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completed colouring of madeline from celeste! 🏔️🍓

Celeste: Madeline's Hair

The character sprite is drawn without her hair, and then we add it in afterwards in real time. The hair is a list of about 5 or 6 points that follow each other with an offset and maximum distance, with the first point being anchored to her head. Each point just draws a simple circle, reducing in size the further away it is.

The offsets of each point are usually down + slightly away from her (ex. -0.5, 2.0), so that in general they rest hanging downwards, however the offsets can be changed depending on the environment (ex. when there's wind the offsets are more like (-1, 0) so it doesn't fall).

There's also a few different frames of her bangs / top of her hair that covers up where this list of points actually meets her head. Each animation has metadata associated with it on where to render the hair, so they match up with the animation."

you're coming all the way from there, it looks like a movie scene..

✰ĖӾØ✰ // autumn in cotton // byun baek // 2024✰