Notes: If there’s ever a trivia question for my favorite word, “Suddenly” would be a pretty safe bet. You’ll be hard pressed to find a single one of my stories that doesn't use it at least once or twice and I hate it, lol. This animation was roughly inspired by a combination of the first Monado Shrink animation, where Shulk shrinks Fiora, and Shrinking Camera, where they try to unshrink someone, but it just shrinks them again. I love the idle poses that Fiora and Melia do at the start. They’re not the focus, so they might not be super obvious, but I love how they look. They’ve just got so much flair in them, with Fiora being very active and Melia being dignified. Shulk doing whatever he’s doing, (I think he was tying his shoe in the story, lol) looks pretty decent too. At first for Melia's idle, I wanted to have her doing her Starlight Kick attack. In the game, it's one of the idle animations she can do, and it looks so funny when she just does a flying kick on the air for no reason, and fall on her butt. Unfortunately it probably would have been way too much work, and it would have felt a bit out of place, so I didn't end up doing it. The way Shulk pulls the sword off his back looks sick. In fact, most of Shulk’s actions with the sword look good. It’s a shame that I didn’t have the Monado’s beam extend like I normally do when it activates, but that’s kind of a pain to animate and it’s easier to just leave it closed and use the glow to illustrate the arts going off. Fiora’s walk doesn’t look all that good, but that’s sort of to be expected with my walk cycles. It’s not the focus, so it doesn’t matter all that much though. In fact, the animation quality in general tends to go down here after Melia shrinks for the first time. Melia starts to be a lot more static and doesn’t move all that much, and Fiora’s poses aren’t all that strong. It’s still good, but a noticeable drop in quality from the first half. I hate camera work. It’s so boring, but so important at the same time. I think I did a good job with it here, framing the actions in good ways. I don’t think anything gets hidden, but I still managed to keep some interesting angles and shots. I like the shot where it zooms in on Fiora, then further zooms in on Melia. It gives a good sense of her size. And I really like the story in this one. It’s long. Too long to fully fit in TH-cam’s description actually, there’s like a single sentence extra on Deviantart that just didn’t fit. And it’s got some writing in it that I feel is pretty good. Nothing great, but I’d certainly say I’m improving as a writer. And one more thing that Mr. Sakurai showed off in his newest TH-cam video, was his poseable figure. He showed that to demonstrate the key poses to his animation team, he gives them a picture of a little action figure guy doing the pose that he wants. And I realized that that’s actually basically what I do. Sometimes I’ll take pictures of myself striking certain poses, which is super hard to do and never comes out very well. So I ordered one of those figures online, and I’m pretty excited to try out using it. Being able to pose it should let me get a better grasp of how poses should look without dealing with the jank that is posing in 3d programs.
@@BrantleyVision Doing first person versions of animations isn't something I'm always able to do. Of my recent animations, almost all of them have some kind of issue that would prevent a first person version from working. Sometimes you're able to see it just by looking at the animation (maybe it would be boring, or you wouldn't be able to see much in first person), but other times it's a software issue. I looked into doing one for "Alear and Micaiah's Shrinking Staff", but it ended up not working because of an error with the camera clip distance when in first person, causing a bunch of textures on Micaiah and the walls to flicker really badly. If I make an animation that happens to be a good candidate for having a version in first person I'll consider making it.
Melia: What are you doing? Shulk. Shulk: I use the monado shrinking power. Melia: I am shrinking. Fiora: Melia! You are so cute. Melia: You two are bigger than me. Fiora: I pick you up Melia. Melia: What next? Shulk. Shulk: I shrink you both. Fiora: Shulk! You are so big. Melia: I doesn't matter how big are you two. Shulk: You two are different small and cute. Fiora: I am so glad. Melia: Thanks for shrinking me and fiora. Shulk: Very well. I pick you up you two small girls.
What I surmise from the story: Fiora has developed a giant fetish whilst our dear Princess most certainly hasn't. I wonder what will happen once this art does wear off. Melia will get to look down on Fiora - for a few seconds before it wears off for her too.
That's not exactly what I intended in the story, but yeah, re-reading over it again that's exactly what it sounds like. Lol. Thats a good question of what happens when it wears off. Melia was shrunken first, but then the two of them were shrunken at the same time. So maybe Melia will grow to match Fiora for a minute or so before the second art wears off too? Or maybe because Melia already had the effect the second art will only start wearing off after the first one does, effectively making her shrunken for twice as long as Fiora? If that happens maybe Fiora will request to be shrunken down again so she can keep Melia company. There's a lot left to the imagination with this one.
Notes:
If there’s ever a trivia question for my favorite word, “Suddenly” would be a pretty safe bet. You’ll be hard pressed to find a single one of my stories that doesn't use it at least once or twice and I hate it, lol.
This animation was roughly inspired by a combination of the first Monado Shrink animation, where Shulk shrinks Fiora, and Shrinking Camera, where they try to unshrink someone, but it just shrinks them again.
I love the idle poses that Fiora and Melia do at the start. They’re not the focus, so they might not be super obvious, but I love how they look. They’ve just got so much flair in them, with Fiora being very active and Melia being dignified. Shulk doing whatever he’s doing, (I think he was tying his shoe in the story, lol) looks pretty decent too.
At first for Melia's idle, I wanted to have her doing her Starlight Kick attack. In the game, it's one of the idle animations she can do, and it looks so funny when she just does a flying kick on the air for no reason, and fall on her butt. Unfortunately it probably would have been way too much work, and it would have felt a bit out of place, so I didn't end up doing it.
The way Shulk pulls the sword off his back looks sick. In fact, most of Shulk’s actions with the sword look good. It’s a shame that I didn’t have the Monado’s beam extend like I normally do when it activates, but that’s kind of a pain to animate and it’s easier to just leave it closed and use the glow to illustrate the arts going off.
Fiora’s walk doesn’t look all that good, but that’s sort of to be expected with my walk cycles. It’s not the focus, so it doesn’t matter all that much though. In fact, the animation quality in general tends to go down here after Melia shrinks for the first time. Melia starts to be a lot more static and doesn’t move all that much, and Fiora’s poses aren’t all that strong. It’s still good, but a noticeable drop in quality from the first half.
I hate camera work. It’s so boring, but so important at the same time. I think I did a good job with it here, framing the actions in good ways. I don’t think anything gets hidden, but I still managed to keep some interesting angles and shots. I like the shot where it zooms in on Fiora, then further zooms in on Melia. It gives a good sense of her size.
And I really like the story in this one. It’s long. Too long to fully fit in TH-cam’s description actually, there’s like a single sentence extra on Deviantart that just didn’t fit. And it’s got some writing in it that I feel is pretty good. Nothing great, but I’d certainly say I’m improving as a writer.
And one more thing that Mr. Sakurai showed off in his newest TH-cam video, was his poseable figure. He showed that to demonstrate the key poses to his animation team, he gives them a picture of a little action figure guy doing the pose that he wants. And I realized that that’s actually basically what I do. Sometimes I’ll take pictures of myself striking certain poses, which is super hard to do and never comes out very well. So I ordered one of those figures online, and I’m pretty excited to try out using it. Being able to pose it should let me get a better grasp of how poses should look without dealing with the jank that is posing in 3d programs.
do more like this. cuz you made a first person version, maybe you should do that on some other vids too
@@BrantleyVision Doing first person versions of animations isn't something I'm always able to do. Of my recent animations, almost all of them have some kind of issue that would prevent a first person version from working.
Sometimes you're able to see it just by looking at the animation (maybe it would be boring, or you wouldn't be able to see much in first person), but other times it's a software issue. I looked into doing one for "Alear and Micaiah's Shrinking Staff", but it ended up not working because of an error with the camera clip distance when in first person, causing a bunch of textures on Micaiah and the walls to flicker really badly.
If I make an animation that happens to be a good candidate for having a version in first person I'll consider making it.
So cute
Melia: What are you doing? Shulk.
Shulk: I use the monado shrinking power.
Melia: I am shrinking.
Fiora: Melia! You are so cute.
Melia: You two are bigger than me.
Fiora: I pick you up Melia.
Melia: What next? Shulk.
Shulk: I shrink you both.
Fiora: Shulk! You are so big.
Melia: I doesn't matter how big are you two.
Shulk: You two are different small and cute.
Fiora: I am so glad.
Melia: Thanks for shrinking me and fiora.
Shulk: Very well. I pick you up you two small girls.
What I surmise from the story:
Fiora has developed a giant fetish whilst our dear Princess most certainly hasn't.
I wonder what will happen once this art does wear off. Melia will get to look down on Fiora - for a few seconds before it wears off for her too.
That's not exactly what I intended in the story, but yeah, re-reading over it again that's exactly what it sounds like. Lol.
Thats a good question of what happens when it wears off. Melia was shrunken first, but then the two of them were shrunken at the same time. So maybe Melia will grow to match Fiora for a minute or so before the second art wears off too? Or maybe because Melia already had the effect the second art will only start wearing off after the first one does, effectively making her shrunken for twice as long as Fiora? If that happens maybe Fiora will request to be shrunken down again so she can keep Melia company.
There's a lot left to the imagination with this one.
why don't you try giant girls?
It's not something I'm interested in