Dezmall - [INFO] Status Update : Yoruichi Animation!

HERE WE GO

Whoa Whoa Whoa what do we have here?? Robin-CHAN!? I decided to dedicate this post to the character who placed second in the poll. 

As I already wrote in my chats for subscribers, there are days when something you usually do effortlessly becomes a fierce battle.... the result just doesn't come out the way you want it to, no matter how hard you try. Actually, this was the case with the preparation of the first two shots with Robin. I literally spent the whole day working on them... And the next day I made two more complex shots, taking only a third of the time... BUT I hope you like the result. I wanted to play more with extra hands, but not this time.

Yoruichi Animation:

Well. This is technically the first monthly animation report from Yoruichi animation.

Have you already watched the latest episodes of the anime that is still crawling towards the finale? Privileged manga readers saw the end already 10 years ago but seeing Yoruichi's ass after 10 years is 10/10. It was still worth the wait. Well, it’s also not bad to see a couple of new scenes different from the manga. Maybe I can be like Kubo (author of the bleach manga). I'll release the pictures now and the animation in 10 years. Sound good? Just think about it, and for now I’ll tell you about what I’ve already done for animation with Yoruichi.

The entire report will be devoted to the introductory scenes (the ones that lead us to sex). So let's go in order. But I'll start with general things.

Stylization in 3D turns out to be an extremely deep sea. I'm used to working with 3D in the classical sense, using fairly popular methods of obtaining the desired result in the frame. But when I started studying Stylization ... I drowned. Drowned in a sea of ​​information and different approaches. Yet, when we talk about Stylization , this word implies an understanding of styles that are quite different for each author. Because of this, I have to look for common elements that I can use for my animation to achieve a stylized image. And of course, it doesn’t turn out very well the first time. But this was expected. I’m incredibly interested in trying out different new things, which I will then use for regular animation. In particular, additional visual effects.

I won’t write much about what I studied, I just wanted to say that I’m now full of energy for experiments, so I work on the animation 24/7..

Usually, when some game appears that fascinates me, I try to beat it pretty quickly(all game lovers know this feeling when you choose a game instead of important things in life and then reproach yourself for sitting in the game until the morning), but here, despite the fact that I really like Yakuza 0, Yoruichi grabbed me the most.

And now about animation. The first part of the month I mainly gathered materials for the animation, references and thought planned all the scenes that would happen before the sex scene. There were quite a lot of ideas and scenes that came out so I had to cut a lot. Otherwise the intro would be too long. As soon as the preparatory part was over, I moved on to animation.

I'm currently at the stage of creating Intro. For ease of understanding, the intro consists of three parts. The first is the part in the night. I've already finished it. Parts 1 and 2 of the intro will contain a dose of nostalgia. The first intro, especially the background visuals, turned out quite well.

I have already shown these shots to many people. Here are some parts of this scene. Scene with moon and butterfly.

This is the scene where I was most satisfied with the final background shot. And I was able to do it pretty quickly.

Of course, I still need to work on the model in this scene, but it already looks pretty good.

Then I started making Intro 2. This is the longest part of the intro and I’m currently watching anime Grand Blue Dreaming, which makes me laugh because of its humor. Inspired by this anime, I added some funny moments to the intro.

Actually, I tried to reproduce the alley from the first episodes of Bleach, slightly modernizing it to suit my animation. I had to sweat. BUT it looks good.

Although I’m still not completely happy with the render result, perhaps after post-processing something will change. BUT most likely I will change the color palette and different effects to achieve a different visual style. 

I will also show you the legs and arm of the main character! Wow? Wow! In fact, all that remains is to show his penis, and the hero will be completely revealed.

And starting from this moment, our cat will be in the frame almost until the end of the animation. I have several versions of this cat model. I thought about which one to choose and  in the end, I simply chose the one that looked best in the frame. There will also be a funny version of the cat’s face like in the anime, I will need it for two animation scenes that I haven’t gotten to yet, so I haven’t made this version of the face yet, but I think it will be something like this face shape.

Now I'm at the point where I made some changes to the Intro 2 scene. Making it funnier. Here our cat will face a gang of hooligans. As you can see there there is no background yet as I am still polishing this scene.

The background itself is ready, but I divided it into several parts. So that later in the process of video processing you can add an additional background. For example, when the face gets bigger, I’ll add a simple dark background, like I usually see in anime, and add some kind of visual cue to make it clear what Yoruichi wants.

By the way, the funny face happened by accident. I accidentally distorted the cat’s face by mixing up the editing modes and I liked it. After this shot, there will be a scene that I will show in WIPs. In my imagination, next scene looks really cool and funny.. Or not... (In reality, there may be a reason to uninstall Blender.)

And as a result of this scene, our heroes will finally meet. And then there will be Intro 3, it will take place in the house. I also shortened it quite well. Of course, I like to do such scenes, but my hands are already itching with anticipation for the main (SEX) part of the animation.

Although, now that I think about it. I have plans to add  a Hollow to the animation. Which will reveal our heroine. SO it could technically be called Intro Part 4.... In short, there is a lot of work.

 The work is progressing well. This is our first full report about the Yoruichi animation. More to come.

Now I try not to waste too much time on animation scenes. Minimal polishing. Making a beautiful picture is great, but not at the cost of spending weeks on a single scene. I want to find a good balance between quality and speed. Let's see if it works. 

That's all. Thank you all for your attention and for your support! See you in other posts! All the best to you!

 p.s  Does anyone use the Patreon chat? I made it for all subscribers to inform about various minor problems and share various things with you.

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