Descent Scene 1st Draft/Idea
Looking at Calendar
"Happy Birthday Goober!"
The Basement is Watching
Basement Descent Scene Concept
"Evil Basement is Evil"
Cut Creature Cafe Scene
Animatic/Blocking for the descent using Keyframes
Lineart and Style Change w/ some color and in-betweens!
The Final Shot, fully colored and ready to go!
Creature Cafe Descent Scene Progression and Cleanup
Hare Concept Design
Hare Concept Colors
Hare Horn Replacements
Lich Design V1
Lich Concept Sketches
Lich Design w/ Lineart
First Draft of Lich Design
Lich Color Drafts (Purple and Green Bones)
Lich Color Drafts (Yellow Bones)
"Bunny Chase" Scene
I started off with keying and inbetweening the first half of the rough animation, using the animatic as aid for figuring out Key points (rotating bodies is one of the hardest things to do in 2D animation so this took me a while). The latter half when the Lich is closer, I just made really rough keys to figure out the arc in which he was moving
Then I started refining the animation more in the latter half of the animation to make it as smooth as the first, adding weight to the lich as it pushes off of the rock. However, there was still work to be done like adding the hair and some slight errors in how it looks.
I got to fixing up the roughs by starting with a major problem the team's 2D Lead pointed out: The shrinking tail. Throughout the process I kept lengthening it as I went along to make sure it was the perfect size and on-model.
Once that was done, two more struggles were found: The lack of a hair and a small waist. Thus, I added a baseline for where the hair should be (to figure out the volume and where it would be placed on the body), attach the tail to the back more smoothly, and shrink the waist a bit so there was a noticeable gap
After the main problems were resolved, I decided to add small details due to the lich being closer to the camera, like where the ribs and sternum of the creature would be positioned on the body, that way when the line art process comes around, I know exactly where to position them on the body, as well as some last-minute touches on proportions that may be a bit off.
All that's left to do was the line art! Of course, since Animate is a vector-based software, I had to make sure the lines were connected so that when it went on to coloring, no color leaks out everywhere on the screen. Also gives them less work to clean-up the linework in the long run.
For a cleaner look at the line art (and animation in general), here it is without the animatic background!