#Dragonbones Pro for silver's animation

[maareyas]

a little animation I made as my contribution to the Kaleidoscopic Absolution @silverfanzine! [Go download it for FREE here!]

I think he should be allowed to just chill and let time pass by :^]

[maareyas]

anyways here's a quick list of steps I had to do for Star Clock Silver both for those curious and also bc I Will Forget My Own Process due to having a bad memory lol. There's a reason why the thing took me like a month or 2 of work-

Thumbnailing and sketching

Layout Part 1 - The Clock

Painting the Clock

Layout Part 2 - Silver

Drawing Silver in literal pieces like a vtuber model

Drawing the background and other elements

Making a reference image

Rigging Silver (Agony Part 1)

Animating Silver (Agony Part 2)

Putting it all together in After Effects and experiencing 10 different problems (Agony 2.5 ReMix)

Compositing for real this time (Agony III Re:Mind Chain of Memories 358/30 Days)

Done ✨

Software I used:

Note: I am not paying for any subscription for any of these :^)

Adobe Illustrator - Completely optional. I only used it because it's easier to draw circles there. Used to draw the initial layout for the clock.

Clip Studio Paint - For everything that actually involved drawing or painting. Silver was drawn entirely in CSP, but I saved everything as a photoshop file because it's more compatible with the other programs I used.

Photoshop - I used it mostly for layout-ing also tbh.

DragonBones Pro - Opensource✨. For rigging + animating Silver. Tedious to use but it's free and gets the job done.

Adobe After Effects - For putting it all together + some extra effects. All the other parts of the Star Clock illustration--such as the clock itself, the gears, etc were all animated here. They didn't need fancy animation like Silver did; only basic rotations and opacity ones.