In honor of RWBY Volume 9 finally coming out, I am pleased to present my version of "Mirror Mirror" by Jeff and Casey Lee Williams, from the White Trailer of the amazing show RWBY.
Album artwork by me. You can find the high resolution version here:
i love how the only hand animated parts in this scene are the eyes.... and yet i spent 4 hours compositing everything else together bc i decided i needed 14 LAYERS of various effects
Blake: (yawning as she enters the bathroom) Good morning.
Weiss: (fixing her makeup) Good morning.
Ruby: (finger combing her hair) Morning, Blake!
Yang: (brushing her teeth) Morming, babe...
Toothbrush: Brrrrrrrrrrr!
RWBY: (continue their morning routine)
Yang: (finishes brushing her teeth and places her toothbrush back in the holder)
Weiss: (glances at the toothbrush holder and her eyes widen) Yang?
Yang: Yeah, Weiss?
Weiss: Your toothbrush isn't electric?
Yang: Hm? (Glances at her totally normal, yellow toothbrush) Oh! No. Just a regular one.
Weiss: Then how?
Yang: (holds up robotic hand and turns on vibrations) *Brrrrrrrrrr!* Vibration function helps me get my teeth squeaky clean. Does wonders to combat the sand that gets stuck in my teeth. I'm gonna go get dressed now. (Leaves the bathroom)
Weiss & Blake: (jaws drop and blushes)
Ruby: (while brushing her own teeth) Wucky! I bish I had dat!
Blake thinks Yang's so cute and funny when she makes dumb jokes, so her method of flirting with Yang is just "If I make dumb jokes, Yang will think I'm cute and funny."
I read a Hound Ruby fic recently called I can almost hear the Hounds that I really enjoyed and it got me thinking about these two again.
Something that's been on my mind since I last drew them was that I wanted to find ways to distinguish Penny's look more from her usual appearance; she has the red lights and the twisted ahoge and she was scraped up a bit but I wanted to go further.
So I'm leaning more into the cyberpunk nightmare that is Penny's existence. While with Salem she probably looks as I drew her previously but once they leave they lack the resources to keep her in top shape in the absence of Watts' or military funding.
So wear and tear take its toll and they end up needing to use less than optimal parts as replacements; maybe they can scavenge parts from the Atlesian Knights on occasion too. The result is: she ends up looking more obviously mechanical.