This pikachu video is ruining my life

“Tune in next month!”…. Almost three years later

THE BABY EEVEE THO MY HEART ;w;

Volceron is largely based on a dog so imagine it doing typical dog things, but with electricity: chasing lightning bolts, barking at thunder during a storm, or shaking off water after a bath, wich causes a small power outage

The waiting line for Reas new character design to be revealed starts here, Please Take a seat 🪑

THE VISUALS OF THIS VIDEO???? THEY ARE DIVINE??????????? I sometimes just put videos in the background to occasionally glance at them as I'm doing my own stuff but I COULDN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF THIS ONE

I love how during the fake pokedex entry, you can see the small differences between the female and male versions! I think that was a neat little touch to see the differences!

as an Eevee maniac, your work receives my seal of approval. -now, I really wanna see the rest of the eeveelutions get their own full evolution lines-

eevee: the crybaby jolteon: the angsty teenager volceron: the adult who can now do their own taxes

At first I was worried about the soon-to-be redesign, but then I realized that the biggest reason I like current Reas' design is because of how well they draw the characters expressions, so Im starting to look forward to their new, vibrant look!

"... When the thought struck: what if pikachu but eevee" This, dear friends, was a thought with far reaching and long lasting consequences for our artist

Almost three years later and I still don't see what was that wrong with the designs. But then again, knowing me being a perfectionist, they're not mine so I wouldn't judge them as much as if it was something I made. We've all been there Rae, take your time with the pikachu video. :)

The glitches and the steadily increasing "Under Construction" tape is making me very suspicious of you, Rae. What are you hiding, you majestic artist?!

I like how youre using the glitches to ease us into the new art style, it’s definitely a huge jump. The colors and fluffy gravity defying exaggerated style is very different, and while i was initially reserved about the new style, seeing it in action in this video has made me warm up to it. Ill miss the old style tho! It looks awesome in this vid

The illustration at the end is now available as a print, for everyone who was asking for one :3c actuallyrea.com/products/lenticular-print Also edit!! Just for anyone wondering! The sequel video has taken me longer than expected because I’ve really wanted to make sure I do it right, it’s still very much in progress! Hopefully it’ll be up in April c:

I literally spent a solid amount of my middle school and high school years obsessing over your animations and MAP parts. It’s so incredible to see you in my recommended after all this time. These designs are incredible and it’s super inspiring to see how much your art has improved since the first time I saw it. Thank you for being such an inspiration to me in my own art journey, and I hope I see more from you soon!

I do like that Rea is making introducing her redesign gradual for the audience. I'm so excited to see her new character in animation

YOU POOR SOUL MY GOD; I CAN FEEL YOUR STRUGGLE AAA God though; the editing is amazing; I just can't get enough of it; And your artwork is always such a treat. (Especially the new design in action

I feel like that first design for the final evolution would make a for a great concept for an electric ghost Pokémon, like how most ghost Pokémon have grim back stories, a ghost Pokémon where it’s biased off of an animal being killed by a lightning strike with its skeleton visible would be very interesting to see

Please please forgive me if my silly brain completely forgot if you did this or if you did it off-screen or not, but if you ever end up doing a design challenge like this again I'd recommend starting with silhouettes first! I'm an animation major student in my junior year with a concentration in visual development, including character, prop, and enviroment design. Every single time I sit down to start designing something, I start with some silhouettes! These don't have to be perfect, I have done some ROUGH silhouettes, but doing this helped me figure out the shape language really quickly early on! I know you mentioned that when your friend came to you and told you about the shape language that you were able to get to work a lot faster and easier. If you start with silhouettes, especially silhouettes made from basic shapes, you can figure out that specific shape language really early on! Additionally, with working with silhouettes, you can use a lighter color brush to pull out specific shapes WITHIN the silhouette, like the inner ear or certain markings you're thinking about, or eye shape. That's specific notes for character design but it works really well with prop and environment design too! For example, when designing buildings, you can use a lighter color to figure out where the windows are. Or when designing specific props, you can pull out elements that are supposed to be raised or pushed in depending on the colors you use. But just starting with silhouettes will really help your process out in the long run! And don't spend a shit ton of time on silhouettes either. Start with one or two silhouettes and copy-paste them and add or subtract elements. Warp that shit to hell and back, try combining a couple silhouettes, find ways to make your job easier. That's how professional designers can pump out designs and drafts really quickly, too! We take as many fucking shortcuts as we can, including copy-paste-edit haha. I AM ALSO SO So Very sorry for the Huge Ass Chunk Of Text OTL VisDev is a huge passion of mine, especially character design, but there is a LOT that goes into VisDef hsdfhsdf- I can only hope to explain what I've learned in 3 years of college into one KZfaq comment coherently, but who knows if I manage it or not ;;w;; But but!!!! I also really really love the designs you ened up with!! I think they're really really nice and just so yummy your honor. So please like!! Don't take this as me trying to bash anything hdfhsd I swear Im not OTL I just wanted to try and pass along what I've learned in the hopes that it helps in the future! QwQ

Rea: "I don't think that Volceron's design is perfect by any means..." Me: "I'm sorry, I was too lost in the perfect chest floof you drew to hear you doubting your talent."

I like how artists are able to bring cool concepts to life with their skills, I can’t draw that well so the only thing I can do is imagine them, but it must be really neat to be able to draw your awesome ideas and see them whenever you want

The chaotic energy of this video is absolutely divine "Don't let me do that" my god this is the most relatable thing I have ever heard from someone else with ADHD. Because yes, if no one is there to stop me I would do something that ridiculous. I would despise myself for it, but I would do it

As someone with adhd and dyslexia, here's a little trick I do for large texts online: I put it into a text to speech reader and then let it read to me while doodling on the side or similar, makes me actually retain and absorb the info so much better.

Uncharged Pichu: Uncharged pichu’s are unsurprisingly, pichu’s with a rare disability that causes them to be unable to contain and use electricity. This forces these creatures to become crafty with their attacks and defense. They tend to mimic a raichu’s charge before an attack, only to kick up dust and run away. These small baby Pokémon may resemble a feral alley-cat at first, but they will often seek out their owners with a whimper due to how emotional and clingy they tend to be.

“Don’t let me make a whole generation of Pokémon, because 3 was hard enough to do, BUT allow me to make it even harder for myself by making 8 different Pika-Vees ( terrible name, ik ), because I’m ambitious and curious” I love you, Reagan, your logic matches mine

I love the idea of "Eevee evolved-evolved into a new species and got focused into one type and evolution" and how it was executed here. Like how deepening its connection to electricity allowed it to always evolve into Jolteon and to go even further beyond Jolteon.

I swear this video was only 2 months ago how the hell has it been 2 years

This is actually such a wonderful and fun idea! Too many videos in this vain are just "fixing" things they don't like, and honestly it gets a *little* tiring when KZfaq constantly bombards me with videos hating on or just criticizing games I love, so a fun, inoffensive idea like this is a wonderful breath of fresh air.

Man, Pokémon designing alludes me, so when you were talking about your struggles I FELT THAT. I think this is a really fun challenge though! And your designs turned out pretty great! I love that animated illustration at the end, that was gorgeous

30:50 "Don't let me [design an entire generation by myself]" Me, staring at the interlocked channel on the Discord 😬

This is by far the most love and effort I've ever seen put into a fakemon video, and I can tell you poured all of yourself into this out of not only love and respect for Pokemon, but for the artistic process as well. So much respect for you- instantly subbed.

Rae: "I don't think that Volceron's design is perfect by any means--" Me: Girl, I would DIE for Volceron

god, this whole video was SUCH an artist mood. volceron turned out so well!!! i could absolutely see them as a real pokemon

I love how you fleshed an eeveelution out as its own three stage evo line, I think it went very well

I was with you the whole way when you were saying that something was missing in the designs. Volceron does definitely look like a Pokémon. Fantastic job! One thing that I do remember Game Freak saying is that for the Pokémon evolution designs they to stay away from the idea of " its like the pre-evolution but bigger/older" I do hope that helps!

I’m anxiously awaiting the Under Construction area to be revealed… WHAT ARE YOU HIDING REA

God I relate to their artistic process so much- art is sooo paINFul and TIRING- Especially while trying to make designs yourself The end turned out amazing! Your pokemon designs are so good, can't wait for the pichu/pikachu shenanigans

Honestly, I keep making my way back to this video because 1. It's honestly pretty cool & quite inspiring, and 2. It kinda helps motivate me whenever I random decide to start trying to draw a Pokemon (which currently as I type this I am doing that, I wanted to draw an Alolan version of Pikachu's canceled final evo, Gorochu, but first wanted to make my own design of Gorochu since from my knowledge there's barely an official design seen yet, but I can't even figure that first one out TwT)

This video coming up on my fyp after all these years... None of us were prepared for what was gonna happen

Can I say just how much I LOVE the clear princess tutu references on the new design???? Fucking amazing 💕✨

I feel bad for Clafairy, it was suppose to be set as the mascot before they went with Pikachu.

Fun fact! This video came out when I was a freshman in high school In August I’ll officially be a senior..

Can we just appreciate how hard June's trying to make this for us?

This episode on, "Rea overdoes her own art"- Seriously, it turned out amazing.

Rea's changing designs throughout the video is just fun to watch! Almost as if her design was evolving...

i feel old this was 2 years ago..

one must imagine sisiphus happy

This was not just a Speedpaint redesign video this was literally a movie. A cinematic masterpiece. Holy shiet.

Oh? New Rea being fully teased? Do I love? Freaking absolutely.

Tune in next month! *three years later* (no hate just thought it was funny!)

Sometimes you just need someone on the outside to take a look at what you're doing. Nothing wrong with that. With that, This Line Looks Amazing! If these were real Pokemon, 100% I would use them on my team for a Region. I would never give them up.

Next up on random trivia hour: Raiju, does size really matter? Okay though serious props to your EDITING?? Your editors have such a fine grasp on comedy I laughed out loud at LEAST 3 times (not to make fun of your suffering, I could literally feel it through the screen) It was so satisfying to see you get through this though, esp after you focused more on the body language than the patterns, like?? HOUGH that was so intense, but you nailed it!!! (Also those glitch effects and new sona drops are giving me the best kind of heeby jeebies I'm just SO excited to see a full video with the new you)

I never thought I'd be able to feel an artist's pain through a literal screen before. Your designs turned out amazing and I love them! I really like to headcannon that during stormy days or insane thunderstorms that Volceron are compelled to find high cliffs or climb trees in order to get a shock of lightning and even will climb their trainers houses in order to do so.

I think the water type and psychic type Pikachu's could maybe take a little bit of inspiration from Alolan Raichu? Probably not a _lot_ of inspiration, to keep them distinct, but a few little details calling back to that might be really cute!

Honestly I could wait five years for these designs.

Pikachu and Eevee are going to look so cute! I was hoping you'd post, going to have so much fun watching this video.

WOW OK I'M CRAZY IMPRESSED WITH THESE VISUALS specifically the scene at about 12:00 genuinely wowed me. i'm absolutely in LOVEEEEEE with the expressiveness of the avatar

I'm no fan of Pokemon but this was really amazing to watch, all the research and information for this one little pokemon. I actually appreciate and respect it since there are hundreds more of Pokemon. Amazing job can't wait till the next one

Been with it since it first dropped, we sit and wait patiently on the masterpiece that is Junes amazing designs 🙏

24:24 I agree with your friend Sam here. The design idea you had for the evolved Jolteon at first was amazing on its own, heck it could even be like a new kind of legendary pokemon imo. It just didn't have ths same body sense as how Jolteon or other Pokemon would have. Over all, You made some excellent designs for Pikachu and Eevee!

And this my friends- is the magic of art! Being able to express your ideas and thoughts with beautifully formulated images and masterpieces (also mixing Pokémon together, to create sometimes atrocities, because why not) and being able to share you creativity with the world!

Wow the editing in this video is so amazing!!! I love how you were glitching between the old and new art styles for your avatar, it was such a nice way to transition to the new look! Just the editing in this video flowed so well and was very engaging and almost interactive and gave it so much energy and personality! Awesome vid, awesome designs, you did such an amazing job!! Can’t wait for the next vid ^_^

Stumbled across your video randomly and I just keep thinking about how much I love your character art and how much time must have gone into drawing so many different poses and expressions (all of which are so dynamic and engaging) and I had to come back and check out more!!!

I love how the video keeps on glitching out in the new cute style make sense with all the “under construction work every time I looked at it I couldn’t stop giggling.” MORE CHAOS!!

Does anyone else legitimately worry about Rea and how they basically destroy themselves working on these drawings? Like- it looks great, but Jesus Christ Rea, please take a break💀💀

That final artwork at the end. I can absolutely imagine it as a black light poster. With the lightning bolt and the bones all being visible in blacklight mode.

I now realize HOW AMAZING you're animation skills are, I used to watch your videos with just a joyful attitude because I loved your art, nothing's changed even with the art style but now I realize the depth and work you put into your poses, hands, and just everything over all! I love the anatomy in your drawings, the diversity is one of my favorite things to look at when watching your videos, also I love the way you draw your HANDS, you make it seem so flawless and elegant, and it's just MMMM. Over all I love your art and videos, you're one of my inspirations to keep going in art! :D

I think that you think its is overdetailed is because while Electrivire and Zebstrika have almost the same details as the one you drew, it felt more overly detailed because yours has 3 colors, Yellow, Black and White, while the others has Yellow and Black or Black and White respectively. Both Zebstrika and Electrivire have 2 color restriction (the red on Electrivire is subtle enough to not count.) Just speculation tho.

the detail of volceron being able to store electricity to be used to power homes is such a pokemon detail. their overall design is also just absolutely gorgeous and a pokemon i could absolutely see in the show or games. the concept of volceron too!! there is so much to gush over and love about this and i am in awe. you’ve done so well on this!!

This was my first video of yours and I absolutely loved seeing the process! That final illustration is the coolest thing I've ever seen, thank you for putting so much time and love into it! 😭💖💖

I like how you added the shiny version of the new pokemon

This was incredible! That final illustration was absolutely stunning.

ok watched the entire video and holy shit this is so Good. like the editing. the art. the concepts. the way this shit is so entertaining throughout. loved the insight into ur personal character design process and i frequently had to rewatch parts of this video bc the editing was just. So Neat. probably slightly corny to say this was a treat for my eyes but there's no other way i can express it lol this was so good. [also the neo rea moments....... so true!!!]

the amount of effort you put into your speedpaints is always ridicuuuuuuloussss i love it!! love to see a rlly common art video style but with just.. SO much production put in its good a+

I've literally set that illustration you made as my wallpaper! It's BEAUTIFUL!

Glad to see there’s someone else who overthinks fakemon designs just as much as I do :’D Love the final design, art, editing, everything!!

I'm so sorry my son has given you this much struggle and stress. Designing pokemon is SO hard but you did an amazing job!

I love how this video perfectly captures the insanity that comes with creating something

This was such a delightful and interesting case study on just what goes into a good pokemon design. I FELT THAT when you were describing the pain you went through iterating over volceron's initial design. I FELT THAT THank you so much for your time and dedication in putting this video and concept together. I am IN LOVE with your electric eevee line designs. I could've been fooled for MORE than a minute if anyone showed any of them to me I am FLOORED

i feel like volceron and luxray would have a natural competition like zangoose and seviper - based on a cat vs dog rivalry and especially as they’re two strong electric types!

Hey guess what?? I'm very proud of you. You took this challenge head on. You faced the issues that would have made a lot of people quit and break down and said, "Y'know what? FUCK THAT, quitting is for pussies!" We LOVE that energy. Not saying you didn't break down at all mind you, but instead that you presevered. You may have a team of friends to support you but one more never hurts- I want you to know at least one fan sits here and looks up to you not for a percieved perfection but instead for your dedication to overcoming your flaws and not being too proud to go "SAAAAAM HELP IM DUMB" to ur friends bc same 😂💙💙💙 I hope this comment makes your day and little brighter and I love you, ok byeeeeee~ 💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜

OHMY- IM IN AWE! you have no idea how much i liked this video, the visuals and the formatting are just *muah* it was so nice getting to hear your thought process. i love the sona design, it is absolutely the cutest design i have ever seen. can’t wait to see more!

The amount of stills and frames you used especially considering the details of your art is amazing oh my god this idea looks amazing! Love the new Eevee line! Amazing work!

This has to be the single most adorable art video I’ve EVER watched.

I love the glitch out to your other design for your OC. It's done so well.

this is the first video i've seen of yours and i gotta say the quality is astounding! every element is polished and the editing is perfect. instant subscribe!

Absolutely amazing ! The amount of time and effort that went into this just because you thought "hmm, I wonder" and the outcome really shows all that effort. Also totally felt that design challenge/block you were feeling and just remember that having someone else look at your design is always great to help you figure out why something looks odd

Oh my god the quality of this video is absolutely incredible, I can see how much love and care was put into this woah! Keep it up Rea you are so skilled and your videos always are a highlight to my day :>

First off, LOVE the new design and style 💖💖💖 The "glitching takeover", however, SENT ME because I've been getting back into FNAF these past 2 weeks in hype for Security Breach and they've been doing this series of trailer that have been slowly taken over by static and glitching and purple from Glitch Trap. Not intentional, but a little funny thinking of the new Rea-Design as an evil chibi XD

What I think was a bit off with the first few designs of the normal type pichu was the eyes and the anatomy of the face- example is that the eyes could have been bigger, or the cheeks could have been moved around, anyways that’s only my opinion- I love your art and I don’t think that’s its bad- I still think that the drafts are still pretty cute lol^^

OMYFOD THAT WHOLE ART PIECE YOU MADE IS LITERALLYJAWDROPPING I LOVE IT SM

The absolute PRODUCTION VALUE of this video alone was bonkers, let alone the content itself!! I’m so excited for the next part!!!

I just want to say how much I appreciate the expressiveness and details in this video. Especially, the under construction and new design of ur character (?). Really good, great job on video!

OMG !! The shiny designs for this swap is amazing, I'm in love (and curious to see your pikachu evolutions, and to see how my baby sylveon translates to a fairy pikachu

Is it just me, or is the process just so mesmerizing? I love seeing the process and listening to how she made the character design✨

As a total Pokémon nerd myself, this was an absolute treat and delight to watch! Shit I think I become inspired by just watching it! :D This was worth the wait and I am SO STOKED for the next installment! Thank you bunches for sharing~ keep up the glorious work! ♥ ♥ ♥

this is probably the best speedpaint i've ever watched. just your storytelling and editing alone has me gobsmacked! you reallly put your all into this video, and it shows! i can't wait till you have your own studio man, you're work is phenomenal.

I just gotta tell you how much I adore this video. The designs, your persona art and video effects, your voice, even your struggles. I adore it all, and I hope you are proud of all this hard work!! ❤

GODDD i love everything about this.... im floored by all the detail and passion that went in i am . A. i love the final designs so much. the new style hints?? absolutely incredible. the inspiration this gives??!?!??! everyone who worked on it, big props bro. heart