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Hikari's Dilemma - Shot 19 - Deep
🕑 Added 2021-04-03 20:27:19 +0000 UTCEdit: Oops, the gifs I exported had the wrong settings. Replaced them.
This is (probably) the last closeup in Hikari's Dilemma (Newgrounds / Vimeo / Youtube). I've kinda been using this traditional animation fever as an excuse not to work on some of the other, bigger shots... which I guess I'll have to get back to now. Ah, well, it was a fun diversion.
I couldn't be happier with how these traditionally animated closeups have been coming out.
Don't get me wrong, I love the way my puppet animation comes out as well, but being able to do some honest-to-goodness hand drawn animation and be super proud of the result is incredibly satisfying. :D
As always, I started with the original panel from the comic. As with the previous one, the original comic panel was portrait orientation, meaning that there was a lot I had to make up for on the sides.
Through a bit of train and error, and looking up a lot of reference, I did finally manage to unlock the secret of butts. Mostly. I started drawing all the frames, again shifting around the timing until I got something that looked pretty good.
Since the rough frames were looking good, I went ahead and did cleanup, inking, coloring, and shading. I also threw in a bit of a simple background, showing the bed's headboard and a bit of the wall.
But... something just looked wrong. The space in between there was too... empty. And so, I endeavored to add a bit more, showing some of the skirt, a bit of Hikari's chest, and Asuka's arms.
Fun fact, Hikari's chesty bits are only visible for 2 frames, and yet it does a lot for the final animation.
Now, this shot isn't exactly 16:9, you may have noticed. Well, you see, this is to preserve my artistic vision- nah, just kidding. In the animation, this shot will pan slowly from top to bottom, in your usual, comfortable to view 16:9 ratio.
And now... On to the next shots.
Comments
Ghost101
Nice, love the sense of impact there! I like how it's not just fast and frantic either, more steady and hard.
Thiemo Guenther
Yeah, those glimpses of Hikari's torso reinforce the impression of her body moving from Asuka thrusting away.
