Patricia "Yssa" Badiola is the voice actor for Ciel Soleil in RWBY. She was a lead animator at Rooster Teeth, working primarily with the 2D animation team.[1] Shows that she worked on as an animator include RWBY: World of Remnant, Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures, X-Ray and Vav, Camp Camp and Nomad of Nowhere. Yssa also created the show Recorded By Arizal. Outside of animation, she co-hosted with Chad James the first season of RWBY Rewind, the official RWBY aftershow. She exited the series at the start of Season 2 due to joining the writing team for Volume 6.
She is also a skilled 2D artist and commonly posts personal art and fan art on her Tumblr.
During the development of Volume 9, Yssa joined CRWBY as an episode director.[2] Among the episodes she directed was Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds.
Yssa's contract for working at Rooster Teeth Animation expired in May 2023.[3]
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- When she was hired, she was already a fan of RWBY. When Miles and Kerry learned this, they told her everything that was going to happen in Volume 3. By the time they'd finished, she was on the floor crying.[4] They also created a Slack chat group called "Yssa Cries About RWBY", which contains her reactions to scripts and other RWBY material.[5]
- She owns a double sided Sun Wukong body pillow. She also owns a copy of the Team SSSN fan posters from "New Challengers...", which she framed and got signed by the characters' voice actors.[6][7]
- "Patty Berdioler", the name of the author of Ninjas of Love from "Ruby Makes Cookies", the first episode of RWBY Chibi, is a reference to Yssa.[8]
- She is of Filipino descent.[9]
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- ↑ Yssa Badiola's Tumblr
- ↑ Kerry Shawcross's blog post
- ↑ Yssa Badiola's Twitter
- ↑ Volume 3 DVD Directors' Commentary Chapter 4
- ↑ Yssa Badiola's Twitter
- ↑ Yssa Badiola's Twitter
- ↑ Yssa Badiola's Twitter
- ↑ RT Summer of Animation Live Stream
- ↑ Yssa Badiola's Twitter