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| A* Episode 5, Dailies 47 - 48 | Jul 15, 2009 12:44 AM PDT | url |
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Added 2 new A* comics:We're now into the first of Selenis' acrobatic shots in this episode; I'll have to draw her frame-by-frame in these because of all the flipping around she's doing, so they'll take a while, but hopefully they'll look pretty cool once animated. Daily 48 is in about the middle of this one-second shot where she's being towed into the distance by the grappling cable she's just embedded in the hull of Sal's ship. I don't have the other frames in this sequence shaded in yet, but we can see them animate in silhouette in a sort of "pencil test" of the character's movement (if you're viewing this in an RSS reader or Facebook you may need to click this image to get it to animate):
That took a while! I think it was mostly because it's a complicated pose: in perspective, with the body twisted around halfway; plus, it has to feel like it's being pulled backwards and to the left by the right arm. In the storyboard of this shot that I showed a while back, I had first drawn her being pulled by the wrong arm; I redrew the arm quickly in the storyboard doodle so I wouldn't forget which was the correct arm when it came time to draw the final art, but the weighting of the pose was still on the wrong arm, and I knew I'd have to correct for that later--ie, today. For some reason it stumped me for a while, and I was thinking that maybe I had to change the whole pose up, maybe have her twisting around the other way or something, so I wasted time trying out two alternate poses before I finally came back to the original one and just redrew it so the weight was on the correct arm. Bah I am silly! But at least I got a nifty picture out of one of the alternate poses, which you can check out on deviantART.
Tomorrow I ought to get to the next sequence, which is her finishing her flip and landing neatly on the hull of Sal's ship. Moooore full character animation, eep!
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