Has it been 2 months already since my last post here? Still working on the intro. Finished the part of the logo flying through a shopping street while transforming into the Ameyoko sign (the line version of that is earlier in this thread). I'd show a gif but the thing is over 15 megs in size and I don't think it's decent to fill a thread with images that size
So I'll just post a single frame of a 48 frame animation. Besides : a still image shows the details whereas the animation flies by in 3 seconds (16fps)
Edit : And post a link to the first 10 seconds of the intro
Intro.mp4 . Geez, could have come up with that sooner
Animation is still very much a learning experience for me and one thing I learned from this part is that all of the detailing is completely lost when the animation runs. I can only hope some people pause the animation to see all the subtle jokes I put into it
The astute viewer might note that the perspective seems off. That's because it's a fake perspective. The shops, the groups of people and the ground are only drawn once instead of 48 times. Each shop is 0.6 times the size of the shop closer to the viewer and it takes 4 steps for a shop to travel its own distance (0.88 * 0.88 * 0.88 * 0.88 equals about 0.6). All the shops are the same size for the sake of simplicity. A couple of simple calculations give the correct resizing factor, placement and visible part of the shop as shown below. A dead giveaway for this fake perspective is that the shops appear to become wider the further they are from the viewer while they should all be the same size.
Of course, with such a fake perspective, one runs into trouble near the vanishing point. Luckily my big Tenkeiteki Tokyo logo sits in front of it
The shops are quite big. The detail above is at 50%. The animation is, of course, 1920x1080. By the way : this particular shop reads (in kanji) : "Seppuku Clubhouse" and hands out free trials. It's this kind of subtle humor that is lost because it flashes by in a quarter of a second