(WIP) [ANIMATION] NMN "Background" (Patreon)

Man, I invested all this mental energy into coming up with my super fucking hilarious story last post, that I don't know what to write here. Shit. I'm losing my edge.

Speaking of edge, I hope this one is doing it for y'all so far. There we go, there's one joke.

Here's the background. I'm sure it's like, not amazing, but I'm pretty happy with it. Once again, I used a bunch of stamp brushes as such a damn crutch. But! I actually did some real painting! The trees are actually painted by me. I used a cool brush that's like, one of those... blending knives? Wet knives? You usually see Renaissance painters using them. I mean, representations of Renaissance painters, because I think all those guys are dead. So, I actually did the painting there, and I'm sure it looks like ass, but I'm happy I learned how to do it. That's definitely something I want to do, become a real painter. 

I may or may not modify it. Something I want to do, which I think looks super cool, is have them in shadow, and you see light coming through the leaves. Like this:

I used this as reference. Looking at it makes my background look like fucking amateur hour. Anyways, see how they're in shadow? And they've got a little bit of light on them, coming through the leaves? I kinda want to try that. As they are right now, though, they're fully in light. So, we'll see. Maybe I'll try it. Or maybe I'll just finish it. My friend was giving me all these pointers about light and shadow, and subsurface scattering, and direction, and all that. Great things to know. But like, all I could think of was, "This is porn." Am I really going to get flamed for screwing up some of the art? I think like, it it bothers me, and I want to learn it, I'll do it. If I'm indifferent towards it, I think maybe my time would be better used working towards getting a project finished so I can move onto the next one. 

Anyways, that's all the basic static stuff done. Onto animation. I think this one will be pretty fast, maybe like, the pace of that Sandy one. That one was only four frames. If that's the case, it won't take too long to get this one done. Staaaaaay tuned.

- KYDE