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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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yall i can actually draw VR-LA without reference like completely from memory now 😭😭😭 what does this say about me

#rolling with difficulty #re: the ProjectTM #specifically his season 3 design although i can probably do season 2 and 4 if i really tried #fuck. the brainrot is real #the amoutn of times ive drawn him!! unbelievable #asto speaks

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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how in the fuck did Noir draw that wood grain pattern for his C-RA design because if the answer is 'by hand' i'm gonna scream

#asto speaks #re: the ProjectTM #i wouldnt even be at all surprised if he drew it by hand too which is kind of the annoying part #every time i complain about Noir's old crew designs just attach a biiiig /lh #bc they're genuinely incredible designs i love them #it's just that unlike him (i presume) i have to draw these more than once!#pain. suffering even

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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ok one last post about the Project to truly exorcise it from my brain. just some process/design thoughts (also now that it's done if you want to read my liveblogged whinging for whatever reason here it is)

first off some stats because i kept stats like the nerd that i am:

time wise making this animatic took about 93.5 hours give or take (thanks procreate process replay) spread across exactly 2 months

anyway when i said i finished this project mostly through stubbornness and sunk cost fallacy this is what i meant lol like a lot of my thought process through this was just 'no way in hell am i letting some of these drawings disappear into my drafts forever'

on average each frame took about 2 hours 45 minutes but thats a bit of an overestimate since i forgot to count some of the animated bits from the first two lines (so id guess the actual number is more like.. 2 hours 20 minutes?)

btw that line with the starry apparition fading away? 12 hours total

the single longest and most painful frame to draw was the one of the crew walking through tu'narath (5 hours 30 minutes) because a. perspective b. architecture design c. for some reason i put a lot of detail into rendering the armour on all the githyanki i drew why on earth did i do that

(its especially painful bc that frame was one of the ones that didnt... feel like an important enough moment in the actual story of the show to be worth capturing the way the wish or even like, endellion is, i just needed to put that there for the storytelling flow or whatever of the animatic itself and it bothered me so much)

one other interesting little mishap was that i did all of these on canvas size 1080x720px (so that's why the youtube resolution isnt particularly high lmao) which is why procreate let me put an absolutely absurd amount of layers in one canvas (all 8 frames of with memories projected on the astral sea were done on one canvas. 159 layers) because the layer limit for that canvas size is 400 BUT. i accidentally started the starry apparition fade on an A4 canvas (my default canvas size for like all my normal fanart) and i only realised after finishing all the lineart and starting on colouring because i hit layer limit so i had to resize the canvas which did... interesting?? things to the lineart resolution

also if youre wondering how i drew K-LB that many times in something resembling timely fashion the answer is i sacrificed some... amount of sleep to 3d model and rig him in blender which. honestly? i consider it a roaring success

splitting the frames by bar was a Choice and certainly a choice ive.. had doubtsTM about but thats the kind of thing you cant really change without bringing the whole project crashing down so if the frames seem to move a bit too fast im so sorry there was really not much i could do there

idk if people actually noticed the very very tiny drawings of the crew moving around on the ship in the 4th line especially since they sometimes get obscured by the subtitles but the REASON for that is in my original drawings the subtitles went in the top left corner but they kept conflicting with other stuff so i just gave up and threw them to the bottom (also i originally included the chinese lyrics but then i got lazy lmao)

anyway that little detail like VR-LA angstily looking at the sea reminiscing about the JourneyTM and the crew sort of appearing along with the memories of their adventures together was one of those things that seemed SO COOL in my head but once i actually execute it its like. hmmmm not sure if that worked out the way you thought it would buddy. also the tiny crew was EXTREMELY hard to draw so put that down as another point in 'me subjecting myself to deeply painful and out there compositions for no good reason'

anyway i called this my magnum opus but i do actually have some thoughts about another one (a companion piece, if you will) for another song by the same band because now that i know what capcut can do im.. really itching to try something a little different because this like powerpoint presentation style? fully a product of me using iMovie as my only available video editing software for the past like 7 years of my life

#rwd #asto speaks #re: the projectTM #one last time using this dumbass tag lmao #honestly? also put another point in 'i worked on a project for so long it became just a Project to me and proceeded to get #absolutely blindsided by the emotional affect it has on people'#2 months. 2. months.#whatever actual emotion this idea was originally trying to draw from is long fucking gone buddy #like i did manage to re-experience some of it looking at the finished product but #i appreciate yalls screaming a lot i just truly did not anticipate it LMAO

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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hilariously, this is the point where i can confidently say that ive figured out what all my frames are gonna be

#re: the ProjectTM #like obviously i had a vague idea for all of them from the start #but theres a bit of distance between ‘vibe’ and ‘image on a canvas’#also im really bad with relistening to episodes for refs for whatever reason #like every time i do i come out of it with a VERY clear image of what i should draw it just takes me a hot minute to actually get around to #idk sitting down and listening?? lmao #also that percentage is probably a lowball actually cuz i put 1 for fininshed frame 0.5 for finished lineart #then total and calculate percentage #but i have a few frames right now that have flat colour done but no shading #so thats like. a 0.75??

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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oh come on this is too late in the process for me to be finding animation errors

#re: the projectTM #i may have gotten... two of my frames backwards....??#but like.. partially???????

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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so the overall.. shape and tone of my current project is pretty much set in stone (im SO CLOSE to 50% done you guys) but i was looking through my saved videos folder on bilibili and if im gonna be doing another animatic after this one (honestly pretty likely??? given my. floruitshow obsession that doesnt seem to be going anywhere anytime soon) i REALLY want to attempt something closer to that style of animatic you see a lot on bb that employs more on elaborate editing as opposed to like............... the powerpoint presentation type beat i've got going on now

(nevermind the fact that a lot of the projects that really lodge themselves in my brain were also like collaborations between teams of people with like dedicated editor roles and i still havent fully figured out how to use lightworks. like ive also seen one man projects in this style that turn out absolutely gorgeous so i KNOW it can be done. maybe i'll go figure out if capcut is easier to use lol)

#asto speaks #re: the ProjectTM #the massive team efforts are mostly genshin animatics whaddaya know #perks of fandom big?? i guess???#that and the other noir's stultifer cantus amv i feel like i bring it up a lot but it truly genuinely haunts me #i just. love love love their art style so much and its *so* beautiful and well edited #i mean obviously im not pulling that off in the foreseeable future but #映剪/capcut is a software i saw recommended by the creator of an animatic for a rather obscure variety show i was OBSESSED with last year #saw that animatic a few days ago and it immediate lodged itself in my brain its SO GOOD. and it was a one man project!! walaoeh #op made a joke about worrying about paying for adobe after effects and realising capcut has everything they need LOL #and their project SUPER well edited and put together so idk i might check it out #im just. not fully sold on the powerpoint presentation style at least not when i do it lol #anyway if i do try something like that it'll probably be for set me free because if i *am* gonna do the robit floruitshow trinity #lets just say im gonna be procrastinating how can i make you stay for last that song is *fucking long*#its like what. 5 minutes? nabei #also i already have a few shots for set me free in mind i just need to stop... thinking about the xiao animatic for the same song lol #that project has like 8 credited artists and 6 animators comparing myself to that is just like #an exercise in pointlessly creating misery in myself

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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me: i just want to finish this project as quickly as possible uwu

also me: choses to draw every frame with the most unnecessarily confusing perspective and composition possible

what???????

#re: the projectTM #walaoeh #im especially partial to top down angles for whatever reason #genuinely what the hell. why do i do this to myself #you'll... see what i mean when its done but i have an entire segment thats just this to the logical extreme #its a headache and a half to draw and im only 90% sure its actually *readable* but if it works...#one of the coolest things ive ever pulled off. for sure

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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alright. today or tomorrow

#re: the ProjectTM #god i cant wait to finish this so i can think about literally anything else #i have a mock exam and a writing assigment due tomorrow actually so maybe not today #well see

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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started editing even though i'm not done with all my frames yet (yes i'm procrastinating)

#re: the projectTM #it feels so good...#watching the still images i've been staring at for 2 months strung together #time to go explore capcuts transitions library (most of them are paid premium but there's gotta be something good in there)

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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i got the ios app version so i dont have to keep sending files from my ipad to my laptop and its honestly shockingly easy to use

#re: the projectTM #like i spend so goddamn long trying to figure out how to layer videos in lightworks #i got it in under 10 seconds of pressing random buttons in capcut #admittedly part of the reason might be that when i send transparent gifs from my ipad to my computer they stop being transparent #but still. thats a W for capcut for having an ios app #like for the first mobile video editor ive ever used its incredibly user friendly the ui design is impeccable #and it has basically all the tools id need /as an ios app/#incredible

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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i feel like it should also be acknowledged that for the past like 2 weeks ive been working on this project while putting up with some extreme apple pencil jank

#re: the projectTM #i dropped my pencil at the start of this month and broke the tip so i had to reuse one of my slightly busted spares #it works... fine i guess but theres a small crack down one side so if you apply too much pressure it makes #the most unpleasant squeaking sound #also the sensitivity is uhhhh. lets just say inconsistent

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astranauticus · 2 years ago

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