art- daddy issues

[dephigravity]

Title: Daddy Issues (also on )
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: John Winchester & Azazel
Rating: PG
Medium: Photoshop CS6 for Colors, Paint Tool Sai for Inks
Artist Notes: For beelikej who commissioned me for an animated John Winchester as Azazel chibi for fandomaid.





Daddy Issues



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[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

This is AWESOME!! Love the smoke effects and his eyes.. great job!!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Why thank you! :D

[brokenhighways.livejournal.com]

I love this. <3

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

Um, I don't see me on his lap anywhere. Did you miss that detail???

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

I didn't forget you be every time I tried to animate it, it ended up looking like Miley at the VMAS. I'M SORRY! *ugly cries and runs away*

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Oooh, so wonderfully creepy! Bravo!!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Why thank you! Creepy chibis are not that easy to do, I have learned....

[chomaisky.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that's really cool! i love the smoke, and the eyes are fantastic.

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I never realized old YED had such funky eye patterns before, talk about a challenge. Thank you so much!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP! You really outdid yourself, this is AWESOME. *stares* I'm at work right now, so can't squee all over you as much as I want, but I will be back later with buckets of confetti. Djeebus, this is so cool. *stares some more* THANK YOUUUUUU.

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

NO THANK YOU! YAY!!! I am so thrilled you like it! Thanks again for your donation and for challenging me to draw something I never thought I would. :D

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

*Comes skipping back carrying two buckets of confetti* Weeeeeeeeeeeeh *throws confetti and twirls you*
THIS! YOU! Awesomesauce. Your chibi John is cool from the top of his black¹ curly hair to the bottom of his defiant stance. Also: SIDEBURNS and THE RING, I can't. I just can't. <3<3<3<3)

The animation is magical: the evil eyebrows, the mesmerizing yellow eyes, that little smirk and then the fucking smoke. Djeebus (I'm holding back online, but imagine me cursing out loud in real life from utter joy;)

You are amazing; You took that little prompt and ran with it. I'm thrilled I could inspire you to take your chibi-designs even further. This really blew me away.

Technical question: did you make the gif in CS6 as well? It looks so sharp and marvelous (and perfect) - I work in CS2 and Image Ready but never get the animation this flawless.

*chinhands*

¹Oh, I see the hints of gray in there, I do, *happy sigh*

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

*blush* you are far too kind. I'm glad I could make this for you. ♥

As for the process, yes, I did the animation in CS6- in fact the only part that I didn't do in CS6 was the Inking. I originally inked it in PS because the lines tend to look a bit more organic than they do in SAI, but then decided I wanted a cleaner look so SAI it was.

TL;DR warning

Back to the animation... without getting into too much pretentious tutorial speak, I made the non moving base ink on one layer (then a group for colors/shades), then each individual face (again with group folder for colors and shades.) When I had all the colors done it was a matter of making a PNG file for each frame by turning on/off layer groups. **In the past I did the animation directly in the file with all the shades etc, but the Timeline Tool is VERY persnickety and has a habit of turning off layers which you have to double check every single frame, which tends to mean you will get like disappearing eyebrows mid GIF.-- it also makes the file bigger, I think.** ANYWHO, there are like a dozen individual PNG frames that I saved and then imported into a new PS doc. From there it is just a matter of opening the timeline tool, assigning each PNG to a frame, arranging them in the order you want (including copies of previous frames where you need them) and then playing with the times. VIOLA!

So for this one my frames look like this:

Fully open eyed John--> half open eyed John--> closed eye John (you want the blink faster going down than coming back up)--> then reverse that and repeat--> half open eyed Azazel--> fully open eyed Azazel--> half open eyed Azazel--> open mouthed Azazel--> wider open mouthed Azazel--> 1st smoke --> 2nd smoke--> 3rd smoke--> 4th smoke--> 5th smoke (adding one on top of the other, all set to no delay so it looks like it's billowing)--> 3rd smoke--> 1st smoke (set slightly slower)--> wider open mouthed Azazel--> open mouthed Azazel--> closed eye John--> half open eyed John.... set that to infinite play and it seamlessly goes back into the first frame on infinite loop, HUZZAH!

PHEW! It sounds like a lot of work, but it took me far longer to type that than it did to actually do all of that. One day I will make an official tutorial... :P

I'm thrilled you enjoyed it! :D

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for that explanation. I have indeed been using layer-files for my gifs and can relate to the issue you mention. I am absolutely going to try making pngs out of the layers before animation next time and see if my ancient version of Image Ready can work with those :-)

(Looking forward to any tutorial you have time for!)

[big-heart-june.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! love his stubble and eyebrows and creeeeepy smile and the smoke! so awesome. LOVE!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Stubble is always tricky to do and make look good, so I'm glad you pointed that out. Thanks, June!

[sillie]

Oooh, so cool! Awesome job! :D

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Why thank you very much!

[equally-dour.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this is so well done!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm glad you think so. :D

[fiery-fox2.livejournal.com]

This is so creepy, and yet I love it lol.

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

It's an Azazel chibi, so creepy was just what I was going for! \o/ I'm pleased you like it!

[dirty-violets.livejournal.com]

Wow, John's cute and creepy at the same time! Only you could do that. ;D

Love his stance, his scruff, and how you hinted at the gray in his hair. Oh, and the demon smoking-out is awesome!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

:D Creepy is a favorite flavor of mine! Thank you so much! <3

[bertee.livejournal.com]

AHHHH THIS IS AMAZING *___*

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU, IT MAKES ME HAPPY THAT YOU THINK SO! :DDD

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

Having chibis going evil is clever and yet so wrong! LOL

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

;) At least I didn't make them having sex this time! ;D I only wish i were kidding, talk about wrong. Thank you!

[cappy712.livejournal.com]

Just awesome!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tipsy-kitty.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, how you melded the cute and disturbing is AMAZING!

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

:D Yes, yes I did. Thank you!