Summer ChangSenior Product Designer | Mobile & iOS Products, Independent Consultant · Senior Product Designer | SaaS · Onboarding, Navigation, Checkout/Booking | iOS, Web, Voice Agents

50 days of learning Japanese on Duolingo and I'm loving it! Lily is definitely my favorite character

12 Mar 2025 · 3 min

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In this short YouTube segment, Summer Chang shares that she has been studying Japanese on Duolingo for 50 consecutive days. She then shifts focus to a character named Lily, describing Lily’s personality (annoying, avoids strangers) and her own curiosity about animating her. Summer walks through a rapid Illustrator workflow: outlining Lily’s silhouette with line work, separating elements by color, mirroring eye shapes, shaping the mouth and hair, and using a limited four‑color palette to fill the illustration. She demonstrates eye and mouth movements, hair motion, and the final animated result. Speaker B briefly interjects, offering to provide relevant keywords, but no specific keywords are listed in the transcript.

I've been learning Duolingo for 50 days for Japanese.
In case you care, here are some keywords you should know.
Lily is really annoying. She doesn't talk to strangers. And then I'm curious how I can animate Lily. So I went into Illustrator, outlined Lily. So just using line work, it's actually pretty simple. I spent less than 20 minutes to figure out the silhouette and separate by color. So you can see like the eye, the eye movement, the mouth is changing, her hair is moving. So Yeah, the nose is water drop shape, kind of funny. So I just mirror the, the other side of eye. The shape for the hair. So think of— about the shapes of the collar. So I'm quickly outlining the collar shape of Lily's body. Then I fill in with color. I have a reference on the right, so I use the color drop tool. But you can tell here is only 4 colors in Lady's illustration. I reflected the eye. Here are different movements of Lady's mouth, the eye movement. So you can see the final result here.