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Dusting off this ol’ blog to get ready for a year of creating and crying about our OCs!

We hope y’all will tag along and follow our progress as we get things started :>

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Streaming on Oxygen Not Included in about 15 min!

#Evan Streams

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Working on some more of the Darker than BLACK fan animation!

#DTB #Darker than BLACK #November 11 #Jack Simon #Hei #Misaki Kirihara #Anime #Animation #CSP #Clip Studio Paint #Stream #Art #Drawing

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Doing some ROUGH pre-production work for an upcoming story, featuring Aisha (left) & our main character, Marko (right)!

Marko's fashion sense is so bad that people 100% think he's lying when he says he's a vampire.

It's also fun seeing the vampire hunter (unwittingly) protecting the vampire, for once...

#BYT #Bite Your Tongue #RDA Pre-Pro #Comic #Character Design #Vampire #Vampire Hunter #Aisha #Marko

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Happy Halloween!

We won't be having a game stream tonight, but we'll be back tomorrow at 8pm Eastern for some art!

Tune in at twitch.tv/rainydayatelier

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Got the timing and posing all figured out for the revised version of Cut #03! Very excited about that, the motion is a lot more dynamic and a lot of fun to draw so far.

I also made some revisions to the storyboards, adding 2 new cuts and changing up some dialog to feel more interesting

Back to animating after like a 4-5 day hiatus, lets GOOO

#DTB #Darker than BLACK #November 11 #Jack simon #Anime #Animation

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Good news and bad news:

GOOD NEWS: mostly finished this key for November 11, which is going to inform how the rest of the keys for this cut look.

BAD NEWS: Decided he'd look Much Better without the suit jacket, and opted to scuff him up considering he just got out of a bad fight. This means that I need to go back into the 2 cuts I just finished & remove his suit Jacket.

GOOD NEWS: He looks GREAT in the vest & shirtsleeves, so it was a great decision. This also means that, since I'm altering how scuffed up he looks from the fight, this gives me a chance to have some more character animation (more mmovement, more expression...) when he walks out of the dark room, instead of just walking out smiling.

But boy, does he look great.

Gonna be working on some November 11 today~

Stream starting in 20-30 min~

#DTB #Darker than BLACK #Animation #Anime #November 11 #Jack Simon #Hei #CSP #Clip Studio Paint

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Managed to finish Cut #05 tonight. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! I'll be working on Cut #06 on Tuesday @ 8PM EST, so make sure to come watch again :)

Doing some animation work, since I have some free time tonight.

#DTB #Darker than BLACK #Animation #Anime #CSP #Clip Studio Paint #Layout #Hei #Misaki Kirihara #November 11 #Jack Simon

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Thanks to everyone who came and watched! Got some polishing done on Misaki's walk cycle, and got started on some of the movement in Cut #06, too.

Though, November is looking a bit Eggman-ish at the moment... (Rough drawings on Jack just to rough out timing. Next stream will be polishing him up!)

Stream will be a few minutes late tonight, I am trying to trouble shoot a sound issue. I will post when we are live, though!

#DTB #Darker than BLACK #Hei #November 11 #Jack Simon #Misaki Kirihara

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The timelapse for the Layout Phase of the 1st Cut of the DTB Fan Animation is up on YouTube!

Timelapses will be released every 2 weeks on Friday at 11AM EST. The video for the Layout Phase of Cut 2 will be released on October 28th!

Current phase: Layout & First Keys

This phase is used for deciding final character positions, lighting, background layout & lighting, and timing. After this is the 2nd Key phase, where key frames are finalized and made ready for in-betweening. Phase 3 is in-betweening, where the animation is made smooth and fluid. Finally, it's coloring & compositing, where lighting and other visual effects get added and the whole scene comes together!

Somewhere amidst of all that, the backgrounds are painted and added in, as well.

#Darker than BLACK #DTB #Hei #Misaki #Youtube #Animation #Anime #Art #CSP #Clip Studio Paint #Fan Works #Our Art #Our Animations #Our Videos

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Our first video is up on YouTube!

Come watch a time-lapse of the thumbnailing process for Cassidy's Darker than BLACK fan animation~

#Darker than BLACK #DTB #Timelapse #Animation #CSP #Clip Studio Paint #Hei #Misaki Kirihara #November 11 #Jack Simon #Our Animations #Fan Works #Our Art #Our Videos #Youtube

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Shorter stream today, but that’s ok! I’ll be streaming more of the animation on Friday at 8pm EST, and if you missed it today, the VODs are up on our Twitch channel!

Here are the completed Layouts for the first 3 cuts so far (in order):

Just 8 more to do!

Streaming some more animation for ~2 hours or so

#Darker than BLACK #DTB #Animation #Anime #Art