Hello fellow readers, for introduction purposes I will give a little backstory of who I am and what I am in to.
My name is simply Ili. I enjoy drawing and illustrating in a very “anime” style way. I always liked that and it worked, I also do a lot of little doodles in which I love just to scribble from time to time. My usual type of stuff is fantasy oriented and a little dabble on the NSFW edge. But all in all I draw what I want.
Last year I started a new proyect that I kinda refer to as… “saving what little stability of mind i had” and started developing a persona/character because I thought it be great to make movie reviews for my entertainment in Youtube. I did not do so well but I did get to experiment with a lot of things. To be honest it was then when I started seeing what a VTUBER character was… and because I saw some other artist creat their VTuber I decided to say FUCK IT and made my own… let me be frank I do things in reverse instead of forward because my mind is like a stupid Nolan movie that starts with it’s ending and it just wont make sense in the slightest.
She took me 2 weeks to make her work properly and it was not easy… but I had so much fun working on her that I could not stop. So while making her I started to plan my essays on Tiktok with some of my favorite movies of horror… but the real deal was that i needed desperatly to make a VERY LONG ONE. Did not care how bad it would end up as long as I finished it. THUS I made … The Hereditary review.
I recorded for and hour… but the editing is horrible, my microfone was an Ipod and my wording is just BAD. Also I made it in Spanish ( because SHOCK I am Mexican).
Beyond that… I had fun and even when I had misley 11 views. I was happy with it. All in all was a very interesting experience. But while i was wirting the next essay I felt like I did not wanted to do it again… it was just a lot of strain over me and I had to go back to the drawing board… I did do a couple more but I had to stop for some reason.
After that I wanted to try something else… I wondered well… why not streaming?
I did a couple of random streams and found to be really overwhelmed by people… Also my computer is not equipped for that kind of things… not so much the streaming byt sadly my Vtuber had to be removed. I tried a Vroid model that lasted not so much… trying to mimic the style of what I had in hand.
Still was having hardships with it so… I bumped with a perfect way of creating and making characters easier and more liable in my set of abilities ( which ain’t much of them).
Ili the PngTuber
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I took the outfit from the 3D model and designed a new character. Something cute, easy to work with and with the chance to edit it as much as i wanted. I found the program Veadotube mini which let me use PNG files to make a simple character react to my voice and add it simple on my streams. She took me a couple of hours to make and had a high variety of edits of her. And I loved every minute of it.
After that was then when I starting planting the seed of… why not a podcast? in my brain…. BUT I have no personality to do it all by myself. And I had a brain wave… Why not talk with my husband on a podcast? We already had horrible opinions over things and we always had something awful to talk about before bed… why not just make it a thing? He at first was not in to the idea… I understood but I told him what harm is it gonna do? Just let’s experiment.
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He has exprience in radio and he has more wording than the little mexican girl that gets confused by objects, so in my brain I thought it be awesome to do something new together… not in the profit but as a hobby.
We are big nerds and from different perspectives so we came in a plan… I let him do his thing with his character, if i recall we was all in doing essays in youtube and he did some for a bit but he over thought a lot of his proposals… by then I came with the podcast in mind and he came with what we call… The studio.
We started streaming on my channel for the sake of practice and we had fun. Not a lot of people came around but it was fun to experiment and make it our little thing.
The Creation of MNR
Magic Ninja Robot was the name of our baby. We took the desition that we may wanted to add a 3rd party member, because the chemisty existed on us OBVIOUSLY but… it was just very one sided I guess…
With this came a hell a lot more fun things for me to work on, like decorations and other things. I wanted it to have as much personality as we tried to have one in real life. And it worked… sadly I feel like for a bit we stalled.
I worked on a new studio!
We all needed some more space, this was around September when we finally did it. I always liked this studio and with everything it came with it… was more personal and less overwhelming but things tend to get a bit old. But we added a 4th member and it’s been like this since the end of last year.
Ili Screams… the birth of the anime girl
After all that year transition I just thought it be awesome to remake my character for streams… my logic is bad, the cute character was good but I needed something different. Now knowing that I could do whatever I wanted and I did wanted to push my style I created the PngTuber Vtuber thing that I used for a hot second.
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I did kept the color scheme and reference because I wanted some branding in a way with her. I thought it would atract more people if they saw someone more visually appealing but whatever it did not work. Or at least it didn’t in my brain… I tend to not be patient. I imagine and I accept most of my ideas don’t go through because i never do end them… and it’s not just my issue but I have to work on it.
Frankly I am surprised we are still doing this after a long year…
And for the end of this I share my last update on my character… but wait a minute.
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Anyway… If you got to this point.
Hello again, my name is Ili… and I hope we can get to know eachother.
That is all for now. Expect more infor dump about my favorite things and some of my proyects to come.
Please check out my pages they are full of updates and fun things. From me and my cohosts. Also would appretiate you pass by the Substack of my hubby. He does do more for everyone in this group that we all know.
My personal pages:
My Mastodon for proper art and cat pics