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A Night in Liyue - Prank Gone Wrong WiP #4c
Published: September 17th 2024, 1:30:02 pm
My Toughest Scene Yet!.. No wonder it's so hard to find good knotting references :/
Watch through Mega:
https://mega.nz/file/5PNGxTQS#SJqdeAJ-4aO2uofLsDsgRfsaOad5IotewW_9pFG4LS8
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Ngl... this scene just refuses to cease it's glorious butt kicking -_-
I'm still not exactly sure why this scene in particular gave me this much trouble pulling it off... Might be a combination of a bunch of diff factors, or maybe the knotting scene was just that much of a beast to animate XD
Anyways, I'm just glad this scene is all done and dusted. Ofc there's still a bunch of smol "could-be-betters" that needs to be fixed, but that's a problem for future me to handle :p
On another topic... Some time ago, I received a feedback on Xiangling's hair, not looking its best in certain angles, especially when it's moving about... So I made some improvements! Adding thickness to her bangs and side hairs so that it'll hopefully look good no matter what angle it's looked at!
And while I was at it, I also upgraded Hu Tao's hair as well!.. Inspired by Koleda's hair design from ZZZ, I added some minor additional details and a smol ahoge to add interest to her... admittedly plain looking head whenever her hat is off. And with what Xiangling has in store for her, it's defo gonna come off at some point :3
Ofc Sucrose and Lumine also got some love in the hair department too!.. Updating their ponytail rigs, similar to that of Hu Tao's new-ish bezier hair rig. Just so I don have to do nearly as much manual animations for those in the future.
And the last one that got an upgrade, is my monitor!
Upgrading my current 2nd hand monitor to a pro-art one so that I can finally see the "tRuE" colors of my animation!.. Whiiich is... apparently a lot more orange than what I'm used to... huh...
I guess that means my previous monitor had a blue tint to it. Meaning all my previous works and illustrations were a bit more orange-y than what I had intended :/
I have been saving up for this for a while now and only bought the smallest one, but ngl, it still defo hurt quite a bit XD... I'm just not used to spending this much money on... anything. But ig it is a necessity if I really wanna be serious with color grading moving forward and making my animations look as good as possible :3
I still haven't manually calibrated it yet tho so I'm still relying on it's factory settings. And I have heard that it is still a good idea to have it calibrated. But it'll have to wait a bit till I can find and borrow one, or just buy one :/
Last but not least... Super sorry bout the delay in posting this polished wip. I just reeeally wanted to make the knotting scene look as good as I possibly can. Coz ngl, the ass whooping I got from that scene kinda made me take this one personally lol... Imma give it my super best to post the next wip before the end of the month to make up for it tho!
But yeah!.. I haven't had a day off in 20 days now and my laundry pile is looking more like a laundry mountain atp, so I should prolly tend to that rn XD
And that's about it!.. Hope you like it you absolute Chad!