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I would fly you to the moon and back If you'll be, if you'll be my baby I've got a ticket for a world where we belong

this is like the first non school art ive done in months i might put her in my sidebar or something. who knows

speedpaint:

my bit for the @bnhaoc-zine ! 

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"CASSIDY A. PERTURE (THE GATEWAY HERO) made her debut in 2012 with the defeat of then-notorious criminal ringleader RUST. Since then, she has proved her worth time and again with her bravery and indomitable can-do spirit (not to mention her ability to send fists flying through portals up to 50 meters away with her Quirk!) PORTAL has also been the face of justice on multiple non-combat fronts, as evidenced by her advocacy for disabled and LGBT teenagers and other at-risk communities. In her off time, PORTAL cites an interest in crafting - namely, knitting and crocheting wearables and accessories for family and friends."

first up a glance at my setup - for this I used a dslr hooked up to a computer running dragonframe to shoot each frame, which is really instrumental in getting all the fiddly bits down and good.

me in the process of shooting frames (full video can be found on my insta)

I shot each part as a full scene with very little compositing. almost every frame is something I built out of paper bits and arranged on that stage there.

"but Danny both your hands are on screen for like half of this how did you take the pictures" do you see that paintbrush in my mouth. that is the answer

what a great storyboard. I'm kidding it sucks I'm only showing this for disclosure but i really really need to work on using better structured boards. the idea is to nail down everything that happens without backing yourself into a corner.

more on the puppets I didn't really get pics of these but I sewed the fish body together so it could bend and cut out four tail fin positions (both sides, wide and thin) each from different paper patterns as well as a couple side fin positions, substituting whichever was appropriate or just felt right for the point in the animation I was at. also included a couple scales and stuff

smaller fish were two parts each, body and tail. the fisherman at the end is drawn with ballpoint pen on tracing paper (13 frames) which I cut out and used just as another part of the composition on the stage

I definitely went through and cleaned out half of the scrapbook paper in the michaels clearance section for this project js and i would do it again in a heartbeat

the only compositing I did here was the loop of the fish overlaid 3 times and that was pretty simple, just cut out the clip I needed and messed with the colors a couple times before layering them