Build a chibi

A whole tiny person grown out of one big-headed sphere. The Learn tab's graduation build.

Ambitious — Ready for a longer build 6 steps

Video coming soon — the written walkthrough below is the whole build.

Written walkthrough

The chibi is the graduation build: one sphere becomes a whole small person, and every phase gets a turn. Big head, big heart.

1. Turn on Mirror

Mirror on: arms, legs, and pigtails all come in pairs.

2. Stamp the head

One big Sphere. In chibi proportions the head is most of the character. Resist the urge to shrink it.

3. Cinch a neck

In Nudge, Slice an Across line near the sphere’s bottom, then press Thinner on the new ring a couple of times. The sphere gains a chin and the start of a neck.

4. Grow the body down

In Grow, tap the bottom of the head and press Out twice: a stubby body, properly smaller than the head.

5. Arms, legs, pigtails

All the same move, mirrored: side faces of the body → Out for arms; bottom faces → Out for legs; top-side faces of the head → Out for pigtails (or Pinch them into cat ears; no one is stopping you). Two Outs per limb makes elbows and knees if you’re feeling ambitious.

6. Skin, hair, face

Fill skin, hair, and outfit colors. Then the part that brings it alive: Paint the face. Two big eyes, a tiny mouth, maybe pink cheek dots. Chibi rules: eyes low on the face, and bigger than feels reasonable.

This is the build that turns into you, your friends, and everyone you know, and each one is fully riggable in Animate afterward.

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