Celica's Shrinking Flower
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2022
- Story:
Celica had just made it into a new area of the dungeon, which looked to be free of enemies. In fact, this dungeon looked to be much safer than those she had previously been in, feeling more like an empty, but clean castle than a dungeon. As she explored, she happened upon what seemed to be a garden of sorts.
It had been some time since Celica had seen such neatly kept flowers, so she decided to examine them closer. Throwing her light into the sky, she knelt down to pick one. Lifting it up to her face, Celica noticed a sweet smell emanating from the flower, but as she prepared to take a deep breath of it, a cloud of pollen shot out of the flower into her face.
Surprised, she recoiled away from the spray. Celica felt a strange tingling pressure all over her body, and looking back down at the flower in her hand, something was strange. It seemed to be getting bigger. Or rather, Celica seemed to be shrinking. The flower, and her surroundings, kept growing until they stopped at around twice the size that they were before. Looking around, Celica guessed she was around half the height she was before.
Perplexed at this magic, Celica looked back down at the flower that had shrunken her. She’d seen magic that could heal wounds, summon monsters, and call down lightning storms, but she had only read about shrinking magic in passing during her studies.
Perhaps she was a bit too curious, because a second after she put the now-giant flower to her face, it shot out another spray of pollen, this time a much larger burst. Annoyed at how she could do something so careless, Celica threw the flower onto the ground so it hopefully wouldn’t be able to attack her again. Thinking about what had happened the previous time she was sprayed by the strange pollen, Celica supposed she would be shrunken again, so she wasn’t overly surprised when the tingling feeling returned, and her surroundings started to grow.
What she wasn’t prepared for, was how much she would be shrunken by! While last time, shrinking was a slight feeling all over her body, it was much more overpowering this time, as she felt it emanating across her skin. She shrunk down, and down, well past half of her current height, which was half of her normal height. She kept shrinking until she was absolutely tiny. A fraction of her normal height.
Celica looked around in shock at her surroundings. The flower she had previously held in her hand now absolutely dwarfed her in size. Even a single one of its petals looked the size of a necrodragon to her.
As Celica pondered how helpless she was at her current size, stamped her feet in frustration. Princess Anthiese, brought down by a mere flower. She supposed the best course of action was to wait for her allies to find her now. She had sent them off to explore different parts of the dungeon, so it was likely they weren’t far behind her, but this was such an embarrassing situation to be in. She just hoped that one of her mages knew how to reverse this magic. From what Celica knew, shrinking magic was quite rare, and could last weeks!
Notes:
So the concept for this was discussed on one of my recent shrinking animations with Arnsden (www.deviantart.com/arnsden), who makes shrinking renders/animations of his own. They’re quite good, so if you like what I do, consider checking out his stuff. Anyways, we discussed someone being shrunken by a flower, having it spray a cloud of pollen on them or something. It was a fun concept to think about, and proved to be pretty fun to animate as well.
Speaking of the could of pollen, I’m quite pleased with how that came out. It uses particle emitters to spit the cloud, which are always fun to use, and an emission shader to make it glow yellow. At first I didn’t have it glowing as I wanted to emulate how a real pollen cloud would look, but I realized that it was very unrealistic anyways, and looked a bit strange, so I decided to embrace the more “magic-y” aspect of it and just make it glow yellow. It did end up looking a bit like bullets or sparks instead of pollen, but it still conveys the action pretty well. I’m quite happy with it.
Celica’s cape here is a bit of a shortcoming, as her environment. The cape just looks overly stiff and doesn’t move nearly as much as it should. I animated the scene thinking I would take off her cape, but she just doesn’t quite look right without the cape, so I decided to leave it on. I usually like to have a ton of real-world objects, or things you can use to reference size during shrinking animations, as without them it becomes hard to get a feel for how much smaller she has become. The flowers do a good enough job of it here, but I still feel like I could have done better. Something to improve on for next time next.
One more thing: why is the character limit on TH-cam descriptions a thing? It's not a big deal, but its annoying to cut some stuff out. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Awwww Celica is adorbs when she's fussy. Wonder if Alm will feel the same way.
Indeed she is. I'm sure Alm would take care of her until she grew back to normal. He'd probably think she's cute like this.
I'm glad you liked some of the more expressive actions she does. Those were probably my favorite parts to animate.
She's adorable!
Love this animation! Would love to see more of it.
Thanks, glad you liked it! I can't really think of any more to add to this specific animation in the form of a sequel. Normally I'd consider having another character find Celica and get shrunken down herself, but the only other member of the SOV cast with a 3d model is Alm. I'll certainly continue to make more shrinking animations though.
Simply Oh Yeah!
i'd get 25 flowers to do that on me honeestly. you got some?
Can u add sound please
I don't think I'll be adding sound for animations I've already finished, but perhaps in the future I'll make shrinking animations with sound.
It can be somewhat difficult to find SFX to add, especially for games like Fire Emblem with limited voice clips for each character.
The Xenoblade characters have pretty extensive voice clips, so maybe I'll try to add sound to the next one I finish with those characters.
@@lightswitchclash okie dokie
She had it coming