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Just a little guy.

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Holy shit I did not expect to see this booting the game up again. I haven’t played in a tiny bit and wasn’t expecting him to be a recruitable hero XD.

Also I will do more art of him. I’ve been behind and got sucked into Transformers :P so I’ll hopefully get some stuff out soonish.

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I love this silly little bot. Rodimus is like, one of my all time favorite Autobots next to like Prowl, and Pharma. This was supposed to be like, a quick sketch and then turned into me screwing around lol.

I kinda loved drawing him, so expect more of this silly little dumbass (affectionately)

Got the timelapse under the cut. I've been trying hard to record what I do.

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I got hit with Transformers brainrot... you give TFP another watch and whoops you get sucked down a rabbit hole with your friend, infecting two others, and find yourself hyperfixating over these silly robots that turn into things and commit war crimes. Anyways, here's like my third attempt at drawing mechs. Have a Prowl in these trying times.

Timelapse under the cut

The expression chart isn't mine, I found it on tumblr long time ago, and I can't remember who did it.

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Was a little nostalgic of the rainy vibes in Burbank. Hoping we get a little sometime. I definitely debated whether or not I wanted the rain to move or not, I'm actually super happy with how this turned out!

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how do you do, fellow Creatives™

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stop normalizing ai use in fandom 👎

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You know, when I took a two day break from the game I didn’t fucking expect to come back to this!

I call Bull on him not being the bad guy. He gives off even more morally questionable energy that the regular Cecil gives off.

He does look good in the white suit tho ngl 👀

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WHAT KINDA CAT ARE YOUR MUTUALS

I REALLY WANNA SIT HERE AMD GO THROUGH TAGGING EVERYONE BUT I HAVE TO GO TO BED NOW SO I’LL DO SO TOMORROW!!!

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Reminder that twitter is now an informal, unregulated (i.e. warrantless) information source for Trump administration use.

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In honor of it being Halloween, have Cecil talking shit about Halloween from the game.

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Took this screen shot months ago when I first started playing the mobile game. I don’t know why, but it’s incredibly funny to me that Cecil says the most out of pocket things.

I like to believe he has really creative insults. And the more stressful the villain attack, the more creative they get.

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How I Animate

The Technique:

I draw the frames and then I use the liquify tool to push the lines into the next frame and redraw them where I need to. This allows me to keep the lines consistent, but gives me the control of frame by frame animation bc I am still making each frame manually! I also use 3d models as reference to help me with the angles! Super important to use reference while you animate (and with art in general), if youre no good handling 3d models then act it out and record yourself!

The Theory:

i think most people are at least loosely familiar with the 12 principles of animation (if youre not, heres a 2.5 minute video showcasing them!), but may not necessarily know how to employ them. the main 3 i tend to focus on when I animate is rhythm, telegraphing, and inertia so ill cover those there 👍

1. Timing & Rhythm

Timing is how you space out your frames both in how long an individual frame is held for, and also when you drawn an inbetween of two frames you can favour one frame slightly more than the other instead of drawing the exact average of the cels, giving the favoured cel more timing weight.

Left line has the cels evenly spaced out on the timeline, right holds the first cel for longer and the second cel slightly favours the last frame. It creates a more interesting rhythm to the animation! Rhythm is how I think of animation timing. Theres a beat like a song to every animation I make, and creating an interesting beat is what makes an animation fun to watch (for me, anyway):

2. Anticipation / Telegraphing

Before I animate a big change in movement, I like to telegraph that its coming. Usually this is doing a little counter movement in the opposite direction, but thats not the only way to telegraph a motion, e.g. eye movement can telegraph a head turn!

3. Follow-through / Overshoot / Inertia

Unless the movement is mechanical, it wont come to a hard stop and will have some level of bounce or easing out to it. How much "bounce" you add will have a big impact on how the animation feels, but a very subtle bounce will add a natural feeling to the end of a motion.

Secondary animations will use a lot of this, note that the head and the hand have a small amount of continuous motion (primary animation), and then the hair has a lot of bounce and inertia (secondary animation which reacts to the primary animation). Note the different amounts applied to the braid vs the sideburn vs the bangs

anyway! I hope this was insightful ❤️ if you like my art you can commission me by the by :)

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posting this home-baked ms paint meme for public use :)

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Adoptables For Sale

Just a reminder that I still have adoptables up for sale, and all will be available for the rest of October and November.

If you're interested feel free to message me, all information is listed on the original post.