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It's time to try new things (but be mindful about the old ones)

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 3, Episode 4

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lower decks sketch i did for a friend a while back that i decided to clean up a bit

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The walk

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Lower Decks ‘Cupid’s Errant Arrow’ and its Enterprise references 🫶

This episode is great anyway but the mention of a certain Florida man makes me very excited!!

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When you feel the lull in the week - think!

WWBD?

Happy Wacky Boimler Wednesday

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For bonus points share one thing you wish would have happened in that extra season

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Mike McMahan wants Lower Decks back just as much as us! Why not help this become a reality?

The fight to save the show is only starting!

https://www.savelowerdecks.com/

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Save Lower Decks!

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Hello, um, Tendi.

I'm still a total beginner at animation. This took a ton of work and I'm not completely happy with the result, but it was a fun experiment.

more gifs below the cut.

and a quick meme @raydrawsdaly did in response:

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Eaurp Guz Rocks!

WIP and details in the read-more:

This one had a bit of a false start. For the life of me I couldnt' get the motion right.

The gif's pacing was all wrong, the hair started out not moving so it wouldn't have looped right... it looked jittery... i just didnt like it. (she's lip syncing to "saturn five" by inspiral carpets in this one. i ended up not doing any mouth movements in the final one)

so i had a play around with some sine and -cosine charts to figure out where the body and hair should be. I ended up not really using the -cos chart for the hair and just kinda animated the hair to what felt right, but using the sine wave for the body position helped a lot, and it meant i could reuse several frames for the body animation (they would be differentiated by what the hair is doing of course).

This test image uses only 8 frames instead of 12 and looks a little clunky, both because of the smaller amount of frames and also because of which positions are shown in each frame. i also made a 12 frame version (like the final version), which did look a lot smoother, but i didn't save it.

applying a sine wave like movement to Guz's head and body and then fixing the arms resulted in a much more natural, consistent, and easy to loop animation.

so i added the hair jiggling and a little hand movement to imply scribbling in some shading. The hair jiggling is honestly the most fun part.

her body was too stiff, so i um. i made it um. jiggle. and um. yeah it uh. it was too much. lol.

so i basically just averaged it, frame by frame, with the previous version.

Doing the glitter/bubbles visible in the final version was a challenge. I decided that since the hair was moving so wildly, the glitter in it could be essentially random in each frame and it wouldn't really matter. But the glitter on the face had to track with her face or it would look strange. I solved that problem by drawing the glitter on the first frame, then drawing two white dots over the eyes, and aligning the dots with the eyes for every frame (which is similar to how I aligned the highlights).

finally, here's the "concept art" (which i repurposed for the first frame)

and here's the drawing of the Saturn V rocket Guz was making (which i showed in another post). And did you notice that the earphone she's using is the one Uhura uses in TOS? :)

Guz is enamored with the space exploration histories of many worlds, but the ones with large moons (or the ones that are large moons), are her favorite. Imagine not having to wait months for interplanetary maneuvering, or decades for close encounters with your coorbital giant planet.

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She's so proud of herself. Now she's on a t- shirt?

#newshirt #moopsy #star trek lower decks #lower decks

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I’m gonna miss the Cerritos Crew

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It's Shax Sundaaaay!!!

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STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS // S2E6 The Spy Humongous Are any of you actually gonna do anything? We're doing it, we're inspiring the crew! We are the crew!

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Okay I have to say it. I've only seen the first three episodes of Lower Decks this season and watched the beginning of the fourth one. I love it so much I want it to last forever, and am afraid to watch them because then they'll be old to me. Does that make sense?

#star trek lower decks #lower decks #new episodes #season four

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Star Trek: Lower Decks "Room for Growth" & "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"