AbbyMations (Patreon): Game Over - Abby's Slimy Cuddles! (Patreon)

Synopsis/Description: 

Whu-oh!
Kinda hard to avoid tentacles ministrations when encased in slime but Abby's gonna do her best! Too bad its'... 

GAME. OVER.
(press start/insert coin to continue?) 

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The Rant: 

Woof, this one was a doozy!

Admittedly, the first part was pretty simple (you've seen Abby strung up and struggling before), but the latter half? Not so much. 

A lot of that has to do with the process of reinvention every artist needs to go through every few years, when what they're trying to do clashes with what they're learning to do, and what the already know how to do. For me, its (repeatedly) trying to learn how to properly merge symbol animation with traditional animation to make the former feel like the latter with a little less stress.

Once the key frames were locked in, It was pretty simple to figure out which pieces needed to be separated, but I don't think it was entirely successful. I think, what really helped were the tentacles and the sound effects. Both distract from how choppy and incoherent certain parts of the main loop are, and smooth it out a lot. This is probably one of the few animations where I think a voice could really push this into overdrive, and luckily, we're about to have some luck in that department in the future, but you'll have to wait to see how that turns out.

The other interesting thing to me is how being part of a story stretches out a lot of the main beats. Less charitably, you could call this "filler" or "expanded universe," but I'm hoping you're feeling charitable because I'm the main author of both the "canon" and "non-canon" Abbycontent (can I really make "non-canon" Abbywork, as the main creator? *don't actually answer this). What should be a skip from the strip preceding this to the one following it, is actually an ordeal which sees Abby struggling with slime, dragged into the shadow, and now molested by tentacles. How much weirder is this going to get for her? And Amber? (you know stuff is going to happen to Amber)

Gotta stay tuned to find out!

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

-Saunter!