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This is my art gallery blog used as another spot where I share my projects.

On this part of art gallery blog I'll be talking about my "Dancing Crow - Puppet" music video animation and the band's promotional kit art. YES I ANIMATED AND DIRECTED A MUSIC VIDEO!

The Music Video

This was initially a college finals promotional kit project that included a short promotional music video for the Dancing Crow single "Puppet". It was quite a stressful experience while working on and worrying about finishing the project and the thesis on time, I had my hair even grey out from stress lookin' like Lalo Salamanca. After the finals I decided to continue on the project in animatic form.

The story in the music video ain't complicated, it has some literal visuals from the lyrics. I like to think of the story as something open for interpretation. Even though I have my own interpretation in my head, it would be interesting to hear someone else's interpretation on it.

The music video progress:

The frame by frame animation took around 3-4 months. The animatic part took around 1-2 months.

I decided to make a frame by frame (12 frames per second on twos) animation since I like dynamic poses.

• Frame by frame animation was made in Krita.
• I had to sketch out the characters couple of times and choose the design that fits the most. 
• I did some storyboards and had to add additional scenes while animating.
• I drew backgrounds, I made some photos and edited them, I had to also use some photos I found. There was one part where I used a artbreeder generated space image animation for a background.
• ONTO the actual animation. In krita I had to sketch extremes, breakdowns, in betweens.
  
• After the animation sketches were done I did lineart and colors.
• The most tedious part was drawing the hair raise as the puppet floats towards the star.
  
• There were 3 seperate layers used with a greenscreen background so I'd add a background in editing process and add additional glow effects for certain layers. ALSO I had to edit certain layers in video editor to make them move.
• On the animatic part I just did it on toonboom storyboard pro, it was somewhat similar in terms of having seperate layers of animation and greenscreens to do some editing on video editor Davinci resolve.
• I had to do sketches, afterwards that the lines and colors, I had to move body parts, props of the characters within toonboom.
• Video editing on Davinci resolve was mostly stitching everything together,  removing greenscreens, animating movement on layers and backgrounds, adding glow effects.

Sketches of the storyboard and characters. I had some more sketches, but I probably wont find them.

Here's some art from the promotional kit:

The single cover art

The youtube banner art. I put this art on my redbubble

The youtube banner art progress (not in order lol)

As of recent I reused the Mad Puppeteer for Artfight as a character. Here's the refsheet I made for Artfight. It was awesome seeing art of this fella!

That's all! Thanks for checking out the blog! See you on the next art gallery blog! Maybe I'll talk about my gamejam projects there.