Published: October 22nd 2024, 2:25:03 am
Hi everyone, here is the first WIP for the Cynthia animation!
So to start off with, I'm not that familiar with pokemon so I did a bit of reading of the wiki page for Cynthia. As far as I can tell, she seems to be a pretty minor character with sparse lore so there's nothing really in particular for me to base a scene off of so I'm essentially just coming up with one out of the blue for this one.
This felt like a good opportunity for an animation featuring three guys again so I'm doing basically the same combo that I did for the Kronii animation from a while back just with a slightly different pose and angle. I'm taking some creative liberty with the character design since she looks like a stick in her official artwork. I'm probably going to do two different outfits for this one - one with her black dress, probably altered a bit, and one nude with just some accessories like stockings, scarf, and hair ornaments.
As for the bg, I'm thinking an outdoor scene for a change, perhaps something like the Zero Two or Tohru animations, with a bit of pokemon flavored props here and there, as well as just a big ol' Garchomp snoozing in the background (I'm pretty sure that's her pokemon).
Also, this has animation taken a frustratingly long time to start since my tech curse continues. I'm not having any issues with the tablet since getting the replacement but I've now started getting bsods, at least one per drawing session. I'm not sure whats causing it really, googling the stop code tells me it's most likely a driver issue but all my drivers are up to date as far as I can tell so it's really anyone's guess as to what's wrong with my pc this time. Whenever a crash happens, I end up having to take like 3 times as long to draw what got lost because I can never quite get it to look as good as it did the first time, and then I end up getting frustrated and that makes me draw even worse.
In any case, I'm pretty happy with how the animation is coming together, despite the setbacks. Hopefully the pc curse resolves itself at some point, and I can return to my normal workflow.
Anyways, that's all for now, next character poll should be up by the end of week. I hope you all look forward to the animation!