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Swirlix and Pokemon legends ZA fan animation. A movie about how my Swirlix Chouquette joined my team. My first video with a proper plot, and a place to pour out all my Chouquette obsession. Since I’m new to making animated videos, this is an experiment to see if my comic-making skills can translate well into making a movie.
Currently updated live on Rhyme’s YouTube Channel.
Swirlix Fan Animation – Chouquette the Little Swirlix
Created on 23 Apr 2026, completed on ____ 2026.
? minutes / K / Adventure, Friendship, Family
Synopsis
Chouquette is a newborn but brave little Swirlix. Moving to Lumiose City with his family to start a new life there, he’s unfortunately separated from his parents. As Chouquette searches for them, he runs into Team Rhyme. They look for his family together while facing the problems surrounding the city’s newly implemented Wild Zones.
Related Works
- Team Rhyme – Origins (video): Pokemon Unite game cutscene style video about how each Pokemon joined Team Rhyme.
Artist’s Notes
My first video with a proper story structure and plot. Since I came from comics, I want to see if it’s possible to translate my comic skills into a movie format, how long it’ll take, and how well it does. I’m also obsessed with Chouquette, so it’s a nice chance to pour out all my imagination about him. Will do my best and hope you enjoy the squishies!♥
Trivia
- Chouquette is named after a French pastry of the same name. They’re small choux pastries with pearl sugar on top.
- EP1: In Pokemon X, Swirlix can be caught in the wild in Kalos’ Route 7. Route 7 is the longest road in Kalos, stretching along the banks of a river with many yellow, purple, pink and white flower fields.
- All the Lumiose City backgrounds are from Pokemon Legends Z-A.
- EP2: The food court where Rhyme met Chouquette is located next to Quasartico Inc.’s building in Lumiose City. While I didn’t actually catch Chouquette here, I caught him in the same district (Magenta District).
- EP2: Ruka having a lot of sugar in his coffee is a reference to this video from ‘Team Rhyme Shenanigans’.
- EP2: I originally wanted a Slurpuff, but Chouquette showed me the cuteness of a Swirlix, so I decided to keep him that way.
- EP3: The Pokedex Rhyme is holding in EP3 is Kalos’ Pokedex.
- Swirlix’s Pokedex entries talk about them spitting out sugary threads, and String Shot is one of their signature moves. So I derived that its a reference to the creation cotton candies, as they’re made by twirling sugary strings onto a stick.
- EP3: ‘Atelier Tenko’ is the name I use when making original works, while ‘Atelier Rhyme’ is for fanworks. Rhyme was originally an OC before he became my gaming avatar. I hope I can share Rhyme’s original story one day!
- EP3: Nini and Happy are best friends, so they stick together a lot.
- Aside from the Lumiose Galettes, cupcakes and donut, all the cakes appearing in this story are traditional French cakes.
- EP4: The money appearing in EP4 is the amount I had in Pokemon Legends ZA when I was making this story.
KAWAII! Chouquette It’s so cute! But the ending… Just the way I like it! Right in the middle of the action! I’m excited to see what happens next. Keep it up, Rhyme!
Thank you always, AJ! Action scenes coming up in the next episode. Will do my best! 🔥🔥🔥
I just watched it! Aww it was so cute. And wow now I understand the delay- I can really see how much effort you put into it. It was so detailed. Chouquette is sooo cute. Excited to see more!
Thank you always for the support, Livi! I’m really pushing the bar up and the next episode will have even more animations XD
Will do my best! 🔥🔥🔥✨
GOD, RHYME YOU GET SO MUCH BETTER IN ANIMATION, that action escene… the details, so smooth and cute… I really love it!!
Take your time while you’re animating, I already know how hard is it, don’t force yourself, I’ll would be worried if you had an artist block
(And that is why I only draw and the most I do is comics, I’m pretty lazy)
Thank you always, Adhara!🥰🥰🥰
I’m sure it can still be much better if I keep at it. I found that unlike slow dialogue scenes, action scenes kind of die if I use still images XDD
(just noticed that I had the username Adhara… damn I’m doxing myself…)
Your animations are so cool and good, I guess that it take a lot of time, I remember my first animation… about warrior cats, it wasn’t good but yours… yours is absol-ute cinema, that explain why you are so talented.
(sorry for asking but… can you give me any tips for the comic? 1 week and I only have 2 pages… how a shame T-T this is so haaaaard)
(Cute. I think it’s a pretty name though. I’ll call you Zepht from now, then XD)
Aww, thank you always! It does take a lot of time, so I’m happy if they can make people happy and are appreciated.
And I think it’s awesome that you tried, no matter the quality ^^
For comics, you can increase speed by fixing you process, I think 👀
Finishing it page by page is fun, but kind of slow. You can do this instead if you haven’t:
PREPARATIONS:
1) Write the whole plot of the story in text. If it looks too long to draw, keep shortening and summarizing until it looks manageable.
2) Write the script (ALL the dialogues) in text format.
3) Decide your maximum page count (Make sure that it’s a number your current self can realistically finish. Like 3-10. Don’t suddenly go 20-100 pages on your first try XDD. Having no max page count and no deadline is usually the main cause of it never finishing.)
FINAL WORK:
4) Make the storyboard for ALL the pages in one go (Stick figures are ok. Decide all the paneling and write all your dialogues in the comic for all pages. If it bleeds past the max page count you decided, summarize and delete unnecessary scenes/dialogues until it fits.)
Once you have the storyboard, you’ll never get lost again and you just have to autopilot until you finish.
5) Make the rough sketch for all the pages in one go.
6) Lineart for all pages in one go.
7) All the colours in one go if you’re colouring.
8) Done✨
Hope it helps XD
(P.S. I kept forgetting to tell you I go your mail! Will open it at the end of this month as it said. Thanks! 😻✨)
Thanks Rhyme!! I only have the whole story in my mind just all the others (just the pokemon ones are in paper XD) but I really don’t know how to end it… can I use you avatar Rhyme (Rhyme is an avatar right? or an OC? I really don’t get it… Zepht is an avatar but many people thinks that is one of my OCs heh) and… maybe… Echo? they don’t apear so much, just for a good ending
And about the pages, thanks for saying that I need to make the sketch of all of them, I was making one complete and then I pass with another, I wasn’t sure about doing all and then fix them… Thank you so much!!
Ooh! Zepht being an avatar is so cool! I’m looking forward to seeing him 😻✨
Rhyme started out as an OC and I always use him whenever I play games and make fanart, so my gaming friends all call me Rhyme.
As a result, he accidentally became my avatar and inherited lots of my actual personality. I think he’s a bit of both. Me but not me at the same time XD
You can use any of my OCs anywhere anytime without permission♥
For the ending, you can list down multiple ideas in text so your ideas become clearer, and then pick the best one.
Hope you find one you like ^^
Yup, Zepht is an avatar because he has all of my traumas… all of them…
Anyways, I love the concept in Rhyme being half avatar-OC
You won’t believe this, I’m almost in master rank, I’m ultra rank, class 1, you’re my lucky amulet I swear!! I never was that close I’m so, so happy
Curious how you’ll portray Zepht now. Good luck🥰✨
And congrats for reaching Ultra 1! May you reach Master quickly and safely!
AHAHAHAHAHA! So Kawaii!
In the end, it’s so kawaii! They were only separated at the beginning, and Chouquette tries to play with the Paper- Swirlix. Simply adorable!!
I also noticed a detail: Ruka put too much sugar in his coffee again, which is hinted at in the animations of “Team Rhyme Shenanigans.” KAWAII
Thanks. And thanks for noticing Ruka 😀
HAHAHA! Ruka’s face and Eoch’s explanation were priceless! And AWWW, how sweet that everyone is taking care of Chuquett. And wow! You’re getting better and better at animation, Rhyme! Keep it up!!
Thank you always, AJ! 🙂
Uh… Tenko, I’ve been wanting to ask this for a while: Why is Rhyme wearing his original clothes now (except for his wolf tail and wolf ears, which aren’t there) and not his Pokémon Trainer clothes? (I know it’s a bit of a silly question.)
https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx_OT6_4xpDa5oTCKy6Db7ZUgqkY3hEWib
Aaaa, okay. I get it now. But the Z-A wiesion was cute.
Rhyme… I do it
I REACH MASTER RANK USING ZERAORA WITH YOUR BUILD
All of those years finally FINALLY
It’s a shame that my real dream can’t be true but it’s pretty close to it (being a gold ribbon zeraora and reach master rank to fight by your side)
Thank you for inspiring me and helping me to believe in myself, I was starting to think that using your build wasn’t a good idea, but my purpose was reaching master rank just using your build and I made it 😀
Zepht!! CONGRATS!!
I’m happy that you managed since I heard that the situation and power imbalance have been continuously turning worse in Unite ;-;
Awesome thing that your hard work paid off and you made it till the end. Certainly get yourself a treat or a nice meal to celebrate 🥰✨
I would like it, but it’s so late here in my pretty México, tomorrow I’ll celebrate it 😀
Yup, everything is worse in unite but I work better on chaos, mega evolutions are demons I can’t with them, and the three legendary birds… Arceus help me-
But I do my best and I can made it!!
Okay I know this isn’t meant for me at all but DANG that’s impressive! I tried my hand at unite and I sucked – that game is so hard. You deserve that win. Good job! 🙂
aweeeeee thanks Livi!! if you wanna play we can play together!! I’ll protect you being a zeraora so you can win a lot of matches 😀
YES! I’m finally playing Pokémon Unite!!! I started today! And I think I’ll get a Zeraora very soon! Please wish me luck!!!!
ZEPHT & Livi: I hope we can battle together (maybe we’ll even be on the same team!!)! And Zepht, I’m so happy for you that you’re at the Zeraora Master Rank. I hope I can reach Master Rank too.
PS: In the game, my name is AJ-Chang because it only worked with “AJ”.
AWWWWW (^W^)
Rhyme, that was the sweetest and funniest idea ever. But Echo is right, you’d attract more Ruka’s or me (I love sweet things just as much!).
That’s so cute! I love sweets too, so it’s interesting that we both love sweets and want to sing🤣
It’s also interesting that I live next to France. I mean, I live in Switzerland, not in France. But France is next to Switzerland.
That’s quite a Kawaii coincidence (or rather, fate).
Wait a minute… now I remember: Ruka is a Lucario, right? He can use Aura to find the Swirlix-family (FYI: In German we say “Flauschling”)! Or not?