#though alao appicable to luke himself in refards to Layton

[lesiasmadness]

All sorts of WIPs and shots that I like from the animatic

Also me yapping about all the struggles™

For some reason Luke always comes out way cuter in the sketches than line art augh >_<

Also for the more detailed shots I had to first draw normal Luke and then dress him up in his uniform basically because it's hard for me to place the proportions of his face otherwise, kinda the same way I can't draw hatless Layton unless I first draw the hat and then erase it

I wanted Luke's shadow to look like Clark when he's making the costume, and then out of this shadow Layton should have stepped out but that was too complex to do on Photoshop's primitive motion graphics options so I had to change that scene

BTW because as mentioned above photoshop sucks for animating, I almost completely ruined the first half of this animatic because sometimes when you transform one frame it transforms ALL of the frames and at some point while working on it I managed to scale and move all of my frames without noticing cause why would I look through perfectly fine done frames from early in the animatic. And you're gonna be like "just scale and move the frames back" AND I DID TRY but every layer that was supposed to me moving gets completely thrown off by that. Like moving an image in a word document levels of unfixable. But because I know what a bastard photoshop is, I save two versions of each animatic I do, so I pulled out my back up copy, and it was quite a few frames behind, but basically I exported it as a ready made video and just pasted the untainted version as like... a bandaid over the pile of all my working frames being deformed and screaming in agony. After that I made a third back up copy just in case

There are lines in the song that are also so so delicious buT I just didn't have a way to fit them into this because too much unrelated fluff was separating them from this specific clip I wanted, but yea, if it wasn't fir that if would be cool to have the first chorus in there, cause i could have stretched the layton-clark parallels even further by taking the "like a lioness only with less fur" and using it for a scene of Clark's hair being cut. Also the "will she braid your hair will she eat your heart how can you outsmart the apex predator" that I used for the headline in the end is just very tempting.