Mitsuki - Art School Journey (+ Animations)

[gregorya]

Your animation is very impressive. how did you come up with the idea to animate it?

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @gregorya!

I havent animated for a while and missed animating.. but i also didn't want to do something that could turn into a big project - since im a perfectionist and always end up turning something simple into something fancy XD

so i was like ok guess i should practice timing so i animated my main character (Maxus) with her hair down (instead of spiky) and just practiced the hair

my last fancy animation was from like 9 months ago lol (made that for my website that i coded for my story - lots of placeholder images but ill be done with it eventually https://mitsukiyouko555.github.io/hackwebcomic/)

Here's another one from a year ago:

if ur interested here's a speed paint of the last one

[snakker]

Wow, these animations are really nice! You were using krita?

Cheers

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you yep ive since switched to clip studio paint tho

[Pattu_w]

Wow, just wow. Awesome animations.

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @Pattu_w!! the top one (electric sphere) took me like 70 hours lol since i work full time those 70 hrs was over a span of like 3-4 weeks XD havent done a fancy one in a while...

[gregorya]

Impressive animation.

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @gregorya

Took another detour from art school hw (watched term 5 vids but didnt do the hw just yet..)

Made another song (which i will post after im done with the art for it.)

animated for about 8 hours today felt productive which is rare (i always feel like i draw too slow but not today) and good

Here is my WIP

And i actually did the background first gettin past that background phobia XD

Das cute boi Spydr (u can read more about him on my website https://mitsukiyouko555.github.io/hackwebcomic/)

#goals when all ur guy characters are all handsome

7th grade me is proud

Thumbnails for the backflip land before i animated it. its a bit tricky cuz it doesnt start from the beginning of the backfilp rather midway thru it. but i made it work i think.....

the laser was not bad

[snakker]

Nice job, your animations are really good 👍🏼

[gregorya]

Do you use the thumbnails in your animation? And do you use videos for reference, or still images?

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @snakker

@gregorya i don't usually thumbnail when animating but in this case i couldn't just pull out what was in my brain like i usually can since the backflip started mid way. i could have not thumbnailed and animated the whole backflip and cut off some of it but i was lazy so i went with the thumbnail to figure out the starting point

I didn't really use any references here.. i did watch a vid on how people animate lazers to kind of make my lazer a bit more interesting but that was just reinforcing the idea i orig had in my head about the laser

[Gordon003]

Love the fact that you are learning and working via animation, an already difficult medium. I commend you for that, man.

[mitsuki-youko]

thank you @Gordon003

Animating can be hard sometimes but its very fun!

here's some wip cus i really like the frame i drew today...

Lineart always takes the longest... i have about 9 more frames left to go for Spydr. then the little pet flying cameras shouldn't take that long.. after that i'd slap on some color flats, do some shading, lighting, sfx and bam its done

i spend like 60% of the time linearting lol 20% sketching and like 15% coloring 5% sfx

annnnnnd here's the frame i spent 3 hours on today.. the foreshortening can still be improved but i think at least its not tooooo terrible lol

also getting a bit better at drawing clothes... and hands....

old art for comparison...

spydr 2017: orig creation

spydr 2019 - when my art got kinda better

progress tracking...

[snakker]

Dang really cool, it's very interesting seeing you maintain and nurture style and original ideas over time. You have a very clear goal and are building around it, very nice to see it evolve
Also loving these animations, the one part I am not sure about is the figure's right knee, maybe it would be sightly bigger appearing as it is closer to the viewer, judging by his right hand size

cheers!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @snakker!

H@cK was orignally 5 different stories with each of the mcs being the mc's of their own stories but the setting was very similar so i combined it into one story. Back in 2017 when i was still in college, I took an ethical hacking course out of interest and at the time i was sorta selling stickers and my classmate asked me for a hacker set so i made a bunch of characters based on hacking programs.

Hydra is based of THC Hydra, Kali is based off of Kali linux, Spydr is basically spyware, Mal is malware, Kobe is based off of wireshark, Sai is based off the social engineering toolkit, Ransom is based off of ransomware and Aeru is based off of Aircrack-ng.

Hacking is still my neglected hobby lol but i dont have time for it rn since i wanna work on my story.

oh yes and that right leg is very hard to get right XD im still not satisfied with it yet so ill probs tweak it some more

[jasminerosepowell]

Really nice animation, especially the part with the powers super nice!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @jasminerosepowell!

finally starting to learn compositing.. i'd always baked in my compositing/special effects.. but i know all professional studios composite so i knew i had to learn it eventually....

First time compositing, using Da Vinci resolve cuz its free

and yep im not done animating yet obvs but i just wanted to try compositing only the lightning effects

UNCOMPOSITED:

COMPOSITED:

Edit:

messed around and made it even better!

[reiguard]

Keep up the great work!

[mitsuki-youko]

the nice thing about animating is that its easier to see your own progress getting better at anatamy... sorta XD

Kinda fixed the leg??? it looks a bit.. it doesnt look too short anymore i think..

not too bad...

I rly like this one!! it came out rly nice!

damn.. he's pretty cute.. i should plotbuild him more XDD i've barely done any plotbuilding for him so far even tho he's a secondary character

[snakker]

Nice work, and your animations are really cool, loving the look of those effects

Cheers