disco elysium storyboard/animatic to ashes to ashes by david bowie
this was the final project for my storyboarding class. it's not nearly as polished as I would've liked, but i did what I could within the limited timeframe I had.
ideally I would have been able to add more characters, I was going to have Titus and Joyce as part of the little questioning sequence too but I just couldn't make it work with the timing of the music. I also would have liked to include more of the skill portraits as well.
when I showed it to my professor he said I did a good job making a sad song even more depressing. so I consider that a success.
I'm actually a huge fan of enemies to lovers because I do think it's hot but to be clear "enemies to I think you're attractive and that's overcoming my hatred of you" sucks ASS the trope is about growing RESPECT and GENUINE AFFECTION the POINT is that they always found each other attractive but it doesn't MATTER until they also have a solid relationship built on trust respect and friendship!!!!! Do you understand my vision!!!!
A lot of modern magical writers talk about Crowley like they're the first person to realize he was a shithead. But whats hilarious is that even his contemporaries were like "This dude is a cunt and we hate him but wow he's really good at ritual magic."
🍄 just opened tiktok and several thousand people decide to stop boycotting McDonald's just because McDonald's is having a collab with Jjk. Seriously? They're saying stuff like they don't care abt the boycott, switching up just bc McDonald's happens to collab with a popular anime. Yeah, no. It's literally so easy to buy nuggets and fries from a nearby store and you can easily make a burger yourself, so what do you need McDonald's for?
🍄 REAL like there's some honestly low-quality jjk merch that you can either buy somewhere else or make plushies urself it's not incredibly hard to just not be lazy ????
frrrrrrr why go to mcdonalds for crunchyroll logos???? its insanity. and its SO EASY TO MAKE JJK plushies i crocheted a gojo catoru a few months ago and ya my man's a little wonky but he's still cute!
speaking of merch! If yall are interested in jjk merch that helps Palestine then-
gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today
rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS
THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!
in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:
more granular rambling beneath the cut!
u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.
example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.
anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:
i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.
since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.
also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao
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