#ask drakgo

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"As for me? Well, probably green too. It reminds me of delicious pistachio ice cream."

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New pfp and header image for @askdrakgo @bexdrey lined the header image as well. She's really nailing the lineart style now! Both of us can now do lining for the animations which will cut time down a ton ♥

Work is coming along nicely on the next one, and we can't wait to show it to the community ^^

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WIP frames from update #6. Line and color work has begun.

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New animated short releasing soon tonight. We hope you all enjoy it!

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Timelapse of the animation work for update # 5 of Ask Drakgo

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Another update on this. Finally got around to attempting line and color in TB, and It didn't come out as bad as I originally thought. In terms of pure messiness, It's a lot closer to the original show than the original SAI2 frame, but my lack of a steady hand lead to some parts being a little too janked. Modern art programs have made me soft and reliant on stabilizers lol.

As much as I want to, I don't know if incorporating TB into the workflow is the best decision, and It's not the fault of the program entirely itself, but rather the CRT I'm viewing it on. Being a 24 year old screen, It's not as sharp as it used to be, and the fuzziness of the screen causes eye strain fairly quickly. Not to mention something about using an old computer onsets bad posture, so my neck and back were pretty sore by the end of it 💀. I may look into getting a period accurate LED screen, but even then the color accuracy on those from the time is painfully inaccurate compared to the CRTs. Old Toon Boom also is horrendous for the workflow I wanted to establish with it. Importing sketch frames and positioning them correctly is a nightmare, and the way coloring works a little weird as well. There's no easy way to merge drawing layers, so if you want to color fill, you need to go into each drawing layer and cut + paste it into the layer below, until they're all on one.

This did answer a bit question of mine though, and that was whether or not direct replication of the linework is possible with my setup. At first from screen caps I couldn't tell if they were using some sort of textured brush or something, but now that I've seen pretty much all options of the program, lines in the show were definitely just pure vanilla vector brush. This essentially means that I was on the right track before with my SAI2+Nezumi setup, I just need to start giving less of a shit when I do lines. Every time I think I've got the perfect amount of mess, I look at an actual frame from the show and realize I'm still doing things too clean. I need to do frames as if I'm on a time crunch and just want to go home and see my family at the end of the day.

TLDR: yay I did it but neck and eyes ouchie also old program hard