Rotoonscoping 2: Pencil Test, & Misc. (Patreon)

Going forward, I'm gonna include the stage in the process we're at in the title of each update for posterity's sake

As always, thank you everyone for sticking around for another month. I'm excited to share the results of my little experiment so far, and I've got alot to say about what I've figured out so first I'll show the extras which you might have already seen Ivanks upload, this Fumina gunpla tf. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1je-zNkyi1F5ZWfmBLrnOJsaKxa3U2P8i?usp=sharing

Now I'm gonna get a little ravey here so I'll try to summarize at the end. To start off, I realized when I broke the gif into frames that Jessica was animated at 24 frames per second instead of the 12 frames I'm used to, and since I wanted to make this as authentic as possible, I tried to keep that in mind for later. 

The first hurdle when tackling this though was that I didn't want this to be just a tracing thing. I wanted to come up with a fun design for Dolores to become, though I still needed the design to be able to work with and hide what was happening in the original frames. You can get a better look at what I came up with here. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g7QYKxKSYdmFBiGbFqPQwdmtngxZF-Hb?usp=sharing

Once I had a look for her I was happy with, I went right to sketching the in betweens, and here's where that frame rate thing came into play. I tried my best knowing that each frame would be on screen half as long as I normally have it, but I would not argue if anyone thought some parts still go by too fast, and due to this being a rotoscope thing, I can't just go in and add more in betweens without altering the original footage. I've still got ideas I think I can try when I get around to the final assembly, but I wanted to get that off my chest.

In short, the first gif is playing at the movie's original 24 frames per second while the second one plays at a slowed down, but more often used for animation 12 frames.

All in all though, I'm still really excited about these results, and though I went with a straightforward toon design this time, I think it would be super interesting so try this with all sorts of different tfs, Granted finding footage that lends itself to this sort of thing might be the tricky part. I hope you all find this as interesting as I find it.