#gives me a break from my dmc brainrot

[witchie-writings]

okay so this isn’t a request more of a question, (plus my own thoughts) but bayverse megatron with a human partner? Would that even be possible considering how he is? That’d be a pretty hard relationship to deal with anyway. I would honestly believe it if Megatron ended up hurting them severely or even killing them tbh.

*cracks knuckles*

Bayverse Megatron with a human partner... I can see it in two ways. One, it wouldn't be possible, and he would just straight up murder them on the spot as humans are quite disgusting/revolting to him, or, he would find a particular human "interesting" and take them as a personal pet, but this human would have to stand out in some way to gain his attention in order to gain such a "regal" position. Megatron definitely would NOT be the type to stand a human who's shy, meek, mellow as shit, or any of that - that's horribly boring and not worth the warlord's time. No, no, he likes it better when they're more rebellious, sort of like a spitfire, bonus points if they're intelligent because it just means he'll have a much greater time breaking them... who knows, maybe they'll last longer too.

Bayverse Megatron could never truly love a human, in my opinion. In his optics, they're pets meant to be tamed and use to be a master's entertainment. With a human "partner", they don't get to see any softness from him. Instead, they're treated like a dog, maybe even less. They'd get abused, broken and beaten horrifically when they disobey, and it's worse when he has his outbursts on occasion. Is it possible Megatron would kill them, either accidentally or purposefully? Honestly, possibly, though it's a little less likely than you would think. The human he took in would be quite the rarity (only the best for the warlord of the Decepticons), so Megatron would be a little more careful in making sure they don't end up crushed between his digits in the first few minutes days - plus, it's a pain in the ass to find a human as entertaining as the last one. XD Make no mistake though, his human pet is only a pet, nothing more, nothing less. They'll never be able to achieve an actual romantic connection with him.

In all honesty, if a human manages to catches Megatron's optic, being captured by him is a fate worse than death.

[battaliaart]

B yells about in-progress MAP parts, the first one!!!

Aight, let's give this a shot, yeah? Got no idea what I'm doing but I'd like to try.

Well over a year ago now, I yoinked the last open part in this Na Na Na Wings of Fire x Fandom Crossover MAP:

Due to the DMC brainrot at the time that's the fandom I ended up choosing, and I picked the most iconic scene to portray: the Temen-Ni-Gru fight from DMC3. Swordfight translated into an aerial battle? heck yeah that seems cool

Back when the Discord server for the project was still active, I made my designs for Dante and Vergil. These'll still largely hold up for the part now, though the style will be different - it'll be more closely aligned with my Ten Plagues parts since that's the style I use for Wings of Fart now.

I designed them this way for one practical reason and many subtle meta reasons:

They're twins, so I needed a neutral color palette that'd work for both of them and wouldn't clash with their outfits

Went with Ice/Night for grayscale, but also because IceWings and NightWings are typically acknowledged as rivals

Also because IceWings and NightWings are incredibly opinionated on which tribe is 'right' and which is deplorable - very similar to how these two approach the human/demon dichotomy

I also have an unwritten rule to make most dragon designs go from a darker color to a lighter one in a vertical gradient, which I intentionally turned on its head here both to match more with how the siblings go in a similar light/dark gradient.

Back in the day I used to design a lot of hybrids with mixed scale types (shoutout to when Eclipse had half SandWing scales and half NightWing scales, or two rows of sharp scales and one row of round ones) before I realised that's not really consistent with how I assume their biology would work, but this is Wings of Fart and I don't really care for the accuracy of Wings of Fart anymore so we have blended scale styles - if anything, for one last hurrah before I never design anything like this ever again.

aight that's enough about the designs how bouts we get into actual work on the part yeah?

This was the only thing I got done before letting this part languish in my To Do list for over a year. It's the very last shot of the part, designed to showcase just one more aspect of these characters in this crossover: Dante uses fire breathing and Vergil uses frostbreath. I intend to have a more elaborate transition into the close up speen, I just didn't draw it out yet. I sat down for one session and scrawled this out, probably because the idea presented itself vividly in my head and I had to get it down asap. TVPaint, 24fps.

Fast forward a literal year of radio silence and now the MAP server is starting to see sparks of life again, and lil' ol' me is finally undergoing my MCR phase many, many years too late, so that means it's time to pick up this part again.

Had a brainwave the other night and came up with the remaining shots in the part, but it'd only be doable if I could somehow get a 3D reference of the Temen-Ni-Gru because there ain't no way I'm trying a complex rotating 2.5D thing again without a reference.

Thankfully DMC5 has tons of mods. With REFramework and this Bloody Palace mod, I can now freely fly around the silly demon tower and snatch all the reference footage I need. Took a few tries, and it's not the best, but we now got this:

My brain breaks down this rotating tower shot into two parts; the first part consists of four still assets, for parallaxing, and the second part has roughly 3-5 new unique assets, mas o menos depending on, once again, parallaxing. The dragons will be standing equidistant from each other in this shot and the camera will settle on a close-medium shot of one of them, so they'll require extra assets for the second part once I've solidified how I want the shot to continue. With the experience I have from my failed Jojo Reanimated part I acknowledge it would probably be hell to animate those background assets in VEGAS, so I'll be crafting them with Moho's superior camera functions in mind.

So far I've doodled out one additional concept so far - see the skeleton statue in the above video's freeze frame? Can't have that being a human in a dragon-centric universe, so here's an idea for a dragon skeleton demon sculpture thing:

That's just about where I am at time of writing - I wouldn't expect future posts to be nearly as wordy, this one's just different because I had a year's worth of time to recount like two to three days of work to rant about.

These posts will all be tagged with the relevant part/number and 'BTS (behind the scenes) Animations with B' unless I come up with a catchier series title. C'ya in the next one.