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[WIP, NSFW] Reisen tentacles pt 2
🕑 Added 2023-12-20 06:02:03 +0000 UTCMore progress on this. Small lighting error I've noticed, but that's easy to fix. First things first, I wanted to ask for some feedback. The way the shadows are structured, they're easy for me to manipulate (I'll go into detail below). This also means I have a lot of flexibility.
What I was wondering is what angle of shadows work best. I have two examples below; I'm able to swap between them or adjust the shape and colors of the shadows effortlessly. So, given that, what do you all think makes more sense and works better?
On a related note, I'm trying to think of things for her to do in the later gifs; e.g., reading a book "how to care for your tentacle spawn" etc.
If you're curious about how I structured this, read on:
Each drawing layer in toon boom has 4 sublayers: overlay, lineart, colour, and underlay. I use lineart to underlay for drawing.
Overlay is reserved for highlighted areas, which are colored in bright pink. Layers pass through to compositions and are carried over, so when I separate them using layer separation nodes, it can remove those layers from everything within a comp.
So, I split the animation into two paths. On one, I use a layer selector to remove JUST the overlay layer, and then color shift it to the shaded value. I'll call this the primary composite.
On the other, I replace all colors, save for the overlay color, with black. The overlay becomes white. I run it through what's called a grayscale node, which has a setting to output a matte based on the B/W values. This basically generates a mask for me to use.
I can then combine these as I need. I can use the mask to cut out a section of the primary composite that isn't subjected to the color changes, or I can use it with a blending mode like Screen or Multiply to lighten or darken what it overlays with.
Since the overlay components are part of each object, and I flatten the image via a BMP composite before doing the grayscale/BW effects, highlights that are obscured by other components are properly hidden. If I didn't flatten it to a BMP beforehand, highlights on the stomach for instance would show above the breasts.
![[WIP, NSFW] Reisen tentacles pt 2](https://img10.leaqio.com/storage/11/ut/nw/9e04c0-019e7fe5-13fe-7d6e-ab14-ede3a2eb46ef.gif)
Comments
Emi Kasumi
Excellent work as always, super excited to see what you do with this!
rawring khris
Yeah, the first one is just much more interesting looking even if its not "correct"
