Okay, this... was another one of my animation class projects done with After Effects, in no particular order. It's a really short one, but there's a bit of a backstory to this one.

To sum it up, we had to take a bunch of PNGs and JPGs to turn them into an animated collage. I was kinda stumped on this one. I knew the prompt, being that it had to be a recreation of a key memory or something, but I wasn't sure what to do with this one until the last few weeks before it was due, so I rushed it a bit. They suggested to make it based off what what I enjoy, special memories, or things that I identify with. So, I just went by those suggestions.

Here, I've pretty much recreated what it felt like rediscovering JSRF on the XBOX after sleeping on it until late 2019. It kinda became my comfort game to carry me through the 2020's.

I was debating on whether or not to use Vail as Street Rat again for this project, (especially since i was already working on a similar thing prior to this class), but since I was running out of time, I just kinda went with it.

Here, I kinda did it in the style of ATHF, where I took segmented 2D animations I did in Flash, borrowed a bunch of pictures from the web and slapped a cel shader on them through After Effects to match the art style I was going for.

I was running out of time, so the 2D animation was a bit janky initially. But I did go back to smooth out the rough edges. (even if i chose the worst possible time to actively work on it again, i literally started working on this the week before my semester started up to now)

This was up in the college's art gallery for a month or two, back in May. (i even added a paraphrased disclaimer like in the game so nobody thinks i'm promoting criminal activity lmao) But I didn't go the first day it showed up. I wasn't very proud of it at first since I was kind of just throwing it together at the last minute, I felt somewhat obligated to submit it to the gallery by my professor (I didn't have to, but she did say there was extra credit involved, and she was genuinely excited to see it up), I felt like it needed a bit more work, and it was only 15 seconds long, really, like about the same length as a TV bumper. So I never got to hear what people thought outside of class.

But please, let me know what you think! I'd appreciate the feedback!

9-28-22 edit: DANG!! i didn't expect it to blow up this much and even get a front page feature, thank you so much for the feedback, i appreciate it!!

Dollar Store "Funky Dealer" music was made by me, composed in OpenMPT.

(this took me WAY too long to re-render, like 4 hours not counting the many, MANY times it got stuck halfway through or at 99%)

sketches (a couple unused poses):