Game Over (Patreon): Rae's Rubber Conundrum! (Patreon)

Oh no! Rae's run out of hit points/failed a critical objective/had a bad time! GAME OVER. Will you press start/insert coins to save her? 

Bad news: Rae's a doll forever. Good news, free mermaid sexdoll! She even squirms!

"Mermaid Rae" belongs to WagglingMermaid on DeviantArt and is used with permission!

Patron bonus: Alts:

Organic Rae:

Rubber Rae:

Endscreen loop:

The Rant:

Its a little late, but its here! I hope you guys like it; I know I'm super proud of it. Oddly enough the part (from last week) wasn't too hard.  Figuring out struggling animations isn't too hard anymore! Rather the hard part there was figuring out a background that Rae would both fit in, wouldn't require to much work from me, and would mesh well with her color pallet. I'm still figuring out backgrounds (color work doesn't seem to work without it), but I like what I got, and I think the pink-to-purple-to-blue color works and sells Rae's peril.

The fun thing is, these are all puppet animations, too! if you were to look at the Flash File, you'd be able to pull Rae apart based on her various pieces (hair, head, torso, boobs, front tail, back tail) on the different layers. Doing it like this allows me to stash animations inside each other (the different frames), and then add external animations (squash/stretch) on top of them. It also makes it easier to replace assets. Its why the organic and rubber animations are identical (barring the hair, which is too different between compositions to simple keey the same). 

As for the transformation itself, that was a little harder to figure out. I didn't want to animate the layer mask frame by frame; I just don't have the time, so I used a motion tween to basically "unhide" the rubber form. At the same time, because Rae bops up and down, it looked like Rae was tranforming and untransforming at the same time, and because of the incongruity with her different hair states, it gave her "floating" hair. Not quite the best. I think creating and animating a glow effect helped hide a lot of that by distracting from the particulars, but its not perfect.

As for part 2 (the endscreen):

I wish I'd storyboarded both sequences properly, because I ended up doing several takes before I found an animation I liked. That's a lot of wasted time. That's kind of the point of storyboarding; to iron out these kinks and figure out logistical hypothetical problems before they become actual problems. I didn't think I needed to because of they're being loops and a short animation at that, but the fact that I'm writing this a day late shows That I probably should. 

Anyway, I like the third version of this animation (I don't have any plans for rendering the other two parts). Very expressive despite Rae's predicament!

What do you guys think? More Game overs? let me know!