Upcoming TH15 teaser trailer (Patreon)

Welcome all Extra Stage Bosses to the first of many updates for the upcoming Touhou 15 animated adaption. I want to start by thanking all those who are a member of this tier. Whether you are donating for the perk of watching the progress of the upcoming animated adaption or simply to support the channel, your contribution is greatly appreciated. Every contribution is a step closer to making this project a reality so I'm happy to have you on this journey.

I'm sure you know that at the moment there is a crowdfunding campaign over at Ko-fi to make a 30 second trailer. I'm still in need of getting that goal achieved before I can start on the trailer proper. But at the same time, I want to get started on the project in some small way where I can manage with what little I have. That's when I thought about making a very short trailer as animation practice as well as to bring more awareness to the crowdfunding campaign. After thinking about it for some time, I finally settled on an idea. You can consider this the official beginning of the TH15 animated adaption as I'm finally now starting on it, and it all begins with a storyboard.

The idea is that it will start on earth and zoom into the moon, right into Junko, and finish right into her right eye. You have no idea how much planning and trial and error I had to go through just to finally come up with this simple premise. I had many other ideas but it just didn't work out when I started working on it. Probably because previous attempts where more complicated with dynamic camera movements. I can't do anything ambitious right now now because I don't have the means to do so. In the end, I had to simplify the trailer in order to make it work.

With the storyboard now set up, I began work on the actual animation. I'm still working on it but here's what I have so far.

My first priority is to get the zoom in on Junko correct. I have a vague idea of what to do with the other elements but need more time to think about it. So I decided to start with Junko's zoom in animation as a way to get ideas on how to get the rest to follow.

These are the key frames and soon I will be adding the rest to smooth out the zoom in. There are so far 13 frames drawn and am guessing that in the end will be around 24 - 30 frames. This will amount to 1 and a half seconds of footage. So much work for so little screen time but I think it will be worth it if it comes out well.

That's really all I have to say at this time. I wanted to updated the Extra Boss Tier Members because I haven't updated Patreon in a while and I wanted to test out this tier only posts. I'll continue to work on this short trailer and keep you guys updated on its status.