ItSwingsBothWays said:
I cannot recommend enough that you watch this either via GFY (in the source) or via the original MP4 rendering at my Drive: drive.google.com/file/d/1...Y1TOcZPB/view?usp=sharing

Both of those have an "extended cut" with more poses.

This... This was a process. Anyway, this WAS going to be a more "simple" fluid-centric animation with a zombie-walk and some drool. Couldn't get the drool to work as I wanted so then I just stepped off and started watching some videos from EntrancementUK. I thought of a way to kinda loosely emulate those and came out with this. The words used throughout and poses performed in the second half are both based off Entrancement's content. I think the animation is certainly imperfect but if I were to pursue this concept further I'd rather have a fresh start than to continue improving a project that has a basis in another idea. Now, for the how-I-did-this section.


I only created demos for it after shifting away from the drool idea so this first animation is the rough draft of the new idea. The storybaord is fast and had some more basic words used gfycat.com/AbandonedVioletImpala (100 frames). At this point I was still debating having a actual hand in frame to snap but concluded that A.) I didn't want to animate that and B.) I would take a long time to make that look convincing.

V2 shows it at a more realistic speed (702 frames) gfycat.com/TintedSeveralGrebeand a timeline for the text that looked about like this: i.imgur.com/vKcLAnG.png

V3 was then created with a way too fast text scroll and the addition of a custom background (that is totally not ripped from a WIP Bioshock Animation I'm doing... Which itself is TOTALLY NOT ripped from Bioshock Infinite).

V4 stays true to V3 mostly but is the proper render intead of the draft version: gfycat.com/ShinyLameCaterpillar

Here's a treat for reading this section: i.imgur.com/AV2VS7J.jpg and i.imgur.com/5c6Y7XT.jpg

V5 has altered the speed of everything as a draft and preceded me redoing most pieces of text gfycat.com/ZestyVagueIndigobunting

So V6 features a timeline that looks like this i.imgur.com/bj0HiT6.png but that's only the first 6 layers... There were 12. To mess around with the text speed I rendered it out with a fully green background and no animation so that I could then easily adjust it's relative speed to the animation by Chromakeying it in on top of the animation stretched (pictured here: i.imgur.com/81ENL0G.png) before Amateur reminded me that my issue is not the animation speed but is an issue of text scroll speed.

SO THEN I REDID MOST OF THE TEXT and got V7... gfycat.com/LittleRemarkableAntarcticfurseal

The final version is only slightly altered from this variant.

But then... i.imgur.com/gugcqNy.png

The GIF when converted with ffmpeg from my original MP4 was 128MB... Which is rather large for the Hub. So then I had to find a way to compress it and settled on the ~40MB version uploaded here.

Anyway if anyone cares to ask questions I'd be happy to answer them or give advice on how to hack together animations like this. Thanks to EntrancementUK / Lex for his outstanding content and huge archive as well as: Amateur, whoever "princess mystic" on the Discord is, and Nyaa / Nazwa (also from the Discord).

The D.Va model used is from smutba.se/project/255/