iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kai @kaiclavier.com · 28/09/2026

Just submitted my entry for #FallingBlockJam! It's a bit rough around the edges, but at least you can make this guy move around. kaiclavier.itch.io/soup-or-tech...

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 24/09/2026

The windbreaker I designed with @labirhin.art is out! I also made some fun promo art for it. shop.labirhin.com/products/jay... #MauMakanApa

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 31/08/2026

I Love Updating My Web Site!! (A certain yellow cat has taken over a lot of my recent published work... Whatever) There's a full "Links" page now, which has a bunch of tools and resources I've gathered over the years, and will keep updating.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 28/08/2026

the moon is this rn btw

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 29/06/2026

Here's some of my revised poses! Plus a bonus grease pencil doodle for all the fightover fans in chat. (Jamal does a frontflip for the kick now, too!)

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 08/06/2026

The glasses, necklace, earrings, and claws on the model I made all use a matcap texture of surface normals for their colour! I uploaded this strangely-hard-to-find matcap texture and a tutorial on how to render it yourself in Blender as the first post on my new blog! kaiclavier.com/blog/posts/2...

Close-up of the glasses on my VRchat model.

The elusive surface normal matcap texture.

Scene and shader setup from the tutorial.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 07/06/2026

Made an avatar of my sona in #Labirhin 's style just in time for Furality! Got some selfies with other members of Mau Makan Apa's voice cast at the con, too~!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 02/06/2026

I made a model of Kertas from the #Labirhin film PERMEN KEPINTARAN (Cleverness Candy), then rigged it for VRChat! The original model and any reference images were lost, so I recreated everything based on what's seen in the film, including textures and expressions. It was a really fun challenge!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 07/05/2026

No Star Fox game can hope to live up to Star Fox Assault Mission 7 so maybe it's Fine

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 12/04/2026

Forgot to share this, but I did a bit of an overhaul to my website! Trying to keep it feeling web 1.0 but with some modern CSS... Hoping to keep updating it while keeping it more fun and causal than the previous one! kaiclavier.com

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 29/03/2026

I'm the voice of KS1-Jamal in Mau Makan Apa?'s English dub! You're only gonna hear me go "HYAH!" and "WHUH?" and "WOOOAAAOOAAAHH!" in this episode, but thaaaaat's me!

credits for episode 3 of "Mau Makan Apa?"

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 03/02/2026

I initially wasn't going to post this ever, but the timing seems right... (January 20, 2019)

3 hands flipping off the adobe building, which is in the distance from a rooftop balcony.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 23/12/2025

Drew @chipsgowoah.bsky.social's boys like a year ago and forgot to post it oops

Gray (left) and Lucky (right) sleeping on a train with a pizza that's fallen out of its box

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 17/12/2025

The Unity Asset Store's New Year Sale is on!! Super Text Mesh is 50% off for this period, so if you're using Unity... Well, I'd say it's an essential at this point! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... (Affiliate link btw... It's my asset, may as well!!)

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 13/11/2025

Some additions to the new update! That <<FIRSTTRUE>> tag makes text follow the first link that evaluates to "True" just like empty passages did previously, except now you don't need an empty passage to do it! That teal banner appears on the passage when this is set up. <<RANDOM>> is also an option!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 11/11/2025

I should probably do a style revisit on Fleece but I think it's really funny I just used a photo of a real-world folder for the folders

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 16/10/2025

Here's some more pictures! They've got a little backpack that's removable and can actually open up! It's perfect for holding extra parts like the different mouths, and the sword & shield can attach to it, too!

From behind! The backpack has an extra loop on it for holding the sword & shield.

The sword & shield attached to the backpack.

The sword, shield, and backpack on the ground in front of the plush.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 15/10/2025

Take a look at this amazing plush of my adventurer cat, made by @plushiluv.bsky.social!! They're poseable, have customizable expressions, can hold/wear props, stand on their own, and they're only around 10" tall!! Truly a feat of plush engineering, thank you so much!!

Adventurer Cat plush!! Standing on their own holding a sword and shield.

Dozing off in a forest, dreaming of adventure...

Bracing for battle with an imposing foe!!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 25/09/2025

Forgot to share this, I got to do tiles for a friend's Falling Block Jam game! Presenting: City Stacker! It's a casual daily game about building a small city, designed to be played with friends! See who can get a higher score! late-nine.itch.io/city-stacker

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 21/09/2025

So does Godot just not let you work with really large tilemaps or did I just spend the last few months trusting that this system would hold up as I add more pixels. Also the terrain painting tool does Not scale lol. Also it crashes as I change values.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 21/08/2025

Ok, the Super Text Mesh update is done! The multiline best fit mode is out of beta and editor performance is really smooth now!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 18/08/2025

Forgot to share this from last month, I finally got around to doing another paw shoe mod! Ok, maybe calling it a "mod" is a stretch, but it's a lot more solid than it looks!

Pair of red mid-top shoes modified with a pawpad motif.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 26/07/2025

The game "gets it" in many other ways of course but this scene was just so highly specific to me in particular lol. So the impact UNDERTALE had on me is that I somehow felt seen and validated in a way I never even knew was important to me at that time.

Undyne starts dating Alphys in the exact same way I started dating my now-husband. By dunking him through a basketball hoop into a trash can. The game just got it.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 03/07/2025

That's not even the right pokemon... Was just thinking about how google translate could absolutely do this for pokemon a year or two ago but suddenly started just getting stuff incredibly wrong lol. Like it gets Zapdos right, but the other bird legendaries return as phonetic translations?

Google Translate incorrectly translating "Incineroar" as "インテレオン" (Inteleon), a completely different Pokemon, from English to Japanese. (Correct translation is "ガオガエン" (Gaogaen))

Google Translate correctly translating "Zapdos" as "サンダー" (Thunder) from English to Japanese

Google Translate incorrectly translating "Articuno" as "アーティキュノ" (Articuno) from English to Japanese (The correct translation is "フリーザー" (Freezer))

Google Translate incorrectly translating "Moltres" as "モルトレス" (Moltres) from English to Japanese. (The correct translation is "ファイヤー" (Fire))

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 22/05/2025

Cobalt Core Soundtrack Vinyl arrived yesterday! It's wild having physical merch of friends' games on my shelves!

Plush of Riggs from Cobalt Core sitting on a Sound Burder (portable record player) with the Cobalt Core soundtrack on vinyl and a LEGO record player.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 27/03/2025

The changelog for Super Text Mesh v1.14.0 barely fits on my screen... and I've got a big screen!! I'm still on the fence if I should just name this v2.0 or not, but I feel I need a bit more to justify that... Plus, since I'm not planning on retiring v1 anyway, I guess I shouldn't worry abt that

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 24/03/2025

Was thinking about why I haven't published my AudioClipPreviewPropertyDrawer script for Unity as a free asset store asset yet, and remembered it's because like 100% of the source code is stuff from stackoverflow hacked together, credited in the file lol: pastebin.com/swB8NFJ3

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 19/03/2025

This next STM update adds effect previews!! So making custom waves, draw animations, gradients, etc, is just *so* much easier, now. You can also pop out the effect editor as a separate window!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 25/02/2025

Added an option to render outlines and dropshadow at the *same time* to Super Text Mesh's Ultra shader! Unlike the old implementation, this also supports dropshadows sized up to match the outline's size if desired. Additionally, textured outlines and dropshadows are working just fine!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 03/02/2025

btw I had a great time in New Zealand!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 15/01/2025

Oh yeah I told myself I'd share more about what I've been doing irl again... I'm on vacation in New Zealand right now!

photos can't capture just how green this landscape is... the lake was beautiful!

A geothermal pool... I want to boil an egg in there

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 13/12/2024

Pretty solid game awards apart from the AI-generated cat game sneaking in there and, well I mean how it's still just a big ad, but not *quiiiite* as blatant as prior years? The Okami sequel is something to really look forward to! Also I had Our Drawings playing in the corner for the entire duration

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 03/12/2024

I love the soundburger, but since it has such a small turntable, slightly warped disks that would spin just fine on any other player end up doing this. If you think classical sounds bad, try guitar solos...

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 26/11/2024

maybe it was all a dream

Album art for "Brasilian Skies" by Masayoshi Takanaka with him and the title removed. Image credit: @monochromemutt.bsky.social

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 25/11/2024

I think I may have just figured out why

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 11/11/2024

Still thinking about how good Working Buddies (and it's manga) was. I don't think I ever shared this, but I got my issues of the manga autographed by the illustrator when I went to Japan! I'm so grateful for all the crazy things that lined up on that trip.

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 27/10/2024

I recently got one of those sunrise alarm clocks, and while I wish it let me set custom alarm sounds (I've got .mp3s, guys...) it DOES come with these beautiful included sounds:

A pair of hands are playing the piano. The title read "Paino".

A bird sits upon it's perch. The title reads "Brid".

A beautiful stream. The caption reads "Steam".

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 24/05/2024

don't talk to me or my son ever again

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 03/04/2024

Super Text Mesh is on sale for $20 right now: assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... kaiclavier.itch.io/super-text-m...

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 10/02/2024

I love this commission of Mezz I got from @powkoishi.bsky.social!!

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 07/12/2023

I still have the fan art I drew of em waaaay back in 2017! I should redraw this, too...

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 07/12/2023

The Ronin's quick-draw technique cuts through colour itself!! 🎨: @yamainuken.bsky.social I love this commission so much, I printed and framed it... someday I'll get it on real washi paper, but it looks great on linen~! まだありがとうございます、山戌軒さん！

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 06/12/2023

Really cool of the Asset Store to not actually put STM on the flash deals page while it's part of the flash deal. Also I was promised 24 hours but it looks like the entire sale had 12 hours left...? it'll be over by morning...?

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Kai @kaiclavier.com · 06/12/2023

It's finally here... the ULTRA SHADER asset store: assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... itch: kaiclavier.itch.io/super-text-m...

Outlines & Dropshadows now work in URP and HDRP!

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