Liz Ard
patreon
WIP: A late update!
🕑 Added 2025-01-20 14:00:23 +0000 UTC
Hello!
A littleee late with my usual WIP post, but everything's fine! Weekend was a bit busy, that's all.
Honestly, not a lot of new things to share about the project. It's almost done...but there's still a lot to do. I feel like everytime I try to finish a scene I end up adding a few more seconds to it. I hope it doesn't get too long. But I basically finished the first part!
...I know that's just a complete mess. I can't even tell what's going on anymore by looking at the timeline, so just pointing out the 1 minute and 5 seconds right there in the upper left corner! That's how much of the video is complete. I reorganized the order of a few shots from the last update, too, and added some new sound effects.
All shots (save for some animations I want to improve here and there) up to the marked point are fully animated! Trying to leave those adjustments for after I have the whole thing. Done is better than perfect, right?
And the Mahjong animation bits are pretty much all done, too.
What MUST be as perfect as I can achieve though, is having G'raha look his best in the close-up shots. That's what I'm here for, after all. He must be the more handsome character to ever exist in all of my animations, ever, all the time.
Something I've been practicing a lot making this video is lip-sync. It always takes me so long! Some of the shots were faster when the camera is far away, but I have one that's really close that took me at least 4 hours to get right, the mouth movement alone.
I'm still going to try my best to finish it by the end of the month. Not this week, though.
I still have a few unplanned scenes at the end, but I think the most complex shots are already done!
By the way, I gotta be honest and say I'm a bit out of ideas for patreon videos right now. I can't wait to share a behind the scenes of what I'm working on, but I want to have the video released first before that! Is there anything you'd like to see? Animation timelpases? Tutorials? Behind the scenes of past videos? Any specific questions about animation, premiere, blender? Questions about my character or headcanons? Listening to me gush about G'raha Tia for 3 hours?!
If you have anything you'd like to see, let me know!
I'm recording the most recent shots I've been working on, and they might become either fast tutorials or animation timelpases, but I'd be glad to make other specific videos if there are any requests!
Thank you for watching and for your support!
Comments
Alessandro Portela Cristiano
Try me!
Liz Ard
Part 1 out of 10, season 1. I can do that :P be careful what you wish for!!!
Liz Ard
Ohh thank you so much!! I can do videos on all of this for sure!! I will start putting a video showing it in details now, but answering in a general way, a lot of the UI I get from textools, but some are easier to get via screenshots and then editing the parts! I had to go after the game's fonts for each UI part to make them editable as well, I think I can get all of their names and share them, too! And of course, I'd love to talk more about her lore!! I'm really hapy you're curious about it, thank you so much~ I have many ideas on her feelings during ShB, but at the same time it's hard to think about how to make them in animations! I keep trying to think of ideas of a ShB videos to finally animate something with the Exarch...so in the end it is part of her lore that I barely even talked about! Oh, and I can for sure talk about it in more details as well, but right now, she is maining WHM, after being a WAR, and before that, she started out as a DRG! :D
SundaeOwl
Hi Liz! Regarding video ideas, I am actually kinda interested in how you put together the UI for the videos. Like the Light Party window and the floating buffs in the dance partner video, or "quest step completed" and dialog boxes (well the speechbubble is easy to fake I would imagine). As textools ui comes in all these small parts, I figured it must be a pain to animate it and put everything together.... Other than that, I am also here for the character headcanons and Liz Lore :) I was always wondering what she has been up to during shadowbringers, as we only have the echo video to really go to for that... How did Liz react to the crystal exarch? Did she suspect anything at all before the reveal? Or in general: what class is she maining, and how did Raha locking himself in the tower impact her WoL work? :0
Alessandro Portela Cristiano
Listening to me gush about G'raha Tia for 3 hours, part 1 lets gooo! ;)
