katsonomi

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Added 2025-06-16 13:00:08 +0000 UTC

omg this was an interesting one hehe

Cut number 14! >_< Though I decided I'll be adding a few additional scenes at the beginning to fluff up the setting.

Rough Animation

Similar to my previous post, I drew the two "extreme poses" pull out/push in, 1 and 2, but this only has 4 drawings. 3 and 4 are my inbetween references to make inbetweening easier since the spacing between the drawings is quiet wide. If I wanted to I could add in more inbetweens to slow down the movement.

This part is douga. It's the final line art before color. The lines are clean vectors, with little to no tapering, no antialiasing to make using the paint bucket easily fill all the space.

Now the paint bucket tools. Lots of clicking to fill the large spaces of color. Then to fill smaller details I will use another paint bucket tool that is more precise and can more easily paint over the color separation lines.

This is pre-compositing, so the colors are very flat and neutral. No gradients.

Now in After Effects I will use OLM's Open Tools plugins. I duplicate the layer and isolate the pink tip by selecting the color(s) I want with OLM's Color Keep plugin and create a gradient effect with OLM's Blur plugin. I also duplicate the layer and isolate the highlights and use gaussian blur+hard light layer mode to make it shiny.

Then I use OLM's Smoother to soften the lines since there was no antialiasing on the lines previously, and then I start color grading. Adding a vignette, adjusting the color with curves and brightness/contrast until it looks nice. It's easy to get caught up making micro adjustments during color grading, so I often set a timer so I don't over do it.