Here's the animation I did for the @murderbot-fanimation-project!
The scene is from the All Systems Red, when Murderbot is choking Gurathin in the medbay and Mensah deescalates. I did this by recording two videos of myself, one from behind holding a cosplay against a door and one as I held on to a chin-up bar. I didn't rotoscope them, but I did look closely to them as reference as I worked.
Credit for the background goes to @chimaerakitten!
Credit to the characters' designs goes to @broken-risk-assessment-modulen
The scene this is from is behind the cut.
Gurathin said, “We don’t have to trust you. We just have to keep you immobilized.”
Right, funny thing about that. “That won’t work.”
“And why is that?”
I rolled off the table, grabbed Gurathin by the throat and pinned him to the wall. It was fast, too fast for them to react. I gave them a second to realize what had happened, to gasp, and for Volescu to make a little eek noise. I said, “Because HubSystem lied to you when it told you I was immobilized.”
Gurathin was red, but not as red as he would have been if I’d started applying pressure. Before anyone else could move, Mensah said, calm and even, “SecUnit, I’d appreciate it if you put Gurathin down, please.”
She’s a really good commander. I’m going to hack her file and put that in. If she’d gotten angry, shouted, let the others panic, I don’t know what would have happened.
I told Gurathin, “I don’t like you. But I like the rest of them, and for
some reason I don’t understand, they like you.” Then I put him down.
I stepped away. Overse started toward him and Volescu grabbed his shoulder, but Gurathin waved them off. I hadn’t even left a mark on his neck.
Listening to Network Effect while drawing fanart and losing my mind AGAIN at how Murderbot slips into a dissociative panic when it learns that the attacking ship is ART.
Like. The prospect of ART attacking anyone, not just MB, is such a foreign concept to it that MB immediately jumps to 'my memory must be crashing I should really do a diagnostic.' And this is all before it and Amena are even taken into the ship and it realizes ART is gone.
Some wips/sketches because I am on e again on my murderbot grind again... These books are amazing and I have serious beef with how the adaptation is looking but perhaps I will elaborate on that later. Planning to fully render these all later, would be good practice etc. I seriously need to get my hands on system collapse... Pray for me
I have an old post about some of my head cannon for mbs appearance which you can find. Most of those hold true but these are the first sketches of what it looks like outside of the neck up.
One of the things that’s incredibly funny to me about Murderbot and ART’s meeting is that Murderbot is being so ridiculous about it.
ART: *bumps up the life support to make its construct passenger more comfortable, watches shows with its new friend, offers free surgery and advice to pass as a human, watches over Murderbot as it goes to do dangerous things, watches out for Murderbot’s new humans*
Murderbot: This asshole boat is trying to kill me and I hate it so, so much. Yes I’m being a brat about it, no I don’t intend to stop-
I had an awesome time working with the @murderbot-fanimation-project , and I'm finally putting together some of the stuff I made for it to show off! I learned a ton and had a lot fun, 10/10 would do it again someday.
These shots are all from the scene in Escape Strategy, when Murderbot was fighting and escaping that CSU.