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Issue 15-02.5 (Bonus page!)

fukujinzuke

on March 28, 2010

EDIT: New DD format won't animate gif so here's the link:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/gud4ad8/SHELL/SHELL-15002b.gif

Bonus animated page! Surprise!

It's a rather short animation, I know, but it fits right in between yesterday's and tomorrow's pages.

So basically, for the first part, I drew up the blast sphere riding Rime, then duplicated and flipped it and changed opacity to create the reflection on the floor. Then I just used that and scaled it up and down to create the flyback. The key to that movement is that there are more frames of Rime flying back as he gets farther from camera. I added some icy trails per frame to give the movement more drama, then the collision crash is pretty much just smokey debris with a sudden burst at the moment of impact, then on to a slower spread.

For SHELL, I had to redraw and re-color his torso and legs for each frame of the standing movement, but I recycled the colored (flats only) head throughout since that remains constant.