The original drawing was hand sketched in 2002 with pencils on paper in a sketchbook.
Unfortunately, I have had a ton of issues with malware & cyber attacks, and for whatever reason this specific I've had to repaint almost entirely from scratch multiple times, so it exists in various colored versions.
Unfortunately, I have had a ton of issues with malware & cyber attacks, and for whatever reason this specific I've had to repaint almost entirely from scratch multiple times, so it exists in various colored versions.
I'm actually STILL learning Adobe After Effects, which I''d originally learned in 1999-2001 and completely forgot how the heck to use it.
After effects is THE ONE program that is SO difficult to get ANY HELP WITH AT ALL, because not everyone has the same animation background that I do, if at all.
Anyways, I wanted to learn how to program the particle effects, and many self appointed teachers on YouTube assume I have the slightest idea what they're talking about (when I DON'T) or the tutorials are from 5 years ago and don't work. OR, they have a cinema/video background and don;t understand REAL TRADITIONAL ANIMATION and think more in line with 3D/CGI/Multimedia or Flash.
The majority of my illustrated artwork is dynamic, so the foggiest hope of doing ANYTHING with motion graphics/effects animation was like almost NOTHING.
I figured if I'd at least edit and cut this right after the effects/particles, It could work... because when I started updating my skills to HD at UMASS Boston since 2016, I was FREQUENTLY lost, confused, and bewildered. And NO ONE understood what I meant, nor had they any idea how to help me do ANIMATION that wasn't a squiggle, experimentation, or moving texts.
This is the repaint for HD version. Took me FOREVER.
Here it is with JUST the lighting layers/opacity "animated":
There's the final version with mists/fog and particle sparkles.
Very simple, yet tons of layers, and took me FOREVER to creative.
I'm picky.
