So this project was inspired by a warrior cats YCH animation to the same song I saw on twitter while having a panic attack, A BIT WILD of an inspiration but like- the song resonates with me, and calmed me down. I ALSO LOVE CENTAUR WORLD.
Listening to the voice and lyrics I was like oh Nari NEEDS to sing this. I knew I wasn't cut out for fully animating just yet so I decided to storyboard a PMV.
Then I created color-guides so I had something to color-pick, and reference for outfits:
I quickly designed Narinder's bishop outfit based off of one of his follower outfits. He's unaffected by the chains in this design, so he has no scars, his arms are not rotting, his black skin isn't fading, and his eyes aren't worn with tiredness. I then edited the colors a bit to match the tone (with a filter, lazy I know but idk color theory)
I took each frame from the PMV and started a re-enforced sketch.
After making this I was unsure if I wanted to go line-less, colored sketch, or fully lined art.
I ended up really liking the line-less art I did for the color guides (which was made with the selection tool) and started coloring underneath all my sketches.
Here I made the quick decision to merge the sketch layer ontop of his rotted arms, so they would have more depth. Especially since each arm is colliding with the other, I wanted the limbs to stand out as their own individual 3D objects and not become a giant black mass.
Then i added some atmospheric gradients after coloring.
You see, gradients don't render very well on videos. It wasn't too bad in one of my test renders, but I wasn't going to risk extra youtube compression or anything else ruining the art quality. That's why you see all the texture in the final. It's just me lightly running along the drawings with textured smudge brushes and a little bit of spray brush.
The backgrounds ALL had this texture with Overlay layer setting on it to tie things together. (I made this texture with the same brushes I blend with)
I made the sparks move by layering transparent pngs together, [sparks > narinder > more sparks behind him > bakcground] and made like, 2 keyframes on the sparks in order to make them slide around. (To those who don't know adobe premiere: WHAT I DID LOT EASIER THAN U THINK, LIKE VERY EASY LOL)
And lastly, for those who want to make projects like these, I recommend you make a folder for it. I just hate doing it for some reason and then my desktop screen looks like this xD
Started this as a simple way to get rid of my art block and ended up with 8 fully rendered drawings somehow, i wasnt even planning on drawing backgrounds lol
also sorry for the long post (it will be even longer next time)
Then you should be mad at Unity right now! They are threatening the entire gamedev industry by making sudden new rules about how they charge. This threat is serious and literally could cripple the gaming industry. As an example, the devs of Cult of the Lamb have already said they will remove their game from all stores when the new Unity rules go into place, and I doubt they are the only ones. They will HAVE to do that to protect themselves financially, they are not overreacting. There may still be time to stop Unity, either through public outcry, or legal action, but we need to spread the word.
Here is a list of games on Steam that were made with Unity and therefore could be effected by this. I'll put some of them in the tags, but it's honestly overwhelming.
I haven't even attempted animation since 2018 but Back In My Day I was one of those kids that did windows movie maker warrior cat AMVs to three days grace songs, so I tried to both keep this one simple enough to finish in one 24 hour period but visually interesting enough to not be like 3 frames long.
Gonna put the stills below the cut in case the filter makes it hard to see:
the shading is mildly atrocious because my power went out AGAIN last night while I was working on this and I was so mad I was like FUCK IT. WE BALL. HALF THE THINGS IN THE TRASH CAN WILL NOT CAST SHADOWS. WHO CARES ANYMORE
ALSO I was fucking around with vhs filters and lemme tell you the dead lamb with a vcr timestamp/date and interlacing was scarier than ANY analog horror on youtube