#multiple lava lamps to be exact

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I don't need a therapy light, I have a LAVA LAMP

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Howdy!

I am here to talk about Viv's horrible character designs.

From an animator perspective, they suck.

Here's why

1. The characters have way too much detail

For animation, more lines equal more work. You're going to be drawing them over and over, and it just creates more stress and work for the animators.

For example, I took one of the most egregious designs in HB (Beelzebub) and simplified it to be animation friendly.

(Can't send it here but I'll probably make a post about it or something.)

2. There's too much of 1 color

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RED??

Especially since they're in a primarily red background, they don't stand out AT ALL.

Like how am I supposed to see them if they blend in to the background??

3. I have no idea what half of them are supposed to be

Charlie is based off a doll?

Alastor is based off of a deer?

Katie Killjoy is based off of a praying mantis?

Angel Dust is based off of a spider?

Beelzebub is supposed to be well... Beelzebub?

When designing characters, they need to be clear on what they're supposed to be! And no, explaining it on Twitter does not count.

4. The animation reference sheets are garbage

No wonder there's so much animation errors. There's no facial expression sheets, lip sync guide, nothing. It's just a 4 angle turnaround sheet where the character is in complex poses all the time.

If you Google Lackadaisy's animation reference sheets and then look at HB's, it's like night and day.

I'm more than willing to send some examples (along with the edit I did) if you want

So yeah, what are your thoughts?

These are all great points! I think you summed up the main problems very well, but I'll elaborate on each of them. I'm no expert at character design or animation by any means, but I'll do my best to explain my points!

First of all, like you said, the character designs are way too complicated. Anyone who knows even the slightest amount about animation knows you want to simplify and streamline your designs as much as possible to make it easier on the animators. Vivzie is way too obsessed with her Deviantart OC lookin'-ass character designs to actually do this, even though it would seriously help to make the animation process way faster and easier. Beelzebub is seriously the best (or worst?) example of this.

I feel so bad for the poor souls who had to animate this. There are just way too many moving parts here, from her multiple arms, her wings, her markings, to her freaking lava lamp hair and tail?? It's just awful. And so many of Viv's designs suffer this problem, I could go on and on.

Like, I think it actually is a nice looking design, as a still image. Maybe not for the demon Beelzebub, but as a general furry OC, I think she's cute. But that's beside the point. I would love to see your redesign of her!

Next, the RED. So, most of the characters we see in Helluva Boss are red-skinned imps, which has been a common depiction of demons for centuries. One big problem I have is that there's little contrast in these designs. Let's look at our three main imps.

Aside from some white and yellow highlights, they're all mostly red and black. Their color palettes aren't distinct in the slightest! And, I mean, come on. Red accessories against what's almost the exact same shade of red skin? Really? It just doesn't look good. A little contrast here and there goes a long way, like... maybe make Moxxie's bowtie blue? Or Blitz's pendant green? I don't know, anything to help each character stand out, and help give them more visual intrigue.

It doesn't help that most of the backgrounds are primarily shades of red, too. Here's a few screenshots I found that really show this problem.

Look at all that fucking red. Like you said, there's such little color variation that the characters blend into the background. Now, to be fair, I did specifically choose these screenshots because I think they really highlight the problem, but this really is what so much of the show looks like. Granted, we do have a bit more variety in the different rings of Hell, each with their own main color, but this is still too much red, considering how much the color comprises the main characters' designs.

Next, like you said, Vivzie is really bad at making characters actually look like the things they're supposed to look like. Let's take Alastor as an example!

Oh boy! More red and black. So, Alastor here is supposed to be a deer. What's the first physical characteristic that comes to mind when you think of a deer?

Yeah, those big, impressive antlers! So... where are his? Oh, they're those tiny little forks on his head that are almost entirely obscured by his stupid emo hair. Like, come on! Giving him bigger antlers would have made him look so much cooler and more intimidating, and it would have been a great focal point for his design! It's such a missed opportunity. (I know he has bigger antlers in his scarier "demon" form, but you still could have made these a little more impressive.) And don't even get me started on those ears... they look more like fox ears or something. Like you said, a good design shouldn't need to be explained through supplementary material. We should be able to tell what a character is supposed to be just from looking at them!

Another great example is Angel Dust, who, despite being a spider, lacks so many distinct features we associate with spiders! He only has six legs instead of eight, he doesn't have pedipalps or chelicerae, and he also lacks that big old spider booty, which I think is such a missed opportunity, considering he is supposed to be in the sex industry. He isn't even remotely shaped like a spider, he looks more like a fuzzy stick bug or something.

Part of me feels like Viv is too afraid to make her characters look unique, so she just goes with the same, skinny humanoid design for just about everything. It's such a shame, because I really do think she is a talented artist who can make some really interesting designs. But then again, she also gave us Beelzebub, so... maybe not.

As for the reference sheets, maybe I wasn't looking hard enough but I couldn't find any official ones for the main characters, so if you could send those my way I would appreciate it! Though it honestly wouldn't surprise me if they were bad. I did look up Lackadaisy's and found them pretty easily and...

This is so freaking comprehensive and detailed, it's incredible! Look at all those poses and facial expressions!

Comparing Vivzie's works to Tracy's feels kind of unfair, since Tracy has been working on Lackadaisy for 17 years, and it really shows. This is leaps and bounds above Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel in quality. Rocky's design is tight; it's detailed, but not overly complicated. There isn't an obnoxious overuse of highly saturated colors, and there's such nice contrast between his fur, his eyes, suit, and tie, making his design very nice to look at. You can also tell so much about his personality and the world he lives in just from his appearance. It's such a good design, and Rocky is just one example from Lackadaisy! All of Tracy's designs are memorable and stand out from one another, unlike so many of Vivzie's characters, whose designs honestly feel interchangable.

So much thought and care has gone into Lackadaisy, and I seriously cannot wait for the full series, as well as all the other amazing indie animated series that have been coming out recently. It's sad that Helluva Boss is seen as the pinnacle of indie animation, when there are so many other series out there that are just.. better! Lackadaisy, obviously, but we've also got Digital Circus, Murder Drones, Monkey Wrench, and so many others that deserve way more appreciation than what Helluva Boss receives. And that's just from an art direction standpoint, we aren't even talking about writing. That's a whole other can of worms.

All of that being said, it's obvious that a ton of love and hard work went into Helluva Boss, and I hold absolutely nothing against the animators and artists at Spindlehorse. These poor design choices are a hallmark of Vivzie's art style, and they're simply working with what they've got. There is such wasted potential here because it feels like Vivzie is too afraid to step outside her comfort zone and design something that isn't a brightly colored, sharp-toothed twink, or skinny anthro wolf girl.

Anyways, that about wraps up my thoughts. Thanks for the ask, this was fun to delve into! And again, I'd be very interested in seeing you post your redesigns! 👀

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OK HERE WE GO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXACT MOMENT

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Warning! This post contains spoilers up to chapter 170 of Tsubasa (and Chapter 71 of xxxHolic). Please skip this if you have not read that far. 

Please also make no comments about what happens after that point in either manga. 

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It’s another one of those nice moments that makes absolute sense on the first read through and you feel validated for already being able to decipher multiple meanings; ie, Syaoran is determined to save Sakura, but also Kurogane won’t die before he sees Tomoyo again. 

The visuals even encourage and reinforce these TWO meanings in particular because the next panel is this:

The focus is on Syaoran and Kurogane in particular - they share a knowing glance, and we the audience are satisfied going, ah, yes, I understand the subtext for both characters, this is a bonding moment!!

Except OOPS there’s even more to Syaoran’s determination than we could have guessed at this moment. And I’m CERTAIN the programming is intertwined with his own personal desires in these scenes, because every time they mention the feather’s location they cut to Syaoran and he looks like this:

So while we have Syaoran determined not to die so that he can save Sakura (ie, emotionally determined), the clone programming is ALSO coding him not to die so that he can save Sakura (ie, carelessly determined, disregarding all consequences). I would expect our secret Lava Lamp passenger would have something else he feels this strongly about in this moment (besides Watanuki, and I assume a Sakura), but I don’t know enough about him to speak with confidence. 

AND THAT’S NOT EVEN THE PART I WAS EXCITED ABOUT. This is the panel where I’m tapping the page and yelling about Fai to anyone and everyone in my immediate vicinity. IT’S ABOUT FAI TOO. IT’S RIGHT THERE IN HIS SHADOWY EXPRESSION SO HIDDEN THAT WE CAN’T EVEN SEE IT CLEARER BY ZOOMING IN WITH ADVANCED ZOOM-IN TECHNOLOGY.

Fai’s entire REASON for being here in the first place is the exact same sentiment, and it’s the same core reasoning that will cause conflict between him and Kurogane moving forward, like in Outo, and in Acid Tokyo. Fai won’t die yet because he still has something to see through - and he wants to see that through more than anything else. But it’s the “die YET” that rings truest for Fai most of all here. While the others don’t intend to die here and ALSO die in general, Fai specifically still aims to die AFTER these moments. It’s the YET - he can’t die here because he needs to die later, in exchange for the real Fai, to right the wrong he thinks he caused and bring the correct Fai back to the realm of the living. 

And this is why he’ll divorce Kurogane when Kurogane gets too invested in saving FAI IN PARTICULAR, permanently, rather than just staying alive temporarily in order to die later. Kurogane becomes invested in Fai’s longterm survival and wellbeing - which is absolutely antithetical to everything Fai has built his entire personality around. He can’t accept that without everything crashing down around him. 

But for now, in Hanshin, he still aims to die, but not YET. Because he still has things he needs to do first. 

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AMAZON FBA ALIBABA | HOW TO FIND WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURERS PROTECT YOURSELF USING PAYPAL

What is Afghan it is Kevin back again with that lifestyle ninja and today I’m going to be teacher, wishing you exactly how to find the top quality manufacturers via Alibaba, making sure that you’re going to get the top quality products no matter what you’re ordering and how to protect yourself and make sure that you’re not going to, screwed over, so take it off, just to make things a little bit more genuine, i basically just was looking around my room and to just choose kind of a random product for you guys just to do it from scratch to show you, be the same process no matter which type of, product selling, i noticed a little lava lamp I have over in the corner so we are going to source that and I’ve never look for one of my life, hi-five never I don’t even know if they’re on Alibaba, To be honest but we are going to, find out, together, so let’s look at this first one, forty200 reviews obviously not necessarily product you want to look at because it has, is a pretty big Advantage even notice, 60% rating, and the first thing I liked, do is hop down to the detailed section, so technical details, right so just to save time I already kind of a drag some of these over here to the manufacturer template I use and I actually, please give this to my virtual assistant, and I trained her kind of how to look for manufacturers on Alibaba the ones that are quality that, do you want to work with and I’m going to walk you through the exact same process, how we do that right now, so, the main things you want to look at right obviously product dimensions, here we go, Inno color, material ride they need to know what it’s made out of, power source in the weather it’s battery powered or electric, the wattage and the type of bulb so just kind of the you know the basic stuff you know you can look down here and see if there is, anything else that looks like it might be important, and you know they’re going to tell you if you you know if they need clarification on things but just try to, try to come up with as much as it as you can, just try to save as much back and forth as fast, i’m so once you have kind of these products facts right and if you have a manufacturer template build out a lot easier, we’ll talk about this manufacturer template in a minute, but let’s go over here and let’s look at lava lamp, so how I like to look on Alibaba, Is actually not by products.

But by suppliers and the reason I don’t look at products is because, one supplier can offer multiple products and you don’t want to be sending the same template to, multiple different product listings that are all routing to the Sea, supplier, save yourself even more time, head over to suppliers, write the two important ones here are gold supplier, and trade assurance, definitions of those just go ahead and look them up on Ali Baba I’m there, pretty easy to find, write 100% product quality protection, pre-qualified by Alibaba, and let’s look through some of these rights of these pictures are not what we’re looking for even though the top listing so don’t be confused by that right I mean, and right here we go so these are at these are a little bit more like what we like, Looking for, diezel amps, and it looks like they have some, lava lamp, when is necessary there, there a main product, book skip that one, he’s obviously just lamps, right looks like these guys their main product is lava lamps are there at least advertising it that way, white sox looking at probably you know at least five, and once you have these kind of five companies upright, each one of them is has kind of the same layout it says the, the total revenue their employees right you wouldn’t you want to make sure that they have, in a reasonable amount of, employees and Revenue, something that you can do before you really, are going to end up to the next level, is just, grab their, company name, starting a Google, right and see if this is actually matching up, the sun pay, looks like they have a website, Yep so it looks like they’re real, prototyping companies in, china Wok, spherion Staffing technology, right sales department of a video, stop ad, yes you can do the same thing with each one but basically what we’re going to do here is just go ahead and click contacts the flyer, i need one that you’d want to do the same thing for all these right make sure that it’s a real company you know they’re obviously doing big numbers they have enough employees, contact supplier, supplier, same thing contact supplier, so now it’s really talk, about, the manufacturer’s, but right so it’s important if you’re going to be reaching out to a lot of death, different manufacturers, all the time to kind of get one of these made right it’s going to save you a lot of time especially if your VA is working for you cuz they can kind of, Stupidest refuse, vision for you, can I do some of that the tedious legwork, that’s really just plugging fly you to show my URL to an Amazon listing and they, take the product, details of a thing of relevant, throw me to the park specs category and then basically just, get the same, answers, answer the questions that we ask for that right so, what are the things were going to go through each of these really kind of step-by-step so you guys understand exactly why each one of these portions, i’m so you want you want to portray yourself as a lead purchasing agent right you’re not just a guy sitting in your underwear, chilling in your garage trying to you know back of a lava lamps you’re an international company right you’re you’re speaking on, half of the CEO of the board of directors right you want to sound official you want to make it you want to make it sound like, You are worth their time and that they want to offer you the lowest.

Best price they can so kind of when your long-term business right, so about working together in a potential lucrative business venture right where I International electric company based out of Silicon Valley here in California, horny right uc’s buzzword maybe you’re in New York you know, you want to make it sound like you’re important, because these guys get tons of inquiries 99% of which never actually, you know, really form into anything at all so if they’re definitely used to having their time wasted so you want to make it sound like you, you’re not going to do that, so hit them quick right so, we like to introduce ourselves and expressed an interest in creating a profitable partnerships, So I like to include, the Amazon link, we would like, a product, similar to, and you’re depending on where they are they don’t always have the ability to open these but I always include it because it just saves so much time, and we’re definitely going to you know, toll at least, you know this man picture, oregon has actually attach it to every single one of our Ali Baba, surprise specs and right we just took these straight from the Amazon listing, and they aren’t talking, call details, and then the questions right to you always always always want to number your questions, i’ve heard it that, in Chinese schools, children are kind of, transou answer things, send number questions, i just trust me on this guy’s if you ask, if you ask three questions and they aren’t numbered you’re only going to get a response, to your first question, Just believe me I’ve contacted, hundreds of suppliers, always always always number, trust me on that it really makes a huge difference, rights of the first thing you want to do can we get a sample of the products right how much you going to charge to get that sample DHL Express, ship that you know whatever your ZIP code is and you’re happy to cover or split you know the shipping cost with PayPal, do you have the ability to package the product in a custom in a custom packaging right with Arlo cuz if you’re going to if you’re going to private, label you want to make sure that they either, you know have the ability in house to package your product or they have a partner, you know a boxing or a packaging partner that can do that just so you can kind of do a one-stop-shop and not have to, Be incorporating you know numerous different, manufacturers to get what you want, so what is the what is the cost per unit, including fob mflb music free on board or Freight on board depending on who you ask, and all that means is, they charge a fee to get it from the Chinese Factory to the port, in China, is Applebee in the the other one is exw which basically means they finish your lava lamps, in this case and they just leave it on their Factory floor and you have to handle everything else so you’re a freight forwarder picks it up at their Factory gets, sports that’s only if, suenos 2, applebee’s usually just a little bit easier, so an moq is minimum order quantity, so what is the cost, minimum order quantity of 500 units, an 5000 units, we’d like to come, pear, both, And this is important guys right because.

You want them to, you want them to say, the lowest possible Price Rite, so from your perspective you want to take the least risk so you you know in a perfect world you get a hundred unit, at the 5000 unit price, you proved the man on Amazon and then you quickly reorder and you have the least amount of risk, with the highest amount of reward right, so they’re going to give you a 500 unit price maybe it’s $3 each and the 5,000 unit price maybe it’s $1 each, and so the rest of the conversation right you’re going to be, you’re going to be pounding into their head that you want that $1 price but you want to do a test order for 500 units Justice, this one time but you want them to honor that 5000, just trust me on this, get both price, i’m so talking about lead time so this is for inventory forecasting later down the line but, How long will it take to manufacture a package 505000, this is usually you know, 15 to 30 days depending on how many your getting, yeah I’d be grateful if you to contact us this to answer is please be as thorough as you can, with your initial answers they’ll be a large determinant of the manufacturer’s select a partner with, blank food is because usually don’t mention I’ll give you one word answers with the responding to, 10 to 20 of these a day, i’m so taken, ask him to take a little bit extra time right cuz it’s, it’s definitely a good showing of faith that they actually care about you and, they care about their work, things like that, i’m one other thing I like to do is have them add you on Skype I I really don’t like communicating via the alibata Alibaba portal, Right cuz a lot of us have other business that we’re doing on Skype anyways, i’m so I usually say I will not respond to Alibaba right in this is another way for you to kind of test if they’re actually paying attention in, attention to detail, which is something that’s super important for manufacturer so it’s just another little thing that I’ve, deadline to do, and this tablet is available on our Facebook page so if you guys want to just use this exact one, i’m feel free to just you know go down in the description and join our Facebook page and we have all this available and so some, how much more for, for you guys, so, what’s go ahead and copy and paste this, i’m heading North 1st manufacturer, and there’s the product page, contact page, brighten just paste it in, And then I’m going to add that attack, right and this is my actual Alibaba account so I’m not going to send these because I, don’t actually want to tell lava lamp, but right it’ll be the same process so you, you just go in here, right contact supplier it opens up this page, pacing the exact same thing, body attack another photo, and that’s pretty much it guys you are done there, i’m so the last thing that I want to talk about is, payment right everybody always asks, you know how can you pay in a way that, suppliers will accept and that gives you the most, protection right so, the answer to that is normally payments are split up into an initial payment of 30% a downpayment which base, kicks off the manufacturing, they start their, they start their work, and then once they’re done, Then you’re expected to pay the 70.

Listen to this, listen to carefully cuz I wish somebody would have told me you what I’m about to tell you, because it’s it’s super super important, 30%, ensamples, always pay with PayPal, do it goods and services, and pay that goods and services fee with a credit card, not your bank balance be absolutely sure, that you were paying that that 30% and the sample fees, with a credit card, not your bank,, right like I’m not going to I’m not going to repeat myself a third time but, please please if you can listen to anything I say this entire video, just listen to that because, you can dispute you can just do things with your credit card companies and it just gives you so much more protection and I, can’t I cannot stress enough, how worth the extra 3%, that is if you ever run into any type of trouble so just trust me on that 30%, Always with PayPal all your the credit card, right into the 70% normally this is done with a bank wire transfer right, cuz it’s not fair to the manufacturers in all cases to cuz they get charged super exorbitant fees for PayPal over in China, so most most places will let you especially for a fresh relationship with pay with PayPal for, for the 30% but its 70% is normally done via wire, you can set this up with a bank write any Bank, you can pretty much do it online, normally the species range between 25 and $40 to send a wire transfer, anything to be sure of, when you’re doing. Guys is that you have to get an inspection done to be, 4, you pay that 70, percent right and you want a thorough inspection, and so we have we have list of the inspection services that that we use and we had amazing success with you, They’re giving you a hundred fifty page, reports with, you know a bunch of HD pictures and all of their different, notes in any you know, small quality errors and all the different packaging no count the number of units, you know it’s beautiful right and that’s only $99 right with the people we use so if you guys are interested in that head over to the Facebook group, and we will definitely be happy to share, who are using for inspection, so PayPal for the 30%, wire transfer for the 70, and then before you pay that 70% make sure you get your inspection done, and what we like to do guys with, suppliers is set just like a super simple purchase agreement, before we agree that you know going to business with them, and what we say is if the inspection fails as determined by us the buyer, Then it will be on the set will be on the seller so the manufacturer on Alibaba, the pay for a reinspection, and that’s actually coming to play with us a couple times right because if it fails determined by us you know if there’s too many Quality Air, then they basically have to fix it all and then they have to pay for it to be re-inspected so they’re going to make damn sure, that there’s no more Heroes again and it’s, it’s really worked out really well for us guys so, those are pretty much all of my tips for suppliers if you’re watching this point I promise you I’ve saved, probably a hundred hours of pain, and potentially you know thousands and thousands of dollars, that you could have potentially missed out on, so I hope that’s helpful guys, I got the hook up. So helpful and had a navigate Alibaba headed to your manufacturer research the right way.

How to save time you know how to represent yourself in a way that your manufacturer is actually going to spend time on you, make sure that they’re going to I’m present their best products in their best prices to you, how to protect yourself how to make sure that your money safe you know how to do things the right way and make sure you’re getting inspections, right inside make sure that you’re checking on my other videos guys I’m doing this all for you make sure you’re checking out of Facebook group, right I mean there’s so much information there is a ton of great sellers doing thousands and thousands of dollars a day, all their hands and tricks and tips of make sure you check it out I promise you guys are going to like it, I’m if you enjoyed it and make sure that you subscribe cuz we’re in a key bring you the absolute best contact guys, i’m in for bonus material about how I use Photoshop to save $10,000 on my very first order, on Alibaba definitely make sure you comment below and you hit me up cuz I want to talk to you all right.

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