Studio 「FUUSEN」

Print Heaven: Open Sesame

If you really think about it, the video is heaven for poppers and hell for nonpoppers given how many prints perished in the chaos of the girls' game.

I'm realising we've already had two blue videos and the next update will also be blue. In a way. Whoops! Maybe I can make it more white than blue.

Anyway, this was a pretty normal masspop affair, nothing crazy, no frills (hah!). Just t...

No update? Secret update!

I mean you can hardly call it secret when it's on two donation sites but you get what I mean.

No c4s update this week since I'm taking some time off but here's something supremely special: an actual unreleased video. Not even cut footage, a whole clip. It was meant to be for c4s when we filmed, then I downgraded it to YT material because I didn't like it much and then I thought it wasn't ...

Twitter/X account suspended

Yeah.

Right before my birthday, too. Great present, I love it when they kick me when I'm down. My art account is gone too. I want to die. But I won't. 

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Remubun

What if Rem was sexygirl? Wait, I've looked at the 50 figurines she has. Rem is already sexygirl. We're good.

Like I mentioned before, my perfect plan made in August has been ruined. Had to scramble and come up with something. The original idea for this week's upload involved a nonpop video so... here's a nonpop video!

Carnelian already had the Rem wig ready and waiting; the bunny s...

Lament

Someone called one of the videos 'ragebait' and I just find it soooo funny. Back in my day this was called TROLLING. Hello?! 

But yeah, it really is kind of ragebait. My original idea for this Halloween was a Fake Documentary Q style thing but with my failing health, severe lack of time and major burnout that went out the window. The plan I wrote up in August has completely fallen ap...

Center of Attention cut footage

Just a couple of bits that didn't make it in. 

I'm actually a bit unsatisfied with the colour grade in the video. They say colour grading starts with the art department and set design and it's true! There's a bit too many conflicting colours in frame and the contrast is too high too. 

Not much else to be said about the shoot aside from what's in the ending card. 

Furina 2 (out of 4)

I hope you like Furina because there's more where that came from!

The next one will have her crimson moon girlfriend and the final one the gf again and a certain Mondstadt witch.

I'm getting a little tired of complaining about there not being enough time and skilled labour so instead let's do a quick post-mission breakdown.

Good:

-The colors are great, I planned this stu...

Doppelganger

Just like the end card of the video mentions this was supposed to be a Devil Ram x Angel Rem kinda thing but we changed the idea to focus on just one model. Really lucky that Selenite had a Shadow Ann ready and waiting. The uniform was paid by me at some point, surprisingly enough. Some cosplay I "bought" gets lost or forgotten, you see.

This was one of those rare times we didn't shoot co...

Sand Again

Much like the Fugue video, this is light on crazy ideas and more about just looner satisfaction, a swimsuit girl playing with big balloons.

Nothing particularly wrong with that if you can at least make the picture look good!

There are about 3-4 rentals in the city that have sand rooms. This one offers light fixtures as well which was quite convenient. I'm still in the process of buy...

Foog B2P

A curious shoot for sure.

Decided to fully focus on the aesthetics for this one. If you've seen the video you already know I needed to rent out some extra lights to blast the lil' pool for the pretty water caustics. Otherwise the set design carries this pretty hard; I will say wet balloons + feet was a great idea though. 

Renting the extra lights was easier than usual because t...

My Big Pony

We are incredibly lucky to have fans who donate stuff to us. One such fan is exceptionally generous: so far they've sent us I think 6 or 7? big animal inflatables, as well as beachballs and even plasticizer which I'm very stoked to try. I've always wanted a Luna and especially the shiny version but these things are really pricy. Worse yet, Celestine wanted one as well but a different model! Ima...

The Blue Gentleman

A much awaited Furina video.

My initial plan for it was to make it a 7 or so minute oner with balloons and props changing and being added off-frame while we'd be shooting in one corner of the room; finish up and move onto the next setpiece, all without any cuts. Unfortunately it didn't pan out due to scheduling and later on the best rental had the windows be boarded up beacause of constru...

EGL/JSF/B2P+surprise

It's pretty annoying not being able to use the word 'lolita' in c4s descriptions (for fear of compliance misunderstanding) but yeah, here are two lolita coordinates. These are my clothes: I used to be in the local comm and it was a great time but then COVID messed things up for everyone. Unsurprisingly.

Initial plan for this was to shoot on location in the countryside; a picturesque cotta...

Bnuy

There a lot of millennial 'how's it going fellow zoomers' in the way I approach the studio and its social media. Believe it or not that stuff is very genuine. I do find chicken jokey funny, I have watched like 40 episodes of skibidi toilet, I will make incomprehensible references to pimpy son OPP in my daily life. Sadly, this doesn't really fly in the predominantly boomer and gen X looner commu...

Tatsubouncing (back)

It's been a rough week or two, 30+ degree weather, health problems, a shoot that came out so different to how I wanted it that I just put the thing in long-time storage, bad sales in July... I needed a dubbie. Just one. Gimme the dub. And oh wow, here it is!

The swimsuit is very revealing but hopefully it'll make people buy the video more. It has beachball ripping, it has beachball sitpop...

Marin Kitagawa is Not a Reader

Another one of those 'scheduled in a massive rush' videos which are becoming a staple unfortunately. Hence why it's light on story setup and such. 

Celestine requested we shoot outside because of heat. Understandable. A couple of nice terraces are available for rent, you can read the history of this particular area at the end of the video. The wind was merciful and we only lost I thi...

Surprise Selenite ball

Surprise! It's a yoga ball!

Selenite bought it to take photos and videos for her Fansly I believe and she generously shared some with me. It's not balloons but it certainly is inflatables. She managed to capture all of that right before the Dia x Eli blow to pop, just in the corner of the room while I was setting up. Impressive as always! I really think we should use this ball in a full v...

Weathernews Popping

An idea that's been in me noggin for a long time.

You might not be too familiar with it but Weathernews is a fairly popular YouTube channel that's all about current weather in Japan; it's running 24/7 and the hosts are all cute girls (plus lethargic male meteorologists). 

I have it on now and then in the background, it's good stuff. In the past they used quite a lot of green sc...

Loudest Hunter I'v Ever Seen

What a video!

Didn't have anything to upload, Selenite (and her 50 new cosplays) is away on a business trip, Carnelian was busy too. Figured out we could do a sawarineko vid somewhere I'm very familiar with: a big, pompous housing estate with limited access courtyards. 

It started off on a bad note: the place was very windy because of how the buildings are positioned; air rushi...

Wall Slam

This idea has been on the backburner for a while; I'd say at least a year. Many ways to shoot it, many characters that could fit but I decided now was the time: Aqours just graduated and also I didn't have a better project lined up for the week. Trying to make peak on a weekly schedule is really killing me at this point, it's very very hard. 

I lit it a bit lame but it works; a flat ...

Countryside Ayaka

A small collection of pics and two BTS videos last week's shoot.

I've been planning this one for a while; in fact, I bought the cosplay specifically to make a video outside.

Carnelian and I actually have an agreement to schedule shoots at least 7 days in advance but considering the dependency on weather she let this one slide. I literally messaged her like 'SORRY SUNNY WEATHER TOMOR...

Racing with no finish line

Racing Takao!

A video showcasing use of a number of prints done for us by a long time friend of the studio. The prints themselves belong to another ancient fan, yak_3m. While they probably weren't the first ever Japanese fan of mine (it'd be impossible to say who that was) they for sure were the first one to contact me and compliment me on my work. On Facebook! Yes, that really was a long...

360 masspop

It went better than expected!

The idea with a small room filled with balloons started out as an action cam thing but then I switched to remote controlling our regular A7Siii on a gimbal from the next room over. Unfortunately the latest Sony firmware broke compatibility with the DJI Raveneye and I found that out 20 minutes before the shoot at a gear rental. Bugger! Switched back to the 360...

An off week

This weekend is the date for a very big cosplay event in St. Petersburg: Epic Con. All three of the girls are going with the intention of competing so... we simply couldn't shoot anything new, everyone but me is busy with preparations.

We did have some extra footage from the GwenPOOL (not spider gwen!) filming; unfortunately that footage only amounts to like a, 2.5 min clip. I will of cou...

Kako x Hanekawa

A great idea by one of our biggest donation givers. Hard to say no to something like this. Hongyi toys often look goofy but they sure aren't cheap despite that!

I've been trying to deepen my understanding of lighting and the results aren't half bad. This one looks pretty darn amazing and all it took is a little planning, luck with weather (having the sun basting the windows was a key comp...

Bully Back

A complicated shoot all around but we managed, thankfully. A good example of preparation working out. I did a lot of thinking and planning beforehand on how to set up everything including the hoses and plugging those hoses.

Couldn't get Celestine inside the balloon in one go so we just a hose inside her balloon and waited for it to fill up again, taking pictures. Hilarious stuff (for ever...

Gwenpool B2P

As promised, the third post for this month, right before it ends.

Despite the hose tech this was still very very hard for Selenite because I had to put a very small nozzle piece at the other end of the thing to accommodate for a third, tiny balloon inside the yellow one. Big surprise: that balloon got untied from the nozzle so it was all for naught anyway. The other end of the hose was su...

Found cut footage

April continues to be messy.

Soooo yeah. I made a vid from the Nero post into a c4s upload. It's almost the exact same thing: slightly different grade plus a very very short intro+outro. You can grab it if you want to help the studio recover its ratings a little bit (it's just $3) as the previous B2P was not particularly popular and of course we skipped one upload earlier in the month.&nb...

Erotic balloons with Celestine

Very messy month, April. I took a week off, then we shot the cooking show thing which didn't have any backstage pics, then I couldn't come up with anything good for the next two weeks until this idea came about. There's a slight narrative element in the clip to make it not complete slop and of course, the print also helps it stand out. It's just one print in a lineup donated by Nocreatureswereh...

Naboobnik

What's a 'naboobnik'? It's a word Selenite and I used for this costume... outfit... thing. 'That which goes over the boobs' is what it literally means; should be pretty obvious why we call it that. Selenite wore panties that did not come with the set because they were basically a g-string with a big heart-shaped cut in the front part. Yikes! We're trying to keep it tasteful here, Jerry!

T...