feels like candy animation NSFW (Candy, Original) (Patreon)

I spent all of last week working on a totally different animation idea -- of the Countess relaxing in a huge blood bath while surrounded by candles, swimming and stretching. It ended up being about 20 seconds long, and had lots of subtle character acting. But as I tried to smooth it out, I realized that I'd bitten off more than I could chew, and I really didn't understand how to achieve the quality I wanted right now. I kept trying to power through it anyway, and I ended up a bit burnt out on animation for the first time since I started doing these...so, I aimed for something more simple (which is what I was supposed to be doing anyway), and ended up with Candy instead.

This is sort of a companion piece to my first artwork of her -- a similar concept, but executed differently (and an animation instead of an illustration). I also thought it'd be fun to add some music to the .mp4 version, so I dug around in the old songs I've written and found something I thought fit the vibe. The spoken sample at the beginning is from Enter the Dragon, but the rest is me (and Garageband synths).

Anyway, gonna get started on more ideas soon and keep trying to take things a little simpler/slower with animation. I was pushing myself farther than I could comfortably handle, even with extra time to work. I'll keep learning new stuff, but not try to learn 10 new things at the same time, lol. Whatever I can do to make the coolest stuff I can, and continue far far into the future.

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An animation of Candy, my hard-living partygirl original character. She's leaning back on her arms, cheek to her shoulder as she exhales an impossibly long cloud of smoke that curls back across the bottom corner of the composition. Her teal-and-pink gradient hair bobs as if she's underwater, and the hint of bush at the edge of the canvas is also swaying. In one version she's wearing a cropped green muscle shirt (which floats around to reveal peeks of her underboob) and in the other version she's topless. Scribbly jellyfish swim past in front of and behind her.

There's music I wrote/recorded in the .mp4 version, some drums and bass and looping guitar riffs.