Touhou 15 Teaser Trailer Update #2 (Patreon)

From her face to yours! Some progress on the upcoming TH15 teaser trailer for my Extra Stage Bosses.

This was quite as frantic as that hair animation. Turns out that I didn't know how to animate blowing hair and that necessitated that I step back and try to figure out how to actually do just that. I watched YouTube videos, looked at any animated clips for reference, and even study real life hair. But I couldn't spend eternity on trying to learn it, I had to eventually get down to it.

Thus, after a week, this is the result. I love the way it motions but I don't like the direction it is blowing. That sweeping from left to right, I felt I over did it. Or maybe it's because of the frame rate, which is the intended frame rate. This is running on 30 FPS on ones, meaning each frame is drawn once on screen. This small cut lasts one second, and that was the plan. But because I am dissatisfied with that sweeping motion, it looks ridiculous at this speed. I feel that running the animation on twos, drawing each frame twice, can solve it, but now the cut is remaining for two seconds, which is too slow for what i intended.

Now I got to make a choice. Do I lower the frame count to twos and have the cut remain on screen for an extra second, or do I redraw the whole thing to not sway so much? But in any case, at least I managed to learn how to animate blowing hair, because I plan to have a lot of that in the series proper, mainly from Junko.

And also just now, I realized that i forgot to add the extra frames of zooming into the eyes. I gotta remember to do that.

One last thing to note was that I actually was intending to add more frames to it to make it as smooth as possible. But as I said, I wanted this part of the teaser to only last one second and pass by at a relatively fast speed. Adding more frames would slow down and increase her time on screen. But I may be able to squeeze one or two more frames to smooth out the animation a bit.