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Lena commands during a large-assault attack by Legion
This is the note for my illustration as a beginner. Today's paintingThe next painting is the one I drew on this time. Left painting is the one for a final painting, and right one is the one to edit. Final For editing I uploaded the final painting on my SNS accounts. Pixiv DeviantArt Challenges In this painting, I needed to figure out what is a good way to draw her with the reflection of lights from monitors in the dark room. So, I tried to use a different Blending mode for light layers and see which one is good for them, not only for light reflectoins, but also colors in the room. Before considering its background, I also drew colors, so put it for comparisons as well.
April 28, 2022
Indie Animation: Change 1st Episode
This is the summary about the next video. Character voices Imara: With a voice changer James: Text to Speech. Matthew from TTSMP3.com Software 3D animation: Blender Lip Sync: Rhubarb Lip Sync Character modeling: Vroid Studio Painting: Clip Studio Paint Slide: Google Slides Voice changer: Koigoe Voice changer: Voicemod Text to Speech: TTSMP3 Downloaded materials An office chair A table A laptop Challenges Voices were the hardest. Imara's voice was still not something I had wanted to listen to. It was still noisy and natural voices. When characters were updated, it required to update a lot of animations in the Blender file
March 5, 2022
After Effects: What I did to make fan made MV for about me / Suisei Hoshimachi cover
Written in July 2021. I posted next video on YouTube. I used Adobe After Effects for 2D animation for the 1st time, so in this post, I described how I made each scene. I already wrote some posts to make this video for practice, so I just referred those posts on some scenes. But this is the first time to use AE, so there can be better ways to do.
July 17, 2021
After Effects: Practice for old film effects
This post is written using After Effects 2021. I wanted to show an animation like old tape films, and made the next video. In this video, I noted how I did it. In fact, I noticed there are some plugins like motionarray, but I hadn't known before I made it. So, we might be able to do the same thing by easier way with them.
June 16, 2021
After Effects: Practice for visualizing audio file
This post is written using After Effects 2021. I made a simple video to use and compare effects described in this post. Audio spectrum/waveform effects In AE, there are two effects Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform to visualize an audio file. I learned how to use an audio wavespectrum from next video. These are steps for how to use it.
June 15, 2021
Practice for a chat animation in Adobe After Effects
This post is written using After Effects 2021. I also added the links to videos where I learned how to do, so if you are unfamiliar with UIs on AEs, those videos are helpful for how to use. Chat animationI made a chat animation, and from that knowledge, I made the next video. In this post, I'll describe how I made this video, especially how to make a speech bubble in details.
June 14, 2021
After Effects: Practice for raining animation
This is a note when I tried to make a rain scene. I'm not very familiar with Adobe After Effects, so some steps can be inefficient or incorrect, so please keep in mind about there might be better way when you read this post. The example of the animation I made on this post is next one. The background of this animation is from this page.
June 9, 2021
Practice to the sidetail hair of Anemachi
This is the note for my practice to an illustration as a beginner. Today's illustrationThe next left illustration is the one before I practiced and right one is after I did to draw Anemachi, who is a sister of VTuber Suisei Hoshimachi. Before After In this time, I practiced how to draw a sidetail hair. I couldn't find very good books or videos for drawing it unfortunatelly, so I just reviewed my illustration, considered how to improve, and practiced.
May 11, 2021
Practice to color shades and shadows of hairs and lights of a character
This is the note for my practice to an illustration as a beginner. Today's illustrationThe next left illustration is the one before I practiced and right onw is after I did. Before After In this time, I practiced and learned these things Colors for shades and shadows of hairs Even if the color of shade and shadow is different from the basic hair color, it doesn't screw up the illustration. The different color gives a different impression as well as another information of a character. Colors depend on each character, and it's OK to use the different color for shade and shadows even though different characters have the identical hair color. Colors for lights This also affects how you wanna show your illustration, especially what the surrounding area of the character is. Besides the above points, I modified a little bit about shade and shadow colors to make them weaker. To practice, I tried these steps to improve this original illustration:
May 8, 2021
Practice drawing a head and face from a profile view
This is the note for my practice to an illustration by a beginner. Today's illustrationThe above illustration is the one before I practiced and below one is after I practiced. I haven't finished coloring most of shades and shadows because I would update the original illustration after this practice. Before After In this time, I changed face and head to make them look a character more female, because originally it doesn't look. These are summaries for my learnings:
April 9, 2021