K.O.DD Animatic is complete! Thanks to everyone who supported me as I worked on this large project. I'm going to go lie down now
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#Darkestdungeon
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Didn't intend for it to release the first day of pride month when I said "tomorrow" yesterday, but hey happy pride, enjoy the reymas
nobody ask me why it dropped as a youtube premiere I didn't mean to do that and couldn't undo it :V
Now that this project is complete I can share some process stuff and cut content. Heres some of the initial sketches (1/2)
They were initially intended to be standing during this sequence but id didnt make sense spatially. To have it make sense i would have had to add a transitional scene from inside the bar to outside, and the duration of that portion of the song was too short to do that so I had to change it
Changing that scene from standing to sitting actually meant I had to cut these interactions which ultimately I think was for the best. I much prefer the more subtle end product to these shots. Happy accidents and all that
These shots were actually initially intended to be for reynauld+dismas meeting junia and paracelsus for the first time but I did not like the flow of them so they were removed or repurposed as needed
One of the most important things I learned while working on this project was how to organize files so they were clean and flexible. Here's an example of a frame I drew at the start of this project and some frames I drew towards the end as examples of what I'm talking about
Separating moving components from non-moving ones and grouping elements that belong together (ie. a character's lineart and their color fill) was extremely helpful and made going back to correct or change things much less painful once I got into the habit of organizing things in this way
This may seem really obvious, and to some extent it is, but for me it's a very different organizational method than the one I use for solo illustrations that are just b/w. I don't tend to use many folders, and I'm much less meticulous about keeping relevant elements together
This being said, i do not recommend laying out entire files the way I did, because there are definitely more computer-friendly ways to draw out animatics while still being able to test how sequences of drawings flow together. I don't know what those ways are but they are surely out there
Back to more worthless tidbits: I drew a whole ass background for this shot and somehow didn't think about the fact that most of it would be covered by people. Still kind of baffled at how and why I did that
That rotating shot was also not planned from the beginning at all, same with the horses galloping scene. Both were thrown in because I needed to fill large stretches of time and did not have anything else to put in
