Stream Assets
This is a puppet for twitch.tv/quackksont.
She's a friend of mine, and this puppet was a collaborative piece.
The initial sock puppet design is by DrawingDumpling,
you can find her on VGen, and I took her initial artwork, and broke it up into pieces so that
I could animate it for Quack to use as a png avatar!
For this, I had to match Dumpling's style and add new drawings like the mouth and certain outlines that were going to be missing when cutting the drawing.
This is png avatar was made for ChaddingtonDuck on Twitch.
He's a speedrunner and wanted a silly little avatar that was a mix of a Duck and the Bert character.
To keep the essence of Bert, without making him into a literal duck, I decided it could be fun to make the duckbill be made of cheese puff dust.
To sell the effect, I gave him a bag of cheese puffs and made it so that when Duck talks, he wags around the cheese puff, and during his idling animations, he will occasionally throw a puff into his mouth.
At some point over the last year,
I started applying everything I've learned with animation, to twitch streaming, and representing my friends in the cutest and silliest ways.
These, are my puppets!
(and some other assets I've made)
This puppet is for a text-to-speech function that you can use within twitch, OBS, and a few other platforms built for streaming.
The idea is that someone redeems a TTS message, and then this little puppet pops up to act as the one speaking the message out loud.
This is designed based on my favorite pokemon, and is much closer to a classic muppet design. I thought it was better to go more muppet than sock this time, because the mouth of the Pokemon it's based on has this lego-y shape, which didn't read well as a sock.
Phoenix, aka Nixapher on Twitch, is my best friend. We both stream and will spend a lot of time together while either or both of us stream.
I decided to make this sock puppet based on her main PNG avatar, which is usually a blue-eyed goth woman and demon? I think she might be part demon... Anyway, I took the parts of her design that made her the most recognizable, and then made her into this dark grey sock with black felt and blue button eyes.
Scenes
People who have been streaming for a while would know that something to communicate that you're AFK, but won't be gone for more than a few minutes, is one of the most useful assets for viewer retention.
On my breaks, I like to play my favorite music, and decided to use Canva to animate this "Takin' A Break" screen.
I made a vector shape version of myself wearing headphones, and made the lines bounce in succession as if they were sound reactive.
My idea was to communicate that music should be audible, and that this isn't a super quick break. You'll have a few songs before I'm back.
Buffer screens, as I call them, are also super useful.
I also made these in Canva.
"Starting Soon" allows for people who aren't perfectly on time, to not miss anything interesting, and also allow a streamer to get in a last minute bathroom or kitchen trip before settling in.
I've also used the time to psych myself up if I'm feeling a bit nervous.
"Ending" screens are also specifically meant to be a buffer for the "stop stream" button on your software.
For some reason, if you press that button, it doesn't let the broadcast catch up and then stop; it just stops in the middle of whatever the viewers were hearing. So if you press stop after you say "Bye," The viewers won't even get to hear you say it; the stream will stop about 3 minutes earlier.
For these, I followed a different representation of me.
I've been referred to as a "coconut" by my family, which, while racist in nature, is something I've reclaimed and use for my indie game dev name. Bored Coconut
