AbbyMations (Early Access): Swirly shortstack swooning! (Patreon)

Synopsis/Description: 

The boobnosis is too strong for Abby! Its hard to blame her; you're not exactly clicking away yourself, either, are you? 

Nude/Topless Alt:

The Rant: 

I'm really proud of this one. I learned a couple of new cheats that, admittedly, I don't know how to apply outside the context of this one specific gif (though I am trying), but when I master the technique, oh, man, My Abby Content's gonna level up a lot!

So, Ever since watching this Game Developer's conference video about animating in Adobe Flash (now Adobe Animate), I've been trying to integrate more symbol usage into my content. The problem I always ran into was that I could never prepare the symbols properly for animation. If I prepped the assets without doing proper pre-production, the assets simply wouldn't fit. If I did too much animation prep, I'd run into the problem where I was making so many assets, it was just better/easier/faster to animate the entire thing traditionally.

So, how did I do it here? Well, I:

• sketched out the key poses
• Built assets for each major body part based on those key poses
• separated each body part's assets into layers so they can be tweened
• tweened the assets and adjusted the timing
• cleaned the assets

Its both more and less complicated than it sounds, and it helps that Abby's not doing a lot of different body poses, so its much easier to re-use assets.

The thing that I'm really proud of, is the tweens. I've never been able to get "motion inbetween frames" (tweens for short) to really work for me. Because tweens tend to smooth out the animation in a straight line, and even my SFW is very much ...not about that, they tend to look janky, even when I set them up to look actually good. I got around it this time by being much more meticulous with the key frames the tweens would use as reference point but it still looked uncanny until I adjust the easing on the tweens, so Abby would start slow then speed up, then slow down again as she massaged herself. I think that ended up being a lot more naturalistic. Still needs a little work (her boobs feel like she's rubbing a marble, rather than "boobs") but I'm really proud of this you guys!

What do you think? Let me know in the comments; your feedback lets me know how I'm doing! Thanks for your support and patronage, and I'll catcha over yonder!

-Saunter!