Bubblegum Crisis Priss & Sylia
Added 2023-03-04 21:45:03 +0000 UTCIt is done. Drawing in the Bubblegum Crisis style was fun, and got to draw the Knight-Sabers' Hardsuits, always a great joy. Will I draw Nene and Linna at some point too? We'll see if I get the sudden inspiration/impulse to do so.
I also recently found a fun VHS filter to experiment with. This is definitely one of the more convincing ones I've found, and its interesting to see how much colour-distortion happens when you put through this filter.
The importance of Colour-planning during the cel-animation days becomes more obvious when you start to notice certain colour-tones becoming Far too saturated and dark (most evident in the Priss drawing below) when put through an analog signal, even if its only a digital simulation of it. The faded colours look less faded & become saturated when rendered through analogue, while the ultra-technicolour stuff somehow "balances" out to look less garish than it would've.
You kinda have to start shading a lot more conservatively (but still creatively) so that the end result when filtered looks right.
It kinda does explain through "first-hand" why That Particular Look of Early Digipaint days of anime is the way it was, when you see it as an attempt at approximating Industry Established colour-schemes that just couldn't transfer properly in an age of New & Unfamiliar Tech, & without the advantage of the textures of real paint, animation cel and film-stock, what you "see" really is what you get, and nothing more.
Its all technical and this is just my musings based on what my eyeballs can observe, so take it with a pinch of salt, hahaha
Anyway, I put the drawings through with one of the OG backgrounds from BGC, + one I found on google. How do you think it looks?
