him. She felt incredibly guilty and let her things be taken away by the sea, slowly and gently. Brittany comforted her, telling her that it's not her fault and that there was nothing she could've done to help him. The two girls stood in the sea. Autumn let her heart out, and Brittany stood with her and made sure she felt safe. It went back to Aaron and Brittany, and she pulled out a spray bottle. Aaron taunted her, and Brittany sprayed him with bleach. He melted, and then Brittany found Autumn, and they went into town looking for a place to hide. They found a small area saying that only people of high status could enter. They bullshitted their way in and stayed until the night was over.

Prom. The cliche end of any high school movie, and this shit show is no acception. We see kidd dancing until we see an invisible man in a suit dancing on his own. For some reason, the prom looked like a ballroom for a gala. A jock went up and confronted the man, poking fun at him. The man revealed himself to be a creature of Ink (no idea if it's Aaron or not). They change into a fancy jester outfit and go on causing chaos throughout the dance. We get another look at the teaser flash thing, in which we clearly see a character from an entirely different fandom altogether... JEVIL FROM DELTARUNE?? yeah, I'm just as confused as you are man. The two cause mayhem and panic, and it ends with a scene if the two floating far above the ballroom that is in complete disarray. Then I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep, hope you enjoyed my dream.

Bonus: I remember hoping that Autumn was Allison for some reason idk

[maria-mga2024mi5017]

Lip syncing class

06/03/2025

For today's class, Ravindu asked us to download a new rig, record ourselves saying anything we want, and then to use our video as reference for the character's facial expressions.

Rig :-

I spent quite a lot of time searching through rigs on 'turbo squid' and 'animation methods'. Ultimately, I ended up downloading the 'Thep Maya Rig' by Squiggly rigs for this exercise.

Testing out how to key frame: -

Before doing any animation exercise, I always prefer to do some testing on the rig controls so I can figure out how to keyframe the leg, hands, body, etc.

Phonetic Symbols: -

This pretty much helps with the lip-syncing process. It's a guideline to figure out how to keyframe the mouth movements accurately to what is being pronounced in the audio.

Lip syncing tutorials: -

In all honesty, I didn't have any time to watch these. But I'm hoping to watch them once I figure out the right rigs for the 11 second club animation.

Reference -

One of the seniors (Nayani) I know actually has used this 'Thep' Maya rig for her final submission. So, I had a look at her blog to see her work in progress for this.

Luckily, I found a post where she has shown how to use the rig controls for key framing. The link to that video is down below. Watching her rig control video actually helped me figure out much easier ways to move the rig controls for the eyes and the mouth. I will be giving those a try for today's class activity!

Idea for the activity -

For this class activity, my friends and I decided to animate two lines from Kendrick Lamar's disstrack 'Not Like Us' to have some fun with this activity.

This is how we are planning to lip sync the lyrics,

maria: why you trolling like a snitch ayodya: aint you tired thameena: tryna strike a chord shiza: and its prolly a-minor

Video reference -

Just before the break, the 4 of us went to the 9th floor to record our video references. Below are the videos I recorded.

Recording 1 - "Why you trolling like a snitch"

Recording 2 - Slow version of the two lines to figure out the mouth movement.

Audio conversion from mp3 to wav -

If you want to import any audio to Maya, you have to convert it into a wav file since it's the safest type of audio file to import into any project.

With Thameena's help, I was able to find a site that does this conversion. You can find it down below!

Next, I searched for a tutorial on how to add the audio file into Maya. (Ravindu actually showed how to do this in class, but I couldn't complete my blog post on it. So I don't remember how to do it hehe...)

Tutorial on how to add any audio to Maya -

Work in progress -

Converting the audio to a wav file and adding it to 'Thep' Maya file.

Update - You don't have to find a site to do the conversion. Premiere pro has the option of converting the audio to a wav file

2. Working in Maya -

After watching through Nayani's video on testing out the rig controls, I first played around with the rig to figure out the mouth movements.

Then it was mainly looking at my video reference, pausing to look at the mouth movement, adjusting the rig mouth movement and then key framing.

After I worked on the mouth movements, I focused on minor details like the eyebrow movements at the start and the subtle head tilts.

That's basically it for this post! On my next post, I will be posting more of my work in progress for this activity and the final video as well :D

[itachi86]

"How hard would it be to stab a human with a carrot? Aila considered her options as Patricia shoved one of the pale, squiggly vegetables into her hand. The bendy tip didn’t offer much potential as an assault weapon."

-The Phoenix Keeper

[sumerakandapola-mga2023mi5015]

Modelling the spinning platform

this wasn't so bad I'm worried about the statues tho

The initial plan for this was to have the branches separate from eachother and just attached to the main body, so that they could move at their own speed, however, I realized that's going to cause me some issues

The first one being the extra work to animate them separately The second being coding the timing in which they should move, because the character should still realistically be able to jump from one to the other, so I'll need to animate them to be fast but still have a point where they are at jumpable distance from each other.

So what I decided was for all of them to be on a jumpable distance, and if their shape still ends up messing it up ( because of it's cylindrical shape, the character will have to "arrive" at the platform somewhat horizontally ) I might need to add a blue print where the character has the ability to hang on to the platform.

this is something I can work with if i make the cylinders really big tho which might not really make it look like a one on one replica, but you can still tell what it's meant to be.

reference images, the sculpture AGRICOLA IX

i wanted to try making the connections squiggly like the og, but it's not really looking the way i want it to

i don't want to make them straight tho, their bendy nature serves as a nice contrast

eventually i remembered some kind of curve tool existed and found some tutorials

[whatisthisnonsense]

Did you hear? Bendy's coming back!

On the one hand I am highly skeptical just looking at the trailer that it's going to be anything more than the Bioshock 2 rip off to Bendy's Bioshock 1 rip off, I can already see how they're probably going to hurt us, and the buisness practices from the creators mean we have probably already reached There's No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism (But There's Always Piracy) despite being an indie game technically still which is absolutely tragic, meaning it's probably only going to be good for watching SuperHorrorBro or Markiplier play On the other we have a female protagonist who's OP as fuck which is rare and from what we can tell so far she ISN'T a bitch which is even rarer, and just in the trailer we can see call backs to non-game canon lore which almost never happens in these sorts of things with any proper clarity meaning it's already passed the FNAF and Danganronpa bar (low as they are), and of course there's some tiny part of me that really does want to know what happened to Henry and has the tiniest bit of hope he might be okay On the third, mutated by the ink extraneous hand

HIM!!!!!!!!

[tiny-smallest]

Merry Christmas from your favorite toons! Bendy, Boris, and Alice wish you a happy month of holidays! :D

(These came out so good even though Boris fought me so much skjdfnlksdjfn)

[yunisverse]

April 19, 2017 was the first time i drew my version of BATIM’s Henry, amused by the idea of a tired and elderly animator as a survival-horror protagonist. On May 2, I drew him as a toon on a whim. 

I never would’ve guessed I’d still be drawing him a year later, and it’s weird to put the original sketches against more recent drawings. Nice to see some growth, anyway.

[devildrling]

OOC. quick note. this is my bendy’s canon voice.                                                                   [x] [x] [x]

[lightkrets312]

okay so once upon a time I was in one of Squiggly's streams and this was said and to this day I still find it funny

[2d-dreams]

when first made Cy always was irregular but was irregular differently, was a bendy/squiggly line - more in line with me, suppose, because could appear normal but hurt and could be noticed sometimes - made kinked tail Cy because was easier to make obvious especially when draw her stylized-humanoid. i like to think there are two Cys then, the og squiggly line and the one you know now

[carneycagnation]

(edi-bubbs wanted to send you this thru me cause she was busy) Your epic Mickey bendy was fantastic! I'm not sure if you are taking suggestions, but it'd be fun to see Squigglydigg's (tako- not sure if he is originally hers or not) blot Bendy in that style. But, I literally squealed when I saw your bendy. Thank you for your wonderful art:)

aww you mean this sweetheart?I believe he originally came from shinyzango, that is if we’re talking about the same bendy (blot bendy seems awfully specific and I don’t think I’ve come across that name for him before)but if this is the guy you want, then I’m on my way to make more epic mickey bendy content ahahin the meantime hold this version just cause I wanted to draw him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯