Stephanie flash rig process

[MayhemTown]

Last time I posted I was doing art style imitations and mentioned something about utilizing it for animation. I recently started making a puppet rig of Stephanie to animate with (in adobe animate) . I currently only have the 3/4 head and its mouth and eye comps. Mostly traced off the official sprites because I aim for total accuracy for this rig, though for the mouth comps I had to guess what they'd look like because all she does in the official art is smile :) . Some of the shadows are off so they don't overlap with other pieces. What do you think?

[possessor]

This looks amazing! You're of course basing it off official art right? From the Noodle Magazine or the 2010 style guide?

[BRBFBI]

That is a high effort project! Do you think you'll do anything with it, or is it practice? It looks like you must have some animation experience.

[MayhemTown]

This looks amazing! You're of course basing it off official art right? From the Noodle Magazine or the 2010 style guide?

Thank you. Yes, from the 2010 style guide.

[MayhemTown]

That is a high effort project! Do you think you'll do anything with it, or is it practice? It looks like you must have some animation experience.

I do plan on using it for a music video if it's a success, this is the first time I'm building a puppet rig from the ground up. If you consider 10 years as an animator "experience" then sure, I do. Though only in the past year or two have I gotten into puppet animation. Going from traditional frame by frame (drawing each unique frame by hand) to something like this that is mostly motion tween based, is like learning a new skill all over again, because of all the technical junk that makes up a rig. It's like being an engineer but with drawings hahaha.