#sonadow animatic

Oh my gosh, what a project.

Let me preface this by saying I am not an animator. I’ve done a couple of like >5s animations before for fun, but this was a WHOLE different beast. I know most of it is really an animatic, but there are some parts where I was doing frame by frame animation (albeit a low fps). I bought Procreate Dreams and learnt A LOT!

Anyway, the story…

This is based LOOSELY on a not-yet-published au (not my au) in which Sonic and Shadow are aerial acrobats. I kind of diverged from that story and made up my own just for this song, but it’s based on that AU (or what I knew of it at the time I started this!)

Sonic is a reckless, self-taught acrobat with no regard for the rules or his own safety. Shadow is a disciplined and academy-trained, but woefully retired, acrobat who left that world behind after Maria’s accident. In this song, Sonic is begging Shadow to join him on the rope. It shocks everyone, Sonic included, when Shadow finally relents and steps onto that rope for the first time in years to perform with him.

I *was* going to add the original draft to showcase my progress but alas "one video per post" so here's a link to another post with it