Another thing that I have been working on for the longest time now, is a Klonoa/Aida AU. I've been fairly hush-hush about this, and only threw little hints and tidbits around to people who knew me on skype or had my phone number. I still have a lot I'd like to work on and I'm completely in love and invested in this AU, so you guys will see more of this in the future!
However, I also have some bad news, in the sense that an animatic I've been working on for this AU has been put on indefinite hold. It's just because not only has this just been the absolute worst way to put together an animatic (I'll explain later) but I'm also just generally unsatisfied with how the final product looks in its movement. I feel like Janga should have a much looser, more fluid look to him, yes, even in an animatic, and I might just end up fully animating this one day to give it the movement and look it deserves.
But yes, the process I used to make this thing was disgusting. First, I hand drew everything on paper, then had to scan each individual sheet (I think the total count came to almost 20 double sided sheets???) which I get is typical for animation but... I just shouldn't have done this on paper... This should have been done digitally... And that's because after scanning it I had to manually photoshop every single still together (with a trackpad, too....) and making sure everything lined up because, again, I drew this all on paper and couldn't use layers or transparency or anything before putting it all into WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER and shortening every image to the exact timing and windows movie maker doesn't synch audio correctly unless you play it from the very beginning and it was a huge, incoherent mess of a process that I never want to repeat.
I started this so long ago, that it was actually going to be my entry for the forum talent show, heheh
But the final (completely unfinished) product doesn't look TOO terrible, and I'm proud enough of it to post it on the internet, so here you go!
Other than that, since this is an unfinished project that I don't have plans to finish, I've decided to upload the pieces I drew during the process of making this...!
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After all the effort I had put into this, I was kind of sad that more than half of the video would never see the light of day, so thus, I've uploaded all the leftovers here. Don't worry though, this is definitely not the last you'll see of this AU or this song! I could never pass up a chance to animate Janga, and fortunately, I've been able to save up for TV Paint so I could someday do so..!
But there's also another thing I've been working on that won't be seen for a while, a lot of behind-the-scenes work, if you will, on something special.... An actual Klonoa animation that I'm really excited about
