Un-Animated

Finally fully finished a nice, new picture, made it all nice ‘n shiny, and posted it to FA. I rather dig how well it came out, even though I restarted the shading on it about three times… anyway, if there’s one big thing that bugs me about it, it’s that because it’s only cell shaded, there’s no reason I shouldn’t have animated it. Alright, maybe not that picture in particular, because there’s not a whole lot I could have done with it due to the pose, but for the most part, I’m always kinda’ disappointed these days after “completing” a cell shaded picture. The technique for converting an image to an animation isn’t hard, and it doesn’t even take that long, adding maybe an hour or two more to the process if it adds time at all. I’m trying to learn more realistic shading to avoid all that nonsense, but when I feel like being lazy, I revert to cell, and then I get sad.

I know a number of people at this point are probably wondering “If it’s really so easy, why isn’t that Renamon animation done yet?” and the answer is that I don’t know what to do with it. Add in breast expansion, maybe change to a full body inflation, or hourglass, should I make it manual, or just click and watch; I’m still deciding on that stuff, but that’s besides the point. The main thing is that, barring a few little non-creation related hiccups, the total work time of that animation will be barely longer than the image I’d just posted.

So what does this mean for everyone else? What’s the point of making yet another whiny ass post? Well, there isn’t one, really. I guess just take from it the knowledge that, in the future, if ever you see me post something that is just cell shaded, you can feel warm and fuzzy being 'in the know’ about the fact that I was probably just being a lazy. Also, assuming I can actually build up the willpower for it, I’m also kinda’ saying that I have every intention to begin spewing forth far more animations in the future than have ever been seen before.