ALEXANDER PERFILYEV

Scary

"And then he checks the folder but files are all gone!!!"

I am gonna post this to community with that caption tomorrow because scary month. Will I be able to bring back Monster type stuff as a Halloween thing next year?

Good Morning 1959

Let's have a pretentious presentation for a change! 

I was inspired by Yasujiro Ozu "Good Morning" in how they filmed actors keeping an eye contact with the camera while acting out talking to their scene partner. I somehow really really liked that and last year decided I'll try and do that with this here scene. I tried!

Here is ...

Learning 2

Around two years ago I posted a gif of Jonny Joestar sketch animation (2nd slide) with a long text talking about how I aim to achieve a more human fluidity after rewatching Howl's Moving Castle. I even came up with a whole theory of double movements (every main movement accompanied by a secondary one).

The most tricky and time consuming an...

J&P 'PUCK' rework

NOW you might look on the left and think 'huh, well you clearly still have the earlier version of this shot so why rework it?'. Well, you see this huge red ALLINALL watermark on it. Yeah. 

Because the background moves through out the whole scene removing the watermark would've been a task. Thus the last month's me protected the curren...

Another skybox

Like that it doesn't look like skies at all rather like some creepy artsy painting. Something from Rohan Goes to Louvre!

It can vary depending on your screen's brightness. 

Tinker Bell

This is for one of the sequences I had to start rebuilding from scratch. So, I changed the concept completely in favor of a more traditionally fluid, Tinkerbell-ish Puck! 

Big secret is I did save the previous version of this sequence WITH MY WATERMARK ON. But the new one will be way cooler. There is a bit of Death Stranding BB refere...

DRAKA 3 'WHY' rework

I reworked a shot I haven't lost but wanted to improve for a while now. So, I used the opportunity. Now to rebuild what I have actually lost! New ornithopter-inspired wings by Uluncha and I also included the actual audio featuring Misty.

Look to your left. So much contrasting color noise! I did use the pallet I established earlier but some...

SHIN DRAGONSLAYER!

One of the assets I lost was my recent Dragonslayer (more commonly known as the Rail With a Handle) sword shader. Although there are shots where the sword is 2D and stylized I needed a more detailed version in a few other cases (such as the Guillotine (or GoPro on a sword) shot you've seen in the trailer. 

This time Uluncha remodelled...

Ignore the weird titling!

PINK=redo from scratch. 

ORANGE=Camera work in the burning forest for the missing backgrounds (the forest itself is burning but SAFE and backed).

RED=restore my awesome Dragonslayer sword shader.

GREEN is for the grass.

I think my biggest disappointment here is that I didn't gain the time to improve on shots I'd love...

Bad News!

Short version: Internal SSD lagged out and cleared my Blender folder thus setting my Berserk animation back. Now I am doing a belated backup of everything that I still have and plan to rebuilding the rest. I had a full on Ryan Gosling freaking out in Blade Runner 2 bit but I think I know what I must do now. I apologize for this being continuousl...

TRAILER!

Ok, last 10 days of the month. Let's go!

Maybe far away 🎵

Slide for the reference paintings I used for color.

Initially I thought of this one in manga's black & white but childhood flashbacks are in color and the fully greyscale flashback is very specific so I chose to color it. But also I really wanted to Bob Ross the table. 

SOON. Like very soon. Thank you! I will confirm soon, b...

Clouds!

WizardsOnly is asleep - post illegal clouds.

Don't forget to slide! We are so close to the end.

PFPs

Even though LC2 is delayed (hopefully not much longer than two weeks into September) here are the new tier patron pfp-sized portraits that are gonna be in the credits. I approached it somewhat freestyle. For example Captain Jaxen been on here for so long I made him into a statue and I really like the idea of LC's argonian merchant being wealthy ...

The hills are alive

Slide to see the still from the colored scene this animation is used in!

Got to fine tune some shots and revive the enjoyment of the process after I chose to slow down a bit. This however doesn't mean that it should be delayed by another month! Let's count on these being the final scenes that are needed to be colored and finalized and go o...

背景

I actually prefer the black nothingness as a background for the colored version of this scene I have already. But I liked my attempt at recreating the geographically (they flew all the way to some flat-top mountains!) specific backdrop from the panel.

Remember the orange highlights from the early sun (right before the colors cool down comp...

Delay delay

It once again looks like I need to delay Lost Children 2. I will still be working hard to try and push it as far as I can in the remaining days of this month and perhaps a miracle will occur!

But with all the little post-production elements and how much I have been re-doing sketches I was Ok with before. And with the subtitles needing to b...

Good Morning

This is the clean contour for a long scene inspired by 'Good Morning!' the first color film by Yasujiro Ozu. Specifically, by how they would film actors speaking into the camera while actors had to image an eye-line with their acting partner. I thought it had a hypnotic kinda effect and I wanted to try and replicate it in the animation. Which of...

Guts Hand Cannon SFX

A sound design day. I generally treat foley work as something less time consuming than animation but sometimes it exceeds my time expectations, so I like having breaks between drawing and adding sounds to what is already colored. Making sound effects like making music is very fun to me (until I struggle to achieve a certain smth or feel like I c...

バイバイ

Finally, recolored the post-credits scene from the first Fairytale to match the apostle colors of part 2. THIS might actually be our thumbnail. Romantic! 

I've lost an old feline friend this week. Age 15, had a rather joyful life. Last time we got to sleep together like a pack was in early 2022 before I ran from Russia leaving Lyolek ...

*Maniacal laughter*

Still very satisfied with the 3D/2D forest fire setting I made last year for this one. Just a little update so that you know I am doing.

"You Wouldn't Remember"

We will say that this color scheme is to transition into a very 1997-colors flashback and not something cool looking I settled on even tho it might end up breaking the color consistency.

Thank you again for financing this operation. Times are tough, the path ahead is dark for the moment, but that's how it goes. I will animate (and the make...

"Disappear!"

Wanted to share something in color for a change! Thank you again for financing this operation.

Puck is sitting on this cyan-ish behelith (egg of kings) on the back of my copy of volume 16. But if Puck is sitting on it, is this the one belonging to Guts? I chose it as the color of Rosine's behelith anyway because I liked it.

I have on...

Pre-2023-Trailer-Last-Scene-Scene

This animation has a lot of facial expressions exploration. 

Mid-month and I am almost done with sketching the remaining scenes but will I be able to color it all, add sfx, ask Atlas to upscale, do them pfps for the new tier patrons in two weeks? Sounds unrealistic but I am going to continue putting my back into this one because we ca...

Dawn

Only yesterday I noticed that in the manga Guts emerges from the water and not burnt grass pile! Which should've been obvious considering there is a panel of something heavy dropping in the lake while Rosine lands on the shore. 

Anyhow I quickly started thinking of what can I do with water and colors and came up with this lighting for...

"I dreamt of a wave

washing over me."

Going through the selected frame heavy scenes and fixing the color schemes meanwhile sketching what are supposed to be simpler shots. Experimenting with production logistics again but the core conclusion is 'do storyboard more, do play with potential color schemes beforehand'. But this is the longest (before credits roll)...

WizardsOnly

Thank you for financing this operation!

There is a scene in the distant THLMR finale that WIzardsOnly came up with himself. And while I am busy finishing LC2 and preparing to Doon next, the man drew this piece! Look at the leaves on those palms. 

Update sketch pack!

Sketching and figuring out remaining shots starting with those I deem most difficult. Still aiming for before the end of July! Civil War won't get in the way of berking.

Soundtrack preview

Aaron James on guitar, Emma Caterinicchio on cello, Nora as Guts, Misty as Rosine.

This is the final air clash piece (I might remix and reuse certain parts for different scenes later).

Draka3 music with character voices from LC2. I couldn't resist referencing THAT music cue by Shiro Sagisu but there is still a lot of Susumu Hirasawa ...

A flash of memory

Shichiro Kobayashi style 3D/2D environment for a short scene I came up with last year and now finally adding it to the Lost Children 2. The first tent didn't have to be a 3D object really, but I wasn't sure of the layout at the start. Also, because the ground is a part of the background plane you can see that the perspective moves weirdly at the...