Sailor Mercury
Added 2025-08-18 13:55:50 +0000 UTCFor Sailor Mercury's birthday in September, I had to start earlier than usual. That's because I wanted to try my hand at some more advanced frame-by-frame animation.
It was only a year ago when I started experimenting with animation in my works. Because it's so hard, I only use it occasionally to add some eye movements and bubble effects. Fully animating body movement is still intimidating.
But I want to figure it out, so I came up with a simple Sailor Mercury jumping animation. It was rotoscoped using 4 key 3D poses. I then expanded those 4 key frames into 15, tweaking each one so it looks like she's bouncing.
I also extracted one frame and cleaned it up, so it can be a standalone rendered piece. I love how cute Ami looks here!
Enjoy!
Comments
This time we know she's not going commando. :)
Mountain Echos
2025-08-19 20:36:34 +0000 UTCLooking good. I blame my brain for this next part if possible. If can do a door open and a shadowed pair of hands grab her and yanks her Inside. Just revealed in a later month (can guess which 😉) Just tossing that idea out there
Jason Lee
2025-08-18 15:28:01 +0000 UTC
