If you want to bring GF from 'Friday Night Funkin'' into a fan video that actually feels alive, start with the music first — the beats are the backbone. I usually make a tiny animatic or a beat-map where I mark the strong beats, fills, and vocal hits. That helps me decide whether GF is doing a subtle head bob, a full-body pose, or a quick reaction. Without that, timing feels floaty and the whole thing loses punch.
Next, pick a method that fits your patience level: frame-by-frame (Krita, Photoshop) gives that raw, expressive look; rigging (Spine, Live2D, Spriter, or a puppet in After Effects) makes it easier to sync to long songs and do camera moves. I like a hybrid: rig the torso and limbs, then do frame-by-frame mouth shapes and blinks. Don’t skimp on mouth visemes and pose extremes — GF’s personality lives in small facial tweaks and how she tilts her head.
Finally, polish: add easing to movements, hand-drawn secondary motion (hair, skirt), a few particle effects for emphasis, and good audio ducking so beats stand out. Export as a high-quality MP4 or APNG for short clips, credit any sprites or mods you used, and test on the platform you’ll upload to — sometimes compression kills fine details. I always watch back with headphones and scribble timing tweaks, because it’s those tiny rhythm fixes that make fan videos sing.