Generally, I don't like posting non OC stuff but I made this back in January for a friend (These are his OCs) for Secret Santa (yes it was late for secret santa cus this took like 3 weeks to make XD) but considering I made the music, animated, composited, and made Synthesizer V voice acting for it, I'm satisfied enough to post it since it turned out exactly as I envisioned :D
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Process Overview:
Script
Storyboard
3D Mockups
Background Art
Music Production
Proxy Assets
Compositing Using Proxies of Assets (Embed Youtube Video)
Animating Kavad
Animating the Henchmen
Final Composition
There was a lot of back and forth between creating proxy assets and compositing with them, checking progress with each update that I make to the asset, that looks as intended.
Process Breakdown:
I started out with a script and general plan:
I then created a very rough storyboard:
I then made a 3D Mockup in blender:
Then I created some background art for it:
I forgot if I made the Music and Voice acting before or after I drew the background.. But I'll insert that step here..
For Music production, I used Fruit Loop Studio:
VSTs:
Pendulate
Ferrum
and a Custom sound that I made in Vital
and for Synthesizer V, I used the Saki Lite Voicebank on Synthesizer Studio V1 (Personally I found V1 to be.. better in some ways than V2..)
The Synthesizer V setup looked like this, though I missed a section when I was building it out so I ended up adding some space before creating the part I need to relocate, and used Da Vinci to chop the audio at the right place and move that section back in.
The Synthesizer V process looks something like this though this is a separate example in case you want to see how I actually do this (though keep in mind this vid is long so you probs wanna skip around):
With the Proxies, Music, and VA done, I started doing some compositing in Da Vinci Resolve:
Eventually I finished the Background which looked like this without the flame animations:
Then I animated the characters in Clip studio paint..
I exported the characters, as well as the different layers of Effects Assets as png sequence images:
After that, it was just a matter of doing more video editing and compositing...
Overall, I spent close to 40 hours on this project across 3 weeks and I'm quite proud of how it turned out.
It was definitely a good learning experience for me as my previous fully rendered and composited animation was from back in 2022 (for my Rooftop Night Watch AMV):
If you read this far, thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed the behind-the-scenes stuff!
-Mitsuki