CLEANISH KEYS

Keys with the detail for the suit:

And a rough color test

RUNCYCLE ROUGH DONE

Completed the arms and torso and animated some hair. Ready to take this to the next phase. SO far it's still on 2's, not sure if I will inbetween or not, might instead try to paint in some shadows which is easier on 8 frames vs 16 :P

RUNCYCLE CONTINUED

So now that I have a design (sort of..) I am going over with a cleaner pass. Really makes me realise I need to strengthen my drawing again to really pull this off properly, but...done is better than overworking stuff, so let's put in another hour on this :)

I have just copy pasted the face for now, I will add the hair movement/ tilts and slight sideways movement after I completed the rough pass. I also left out the armor on her torso to deal with afterwards.

New Design Runcycle

Too late in the game to re-design what I started with? Naaah....It's hard to find reference for this particular outfit, but it's from the chase sequence in the original Ghost in the Shell movie. I like the colors for this one.

RUNCYCLE WIP

First pass rough.

ROUGH RUN

I actually skipped a step.... the most important one :/ I normally do a gesture roug, not caring about being on model, just being loose and almost straight ahead. Here's a very faulted first few rough keys, time for the troubleshooting to start :)

RUNCYCLE KEY

I could change my mind on the design for all eternity, but just have to stick to something :P
tried finding a blend between the original anime film by Oshii and the original manga design.

Prep

Let's start the ball rolling, I always start off with a guide of the character in simple shapes, next will be the key pose and then a rough anim.

Major Kusanagi

Drawn in my morning break, another version of Major Kusanagi from GiTs.

And a little sketch for Jodie

Run New design

Really hating the design I came up with, I went back to one of my favorite manga (GiTS) and will animate a run for the major instead :P

Run Key Design

One of those sessions that makes you realise you can't draw, but oh well. Want to get into this quickly before I get bored of the idea.

Running Research

In preperation for the runcycle, I did a few studies of some runs on youtube.
I always used to draw characters running in jumping poses, too high off the grind, too large a stride. Runners really conserve their energy a lot more, the more bounce there is on the landing, the more slowdown and pushback you'd get. Hopefully this will work it's way into a decent runcycle :P

Runcycle Character Sketches

Prepping to animate a runcycle

Sketches

My go to sketchsubject during break at work :P

Dog Research sketches

This was in preparation for my dog runcycle.

Sketchbook Doodles

All of these are sketches during break, not much thought goes into these, just for practice.

KAIA RUNCYCLE DONE

And there we have it, done is better than perfect! (well, I might still tweak that hair....bothers me, ooh and then...no! DONE )