I launched 2 new Brand Channels on YouTube. It was a major goal of mine, and both Channels are up. The content will come in on those channels whenever I get to them. They're both a side project. I had to make 2 channels because altho both are intended relaxation content, the content is quite different from each other. And, altho' both are NON-NARRATIVE video media content, persons whom like 1 type of content might not like the other. Both are intended as background listening, meditative or relaxation content, and BOTH just clash with the content on my main channel.
The first Brand is called "Oppressed By Purple" and it's main mascot is a spoiled, pampered, lazy tuxedo cat named Lila. She's the both the Mascot, and the Logo for the brand. She primed the audience to know that this is something you relax to. It's also sort of funny and cheeky.
I like the name, because its weird. If you are familiar with brands like Urban Decay or Liquid Death they poke fun at a seemingly creepy or scary sounding phrase but having the opposite meaning. Both are intended to by high end products which use creepy sounding names... in effect, it evokes this idea that "I SHOULDN'T WANT THIS....BUT I DO!!!!!"
Also, think of Michael Jackson's "BAD". Beacuse... "bad" is "good".... I dunno... its was an 80s thing... Wicked, huh?
The content itself is rather basic. In Oppressed By Purple, its mostly static shots or B-Roll of a setting or environment. It's ASMR content, with background sounds, or nature sounds, or sounds of an environment.
The other Brand is called "Oppressed By Violet". This brand is a LoFi MUSIC Motion Graphics style of content. Both this brand, and the other brand, are BOTH SECULAR and NEITHER push ANY kinds of religious ideologies onto the viewers. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE a personal preference for spirituality YOU CAN bring it WITH YOU and enjoy the content regardless of whatever it is, however, no one overtly needs any religion, spirituality, nor ideology to enjoy the content at all, whatsoever. You will NEVER be pushed into ANYTHING you don't want. You could even be an atheist and still enjoy it. It has no real agenda. It's intended (both) as background content that one plays merely to ignore it on the conscious level. It's pretty at first, if you want to watch it, but you don;t need to be fully engaged for the entire video. You can just leave it on as background sounds, and be very passive with it. Its value is that its intentionally unimportant other than to relax the audience as they do something else, like studying, office work, or whatever. Or, even meditation.
You are NOT pushed to buy anything either. Think of it as a gift, or a kind gesture to other people. You only get whatever you want out of it.
Oppressed By Violet also features Lila the tuxedo cat on another chaise lounge, but this time she is an Anthro Cat Girl... or "Furry". I'm NOT ashamed that I like Furries. I think they're cute. Altho I attempted to keep both pieces as more minimal and "cartoonish" or simplified, they both expressed themselves in their own ways, and ended up slightly more realistic than I'd intended. I wanted to go with sort of a Bugs Bunny meets American Comic Books sort of style, like Marvel or DC.... but that didn't happen... Anyways, it's pretty stylized that it's not quite realism.
I will say this tho: I USED VARIOUS KINDS OF SOFTWARE FOR BOTH OF THESE.
I used:
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Krita
Clip Studio Paint
Adobe After Effects CC
I also downloaded Autodesk Sketchbook.... but I need to practice with that a little, because I wasn;t sure how to apply it to this project yet....
I thought I would list some of my influences for my references here:
Jezebel: Guide To Spoiled Rotten Pets
We Love Cats: Cats That Have No Idea They're Spoiled
Bored Panda: 62 Spoiled Cat That Live Better Than You
Also, if you type in "Spoiled Cat", "Pampered Cat, and "Lazy Cat" into a search engine like DuckDuckGo and various others like Google, you could find similar stuff. I researched all the ones I could think of, and also "tuxedo cat". You can get a feel for what I was referencing. I SO ENJOYED researching this cat stuff because I find cats to be SO FUNNY! Also very cute! I cracked up so frequently while researching for this stuff.
Here's some of the artists' artworks I also referenced:
I actually started my research on this back in July/August, because I was really starting to conceptualize my work/projects for this stuff for even longer than that. I had a few bumps in my road tho. I was expecting to be done this stuff in September, but when I had to do my Furry Anthro Cat Girl version that I found I ran into a bit of an art block... It was pretty bad. I had very bad anxiety also, and insomnia. But, once my friend, Hope, started chatting with me for a lil' while, it budged me forward.
Here's the basic Intro/Outro Graphics for Oppressed By Purple:
Here it is for Oppressed By Violet:
The general content of Oppressed By Purple is like THIS:
The General Content of Oppressed By Violet is like THIS:
That's basically the gist of it...
It's nothing ultra exciting. It's RELAXING...
