BN stands for Beatmap Noffinator QAT stands for Quality Assuring Toffee BN stands for Beatmap Noffinoffenator NAT stands for Noffy Appreciates Toffee BN stands for Beatmap Noffernomnominator I'm just Noffy now
My icon will be Santa Len or very similar images of Kagamine Len in christmas themed winter wear until I map and rank a set of the song linked above. I have been using Santa Len icons since May 4th 2017, and non-stop on osu since August 29th 2017. (There were two non-Santa Len related collabs during those first few months, so it hasn't been constant the entire time.) I've been distracted by working on other songs from the PutinP series, but I'll do it eventually :p
So far I've used 23 different icons relating to this.
Edit October 13 2018: actually you know what I think santa len is my aesthetic now, probably gonna keep this up for a long time w
Edit March 27 2024: holy cow i should still map that song
About Me Hi there, I'm Noffy! Your local vtuber, storyboarder, mapper, modder, metadata extraordinaire, and hopeful artist! You can check out my maps on this page, random stuff on my twitter or tune into my streams of games I like over at my twitch!
I'm a woman and die a little bit inside someone calls me "he", "him", etc. Please prevent me from dying inside and call me "she". Thank you. Stop assuming everyone online is male
I always have more to learn and improve on in mapping, modding, playing... But I'll do my best.
I really, really, really like Vocaloid, and have been following it for over 15 years! Send help!
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
This is the quote I use as my excuse for making tons of mistakes because I have no idea what I'm doing motto for trying out new things! c: Staying afraid and never at least trying to do anything will never get as far as trying to do something, failing a little, and learning a little. That's why I'll always do my best to step forward even though I'm a coward. It does make me wonder if the quote is reversed if it would still be true. Since I make tons of mistakes, does that mean I'm trying new things? Or am I just dumb. Who knooows.
"It's sometimes better and easier to start over than try to fix something, and it will often end up better as a result because you can put everything you have learned to full use." -My Digital Effects and Animation teacher
a.k.a. don't be afraid to remap! don't limit yourself by working between the mistakes you have made! remapping may be faster to get the results you want! he didn't say it about mapping particularly but I think that's ok.
My works are made through a chaos mix of GIMP, Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and hand drawing to make assets, and notepad++ for scripting. For notepad++ I use a custom user defined language for highlighting the kinds of commands, using the same color scheme as the in-game editor. You can download my theme here https://noff.s-ul.eu/2nAulauF and use it yourself in notepad++ if you would like to as well.
Don't ask me about coding for storyboard stuff, I don't know how to code. I'm sorry! I'm stubborn and enjoy doing it by scripting directly too much. Coding just confuses me >_<. Anything else I'm always open to give opinions or advice on when it comes to storyboarding though.
Relevant years will include MCA top 5 placements for posterity, since older years didn't badge category winners or full top 3 for grand.
- This list doesn't include SBs that are only names for collabs - If the "Artist - Title" link is bold that means the map is ranked. - The stars below are my personal rating system.
★✰✰ = Storyboards/videos which are very minor or minimal. Usually done to add just a little bit more of a touch to the map~. ★★✰ = Average, most of my works are here. I'm proud of them and think they're cool, but they're not the best I can do. ★★★ = Storyboards/videos I'm super mega proud of and consider my best work. If you want to see my capabilities, just look at those.
2024 ★★✰ Kabocha feat. Aitsuki Nakuru - Dear The Night I Loved - I LOVE JAZZ!! Lyrics storyboard with a stylish flair, carried by Polytetral's amazing design! ★★✰ Supa7onyz feat. 5-let - Les Cadences Magiques - A simple and stylish storyboard for the osu!mania 4K World Cup 2024, as well as Supa7onyz's FA announcement song. The song is a banger! ★★★ SOOOO - illloved (osu! Edit) - A collaboration with melon boy for the osu!catch World Cup 2024. I'm very grateful to be able to make an all-original storyboard for a new original by an artist I love so much. We put a lot of work into making everything really intense and fitting to the song, I hope you can check it out! ★★★ ABSOLUTE CASTAWAY - step by step - I had the honor of making this for the osu!catch World Cup 2024! It even got uploaded as the official music video with Iyouka's intro, so be sure to check it out~ -> Official MV on YouTube! ★★✰ Fireflight - Unbreakable - It accomplished everything I wanted to do for this storyboard. Obviously, it's my best storyboard so far in 2024. Nothing can top this. Clearly.
2020 Somehow for 2020, I got voted #4 Grand Storyboarder despite being less active, thank you for remembering me c:
★★✰ Teminite feat. Jonah Hitchens - Everytime I Look Into the Sky - Sky video! Recorded and edited myself. Skyyyyy~ ★★✰ Fireflight - Unbreakable - A SAO Amv, which is my first AMV. It was made for silliness and qualified for April Fool's but I'm actually super proud of how the AMV came out! Working on this with wafer was really fun. ★★✰ THE ORAL CIGARETTES - Songs Compilation - Another Nevo compilation, another Noffy storyboard. I changed the style up for this map as something special and think it came out very well. ★✰✰ MYTH & ROID - HYDRA - A kind of slideshow storyboard with a few other effects added in. ★★✰ Teminite - Step Into the Light - An aesthetic background storyboard. Made using sbrew and a tool by Ephemeral!
2019 Several of my storyboards from 2019 were voted highly in Mapper's Choice Awards! Thank you! For myself, I was voted #3 Grand Storyboarder in MCA 2019!! Thank you!
Fallen Angel - Voted #1 best technical storyboard in MCA 2019, #6 Grand Storyboard, #3 Best Minimalistic Storyboard Hide and Seek - Voted best minimalistic storyboard in MCA 2019
★★✰ Numtack05 - Ikari - Visually simplistic, the most memorable part will probably be the kaleidoscope effect. However, the rest of the storyboard also has a lot of thought put into its simple yet gameplay enhancing aesthetic! ★★✰ Adust Rain - psychology - Started in late 2017 and finished mid 2019, this storyboard is a mix of different styles I've picked up over time. The most notable feature here is lyrics are individually styled and animated throughout. ★✰✰ Dictate - Militant - A minimalistic SB that subtly adds to the gameplay experience without being distracting! ★★★ nekodex - new beginnings - The new osu! tutorial. I rate it 3 stars because HOLY !!! IT'S THE OSU TUTORIAL!! YOOOOOO!!! (unranked but bold because it's bundled with the client) ★★★ James Landino & Kabuki - Birdsong - A SB of many skies, and birbs. ★★✰ James Landino - Hide And Seek - A cool stylistic SB mainly as a background visual instead of a standalone, I'm super proud of how cool it came out! Mentioned in Summer Spotlights 2019 ★★✰ James Landino - Reaction feat. Slyleaf - A simple and neat lyrics SB! ★★✰ CraftP - Tatakai no Doutei - I revised an existing translation of the lyrics and made SB subtitles ★★✰ Various Artists - HUNTER X HUNTER COMPILATION - A simple & cute compilation sb just like the kagerou and magi ones! ★★★ HyuN feat. JeeE - Fallen Angel - Collab with Mao! I did the ideas, he brought the more technical ones to life while I did the other parts and bits. :> ★✰✰ Numtack05 - Jama Shinaide ne* - Recreating the video as a storyboard so it can be higher res, simple slideshow.
2018 Several of my 2018 storyboards were well voted in the Mapper's Choice Awards! Thank you! I was also voted #4 Most Influential and Grand Storyboarder for 2018.
GLITCH - #2 Best Narrative, #5 Best Electronic Invasion - #5 Best Minimalistic Hoshizora Touhikou - #5 Best Doujin Teopacito - #5 Best Western
2016 ★★✰ Applause Cool color changes and flashy lights ★★★ 15 no Yoru I remade the entire video as accurately as I could ★★✰ EMOADDICT Cool color changes and then some
I'm not any good but I take pride in what I've managed to do! Trying to learn more~
Those are the ones that immediately came to mind, please tell me if you know others! I like finding cute skinners and looking at their cute map skins!!
My dream is to one day be listed on the osb.moe community page as a storyboarder, but I'm too shy to regularly talk in the discord q_q THANK YOU CLAYTON YOU MADE MY DREAM COME TRUE
My second dream is to get good enough at storyboarding that one day I can become an elite-tier storyboarder! I've given up on this dream. I spent a long time giving it everything I had, but in the end, it wasn't enough. I hit the ceiling of what I have energy for, and opportunities for that goal in particular just don't really exist.