MPES Test Animation [March 2024]
First of all, sorry for not posting for months, alot have happened during that time and there were more important things at hand. Here's a technical MPES update, although I am unsure of the show's condition at this moment, this was done back in March using both Microsoft Paint and Adobe Animate and I only now realised I never did share it here:
Test animation finished March 2024 (Around March 25th if I remember correctly)
For more context of what a MPES even is, click here to view my original post about it
Overall I am very content with how this came out, and while I'm not sure if MPES will even be made, and I'll be straight up honest, I don't think it will (atleast for the time being, due to reasons such as personal stuff and me not being sure if I currently can handle a seralised show like this, so if it is, probably will be a long while from now), I thought I should atleast share some of what I did even if it is quite old now, and hopefully if I do make any more MPES related stuff, I'll try my best to share it here, but remember that never will guarentee that this show will exist LOL
- Development Comment:
Following what I said in the original post, my goal for this new iteration of MPES is to try and make it feel like Microsoft Paint as much as I could, and the most authentic way of doing that in my opinion was trying to animate in the actual Microsoft Paint as much as I reasonbly could, with me optint to compile all the drawn character sprites / finished animation in Adobe Animate afterwards. This begun with me opening up a new canvas in the Microsoft Paint, and using it to draw and store each character sprite, with an onionskin being achieved through recolouring the outlines and using transparent selection. Once a character sprite was done, I use Paint.net to make the sprite transparent, before compiling the animation in Adobe Animate in a similar vain to traditional sprite animation. The Microsoft Paint UI in the animation was made using edited screenshots of MS Paint, and was added while compiling the animation in Adobe Animate. While tedious and time consuming, this process was quite some fun, and does leave a sprite-sheet looking canvas in Microsoft Paint itself afterwards which is kind of funny to look at!
[Animation finished in March 2024 | Blog posted to Tumblr 03/07/2024]