During a recent stream, twitch streamer Dave Ashby, aka DaveLiquidlizard, decided to bring a Drifloon to life. In a short video of kids playing in a park, Ashby animated a Drifloon grabbing a small boy with its stringy arms and carrying it away.
@daveliquidlizard Pokedex: children holding Driftloon vanish. Beware this Halloween kids! #drifloon #pokemon #pokemongo #ghost #3d #ar #animation #funny
Drifloon is a Pokémon that has a spherical, purple body with two stringy arms that have yellow, heart-shaped hands on the ends of them.
Ashby loves making Pokemon animations like this as he stated; “I like to make fun of the fact that they’re putting things in the lore of the actual series that you’d never see,” Ashby says. “Blowing out the tail flame of a Charmander will kill it, and I showed that.”
Dave Ashby is a freelance animator and Twitch streamer who enjoys making augmented reality videos. His most famous animations imagine how Pokemon would appear and behave in real life, similar to the built-in AR function in Pokemon GO. Of course, because Ashby’s animations are entirely hand-crafted for each film, he has a lot more options.
Ashby’s Instagram page is full of short Pokemon AR videos. One of the most popular videos features a Leafeon doing yoga poses with its trainer. Another shows a family of Ducklett swimming in a pod with real ducks. His work often shows Pokemon living in their natural environments – like a moss-covered Onyx camouflaged next to a rock – but they can also show Ashby’s sense of humor, like a child-knapping Drifloon or a Machoke playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
Ashby chooses his projects depending on his personal interests, the video he has access to, and the current significant Pokemon trends.
Ashby also has his own original characters, a trio of dragons named Razor, Lynks, and Cynder who star in many of his AR videos. The dragon’s were Ashby’s first characters long before he started animating Pokemon, and he’s currently planning a longer, Pixel-style short film featuring them.
DaveLiquidlizard streams on Twitch three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. Fans can check out his 3D animation stream every Tuesday and he also streams community games and long plays on Thursday and Sunday as he’s currently playing Dead Space 2.