This is a backdated social media escapee post. It was actually posted on December 28, 2025.
Original Bluesky Post: "Allow me to properly debut Hodela, who has been floating around the back of my head for about a year (and appeared briefly as pixel art). Finally sat down to finish up her visual details. 600 triangles, two 128px square textures (one just so I can give her a variety of faces)."
After Artfight, I wanted to make some art for me. Turns out, I struggle with that. So I went back to a pixel art character I'd briefly experimented with who was largely inspired by the meme, "Don't care, didn't ask, my boobs bounce when I walk." I tried my hand at some pixel animations for a potential little game project and, as it turns out, that is so incredibly difficult. So the idea and character were shelved until I found myself struggling to come up with a character to make in low poly for myself.
Hodela reference sheet.
I wanted to try making a full character, properly rigged for animations, and maybe something I could actually get back to Godot with. I spent forever trying to figure out a walk cycle for the first time. I gave her jiggle physics because of course she's gonna be bouncing all over the place looking like that.
Hodela walk cycle in Godot with jiggle physics.
And then I got curious about vtubing technology - not for myself, I'm simply not animated enough for that (and my eyes are not expressive enough and I need my glasses to see the computer screen and also my lighting is pretty poor). So I took Hodela to Unity and Warudo and VSeeFace and set up custom expressions and animations and stuff just to see if I could. (You can check out the results on Bluesky.)
And that's about it for her.
Hodela, laying on her stomach lifting her skirt provocatively with her high heel.
So much of Hodela was about trying something and chasing something I want to be: My honest self. There's some visual details I gave her that are personally meaningful, but the short version of it all is that I've always been fighting against the indoctrination of a puritanical upbringing, this lingering shame and guilt about... well most anything fun, interesting, or exciting in the world, but certainly anything regarding attraction or sex. Hodela is a hugely tall and massively thicc demon lady with mega boobs. She is impossible to mask as anything other than the artist's thinly veiled kinks.
She is a scream into the universe that I like boobs, and that's okay.
Hodela dancing in VSeeFace.