Here's the first couple minutes of what I've done so far, complete with music. Scene transitions have yet to be implemented and the animation is still in the rough stages, but the backgrounds are pretty much finished. I'm guessing this is a little under half of the whole thing, so progress is being made, slowly. The rest of it is still just a bunch of scribbles, which I will be posting later.
I finally figured out the export settings for Premiere, so crank that sucker up to 1080p and fullscreen it, baby!
Colour codes for the four protagonists. This is basically what the final colouring style will look like, but with cleaner lines; these are just rough blobs of tone I threw together for reference. Also I decided to go with the completely filled in dot eyes, rather than the more cartoony eyes shown above in which you can see the whites. It was easier, and seemed to fit better, although it does give the designs more of a unique feel. The overall look I'm going for has a bit of a pastel, children's book quality to it, lots of flat layers to give the impression of depth. I'll put up some examples later.
Rough animation for Ness's walk cycle, as seen in the title image of this blog. I'm still getting used to the presets on my copy of Premiere CS4, so the encoding is pretty janky, but I'll figure it out eventually.
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