HIYU 🚀

@hiyu.bsky.social

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🎮 Gameplay Lead & Artist @furality.org 🎨 Avatar Creator: Spiri'vali | Spirit | Longboi → https://hiyu.art ⚕️ Received a kidney from photographotter.bsky.social 🗺 Stockholm, Sweden

A render showing two avali on the dark, cramped bridge of a spacecraft, looking out the front window to a source of bright, cool white light. Polaris is at the controls with his hand on the stick, wearing a focused expression, while Milo stands further back, staring out in (somewhat concerned) wonderment.
A screenshot from time and date dot com, on a page that shows sunrise and sunset times, among others. For 3rd July, it displays: Night: Not for this day, and Astronomical Twilight: Not for this day
VRChat World thumbnail for Cloud Flight, showing a moorland landscape with fluffy low-level clouds.
VRChat screenshot taken on a Quest Pro, of Hiyu pointing at his volumetric clouds shader in the background. The clouds look considerably nicer in this image compared to in-game.
A mock-timelapse in VRChat, showing the day-night cycle progression of Hiyu's sky, atmosphere, and clouds system. Warm sun rays and cool moon rays are cast through the rolling clouds onto a mossy tundra landscape, the ocean visible in the far distance through the fog. Hiyu, an avali, is standing amidst some old ruins.
VRChat photo of a photo-scanned island in the middle of the ocean, with realistic lighting and clouds surrounding it.
Flying alongside Purpzie, a purple dragon
VRChat photo of a heart shape hole through the clouds, naturally formed from a volumetric cloud shader, showing the blue sky above, and a shining white gryphon in flight (tau of the sun).
An out-of-focus VRChat photo of Hiyu's avali face at the bottom of frame, with light filtering through blinds and curtains in the background
VRChat photo from the perpsective of riding a dark, purple dragon, flying above the clouds
Still-frame from Rogue One with the Death Star in orbit over Jedha, but it's replaced with the Jorb
A photoshopped still-frame from Rogue One, where the Jorb (Johari Orb) has replaced the Death Star
Photo of Int-Ball, a small ball robot with two large lit-up blue eyes, floating in zero-g aboard the Japanese Kibō module of the International Space Station
VRChat photo of avali Polaris Apsis standing on a rooftop in a sunny blue-and-white city
Dramatic skies and sunset reflected in a calm lake, pink fursuiter in the corner of frame
VRChat photo: A minimalist city in afternoon, with lots of places to jump and climb
A Helldivers 2 screenshot showing a Helldiver with a modded Spiri'vali Avali head, silhouetted against blue & green fog below a turquouise sky, cape swaying in the wind.
VRChat photo of a black-and-white Avali with bright blue eyes, looking out toward a set of short windows on an overcast day
Photo of a smooth, grey, 3D printed Spiri'vali paw illuminated by a beam of sunlight
Three-quarter view of the printed piece
Photo of the inside of a 3D printer, with a smooth Spiri'vali foot facing forward on the build plate, lit by the printer's internal light strip.
Frosty standing atop a platform in the night sky with wings of light, a silhouette against a spotlight, surrounded by fireworks
A ring of a hundred lights over the Stage Flight VRChat stage, with aurora in the sky
Code snippet that reads: Input.GetAxis("Joy1 Axis 4") Input.GetAxis("Joy1 Axis 5")
A video clip showing an iPhone, running VRChat, being controlled with a PS4 gamepad. Both shoulder triggers on the controller are pressed separately, but VRChat only displays inputs coming from the right hand, for both trigger pulls.
A screenshot of an error in Unity Editor that reads: “Argument Null Exception: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: e”
Hiyu creates a prefab for his world that simulates wind blowing out of rooftop air vents, filming his friends as their ears, tails, wings, and tummies blow around in funny ways.
A notification inside VRChat which reads: "Congratulations! You've received a new badge: 8 years - joined VRChat 8 years ago"
VRChat photo of Hiyu, an avali, pointing at the Furality Ultra booth in the VRChat New Year's 2026 world. The booth has a white blanket covering a pyramid-shaped object, with a game controller resting beside it, and the text: "Outside is old news. New generation, new worlds to explore."
High-contrast VRChat photo of an avali wearing large brass 2026 New Year's novelty glasses that are in the roman numerals MMXXVI, standing in front of the New York skyline at night
Screenshot of a product review by Micca, with the text "Can't see anything. 10/10"
VRChat short film in which two friends are showing each other their 2026 New Year's novelty 'glasses', when a third friend arrives and shows them an even-more impractical version that uses Roman Numerals.
Photoshopped image of Hiyu avali pointing at one of Merystic's above screenshots
Helldivers 2 game screenshot of an avali helldiver flailing his arms as he falls off a cliff, car tumbling in the air behind him
VRChat photo: A close-up of an open notebook held in an avali's hand. It shows a crude line drawing of an avali smirking and pointing to a stick man on a rock, with a speech bubble saying "Kill Him". On the opposite page are several lines of handwritten avali scratch.
VRChat photo of Photographotter and Hiyu standing at the back of a Soaring Fitness gym session, each wearing a 'cone of shame' around their neck
VRChat photo of a rooftop at night, looking down on the city lights, with people of various species in and around a pool.
VRChat photo of Spiri'vali avali Polaris Apsis (left) and Lau (right) looking out from a balcony railing toward the sunrise over the city in the background.
VRChat photo, the silhouette of a Spiri'vali avali standing with their wings behind them, as the sun rises over the city behind them
VRChat selfie photo: A small black crow in the foreground, stood atop a DJ table, with the DJ, a red fox wearing a hoodie, behind it.
VRChat photo: A black-and-citron-coloured avali with green eyes, bathed in natural light from a spaceship window, smiling widely and giving the viewer a thumbs-up.
Photograph of Saturn taken by the Cassini probe in 2013, backlit by the Sun. The photo is called The Day The Earth Smiled, and contains Earth and Moon to the lower right of Saturn.
Artistic rendering from the Cassini Probe's mission to Saturn, showing a view above Saturn's clouds, with a straight-line streak of debris breaking up in the sky from left-to-right, and the text: September 15, 2017, End Of Mission
Parody of JAWS movie poster, where instead of a shark underwater, it's the bird, and the poster says 'AWEBO'
The anger bird standing there, menacingly
VRChat photograph of a realistic Willow Ptarmigan avatar, a.k.a. 'Awebo Bird', standing tall in the morning sun, in front of a snowy cliff.
A 3D-printed statuette of a rendition of the character Ori, designed by Hiyu.
A screenshot of Steam on the VRChat game page, but the logo text has been changed to 'Among Us'.
VRChat photo of a ton of people in the Bichi avatar in the Furality Somna lobby
UNDERTALE came at a turning point in my life. It was an incredibly important artistic, musical, and emotional experience. The world still needed proof that video games are art.
The album cover of the single "The Eclipse's Call (Theme of Furality Umbra)", depicting a bright orange sky with a red star eclipsing a bright white one, over a desert with an unfinished city looming in the haze.
High-contrast VRChat photograph of Cawstic, an intimidating crow figure, standing in the spotlights at their nightmare-themed Furality Somna DJ set, their reflection visible in the water below.
Black-and-white VRChat photo of Cawstick, an oozing, glossy, jet-black crow entity, standing with wings to its sides at Furality Somna's Club Fynn, during its dark-themed DJ set
VRChat Photo: Four friends, hugging in a circle at Furality Somna's Club Fynn, at the end of Cynra's DJ set. Text on the screen displays the lyrics "We are rich beyond our Wildest Dreams because of the people around us.", in the context of being rich with the love of friends. The friends from left to right: Larscis, Polaris, Lau (obscured), and Hiyu.
Clip showing the bedroom from the start of the Furality Somna lobby world, but it's the morning after, with sun shining through the curtains. Hiyu slowly slides off the edge of the bed, before falling out and landing on the floor.
Same image as main post, in a wider aspect ratio
Screenshot from Helldivers 2 gameplay, showing a modded Avali Helldiver running in dense green haze, as the silhouette of a Bile Titan, a huge long-legged spiky creature, looms in the fog
VRChat screenshot of BleuSomme, a blue avali, being mobbed by 15 glowing Somna critters
VRChat screenshot from Furality's Invertebrate Meetup of moths worshipping a person made of light
VRChat screenshot of Hiyu's booth in the Furality Somna Dealer's Den showcaseing the Spiri'vali Avatar and its features