i didn't do as much as i wanted

day16: i worry about time

today time: 4h36min [ the amount that i got myself to work in 12 hours of trying ]

total time: 62h50min

all advice appreciated

i did experiment a bit with how to get an animation shot to come together, and in 4 hours i didn't really get to a place where i know for sure how to make the finished pieces

there was googling that went nowhere, searching on forums for past questions, didn't even result in finding someone who asked the questions i had, idk how to find info online, it's happened with every topic, and anytime i've found helpful information it's felt lucky

anyway, maybe i have a little bit of an idea

you do some amount of an asset? workflow, make a background with vector lines, and save as an SVG file [scalable vector graphic] that way you can change its size, zoom in etc. without causing pixelated visuals without meaning to

when you animate you bring in your background and then animate over it obviously

i thought about a combo of drawing animation [as opposed to like a 2d animation rig / "puppet animation" idk the name, i like it a lot it's a cool style, but wanna try drawing animation]

and having an svg of the ears, so that i didn't have to draw them, i would bring in the same ones and animate them in place behind there heads, i never figured it out i would need to ask someone directly how i could go about doing a workflow like that

hopefully i can get in contact with people at some point in this process and get animation workflow help, to just be able to ask a person and work through it one on one

idk if anyone does that im just hoping, im also terrified of doing that because of how my brain works, but it's... fine... i'll do it eventually :3

but yeah, something that did sort of work is bring in images of the characters as "planes" [because im working in blender 2d]

just clicking and draging doesn't work dik what it does but i think it'll ruin the result, so you bring those things in as planes

anyway it gives a reference for what they're supposed to look like, and you can even trace over it, it's your own drawing

i wanted to have some animation done but i'll do next, i might not even need to finish the dick and milo episode in order for it to showcase enough ability to get into the halloween collab, i just hope that it won't be off-putting for it to be an unfinished project

anyway :3