I hate that I cannot do a certain really cool animation project that I was working on
And it was gonna be kinda like REALLY COOL with music and voice acting and everything and I was really proud of it
It was part of an update for a series of sketches I was doing on Twitter (maybe a few of y'all will know what specifically I'm referring to but who knows)
And I wanted it to be this big grand surprise and I was doing my gosh darndest to hide from Twitter the fact that I was an animator because I wanted it to be a huge plot twist like "guess what lads! you thought it was just sketches? nah nah. have a FULLY ANIMATED SHORT OF MICHELANGELO FREAKING OUT!"
But.
It has been... um... quite some time since then
So uhhh while I still want the animation as a whole to be surprise, here are a few clips that I'm stupid proud of...
@filsa-mek here ya go
For those of you who would like to know what this is about, please go read Empathy Amplified on Archive of Our Own (specifically chapters 8-9 to understand the animations)
Because I'm proud of this bit of the animatic I'm working on, I'm posting it! :D
I will be finishing the full animatic and clean up the sketches more
The cover I used is here
Hey Look it’s PMD2 / The Present is a Gift as an animatic I never finished
The song is “Let’s Get This Over With” by They Might Be Giants!
I had so much fun making this months ago… I’m tempted to remake it from the ground up tbh. That’ll have to come after the first draft of the fanfic is done— which it almost is, admittedly! Just got like, two chapters to go, I think. It’s taking me more time than I thought to finish up those chapters than expected because of school and me being sick, but I’m hoping to wrap them up soon.
The bite scene never left my mind, so I'm animating...maybe first the bases and then I can start this.
Like THEY ARE SO CUTE OH LORD! Like Wukong is a sneaky cheeky flirty destructive trickster monkey that he makes Duzhe question their relationship and HE LIKES THAAAAT He loves their reactions, and is like a monkey curious. He's most likely a type of spider monkey. I DON'T KNOW I'm still trying to see what kind of relationship they would have. AAAHHH
It not supposed to be professional it just for fun and also because it helps me plan out what I want in the animation. Also mosquito are back and I hate it!
Big secret (bc I'm mean to ya'll) project update :3
You guys aren't ready for this project I'm so fucking excited - it's probably the biggest thing I've ever tried to do - easily.
I've got a still, two backgrounds, and a rough animation test to share rn!
As you can see, I've decided to go for lineless-ly rendered, full-color backgrounds, and then a more sketchy/illustration grayscale style for the characters!
I'm really loving the balance that gives and i think it really helps Vox stand out, since he is the central focus of this project mwahahaha!
Then I've got a little hand animation test for part of this that I'm really happy with!
I finished what is out so far of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime (yes I'm devistated, I did not heed the emotional torment warnings I was given lmao) and it's been inspiring me so much! The animation in that show is beyond gorgeous. The movement, the color, the flow - just, holy shit. I've been watching the series and 0 on repeat for 99% of this project bc it's really been motivating me to just try, yk? To put in that extra hit of effort here and there.
I'd love to be able to animate things like that someday!
This project is going to be a combination of an animatic and animation, and it's been fun deciding where those extra hours of effort are going!
Anyways! That's the updates for now! I'm still finishing up that Alastor animation asset (for the large center screen on the desk background that I shared in my last post), and I'll probably (maybe?) share that when it's done bc I'm proud of myself :3