Fanimations (Early Access): Naomi's Tickle Hogtie! (Patreon)

Synopsis/Description: 

Inspired by this post on @BoundPretties 's Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/naomi-dealers-30681473), I decided to dispense with the suspense and give Naomi the tickle treatment! Certainly looks like she's enjoying herself! 

Alt. versions:

Like Abby, Naomi also has an evil/hornier doppleganger, "Tanya." In fact, Naomi's Doppleganger inspired Nabby! Since Tanya's a pallet swap with glasses, its pretty easy to get her out her secretary outfit and in ropes as well, so here you go!

The Rant:

So, sometimes, I see someone else's art, and I can see it either in my own style/interpretation, I can see myself following up on it, or I want to see it animated! So I hit up the artist for permission (the most important part), and get to work!

Admittedly, tickling isn't normally a thing for me. Part of it is being ticklish myself, and having never been in a setting where that's been enjoyable for me... yet. Being strapped down, naked, blindfolded (ballgag optional) with no clue where the next attack might come from... tears streaming down my cheeks from laughter... mmm.... Well, shit, I just made myself horny. Fuck.

aaanywaaay....

The way BoundPretties draws the human form, where almost every part of the damsel's form feels as soft and squishy as boobs is really arousing, as is the way they depict distressed expressions. Their style of bondage/DID was a bit of an influence on Abby and the situations she gets into. So when I saw Naomi hogtied and panicked about getting tickled, I HAD to animate it.

In terms of technique, this was one of those deceptively simple animations, because the character needs be able to squirm in a way that feels desperate, as opposed to the regular feisty squirming.  Also, on the "bounce" frames, where she's in the air, I needed some kind of "hold" frame, so I could have the boobs jiggle. It needed to be well enough, that it didn't feel like she was hovering in the air though.

To that end, I started the way I do with most struggle animations: one squash pose and two opposing stretch poses.

 From there, its pretty easy to modify the boobs and hair as separate assets on top of the torso. This is why, if you've ever watched me animate these things on stream, Abby has a "bald flatboard" version of all her animations. If I try to animate everything on the same layer/process cycle, the boobs don't have that distinctive delayed overlap that gives them their jiggle. You see it a lot in illustrators-turned-wannabe-animators: the boob and hair feel plasticly and solid, because there's no overlap. Since they usually do everything on the same layer/production cycle (where they have to draw everything at the same time), there's no way to offset the boobs, so they feel more like pectoral tumors than bags of fat hanging off the chest.

From there, its just cleaning up assets. I need to start creating color pallets for this stuff, because that's basically what happens: swapping in warm and cool colors for highlights and shadows, and then, as a final step, swapping pink and purple for the blond hair and brown outlines of Naomi to get "Tanya." Sadly, that's not really possible with Abby and Nabby, due to Nabby's vastly different texture and lighting composition. I'd basically have to re-illustrate on top of Abby's existing assets, and this assumes Nabby moves the same way as Abby, which she doesn't.

Either way, this was definitely fun and worth it.  Its why I have the suggestion thread (which I need to get to); I've been pretty blessed with an infinite wellspring of external inspiration, which, barring motivational issues on occasion, assures I will never run out of ideas for content to produce!

What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments; this stuff helps me steer in the right direction! Thanks for your continued patronage, and I'll catcha over yonder!

-Saunter!