finding a friend for your own is hard. i’ve struggled with it my whole life. but living in a world where life will never forgive you without one, is the hardest thing of them all.

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VIDEO CREDITS (warning: spoilers ahead!!!)

A short film written, directed, edited, and animated by pigchefer (me!)

👒 💛 Life voiced by ‪@riifushi‬:   / riifushi     / riifushi  
Thank you to Danica Tabiola for helping me with casting:   / dan.tabiola  

🎻 Thank you to everyone who composed original music for this video! Check them out here: 🎻
-Kuukiko: ‪@kuukiko‬ https://x.com/Kuukiko4   / xhnepeztr2dtwhxd7   https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Nw8N...
-Kwabzy: ‪@kwabzycomposer‬   / kwabzycomposer     / kwabzycomposer  
-Eva: ‪@slayertron‬ https://x.com/evangelinestuff   / eva-nge-line  
-Blue Thicc Fish: ‪@BlueThiccFish‬ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5FFRI...
-Zeth: ‪@MrAflac_1‬
🪙 DONATE TO THE TEAM!!!: https://ko-fi.com/pigchefer I’d like to continue making these videos and supporting everyone who helps me so tips are greatly appreciated! I’ll give all the money that has “+music” in the message to my music team :)

🎵 Listen to the opening theme “A Friend is All You Need” on streaming platforms everywhere!
-Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2fKuSJ...
-Apple Music:   / a-friend-is-all-you-need  
-YouTube:    • A Friend is All You Need *OFFICIAL LY...  
-Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/therealpigchef...
Performed by Riifushi!!!
Produced by Kuukiko and Zeth
Written by pigchefer :0 (you can find the original demo here:    • A Friend Is All You Need *ORIGINAL DE...  )
(With additional help from Eva and Kwabzy thank you xoxo)

🎵 Listen to the full original soundtrack of the video here!
-Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1oALNr...
-Apple Music:   / if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend-original-m...  
-YouTube:    • If Life Was Meant with a Friend (Orig...  
-Soundcloud:   / if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend  
Tracks produced by Kuukiko, Kwabzy, Eva and Blue Thicc Fish, thank you so much!

- Live action cinematography by me and Kuukiko :0
- Additional VFX and sound design help from ‪@stcubing‬: https://x.com/stcubingg
-Translation help from ‪@kosmobold‬ 🇵🇱 ‪@justagdplayer‬ 🇷🇺 ‪@pastapalads5598‬ 🇩🇰 ‪@HumanMoth‬ + ‪@pineappledasher4902‬ 🇫🇷 ‪@dlovansl2‬ 🇸🇪🇮🇶 ‪@nothinglee‬ 🇰🇷 ‪@JacobPolicediez‬ 🇵🇭 ‪@BlueoBerry‬ + ‪@Fatal.‬ + ‪@PexezFps‬ + ‪@Klaux‬ 🇧🇷 ‪@ElectrifyXD‬ + ‪@tofu211‬ 🇪🇸 ‪@AlimiciousGD‬ 🇯🇵 ‪@MattTacc‬ 🇮🇹 ‪@daniel17352‬🇷🇴 @artisticlion 🇩🇪 ‪@goaldoesstuff2936‬ 🇻🇳

Thank you to all my members who have supported me in the long months I’ve been working on this video! I hope you liked all the drawings I made of you here :)
If you would like to support me (and also be drawn in videos), please consider donating through my Ko-fi (link above) or becoming a member! This video took over 1000 hours and 3 years to complete and I would like to continue making more productions like this in the future:    / pigchefer  

If you are interested in helping produce music or lending your voice for future roles for my channel, please contact me through my email ([email protected]) or Discord server! I need all the help I can get if I keep this up lol
Discord server:   / discord   (I also post regular updates and accept fan art to put in videos here! :3)

If you’ve made it to the end of this description, I sincerely thank you all once again :) I know this video took so much longer than usual but I hold the message of this video so dear to my heart and I wanted to give it the love it deserves just in case others also struggle with the same problems I do. If this video touched you in any way, that’s all the reason I need to keep going. I love you all 💖

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