#ouatis animated

Anyways, I also created these semi-realistic/oil painting inspired portraits of Snow, Cinders, and Rose for a 6 hour long presentation I'm making for my friends about the mechs, so have these until I have enough of the animation done to share:

I was not entirely happy with the original design I came up with so here's the updated version. The main changes have been to her cloak/robes and her colour scheme because I got told she looked like is Jon from TMA was a space priest and I couldn't unsee it. She still looks priest-like but whatever, I have no idea what a propaganda minister would wear other than the fact her outfit does involve some sort of robes. I also wanted to make her look less imposing compared to my original design (even though the sketch I posted did not look remotely imposing) seeing as her power comes from the way people believe that she is working in their best interest and truly cares for their well being, her broadcasts are even referred to as "fireside chats" if I remember correctly, so I wanted her to look a bit softer but still have very dead eyes and more threatening colour scheme, if that makes any sense.

Anyways, she also ended up with knee high leather boots in this for some reason but I will most likely swap those out with more hidden shoes and a long skirt because I feel like that suits the character better.

(and let's ignore my incredibly ugly handwriting)

This took ages and he's literally just a bald stick figure but look at him go!!! He's moving!!!

I have also redesigned him because my sibling keeps calling him knockoff Viktor, which is why he is still a weird little bald creature in the video, the design below was finished just now

These are all very quick and messy in order to get the ideas out but here is the basic thought process behind all of them:

Design 1: Based loosely around British military uniforms in the 1800's

Design 2: Basically just the official design for her but with a more muted colour pallet

Design 3: The original design I came up with, but I fully forgot to add the scarf thing

Wedding dress A: I wanted a more medieval style dress option since I find them gorgeous, and it's more simple to animate other than the sleeves

Wedding dress B: I adore regency era fashion, and the original Snow White and Rose Red myth was written around 1815 I think, so it's a nod to that

Wedding dress C: I honestly just thought there should be a more modern design that is closer to the official art

Rose vs Rose Red: I wanted Rose to have a much more human and flawed look to her, so while yes, they are technically identical, Rose Reds just lack the messy humanness of the original Rose, which is why their hair would be much more put together and they wouldn't have something like her scar (at least at first, they can of course get scars, but they are not created with her battle scars).

Anyways, please tell me which designs y'all prefer, because honestly I love them all for different reasons and I'd love to have other input on this project!

Also it was mentioned by y'all in my last post about this that some of you would want to be tagged in future posts about this so I'm starting a taglist

From left to right we've got pre-war/pre-wedding day slaughter, her wedding dress, and finally during/post war.

Reasoning for design choices: For her first outfit I wanted it to be reminiscent of the rags version of cinderella in one specific version of the book that I found ages ago, while still having more regal and royal touches, like the lace, large sleeves, and corset. Her wedding dress is honestly just a classic wedding dress look, though I did originally include touches inspired by wedding dresses from the 1690's that I had to scrap due to how difficult it would be to draw consistently. For her third outfit I wanted her to have a unique colour scheme and style, separate from those of the rebels or the crown forces, which have main colours of greens & earthy neutrals, and reds & blacks, respectively. I wanted her to look put together but also worn down and like she's been doing things on her own for a while, so it's much less formal or precise in exact style like everyone else.

Also here is the comsat Cheshire from Alice since I will also be animating that once I'm done with OUATIS

I think that I have successfully captured the exasperation Nastya is feeling here, hopefully I've done her justice. And the hair is a little bit janky but I absolutely fucking despise drawing and animating hair so that's how it will stay for now at least. (also ignore the fact her lips aren't synced properly, I may or may not have forgotten to sync them and then rushed to get them halfway done)

ALSO AN UPDATE: I have been super burnt out from art and writing and basically anything creative for a while now so absolutely no new animation has been made, however I have been able to start figuring out some story boarding for some of the other songs, such as "The Twins" (which I technically already finished story boarding months ago before I updated the designs, so now it's mainly just updating them with the new designs). Hopefully I will get the energy to do more soon!

This is obviously very rough and not synced to any music, but that's because it is just a test and I really love how it looks even in this state, so I'm very excited to go into the actual animation for this song!!

I also realised while making this I never posted my designs for Adam or the Red Hood, and while I don't have any digital drawings of Red, I do have this incredibly rough sketch of Adam from notes app

This colour scheme is not set, save for the red cloak, so if y'all have any preferences or ideas on what his colours should be, or just general design thoughts, feel free to let me know, because I don't entirely love this look.

And also, if y'all remember my early posts about this project, you might remember the fact that I was trying to colour code the designs, with red being mostly reserved for the crown forces (save for Red Hood, obviously). Adam wears mainly crown colours though, why? Well, if you've read the official fiction about him, you'll know he had been used as a weapon by the crown until the rebels managed to get him to fall for Belle. I honestly feel like because he was loyal to Belle and not the cause, it wouldn't make sense for him to have a whole switch in style of dressing, especially when he's written to be so mentally broken and almost animalistic, it likely wouldn't be a priority to him. Besides, much like Red, he still has roots in the Crown, so mixing the colours of the two sides shows that visually.

And you can't see it in my sketch, but my version of Adam has a prosthetic arm! After his torture at the hands of The Suitor, and the Crown, and even the rebels, plus all the combat, I think it's pretty likely he'd end up losing a limb or two, plus we know they have fancy high tech stuff, so it kinda just makes sense to me that he'd end up with a cool prosthetic of some kind.

Ignore the random spots with nothing going on, for some reason the video refused to let me edit it so they're just stuck there. But anyways this is still more or less the plan for this part of the songs, of course with updated character and set designs, but similar regardless.