Forest beast WIP+process+file (Patreon)

a wip? but tono it looks finished? eheheh not quite 

animation! the colours go a bit funky bc all the frames except the first one uses the WIP and for some reason i had colour adjust settings to effect every frame 

honestly pretty much nothing changed from concept to final. the white mask was considered bc it stands out w the limbs positioned behind it but didnt make the final cut bc it stands out *too* much and i think doesnt flow quite as well with the rest of the design as the darker mask does. the darker one keeps the woodsy feel 

it nearly had an amish beard.. 

update

first take at animation w the polished art ^ 

polished version made by separating the beast into segments and layers (e.g layer for head, front arms, 3 hair/leaf layers) and reffing the draft animation for what to do, like if frame 2 moves the head up 2 pixels and right 1, do the same for the polished version.  

 the vast majority of time was spend cleaning the leaf hair. every time i thought i caught the last inaccuracy in a frame i spotted 5 more. in the end i just let them alone. i also kept wanting to change colours and had to copy it over to every frame ;a; 

 inbetween frames and smoothing the animation were made by running the choppier first animation through dainapp and referencing what that did to make it smoother, frame by frame. unfortunately dainapp blurs the colours so its not very useful for immediate smoothing (until i figure out how to unblur it) i'll also say i did most of that at 2am on not much sleep and ran out of patience fast lmao 

 my final > dainapp 

 the file is separatec by layers and has the draft version in it too its kinda fun to see the layers overlap