#The brain animatics are strong

[hulloitsdani]

I feel like there was a missed opportunity in book 3 to have an inter dimensional duel between Alfonse and Veronica vs Lif and Thrasir. Just constantly ripping and closing portals between worlds, trying to shut their opponents out.

[parallel-2-anywhere]

With the Wisdom Saga out officially my Magic Nerd has broken containment

Consider the following:

EVEN IF IT’S JUST THE FIRST VERSE AND CHORUS.

THIS BOY IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND YOU WILL ALL BE SUBJECTED TO MY THOUGHTS

[hawper]

I have reached the "get absolutely inundated by animatic ideas" stage of being interested in something. DnDads edition! (I am cursed by visions)

[beanmochiii]

heromari is everything to me

image id: two images each with a uncolored sketch. the first image is of mari in his headspace outfit but no tie and she is wearing a sweater instead of a vest. he is sitting with her palms resting on the same surface she is sitting on, slightly leaning back onto her palms. his expression is mischievous and loving, and she is looking down at the viewer. the next drawing is a bust of hero facing to the left but looking at the viewer with a very flustered expression. end id

[scribbleshrimp]

hey i just wanted to thank you for escam. i know youre like done with uploading it but you were one of the only things keeping me on there for a while. which i guess im also thanking you for stopping

Glad you liked it! It makes me really really happy that it had a positive impact on a few people. I kinda cringe looking back at it, it was full of spelling mistakes and inconsistencies and really odd narrative choices (holyyy shit the fig tree motif that was supposed to be a core thing was poorly brought up and feels so out of place reading back) but it was my first attempt of actually writing character dialogue and an overarching story. TikTok is EVILL I can’t believe how shitty I felt about myself due to a few comments saying it was mediocre like yeah duh it was my first attempt writing something that wasn’t an essay for school! Of course it wasn’t perfect!!! Why is it a crime to not have professional level work for a hobby. That app is super cruel to beginners, the “art lore” stuff there that’s just bullying kids for being bad at anatomy is super malicious. But despite that scrambling to post videos during lunch in the middle of a noisy cafeteria while also prepping for a math test is memories I cherish lol. It’s kind of annoying that I think the thing I’ll be most remembered for are my characters that I developed as an edgy teenager since I’m not really planning on sharing more of my stories publicly but it makes me super thrilled that people found value in it. Okay okay sorry I’m rambling I just get excited when people willingly read my work. It makes me feel like a 5th grader discussing my warrior cat ocs during recess again. I’m glad you deleted TikTok that place rots the mind and soul.

[fowlaroundtown]

*thinks to hard about the Technodrome scene in the ROTTMNT movie*

*explodes*

[mintmechs]

so i know that dear my friend is chip's song but hear me out: recontextualizing the song to sonic and tails

the entirety of this song's lyrics works perfectly when you apply it to them!! they're best friends!! best siblings!!

[firebuug]

labor day means i dont have to do dogshit today if i dont wanna [starts complicayed 3 minute long animatic]

[wizardofpalmsprings]

Icarus by Bastille - giving me BG3 vibes

[thejojolands-moved]

Unbelievable and awful that I have such a strong mental connection between Slim Shady (the persona) and Ashfur Warrior Cats. Can't have shit or whatever

[callisto8]

I want it that way - Solar Lunacy edition

Hey hi hello i’m back, please take this.

This animatic (?) is based on the wonderful fanfic: Solar Lunacy by @bamsara (I hope it’s okay to tag you)

I started working on this project back in December so the artstyle might be a bit wonky despite my efforts to keep it somewhat consistent lol. Studies got in the way but Sun & Moon brain rot remains strong.

[bunnieswithknives]

hey in ur peri animatic: (https://youtu.be/OCqlRuDaXYU?si=K52WDu_vw9rg7chz) that I have been permanently obsessed over since today and have watched about 20 times by now so much that I have drawn & posted stuff based on it what was that partial bug form peri had?

I haven’t watched either of the show btw so if it’s explained in the show please tell me plsssss

OK, SO the bug thing is not technically canon to the series. It's based on my own headcanons for fairy biology, but i do have justifications for it!! Fairies have very strong shape-shifting abilities, so it would make sense that the form they show to humans isn't necessarily their true form(not to mention extreme that mimicry is very common in insects). And you want to know the visible traits almost every fairy has in common? Being very small with Insect-like wings.

The fact that their humanoid form isn't their true form in actually confirmed in the show! Cosmo and Wanda are revealed to look like biblically accurate pseudo-angels in the museum episode. (I say pseudo angels because the Flaming Sword of Eden is only debatably sentient and I don't think is considered an angel. Ophanim are also debatably not angels because they don't have wings (sorry for the angel tangent I like angels))

So wouldn't their true forms be angelic then? Well, yes. But I like bugs so. Also I have more headcanons to justify myself. I like to think that they have both a true-true form (incomprehensible to the human brain, probably exists mostly in a dimension invisible to us, that looks how we imagine biblically accurate angels), and a fairy form (which is visible to humans but is naturally very insect like and tends to scare people). So, in order to interact with humans, they have to learn to shapeshift into a humanoid form but will occasionally slip if they get too relaxed/aren't careful, hence the mandibles coming out when he yawns!

The reason they struggle so much more with human forms than the animals or objects they typically turn into is that, well, they aren't trying to convince those animals or objects. The more human they try to look, the harder it is to keep up convincingly. If you turn into a really uncanny squirrel, only other squirrels will notice. If you turn into a really uncanny human, they form a lynch mob and burn you at the stake.

[fandomsandflyingstingrays]

I have absolutely no artistic ability to speak of, but for every song in Epic there's an animatic that lives in my brain and I wanted to ramble about some of the moments I visualize when I'm listening

In Open Arms, the lotus eater who says "scary cave" grabs onto Polites's leg when he tries to leave. Polites scoops it up as he sings his refrain the last time and hands it to Odysseus. On the line "there is so much guilt inside your heart", Odysseus looks down at the lotus eater in his arms and it briefly flashes to the baby from Just A Man

In Wouldn't You Like, Hermes essentially makes a bunch of shadow puppets to illustrate his points. On "she can conjure up a monster that'll grind you to the bone" he conjures an image of Scylla (both as foreshadowing and as a reference to the fact that Circe was the one who transformed her) and on the second "you can be hurt" he conjures an image of Polites

In Legendary, when Telemachus sings "trying to win the heart of my mom but she is standing tall" he passes the room where Penelope is unthreading the shroud and she winks at him. When he sings "and I could fight them if I was half as strong as you" he passes by Odysseus's bow to pick up his own, and he spends the rest of the chorus shooting at phantom monsters while Athena's owl looks on

In God Games, Athena finds Aphrodite in a room of statues connected by red strings. When she sings "claims to love his mother but let her die of a broken heart", she dissolves the string between Odysseus and Anticlea. When Athena sings "he was busy fighting", she illuminates the strings tying Odysseus to the statues of his crew, but when Aphrodite responds, "more like busy spiting the cyclops", she makes them all fade again but the one connecting him to Polites. When Athena is fighting Ares and he mocks Telemachus, a string blazes to life between her statue and his, and when she sings "and tell your lover that a broken heart can mend", she creates another string to tie her to Odysseus

Also in God Games, Hera and Athena approach Zeus's throne arm-in-arm, and when he sings, "you dare to defy me, to make me feel shame" he glares at Hera, knowing what made her decide to release Odysseus

[mysteryanimator]

ANIMATION BREAKDOWN PROCESS OF THIS LETS GO (Sorry for any grammatical errors!)

SCRIPT/STORYBOARD: (you can watch here)

Now THIS. The script was very weak because I wanted to board immediately, so it started strong then fell off at the end (also generally I'm not a stronger writer, which haha fics my beloved). Now I know this, spending more time simmering with the script will genuinely only 1) stronger compositions for storyboards 2) it will be so much faster to board. Like I can board fast, but I can board fast AND well if I sit with the idea a bit longer. This will be a massive running theme how I like my shots earlier rather than further in.

side note I LIKE PANEL 11 A LOT, I just feeI didn't translate it well enough into animation which sucks because its a pretty panel and you get a softer moment from Olrox which I found was important to get across.

Also at some point, the 180 rule (which keeps characters on like one line behind the camera... not sure if I worded that right) gets broken and it bugged me for AGES but decided I had to just move on LOL.

These are my thumbnails b4 I go to animatic/cleaned storyboards which are SO MESSY (I'm a lot better at annotating my thumbs now LOL). The original prompt was top service blood bag x powerbottom vampire and i don't think i portrayed that well enough throughout BUT i think the intro did a good establishment. Which fun fact, this was scrapped but there was actually 20 seconds of Mizrak eyeing Olrox "What is it like? Blood?" Then Olrox leans down and commences the thigh glide.

These backgrounds are a mix of texture-bashing (walls/floors) along with some good ol' painting materials from scratch. Also, these are olddd and I can do a lot better yay, but was a good test to see how to make a consistent-ish scene.

ANIMATION: (You can watch the rough anim here)

I'll be super upfront how I don't like most of it AHHA. From starting this in July to posting this in September, I've improved a lot since then.

Since this was a bit ago, I don't remember too much but I remember going ham onto learning material from Dong Chang and animation servers. However in all honesty I think this was only really applied to the earlier shots. I got super frustrated with my "slow speed" so I tried to jump ship and do cleans super early on, which like lets be honest- pumping out two rough anims a day with uni on top is not slow idk what I was on about. This ended up giving me MORE work during the line/colour stage PFFT because I would end up correcting my mistakes in my roughs. Like Myst stop, this is for fun and you're learning, please take it easy LOLOL.

COMPOSITING:

Working on compositing this time around was slightly different, and I'll also admit it is not my favorite composite I've done (and again, I like my earlier shots then my later shots). My after-effects layers looked insane keeping track of the highlight glows on their clothes BUT it definitely paid off. Skin tones however were SO DIFFICULT (mostly in part to the fact I decided to experiment with how I approached it, so it definitely skewed how I worked with this)

I also definitely struggled between the dreamy look and keeping it clean and crisp, and while the dreamy blurred aesthetic does work in some cases, I opted out for the sake of clarity.

Beloved edge light my friend. It's making me learn SUPER late into it how I probably should have planned out a third shadow pass since edge light at the point is a crutch and I think planning it out ahead would get nicer more precise shadows LOL.

Because I brain rotted so hard for this animation I actually commissioned two people to help me work on this! I'll briefly talk about their stuff but please check out their work!

MUSIC: Astralbardkeep

Due the fact I don't have voiceactors, and I had a very specific vision in mind, I decided to go "you know what, let me be super self-indulgent". I had a lot of notes and inspirations for the music, BUT i wanted to have Olrox's theme from the original games peek through, which you will notice happens at the bite AND at the end.

TITLE CARD: Hataui0

This might've seemed overkill, but this friend of mine is very talented at making graphics/typography to suit the requirements of each individual project. (Also a secret ploy to make him make nocturne fanart /lh). So that entire end bit, he illustrated it along with that title, in which the themes I bestowed him were Mucha and Gothic art.

Thank you for reading if you got this far! Suffice to say this was supposed to be a compare and contrast between the animation I did in February, and while I may not quite find this body of work up to my normal standards, it substantial amount of improvement, which is the most important thing here! With the ten billion other things in my life going on, I can only be happy with the progress thus far :D

February on the left/September on the right

[tibbycaps]

would you happen to have advice for making your first animatic? i've been possessed by the art worms but have no clue what im doing

tbh my animatics just sort of come to me when i have a super strong vision in my head. like bad guy skizz or scar's no good day - i didnt set out to be like "ok im gonna animate skizz this time" it just kinda happens when ur watching a moment and you have the vision so Clearly in ur brain that ur like i Must draw this

[asleepyy]

hi asleepyy!! i just wanted to ask, how would one be able to give out hellfire in a container? Is it like a candle? A thermos too??? You don't have to answer!! Love your comic and love your artstyle :)

my dear lovely, in just two updates you shall find out <3

well, you guys know me, i love making animatics if my youtube is anything to go by. I've been thinking about one on my brain.. I even have an animation planned : )

yess! when he feels any strong emotion, a little bit of feathers peek out, sometimes on places where we can't see, like feet and arms!