Casting a shrinking spell by LightSwitchClash on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

No lag, higher frame rate version at youtu.be/tHFay-bfomI

Story:
Ultimate: You're sure you want to do this?

Wild: Of course. After Twilight got shrunken, her hero gave her his complete devotion for like the whole week. I want to make sure my hero will do that for me.

Ultimate: Okay, thats kind of a stupid reason. You know he loves you more than anything right?

Wild: Yeah, I know. But just do it anyways.

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Notes:
This looks way better in a higher frame count. So I wanted to show that Ultimate was actually casting a spell on Wild, but I suck at particle effects, so I had her kind of shooting a light arrow at Wild to give the same effect. Only problem is that its really hard to see in the gif because it didn't stick around for many frames to begin with, and the gif reduces the frames even more.

Anyways, this was sort of requested by :iconnorlakte3rd: (I don't know how to tag people), who wanted a barefoot Zelda shrunken. I'm not sure how well of a job I did, I feel like this animation isn't as... I don't know, smooth? as my other ones, but I can in fact say that this is a barefoot Zelda shrinking animation.

Yeah, so you know how I said my last Zelda shrinking animation had to be rendered like 5 times? Well this one must have taken like double that. First I had jerky camera movement which took a couple tries to smooth out, then everything moved too quickly so I scaled up the keyframes and lengthened the animation overall. Then I screwed up how I scaled the keyframes and it made certain things too long. Finally I just turned the frame rate down to 24 and called it a day.

I'm sort of running out of ideas here on shrinking. I feel like I'm just having them play a small idle animation and scaling their size down. Let me know if you have any ideas on how I could make it more interesting.